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I have the absolute pleasure today of handing over my blog to the fabulous Paige Tyler. Paige is a fellow EC author and a very talented and prolific writer. She has a release today and her book..well it's not exactly your run-of-the-mill romance or paranormal. It's...well, why don't I just hand it on over to Paige and she can tell you all about it?
Thanks so much for letting me guest blog today, Kaily!
Readers often ask me how I come up with ideas for my books, so I thought I'd give you a little behind-the-scenes peek at how I came up with my new release, a paranormal erotic romance from Ellora's Cave called DEAD SEXY.
Okay, back to the story and how I came up with it. First, to set the stage, I need to share a little something with you about myself. Well, about my hubby and me, actually. We love zombie movies, from the George Romero gems to Shaun of the Dead and everything in between, including "Walking Dead," the new series on AMC. You just can't go wrong with a movie full of walking dead people, can you? Well, if you've ever seen a zombie movie (or even you haven't), then you know the creatures aren't the heroes of the film. I mean, how can they be, right? They're all dead and decayed and downright unattractive, not to mention pretty damn scary. Which was why you can imagine my surprise when my hubby suggested I write an erotic romance about a zombie hero. I was like, you're kidding, right? What woman in her right mind would fall in love with a dead guy? No way could that possibly work, or so I thought.
Turns out, my hubby wasn't kidding. In fact, he started working up ideas for the story.
"The hero didn't have to be a zombie all the time," he told me. "Think outside the box - take a little literary license!"
Okay, I thought. I suppose I could be open minded.
My hubby told me that in his out-of-the-box world, the hunky hero got cursed by an evil Voodoo priestess and only turns into a zombie sometimes.
"I'm listening," I said.
"And when he does go zombie, he doesn't have to be like the kind in the movies," my hubby added. "Well, he has to look like one, you know all dead and stuff, but he doesn't have to be a mindless creature or attack humans or eat anything gross."
So, brains are completely out, thanks goodness!
"Think Jensen Ackles or Jared Padelecki, with a really, really, really dark tan - (yes, my hubby knows I've got a thing for the Supernatural hunks!) - well, maybe more gray and black than tan, but you get the idea."
I thought about that for a minute. "So, the hero's dead, but he's still sexy, is that what you're saying?"
"Exactly," he said, giving me a grin as my eyes lit up with understanding.
By that point, my hubby had pretty much sold me on the idea. Of course, I knew if I ran with it, I was going to have to sell it to a publisher, and I knew that could be tough since the hero is a zombie. But I ran with it anyway and ended up with a full-length novel. And it came out pretty damn good, if I do say so myself! I still had to find a publisher for it, though.
About this same time, It just so happens that several of my other books were in the process of being picked up by Ellora's Cave and I thought what the heck? Why not pitch it to my editor there and see what she thinks? So I did, and she told me to send it to her. She was interested to see how I handled the whole zombie-thing. Well, long story, short, she liked it. A lot! My zombie romance with it's dead-sexy hero had a home! I was thrilled and my hubby walked around for a week with a smug, "I-told-you-so" look on his face.
I've been getting the word out there about DEAD SEXY ever since I signed the contract for it and I'm thrilled with the interest from readers who can't wait to get their hands on it! I can't wait for them to read it, too!
Now that I've revealed the story behind the story, I thought I'd share the blurb and an excerpt just to whet your appetite for more!
Romance author Simone Kent thinks she might just have found the most perfect guy in all of New York City - in bed and out. But Drake Parrish is about as far from perfect as any man can get. Eight years ago, he was cursed by an evil Voodoo priestess to live part of his life as a zombie. Since then, he has lived like a recluse on New York's Upper East Side, afraid to go out for fear he'll suddenly turn into one of the walking dead.
The sex if the hottest either of them has ever experienced and Simone discovers just how naughty she can be with Drake, while he finds himself feeling things for her that he hasn't felt in a very long time. When the Voodoo priestess learns of their relationship, however, she comes after him again. She is determined to make sure he won't have a future with Simone, even if that means killing both him and the woman he loves.
As she led him up the steps to the second floor, Drake found himself wondering if she would ask him in. And wondering what he'd say if she did. When they came to a stop outside the door to her apartment, Simone turned to give him a smile.
"I had a great time tonight."
"Me, too."
She caught her bottom lip between her perfect white teeth and chewed on it thoughtfully as if unsure what she wanted to say next. It was probably an unconscious gesture, something she did whenever she was thinking, but to him, it was sexy as hell and all he could think about was kissing her.
Surely, one kiss couldn't hurt. He desperately wanted to. He hadn't kissed a woman in so long. It would be nice to see if he still remembered how.
Before he could stop himself, Drake tilted Simone's face up to his and pressed his mouth to hers.
She tasted just as sweet and delicious as he thought she would. Her lips were soft and pliant under his as she kissed him back, her tongue eagerly seeking his out.
Drake groaned and slid his hand into her hair, deepening the kiss. Simone sighed into his mouth, running her hands up the front of his shirt to grasp his shoulders. The feel of her touch was like a tonic to his deprived soul and he let out another groan, deeper this time.
He ran his free hand up her side and around to her breast, cupping it through the soft material of her dress. He couldn't stop himself and apparently, Simone didn't want him to. She moaned and arched against him. He could feel the heat of her pussy through their clothes as she pressed up against his hard cock. Damn, she felt good.
Drake drew her bottom lip into his mouth and gently suckled on it before slowly kissing his way along the delicate curve of her jaw. Simone clutched his shoulders and tilted her head back. He eagerly trailed a path of hot kisses down her neck, then back up, his mouth finding hers again. Simone looped her arms around his neck, pulling him in even closer as their tongues met.
Down the hall, a door slammed, reminding him where they were.
Drake dragged his mouth away from hers, his breathing ragged as he tried to regain control. He had to get it together because he was about five seconds away from doing something really stupid. Like taking her to bed. "I should go."
Her lips curved into a sexy, flirtatious smile. "Or you could stay."
God, how he wanted to. But as much as he'd love to spend the rest of the night exploring every inch of her body, he couldn't take the chance he might go zombie on her right in the middle of sex. Talk about coitus interruptus, And it had already been almost four days since he last turned, which meant he was already pushing his luck.
"You don't know how much I want to," he groaned. "But I can't."
Simone looked up at him with those big, blue eyes. "Why not?"
"Because I…" He hesitated, trying to come up with something that would sound believable. "I have a column due in the morning and I haven't even started on it yet." She knew all about deadlines, so she would understand that. Besides, he did have a column to write, it just wasn't due until next week. "Rain check?"
She looked disappointed, but she smiled anyway. "Absolutely. How does coming over for dinner tomorrow night sound?"
It would be crazy to agree when he could be so close to having an episode, but he couldn't say no. Not when she asked in that soft, sultry voice. "Sounds great."
"Good. Be here at seven."
"Seven it is."
She pulled him down for another long, slow kiss on the mouth. "Don't be late."
His mouth twitched. "I won't." He bent his head to kiss her again, then groaned. "If I don't go now, I'll be here all night."
Simone laughed. "Would that be such a bad thing?"
"Not to me, but my editor at Money Issues might not be too understanding when he doesn't find my column sitting in his inbox tomorrow."
She sighed. "Deadlines can be a real pain in the butt sometimes. Okay, go home and write your column. I'll cuddle up with a bowl of ice cream instead."
He chuckled. "Sounds better than taking a cold shower, which is what I'm going to be doing when I get home." He closed his mouth over hers once more. "See you tomorrow night, beautiful."
Resisting the urge to pull her into his arms again, Drake turned and walked down the hallway toward the stairwell. At the top of the steps, he glanced over his shoulder to see Simone standing where he'd left her, a sexy curve to her lips.
It took every ounce of strength he possessed not to go back and pin her against the door for one more long, lingering kiss. God, what he wouldn't give to spend the night with her. Man, it was going to take more than a cold shower to get her out of his head.
Hope you enjoyed the excerpt and that you can't wait to read more! You can get DEAD SEXY from Ellora's Cave here. You can also check out the trailer here.
If you decide to pick up DEAD SEXY, let me know how you like it!
Friday, December 10, 2010
Show a Zombie Some Love!
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Thanks so much for letting me guest blog!ReplyDelete
What a great concept! It's so cool that your husband is excited enough about your writing to brainstorm with you :) Best wishes for your sales!ReplyDelete
Rula - Yeah, it is very cool! He always comes up with great ideas! Thanks so much!ReplyDelete
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The results are in. T-Mobile Germany once again has exclusive rights to sell the iPhone within the country. The court made its ruling today, as promised, saying that T-Mobile could ask customers to take out two-year contracts with the purchase of the iPhone. The company may also sell the iPhone with a SIM-lock so that it can't be used on any other carrier, according to Reuters.
The temporary injunction issued against T-Mobile was only a couple of weeks ago, forcing the company to sell unlocked (and contract-free) iPhones for a short period of time. T-Mobile is no doubt happy about today's ruling, as it now doesn't have to worry about competitors offering rebates for the €999 unlocked iPhone and stealing customers.
So, back to the drawing board? You can still obtain an unlocked iPhone in Europe, but now you're limited to going through the French. Orange confirmed last week that it would sell iPhones with a variety of contract options, all of which can be unlocked for a €100 fee until six months is up. After that, the unlock code will be provided for free, as per French law.


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In January, Google won a jury trial against a so-called "patent troll" called Beneficial Innovations, which sued dozens of media companies over online ad patents.
But it wasn't a defensive win in which Google lawyers were laying out arguments about why they didn't infringe a patent. Instead, Google had gone on the offensive and said that Beneficial's 2011 patent lawsuit against a dozen major media companies was a breach of contract.
Google had already paid for a license, and then Beneficial went ahead and sued lots of companies that were simply users of Google's Doubleclick ad tech. (Beneficial's targets included Advance Publications, which owns Conde Nast and is the parent company of Ars Technica.)
"Beneficial went back on the terms of its own license agreement, pursuing our customers for simply using our licensed services," said a Google spokesperson at that time.
Google only won nominal damages of $1 and a judicial order stopping Beneficial from going after more Doubleclick customers.
Now, the judge overseeing the case has ruled that Google can also collect some attorneys' fees. In a 16-page order (PDF), US District Judge Rodney Gilstrap found that Google was the prevailing party on the issue of breach of contract and that the company's fee request was reasonable.
Gilstrap ordered Google to be paid a total of just more than $1.3 million in fees. That number is down $101,324.50 from what Google had asked for, because Gilstrap found that Google wasn't entitled to include the costs of its expert witness into the fee total.
Gaming and ad patents
The money isn't a significant amount to a company as big as Google, but beating a patent troll on what is sometimes seen as their "home turf" in East Texas is still significant. It will be a kind of trophy case that Google can use to show other trolls that it's willing to fight back hard if they overstep—and that it may be the troll, not a big tech defendant, writing a check at the end of the day.
Beneficial is owned by Sheldon Goldberg, a Nevada lawyer who became one of the earliest well-known "patent trolls" after claiming he had patented tournament-style card games online. The Goldberg patent on a "network gaming system" became notorious when he started pursuing license fees from small gaming websites and was one of 10 patents featured in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Patent Busting Project" for "crimes against the public domain."
The two patents asserted in this case were Nos. 6,712,702, a "continuation" of the notorious network gaming patents, and 7,496,943, on a system for presenting advertising.
The patents were used to sue a long list of media companies, including Advance Publications; ALM Media, which owns The American Lawyer magazine and legal newspapers and websites; American Media, which owns websites for Playboy, Flex, Fit Pregnancy, and Shape; Rodale, which publishes websites for Men's Health, Runner's World, and Bicycling; Scripps Interactive, which is responsible for Food Network, HGTV, and DIY Network; Demand Media; Viacom; Village Voice Media; AutoTrader.com; and Amazon.
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Off to World of Pinot Noir today, a great event for keeping track of what's up with the variety, in California and around the world. I'm looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones. Among the seminars I'm excited about are "The Insider Wines of the Cote d'Or" and a comparison of the wines of Willamette Valley and its sub-AVAs with the wines of Maison Jadot.
Less formally, I'll be looking for information on how the 2012 and 2013 vintages are looking, and what winemakers are saying, not saying, doing or not doing about the question of alcohol level, an issue that just won't go away.
It was put on the table, so to speak, with the 2008 formation of In Pursuit of Balance by Jasmine Hirsch and Raj Parr (I'll be going to their March 10 event in San Francisco). In this era of wineries looking for magic bullets to launch them instant P.R., we should look no further than IPOB for an object lesson par excellence. Whether or not Jasmine and Raj had the intention of making their fledgling organization a vital pulse of the industry, that is what happened. I've been amazed by how central IPOB has become to almost every discussion of Pinot Noir–certainly in the circles I travel in. So I was not especially surprised when, last week, Jay McInerney wrote a glowing tribute to IPOB in the Wall Street Journal. When the author of the cocaine-saturated Bright Lights, Big City writes about cool somms partying until dawn in Manhattan clubs after an IPOB event, you know Jasmine's and Raj's homegrown enterprise has hit the bull's eye of the zeitgeist.
I'm not going to play that silly game that determines an artificial alcohol level and then say anything above that is unbalanced. I went over my highest ratings for Pinot Noirs in the last year; the alcohol levels range from 12.4% on Flowers 2011 Moon Select to Rochioli's 2011 West Block, at 14.5%, with most of the wines hovering between 13.5%-14.2%. All of these wines scored at least 95 points; most of them are ageable. By contrast, I also checked out Pinots with my lower scores, and could detect no correlation with alcohol levels: most of the wines I gave paltry 84s and 85s to had alcohol levels in the 13s and on up to 14.5%, same as the high-scoring ones. If you want to look for a number to estimate the quality of a Pinot Noir, look at its price, not its alcohol level.
I do have the sense that winemakers are more conscious of alcohol levels than they used to be–or, to put it bluntly, conscious of the buzz that alcohol levels engender, largely because of IPOB's influence, among the cognoscenti. Nor is it merely IPOB itself that is so causative of the discussion: IPOB has a strong following among sommeliers, whose roles as tastemakers are more potent than ever before. (We used to live in the era of the celebrity winemaker. This current one is the era of the celebrity sommelier and mixologist. The non-tattooed need not apply.) Indeed, it's fair to ask: Is IPOB leading somms, or are somms informing IPOB's weltanschauung? It's probably a feedback loop with both sides reinforcing each other.
I agree with you that arbitrary alcohol labels are silly. I had a Ruche di Castangole recently at 14.5% that was a beautifully balanced wine with all the bright red fruit and NATURAL acidity one could want. At some point while ridiculously high alcohols (15% Chardonnay/16% Cabs/17% Zins!) are inherently a sign of unbalance (and the correspondingly necessary massive acid adjustments), balance is a much more subjective notion for me. For instance, any wine that requires a massive acid adjustment can never be balanced in my opinion regardless of whether it falls under somebody's arbitrary alc. threshold.
As for IPOB's influence on the market, it may ultimately help to redefine California's perception in the market if not completely away from the Napa/Rolland cookbook then at least as a more diverse and varied source for wine, and that will be a good thing. As for their influence within the California wine industry, I think that has already happened to a large degree. I couldn't help but notice that the latest batch of releases from John "It's Burgundian, Damn It!" Kongsgaard are all curiously labeled at 14.1%. Now, I seriously doubt that all of those wines are hitting that precise alcohol level, and I also doubt that Kongsgaard has changed his winemaking one bit. He has, however, clearly taken note of market trends and perceptions and used the ttb labeling leeway in this regard to make his wines seem as compatible with current tastes as possible.
Regarding this statement . . .
"I went over my highest ratings for Pinot Noirs in the last year; the alcohol levels range from 12.4% on Flowers 2011 Moon Select to Rochioli's 2011 West Block, at 14.5%, with most of the wines hovering between 13.5%-14.2%. All of these wines scored at least 95 points; most of them are ageable."
. . . do you rate a wine "within its vintage" or "across vintages"?
Meaning: is a 95 point score the same whether it is assigned to a mold- and mildew-afflicted Pinot Noir vintage like 2011, or a gloriously healthy and trouble-free Pinot Noir vintage like 2012 or 2013?
Clive Coates, Master of Wine rates red Burgundies not against an "absolute" 20 point scale, but within the strengths or weaknesses of that one specific vintage.
So an 18 point score red Burgundy in a mold- and mildew-afflicted vintage like 1983 is not the equal of an 18 point score from the superior 2002 vintage.
~~ Bob
I reach out to Steve and Charlie and others for a memory jog.
I recall reading in Decanter magazine years ago an article on a little-used practice adopted by some French vintners: two harvests from their vineyards.
An early harvest to pick less ripe grapes which will ferment to lower levels of alcohol; and a later harvest to pick fully ripe (maybe in some opinions "overly" ripe) grapes that will ferment to higher levels of alcohol.
The two wines are blended together to elevate the acidity of the cuvee, and lower its alcohol level.
I simply can't recall the term given to this practice.
(Not to be confused with the multiple vineyard pickings when making Sauternes.)
Thanks for the prompt reply:
"A 95 is a 95 in any vintage."
~~ Bob
Reverse Osmosis, spinning cone, alcohol tax jumps at 14%. Dirty little secrets.
Over at Donkey&Goat, Jared&Tracey use a similar technique. They do a green harvest early, press the juice & chill in a tank to stop fermentation. Then at start of fermentation of the regular/later harvest, they add this high-acid/preserved juice to the must to boost the acidity.
You can check on their WebSite for details.
The beverage I allude to is not verjuice . . .
. . . because the free run juice is actually fermented, then later blended in. (Damn if I can remember the "technical" French term.)
~~ Bob
Understand, Bob. Just not sure what the difference in the two tecniques would yield in the final wine. Seems like use of verjus would be a bit safer, though.
This one: verjus is not fermented, whereas this high acid beverage is.
So the cuvee is made between two wines, not two musts.
~~ Bob
Totally understand your point. My question is would fermenting the verjus & blending the two wines yield a better/less better wine in the end than adding the verjus and cofermenting the two juices. I have no idea.
I am operating at the ragged edge of my knowledge of fermentation science.
But I suspect that enologists, perforce, have more experience blending "finished" wines than blending musts.
So that alacrity lends itself to a better end-result.
So a call-out to folks like Brian Loring, et. al.: Your thoughts?
~~ Bob
Bob sez: "ragged edge of my knowledge".
Well, Bob….you can be like a LosAlamos guy & just make stuff up!!! Speak like an absolute authority..even though you know nothing about the subject at hand!! 🙂
I can see where working w/ the fermented verjus would give you better control over the final blend. OTOH…blending the two musts is more risky…more of an all or nothing proposition. There's this common perception (I think) that co-ferments yield a better, more complete, wine.
So..beats heck out of me which is better.
I have a few friends with Caltech educational roots who have Los Alamos affiliations(moon rock research; fractals).
I would never be so churlish as to suggest they fall into that bluffer's camp!
~~ Bob
TFIC….that's what the 🙂 emoticon is meant to imply.
But I do see that "baffle 'em w/ bull$hit" attitude in my LosAlamos colleagues from time to time. Not common…but occasionally.
Belatedly footnoting Tom Hill's comment.
See this San Francisco Chronicle (January 16, 2011, page J7) profile of Jared and Tracey Brandt's winery Donkey and Goat, and their embrace of "verjus (tart juice from underripe grapes) to balance acid levels in their Brosseau Chardonnay."
Link: http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Jared-and-Tracey-Brandt-Donkey-and-Goat-label-2478360.php


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Contents of Administrative procedures - Department of Information and Communications
|Applying for press conference (in Viet Nam)
- Citizen/organization prepares dossier according to the law.
|Where to submit
|Where to submit dossiers: Option 1: The dossier can be submitted directly at the One Stop Shop of Department of Information and Communications, 185 Giang Vo Street, Dong Da District, Ha Noi - Option 2: Dossier can be submitted via postal service to One Stop Shop of the Department of Information and Communications, 185 Giang Vo Street, Dong Da District, Ha Noi - Option 3: Dossier can be submitted online on website of the Department of Information and Communications (www. ict-hanoi.gov.vn)
|Contents and number of the dossier
Dossier components
|Processing duration
|Press management agency releases a written agreement latest six hours before the press conference begins.
|Organizations, agencies and citizens in Ha Noi and other cities, provinces under the Central Government, who have request for organizing press conference in Ha Noi
|Competent agency
|Department of Information and Communications
|Written agreement
|Other requirements
|- Content of the press conference must be in conformity with functions, missions and purposes of the organization, and does not violate regulations in Article 09 of Press Law. - Organization and individuals in Viet Nam must submit a written request at least 24 hours before the conference begins (for the organizations and individuals in Viet Nam)
|Legal basis
- Press Law 2016
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[Editor's note: While President Obama has committed to closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay within a year, it's hard to know what to do with some of the prisoners.
This graphic reminds me of the old adage about people being able to deal only 5±2 things at once. There are almost 200 countries in the world. It's hard to keep track of them all. But there are only 7 continents, and those are easy to remember because it fits the 5±2 rule. To instead of listing out all those countries alphabetically or ordered by number of detainees, sometimes it is more useful to group them first by geographic "region". Note: Washington Post style views the Middle East as a separate continent-level region from Asia. Thank also to Laris for formulating these ideas with me.
Why wasn't this information shown on a map instead of listed in a structured table with charting? For several reasons: Geography, while useful as an metaphorical principle, does not function as a the most important thematic (organizing) principle in the distribution. We know nothing about where the individual detainees are from in each country so we would have had to create a by country choropleth map which would have given a false importance to larger countries like China, and been hard to show the three thematic subcategories. We could have placed the thematic symbols (1 for each detainee and color coded to their status, like in the table) on each country, but then it would have been harder to compare each country between countries for number and type of detainee as each entry would not have shared a common baseline. A table with charting accomplishes our goals: We list the countries sorted by number of detainees and grouped by continent. This serves the same function as a map would have in terms of giving in indication as to where each country is (metaphorical principle, reminding readers of the country's location in the network topology). And we get to easily compare the quantities and thematic types associated with those countries at a glance because of the common chart axis baseline.
What exactly are continents anyhow? Geology seems to have moved on to plate techtonics with 20-some major plates that often meet or rip apart the middle of "continents", but continents remain popular I think exactly because of the 5±2 rule.
Some cartographers are moving beyond the physical geography "continents" into top-level cultural regions. Allan Cartography's Raven world map does exactly this, take a look. The same holds true for any large set of thematic data. Find the trends, group them together, and use that hierarchy (topology) as an access metaphor. And remember geography doesn't always need to mean map. Your users will thank you.]
Republished from The Washington Post.
Orginally published: 16 February 2009.
Reporting by Julie Tate.
About a third of the detainees held at Guantanamo are either facing charges or approved for release. The rest are judged to be enemy combatants, and it is unclear whether they will be prosecuted, be released or continue to be held.
4 Cases Illustrate Guantanamo Quandaries
Administration Must Decide Fate of Often-Flawed Proceedings, Often-Dangerous Prisoners
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 16, 2009; Page A01
In their summary of evidence against Mohammed Sulaymon Barre, a Somali detained at Guantanamo Bay, military investigators allege that he spent several years at Osama bin Laden's compound in Sudan. But other military documents place him in Pakistan during the same period.
One hearing at Guantanamo cited his employment for a money-transfer company with links to terrorism financing. Another file drops any mention of such links.
Barre is one of approximately 245 detainees at the military prison in Cuba whose fate the Obama administration must decide in coming months. Teams of government lawyers are sorting through complex, and often flawed, case histories as they work toward President Obama's commitment to close the facility within a year.
Much of the government's evidence remains classified, but documents in Barre's case, and a handful of others, underscore the daunting legal, diplomatic, security and political challenges.
As officials try to decide who can be released and who can be charged, they face a series of murky questions: what to do when the evidence is contradictory or tainted by allegations of torture; whether to press charges in military or federal court; what to do if prisoners are deemed dangerous but there is little or no evidence against them that would stand up in court; and where to send prisoners who might be killed or tortured if they are returned home.
Answering those questions, said current and former officials, is a massive undertaking that has been hampered by a lack of cooperation among agencies and by records that are physically scattered and lacking key details.


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Problem 179. Monte-Carlo integration
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I'm confused by the 3rd test case. Can the integral inside an n-dimensional hypercube really be greater than 1?
In my comment, I mean an n-dimensional UNIT hypercube, which is what you integration limits impose.
Of course. It depends on the integrand. Even in 1d, if the integrand is e.g. 10x, the result will be 5.
I was confused. Thanks for clarifying.
I found it helpful to think about the problem as involving d+1 dimensions: the d dimensions of the input variables, and one more dimension for the (scalar) output variable. —DIV
This problem makes no sense. fun = @(x) x(1)*x(2) needs two inputs. You do not provide enough information for a solution.
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Hi sir, could u share ur solution with me cause I attempt nearly 50 times and still ain't got to complate. I don't know where is the problem and it's frustrating.
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Innovative, but a bit risky/lucky: roughly a 20–30% risk of failing the Test Suite, by my estimation [see Solutions 1572717–1572721, and Solution 1572713; cf. Solution 1572418].
Since the Monte-Carlo errors decrease proportionally to 1/sqrt(N), where N is the number of random numbers, you should always be able to choose a large enough N to nearly always pass the tests. This is only limited by the execution-time limit that cody enforces.
I agree that it is possible to choose N in such a way as to be practically guaranteed to pass the Test Suite. My point is that in this submission (and BTW also in Solution 188645) N has been chosen smaller than that, and so some luck was needed for this submission to pass — there was a significant risk that it could have failed.
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just found this "cheat". don't hate! I've reported it to TMW
I adjusted the test suite, thanks for the hint...
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For a woman to 'ask her physician' for a safe and effective contraceptive presupposed that she had a physician, that she could afford a contraceptive, and that the physician would be willing to give it to her, regardless of her marital status.
These are the words of the historian Sheila Rothman, writing about the setbacks Margaret Sanger faced in the 1920s and 1930s in trying to realize her vision of making birth control widely available to all women, including the poorest. Sanger's original vision was a fleet of clinics, to be run by public health nurses. But as Rothman and others have documented, when she attempted to open such clinics, she experienced repeated arrests and the closures of her facilities, as contraception was then illegal. In the years leading up to the 1965 Supreme Court Griswold decision, which legalized birth control for married persons, only physicians were legally permitted to provide such services, and as the quote from Rothman implies, this situation put poor women at a tremendous disadvantage.
Rothman's critique, written in the 1970s about events in the '20s and '30s, is remarkably relevant to today's leading reproductive controversy: the Obama administration's overruling of the FDA decision to allow over-the-counter status of Plan B, an Emergency Contraceptive product, for young women under the age of seventeen. If one substitutes "teenager" for "woman" and "Plan B" for "a safe and effective contraceptive" in Rothman's quote, one can readily appreciate how, once again in America's longstanding reproductive wars, the needs of the most vulnerable are willfully neglected.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and President Obama justified the Administration's action because of concerns about pre-teens' ability to use EC correctly. But as been repeatedly observed, only a tiny portion of this age group is sexually active. It is older teenagers who are sexually active in far greater numbers, and therefore, far likelier to have need of EC (and to be able to use it correctly). But many in this group do not have a primary health care provider to whom they can go for a prescription. Some of those who do have a relationship with a provider may be too embarrassed, or afraid of a breach of confidentiality, to ask for such a prescription.
To be sure, some things have improved in the contraceptive world since the dominance of private practice physicians in Margaret Sanger's time. In 1970, Congress authorized the Title X program, which made federal funds available for family planning services for poor women including, notably, teenagers. (As a sign of how much the reproductive battle lines have hardened in the last 30 years, Title X was signed by a Republican president, Richard Nixon, and one of its most enthusiastic sponsors in Congress was a future Republican president, George H.W. Bush). A number of contraceptive products are available on the shelves of drugstores.
And it is no longer just physicians who can advise and dispense contraception. In Title X-funded public-health clinics and women's health clinics, nurses are in fact the main providers of contraception. We can hope that some portion of those teenagers who need EC can find their way to a Planned Parenthood or other Title X site in the three-day window in which the drug is most effective.
But this recent decision of the Obama administration on EC occurs, of course, in an atmosphere in which Republicans in Congress are attempting to abolish Title X, and various states have defunded Planned Parenthood, leading to closings of numerous clinics. The reproductive wars drag drearily on—and in our times, as in Sanger's, the most vulnerable of women pay the greatest price.
Reprinted with permission from RH Reality Check.
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Pope Francis surprised 20 former prostitutes on Friday by knocking on their door in Rome and popping in for a chat.
The Argentine, who has repeatedly described the human trafficking behind much prostitution as "a crime against humanity", sat down with the group, including four women from Albania, seven from Nigeria and six from Romania.
The other three hailed from Italy, Tunisia and the Ukraine, according to a Vatican statement. The women, all aged around 30, are being sheltered by a Catholic association in an apartment in the Italian capital after being rescued from their pimps.
The 79-year old listened for over an hour to the stories of the former sex slaves, "all of whom suffered serious physical abuse and live under protection," the Vatican said.
The visit fell under what have been termed Francis's "Fridays of Mercy", whereby he carries out one unscheduled act of mercy a month on a Friday — mainly in or near Rome — throughout the pope's Jubilee year, which started in December and runs to November.
In January, he visited a care home for the elderly and people in a vegetative state, while in February he went to a community for drug addicts. In March he toured a refugee centre before visiting asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos in April.
The pontiff then spent time with the seriously mentally ill in May before visiting old and ill priests in June and dedicating his July "Friday of Mercy" to sick children in Krakow after praying for the victims of the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp.
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DRESDEN, Germany, June 5, 2009— -- President Obama today made an emotionally charged visit to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany and called for continued action to combat intolerance and hatred in all its forms.
"These sites have not lost their horror with the passage of time," Obama observed after touring the camp.
The president's visit included viewings of the camp's ovens and crematorium, as well as the guard towers and barbed wire fences that imprisoned thousands .
"We are here today because we know this work is not yet finished," Obama said, admonishing Holocaust deniers and "those who perpetuate every form of intolerance -- racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, xenophobia, sexism and more -- hatred that degrades its victims and diminishes us all."
Obama delivered his remarks while standing in front of the camp entrance, where the clock is frozen at 3:15, "the hour of liberation" on April 11, 1945.
Reflecting on the Holocaust and even more recent acts of genocide, Obama said, "This place teaches us that we must be ever-vigilant about the spread of evil in our own time, that we must reject the false comfort that others' suffering is not our problem, and commit ourselves to resisting those who would subjugate others to serve their own interests."
An estimated 56,000 people, mostly Jews, died at Buchenwald during World War II, including the father of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner who accompanied Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the tour.
Wiesel was 16 years old when the camp was liberated by American forces. His father died in the camp, in a bed near his son.
"He called my name, and I was too afraid to move. All of us were. And then he died. I was there, but I was not there," Wiesel recalled.
He said he came back to Buchenwald today to visit his father's grave, but it was not there.
"His grave is somewhere in the sky, which has become… the largest cemetery of the Jewish people," he said.
Obama toured the area known as "Little Camp," where Wiesel and his brother were sent as young boys. He noted that there is a picture of then-16-year-old Elie in a bunk bed with other children.
The president laid a white rose down on the camp's living memorial, "a steel plate… that is heated to 37 degrees Celsius, the temperature of the human body, a reminder, where people were deemed inhuman because of their differences, of the mark that we all share," he said.
Obama: 'It Is Important to Bear Witness'
The Buchenwald visit has personal significance for Obama, whose great-uncle Charles Payne was part of a military unit that helped liberate a nearby satellite camp in 1945.
Payne told ABC News that he remembered what he saw: "Most of them [were] in advance stage of starvation and wearing the most pitiful kind of rags. And [they were] overjoyed to be liberated from the camp."
"You can see where the machine gun had been sitting, behind some bushes," he continued. "And they had their tin cups, clearly thinking they were going to get food, and they got shot instead."
Obama, who has never before visited a concentration camp, said it was important for him to make the stop.
"It is up to us to bear witness, to ensure that the continues -- the world continues to note what happened here, to remember all those who survived and all those who perished, and to remember them not just as victims, but also as individuals who hoped and loved and dreamed just like us," he said.
"And just as we identify with the victims, it's also important for us, I think, to remember that the perpetrators of such evil were human as well, and that we have to guard against cruelty in ourselves. And I want to express particular thanks to Chancellor Merkel and the German people because it's not easy to look into the past in this way, and acknowledge it and make something of it -- make a determination that they will stand guard against acts like this happening again."
Wiesel said he hopes Obama can affect change.
"Mr. President, we have such high hopes for you, because you, with your moral vision of history, will be able and compelled to change this world into a better place where people will stop waging war. Every war is absurd and meaningless. Where people will stop hating one another. Where people will hate the otherness of the other rather than respect it," he said.
Earlier in the day Obama continued his push for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palistinean peace process, telling the Palestinians they have responsibilities to uphold in the ongoing efforts for a settlement.
Obama said that while his statements telling the Israelis to stop settlement construction have received significant attention, there has been less focus on the pressure he is putting on the Palestinians and Arab states to take concrete actions to move closer to peace.
"When it comes to the Palestinians, we know what they're supposed to be doing. They have to continue to make progress on security in the West Bank. They have to deal with incitement issues," he said.
Obama Sending Envoy to Middle East
Obama said the Palestinian Authority has not offered a firm commitment to control the border areas that Israel has concerns about in a two-state solution, and he also called out the Palestinian authority for corruption and mismanagement.
The president said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas could do more. "Now I think, to his credit, President Abbas has made progress on this issue -- but not enough."
Obama said the moment to act is now and announced he was dispatching his Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, back to the region next week to sit down with all the relevant parties. He acknowledged that the United States "can't force peace" but credited his young administration with "extraordinary progress.""
"You've probably seen more sustained activity on this issue in the first five months than you would have seen in most previous administrations," he said.
Obama reiterated the cautionary tone that White House officials used yesterday and noted that his speech in Cairo, while highly anticipated and long in the works, was "just one speech."
"It doesn't replace all the hard work that's going to have to be done, that was done before the speech and that's going to have to be done in the years to come in order to solve what has been a 60 year problem," he said.
Obama spent last night in Dresden, Germany, a city destroyed in a two-day bombing campaign in February 1945 and rebuilt only after German reunification. Today he met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at Dresden Castle, which was severely damaged during that air attack and has yet to be completely rebuilt.
Thursday in Cairo in a speech aimed at the Muslim world, Obama issued a scathing rebuke to Holocaust deniers and conspiracy theorists.
"Six million Jews were killed, more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful," he said.
Asked whether he was doing everything possible to stop genocide around the world so that "never again" is not just a hollow refrain, Obama explained what the phrase means to him but not what he was doing.
"On the issue of genocide, I think "never again" means that the international community has an obligation, even when it's inconvenient, to act when genocide is occurring," he said.
He focused on his administration's efforts on Darfur, where he recently dispatched a special envoy, General Scott Gration, but did not address Sri Lanka or the broader question on genocide.
Obama-Merkel Affirms U.S.-German Ties
Earlier today, President Obama met one-on-one with Merkel and both leaders affirmed the close relationship between the United States and Germany.
Obama said it is essential for the two nations to work together with the global community to make progress on national security, economic issues and climate change.
In their meeting, the two leaders discussed Afghanistan and Iran. Obama said the United States was committed to "serious dialogue" with Iran but it needs to be in cooperation with Germany, China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
Obama said Merkel is open to discussions about Guantanamo Bay but he has not asked for hard commitments and she has not offered any, other than discussions about ways to move forward.
"I don't anticipate it's going to be resolved any time in the next two or three months," he said.
Merkel reiterated her longstanding view that Guantanamo Bay should be shut down and expressed confidence that they will find a common solution.
Right out of the gate at a press conference, Obama had to defend his schedule here after criticism in the German media about how long he was staying here and where he chose to visit. Obama chalked it up to scheduling and said there are only so many hours in the day and he has a lot to fit in on a short trip.
Later today, Obama is scheduled to visit American service members at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.
On Saturday, Obama plans to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion with remarks at Normandy and a tour of the American Cemetery there. The president is expected to recognize the service of American veterans who will be in the audience for his speech and underscore the sacred trust the government has to veterans.
Also on the agenda is a meeting with French President Nikolas Sarkozy and an outing with Mrs. Obama and the first daughters, who will join the president in Paris.


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No longer taboo, living together has become a more common arrangement for America's couples who become pregnant while dating.
Soon-to-be-released government figures show a major cultural shift since the days of 'shotgun weddings' aimed at avoiding family embarrassment. With marriage on the decline, the shift is helping redefine the traditional notion of family.
'The emergence of cohabitation as an acceptable context for childbearing has changed the family-formation landscape,' said Christina Gibson-Davis, a sociology professor at Duke University. 'Individuals still value the idea of a two-parent family but no longer consider it necessary for the parents to be married.'
Still, she cautions that children in cohabiting households may face more difficulties growing up if their unmarried parents are at higher risk of breaking up.
In all, the share of unmarried couples who opted to have 'shotgun cohabitations' – moving in together after a pregnancy – surpassed 'shotgun marriages' for the first time over the last decade, according to a forthcoming paper from the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The trend was affirmed by three demographers who conducted separate research on the topic.
It's the latest demographic tipping point as cohabitations turn mainstream – a far cry from the days when the father of a pregnant daughter might use coercion, such as a shotgun, to make sure the boyfriend followed through on a wedding.
'I want to marry when I'm ready, not because I'm being forced into it. Whenever I see couples do that, things don't work out,' said Amanda Leigh Pulte, 22, of Austin, Texas, as her 11-month-old daughter Zoey cooed in her arms. Pulte previously had delayed moving in with Matthew Gage, a 29-year-old shipping manager and her boyfriend of three years, wishing to wait until she could earn a bachelor's degree in film and start a full-time job.
An unplanned pregnancy quickly changed that. Completing an associate degree, she agreed to have Gage move in so the couple could work and save on rent while raising Zoey together. Even though they didn't see marriage as a serious option for now – in part to avoid the additional stress of planning and paying for a wedding, she says – neither was having Pulte live on her own as a single mother.
The numbers are based on the government's National Survey of Family Growth, typically issued every four years. It provides the only government data on cohabiting mothers by asking questions on a woman's relationship status before and after conception and childbirth. Women who say they were single before conception and then married before childbirth are counted as someone who had a post-conception, or 'shotgun' marriage; those who moved in with their boyfriends after pregnancy had a post-conception or 'shotgun' cohabitation.
Demographers say the cohabiting trend among new parents is likely to continue. Social stigma regarding out-of-wedlock births is loosening, and economic factors play a role. Many couples, especially those who lack a bachelor's degree, are postponing marriage until their finances are more stable. But because of globalization, automation and outsourcing, good-paying middle-income jobs are harder to come by.
'Because marriages are becoming more polarized by economic status, I don't see the trend of shotgun cohabitations reversing any time soon,' said Casey Copen, a demographer at the government's National Center for Health Statistics, which administers the government survey.
About 18.1 percent of all single women who became pregnant opted to move in with their boyfriends before the child was born, according to 2006-2010 data from the government's National Survey of Family Growth, the latest available. That is compared to 5.3 percent who chose a post-conception marriage, according to calculations by Daniel Lichter, a Cornell sociologist.
As recently as the early 1990s, 25 percent of such couples got married.
Cohabiting mothers are spurring increases in out-of-wedlock births, now at a high of 41 percent. In all, about 60 percent of all births during the 2000s were to married mothers, compared to 24 percent to cohabiting mothers and 16 percent to non-cohabiting mothers. That was the first time that cohabiting births exceeded births from single mothers who weren't living with their child's father.
Since the early 1990s, the share of out-of-wedlock, cohabiting births has grown from 11 percent to 24 percent, while those to noncohabiting, single mothers has remained steady at 16 percent.
Researchers at Harvard and Cornell universities have found that only about half of mothers who were cohabiting when their child was born were still in relationships with the biological father five years later.
'The latest results seem to indicate that marriage, as a context for childbearing and childrearing, is increasingly reserved for America's middle- and upper-class populations,' Lichter said.


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Letters | Filibuster changes, compassion, plutocrats and seat belts
Filibuster change
Exercising the "nuclear option," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made what The Courier-Journal celebrates as a bold and decisive step but it is in fact a backward step. As Sen. Mitch McConnell said about the 2012 presidential election, "The American people voted for a divided government."
I believe the Senate should have thought about this before wiping away 200 years of practice that has served to protect our best interests. With two parties so diametrically opposed, the American people simply had no choice but to vote for a "divided government."
It's entirely necessary to keep each party from running amok. As a moderate, I find the Democrats too far to the left and the Republicans far too far to the right.
Some Democrats seem to want nothing more than to invite everyone from all over the world to come to the United States and live on welfare in exchange for votes while some Republicans are so far to the right one would think they are just another arm of the church.
As a voter, I want the two parties to fight it out. Now the bout will be so one-sided there is no telling how much damage is going to be done. It is an open secret that The Courier-Journal absolutely despises Mitch McConnell yet Kentucky voters continue to re-elect him.
I believe what he is doing is right and I can see that weakening the filibuster will bring on even more trouble than we already have.
Elizabethtown, Ky. 42701 –
Republican threats
So the Rs now threaten that the change from a 60-vote supermajority to a simple majority to end filibusterers will result in even more obstructing of this duly elected president's attempts to actually govern.
Never mind that Rs have used the filibuster numerous times as a purely political device to block even appointments to fill vacancies on federal courts as set out in the Constitution.
No objection has been made to the qualifications of the president's appointees; the Rs simply don't agree with his choices. That's what winners of elections are supposed to do under our Constitution.
Sen. McConnell even (in)famously said his number one goal was to make President Obama a one-term president. Not the economy, not unemployment of his constituents, not Iran's push for nuclear weapons. Nope, his No. 1 priority is for the Republicans to have more power.
The Rs then obstructed every initiative of President Obama to better our country so as to make Obama a "failure." If that means damaging the country, its economy or us citizens, so be it.
They even shut down the government and almost (again) damaged our country's credit by jeopardizing raising our debt ceiling. My question is, just how can the Rs be more obstinate and destructive than they already are?
Louisville 40205 –
True compassion
Outside 21C Museum Hotel, stands a golden replica of Michelangelo's sculpture, The David. Louisville has unwittingly chosen to host a true icon of compassion. While studying a museum guide which pictured closeups of different aspects of this magnificent work, I was drawn to the intense face. Standing alone, naked, armed with very little, David fixes his gaze on Goliath. Before casting the first stone, he pauses.
What astonished me in the close up was that there were hearts deftly carved into both pupils of his eyes! How do you find the courage to face a foe twice your size who intends to destroy you? How do you stand in the face of extreme injustice and suffering and choose the next, right thing? The master, Michelangelo, seems to suggest that we pause for a moment and look with our hearts upon "the other," be it outside or inside ourselves.
At this season of Thanksgiving, let us follow the David's example, to pause before we react in difficult situations, and then to look upon all beings with eyes of great compassion. I thank 21C Museum Hotel for gracing our city with this icon and appreciate our Mayor Greg Fischer, the Compassionate Louisville community, and all those who mindfully look upon "giants" with eyes of love.
Licensed clinical social worker –
Louisville 40205 –
Big money
I agree with Paul L. Whiteley Sr.'s letter in the Nov. 19 reader's forum. Ever since George W. Bush's administration, I could see a plutocratic government of the rich, for the rich, for greed and big money in politics. They are using the evangelical vote to achieve their goal, which is destroying American democracy.
Louisville 40207 –
Seat belts
Tour buses will have seat belts starting in 2016 under a federal rule.
Well, that is just great! Now how about school buses, and day care vans that carry our most precious commodity?
Is anyone listening?
Louisville 40211 –


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Looking at other personal characteristics, the highest attendance rates for libraries were reported by people who:
Archives had an overall attendance rate of 4% of people aged 15 years and over (0.6 million people). This was the least attended cultural venue or event in the 2009-10 survey. The low attendance rate at archives may be the result of people generally visiting only when they have a specific research purpose in mind.
Most (77%) of those who visited an archive only did so once or twice in the 12 months prior to interview.
Area of residence
With the National Archives based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory residents had the highest attendance rate at 16%. Attendance rates for the other states and territories were around 4%.
Characteristics of visitors
As with most other surveyed activities, females across the majority of age groups had higher attendance rates at archives than males, although these differences were not statistically significant. Overall males and females had similar archive attendance rates (3% and 4% respectively).
Findings relating to other personal characteristics include:
Australian Bureau of Statistics Attendance at Selected Cultural Venues and Events, Australia, 2009-10 (cat. no. 4114.0)
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LITCHIELD >> The Women's Forum will host "Growing Old Tastefully-A Trip to the Cheese Caves of France." Guest speaker, Sister Noella Marcellino, Ph.D., Cheese Nun of the Abbey of Regina Laudis, speaks on cheese making the French style on March 7 at 2:30 p.m. at Litchfield Community Center, 421 Bantam Road.
Sister Noella Marcellino mixes cutting edge science, the craft and art of traditional cheese making and great humanity. She is an American Benedictine nun who earned a doctorate in microbiology from the University Of Connecticut. Sister Marcellino's scientific interest in the process of cheese making has lead her to become a noted proponent in the preservation of tradition and biodiversity. She also shares her love of American gospel music with the farmers she visits, receives the honor of being inducted into an ancient order of cheese-makers, and uses her renowned skills to help aspiring American cheese-makers develop the skills needed to create quality cheese.


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My love for mini food can sometimes go well and sometimes not so much – I saw a beautiful maple brûlée tart on DH mag #51 and immediately ran to the kitchen to bake it, but decided to make tartlets instead. The problem is that the pastry shrunk so much there was almost no room for the filling. :S
To solve the situation, I baked the remaining filling in a water bath and ended up with a delicious maple crème brûlée – if I were you, I'd ignore the tartlets and go straight to the ramekin version. :)
Maple brûlée tartlets
from Donna Hay magazine
Vanilla pastry:
1 2/3 cups + 1 ½ tablespoons (250g) all purpose flour
1 tablespoon caster sugar
¼ teaspoon baking powder
180g unsalted butter, cold and chopped
1/3 cup (80ml) iced water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup (240ml) whole milk
1 cup (240ml) pouring cream
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
½ cup + 1 tablespoon (112g) caster sugar
¼ cup (60ml) maple syrup
caster sugar, for sprinkling
Make the pastry: place the flour, sugar and baking powder in the bowl of a food processor and process to combine. Add the butter and process until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. While the motor is running, gradually add the water and vanilla (mix them together before pouring in the processor). Process just until mixture comes together. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface to 3mm thick. Line a lightly buttered 28cm pie pan with the pastry. Prick with a fork and freeze for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F; line the bottom of the pastry with foil, cover with baking weights or beans and bake for 10-15 minutes. Remove the weights/beans and the foil and bake for another 10 minutes or until lightly golden.
Place the milk and cream in a small saucepan over low heat just until boiling. Place the eggs, extra yolks, sugar and maple in a bowl and whisk to combine. Gradually whisk in the milk mixture. Allow to cool. Preheat the oven to 160°C/320°F. Pour the mixture into the pastry case and bake for 15-20 minutes or until just set. Allow to cool in the pan.
Sprinkle the tart with sugar just before serving and caramelize with a small kitchen blow torch until a golden crust forms.
Serves 8 – I halved the recipe above and got 10 tartlets (9cm each)


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My great grandfather William Matthew Growdon came to the Cape Colony in 1876 to work on the railway being built inland from East London. My blogging friend Deon Strydom posted a photo of an interesting cottage built for those working on the line with a link to a site saying where it is and how to get there Tracks4Africa Padkos – Gangers Cottage (Historical Building):
When the railway line between East London and Queenstown was first built it bypassed Stutterheim by several kilometres. It was built during the Frontier War of 1877-1878 when the gangers (railway workers) were in danger of attack by Xhosa tribes. To protect the gangers, fortified 'gangers cottages' were built. Cottage No. 17 is situated on the Komga road which branches off the main road at Dohne Station. The cottage was declared a National monument on 3 December 1976. There are four tambours one on each corner, with slits so that the gangers could defend themselves against attack.
There was something of a frenzy of railway building after the discovery of diamonds at Kimberley — not that railways were needed to carry the diamonds, but rather to take mining equipment, and food and goods for the miners. Though the railways were owned and built by the Cape government, there was a certain amount of competition between the lines from the various ports.
Great grandfather William Matthew Growdon came from Cornwall with his family (my grandfather George Growdon was 3 years old at the time). He had been a stonemason in Cornwall, so perhaps he had a hand in building this fortified cottage too.
Interestingly enough some of William Matthew Growdon's descendants are still living in the vicinity of Stutterheim, and if you are passing you can go there to stay in a somewhat different kind of cottage. The place is The Shire, just outside Stutterheim, where my cousins Hamish, Monica and Rob Scott live.
Click on the links for more pictures and stories.
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Lake Buena Vista Domestic Violence
Being arrested for a Domestic Violence charge in Lake Buena Vista and Orange County, Florida is a serious situation which poses a very significant threat to your freedom, Lake Buena Vista and Orange County Prosecutors are very aggressive in their prosecutions of Domestic Violence cases. Therefore, Lake Buena Vista prosecutors as well as those in the surrounding area do not generally distinguish relatively minor incidents from serious incidents. Here is the definition of Domestic Violence Crimes in Florida.
Domestic violence in Florida defines is any crime committed by a family or household member against another family or household member.
"Family or household member" refers to any of the following persons:
current or former spouses
persons related by blood or marriage
persons currently or formerly residing together as if a family, or
parents who have a child in common, regardless of whether they were at any time married.
The State of Florida is concerned that without aggressive prosecution of every potential Domestic Violence case, the possibility that a victim may be seriously injured or killed in the future is elevated. Central Florida Domestic Violence cases can come forward with a variety of criminal charges filed in Lake Buena Vista, and the surrounding Central Florida cities. Below are a variety of Domestic Violence related criminal charges that you may face in Central Florida:
Assault DV (Domestic Violence)
Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon DV (Domestic Violence)
Aggravated Assault with a Firearm DV (Domestic Violence)
Battery DV (Domestic Violence)
Felony Battery DV (Domestic Violence)
Aggravated Battery by Strangulation DV (Domestic Violence)
Aggravated Battery Great Bodily Harm DV (Domestic Violence)
Aggravated Battery with a Deadly Weapon DV (Domestic Violence)
Aggravated Battery with a Firearm DV (Domestic Violence)
Sexual Assault DV (Domestic Violence)
Sexual Battery DV (Domestic Violence)
Sexual Battery with a Deadly Weapon DV (Domestic Violence)
Stalking DV (Domestic Violence)
Aggravated Stalking DV (Domestic Violence)
Kidnapping DV (Domestic Violence)
False Imprisonment DV (Domestic Violence)
A conviction for a Domestic Violence case in Central Florida, Oak Hill, and the surrounding cities carries with it a minimum mandatory sentence. A person convicted of a Domestic Violence case in Florida must serve a minimum of 1 year of supervised probation, and without findings by the Court, will be required to complete the Batterers' intervention program. If the person charged with a Central Florida Domestic Violence case was convicted for an offense that involved "the intentional infliction of bodily harm to another person" that person must serve a minimum of 5 days in the County Jail as well. The Court can, and frequently does impose a sentence significantly higher than the minimum sentence.
If you or a loved one has been charged or arrested for a Lake Buena Vista Domestic Violence Criminal Offense, your very freedom is at stake. You need an experienced Lake Buena Vista Criminal Defense Attorney to aggressively defend your legal rights. Contact Lake Buena Vista Criminal Lawyer Brian Byrd, at ByrdLaw, P.A. for your FREE initial consultation in reference to your Central Florida Criminal Case.


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Not even Ray Nagin could compete with the Newhouses for the number of times their treatment of The Times-Picayune was satirized during Carnival. Beginning with the Krewe du Vieux and throughout the season, the diminishing of the T-P was a subject for people who, though angry as citizens, found something to laugh at as revelers.
Steve Newhouse himself was on display on Le Krewe d'Etat's float entitled "Gone with the Wind" as part of the theme "The Dictator's Library." Borrowing from Newhouse's infamous "when the noise stops" statement he is pictured saying, "Frankly, my dear New Orleans. I don't give a damn." While the T-P tower is shown aflame, new T-P publisher Rick Mathews is greeted with a sign saying "Ricky Go Home." One notable little touch is a serving of crawfish and a beer spread across an iPad. To the side former T-P publisher Ashton Phelps has his arms raised in apparent helplessness while saying "sorry gang."
"Chaos goes Overboard" was the theme of the Knights of Chaos parade. One float, entitled "Abandon Ship" showed the Times-Picayune tower as a crow's nest. A prominent roll of toilet paper had the message "Roll With the Times."
Many maskers picked up the theme including one picture here with his own version of "The Some Times-Picayune."
One column of the mock post-Mardi Gras edition has the headline "Landrieu Orders Mandatory Evacuation" while another column says "You Should Have Evacuated Yesterday."
A recurring phrase was "The Some Times-Picayune" including on bags of a group of delivery boys without much to do.
What the Newhouses have done to New Orleans has even had its impact on Carnival tradition. Because there is no longer a Monday or Tuesday T-P, the announcement of the identity of Rex and his Queen was advanced to Sunday rather than the traditional Mardi Gras edition. The city's reigning daily, The Advocate, also had the Rex photos, as well as Zulu royalty, atop its Sunday front page.
This was The Advocate's first Mardi Gras as the city's daily and it did a commendable job, being where it had to be and arriving on doorsteps each morning. Hey Newhouses, whether they are masked or not, folks want their newspaper all the time, not sometimes.
Krewe: The Early New Orleans Carnival-Comus to Zulu by Errol Laborde is available at all area bookstores. Books can also be ordered via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or (504) 895-2266.


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