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No. lol But are you a sort of , how will i put this...... a padawan learner for creativity. I am good at art. I am going to hopefully be a cartoon artist.......
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No. lol But are you a sort of , how will i put this...... a padawan learner for creativity. I am good at art. I am going to hopefully be a cartoon artist.......
Yeah, Britain, lol. I hope.......
Yeah, Britain, lol. I hope.......
You live in Britain?? Wow; some beautiful country out there.
I live in the desert near where they shot the scense for the Sarlacc in Ep. VI; or at least for some of the reshoots they did for the re-release. Not sure if the original shots were done here or not; but they probably were
do you mean that , or are you just kidding?
So, lol, you do live in the tatooine desert where they shot return of the jedi? lol
so they filmed rotj jabbas skiff fight in a common desert?
They didn't go to another planet, it that's what you thought But yeah; I live just on the other side of the border where they shot all that in the California sand dunes.
If you've seen a movie with endless stretches of sand and desert, especially if it's an American movie, it was probably shot there. Though some go to Africa and do it for real there in the Sahara (I think the scenes of Luke's home were shot in Sudan someplace. . . . not sure)
Cool very cool. Thank you for telling me all this information, Ralin. I shall put your rep/karma up, Thanx!
Wow, many thanks, Green
Lol, no problem. Your a true friend Ralin. I just thought that info was very interesting. I mean an actuall desert for the skiff fight, lol, i love it! thank you. continue sending great info and .....up goes your rep/karma
Ok, upload #2 ! More free goodies from your new fellow creator Terra.
Cursors this time. I had made them for my sweetie (sir Drakus up here) but he said I could share them with you too, so here they are.
First, this is a simple 2-colors (black and white) cursor with the shape of the Mando Skull. Because of the direction the mouse arrow has to be, I had to rotate the symbol. I've put it on a striped background so you can plainly see that the area around the cursor itself is completely transparent. Click on the link below the picture to download the zipped cursor of the Skull.
http://www.geocities.com/magincia_games … ullCur.zip
Got 3 more little cursors for you, simple arrows in the colors of Boba.
A Dark static arrow, a Dark Animated arrow, and a Green static arrow. The Dark Animated cursor is very similar to the static Dark one, but it has a part that will flash from black to grey. The area around the cursor is completely transparent too, as you can see on the pictures.
http://www.geocities.com/magincia_games … rkCurs.zip
http://www.geocities.com/magincia_games … eenCur.zip
Nothing too fancy, I wanted to keep the files small, so the cursors won't lag your PC when you use them. I hope you like.
Downloading the Skull very very nice
Do I need a download to open it? if so what?
What version of Windows do you have? There's usually a tool that comes with Windows that allow you to extract ZIP files. Once extracted, you need to place the cursors in your Cursors folder. That's in
If you don't have any tool to extract Zip files, you can try to find WinZip on the web, or if you want, I could send you an old version of it via email.
I also joined .GIF files in the zips, simple pictures to remind you what you downloaded exactly. The cursors are the .ANI and .CUR files, that's what you need to put in your Cursors folder.
I have Vista, I unzipped it, but it said I needed a program to open it or something
Nope, you dont need anything, and you don't need to open them. But you have to place them where I told you in post #52
Then, if you want to use your new cursors, you can set your mouse tools in the Setting Panel
Wow terra!!! Good Job!!!! These cursors are awesome!!!! I got the mando skull one!!!
Thanks a lot, you're really cool.
Now, if you need help installing them, just read posts #52 and #54 of this thread.
Bounty Hunter Kaiza requested an avatar from me, so here I come with two versions of his picture as avatars. Kaiza, just pick the one you want.
I hope you like!
Yeah its going great, and If i think of anything, I'll tell you
cloneapart also requested me an avatar, and provided an awesome picture, wide, hi-res, full of possibilities.. I came up with 7 different avatars that she'll be able to pick from.
All for you, cloneapart, I hope you like.
Hey, Cloneapart....if I cant find the Obi-Av, would you mind if I used one of those? (that you dont use that is)
Hey that is so amazing i really think I like the last one best, but they are all spectacullar. Don't know how you do it but its incredible
Hey, Cloneapart....if I cant find the Obi-Av, would you mind if I used one of those? (that you dont use that is)
No problem, but I'm thinking about using the very last one if you don't mind
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Hey, Cloneapart....if I cant find the Obi-Av, would you mind if I used one of those? (that you dont use that is)
No problem, but I'm thinking about using the very last one if you don't mind
Its not my choice to mind their for you
(P.S. theres an edit button in the lower corner of your post near where the quote button is, you can use it to add to your post. Its the speech bubble with the pencil.)
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Tony Abbott's best known dissident had a blunt message for his colleagues when he appeared on ABC TV's Capital Hill program on Wednesday. "Understand that government is tough," Russell Broadbent told them, through presenter Lyndal Curtis. "Support your leader. Support your Treasurer."
Implicit was the recognition that it was too late to block the big new tax and the other broken promises that will be announced in Joe Hockey's first budget on Tuesday night.
Having lost his regional Victorian seat twice in a backlash against unpopular decisions by Coalition governments, and been among those who forced John Howard to release asylum seeker kids from detention, Broadbent knows more than most about backbench power and how to use it.
His advice to colleagues, including the half-dozen who had already broken ranks, was that their best, indeed their only, tactic now is to lock in behind the budget as the hard but fair medicine the country needs.
He's right, but that doesn't mean Abbott will prevail in the biggest gamble of his political life. The man who promised no excuses and no surprises is poised to offer an abundance of both, and the pre-budget polls point to a very sour reaction from voters.
In a sense, Abbott is reverting to the traditional approach of incoming prime ministers, front-end-loading the unpopular decisions in the first budget, blaming them all on his predecessors, and expecting eventual understanding, even admiration, from the voters. "I think in the long run, the voters will thank us for doing what is absolutely necessary if Labor's debt and deficit disaster is to be tackled," is how the optimist Abbott expressed it on Monday.
His problem is that he made such a reversion near impossible when he upended the orthodoxies of Australian politics, elevating the crime of breaking promises to one that carries a political death sentence, committing himself to far more than was prudent or necessary to win votes, and ruling out major changes in workplace relations or tax in his first term. Essentially what Abbott offered was a two-term agenda, where he would win the trust of the people in his first term by "saying what we mean and doing what we say", and then seek a mandate for more ambitious (and controversial) changes after three years.
The beauty of this strategy was that it married the politics of keeping faith and building trust with the big economic challenge facing national government, because the real fiscal repair task would be required in three years' time.
As one of the country's more respected economists, Saul Eslake, puts it: "If the opposition had not confected the notion that Australia faces an immediate budget problem, it ought to have been possible for Tony Abbott to keep the promises the government should not have made and tackle what is the real problem by announcing things that would come into effect from 2017/18 and giving to the people the opportunity to express an opinion about it at the 2016 election."
By eschewing this path and including income tax and fuel excise increases in their first budget, Abbott and Hockey are taking a massive punt that voters will overlook the broken promises and give them a tick for making a bold start to repairing the budget and for sharing the pain.
While there are parallels between their challenge and the one that confronted John Howard and Peter Costello, there are some big differences, quite apart from the fact that, thanks to the charter of budget honesty, the scale of the problem was known before the election this time.
Back in 1996, there was more scope for the Reserve Bank to give interest rate relief to offset the impact of cuts in spending. As Eslake observes: "People forget the impact of Costello's first budget was significantly ameliorated by the Reserve Bank cutting the cash rate by 2 per cent in that year and the currency falling almost 20 cents in 96/97 and 97/98." This time, there appears little prospect of, or scope for, movement in either area.
Back then, it was also a very different political climate. Howard was well ahead in the polls, had the overwhelming support of a party room that was kept more in the loop, and had a relatively uncluttered agenda. This time, Abbott is the most unpopular new PM in the history of polling, political capital has been squandered on a debate we did not have to have about free speech (and by the restoration of knighthoods) and the colleagues include the new and the nervous and the old and the grumpy.
There is also no shortage of former colleagues offering unsolicited and politically unhelpful advice, from Abbott's old boss in John Hewson, to Peter Reith and, most remarkably, Costello. It was Costello's former adviser, Niki Savva, who wrote this week that cabinet ministers could rationalise Reith and have grown accustomed to Hewson. "But here was Costello, the man who they had appointed only a few months before to chair the Future Fund at an annual salary of almost $200,000, publicly criticising government policy."
Costello's critique of the planned debt levy, in his column in News Corp tabloids, was an unexpected jab to the Abbott solar plexus because it is his example that Abbott and Hockey say they are following. But it was indicative of a view among economists and free-market commentators that an income tax levy on high income earners is not the most effective way of sharing the burden.
"I absolutely get the idea that fairness demands that high income earners contribute to the task of repairing the budget," says Eslake. "What I don't accept is that the optimal way to do this is to give Australia one of the highest top marginal rates, cutting in at one of the lowest top income thresholds in the OECD ($180,000)."
One change that will get an emphatic tick from the economists, and should be supported by Labor and the Greens, is the restoration of fuel excise indexation that was terminated by a panicked Howard as part of his political recovery strategy in 2001. But, once again, Abbott is caught by his own unqualified and repeated pre-election assurances that Australian families will be better off, that "no one's personal tax will go up and no one's fortnightly pension or benefit will go down".
By week's end, Hockey was declaring himself "immensely proud" of his effort, but there were other indications of many more sources of voter anger and potential backbench discontent.
While most MPs are likely to heed Broadbent's advice and crack hardy, many are bracing themselves for a fall. "It will be like Abbott falling off his bike when he's going full pelt," one said. "He may well survive and just lose a lot of skin - or he may not."
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yes, i know it's been a while since i posted an entry about restaurants i've tried. between the korean trip entries as well as being busy with work and preparing for a rather huge transition in my life - it's gotten a bit hectic. there are still a few more entries that i have been postponing for months and sitting on my to do list but i begin to wonder if it's worth writing (but i probably will in due time)
now i am back with a restaurant entry and with one that is considered the best :)
now i am back with a restaurant entry and with one that is considered the best :)
sooo...i've made my way to alinea!
yesssssss...it has FINALLY happened!!
it was for a very special occasion ^^ and yes, it was a HUGE splurge so i don't think i'd do this again although i'd love to. just don't ask me how much we spent on the meal there ><
yesssssss...it has FINALLY happened!!
it was for a very special occasion ^^ and yes, it was a HUGE splurge so i don't think i'd do this again although i'd love to. just don't ask me how much we spent on the meal there ><
alinea has been my #1 restaurant to try for a few years now since it is pretty much ranked as one of the highest restaurants in the united states. there is a very inspiring story behind the genius who is the face of alinea, chef grant achatz. he is also the driving force behind the new restaurant concept that is next restaurant where i had the pleasure of experiencing his beautiful and delectable interpretation of paris 1906. two very successful restaurants (also my favorites) in my second home, chicago ^^
a few notable accolades alinea has received include ::
a few notable accolades alinea has received include ::
o1 | one of the rare michelin three star ranked restaurants in the world (106 in the world as of 2012 and 10 in the USA)
o2 | voted as the top 6th restaurant in the world by restaurant magazine 2011 - highest ranked by a US restaurant {way to go, chicago!}
o3 | named the world's best restaurant by elite traveller in 2012
o4 | recipient of the AAA five diamond award from 2007- 2011
o5 | five james beard foundation awards including 'Outstanding Chef' in 2008 and 'Outstanding Service Award' in 2011
o2 | voted as the top 6th restaurant in the world by restaurant magazine 2011 - highest ranked by a US restaurant {way to go, chicago!}
o3 | named the world's best restaurant by elite traveller in 2012
o4 | recipient of the AAA five diamond award from 2007- 2011
o5 | five james beard foundation awards including 'Outstanding Chef' in 2008 and 'Outstanding Service Award' in 2011
did i mention this was my very first three star michelin restaurant i've ever been to? i was uber excited for the day to come. :)
i made my reservation the earliest i could make it for march 31st - which was january 6th. we requested regular wine pairing for one person that adds an extra $150 to the already hefty price tag..(again, don't ask, kay?) there was another option of wine reserves for $250 per person. i skipped either of the pairings since it would be a waste cos i can't drink at all. ><
instead of doing a full blog entry as i usually would, inspired by an entry written by roam&home blog authors, i've decided on a more whimsical way by using the menu as a score card for each dish we had at alinea. this is supplemented by photos to tell the story of my elegant, delicious yet interesting 3 hour tasting adventure. ^^ so expect a photo spam and single phrases to describe each course :)
one aspect that added to the awesomeness of this dining experience which never crossed my mind until after the meal were the elements of mystery and surprise - since we were not given a menu, we didn't know what to expect as they serve each course at our table making it all the more special :)
hence, pictures first :: the score card second :)
course o1 | steelhead roe :: served with carrot, coconut, and yellow curry - an apt beginning with a lightness yet many layers of flavor ~ a foray of what were to come
course o2 | exploration of the sea :: oyster leaf, mussel, king crab, and razor clam resting on a bed of kelp atop piece of indonesian driftwood
{special presentation :: what i could only lovingly call as the "mobile dashi broth maker" in preparation for course o4 - i admit it brought out my inner nerd lol. i was quite intrigued and excited about it - i love that i could watch as the dashi broth was brewing at my table - too cool! ^.^}
course o3 | woolly pig :: fennel, orange, and squid - one bite, "hands free"
course o4 | scallop :: secret agent, code name ~ agedashi tofu; served with dashi, japanese condiments and yuzu
course o5 | ice :: beet juice, hibiscus tea and liqourice - expertly presented as table centerpiece since the start of the meal
course o6 | scup :: caponata, mint and panella - a more traditional presentation of crispy yet tender fish served family style, contrasting the whimsical + modern approaches of the other courses that night.
{special presentation :: the only things the server said as he placed this on our table was "this is for a later course" and "please refrain from touching it". i guessed it was cooked radicchio - was i right? to find out, skip to course o9}
course o7 | hot potato :: cold potato, black truffle loving, butter - freezing potato cube in shocking contrast with the creamy hot potato soup; all in a single sip
course o8 :: wild mushrooms :: pine, sumac, shallots - resting on a comfy, aromatic pillow; engaging the senses of smell and taste.
course o9 | venison :: red cabbage, mustard, paprika - a very messy hands-on and build-your-own cabbage wrap; fun but took away a lot of my savoring experience because of the huge bites to avoid getting stains on my dress.
{note :: what i thought was radicchio is actually white cabbage that has been braised in red wine for about 2 hours to give it the purple tint }
course 1o | black truffle :: explosion, romaine, parmesan - earthiness epitomed, all in a bite..with good reason!
course 12 | anjou pear :: onion, brie, smoking cinnamon - that of crispy exterior encasing the savory and sweet surprises inside
course 13 | ginger :: a tasting of five different gingers which i never knew existed - also served as a palate cleanser to make way for the sweets
course 14 | winter :: in new hampshire - the beginning of molecular gastronomy visibly at play ~ peppermint 'snow' with four fruit bites and clear, colorless distilled hot chocolate
course 15 | balloon :: helium, green apple - a revisit to childhood memories but with a lot more whimsy and laughter ~ tart candy and a chipmunk voice! ^^
course 16 | dark chocolate :: butternut squash, lingonberry, stout ~ sweet treats explosion from the delicate chocolate bombe after an artsy and beautiful presentation by the chef at the table.. it's also the one time it's okay to eat food straight off the table.
|the aftermath
this dessert course was a beautiful and creative closing to a near perfect meal. i really wanted a memorabilia to commemorate this unbelievable dining experience and we asked the server if we could somehow get a copy of the menu to which he responded that they usually hand the menu to the diners at the end of the meal ^^
as promised, my menu score card from my alinea dining experience ^^
|since blogspot has changed their image settings, i had to crop this "score card" into two
so you'd be able to read my notes that i worked so hard on ^^ check out the next two images!
these are the two parts cropped (as perfectly as i could get it) - you could say this is my method of working around blogspot's image settings changes - to magnify the original image haha. i apologize if it looks disjointed.
note :: BEST viewed by clicking on the image to read my notes on each dish.
a couple of quick notes :: the size and random positioning of the bubbles on the menu actually are with purpose and reason. the size of bubbles signifies the size of the dishes (bite size or full tasting size) and the positioning corresponds to how sweet/savory they are..
{quick Q&A of my dining experience at alinea}one | which is my favorite course of the night?i can't decide on one but instead i narrowed it down to two (even doing that was already an extremely difficult feat in itself)
one has to be the hot potato soup and cold cube of potato with slice of black truffle - huge burst of earthiness but it caught me by surprise when the freezing cube of potato hit the back on my mouth and while the warm, comforting creamy potato soup trickles down my throat. it's the unexpected factor that gives this dish an edge.the second one was the squab inspired by miró . the creative artwork of spoons and forks that held one bites placed in random fashion echoes the way the course was eaten. although i could tell what a few of them were (i.e. squab, foie gras and what the server called, lavender noodles), i loved that the rest were mysterious one bite wonders until i tasted it. and great thing was i could decide in what order i'd like to eat them. hence, each tasting experience would be different for every diner - definitely an exploration of taste and texture.
two | was there a miss throughout whole tasting menu?if i had to choose, it would probably be winter with the peppermint snow and fruit bites served with distilled hot chocolate. the hot chocolate was amazingly interesting and lovely but the fall of the dish for me was the peppermint snow. it overpowered the other ingredients and i am not a huge fan of peppermint.
not exactly a miss but because of the messiness while eating the venison (don't get me wrong.. the venison was very deliciously hearty and i loved the flavors) took away some of my experience from savoring the multiple complicated layers of flavors the chef worked hard at creating.
three | anything else that qualifies as surprising/unexpected?the one that stood out was the oyster leaf which still boggles my mind - how does a leaf taste so similar to an oyster?
the other one was the beet course where i thought to be a fancy ice centerpiece served as the course in the evening.
oh, the scallop dish where i was completely deceived by the tofu look-alike sitting innocently in the middle of the plate. and yes i was fooled! also, what was great about the scallop dish was that each bite with different condiments hits different taste buds on the palate - delicate and divine!
four | the fun aspect of the dining experience?the many opportunities to play with your food since there were a couple of hands on courses. my inner nerd+foodie loved the mobile dashi broth maker. on the other hand, i especially had a good laugh with the helium and the chipmunk voice during the balloon course and eating straight off the table for the first time ever! (which is strange in a good way esp when i think of this meal as fancy dining - it is absurb but yet it fits in chef achatz fun style)
five | will i recommend this to a friend?i would say yes - at least once (because of the price tag on this dinner ~ maybe just once!) but only if you are into food.. (the reason being some cannot justify paying this much for food and dining experience since some does not have the same love for food experiences as much as others). i commend chef achatz for his attention to detail, the meticulous creativity with great balance of flavors, scrumptious fun, and the surprising subtleties in each course makes the whole dining experience amazing.
as a cherry on top of my whole dining experience at alinea the staff asked if we wanted to visit to kitchen and watch the chefs at work. i am pretty sure my face immediately lit up at that suggestion (although surprised, at first) and agreed without any hesitation! i actually secretly hoped since the beginning of our meal that i'd be able to see the kitchen and when they offered, i was so ecstatic!
that totally made my night! pristine kitchen, all the chefs in clean, white chef's coat all working efficiently to make another diners' night heavenly.
we brought up a quick question with the staff if they were planning to add non alcoholic beverage pairing similar to what they offer at chef achatz's 'next restaurant', they mentioned that it has been a discussion in the past but decided that the menus and concepts of the two restaurants are different. from what i understand, with the number of courses at alinea and frequent changes to the menu, it is difficult to come up with beverages that pairs with the layers of flavors for each course and they want to highlight the main focus which is the food itself.
three hours later followed by a quick kitchen 'tour', hence endeth my alinea dining experience. alinea went beyond my expectations of what it means to be a michelin three star restaurant. chef achatz managed to engage nearly all of the senses through his attention to detail and his mastery of techniques in all aspects of an amazing dining experience, making this truly a one of a kind.
alinea has undoubtedly set the bar as one of the best dining experiences i've ever had (yet?) - deliciously subtle and intricate in exploring different textures and flavors in a fun and playful manner - a beautiful love story for all the senses :)
disclaimer this is written based on my personal experience and opinion. experiences and taste buds may vary for others


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Feeding guideline:
A 50lb dog should be fed 2 cups
Calculated Caloric Content
ME (kcal/kg) 4125
ME (kcal/g) 4.13
ME (kcal/lb) 1875
ME (kcal/cup) 468
Chicken meal, turkey meal, lamb meal, brown rice, white rice, rice bran, peas, potatoes, oatmeal, cracked pearled barley, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), millet, tomato pomace, natural flavor, flaxseed meal, ocean fish meal, choline chloride, sun cured alfalfa meal, inulin (from chicory root), lecithin, sage extract, cranberries, beta carotene, rosemary extract, sunflower oil, yucca schidigera extract, dried enterococcus faecium, dried lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product, dried aspergillus oryzae fermentation extract, dried bacillus subtilis fermentation extract, saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation solubles, vitamin E supplement, iron proteinate, zinc proteinate, copper proteinate, ferrous sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, potassium iodide, thiamine mononitrate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, ascorbic acid, vitamin A supplement, biotin, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, sodium selenite, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin, vitamin D supplement, folic acid, cobalt proteinate, organic selenium, papaya, pineapple.
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein (min.) 24.00%
Crude Fat (min.) 14.50%
Crude Fiber (max.) 4.00%
Moisture (max.) 10.00%
Lenoleic Acid (Omega 6) (min.) 3.70%
Calcium (min.) 1.20%
Phosphorus (min.) 0.90%
Vitamin E (min.) 200.00 IU/kg
Alpha Linolenic Acid (Omega 3)* (min.) 0.50%
Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) (min.) 50.00 mg/kg
Lactobacillus Acidophilus* (min.) 100 million CFU/lb.
Cellulase* (a) (min.) 100 CMCU/kg
* Not recognized as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles.
CANIDAE All Life Stage formula meets the AAFCO Dog Nutrient Profiles for all life stages.
Nutrient Analysis for CANIDAE All Life Stages dry formula As Fed
Moisture 8.5%
Protein 24.2%
Fat 14.5%
Omega-6 Fatty Acids 4.03 %
Omega-3 Fatty Acids 0.5 %
Ash 8.0 %
Fiber 4.0 %
Carbohydrate 39.9 %
Arginine 1.39 %
Histidine 0.53 %
Isoleucine 0.87 % 0
Leucine 1.69 %
Lysine 1.14 %
Methionine Cystine 0.85 %
Phenylalanine-Tyrosine 1.59 %
Threonine 0.89 %
Tryptophan 0.21 %
Valine 1.09 %
Calcium 1.80 %
Phosphorus 1.20 %
Magnesium 0.16 %
Sodium 0.17 %
Potassium 0.65 %
Chloride 0.45 %
Copper 11 mg/kg
Iron 300 mg/kg
Manganese 25 mg/kg
Zinc 200 mg/kg
Iodine 2.5 mg/kg
Selenium 0.20 mg/kg
Vitamin A 15,000 IU/kg
Vitamin C 50 mg/kg
Vitamin D 1,000 IU/kg
Vitamin E 200 IU/kg
Thiamine (B1) 40 mg/kg
Riboflavin (B2) 8.0 mg/kg
Pyridoxine (B6) 13.0 mg/kg
B12 0.14 mg/kg
Beta Carotene 5.75 mg/kg
Folic Acid 2.0 mg/kg
Niacin 66 mg/kg
Pantothenic Acid 25.0 mg/kg
Biotin 0.33 mg/kg
Choline 3,000 mg/kg
Metabolizable Energy (ME) 4,125 kcal/kg (based on Atwater Calculation)
ME/cup 468 kcal/cup
Product Density 4.5 oz./cup
Digestibility 85.0 %
As Fed Digestibility (protein 84%, fat 95%, carbohydrates 91%)
PH Urine 7.0
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First three ingredients are named meat products, primarily good quality ingredients
Some grain fragments, appears to be a grain heavy food
The first three ingredients in this food are named meat products in meal form. These are followed by a rather long list of grains and vegetables ahead of the fat content, which combined may well outweigh the meat ingredients. The relatively low protein, calcium and phosphorus levels given by the macronutrient breakdown contribute to our suspicion that the food does not contain quite as much meat as indicated at first glance.
The grains used in this food are generally of good quality, though we consider rice bran to be a grain fragment and filler - as is tomato pomace, though the latter is a minor ingtedient.
We note that ocean fish meal is amongst the minor ingredients, but find no sign of a guarantee on the manufacturer website that this ingredient is free of ethoxyquin. Ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative, commonly used to preserve fish meal ingredients, and which is banned or heavily regulated in human food due to the belief that it is carcinogenic.
The product contains a small amount of fruit and an excellent range of probiotics.
Overall, this appears to be a good quality product. The changes to the original recipe (notwithstanding any sensitivities that individual dogs may have) do not appear to materially alter the food - though we suspect it may be more grain heavy than previously the case (and some of those grains are fragments). This food retains its 5* rating, but would reasonably be suspected to be amongst the lower meat content in this class.
As a final observation, we note that there is no dog food in existence that suits every single dog - and this one is no exception. However, from a position of being a product about which DFA heard very few complaints, the number of animals we hear of that do not do well on this food appears to have risen substantially.
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OTTAWA --- B.C. Environment Minister Terry Lake enthusiastically embraced the federal government's plan announce Tuesday to let provinces run environmental reviews of natural resource projects, but said Victoria may ask for federal money to handle that new responsibility.
Lake also said B.C. should be seen as a trustworthy steward of the environment even though the province approved a mining project near Williams Lake that was subsequently rejected by Ottawa in a "scathing" 2010 report on Taseko Mines Ltd.'s Prosperity copper-gold project.
"We're happy to see a 'one project, one process' approach, we've been advocating that for a number of years," Lake said in an interview after federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver announced details of Ottawa's plans.
Oliver said the Harper government will consolidate federal reviews into three departments, rather than more than 40, and will focus federal efforts on reviews of major projects.
He also said the federal government will accept provincial assessments as long as their processes are consistent with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.
"We have a very thorough, comprehensive review process in British Columbia and we've advocated for a long time to give our process equivalency so that taxpayers dollars are used more efficiently, there's less duplication and overlap, and a more timely decision," Lake said.
The provincial government will consider legislative changes to ensure that the province's laws are consistent with federal laws, he added.
But he said Ottawa, which is giving provinces some authority to issue project authorizations under the federal Fisheries Act, should be prepared to compensate provinces if they're being asked to enforce a federal statute.
"On behalf of British Columbians I want to make sure we're not being expected to do something that normally would have been done by the federal government, and still needs to be done but comes at a cost to British Columbians," Lake said.
Oliver was asked if the government was comfortable giving provinces such authority given the experience with the B.C. government's review of Taseko's proposed open-pit copper and gold mine.
The province approved the project but federal approval was denied in a 2010 decision that Jim Prentice, then the Conservative environment minister, called "scathing" due to its assessment of the company's plan to turn a trout-rich lake into a tailings pond.
"Once a decision is taken that the province has a regulatory system comparable to the national system, that it has the capacity to do a comprehensive scientific, objective environmental review, then the authority for doing the review is transferred to the provinces and we don't second-guess their conclusion," Oliver replied.
Environmentalists immediately denounced on Tuesday Oliver's announcement, citing the Taseko decision as proof some provincial regulators will put economic interests ahead of the environment.
"I'd question B.C.'s current ability to offer the level of environmental protection we need through the assessment process," said Matt Horne of the Pembina Institute.
"When you add B.C.'s big push for mining, shale gas and liquified natural gas development, and no increase in the provincial budget for environmental assessment, those concerns become even bigger."
But Lake suggested that B.C. is getting an unfair rap over the Taseko decision, which is now being reconsidered by federal authorities following a revised submission from the company.
"That was the one case in British Columbia in which the federal decision was different from the provincial decision, but it's not quite as simple as people make it sound, because the provincial certificate had over 100 conditions attached to it . . . to mitigate or offset environmental impact."
Lake added that the province, unlike Ottawa, took into account the off-setting social and economic benefits resulting from the jobs and economic activity that would be generated from the mine.
Prentice, who served in Harper's cabinet as aboriginal affairs and later environment minister, said he supports the federal government's push to streamline the review process.
"I think we have to trust the provinces to have and to develop an environmental assessment process that's of the requisite standards," Prentice, now a senior vice-president at CIBC, said in an interview.
"Personally I think provinces are appropriate stewards, but in circumstances where there are either sign interprovincial implications, or you have significant First Nations implications, then the federal government has to be involved."
Green Party leader Elizabeth May said the federal plans could run into a legal barrier due to the proposal to allow provinces to issue authorizations under the Fisheries Act.
She said fisheries is a clear federal responsibility under the Constitution.
Read his blog, Letter from Ottawa, at vancouversun.com/oneil


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This page documents common bugs in Fedora 18 and, if available, fixes or workarounds for these problems. If you find your problem in this page, do not file a bug for it, unless otherwise instructed. Where appropriate, a reference to the current bug(s) in Bugzilla is included.
- 1 Release Notes
- 2 My bug is not listed
- 3 Installation issues
- 3.1 Installer crashes with FormatDestroyError: error wiping old signatures when installing over encrypted LVM or LVM-on-RAID
- 3.2 Installer crashes with degraded/incomplete RAID, LVM or btrfs devices present
- 3.3 Cannot install from NFS repository
- 3.4 MATE installation is broken from the DVD media
- 3.5 Installer boot options documentation is outdated
- 3.6 Installer freezes briefly in remote repository setup
- 3.7 Invalid installation source breaks many configuration screens
- 3.8 UEFI boot doesn't work with liveusb-creator
- 3.9 Fedora 16 cannot be directly upgraded to Fedora 18
- 3.10 'Language packs' (localized data for certain packages) not installed when installing from DVD
- 3.11 Installer crashes instead of presenting an error dialog when disk is too small (or other errors)
- 4 Hardware issues
- 5 Software issues
Release Notes
Read the F18 Alpha release announcement and the Fedora 18 Alpha Release Notes for specific information about changes in Fedora 18 and other general information.
My bug is not listed
Not every bug is listed in this page, but Bugzilla should be a comprehensive database of known bugs. This page is a sampling of the bugs most commonly discussed on our mailing lists and forums.
To see if your bug has already been reported, you can search Bugzilla. If it has not yet been reported, we encourage you to do so to help improve Fedora for yourself and others. A guide to Bugs and feature requests has been prepared to assist you.
If you believe an already-reported bug report should be added to this page because it is commonly encountered, you can:
- Add it yourself, if you have wiki access. Please follow the style and guidelines explained in the comments in the page source.
- Or, add the CommonBugs keyword to the bug report. Someone from the QA team will then inspect the issue to determine whether the bug should be listed as a common bug. To expedite your request, please add a comment to the bug that includes
- a summary of the problem
- any known workarounds
- an assessment on the impact to Fedora users
For reference, you can query Bugzilla for bugs tagged CommonBugs:
- CommonBugs? (bugs with CommonBugs keyword, but do not yet have a link to this page)
- CommonBugs+(bugs with CommonBugs keyword and contain a link to this page)
Installation issues
Installer crashes with FormatDestroyError: error wiping old signatures when installing over encrypted LVM or LVM-on-RAID
link to this item - Bugzilla: #876789
The Fedora 18 Beta installer may crash during partitioning (first stage of actual installation process) with the error FormatDestroyError: error wiping old signatures from (device). So far, two scenarios have been identified which lead to this crash: an LVM-based (default) install over an existing Fedora 18 installation which contains an encrypted LV, and an LVM-based (default) install over an existing Fedora 17 installation which contains LVs on a firmware RAID array. However, there may well be other configurations which will trigger this problem.
The bug appears to occur when the installer believes a newly-created partition may still contain stale LVM or RAID metadata and so runs the wipefs command to delete it. If the partition is set to become part of an LV, though, it may become busy immediately after creation, and this causes the wipefs command to fail.
Developers are currently examining the various factors which contribute to this problem, and it will be resolved for Fedora 18 Final.
Installer crashes with degraded/incomplete RAID, LVM or btrfs devices present
link to this item - Bugzilla: #873224 Bugzilla: #876441
The installer in Fedora 18 Beta cannot reliably handle degraded or incomplete RAID, LVM or redundant/striped btrfs devices. When running the installer with such devices present, a crash (the linked bug, or another) may well occur during initial startup or partitioning.
This will be fixed for the Final release (in the sense that the installer will detect such devices and refuse to use them; it is intended that the installer will not deal with such devices, but it is not intended that it crashes in the case that they are present).
Cannot install from NFS repository
link to this item - Bugzilla: #879187
A bug in Fedora 18 Beta makes installation using an NFS repository difficult. Attempting to select such a repository interactively - from the Installation Source screen, after booting the installer - will fail, resulting either in the option reverting to 'Closest mirror', or in a crash. Attempting to specify an NFS repository as the package source by passing the inst.repo=nfs:... parameter documented here to a boot of the network install image, with no other change, will also fail, resulting in the use of 'Closest mirror'.
Two methods have been identified which do seem to result in success. If you boot the installer kernel and initramfs pair directly - as is typical when booting via PXE, and can be done in other cases - you can successfully pass inst.repo=nfs:.... Otherwise, when booting from the full network install image (or DVD), when editing the kernel parameters, you must also remove the inst.stage2=... parameter which is present by default. If you entirely remove this parameter as well as add the inst.repo=nfs:... parameter, you should meet with success.
This issue will be resolved for Fedora 18 final.
MATE installation is broken from the DVD media
link to this item - Bugzilla: #878985
If you choose to install the MATE desktop in Fedora 18 Beta from DVD installation media, you will receive a very incomplete and non-working environment, as the DVD does not in fact contain most of the MATE packages. MATE was not intended to be listed as available for installation from the DVD, but by mistake, it is.
The available workarounds are to use the netinst image instead of the DVD image, set the installation source to network repositories instead of the internal DVD package repository, or install MATE after system installation.
Installer boot options documentation is outdated
link to this item - Bugzilla: #864468
There are currently two pages documenting the boot options of the installer of Fedora 18 Beta: Anaconda Boot Options and http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/doc/boot-options.html. Both of them are at least partly outdated. We are hoping to update these pages soon, but in the mean time you can try to look at both and take a guess which of the boot options are current and which are obsolete, if you need to use them. Of course, if you are able to follow the source code, you can check out the anaconda source and derive the currently-valid options from that.
Some old anaconda options - notably, several of the network configuration options - have been replaced by Dracut options, which are documented at Dracut/Options.
Installer freezes briefly in remote repository setup
link to this item - Bugzilla: #874287
If you use a remote package repository for the installation (netinst image or inst.repo boot argument), you might experience a brief freeze in the installer interface, usually lasting several seconds. It is assumed this is related to setting up the repository source and downloading metadata in the background. There is no loss of functionality, just wait a short while if you see the interface not responding immediately.
Invalid installation source breaks many configuration screens
link to this item - Bugzilla: #875003
If you happen to provide an invalid installation source (in the Installation Source screen) in the Fedora 18 Beta installer, some installer screens might become corrupted even when you provide a correct installation repository (like Closest mirror) afterwards. Most often the package selection screen gets corrupted, but other screens like partitioning or keyboard selection screen might be affected too. The only safe workaround is to reboot and start the installer again.
UEFI boot doesn't work with liveusb-creator
link to this item - Bugzilla: #810112
liveusb-creator is one of the recommended tools for converting optical media ISO images into a bootable USB images. However, this tool still hasn't implemented support for UEFI boot. If you want to install Fedora in native UEFI mode from a USB media, use either
dd or
livecd-iso-to-disk to create it. The full instructions are at How to create and use Live USB.
Fedora 16 cannot be directly upgraded to Fedora 18
link to this item - Bugzilla: #873375
Beginning with Fedora 18 Beta, a new upgrade tool
fedup has been introduced, replacing the older PreUpgrade. FedUp currently only supports Fedora 17 -> Fedora 18 upgrades. If you want to upgrade Fedora 16, you need to go through Fedora 17 as an intermediary step. More information about the process should appear on the page Upgrading soon.
'Language packs' (localized data for certain packages) not installed when installing from DVD
link to this item - Bugzilla: #879030
Translations and other localized data for a few Fedora components are kept in so-called 'langpacks' - sub-packages for each available translation, which are intended to be installed alongside the main package when appropriate. For instance, when installing
libreoffice-core with the system locale set to French, you should also get the
libreoffice-langpack-fr package, which contains French translations.
Due to a bug in the package metadata aggregation that takes place during the creation of the DVD image, this mechanism does not work during DVD installations of Fedora 18 Beta. When installing in a language other than U.S. English from the Fedora 18 Beta DVD, you will not get the appropriate langpacks for libreoffice, Firefox, hunspell, KDE and any other component you install which uses the langpack system.
This bug does not affect installations from remote repositories, so doing a remote repository-based installation is a workaround for the bug. Otherwise, you can manually install the missing packages after system installation is complete.
This issue will be resolved in Fedora 18 final.
Installer crashes instead of presenting an error dialog when disk is too small (or other errors)
link to this item - Bugzilla: #854856
If you try to install Fedora 18 Beta to a very small disk, the installer may crash with an error PartitioningError: not enough free space on disks, or another error. In general, there are several cases where there is code in the installer to catch errors, but no 'error handling' code to present a dialog to the user with appropriate options when one of these errors occurs.
There is no workaround for this kind of problem, but in any case where this happens, it indicates some kind of problem in your installation attempt. You may be able to tell from the error message and traceback what the error is, and correct it in another attempt to install. For this specific error, the problem is that the target disk is too small.
Hardware issues
Software issues
Possible data loss when dual-booting with Windows 8 and using "fast restart"
link to this item - Bugzilla: #859373
Using the "fast restart" feature of Windows 8 and rebooting into Fedora may lead to data loss. Files written to the Windows partition by Fedora may be deleted when rebooting into Windows 8. This may be avoided by disabling the "fast restart" feature in Windows 8.
Graphical bootloader broken after upgrade on an UEFI machine
link to this item - Bugzilla: #857523
If you have installed Fedora 17 in an UEFI mode (you have
grub-efi installed) and upgrade to Fedora 18, your graphical bootloader will fail to load with error
grub_open("hd(0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz") failed or similar. The system is still able to boot the default kernel automatically and you can access a text mode menu after pressing a key, so this situation is not fatal, just not pretty.
A description how to fix the problem manually should appear here soon.


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In a building as old and large and looming as Alumni Hall, ghost stories are bound to circulate. And, from what we know, spooky speculations have surrounded Alumni Hall since early in the building's history. These ghostly rumors sparked certain student activities, like séances.
Spiritualism rose in popularity during the Civil War, and people's interest in it continued until the late 1920s.
The giant theatre in the middle of the building, which at the time was being transitioned from the library to a performance theatre, had poor acoustics before a remodeling in the 1960s. The poor acoustics were what caused students to hear things, explains Lance Factor, George Appleton Lawrence Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy and a campus expert on Alumni Hall as well as Old Main.
"If we were to spend some time sitting here in silence, we might share that experience. I don't know what we'd hear," Factor says, standing on the stage during a tour of the building this summer.
Factor shares the same view of Professor Raub, a professor of philosophy, physics and psychology from the early 20th century, who spoke out against the student séances. Their stance: There's nothing there.
"[Professor Raub's] remark was, 'Why don't they ever tell us what life is like on the other side? They never report,'" Factor said.
Students keep searching. Factor reports he has received requests for ghost tours of Old Main and the Old Jail.
"They've heard there's haunts or spirits or whatever," Factor said. "but I think the séances were more of a social experiment. It was trendy."
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John A. Burns School of Medicine
HONOLULU - University of Hawaii medical researchers have linked, for the first time, usage of crystal methamphetamine ("ice") to severe heart problems.
The study found that out of 143 Honolulu men under the age of 45 who were hospitalized with serious heart problems, 40 percent of them were users of "ice." The study occurred between 2001 and mid-2004.
"This represents the first scientific documentation of the profound cardiac effects of ʻice' on young people," says Irwin Schatz, MD, of the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM).
"'Ice' should now take its place, along with alcohol, as a major cause of heart disease in our community," said Dr. Schatz, a cardiologist in the JABSOM's Department of Medicine.
Lead author of the study is Khung-Keong Yeo of the University of California, Davis Medical Center; other JABSOM co-authors, in addition to Dr. Schatz, are Hiroki Ito, MD; Kevin Tay, MD; Todd Seto, MD; Jimmy Efird, PhD, Kavitha Alimineti, and Chieko Kimata; another study co-author is Mevan Wijetunga, MD, of Washington, D.C.
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This article looks at the definition of cyber terrorism and terrorist use of the Internet. The article evaluates cyber terrorist threats facing countries such as the United States of America, the United Kingdom, India and South Africa. The article also examines measures introduced by the respective governments in these countries to counteract cyber terrorist threats. Finally, the article will propose a way forward to counteract such possible threats in the future. The face of terrorism is changing. The convergence of the physical and virtual worlds has resulted in the creation of a "new threat" called cyber terrorism. Cyber terrorism is one of the recognised cyber crimes. The absence of suitable legal frameworks to address cyber terrorism at national and regional levels, the lack of adequate safeguards, the lack of cyber security strategies and the pre-occupation of countries with internal factors have all contributed to the creation of an environment that can be easily infiltrated by cyber terrorists. The horrific events of 9/11 provided the impetus for many countries to introduce anti-terrorist legislation. The United States of America, United Kingdom, India and South Africa have introduced legislation to address the threat of cyber terrorism.
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Epicureanism is a humanist philosophical doctrine for human happiness. It requires us to make a firm resolution to live a happy life and to apply philosophical and empirical methods to the pursuit of happiness.
Its first tenets are contained in the Four Remedies:
Do not fear death
Do not fear the gods
What is good, is easy to attain
What is evil is easy to avoid
For non-believers, the first two negative statements may be translated as "Do not fear chance or blind luck, for it is pointless to battle that which we have no control over. It generates unnecessary suffering."
The latter two positive statements lead to Epicurean teachings on how we should evaluate our desires and discern which ones are unnecessary versus which ones are necessary, which ones carry pain when satisfied or ignored versus which ones don't. By this process of an analysed life, one learns to be content with the simple pleasures in life, those easiest to attain. The best things in life are free.
"The wealth required by nature is limited and easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity ... Do not spoil that which you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus
The three goods are friendships, an analysed life, and autarchy which translates as autonomy or self-sufficiency. Epicurus taught that friends are the most important ingredient for happiness. Difficulties are much more easy to bear, and pleasures much more easily enjoyed, in wholesome association with our trusted friends. We should seek them often and blend our minds with them.
The process of living an analysed life leads to the cultivation of what philosophers called ataraxia: a state of satisfied serenity, content, and self-control. It translates as imperturbability. Its attainment signals philosophical maturity.
The serene grounds of the Epicurean Academy were known as the Garden. There, an egalitarian community evolved where men, women, and slaves discussed philosophical matters among equals. This was very progressive, and even scandalous, in those days. Epicurean Gardens flourished for over 700 years until the Christians destroyed all the philosophical schools and philosophy was banned.
We must not underestimate the influence of Epicureanism in contemporary political philosophy and in modern life. We ultimately owe the inclusion of the 'pursuit of happiness' in the Declaration of Independence to Thomas Jefferson, who was a disciple of Epicurus. In his letter to William Short, he said:
"As you said yourself, I too am an Epicurean ... I consider the genuine doctrines of Epicurus as containing every thing rational in moral philosophy"
For a vast resource of writings by Epicurean thinkers throughout history, visit:
The following is a series of videos detailing Epicurean philosophy by youtuber Lootra:
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Thanks for the discussion Hiram. I like this philosophy - I am learning more about it.
Feel free to post individual youtube discussions by Lootra (the link I provided at the bottom) or pieces of the writings found on epicurus.info if you'd like to start new discussions on this board. This would help everyone wanting to learn the specifics and details of Epicureanism, encourage asking questions and adding perspectives, etc.
For instance, the elaboration on the different types of desires, how they're necessary or unnecessary, discussions on the four remedies or the three goods, etc.
Thanks Hiram for adding this post. I am aware that I have taken some liberties in blending a philosophy, that was founded about 2300 years ago, with evolutionary psychology and biology. But it is important to be aware of the roots.
Epicureanism has to be made relevant, and it's a scientific and empirical theory so that if the Christians hadn't destroyed the Gardens, today Epicureanism would have evolved into a full science and theory of happiness, with insights from neuroscience (atheist author Sam Harris is a neurologist who has studied the brain under the influence of meditation and has proposed a 'science of contemplation'), psychotherapy, the live foods and raw foods lifestyle and research on mood-boosting natural foods, and perhaps even psychedelics.
There are also many philosophers, Sartre and Buddha among them, who also contributed to a theory of happiness and philosophy that resonates with Epicureanism.
I think part of the role of contemporary Epicureanists is to connect all those dots, so there's nothing wrong with your insights, on the contrary, they should be encouraged so that a fresh and relevant modern school of Epicureanism can eventually emerge.
Good post. I was an advocate of Epicurus since I learned about the Pax Romana in high school. As I remember, the three great emperors of this unique century of peace were Hadrian, Antonius Pious and lastly the great Marcus Aurelius—all epicureans.
Sadly, Marcus had a son by a prostitute named Commodus and the Epicurean rule came down with a crash. This was the true beginning of the decline. Commodus made Caligula look like Jimmy Carter.
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