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OK. Confession time. I'm more than a bit exhausted this weekend. Besides a particularly busy week at work, for some crazy reason I kept myself up till past midnight every night this past week watching a PBS run of Wagner's Ring Cycle opera production: GP at the Met: Der Ring des Nibelungen - PBS. From a technical staging perspective alone it was stunning, but this was the first time I watched all the operas straight through. It takes an emotional toll.
Beautifully punishing.
Apparently I'm not the only one suffering a Wagner-induced hangover, A short post after a lot of opera « From the Hatchery
So please bear along I untangle myself mentally from it over the weekend.
Also, if you are running Windows 8 under VirtualBox (I'm currently using VMWare), Oracle released VirtualBox 4.2.0 just this past Thursday. See the changelog. I'm mentioning it as this version is said to include improved Windows 8 support.
Outstanding Windows 8 Link of Note
- Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is. - Scott Hanselman
While my decision to stick with Windows 7 for the near-term remains intact, Scott's above post has been hands-down the most powerful and well written post I've yet encountered to convince me that I will be upgrading to Windows 8 sooner rather than later. I agree that Microsoft has a serious "usability" hurdle to get past to encourage consumers and enterprises to pick up this new OS iteration. That said, the blood, meat, and bones of Windows 8 is quite remarkable. Scott's excellent post goes a long way in simple terms to communicate that progress, while painful, has its own set of rewards.
Win8 - Start Here - Get It
- nothing new of note since last post.
Win8 - Related Products and Services
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Win8 - Install It
- How to install Windows 8 on VMware Workstation - BetaNews
- How to install Windows 8 on VMware Player - BetaNews
Win8 - Under the Hood
- nothing new of note since last post.
Win8 - To Go
- nothing new of note since last post.
Win8 - Tweaks
- Start8: Classic Start Menu, Skip Start Screen & Disable Hot Corners - Addictive Tips
- How To Skip Entering Password After Waking Up A Windows 8 Computer [Tip] - Windows7hacker
- Creating a "no hypervisor" boot entry - Virtual PC Guy's Blog
- Samsung brings Start menu in Windows 8 PCs - Caschys Blog (Google Translated)
- What Is Fast Startup In Windows 8 & How To Disable It - Addictive Tips
- Pin Files, Folders And Shell & Library Locations To Windows 8 Taskbar - Addictive Tips
- Get A Hint Of The Old Aero Glass Effect Back In Windows 8 Using Areo8Tuner - Addictive Tips
- Three tools to tame Windows 8 - Betanews
- How To Change User Profile Location in Windows 8 without Registry Hack - Windows7hacker
- 3 Ways To Add Shutdown and Restart Shortcuts to Windows 8 - Windows7hacker
- How To Change Default Photo Viewer on Windows 8 - Windows7hacker
- Get A Slimmer Windows 8 Start Screen That Opens Within Desktop - Start Menu Modifier - Addictive Tips
- ViStart 8 gives back what Microsoft took from Windows - BetaNews
- 5 Customization Freeware for Windows 8 - The Windows Club
Win8 - Deeper Insights
- Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is. - Scott Hanselman
- Pinning Useful and Obscure Stuff to the Windows 8 Start Menu - Scott Hanselman
- Windows8 Desktop Keyboard Shortcuts - Internet Infomation Services (IIS)
- Windows 8 Forensics - A First Look - YouTube by ForesnicFocusVideos
- My Crazy Adventures with RemoteFX, Part One - Within Windows
- Links, Tools, Etc. - Windows Incident Response Blog
Win8 - Usage Tips
- Disable Uninstall Option For Windows 8 Modern UI Apps - AddictiveTips
- Show or Hide Data Usage for Wireless Networks in Windows 8 - The Windows Club
- Disable, Enable Lock Screen in Windows 8 - The Windows Club
- The Improved Disk Defragmentor and Storage Optimizer in Windows 8 - The Windows Club
- Enable, Disable Delete Confirmation Box in Windows 8 - The Windows Club
- My favorite key in Windows 8 - Next at Microsoft
- Windows 8 new features – The complete list (updated) - 4sysops
- How To Access The BIOS On A Windows 8 Computer - MakeUseOf blog
- How to boot into Advanced Boot Options in Windows 8 - Windows7hacker
- How To Boot to Safe Mode in Windows 8 - Windows7hacker
- How To Open Command Prompt As Administrator Window to Any Folder in Windows 8 - Windows7hacker
- Windows 8 Tweak: How To Open Start Screen NOT in Full Screen - Windows7hacker
- How to Disable Hibernation In Windows 8 To Gain Disk Space - Windows7hacker
- Windows 8 wireless networking - 4sysops
Win8 - Miscellanea, Rumors, & General Grumblings
- Windows 8 privacy complaint misses the forest for the trees - Ars Technica
- Thoughts on the Windows SmartScreen scare - Within Windows
- UX expert says Windows 8 UI is confusing on a PC - The Windows Club
- Ha ha, the "Windows 8 start menu" is back! - Borns IT & Windows blog (Google Translated)
- Samsung Start menu app shows why Microsoft is going its own way with Surface - Ars Technica
- Windows 8 has usability issues - BetaNews
Windows 8 - GSD Previously Posted
- Windows 8 Linkage: "Majestic
Metro" version - GrandStreamDreams blog
- Windows 8 Linkage: "Passage Public
Metro" version - GrandStreamDreams blog
- Windows 8 Linkage: "
MetroSantiago" edition - GrandStreamDreams blog
- Windows 8 Linkage: "
Metroat Nightfall" edition - GrandStreamDreams blog
- Windows 8 Linkage: Product Name "Something or Another" - GrandStreamDreams blog
- Windows 8 Linkage: In Which a Name is Chosen - GrandStreamDreams blog
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Current situation is this:
I have a large legacy DB using only MyISAM tables, the size of whole DB is 4GiB, one of the tables contains over 10 million rows, so it is pretty large.
The database is used heavily and downtime should be as low as possible, no more than 30 minutes (less is better).
All files are not under LVM (so, snapshot is not possible).
I want to set up simple master-slave replication and migrate all tables to InnoDB. What is the best plan for this migration? As I said, it should have low downtime and be as safe as possible
P.S. Currently I have no easily restorable backups, so adding somewhere a step of backing up is a good idea. But I think with master-slave replication backups will be easy. Also, please include what might go wrong during this plan.

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Re: Kolmogorov-Smirnov 2-sample test
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- Subject: [mg111119] Re: Kolmogorov-Smirnov 2-sample test
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:11:30 -0400 (EDT)
On 7/20/10 at 3:41 AM, darreng at wolfram.com (Darren Glosemeyer) wrote: >Here is some code written by Andy Ross at Wolfram for the two >sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. KolmogorovSmirnov2Sample computes >the test statistic, and KSBootstrapPValue provides a bootstrap >estimate of the p-value given the two data sets, the number of >simulations for the estimate and the test statistic. >In[1]:= empiricalCDF[data_, x_] := Length[Select[data, # <= x >&]]/Length[data] >In[2]:= KolmogorovSmirnov2Sample[data1_, data2_] := >Block[{sd1 = Sort[data1], sd2 = Sort[data2], e1, e2, >udat = Union[Flatten[{data1, data2}]], n1 = Length[data1], >n2 = Length[data2], T}, >e1 = empiricalCDF[sd1, #] & /@ udat; >e2 = empiricalCDF[sd2, #] & /@ udat; >T = Max[Abs[e1 - e2]]; >(1/Sqrt[n1]) (Sqrt[(n1*n2)/(n1 + n2)]) T >] After looking at your code above I realized I posted a very bad solution to this problem. But, it looks to me like there is a problem with this code. The returned result (1/Sqrt[n1]) (Sqrt[(n1*n2)/(n1 + n2)]) T seems to have a extra factor in it. Specifically 1/Sqrt[n1]. Since n1 is the number of samples in the first data set, including this factor means you will get a different result by interchanging the order of the arguments to the function when the number of samples in each data set is different. Since the KS statistic is based on the maximum difference between the empirical CDFs, the order in which the data sets are used in the function should not matter.


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Beyond Glenn Beck: Fox News' Fundamental Dishonesty Problem
Of all the things that Glenn Beck's awkward transition off Fox News says about the so-called news organization, it certainly says nothing about Fox developing a sudden intolerance for dishonesty.
Despite a long and disreputable history of deception, Beck laughably and repeatedly claimed that he "could not stay on the air" at Fox if he were to "just make things up."
All along, there was never any indication that Fox News actually held Beck accountable for the litany of falsehoods and deceptive editing he used to smear progressives. And all the evidence at hand makes perfectly clear that Beck's departure is in no way a result of Fox News suddenly opting to hold him accountable for that routine dishonesty.
After all, the Fox stable has no shortage of commenters who still get paid despite a proclivity for mendacity.
Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon -- repeatedly exposed trying to slant the news -- actually bragged that he used his position at Fox to lie in an attempt at linking President Obama to socialism in the waning days of the 2008 campaign. Sammon called it "mischievous speculation."
Sean Hannity's recent special on liberal bias in the media employed such blatantly deceptive editing that it prompted media critic Howard Kurtz to call one example an "absolute slam dunk case of misleading editing."
Bill O'Reilly lied about the content of his own show, absurdly denying that anyone on Fox ever said that individuals could be put in jail for failing to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Covering up a lie with another lie doesn't undo the lie.
Speaking of The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News' Gretchen Carlson used a recent appearance to claim that 35 percent of people paying the in-state tuition rate at University of California schools were "illegals." That's just making stuff up. The actual figure is 0.34 percent.
Fox News' Dick Morris fabricated conversations he had with Bill Clinton to conjure up a conspiracy theory about Janet Reno threatening Clinton that she would "tell the truth" about Waco. Morris later explained that this was just "conjecture" that needed to be separated from "the facts."
Deception, as it turns out, is central to the Fox Cycle, wherein the so-called news organization helps funnel bogus right-wing attacks into the mainstream. This relationship became clear as Fox News aggressively hyped the phony New Black Panther Party scandal during the summer of 2010. That pseudo-scandal -- centered on the bogus charge that the Obama Justice Department was racist, as evidenced by its supposed refusal to protect white voters from intimidation at the hands of minorities -- never held up to a simple review of the facts. Fox News got around that by simply ignoring the facts that would have exposed the lie.
Fox News lied about Senate procedures. Fox News lied about Obama giving back a "major strip" of land to Mexico. Fox News lied about Obama trying to ban sports fishing. Fox News lied about health care reform waivers.
Fox News' reputation for dishonesty is so well known that it became a rallying cry for pro-labor protestors in Wisconsin last winter.
The reasons Fox News is transitioning away from Glenn Beck remain unclear. Undoubtedly, the flight of advertisers away from his show and his precipitous decline in ratings became an issue.
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Etna's brother was already done. They called him Adell. ;-PI jest on the claim; but technically if you look at their designs they pretty much look like they were taken from a similar genetic stock.
Nippon Ichi also confirmed Asagi will be in Disgaea Dimension 2
QuoteNippon Ichi also confirmed Asagi will be in Disgaea Dimension 2Come on Nippon Ichi, make her goddamn game already. It's seriously sad to see her get shelved in every game =(
Read over the article a few times just to be sure but...I wasn't told any difference. Item World, Item Sea...sounds like the same thing only with a name change. Need more information.
Disgaea D2 second trailer, Laharl version -- Source: Gematsu
It's kind of a no-brainer, but US release confirmed.Yes I'm using the same link in two different posts, so sue me Oh yeah, The Guided Fate Paradox too. That might be interesting.


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This year's Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation banquet was as successful as last year, netting $33,000 for the cause.
That was up from $25,000 last year.
It went more smoothly this year, said Foundation Regional Director Ryan Kaiser. He said he heard a lot of good comments and people saying they wanted to come back this year.
The banquet was held at the Morgan County Fairgrounds events center, and people were all over it to take part in the games and dinner.
The Elk Foundation's mission is to ensure the future of elk, other wildlife and their habitats. It is committed to conserving, restoring and enhancing natural habitats, promoting the sound management of free-ranging elk and educating the public about the value of conservation, hunting and wildlife management.
To date, the foundation has conserved or enhanced more than 6 million acres of habitat, which is the size of 12 Great Smoky Mountains National Parks, according to the organization's literature.
That amounts to about a square mile a day since the organization started.
RMEF has restored wild elk to four states where they had been absent for more than 100 years. When the foundation began in 1984, 550,000 elk roamed North America. Today, there are well over a million wild elk, but every day another 5,000 acres of elk habitat disappears forever — replaced by sprawl and concrete.
Funding is allocated to specific projects by a state RMEF committee, which works in tandem with agencies such as Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Colorado Division of Forestry. That partnership can stretch each dollar raised by another $8 to $10, making it go even further, Kaiser said.
The committee looks at the best value for the money. It might buy land at $100 an acre or $50 an acre, or look at other ways to protect habitat, such as helping clear out invasive species from an area or make an area less prone to wildfire, he said.
Last year, the Morgan County organizational committee won the Outstanding Committee Award, which is given to committees that have a net profit of at least 60 percent of the gross, Kaiser said.
Since this year's banquet grossed about $50,000 and netted $33,000, it will likely win the award again, he said.
Also, Jack, Colby and Jeremy Horton became Life Members at the banquet.
This is a serious mission, but those at the banquet seemed to be having fun with the many activities on the agenda.
Two freezers full of meat were raffled off, and that included the freezers themselves, and a whole pig's worth of pork.
Tickets were also sold for hunting trips and to win various rifles or a handgun.
A live auction run by Robert Christensen of Associate Auctioneers of Colorado offered chances to bid on many different items, including hunting trips, binoculars, handmade quilts, rifles, an aspen wood bedstead with a quilt, an aspen wood trunk, flasks, chests, a number of pieces of artwork, frame packs, watches, custom knives and a number of other items.
A silent auction offered gift certificates to movies, weapons instruction, art, watches, flasks, decoys, a hunting package, a vase, a floor jack, cast-iron cookware, a car package, a spotting scope, a taxidermy bird mounting and books related to hunting and elk.
A big draw was a number of raffles that offered things like special hunting rifles, handguns, binoculars, shot glasses, an elk call, hunting knives, a rifle sling, meat bags, a turkey decoy, a digital scouting camera, a gun cleaning kit, a deep fryer, small fishing rods, a spotlight and much more.
This year, there was a kids' table, which offered a .22 rifle, a decoy, books, packs, a BB gun, a sling shot, a fishing rod and more.
There were some fun games, too, such as the giant dice game. People paid and rolled the dice for raffle tickets, a ticket for each point on the dice.
A cap-toss game gave as many raffle tickets as caps that landed on the points of a set of elk antlers, and people automatically won one of three types of knives.
A rose raffle gave a rose and a chance to win a small, pink handgun.
A beer pong game — minus the beer — offered the chance to win raffle tickets by bouncing ping pong balls into cups.
For more information or to join the foundation, call Kevin Ross at 970-381-5172 or Jeremy Holt at 970-381-7247. The local group could also use people on the area foundation committee.
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Exclusive: 'The Amazing Race' producer talks about upcoming seasonAfter twelve seasons, The Amazing Race viewers grown used to seeing the show's contestants participate in some unusual tasks as they race around the world. However, according to co-creator and executive producer Bertram van Munster, the show will be kicking the danger level up a notch during this fall's thirteenth edition. "[This season] you will see a tricky one where you will wonder 'How in the world did they have the guts to do this?' You are really going to wonder," van Munster told Reality TV World in an exclusive interview last week. "I look[ed] at it and I [went] 'Oh what was I thinking? Oh my god, this could go very wrong.' And then it does." But despite the unexpected task drama, The Amazing Race's thirteenth season -- which filmed this past summer and will premiere this Sunday at 8PM ET/PT on CBS -- will still feature the same structure and elements the show has become known for, according to van Munster. "I think itâs an unbelievable trek around the globe," he told Reality TV World. "We have a fun cast [and] we had a great time with them. They performed splendidly, they were exhausted, they were furious with each other, they loved each other, they were ready to give up. You name it, all of the emotions you can possible imagine on [a show] like this." Unlike CBS' other long-running Big Brother and Survivor reality series, which have regularly used new twists over the years, The Amazing Race's thirteenth season stuck to a format very similar to the show's previous editions -- a move van Munster said was a deliberate decision to adhere the six-time Emmy-winning show's original concept. "The more you start messing with an original concept, usually it doesn't get much better. It doesn't really improve," he said. Instead, van Munster said he placed additional emphasis on designing intriguing task challenges for the new season. "What I've done [for this season is] I've come up with so many insane challenges that it should do the trick and I think it will be plenty exciting for an audience to watch it," he told Reality TV World. Rather than moving away from the show's original concept, The Amazing Race 13 will actually attempt to return closer to it and feature "clues" -- which despite their name, have devolved into more basic instructions over the years -- that are more complex and closer to those used in the show's initial editions. "I think that you'll definitely see it... we really try to go back to the old ways so the audience doesn't feel like we're 'FedEx-ing' people around the world," van Munster told Reality TV World. "We are very diligent and I am extremely aggressive about it that the show stays really truly original and distinct to the original core as possible." In addition, the season also happened to play out as one of the few The Amazing Race editions in which one of the competing teams failed to make it to the course's finish line -- an unexpected development that was welcomed by van Munster. "I like it when people don't make it to the finish line," he said. Non-elimination Pit Stops will also return as part of The Amazing Race's thirteenth season, according to van Munster, who said he was unsure why fellow executive producer Jonathan Littman had incorrectly told reporters -- and van Munster had then subsequently confirmed -- the stops had been eliminated from last fall's twelfth edition. "That was our mistake," van Munster, who admits to not being a fan of the non-elimination Pit Stops, said of the confusion. "We probably all had jet lag, but there's always a non-elimination in there." Last season's new Speed Bump tasks -- the show's latest version of a penalty for the team that arrives last at a non-elimination Pit Stop -- will return for The Amazing Race's thirteenth season, according to the producer. Viewers will also see a broader range of equipment brought by the contestants this season, including a decision by "Best Friends" Mark Yturralde and Bill Hahler to run the race using extra small backpacks. "We had people showing up with 80-pound backpacks and we had people showing up with almost nothing," van Munster said. "It's their choice. This is a true reality show. You show up with whatever you have and then we turn you loose and you have to figure out how to do it. We don't sit there and guide [contestants] and manipulate it and edit it and all of that nonsense. We just turn them loose and off you go." Van Munster said that while the thirteenth season's course -- which covers approximately 30,000 miles of travel and is similar to the length of last fall's edition -- is shorter than most of the show's previous seasons, it features many "really original" locations and will not seem short to viewers. "If you look at where we're going it's unbelievable," van Munster said. "There are a couple of straight-line-shots that make the mileage a little shorter, but we are going all over the place on this one." "If you look at it you say 'How can it [only] be 30,000 miles?' ... we have such insane plane rides." Bolivia, Kazakhstan and Cambodia will be among several of the new countries visited for the first time. "When I went to Kazakhstan everyone thought I was going to pull a Borat on them," van Munster said with a laugh. In addition, Cambodia also proved to be difficult due to the country's lack of organized transportation systems. 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Non-elimination Pit Stops will also return as part of The Amazing Race's thirteenth season, according to van Munster, who said he was unsure why fellow executive producer Jonathan Littman had incorrectly told reporters -- and van Munster had then subsequently confirmed -- the stops had been eliminated from last fall's twelfth edition. "That was our mistake," van Munster, who admits to not being a fan of the non-elimination Pit Stops, said of the confusion. "We probably all had jet lag, but there's always a non-elimination in there."
"The Amazing Race": The Emmy-winning reality show is not on the fall schedule and will return later. "The countries are very exotic," Littman says. "We're going to a couple of places that I don't even know where they are on the map. I've had to go look them up."As for the teams? Lively."This is a tough group," Littman says. "They'll be younger. We still have a good balance."The show will will do two fewer episdoes and drop the noneliminations to create more excitement.http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2007/07/cbs-party-offer.html
Also adding to The Amazing Race 12's excitement level, according to van Munster, is the fact that the show has done away with non-elimination legs, a format change executive producer Jonathan Littman first revealed at the Television Critics Association summer press. "The audience and ourselves, we're not crazy about non-eliminations," said van Munster. "It's exciting to see people eliminated at the end of every episode." Non-elimination legs have been part of The Amazing Race since the reality competition series first premiered in Fall 2001, and the show's fifth edition was the first in which teams were penalized for being the last to reach non-elimination Pit Stops. Doing away with non-elimination legs means there will also be no more penalties, an aspect that van Munster said will also make The Amazing Race 12 more fast-paced. "Penalties just make it murky," he explained. "This is just such a clean-cut concept, it's not about finding more penalties and hurdles for people. That's not what this thing is about. I think the audience and our fans like eliminations from what we understand." The fact that a team will be eliminated at the end of every The Amazing Race 12 leg will also keep the contestants on their toes. "For the contestants, the heat's on every step of the way," added van Munster. "Every leg of the way the heat is on because they can be eliminated."http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/the-amazing-race-producer-twelfth-edition-will-be-nail-biter-6023.php
#10 - Anita and ArthurYou have to root for the hippie beekeepers. You just do. However, they are old. And they are hippies, so they won't be overly concerned with moving all that fast. This is an issue, because they are going on a race. They will make it past one elimination leg, but their sluggish movement will do them in eventually. Silver lining: viewers will once again understand why they used to love hippies.
Quote#10 - Anita and ArthurYou have to root for the hippie beekeepers. You just do. However, they are old. And they are hippies, so they won't be overly concerned with moving all that fast. This is an issue, because they are going on a race. They will make it past one elimination leg, but their sluggish movement will do them in eventually. Silver lining: viewers will once again understand why they used to love hippies. Now I know who's out in Leg 1.Y'all probably knew it already but I couldn't sort it out.
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Here are a few pics from fishing. The first few are from the boat we rented before I found my boat.
Fish fry makings. LOL Everyone had to get pics with them. but I'll just post one pic.
now from my boat.
This was the first fish on my boat. In a spot I had fished many times with my grandfather who passed away almost a year before this pic. Seemed kinda fitting. Yet maybe a little small.
catfish sitting on the boat tied to the dock
back after bass
I hooked it and handed her the rod. She reeled it in but wouldn't touch it. LOL
This one is a bit hard to see but there are two hooks my two daughters teamed up to real this monster in...haha
My dad and my daughter...buddies for life... Inseparable really. So fun to see my dad loving to be around my kids. And you can see my old boat runs pretty good.
And sunset one day at the marina
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Daniel Barden, 7, is buried Wedenesday.
NEWTOWN -- Daniel Barden, 7, never got the chance to grow up and become a firefighter, but Wednesday he got a firefighter's funeral.
More than 100 firefighters from New York City, Simsbury, New London, Lyme and elsewhere, lined the long driveway on both sides, from the curb to the large wooden doors of Saint Rose of Lima Church. They stood at attention in dress uniform as his grief-stricken family passed by in the funeral procession. Some played bagpipes.
"We came here to show support," said John Cummings of Ladder Co. 45 in New York City and treasurer of the NYC Firefighters Brotherhood Association. Daniel had cousins who are New York City firefighters. Most got text messages Tuesday telling them Daniel wanted to be a firefighter, too. "We're here to show our support for this community like our community was deeply affected after 9/11. We're here to return the favor," said Lt. Eddy Boles, another NYC firefighter.
The church was packed with mourners for the 10 a.m. service. Friends, family, neighbors and classmates were all there.
Laura Stamberg and daughter Sarah, 16, came an hour and half away from New Paltz, N.Y. Laura's husband and Daniel's father Mark used to play in a band together. The last time she saw Daniel, he was very small.
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Blueberries are my favorite summer fruit. I love the color, texture, the little crown at the top of the berry, and the memories that I associate with this small delicate fruit that was plentiful on the East Coast. As a child I picked berries in Lakewood, New Jersey and watched my Tante Marisha and mother prepare blueberry buns that we would eat straight from the oven, the warm berries oozing out with the first bite. At The Rendezvous, a corner store in The Bronx, I always ordered fresh blueberry ice cream in the summer. It had a particular fragrance that I had completely forgotten until this past year when a facial cream brought back this incredibly familiar smell, it was the smell of fresh blueberry ice cream.
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There was a trip to Maine when the kids were little and we picked berries on Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. Summer trips to Toronto where blueberry buns were a local specialty of European Jewish bakeries. I remember my cousin Rose serving a delicious blueberry cake and I have a favorite peach and blueberry cobbler recipe that I make each summer. Blueberry buns, or yagda bilkelach, which is what they are called in Yiddish, are from an era when you could go out and pick your berries, bring them home and spend the day making something special for your family to eat. Summer days should be like that. Try them.
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I got a fabulous birthday present from my mum and step-dad Andrew... yep, an i-pod! It is officially amazing. I have wanted an MP3 player for a long, long time. I am slowly going through my CD collection and loading everything up onto i-tunes. Last night Henry understood why I had wanted an MP3 player for so long, becuase I think he thought I was getting to the end of loading up all my CD's after 3 boxes of them, but alas, another box from on top of my wardrobe came down for entry... It's a never ending task!
So here is my gelaskin... I have loaded it up here becuase you may recognise the pattern - Yep, it has been made using one of my paintings (number 2)... I am so pleased with it. Sadly, it isn't a great photograph, but it's really green and lush. I almost loaded the grapes, which looked very cool, but the Ginkgo is far more me.
Anyone who has artwork, and a device, be it a kindle or a touch or a pod, I highly recommend 'making your own' - there is an option to do this.


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Sometimes we do things the hard way out of habit. Instead of thinking about a design, we just rely on things we know work. I can't tell you how many times I've spent searching for a remote control to turn off a TV only to realize it would have been faster to just walk over to the TV and turn it off manually.
An old friend of mine showed me a Microchip PIC design to monitor a battery. The controller simply waited for the battery to reach the trip point and caused an indicator to blink. The battery drives a large load, so there is plenty of juice left over even at that point.
At first I didn't think there was anything odd about what he showed me. He selected an eight-pin device with an onboard A/D. A voltage divider brought the voltage in range and the software set a digital output at the right time.
Sounds fine right? Then it occurred to me that we had both fallen into the habit trap. How do you measure voltage? With an A/D, of course. In this case, he didn't actually need to know the voltage, just if it was under threshold. I suggested he use a digital input with the divider set to hit the input threshold.
This leads to simpler code, at least potentially. The really interesting thing, though, is to add back some code complexity and monitor the input with an interrupt pin. This might seem like overkill to use an interrupt, but using one will let the code mostly sleep. That leads to very low power consumption.
Of course, you could also argue you don't need a microcontroller at all for something this simple. That's true, although I've oversimplified the project a bit in the interest of clarity. Still, all the work only happened once the threshold tripped. Besides, the PIC in question was a PIC12F629, which is well under a dollar. Even if a comparator and an LED flasher would work, the difference in cost would be very small. Besides, there are even less expensive, small CPUs out there from Microchip and other vendors. The 12F629 just happened to be in the circuit.
This chip has an interrupt-on-change feature that can monitor I/O pins and tell you if any changed. However, for this case, a single interrupt line is sufficient. The GP2 pin serves as a general-purpose interrupt and can be set to trigger on a falling edge by setting bit 6 of the OPTION register. There's no need for an external clock, since the PIC can use its internal one. High timing accuracy is unnecessary in this application.
About the only flaw in this scheme is that the input pin threshold may not be exact. In this case, that wasn't critical, but there are still other tricks you can use. For example, the same PIC has a proper comparator and internal voltage reference. These operate during sleep (but do consume a bit more power) and can wake up the processor.
The moral of the story is really in two parts: First, don't just fall back on habits when making design decisions. Second, know your hardware and think about how to apply it to the problem at hand.
As an example of my second point, think about this question: How would you do a rough (+/- 1 degree C) temperature measurement? Habit would suggest a thermistor or a thermocouple or an integrated temperature sensor. If you are really old school, you might use an A/D to read a diode temperature junction. Once you've got your simplest answer, read this paper, also by Microchip. Did you break your habit?


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James M. Tabor's last book was the international award-winning Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters. The writer and on-camera host of the acclaimed national PBS series The Great Outdoors, Tabor was also co-creator and executive producer for the 2007 History Channel special Journey to the Center of the World. Tabor is a former contributing editor to Outside magazine and Ski Magazine; his writing has also appeared in Time, Smithsonian, Barron's, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and many other national publications.


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dream kitchen + weekend
(image: period living)
Happy Friday! I came across this kitchen photo and believe it is indeed my dream kitchen. Modern but rustic, simple, open, and light filled. Don't you love when you find a room or a home that just speaks to you? Hope to be back with lots more next week... until then here are five links worth checking out this weekend! Have a good one.
-first birthday party!
-catchy song.
-crows of chennai.
-diy picnic blanket.
-veggie sandwiches + lemon cake.
17 comments:
- Mal said...
What a beautiful kitchen! I love the wood flooring and how bright it is!
- July 15, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- Mo @ Howl Madly said...
I love the flooring and the island! So pretty!
- July 15, 2011 at 10:06 AM
- amanda jane said...
agreed! I love that kitchen. beautiful.
- July 15, 2011 at 10:14 AM
- Chaucee said...
Now that really is a dream! I love all the wood.
- July 15, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- Erin {pughs' news} said...
Oh yay! It's my Saturday morning daydream from this past weekend! Sigh. I love that kitchen too.
Happy weekend, Alli!
- July 15, 2011 at 11:20 AM
- kelly said...
mmm...that lemon cake recipe sounds really good!
- July 15, 2011 at 12:38 PM
- Brooke said...
thanks homie! xoxo
- July 15, 2011 at 10:05 PM
- Kayla Poole said...
dream kitchen indeed. ah, it's nice to be back. I've missed all of my blog pals!
- July 17, 2011 at 6:39 PM
- this free bird said...
This is a dream--so wonderfully, naturally lit and those floors are perfect.
- July 18, 2011 at 4:29 AM
- Lindsey said...
thanks friend! love, lindsey
- July 18, 2011 at 12:19 PM
- Erin Lian said...
Dream kitchen! I love the DIY picnic blanket too :D
- July 18, 2011 at 2:53 PM
- Colleen / Inspired to Share said...
Such a pretty space! Thanks for the links - I love that picnic blanket!!
- July 18, 2011 at 7:03 PM
- Kimia Kline said...
i felt that way this weekend when i got to peek inside a handmade home here in india. it crept waay down deep into my heart. :) and thank you alli, as always, for being such a supporter of my artwork. xo.
- July 19, 2011 at 4:58 AM
- Casa e Cose said...
Love the flooring and the carpets. And of course the light and the double glas doors. I also like kitchens that dont have furnishing on the walls - i like the walls nude with maybe art or something but no cubbords. Have a lovely tuesday!
- July 19, 2011 at 6:17 AM
- interior decorators toronto said...
A beautiful kitchen... I love that kitchen too and I love the wood flooring and how bright it is.
- October 10, 2011 at 8:25 AM
Beautiful! Love the flooring and the rug!
- March 10, 2012 at 4:49 AM
- Carpets said...
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Who here is a fan of Hayao Miyazaki? I think his films are equivalent to the Pixar of Japanese Animation. I have come to cherish his stories so much as they are released that I pick them up without feeling a need to research their quality (a habit similar to my unwavering faith in Pixar, choosing to watch their movies no matter how silly they appear, or how they are reviewed).
Some of his famous movie titles include:
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
- Princess Mononoke (1997)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- Howl's Moving Castle (2004)


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Penn State Block and Bridle Club recognized as best in nation
Penn State Block and Bridle Club recognized as best in nation
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State's Block and Bridle Club was named the No. 1 club in the nation for chapter activities at the 93rd annual Block and Bridle Convention, held April 4 to 6 at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
The club earned second place in yearbook competition, and Danielle Sheppard, of New Derry, was fourth in the Outstanding Junior contest. The Outstanding Activities Award is given to the club that maintains the highest level of involvement on its campus and within its agricultural community.
Eight Penn State students participated in the event, accompanied by club adviser Ken Kephart, professor of animal science.
"It is an outstanding achievement for our students to again be recognized nationally for their activities," said Terry Etherton, head of the Department of Animal Science. "Members work extremely hard throughout the academic year in a wide variety of events, all of which enhance the College of Agricultural Sciences."
Penn State Block and Bridle is the premier livestock and horse club on campus, with members committed to advocacy and with a shared love for the animal sciences industry, Etherton noted.
The club's activities include educational programs -- both for members and the public -- service initiatives and social events. Members conduct the Little International Livestock Expo each spring, help with the student-run Ag Day, raise funds for worthwhile projects and join with other clubs to offer enrichment opportunities for their members.
The national convention, which attracted more than 530 students and advisers from 34 clubs around the country, featured speakers and seminars on important topics for agriculture. Students had an opportunity to network with leaders in the industry and tour major agricultural facilities.
The National Block and Bridle Club is a collegiate organization with 92 chapters across the United States with the purpose of promoting animal agriculture and developing professional and leadership skills in members.
Penn State's Block and Bridle Club is supported throughout the year by numerous Pennsylvania agricultural organizations and by the Department of Animal Science and the College of Agricultural Sciences. In addition to Kephart, club advisers are Vivian Baumer, research support associate, and Dan Kniffen, assistant professor of animal science.


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Oh the outrage. Murray Rankin, recently elected Member of Parliament for Victoria, showed up at the Joint Review Panel public hearing in his own riding Friday morning only to be turned away.
"I was well dressed and didn't appear to be radical and I had my MP pin on, hoping that would give me some sway in order to get in. But the public wasn't allowed in this public hearing," Rankin said in an interview.
The three-member panel has been holding hearings across the province on Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway Project to pipe bitumen from the Alberta oilsands to Kitimat, where it would be loaded on tankers.
The hearings in Victoria are one of two locations, along with Vancouver, where the public is not being allowed into the public hearings, which are being held to hear from the public.
On the surface, that's an absurd notion and for opponents to the pipeline like Rankin, the more absurdity the better.
Before winning the byelection in November as a New Democrat, one of Rankin's commissions as an environmental lawyer was to draft a legal strategy to be used, if the NDP wins the next provincial election, to prevent Enbridge from going ahead with Northern Gateway even if it is approved by the Joint Review Pane.
The panel reports to the federal government later this year.
Rankin knew before he arrived Friday that he wouldn't be let in. He had called the panel on Thursday and asked that they extend him the courtesy of allowing him to sit in as the MP for the riding. He was told that only members of the public who were scheduled to speak to the panel were being let in and any others, including MPs, could watch the proceedings from another hotel in Victoria where there would be a video link.
That's not good enough, Rankin said, noting that it is like watching what's going on in the House of Commons from a fixed camera. "I kind of think that being in the video room doesn't give you the flavour of what's going on."
The panel decided to control entry in Victoria and Vancouver because it fears the potential for large numbers of demonstrators disrupting the proceedings.
In Vancouver, the panel is holding hearings at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre from Jan. 14 to 18 and public viewing will be at the Westin Bayshore.
The panel has been skittish in the face of protests. It postponed a hearing in Bella Bella after a demonstration surrounded the van in which panel members were being brought from the airport.
The optics of keeping the public out of a public hearing of any kind are not great.
But the panel was right to be concerned that it might be disrupted. Last month, protesters took over an information session being held in Victoria by Kinder Morgan on its plans to twin the Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to Vancouver.
Keith Baldrey of Global TV reported that a busload of protesters came into the meeting and some of them took down some of Kinder Morgan's displays and replaced them with their own signs. Having made it impossible for Victoria residents who had come for information about the project to get the information they sought, the protesters then complained when Kinder Morgan ended the meeting early.
Rankin's complaint is equally dubious.
He said that as the MP for the riding, he wanted into the hearing so he could report to his constituents on the proceedings. I'm not sure how much more he would have learned by being in the room. The speakers I heard on the live audio feed from the hearing all used their 10 minutes to explain why the pipeline should not be allowed to proceed.
They gave the now-familiar reasons — the risk of a spill, the threat of global warming from burning of bitumen from the oilsands, the credibility of Enbridge as an operator in the aftermath of the Kalamazoo spill and put them in the context of their experiences living on the coast as recent immigrants or as descendants of pioneers and aboriginal British Columbians.
They were passionate, mostly coherent and informed and they were heard by the panel without interruption.
Since the purpose of the hearing was to inform the panel, I'd call it successful.


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Come to Kapalua
A joyful family honors a beloved auntie and celebrates her song of this verdant Maui peninsula. Island food and music provide feasting and fun.
Most families sit around a table after a good meal and tell stories. This one stands up and sings. "Once the music starts, it just goes," says Candy Aluli, who has witnessed many spontaneous music sessions since she married into this Hawaii family five years ago.
An aura of harmony surrounds her husband Nane's clan. His mother, legendary singer Irmgard Farden Aluli, left a legacy carried on by Nane's sisters and other relatives. His Auntie Edna, Irmgard's sister and the last of her generation, still writes songs, and today is her day. "Edna's a composer, and she's famous in a quiet way," Candy explains. This morning, Maui's Kapalua Bay Hotel will adopt one of her songs―"Come to Kapalua"―as its official anthem. After the ceremony, Edna's music-loving family will share a meal on site and, likely, break out the ukuleles.
Edna Farden Bekeart is the youngest of seven sisters and six brothers who grew up on this isle. "My parents taught us to sing in the backyard, right on the ocean," she says. Her mom also taught her Farden recipes, now bound in a well-worn cookbook, with accompanying notes on authentic Hawaiian dishes. Today's luncheon is just as genuine. "A true Hawaiian family doesn't do a luau," says Candy. "Luaus have become a touristy thing. We're doing a family gathering with foods we love." The menu combines family favorites with hotel specialties and has won Edna's approval.
A former teacher who first composed Hawaiian songs as part of the school curriculum, Edna claims that her true love is history, and that music is just a hobby. Though her songs honor the past, Edna lives fully in the present. "I'm having such a wonderful life," she says. This subtly glamorous woman orders her martinis straight up, but she's still girlish, bringing her hands to her face when she tells of her first love. She's wistful when she talks of meeting her husband, Robert, now deceased, and of their years living in New Jersey―when an island girl first saw snow. Such nostalgia underlies today's romantic melody and lyrics celebrating Kapalua, where Edna hung out as a teen.
Under palms slick with sunshine, the hotel manager welcomes the family for the dedication. Staffers, who have been coached by Edna, perform while she mouths the words under the shade of a heliotrope tree. A steel guitar wavers. A hula dancer sways with motions that match the song's sentiments. After applause, family members say alohas, kissing cheeks. "Auntie, I love your song!" exclaims Mihana, Nane's sister. She's one of the vivacious members of the acclaimed family trio Puamana, and a solo artist, too. "We were raised with music," she says later. Her mother, the famous Irmgard, taught her to share her spirit, her aloha, through song. "It's a legacy we need to pass on. There's too much passion not to," Mihana says.
The family circles up to bless the food and to sing a song that compares their love to a fragrant flower. After lunch, they sing some more, the Puamana trio leading the way. Nane shyly joins the women. Not a public performer, he adds his lovely voice to the mix, flicking his fingers across the ukulele as Mihana hulas.
Under Edna's satisfied eye, the melodies finally fade, and she says, "This is what we do. We enjoy food. We dance. We sing."
Marriott International's Kapalua Bay Hotel, Kapalua, Maui; 808/669-5656 or renaissancehotels.com.


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One TSA screener killed, media flip flops on gunman being off-duty TSA officer
Paul Joseph Watson
November 1, 2013
UPDATE: The media is now reporting that the gunman was not an off-duty TSA officer, which is a strange flip flop from earlier when law enforcement sources said that he was. This can now be exploited to justify further TSA abuse of power, which would have not been possible if the shooter had been a TSA agent.
The L.A. Times reports: "A federal law enforcement official said that the gunman was a ticketed passenger entering the airport. Officials don't believe the gunman has ever worked for TSA. Law enforcement sources had earlier told The Times the gunman was a TSA employee."
A shooting at LAX airport today which killed at least one and wounded several other Transportation Security Administration screeners could be exploited as a justification to arm TSA agents, a plan that has likely been in the works for some time.
According to reports, a man approached a document checker at Los Angeles International Airport, pulled out a rifle and opened fire on a security officer.
Several people were wounded during the shooting, which went on for around half an hour, including a TSA agent who was shot in the leg.
According to the L.A. Times "two or three TSA employees were hit by gunfire."
NBC News later confirmed that one of the TSA agents was killed.
The suspect was described as a clean cut white male who fired an AR-15. The gun is seen lying on the ground in the image below.
It was subsequently confirmed that the shooter had been killed by police.
Reports indicate that the shooter was an off-duty TSA agent, suggesting the motivation could have been personal and not political. According to eyewitnesses, the gunman was clearly targeting TSA agents.
The gunman was apprehended but the incident prompted an evacuation of Terminals 2 and 3 and all planes were later grounded, with incoming planes being diverted.
"We were just standing there in line and somebody started shooting," said eyewitness Nick Pugh . "Everyone dropped to the floor and started crawling along the ground, abandoning their suitcases."
RT @AlienGurudeva: Inside LAX terminal, possibly the gun used laying on ground in front of guard. pic.twitter.com/5yYCsyBQYB
— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) November 1, 2013
The incident is almost certain to be exploited by the federal government and the media to justify draconian TSA security policies, but it could also be used to rubber stamp a policy of arming TSA agents.
As we reported earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security has been hiring shooting ranges near airports in order to train TSA agents, suggesting that a plan to equip the screeners with firearms has been on the agenda for a while.
More on this story as it develops….
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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You can use Parental Controls in Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 to help prevent user accounts from accessing inappropriate content on Internet websites. This article describes how this feature works.
The Internet content filter is built into the core of the operating system, allowing it to filter Internet access regardless of which Web browser is used.
To enable Internet content filtering:
- From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
- From the View menu, choose Parental Controls.
- Select the user account on the left side of the window that you would like to enable filtering for. Note: Parental Controls cannot be enabled for administrator accounts (admin accounts will not appear in the window). Check Accounts preferences in System Preferences to see which account(s) have what level of access (Admin, Managed, and so forth).
- Click "Enable Parental Controls".
- Click the Content tab.
- Chose one of the three modes under Website Restrictions. See below for a description of each.
- Repeat steps 3 through 6 for other non-administrator accounts for which you would like to enable filtering.
About Internet content filter's three modes
The Internet content filter can operate in three modes: unrestricted, automatic, and whitelist.
"Allow unrestricted access to websites" (unrestricted)
When "Allow unrestricted access to websites" is selected, the Internet content filter logs websites that the account visits but does not restrict Web browsing. Visited websites are still logged and can be examined in the Logs tab of Parental Controls preferences.
"Try to limit access to adult websites automatically" (automatic)
When "Try to limit access to adult websites automatically" is selected, the Internet content filter does its best to block websites with inappropriate content. To do this, the Internet content filter uses the same technology that the Mail application uses to identify "junk" mail. The Internet content filter can identify, with a high degree of accuracy, whether a Web page is safe or not by examining various properties of the website including text and structure.
Additionally, the Internet content filter will block a website if the website identifies itself as adult-oriented using RTA (http://www.rtalabel.org/) or SafeSurf (http://www.safesurf.com/ssplan.htm) rating systems, as well as forcing "safe" searches with some search engines.
In this mode, the Internet content filter logs all visited and blocked websites, and flags them as such in the Logs tab of Parental Controls preferences.
In certain situations, the automatic Internet content filter may mistakenly block a safe website or allow an adult-oriented website. For example, if the website uses an uncommon language or if there is very little text on the page. These websites can be identified in the Log tab of the Parental Controls preference pane and added to the "Always Allow" or the "Never Allow" lists. These lists can also be accessed by clicking the Customize… button in the Content tab of Parental Controls preferences. Websites that are mistakenly blocked can also be allowed by clicking the "Allow…" button on the blocked web page and authenticating as an administrator user.
https note: For websites that use SSL encryption (the URL will usually begin with https), the Internet content filter is unable to examine the encrypted content of the page. For this reason, encrypted websites must be explicitly allowed using the Always Allow list. Encrypted websites that are not on the Always Allow list will be blocked by the automatic Internet content filter.
"Allow access to only these websites" (whitelist)
If "Allow access to only these websites" is selected in Parental Controls, the Internet content filter blocks any website which is not on the list. When the blocking web page is presented, a list of allowed websites is also shown. If using Safari, allowed websites are displayed as bookmarks in the bookmarks bar.
Note: For most websites, the Internet content filter considers the domain name and not the path. For example, if http://www.example.com is added to the list, then http://pictures.example.com will be allowed, as will http://www.example.com/movies.
In whitelist mode, visited and blocked websites are flagged in the Logs tab of Parental Controls preferences and can be added or removed from the whitelist there.


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The Jesus and Mary Chain perform "Just Like Honey" with "Mad Men's" Jessoca Pare in Buffalo, New York on August 2.
"Mad Men" star Jessica Paré, who plays Megan Draper on the show, took the stage with alt-rockers Jesus and Mary Chain in Buffalo, N.Y., and Toronto last week, notes Slicing Up Eyeballs. Paré sang "Just Like Honey" with the band on Aug. 2 in Buffalo and joined them for "Just Like Honey" and "Sometimes Always" the next day in Toronto.
Jessica Paré's Megan Draper sings a scintillating rendition of "Zou Bisou Bisou" during Don's (Jon Hamm) surprise birthday party on "Mad Men."
Paré showed off her singing talents onscreen during the season five premiere of "Mad Men," performing a flirty rendition of the French pop tune "Zou Bisou Bisou" that stirred up so much buzz it was released as a single. Jesus and Mary Chain, meanwhile, are currently on a North American tour, with their next stop on Sept. 5 at New Orleans' House of Blues.
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I have been making Cinnamon buns for about 2 years now. the problem I
have is all of my dough recipes have the following problems, they get
stale within 8hrs, the dough is bread like, I have yet to get a dough
like a good bakery shop, I have tried a lot of recipes some dough
recipes containing vanilla pudding mix, some using white or yellow cake
mix. I was using bread flour as some recipes call for, but been have
better luck with all purpose flour. but still there is something missing
in my dough to get the fluffy soft texture as bakery shops get, any
ideas to improve my cinnamon buns. I don't have my recipe in front of
me, but it has milk, eggs, butter, sugar, salt IDY.
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Couldn't resist putting together a compilation of the best costumes I've seen around the web. Plus a few bonus photos at the end ;)
|Marty McFly, Back to the Future - via Design You Trust
|Ron Burgandy, Anchorman - via Twicsy
|Ghost - via Ellen
|Funny Bunny - via Ellen
|Comic - via Abduzeedo
|Grateful Dead Bear - via SF Gate
|80s Senior Picture - via Jessica Hische
|Prince - via theFW:
|Computer Error - via The Meta Picture
|Wayne & Garth - via PeroWhateva
And the "bonus" picures... This is D, my brother and I a few years ago.
|Locker background via Movie-Locations
I thought our costumes were pretty flippin sweet until I saw this...
|Kip, Napoleon Dynamie - via dude comon
|Napoleon & Pedro - Multiple sources
Gosh. These kids' are so friggin' sweet at making flippin' costumes. They have skills. Not like nunchuck skills, or computer-hacking skills, but sweet costume making skills.