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Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Blueberry-Buttermilk Bundt Cake
Blueberry-Buttermilk Bundt Cake
15 comments:
- Rosie said...
Hi sweetie, this is a mighty fine looking cake!! I just adore blueberries and haven't baked a bundt cake for ages this is a MUST bake!! Hey it happens to the best of us when turning cakes out *wink*
Rosie x
- 7 May 2008 at 19:43
- Abitofafoodie said...
Ooh - I've been meaning to try a bake involving buttermilk for some time. Perhaps this is the recipe to try. It looks delicious!
- 7 May 2008 at 19:50
- Gigi said...
...mmm! Blueberry yummy. Buttermilk cake yummy! Together ...drool! I must try this soon.
- 7 May 2008 at 20:55
- Nickki said...
Wow, that looks delish! And I happen to have blueberries and buttermilk in my fridge.....I don't have a bundt tin though, I wonder if it would be ok to use any other tin?
- 7 May 2008 at 22:05
- Maria♥ said...
Thanks for the lovely comments!
Nikki I don't see why you couldn't use a 9inch or 10inch deep round cake tin ;o) This cake is really delish, you will love it! Let me know if you make it.
- 7 May 2008 at 22:19
- Maria♥ said...
Nikki I just read in the review section of the recipe that someone used a "9x13" pan and it comes out perfect. So another option here for you.
- 7 May 2008 at 22:22
- Rhyleysgranny said...
This looks so good. haven't we all turned out cakes too soon just to see what they are like :)
- 7 May 2008 at 23:07
- Ms O said...
Hi Maria,
I haven't been blogging so much lately. And, I just wanted to stop in and say hello to you again. :)
What a nice cake. It looks right up my street. I'll bet it's moist and I'm sure very flavorful with the buttermilk and blueberries.
It might be just right for my mom on Mother's day.
Lea x
- 8 May 2008 at 01:37
- Nickki said...
That's great Maria, thanks so much! I'm always a bit wary about using different cakes tins unless I'm sure..I've had a couple of disasters in the past! But I will definitely try this, I'll let you know how it turns out x
- 8 May 2008 at 09:05
- Anna's kitchen table said...
That looks soooo good! :-)
- 8 May 2008 at 11:43
- Gloria Baker said...
Love bluberries Marìa, this look sooo good!!! xGloria
- 8 May 2008 at 20:05
- Vicky said...
Your cake looks so moist and scrummy!
Vicky xxx
- 9 May 2008 at 12:43
- Ruth Strong said...
I love blueberries and this bundt looks beautiful. I recently bought a fluted springform cake pan so may just have to try this.
- 9 May 2008 at 14:47
- Emily said...
Blueberry and buttermilk? Mmm.
I can't tell you how much I adore blueberries.
- 10 May 2008 at 06:12
- Kelly-Jane said...
A terrific looking cake, the crumb looks perfect :)
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Friday, February 10, 2012
French Fridays with Dorie: Orange-Cranberry Crepes with Nutella Drizzle
My brain was churning with ideas on how to create my own chic version, without turning it into a several hour project. I contemplated using a Liege waffle as the base...or a piece of French Toast...or a crepe. Yes, a crepe!
This is probably the second jar of Nutella I've purchased in my entire life, and I don't even recall the reason I needed the first. I think John likes it. After a couple of these crepes, I think I love it.
In place of bitter orange marmalade, which I've never seen in a store, I chose Stonewall Kitchen's Orange Cranberry Marmalade. I figured the tartness of the cranberries would do the trick. I had a container of hazelnuts still hanging around from Thanksgiving, but had to refresh my recollection on the best way to toast and remove the skins. The preferred method seems to be a quick blanch in boiling water, followed by an ice water plunge, and then a vigorous toweling dry in a kitchen towel, thereby removing the skins. Worked like a charm, and then I lightly toasted them in a dry skillet.
For the crepes, I followed Alton Brown's video and recipe exactly (5 stars based on almost 200 reviews), including throwing the first screwed up crepe to the dog. Oh, and there was also a blender disaster. Apparently, I didn't properly screw the blade and bottom parts back on after washing. After measuring my eggs, flour, milk, water, and melted butter into the blender jar, I lifted the jar off the counter to set in into the base, the pieces came off, and everything poured out the bottom. Nice. All over the counter, underneath everything on the counter, down the cabinets, and all over the floor. Good thing Dooley wasn't under my feet in his usual fashion. Other than that drama, the crepes turned out marvelous.
After messing around making crepes, and photographing before and after hazelnuts for an hour, this actually did turn into a several hour project and ended being dinner. Works for me. If you're interested in trying this with brioche rather than crepes, Dorie posted the recipe on her site, here.
French Fridays with Dorie is an online cooking group, dedicated to Dorie Greenspan's book Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours. As members of the group, we have purchased the cookbook and cook along as much as we can. There is a new recipe each week, and we post about that recipe on Friday. We are asked to refrain from posting the actual recipes on our blog. The book is filled with stunning photography, and personal stories about each recipe, which makes it that much more intriguing. I highly recommend adding it to your cookbook collection if you haven't already!
13 comments:
- Cher Rockwell said...
Crepes. Wow. You get the gold star for today!
- February 10, 2012
- Unknown said...
Extremely pretty, love all the photos, wish I had this for breakfast! I'm still struggling with my decision to start the new Baking with Julia group, I need all those baked goods in my house only for my grandchildren visits certainly not for myself or my husband;-)
- February 10, 2012
- Ei said...
I've always been intimidated by the thought of making crepes. They seem so fragile. I sure love to eat them, though, and this looks delicious!
- February 10, 2012
- Unknown said...
Love nutella crepes! I had my own share of disasters for what should have been a simple recipe! I also follow Alton's advice and always toss the first crepe. Your photos are beautiful!
- February 10, 2012
- SoupAddict Karen said...
Those crepes are just gorgeous. Almost too pretty to eat. (But I still would :) )
- February 10, 2012
- Jessica of My Baking Heart said...
Mmmm, nutella crepes. You went above and beyond! :)
- February 10, 2012
- Nana said...
Absolutely elegant. I love orange cranberry marmalade,
it has such a wonderful flavor. When I was growing up back in the day, my mother always made crepes for
Sunday night supper and we had them with jam or
sugar. I have never tried making them myself, but
it's not too late, I may try it someday.
- February 10, 2012
- Adriana said...
The crepes look awesome! I am a big fan of Stonewall Kitchen's spreads, so I can imagine that was fantastic with the Nutella. Crepes for dinner work for me... crepes anytime work for me!
- February 10, 2012
- Dessert By Candy said...
Absolutely perfect looking crepe. Who would have thought there was a blender accident behind all those gorgeous and mouthwatering photos! Love the rosy colour the cranberries lend to the marmalade too.
- February 10, 2012
- Christy said...
Terrific looking crepes, nice adaptation of the recipe!
- February 11, 2012
- tricia s. said...
Like all other tasks we tackle in life...it always takes longer than planned :) But your results (and your resolve- following the blender disaster) are worth it. Gorgeous photos of an amazing combo. I am feeling truly lazy that I opened the bag of hazelnuts from the store and simply browned them. Needless to say, far less pretty than yours. And I am totally hiding your blog from my family - they adore crepes but I have not tried them at home. Your blog and Alton link has inspired me. Also love the idea of waffles- genius as I have about 3 different lovely waffle irons. All far too untouched :)
- February 12, 2012
- Betsy said...
Your version sounds like something I'd like. I went with the toast, and nutella is just too much like peanut butter for someone who dislikes peanut butter on bread. Crepes, now that's another story. I have plenty of (homemade) nutella left, so I might give this a try.
- February 12, 2012
- Mary Hirsch said...
Terrific. I am on the Crepe Bandwagon the next time I open my Nutella jar. Loved the picture. And, i suspect it tasted as good as it looked. Good idea. Thanks.
- February 12, 2012

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For more on the project and an interview with the Marvel's head of television, hit the jump.
TV Guide recently had a chat with Joe Quesada, chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, and Jeph Loeb, the company's executive vice president and head of television, to talk about their latest foray into the small screen.
Regarding the upcoming season of the Ultimate Spider-Man series, Jeph Loeb said
"The Avengers is the No. 3 movie of all-time and there's a brand new Spider-Man movie that's coming out on July 3. We want [this series] to be relevant to those films. There will be more stories that feature those Avengers characters — Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk, they'll all be coming back in Season 2. But even more exciting to us is that we're going to be able to explore the villain from this summer's Amazing Spider-Man [movie]. Curt Connors has been playing a role throughout all of Season 1, and finally in Season 2, longtime Spidey fans and Marvel fans will get to see his transformation into the Lizard."
Joe Quesada also suggested that hardcore Marvel aficionados might get to see some other beloved characters, as they "also dig a little bit deeper into the supporting cast, so we'll have more about Luke Cage, Iron Fist, [and] Nova, including an origin or two."
As for the Hulk's show, Loeb said
"we started talking about it and we thought what's more fun than one Hulk? And that would actually be five Hulks! We're taking characters that already exist in the Marvel Universe — because it's very important to us that it all begins with [the comic-book] publishing. That cast is Hulk; the Red Hulk; Skaar, who's the teenage barbarian Hulk, She Hulk — who's actually been a character in the Marvel Universe for 30 years; and a relatively new character, A-Bomb. He's more of a Blue Hulk. And together they are Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H."
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The Avengers project is more under wraps, as Loeb explains,
"The Avengers movie has been the ambassador to the world for the Marvel Universe so we want a show that has the feel and the tone and the incredible adventures like that movie. So the next project that we're working on — and this is down in our lab, top secret, with the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents protecting us at all costs — is Marvel's Avengers Assemble, which will be a brand new and really extraordinary looking animated series dealing with the Avengers in that same world."
Loeb assures fans that it will be different from the Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes series on Disney XD. For one, it will include the African-American superhero Falcon.
"In the same kind of way that Ultimate Spider-Man pushed the boundaries in terms of a unique combination of 2D and CG and using top-flight writers and voice actors, that's what we're looking for. Eric Radomski, who is in charge of production for us, has been involved with such groundbreaking shows as Batman: The Animated Series and Spawn, and every single time there's been a significant leap in the look and tone of action adventure television animation he's been there. We really look to him and our creative people to break down that wall and see what the next level is."
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Life began to feel normal: less doctor visits and more hair growth. I feel that being mindful, letting go of what I can't control and accepting my best efforts at accomplishing my goals keeps me healthy. I workout regularly, I try to eat a clean diet with healthy oils and fats and I keep my regiment of vitamins and supplements.
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Russia Orders Bloggers To 'Register'; Outlaws Anonymous Blogging, Continues Clampdown On Social Media
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As we've reported, Russia has been steadily trying to bring the Internet under control with ever-more stringent measures. After tackling general Web sites through powers that allow them to be blocked more easily, it now seems to be the turn of the bloggers, as this report from the ITAR-TASS News Agency on a recently-approved law explains:
The law introduces a new term: "Internet user called blogger." Bloggers will be obliged to declare their family name and initials and e-mail address. Those authors whose personal website or page in social networks has 3,000 visitors or more a day must have themselves registered on a special list and abide by restrictions applicable to the mass media. In other words, registration requires the blogger should check the authenticity of published information and also mention age restrictions for users. Also, bloggers will have to follow mass media laws concerning electioneering, resistance to extremism and the publication of information about people's private lives. An abuse of these requirements will be punishable with a fine of 10,000 to 30,000 rubles (roughly $300 to $1,000) for individuals and 300,000 rubles ($10,000) for legal entities. A second violation will be punishable with the website's suspension for one month.
Clearly those onerous conditions are designed to make any blogger think twice or three times before publishing anything at all controversial or embarrassing for the authorities. The article notes that the new law may be challenged before Russia's Constitutional Court, and that there's a huge loophole in the form of blogs located overseas, which are not covered by the legislation. The fear has to be that the Russian government will now move on to blocking them too. Moreover, not content with intimidating independent blogs, the Russian authorities also seem to be tightening their grip on VKontakte, the Russian Facebook. As Ars Technica reports:
Pavel Durov, the founder of Vkontakte (VK) -- the largest social network in Russia -- said on Tuesday that he fled the country one day after being forced out of the company, claiming that he felt threatened by Kremlin officials.
His removal is probably connected with his longstanding refusal to censor content on VKontakte:
In a post on his profile page on Monday, Durov explained that he was fired from his position as CEO of VK and that the so-called "Russian Facebook" is now "under the complete control" of two oligarchs close to President Vladimir Putin.
Durov explained that after seven years of relative social media freedom in Russia, his refusal to share user data with Russian law enforcement has set him at odds with the Kremlin, which has recently been trying to tighten its grip on the Internet, according to The Moscow Times.
What's sad here is that, as we've noted ruefully before, in the wake of revelations about NSA and GCHQ spying, the West is no longer in a position to criticize this kind of censorship and surveillance. As the latest moves indicate, the Russian authorities seem intent on taking full advantage of that fact.
VK's former CEO says that despite his multiple refusals of Kremlin requests to censor his site in a similar fashion to how it filters print and TV news, the site -- which boasts 143 million registered users globally, 88 million of whom are based in Russia -- is now effectively under state control.
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Yom Kippur has special meaning for Southland Holocaust survivors
By: Brenda Gazaar, Los Angeles Daily News
Robert Geminder was 6 years old when the Nazis forced him and his family into a Polish cemetery with throngs of other Jews and started shooting.
As he crouched on the ground from morning till nightfall on that autumn day in 1941, the Nazis killed many thousands of Jews who were in front of him until they fell into mass graves. When it started snowing and he and his family were told they could go home, pandemonium erupted and Geminder and his older brother were knocked unconscious by those scrambling to flee the carnage.
Their grandmother, Goldie Glotzer, who had also been pushed to the ground, found the boys and woke them up so they could go home before they were left behind. It was one of several times that Glotzer — who was later killed in their Polish ghetto in Stanislawow — would save Geminder's life, he said.
With the Jewish Day of Atonement starting at sundown today, the 78-year-old man will not only fast and reflect but recite the names of his grandmother and other relatives who perished during the Holocaust. Geminder considers Yom Kippur the anniversary of their deaths or "yahrzeit" — in which it's customary to say prayers in honor of the deceased — since he doesn't know the actual dates they died.
Indeed, Yom Kippur, the holiest day for Jews and a time they contemplate life, atonement and the dearly departed, often has special significance for the Southland's dwindling number of Holocaust survivors.
"It's difficult; I think about my (relatives) like my poor grandmother; she was probably in her 50s" when she was killed, said Geminder, a former civil engineer-turned-teacher and a board member of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. "There are many stories, as you can imagine. Many were brave, many saved people and unfortunately, many paid with their lives."
Many Yom Kippur prayer books have a special section that makes reference to Jewish martyrs, those who died standing up for their religious beliefs, as well as those who perished in the Holocaust
In Redlands, Congregation Etz Hadar uses a Yom Kippur prayer book that offers a modern version of a martyrology prayer originally written to remember 10 rabbis of the land of Israel who were murdered by the Roman Empire around the time of the destruction of the Second Temple, said Janice Yellon, a founding member and a religious lay leader at the Conservative congregation.
The book includes prose, poems and prayers to remember the martyrs along with special readings to honor of victims of the Holocaust.
"Yom Kippur is a day where we take very seriously our personal freedom and our abilities to live as Jews and to worship as Jews," Yellon said. "I think it's very important as part of the observance of that day to recognize this has not been the case as recently as 60 years ago. ...We have to remember these kinds of things can happen if we're not watching out for one another and not fighting against evil."
Eva Perlman, 81, of Encino is convinced it was a series of miracles that saved her family — who fled from Berlin well before the war — from being discovered while hiding in Nazi-occupied France. They made their way to the French mountain village of Autrans, where their mother was able to change their names and birthplaces on their identity cards, and Perlman's father enlisted in the French underground forces.
Once while Perlman's father was away, a Nazi officer and his aide knocked on their landlord's door and asked for a room. The frightened landlord volunteered Perlman's mother's bedroom and for a few torturous weeks, they lived with their family as her mother pretended she could speak only a bit of broken German. The unsuspecting Nazis finally left their home without realizing their true identities, Perlman said.
Perlman's parents lost most of their relatives and friends in the Holocaust; on Yom Kippur, she said, she remembers the 6 million Jews, as well as the 5 million non-Jews, who perished during that dark chapter in history.
"I'm not terribly religious (but) Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, I keep them faithfully because it has been ingrained in me since I was born that they are terribly serious holidays," said Perlman who regularly participates in the March of the Living, an annual two-week trip for Jewish teenagers to Poland and Israel in memory of the Holocaust.
While Jewish tradition has it that the fate of Jews is sealed on Yom Kippur for the coming year, Perlman noted that she doesn't believe that God was responsible for the Holocaust.
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Running your kids………..
I usually don't compare people to dogs, but then again, we are all animals by nature. As a dog lover of 6 ( 4 are rescue dogs ), I have 2 labs and a Golden and energy are their middle names, especially the Labs. I know quite well that if they don't get that 15 to 20 minutes of exercise a day ( we play fetch and an interesting version of dog/person baseball ), they will likely get into trouble or dive me crazy . On the other hand. If they are given the attention to get things off their "paws", they are loving, relatively calm ( Labs?) , and rest peacefully at night. If this sounds familiar to kids, you are dead on.
The plethora of studies emphasizing the beneficial effects of regular exercise for children far exceed the amount of space for this week's column. I will instead suffice it to say, exercise is better than any magic pill for both the physical and emotional sides of life. What's nice is that the effects are immediate and long lasting if they are fun and enjoyable.
But for most kids, exercise is boring unless they are really into sports. This lasts into the teenage years when some then decide to pay attention to their bodies and decide to get into shape or are forced to by that high school coach The motivation here for most of the teens is to attract the opposite sex and become stronger than the concept of exercise as a form of self-therapy and self-care. That comes into play for many adults. The rest of the teens and adults alike tend to be sedentary and often overweight and depressed.
Now, getting kids to exercise when they don't want to is a common parental battle often compared to bring a horse to water. On this one, I think we pick this battle for it has to do with both the physical and mental health of our kids. As a loving parent, we owe them a long and healthy life. So, how do we win this one? It's actually pretty easy especially if you have dogs.
1. Exercise yourself as an example to your kids. Modeling behavior as a parent carries a lot of weight. Most kids identify with their parents – both the good and not good stuff – Exercise and fitness is obviously a good one.
2. Exercise with your kids on a daily basis. I personally love this one. My kids and I do a variety of challenges daily. Running time trials ; swimming; tennis; or we make up games like "tickle monster". We engage in one of these for 20 minutes a day and we all feel and act better towards one another.
3. Reward the behavior. Make the outcome a celebration – make a healthy smoothie together. Kids love to win by the way and parents need to be okay with losing.
4. Take turns making up sport or activity games. The rules might get a little confusing and change frequently, but the idea is that everyone plays and gets the benefits of exercise. Consider NOT keeping score to reduce competition unless they are all against you make a big deal if they beat you.
I officially recommend adding running to your parent list of "things to do with my kids everyday", and watch the benefits before your eyes. Stay healthy.
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I've been receiving quite a bit of email recently from readers wondering how I manage the dinner meals, if my family is eating as I, if I am cooking differently for all of us.
For many years I've been cooking separately meals for my family and I. Steve, Tyler and Troy like to have a meat, a veggie, a bread and fruit for dessert. This is a very balanced way of eating the Standard American Diet. It isn't fast food, it isn't high sugar or high carb; this SAD is quite healthy in most circles.
I usually grill them a meat-lean beef or chicken. I usually foil potato, carrot and onion and grill along side the meat. I bake bread every weekend so there is always sliced bread upon the table and a dessert of fruit salad (just chopped apple, kiwi, pineapple, peach...whatever I have in the fruit basket) and a squirt of fresh lemon. I would then create a huge salad for myself and place one of the lean meats upon it, joining them in the fruit dessert. No big deal.
I would never eat what they are eating just because I didn't want to cook another meal for myself. There is absolutely no way I would ever eat something that I didn't want to. Ever. I have a difficult time understanding when a reader writes "I am eating pork and potato salad because that is what my husband wants for dinner" "My husband wanted BLT sandwiches and tomato soup tonight." "My mom made lasagna and garlic bread" WHAT? Take a few extra minutes and fix something to fuel YOUR body. Take care of yourself and eat what you want to eat. My goodness. I have a hard time with this one. I receive this 'excuse' all of the time.
Today I wanted to try a raw corn/avocado/red onion/lemon juice combination upon collard wraps. I grilled sirloin for the guys, made my salad above for the collard wraps, placed the remaining corn salad on the table with blue corn chips, boiled corn on the cob for the guys and made fruit salad. No problem. I then don't 'have' to eat sirloin and boiled corn on the cob. See? Simple!
If I ask the guys what they want for dinner (I normally just fix them dinner..no suggestions unless I am out of ideas) and they say fajitas and I am fine with fixing them, I will make them a pot of fried sirloin and have a ton of stir fry veggies separate from the beef. I'll then take a collard wrap and have stir fry veggies and maybe if I feel like it, some brown rice. No problem. Would I eat a beef fajita? I can't think of a time that I have. I think of fajita and think of beef, cheese, sour cream. Ew.
You really can cook for yourself and the family and it really isn't that difficult. It just takes a bit of change and you are worth that bit of change! Let me know how it goes for you.


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Although Cambodia became a part of the extended Communist vs Free World conflict in 1964 for some reason this covers only the civil war from 1970-75. The played illustrations strangely though take the story onto the Vietnamese invasion of 1978 and the return of the Khmer Rouge and pro Royalist forces in the 1980's.
I had hoped that it would have more photos of the US paramilitary forces that operated in Cambodia from 1966 until the fall of the Khmer Republic in 1975.
Still it will be a useful addition to my collection.
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Mars is a cold world, full of deserts and containing very little oxygen or gravity.
The average annual temperature on Mars is -64°F. At its hottest, Mars could hit 80°F near the equator in the middle of the day. In the Martian winter, however, temperatures could fall to -199°F.
That's why the first requirement for visiting the Red Planet would be a space suit.
But we were curious: How long could someone survive a summer day on Mars without all this fancy equipment, say, wearing only jeans and T-shirt and while holding his or her breath — which the average human can only do for a little more than a minute.
Here's what Chris Webster from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the Curiosity rover currently roaming Mars, had to say over email:
The most serious immediate impact would be from the low atmospheric pressure that is nearly a vacuum compared to Earth, and within minutes the skin and organs would rupture, outgas and produce a quick painful death.
If not killed by the low-pressure atmosphere, there are many other environmental factors that make Mars inhospitable to humans without protection.
Webster explains:
Any humans on Mars would have to contend with the lack of oxygen (only ~0.1% compared to Earth's 20%), the very cold surface temperatures, the ubiquitous and irritating dust, the intense UV radiation, surface chemicals and oxidants — and all this before they started looking for food and water!
That sounds pretty gruesome. We hope these women and men know what they're signing up for.


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Before loving the others we must be able to love ourselves.
I don't know who said this, because I am sure that such a deep truth must have come out in human history quite a few times.
I am loving myself and my life more and more these days. Something has changed, something that can't be touched or described or interpreted; me for one I am not sure of what happened. The only secure thing is that it isn't the effect of drugs, except my daily cup of coffee I am almost vices free (sigh).
It just happened this week, last Tuesday to be precise; after a dreadful weekend of self commiseration and depression I sort of started seeing the sun shining again. In total truth I believe that this "miracle" has a cause but one step after the other.
You might have noticed that I have gone quiet for quite some time after October last year. I fell in one of those me-myself-and-I periods, when you feel that something is maturing inside you, something that needs most of the available energies, something that is still shrouded in total darkness; but you know that when it comes out, it is like a beautiful flower bud ready to bloom.
I have decided what I want to do with my life; this is my flower bud.
Hard work on myself, loneliness and countless psychotherapy sessions with my friends and family members have definitely helped me getting my head around my needs, wishes and duties.
I am opening a gastronomical consulting business; legal and concrete details are still unsure hence the flower bud. I am working on it, working on my CV, on a portfolio, on marketing myself and ultimately on a place to live. Germany is growing small to me and how the things are moving around here they do not inspire me any hope for the future so, my aussie friends, I will be joining you soon.
To celebrate this new reconciliation with myself and life I want to celebrate my St Valentine with all of you, my friends, who have supported me through these days.
This is a little dessert that I came up with just the day when the sun started shining again and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.
Here I give you my:
St. Valentine's Ricotta mousse tower with sweet-&-nutty tomato jam and a milk-chocolate ganache.
Ingredients (makes 4 servings):
Tomato jam:
- 200g fresh tomatoes, pureed with some water but not strained
- 1/2 tbsp sugar
- 1tbsp butter
- 1tbsp fresh orange juice
- Red food coloring (optional).
Ricotta mousse:
- 1 XL egg yolk
- 3-4 tbsp sugar
- 1 1/2 tbsp Chinese rice wine
- 150g fresh ricotta cheese, at room temperature
- 1 sheet of gelatin, soaked in cold water
- 1tbsp cream.
Chocolate ganache:
- 40g milk chocolate, chopped (Valrhona's Jivara or another kind with around 40% cocoa mass)
- 4tsp cream.
To serve:
- 16 butter cookies
- Pink peppercorns (optional)
- Gold leaf (optional)
- Dried cherries (optional).
Let's start with the tomato jam.
In a small saucepan mix the fresh tomato puree with the sugar and let it reduce over medium fire stirring often. At the end you should have a quite thick product without any water separating from it. Pass the jam through a fine mesh sieve and reserve to cool down.
While the tomato puree is cooking, combine the egg yolk with 2 tbsp of sugar and whip it in a bowl over some simmering water. You will need to make a sabayon to lighten up the ricotta cheese.
While the egg yolk gets whipped and heated, add the Chinese rice wine to it and continue cooking until the sabayon will feel warm to the touch and will be thick enough for you to be able to see the bottom of the bowl while whipping it. Let the sabayon reach room temperature before mixing it with the ricotta cheese.
In a small bowl whip lightly the ricotta cheese with 1-2 tbsp of sugar or to taste and fold in the sabayon little at a time. In a small saucepan warm up the cream with the gelatin sheet so to melt the latter but do not let the cream come anywhere close to a boil or you may damage the gelatin. Fold the cream-gelatin mixture into the ricotta mousse, cover the bowl with some aluminum paper or similar and refrigerate for few hours or until set.
Let's finish the tomato jam now. Put the butter in a small saucepan and let it come to the hazelnut stage. Out of the fire, add the orange juice to it and cook again the butter till all the moisture will be evaporated. Whisk the resulting flavored hazelnut butter into the tomato jam and, eventually, color it with some red food coloring.
When you are ready to assemble, lightly whisk the ricotta mousse using a spoon; place a small dollop of it at the center of each page and place on them one butter cookie pressing it down so to hold it in place. Start building the towers spooning some ricotta mousse over the butter cookie and then placing a new one on top gently pressing it down. To have a more attractive look, try to rotate the cookies when you place them on top of the mousse so they won't be all parallel to each other (this way the structure is also more stable). Here and there, in the ricotta mousse layer, you can place a few little pieces of dried cherries if you want.
Leave the towers for a few hours or overnight in the fridge so the cookies get soft and easy to cut through
Just before serving, melt the milk chocolate with the cream by placing them in a small bowl and then placing the latter into some hot water. Stir the ganache till well combined and drizzle it over the towers.
Using a squeeze bottle or little piping bag make some decoration on the plate using the tomato jam; garnish the top of the tower with few pink peppercorns and gold flakes and serve.


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NRL finals week one preview, plus all the latest footy news on the In The Clear NRL Podcast
Flick a coin. Draw straws. Maybe even decide on colours.
They are all valid options when picking a winner in week one of the NRL finals according to the boys on the In the Clear NRL Podcast
Co-host Chris Boulous was joined by St George & Sutherland Shire Leader sports editor Andrew Parkinson for this week's episode to preview the most open competition in recent memory.
"Every game could go either way. I think the Warriors could be the surprise packet. The finals always dish up a fairytale run and it wouldn't surprise me if someone wins the competition from outside the top four," Boulous said.
"I think more than ever getting a week off is vital. It makes week one even more important."
Parkinson agreed and said a Sharks win could catapult them into favouritism.
"It's that close. If the Storm win, it would also see them being beat in Melbourne," he said.
"I also wouldn't rule out the Dragons with Gareth Widdop back."
Also on this week's shows the boys debate the merits of "home finals" being played at ANZ Stadium and talk about the upcoming internationals at the end of the year.
"There is still a whole finals series to go, but Mal Meninga has some headaches. The biggest one is who plays No.7," Parkinson said.
NRL Finals Week One tips
Boulous: Roosters, Rabbitohs, Broncos, Warriors
Parkinson: Sharks, Rabbitohs, Broncos, Panthers
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Restart Your Heart: 21 Encouraging Devotions So You Can Love Like You've Never Been Hurt
by Jentezen Franklin
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The Power of Expectation
It's time to restart your heart. Too many of life's challenges and challenging people have filled our minds with doubt, frustration and bitterness. Check yourself by checking your self-talk. What kinds of thoughts occupy your mind these days? Are they thoughts of a hope and a future? Are they thoughts about whom you can bless and who has blessed you? Do you spend more time thinking about what you don't have than praying prayers of thanksgiving for what you do have? The conversations we have in our heads tell us a lot about the condition of our hearts. Why don't we restart those thought processes right now—today? Do you need a miracle? Do you desire a breakthrough? How about a word from God or a healing? It's time to expect great things!
Nothing can derail our pursuit of God like an offense or a hurt at the hands of another. When it comes at the hands of those we least expect to hurt us, the effects can last for years. If there is anything I have learned as a pastor, it's that time does not heal all wounds. In fact, sometimes time can be our worst enemy as that root of bitterness grows deeper, the walls go up, and the hurt turns into bitterness and isolation.
Over the next 21 days, I believe all of that can change. That needs to change. A restart is what is needed, and there is no time like the present to begin that process. The only requirement is expectation. Hebrews 11:6 tells us that our faith pleases God. We need to understand that if God is going to do something, He looks for people who live with great expectation. In Luke 3 we see desperate people in eager expectation of their Messiah's coming, on tiptoes in anticipation:
- Now as the people were in expectation, and all reasoned in their hearts about John, whether he was the Christ or not, John answered, saying to all, "I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire."
- Luke 3:15–16, emphasis added
Our God is all-powerful, yet we limit His work in our lives when we refuse to believe in His ability and His victory. We need to activate our faith and stand in tiptoe expectation, knowing He can do the impossible! Let's take a look at one man in the Bible who held great expectation.
The Lame Man at the Temple
There was a man who was lame from birth, but despite his disability, he managed to get people to carry him to the Temple to beg for money each day. His life, his livelihood and his identity revolved around his sickness. But that all changed at three o'clock one afternoon with an event that altered the trajectory of this man's life forever. The Bible tells us that Peter and John, as they were heading to the Temple, took notice of this beggar and stopped and looked intently at this spectacle of a man. The Bible says that Peter looked right at him, as did John. Then Peter said, "Look at us." So the lame man "gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them" (Acts 3:4–5, emphasis added). The rest is history as that lame man was healed instantly as his feet and ankles became strong.
The man activated his faith and received his miracle right then and there because of his great expectation. What if that lame man had said to Peter and John, "I've been here every day of my life up to this point. I guess I'm just destined to be here every day from here on out." His miracle would not have taken place without his faith. He expected a gift that day— and he got a life- changing one. But, day after day, his expectation overcame his pessimism as he would awake and say, "Maybe today!"
Here's the best part of the story. He got up from that place, and, while he could have gone anywhere he wanted to go with healthy feet and ankles, he chose to go with Peter and John to the Temple courts jumping and praising God. His heart had been restarted— and yours will be, too, as you begin to see the broken places you have learned to live with healed and made useful again.
A New Day
God has so much for you. It is no accident that you are reading these pages right now. These 21 days are a divine appointment for a surgical procedure you need. Allow the Lord to restart your heart the way He has, story after story, for readers of the companion book for this devotional, Love Like You've Never Been Hurt (Chosen, 2018). More than 150,000 people have read that book. Testimonies are pouring in from people who were holding on to hurt like a life preserver only to discover it was the very weight pulling them under.
Now, just like that lame beggar, it's your turn. He had his day, and his simple act of faith changed the rest of his life. It's your turn. It's your season of healing. You are one look— one touch— away from Jesus, from freedom and joy unspeakable.
You don't have to see it to believe. Start now. Praise in expectation. Sow in expectation. Pray in expectation. Expect the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in every area of your life. What area are you expecting God to break through? I want you to begin to live and speak with great expectation.
- "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: 'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the Lord of hosts.
"'Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of "Grace, grace to it!"'"
- Zechariah 4:6–7
There is a medical procedure used by heart surgeons worldwide called cardioversion. Cardioversion uses electricity or chemicals to activate the heart and return it to its normal rhythm. Total cardioversion involves stopping the heart and then restarting it.
An irregular heartbeat can cause great damage to internal organs, even death. Cardioversion restarts the heart, allowing it to regain its ability to do what it was designed to do, which is to supply life- giving blood to the rest of the body, in just the right measure and at the intervals required to sustain life. This amazing procedure saves thousands of lives every year.
Unforgiveness, bitterness, anger, offense, hurt and injustice can have irregular and damaging effects on our spirits. These effects disrupt our spiritual health and can harm our physical health as well. Many times, this devastation cannot be solved through usual means; the hurt is too deep. When pain is this entrenched, there is only one way back to renewed health and strength for the assignment God has for your life: You need to restart your heart.
- We have to learn to love like we've never been hurt. . . . As you read these words, you may be picturing the face of the person who has caused you pain. . . . Whatever [or whoever] it is, you have loved hard and were wounded. This someone has cut off your love supply. And you are not living fully, the way God intended, because you do not know how, or if it is even possible, to love like you've never been hurt.
- Love Like You've Never Been Hurt, pages 13–14
It's amazing that our minds want to dwell on the past, the film reels of our failures— those who have hurt us or rejected us, and the injustices we have experienced. I used to play those experiences over and over in my mind thinking about what I wish I had said, the things I wish I had done differently and the injustice of it all. We do this, partly, because we can't make sense of it, and our computer- like minds look for logical conclusions. But because we can't reason our way to the justice we long for, the offenses are never resolved.
And that is just where the problem lies in these endless imaginations: We try to reason through the pain, but injustice and hurt are not usually based in truth or logic or any kind of reasoning.
The Point of Attack
In my thirty-plus years of experience in ministry I have learned a profound set of truths.
- When a problem makes no sense on a physical level, then there is something spiritual going on.
As you spend hour after hour racking your brain for answers or trying to reason things through with someone, even with God, you find you are stuck in an endless loop that leads you back to the beginning. That's not your fault. It doesn't mean something is wrong with you. It means that you aren't dealing with reasonable people. It means that the hurt you suffered is not something you deserved, and there is no human logic that will help you rationalize it. It means that the rejection you suffered was not because of anything you did, but because some selfish soul chose to delete you from his or her life. You will never make sense of this in your mind because it is only spiritually discerned.
Let go. Shift your focus. Forgive and move on. Leave that person to the Lord to deal with, and trust that God has you, will always have you, and that His justice is on His timetable and not yours.
- Spiritual issues will not be solved by normal means (logic, reason, justice) and must be dealt with on a spiritual level.
When pain or hurt cannot be solved through physical means, step back and take action in the spiritual realm. Pray. Forgive. Love and bless anyway. Allow the Lord to give you a greater obsession. Trust with extraordinary faith for your extraordinary situation.
This one is hard to grasp because, being human, we always want someone to blame. We want to put a face on our hurt so we can know where to direct our anger. But the fact is that our struggle is not against flesh and blood. "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Ephesians 6:12). Only prayer and faith will help you with these kinds of offenses and hurts.
- No amount of thought or planning or worry will solve a spiritual issue or a spiritual attack.
- We replay the bad memories again and again. We talk about them repeatedly to anyone who will listen. We think of ways we can exact revenge. We poke and prod at our gaping wounds. In the process, we become bitter. Hardened. And, often, we withhold our love from those who need it most.
- Love Like You've Never Been Hurt, page 15
Restart Your Heart
You can spend your life looking back, and many do, or you can trust God with that face you see and trust God with that injustice you have suffered, knowing that your God is not blind. You can't fix this. But God can fix you. God can create a new heart in you . . . His heart in you. And He will give you His eyes to see what He sees, His ears to hear what He hears and His heart to feel what He feels. His ways are higher, as are His thoughts, but He will give you His thoughts and His ways if you will ask for them.
But before He can give you His thoughts and His ways, you have to be willing to let go of the hurt, the offense, the injustice. Let those things fall to the ground. Empty hands are required in order to receive the new thing. The old and the new cannot coexist in the same hands.
This is a lot to take in on Day 1, but if you will give yourself as an offering before God during these 21 days, He will do a work in you. You will finish as a changed person with a heart that has experienced a restart.
- [God] wants to give us a new beginning. A new story. A fresh start. He wants to heal what has been broken. He wants to reconcile what has been torn apart. . . .
It is never wrong to love. It is never out of order to love. You do not compromise when you love. You never lower your standards when you love.
- Love Like You've Never Been Hurt, pages 15–16
Lord Jesus, as I embark on this 21-day journey, help me to take every step, not with fear, but with great expectation for all You are about to do. Speak, Lord. Heal, Lord. And teach me Your timeless truths.
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Acer is back in the US and Canadian market with its latest tablet device, the Acer Iconia Tab A110. Yes, this is the same tablet which was unveiled last month. The Acer Iconia Tab A110 is basically an entry-level tablet, which will compete with the popular Android tablets such as the Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire 2. This handset runs on the latest Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) Operating system out of the box. The specs of this device is similar to the Google Nexus 7.
Paul Tayar, senior director of product marketing for connected devices, Acer America, said:
"Today's consumers are increasingly mobile and want easy and instant access to entertainment at all times. The Iconia Tab A110 is another example of how Acer is meeting the needs of consumers, by providing tablet form factors that combine portability and performance for fun and gaming, at affordable prices."
Acer Iconia Tab A110 features a 7 inch display, sporting a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS, 1.2 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 2 megapixel front-facing camera for video calls, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB internal memory, MicroSD card slot, 32 GB expandable memory, Google Play Store, micro HDMI, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0 and 3420 mAh battery. This device measures 196 x 126.5 x 11.4 mm and weighs 370 grams.
This device is one step ahead of the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire 2, thanks to the MicroSD card slot and latest version of the Android OS. Acer Iconia Tab A110 will go on sale from October 30 in the US and Canada. The battery of this device is reported to last for up to 7.5 hrs. Acer Iconia Tab A110 comes with a price tag of just $229.99.


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Gonorrhea tests involve testing a
sample of body fluid or urine to see if gonorrhea bacteria (Neisseria gonorrhoeae) are present and may be the cause of an
infection. These tests are used to screen for or confirm a
gonorrhea infection.
Gonorrhea is a
sexually transmitted infection (STI) that is usually
spread during sexual contact. It does not always cause symptoms.
Several types of tests can be used to detect a gonorrhea infection. Most
tests use a sample of body fluid from the affected area.
Tests for gonorrhea are done to:
Treating a pregnant woman who has a gonorrhea infection
can prevent an infection in her newborn. Screening may be done at the first
prenatal visit. Another test may be done during the last 3 months of
In some cases, gonorrhea tests may be done to determine
if a recently treated infection has been successfully treated. This is not
routinely needed unless gonorrhea has occurred during pregnancy or your sex
partner was not treated.
Gonorrhea testing is done on:
In a direct smear, a sample of body
fluid is taken from the affected area. In adults, these areas may include the
urethra, cervix, rectum, or eye.
In rare cases, a throat culture may be done.
If a urine sample is collected for
nucleic acid amplification testing (such as PCR or LCR testing), do not urinate
for 2 hours before the test. Do not wipe the genital area clean before
urinating. Collect the first part of your urine stream, immediately as you
begin urinating.
Collecting a sample of fluid from the
urethra, anus, or rectum may cause mild discomfort or pain.
Collecting a sample from the cervix may cause mild discomfort. Most women
find that the procedure feels similar to a Pap test or pelvic examination. Some
women feel slight cramping while the speculum is inside the vagina.
Collecting a sample from the eye is usually painless unless the eyelids
have sores on them.
Collecting a urine sample does not normally
cause any discomfort.
There is very little risk of serious
complications from having a sample of fluid collected from the cervix, urethra,
anus, eye, or throat. Women may have a small amount of bleeding from the vagina
if a sample is collected from the cervix.
In rare cases, a person
may experience a sudden dizziness or fainting (called vasovagal syncope)
because of fear or pain when the swab is inserted into the urethra.
There are no risks linked with collecting a urine sample.
Gonorrhea tests involve testing a sample
of body fluid or urine to see if
gonorrhea bacteria (Neisseria gonorrhoeae) are present and may be the cause of an infection.
No gonorrhea
antigens or
DNA are found. If a culture is done, no gonorrhea
bacteria grow in the culture. More testing for other sexually transmitted
infections (STIs) may be needed to determine the cause of any symptoms.
Gonorrhea antigens or DNA are found. If a culture is
done, gonorrhea bacteria grow in the culture.
Reasons you may not be able to
have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
CitationsU.S. Preventive Services Task Force (2005). Screening for gonorrhea. Available online: http://www.uspreventiveservicetaskforce.org/uspstf/uspsgono.htm.Other Works ConsultedChernecky CC, Berger BJ (2008). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed. St. Louis:
Saunders.Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009).
Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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The Phillies have invited six additional players to major league spring training as non-roster invitees.
· Cody Asche, 3B – In 130 games between single-A Clearwater and double-A Reading last season, Asche batted .324 with 33 doubles, six triples, 12 home runs and 72 RBI. The 22-year-old led all Phillies minor leaguers in average and hits (168) and was selected to the Florida State League midseason All-Star team. Following the season, he was named the seventh-best prospect in the Phillies minor league system by Baseball America. A native of St. Charles, Mo., Asche was a fourth-round selection by Philadelphia in the June 2011 draft.
· Justin Friend, RHP – Friend, 26, spent the majority of the 2012 season with Reading, where he allowed just one earned run in 39.2 innings (0.23 ERA) while converting each of his 24 save opportunities. He also made 12 appearances with Lehigh Valley, going 2-1 with one save and a 4.40 ERA in 14.1 innings. Originally selected by Oakland in the 13th round of the June 2007 draft, Friend was acquired by the Phillies in the minor league portion of the 2010 Rule 5 draft. In 253 minor league games, Friend is 17-22 with 71 saves and a 3.13 ERA.
· Tommy Joseph, C – Joseph began the 2012 season with double-A Richmond in the San Francisco Giants organization before being acquired by the Phillies in a trade for Hunter Pence on July 31. The 21-year-old spent the remainder of the season with Reading, where he was selected to the Eastern League Postseason All-Star team. Overall, Joseph batted .257 with 24 doubles, 11 home runs and 48 RBI in 108 games in 2012. The Phoenix, Az., native played for Peoria in the Arizona Fall League and was selected to the AFL Rising Stars roster. Additionally, following the season, he was named the third-best prospect in the Phillies minor league system by Baseball America.
· Joe Mather, OF – In 103 games with the Chicago Cubs last season, Mather batted .209 with 11 doubles, five home runs and 19 RBI. The 30-year-old appeared at six different positions in 2012, including pitcher (0.1 IP), first base, third base, left field, center field and right field. Originally selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the third round of the June 2001 draft, Mather has spent parts of four seasons in the major leagues with the Cardinals (2008, 2010), Atlanta Braves (2011) and Cubs (2012).
· Adam Morgan, LHP – Morgan, 22, spent the majority of the 2012 season with Clearwater, where he posted a 3.29 ERA in 21 games (20 starts) for the Threshers and was named to the midseason and postseason Florida State League All-Star teams. He was promoted to Reading in August and went 4-1 with a 3.53 ERA in six starts for the Phillies. The Tampa, Fla., native led all Phillies minor leaguers with 169 strikeouts in 158.2 innings (9.59 SO/9.0 IP) between both levels. Following the season, he was named the fifth-best prospect in the Phillies minor league system by Baseball America. Morgan was originally selected by the Phillies in the third round of the June 2011 draft.
· Kyle Simon, RHP – Simon, 22, began the 2012 season in the Baltimore Orioles organization, going 2-8 with a 3.96 ERA in 14 starts for single-A Frederick. He was acquired by the Phillies in a trade for Jim Thome on June 30 and went 4-0 with a 1.36 ERA in 20 relief appearances between Clearwater and Reading. The Long Beach, Calif., native was originally drafted by the Orioles in the fourth round of the June 2011 draft.
To date, the Phillies have invited a total of 18 players to major league spring training in 2013 as non-roster invitees:
Pitchers (7): RHP Aaron Cook, RHP Juan Cruz, RHP Justin Friend, RHP Rodrigo Lopez, RHP Zach Miner, LHP Adam Morgan, RHP Kyle Simon
Catchers (3): Tommy Joseph, Steven Lerud, Humberto Quintero
Infielders (6): Cody Asche, Andres Blanco, Josh Fields, Cesar Jimenez, Michael Martinez, Pete Orr
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Prompong Hakk-Cvision Mbas 2 Automated Immigration Terminal
At Design Interviews
Interview with Prompong Hakk : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Prompong Hakk : In order to create a better user experience our external Design language was defined by two contrasting values: sturdy but soft. We wanted users to feel at ease when being asked to use a security device without human operators. In contract to MBAS2, MBAS 1 was designed as a more advanced looking terminal that could have a place at international border crossings such as airports. Its unibody Design keeps everything compact and utilitarian without looking too intimidating. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Prompong Hakk : MBAS2 was designed for local border crossings across Thailand's neighboring countries such as Myanmar, Laos or Vietnam. Due to the level of technical exposure of the local users we decided that a personal computer approach would be more suitable as a Design guideline. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Prompong Hakk : MBAS2 is in development stage and will soon go for prototyping and testing. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Prompong Hakk : The concept stage of the project lasted for 3 months. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Prompong Hakk : The Design was commissioned by our client Chanwanich Company Limited. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Prompong Hakk : The Design will be produced and managed by Chanwanich Company Limited. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Prompong Hakk : Chanwanich is one of Thailand silent leaders in technology which naturally inspired is to work with them. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Prompong Hakk : This concept was co-developed by Alexander Anderton who took lead design and Prompong Hakk as Creative Director. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Prompong Hakk : This is a business to government or private security product. Of course it will be used by all sorts of travelers which is why it is equipped with multiple language options. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Prompong Hakk : It's milestone in Design when it come to this industry's Design choices. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Prompong Hakk : MBAS stands for Multi-Biometric-Aquisition-System. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Prompong Hakk : Sketching and CAD. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Prompong Hakk : The integration of all technical components in this unibody cut out Design that also features a removable fingerprint unit for easy maintenance or other attachments. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Prompong Hakk : All internal engineering was developed in house at shakes. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Prompong Hakk : MBAS2 utilizes modern technology to transform the way we cross borders. In this case technology provides the means to make that change. However, it's also technology that often scares us from understanding it fully. This is why we took to designing a terminal that looked welcoming and friendly. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Prompong Hakk : Partly, we conducted a survey to determine the right angle for the display. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Prompong Hakk : The product is in its development stage still. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Prompong Hakk : We came across the A' Design award by accident while looking at an affiliated Designer. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Prompong Hakk : Working with Chanwanich for MBAS2 finally allowed us to create an outstanding Design for an industry that's never had any outstanding contribution to its field. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Prompong Hakk : No. .
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"A wonderfully rich and evocative investigation into the choices that confront us at the edges of life and death."–Lawrence Tribe, The New York Times Book Review
"Dworkin has made a miracle, so meticulous and rich a reformulation of how we think about the borders between life and death that it illuminates the very nature of how we live our lives."–Joan Didion.


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Among the great Polish filmmakers—Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Zanussi, Agnieszka Holland, Roman Polanski—Andrzej Wajda remains unique in the way he has explored in his films the tortuous path his nation had to take. The question of her national identity: what sort of Poland do the people want in the post war produced the Ashes and Diamonds a classic. Between his fifties war trilogy and his most recent film, Katyn (2007) we have Danton a minor classic where the themes do find echo in what was taking place in Poland.
'The film was based on the play The Danton Affair, by Stanisława Przybyszewska, first performed in 1931. Przybyszewska was a Communist whose sympathies lay with the radical Robespierre. Wajda revived the play in 1975, but he turned it on its head, making a hero out of the more moderate Danton. By 1980, the high point of the Solidarity liberation movement, he had arranged to make his version of the play into a film, a Polish-French co-production with Gaumont. Studio scenes were to be done in Poland, while location scenes were to be shot in France. Martial law was imposed on December 13, 1981, however, in a coup directed by the Soviet Union: General Jaruzelski was installed, Solidarity outlawed, communications cut, a curfew introduced, and production in Poland became impossible. The whole project was then transferred to Paris, with Wajda taking some of his Polish actors, including Wojciech Pszoniak, who plays Robespierre, and a small group of co-workers. As a result, Wajda, this most Polish of directors, was forced to become an émigré, only returning from exile in 1989, when the Jaruzelski government fell. (He went on to receive his adopted country's highest film honor, the César, for best director in 1983.)'(Quoted from Leonard Quart/Criterion Collection news)
Wajda's tale of the struggle between two factions spearheading the French Revolution is not an isolated event. Political fall out of an ideal produces factions and we see it in the solidarity movement and in the soviet backed government of General Jaruzelski. This we saw in the struggle between Stalin and Trotsky for the mantle of Lenin. Beyond this parallel what was happening in Poland in the early 80s was altogether different. Danton and Robespierre represent two factions, one moderate and the other all out radical just as their personalities are opposites to one another. Danton is larger than life, venal and easy while Robespierre the lawyer from Arras is austere and chaste. Danton (Gérard Depardieu) and Robespierre (Wojciech Pszoniak) were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre had become the ruler and in order to wipe out opposition he ordered for a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge and tries to win him over to his side.
There is much more than a tacit understanding to the reign of terror at stake. While Danton realizes the path he had set out has gone off the rails the other is all the more for bloodletting. Danton knows from events played out around him Revolution has become like Saturn devouring it own children. Robespierre takes advantage of Danton's vacillation to outmaneuver him and arrest him. Thus five years after the fall of Bastille it is the will of Robespierre, Saint- Just et al that overrides the voice of restraint.
There is a telling scene that takes place in the studio of Jacques Louis David where the dictator in waiting the incorruptible Robespierre is sitting for the painter. When he is handed a palm he refuses it since it reminds one of martyr's palm. He also insists erasing his enemies from the group painting and it echoes Stalin's purge of history of Bolshevik revolution. (In that famous photo Lenin on return from exile harangues people where Trotsky the organizer of the Red Army stands next to the podium. Stalin on taking control had him airbrushed from history albeit pictorially. )
Both factions hold however one component common to their cause. Both are maneuvering in the name of the people. Robespierre who, as Danton would point out at a crucial one to one meeting shrinks from all contact, – and in all probability had never laid, speaks of man on the street as matter of his right. Yet Robespierre who holds the trump cards says: 'We want Danton's death.'
Judge Fouquier: 'I am not your private executioner.'
Robespierre the 'incorruptible' of course wants him to effect the order of the Committee just the same as 'people's executioner.'
It is an irony of all blood baths that the dictators unleash are in the name of the people.
The earthy 'larger than life' Danton and the puritanical Robespierre fight like whores for their favor.
Danton: 'A political trial is a duel. If the government accuses we can accuse them.' The idea is to create doubts in the minds of people. The same ploy the government also uses in making Danton and other 'conspirators' sit along with the criminal like common thieves and pimps. .
Themes, which figure in Danton, are both political and ethical and are timeless.
The irrefutable fact that Danton set up the Tribunal does not mean he was above that. The hero of August 10 was evidently consumed by his own creation and also took Robespierre within three months.
The trouble with revolutions is that you don't control insurrection with words once the blood is drawn whether in the streets or in the bedchamber.
Danton whose voice was like thunder shaking the very dome but as essayed by Gerard Deperdiue could not raise it beyond a whimper. The same could be said of the film Danton.
'In addition to Mr. Depardieu and Mr. Pszoniak, the excellent cast includes Patrice Chereau as Danton's journalist-friend, Camille Desmoulins; Angela Winkler as Lucille Desmoulins, Camille's wife who followed him to the scaffold; Boguslaw Linda, as Saint Just, and Roger Planchon, who is partciuarly good as Fourquier Tinville, who prosecuted Danton and his associates in a rigged trial' (quoted from NY Times review. Wajda's 'DANTON,' Inside the French Revolution by Vincent Canby; Sept 28, 1983)


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S. Afr. j. econ. manag. sci. vol.13 no.3 Pretoria Jan. 2010
South Africa and United States stock prices and the Rand/Dollar exchange rate
Matthew Kofi Ocran
Department of Economics and Economic History, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
This paper seeks to examine the dynamic causal relations between the two major financial assets, stock prices of the US and South Africa and the rand/US$ exchange rate. The study uses a mixed bag of time series approaches such as cointegration, Granger causality, impulse response functions and forecasting error variance decompositions. The paper identifies a bi-directional causality from the Standard & Poor's 500 stock price index to the rand/US$ exchange rate in the Granger sense. It was also found that the Standard & Poor's stock price index accounts for a significant portion of the variations in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange's All Share index. Thus, while causality in the Granger sense could not be established for the relationship between the price indices of the two stock exchanges it can argued that there is some relationship between them. The results of the study have implications for both business and Government.
Keywords: Exchange rate, cointegration, stock price, impulse response, variance decomposition and Granger causality.
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1 The NYSE is also the biggest exchange in the world while the NASDAQ is in 3rd position in terms of market capitalisation.
2 NASDAQ stands for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system; founded in 1971 it is the world's first electronic screen-based stock market; the NASDAQ exchange is uniquely dominated by technology stocks (NASDAQ, 2007).
3 This is defined as the total number of issued shares of domestic companies, including their several classes, multiplied by their respective prices at a given time. This figure reflects the comprehensive value of the market at that time (WFE, 2007).
4 The number three represents the number of variables in the present study.
5 The other major stock indices in the US are:
6 (1) Dow Jones Industrial Average (stocks of 30 large firms in the US - popular indicator;
(2) NYSE Composite Index (all companies listed on the NYSE);
(3) Nasdaq Composite Index (all companies quoted on the NASDAQ; technology-heavy);
(4) NASDAQ-100 Index (100 large NASDAQ stocks from the non-financial sector);
(5) S & Poor (500 large companies often used for general market analysis); Russell 2000 (small-cap stocks) and the Wilshire 5000 Index (represents US market).


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About the Author: A.J. Martelli
First and foremost, I've been a Yankee fan since the day I was born.
I absolutely love writing and I am a graduate of Mercy College in New York (Class of 2010!) I majored in journalism at Mercy, where I was the sports editor of the student newspaper (The Impact) for two and a half years. As sports editor, I won two Quill Awards for sports reporting, given to me by Mercy's media studies department.
The Impact also won two New York Press Association Awards while I was sports editor
Now that I have graduated college, I am currently working as a sports reporter for the Poughkeepsie Journal, in (you guessed it) Poughkeepsie, N.Y. I cover high school sports for the Journal and I'm paying my dues, in hopes of one day working for MLB.com. Yankee Yapping was featured on the main page of MLBlogs in 2010, so hopefully the "baseball brass" like my writing enough to one day hire me as a reporter.
In addition to the front page love from MLBlogs, former perfect game pitcher, five-time All-Star and World Series champ, and the 1994 American League Cy Young Award winner David Cone (now a broadcaster on the YES Network) has mentioned Yankee Yapping during the telecast of a Yankees-Blue Jays game, which is pretty cool.
To this point, I'd have to say the highlight of my career was interviewing New York Giants' quarterback and two-time Super Bowl Champion and MVP Eli Manning. I was blessed with the assignment of covering an annual golf outing which Manning attends, and I was able to ask him some questions in a media scrum, then write an article about the event. That's the back of my head, next to the cameraman! …
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Teaching Children Propaganda?
Chuck Norris is in the news along with Dan Cathy of Chick-fil-A; both charged with promoting propaganda against the homosexual lobby. Both Chuck and Chick-fil-A have been broadly admired over the years; Chuck for his popular Walker, Texas Ranger series and karate and exercise regimen; and Chick-fil-A for family values backed up by sensational chicken menus sold only Monday through Saturday, closed on Sunday so employees can spend time with their families and worship God if they so choose.
Chuck is concerned that President Obama's homosexual agenda will impact Boy Scouts of America. In a recent article Chuck said of Boy Scouts of America national board member and Ernst & Young CEO James Turley.
"But is Turley working on his own initiative, or has the White House prodded him with perks and favors?" Norris speculates. "Is it a coincidence that Turley came out swinging against the BSA's century-old policy to ban gays from leadership and that he has such close affiliations with the pro-gay Obama Administration?"
The Girl Scouts of America has already been affected by the culture of death with the influences of the pro-abortion agenda and let's not forget that the Girl Scouts of America recently ruled that a boy could be a Girl Scout.
As reported in a Baptist Press interview with Dan Cathy, "Some have opposed the company's support of the traditional family. "Well, guilty as charged," said Cathy when asked about the company's position.
"We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that.
"We operate as a family business … our restaurants are typically led by families; some are single. We want to do anything we possibly can to strengthen families. We are very much committed to that," Cathy emphasized.
"We intend to stay the course," he said. "We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles."
Why is it that when family values are brought to the table, the outcry against truth is so loud? Propaganda is defined as the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person.
The propaganda debate is not limited to the United States as reported by The Journal in Great Britain, "The "shadow" health minister of Great Britain's Labour Party said of a Christian group that has made over 50 presentations to school children on abortion, "I think it is very wrong and the Government needs to step in because we can't teach children at an impressionable age this sort of propaganda." Diane Abbott criticized the organization Lovewise for telling children at mostly faith-based schools about the abortion/breast cancer link, the abortion/depression link, and other abortion consequences, "Sexual health education is supposed to be based on facts. These people are just pedaling bigotry."
The prophet Isaiah said it best when he said, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." Isaiah 5:20