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i just listed some of the great things i found last week at a flea market and thrift store. i must say, some of this stuff is hard to part with. my genes are programed to be a pack rat and keep everything, especially things i love! and i love all of this.
my grandma was an amazing cook. she made the best chicken pot pie, swiss steak, stuffed cabbage, thanksgiving dinner, etc... ever! and every so often i try to recreate some of her dishes and don't even come close. once i master it i'll post the recipe. in the mean time here is a recipe that i loosely followed.
the thing with pa dutch style pot pie is that it's not actually a pie. it is more of a stew with thick, homemade noodles. it's heaven on earth.
our computer finally kicked the bucket, so i had to order a new one. but now i'm back in business and have a lot to tell you.
first up, diy garden markers. i'll give you fair warning that i'm not 100% sold on these. i have to see how they hold up. i baked them way longer than the clay package stated and they are still not completely hard. but it was fun, so i'll tell you about it.
1) kneed the clay according to the manufacturer's directions.
2) shape it into a marker type shape. mine all look a little different, but i like the haphazard shapes.
4) bake according to the package directions. and like i said, the kind i got said to bake 15 min. i baked them for about 45 and they were still not very solid.
i guess it isn't technically DIY, because it wasn't my wedding, but you get the point. flowers are super easy to do and doing them yourself will save you a bunch of $$. between what they spent for the table flowers and what was spent for the bouquets, it cost around $120. and that was for 12 bouquets, 6 boutineers and lots of table arrangements.
2) cut stems on an angle and place into water, they will last for a day or two if you store them in a cool place.
3) arrange a bouquet in your hand, starting with the largest flowers, and working your way around. move the flowers around in your hand until they look good. secure with a rubber band and cut the stems to the same length.
4) use floral tape and start wrapping the stems with it. the tape works by sticking to itself when pulled and stretched, so make sure it stretches a bit.
5) wrap the stems in ribbon to hide the floral tape. i used a glue gun to secure the ribbon ends, but it didn't seem to hold up great. you can also use a pin.
better late than never... seeds are planted!
sunday and monday we finally got some seeds in our raised boxes. we set it up according to the "square foot garden" plan and we fit an amazing amount of things in 32 sq ft!.
and a couple of seeds are just starting to peek through already! here is the arugula.
i just listed an orange polka dot and floral quilt. the main fabric was an ikea curtain in a former life and the floral fabrics were vintage linens. you can check it outHERE.
the back is stitched with "brandeye 2009."
look... my favorite pillow is now residing in the home of stefania pomponi butler, citymama. and she blogged about it. thanks citymama!
i loved the earrings so much, i bought them!
and remember, send me shots of your brandeye etsy purchases and i'll feature them.
we had such a great time in amsterdam and prague. we went with some friends and met even more friends in both cities. i took about a million pictures (actually around 700) so i'm going to have to edit big time. it just took me a couple hours just to put a bunch on flickr, so click HERE and take a peak.
in the meantime, a few to hold you over.
my favorite day of the whole trip was when we rented bikes and went to durgerdam. we would have gotten farther, but first we got lost and we had to be back in amsterdam semi-early.
can you tell i'm happy? i know, it's difficult.
this looked like a pirate boat, it was awesome!
and some sheep and ducks.
we want to retire here, but hopefully we can move there sooner than that!
and some highlights of prague and czech republic.
sausage!! the best we had was at a bar in sedlec.
the ceiling in our bedroom in our rented apartment. the whole place was amazing!
and the sky always seemed to be surreal.


Zlatan Ibrahimovic reveals his dream team: Gianluigi Buffon, Maxwell, Iniesta, Pavel Nedvěd (Machine), Lionel Messi (Genius), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (God).
Paris Saints Germain and Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has finally revealed his dream team. He picked majority of stars who are/were his teammates. Two are from Italy, France and Spain. While from clubs Juventus and Barcelona dominate the list.
Ballon d'Or winner Crisitano Ronaldo fails to get a name in the Zlatan's eleven.
The Italy and Juventus captain has been in superb form since his start of the career. Currently, he is 36 and still is on top of the clean sheet table in Serie A.
Former France international is Zlatan's favourite right-back. The 42-year-old who made 142 appearances for France played for top clubs like Juventus and Barcelona.
Central defender Thiago Silva is currently Ibrahimovic's teammate at Paris Saints Germain. The 30-year-old Brazilian is currently playing his third season in France.
The former Real Madrid star Fabio Cannavaro is named as the other centre-back. He lifted the World Cup trophy for Italy in 2006.
The left-back for Zlatan's dream team. Maxwell and Ibra both have also played together when they were at Barcelona.
Another Barcelona star who has been named as the Magician. The Spaniard is currently playing his 13th season at the Camp Nou.
Former Arsenal captain Vieira is at the heart of the midfield position. Ibrahimovic gave a name Leader to the former France international.
The 34-year-old Barcelona veteran has been named as the Perfect one because of his long balls, quality passing and vision.
Former Juventus star winger Nedvěd who made 91 appearances for Czech Republic is picked up as the left winger.
Four times Ballon d'Or winner also got his name on this list. The Argentinan has also enjoyed times with Ibrahimovic when he was at Camp Nou.
The 33-year-old exceptional striker named himself as the God. He is playing third season at PSG and has scored 83 goals in 94 appearances.


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Three Colorado high court justices face stiff retention opposition
Michael Bender
Alex Martinez
Nancy Rice
By Felisa Cardona | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: October 2, 2010 at 3:55 p.m. | UPDATED: May 5, 2016 at 8:26 a.m.
Three Colorado Supreme Court justices should stay on the bench for 10 more years, according to a state evaluation, but opposition groups are hoping they lose their seats in the November election.
Justices Michael Bender, Alex Martinez and Nancy Rice are all up for retention and are highly recommended by the Colorado Commission on Judicial Performance.
But this year, groups like Clear the Bench Colorado and the free-market think tank Independence Institute say the justices are partisan and that their time on the bench is up. They disagree with the justices' decisions on property taxes, eminent domain and congressional redistricting, saying the rulings violate the state's constitution.
"They have been serial violators of the Colorado Constitution and violated the rights of citizens and refused to follow the law and put their personal and political views above what the constitution says," said Matt Arnold, executive director of Clear the Bench.
Colorado's judicial rules say justices must abstain from campaigning unless there is active opposition to their retentions.
But Bender, Rice and Martinez declined to comment or counter the criticism of their records when contacted by The Denver Post.
Jane Howell, executive director of the Commission on Judicial Performance, said this year's opposition is one of the most organized removal efforts she has seen.
But Howell said the evaluations review the overall performance of the justices rather than whether their rulings are favorable to one political side or another.
"It is not about one case or the outcome of two or three cases, so there is not a political agenda to the way our performance commissions do their work," she said.
Attorneys surveyed by the Commission said Bender is adept at making decisions without regard to possible criticism and writes clear opinions. But some think Bender's performance is weaker on refraining from reaching issues that don't need to be decided, making reasoned decisions and being impartial.
". . . Some opinions are overly detailed and difficult to follow," his evaluation says.
Of all attorneys surveyed, 79 percent thought Bender should stay on the bench, 17 percent were against his retention and 4 percent had no opinion.
In the case of Martinez, 76 percent of attorneys surveyed thought he should be retained; 17 percent disagreed and 6 percent had no opinion.
Martinez's evaluation shows strengths in the way he treats attorneys and issues timely opinions.
The evaluation was more critical of Martinez's ability to write clear opinions and explaining the basis for the court's decisions.
"At times . . . his opinions can be unnecessarily lengthy and could be improved by a more concise and pointed legal analysis."
Attorneys who evaluated Rice say she refrains from reaching decisions on issues that don't need to be decided and that she is conscientious, hardworking and prepared for oral arguments.
But others feel her demeanor on the bench could be improved.
"Comments by a few of the attorneys surveyed expressed concern about a prosecution bias in some criminal cases and a brusque demeanor during oral arguments," the evaluation says.
Of her opinions, the evaluation found: "They reflect an independent thinker whose decisions are generally clear and well-written and reflect respect toward any differing opinions of her colleagues."
Of attorneys surveyed, 77 percent recommended voters retain Rice; 16 percent said no and 6 percent had no opinion.
Felisa Cardona: 303-954-1219 or fcardona@denverpost.com
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An interesting contest has been announced for next month's Titan FC 53 event. The event's co-featured bout will see Highly touted prospect Hannah Goldy attempt to capture the biggest win of her young career, as she takes on former ONE title contender, Istela Nunes in a strawweight affair.
Istela Nunes (7-1-0) last competed at ONE – Battle for the Heavens, where she outlasted Gina Iniong to earn a decision victory. Her lone loss as a professional came in the form of a submission stoppage at the hands of current ONE champion, Angela Lee. Nunes' most notable triumph came over long-time Japanese veteran, Mei Yamaguchi. The Parana Vale Tudo representative looks to climb the strawweight ranks with another victory, this time with the top regional promotion in Florida.
Hannah Goldy (4-0-0) is currently ranked as the #1 strawweight in the state of Florida, Goldy has proven herself on the regional scene, racking up four straight victories as a professional. While she is still at the infancy stage of her mixed martial arts career, Goldy does have a recognizable name on her resume, as she outpointed current UFC flyweight Gillian Robertson in the pair's respective professional debuts. A win over a proven contender like Nunes puts her on the radar of many fans and could earn her a title shot in her next appearance.
Titan FC 53 takes place on March 15th, and airs LIVE on UFC Fight Pass.
Has Istela left ONE for Titan, or just taking this fight on a one time basis?


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Tag Archives: Britten
Turn of the Screw, Garsington Opera, July 2019
A hauntingly memorable interpretation of Britten's masterpiece based on the Henry James story, with Sophie Bevan expressing the naïve yet fevered emotions of the Governess. Wonderful singing from all the cast, including Ed Lyon as Quint — see my review in The Article.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Glyndebourne, GFO, August 2016
This was a treat. Peter Hall's production with its moving trees and bushes and gently swaying branches shows the forces of nature creating the magic that is so well exemplified in Benjamin Britten's music. John Bury's designs and Paul Pyant's lighting foster an atmosphere where the desires of the lovers and the temerity of the …
Royal Ballet Triple Bill: Ceremony of Innocence, Age of Anxiety, Aeternum, Royal Ballet, ROH, Covent Garden, October 2014
This triple bill takes us from the loss of childhood innocence to the memory of parents passed away, ideas that frame the first and third items, both to music of Benjamin Britten. Ceremony of Innocence appears in W B Yeats' poem The Second Coming as 'The ceremony of innocence is drowned', a line that Britten …
Paul Bunyan, English Touring Opera, ETO, Linbury Studio, ROH, February 2014
Paul Bunyan was a legendary folk hero in nineteenth century America, a lumberjack of mythical size and strength. The myth may have started with a French Canadian, Paul Bunyon, who led fellow loggers in a rebellion against British troops in 1837, but whatever the origin, stories told around campfires enhanced his size to gigantic proportions, …
Billy Budd, BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, August 2013
This concert version of the Glyndebourne production, using the same singers, conductor, chorus and orchestra, added one glorious extra touch. At the end of the Epilogue, after Captain Vere has recalled his inaction that led to the hanging of Billy Budd in 1797, he walked slowly off the stage, and the only sound in the …
Billy Budd, Glyndebourne, August 2013
A brilliant evening at the opera requires three things: a first rate opera, an illuminating production, and marvellous singing. Here we had all three. Billy Budd, shown here in its two-act version, rather than the four-act original, is a stunning piece of theatre. The three main characters, Captain Vere, Billy, and Claggart, all embody in …
Grimes on the Beach, Aldeburgh, June 2013
It all started with a Spitfire, flying low across the sea, first one way then the other, before looping the loop and vanishing into the distance. This reminder of 1945 fitted the costumes and ostensibly precarious sets by Leslie Travers in Tim Albery's excellent production. Watching Britten's Grimes on a set that ran along the …
Gloriana, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, June 2013
Unlike predecessors such as Peter Grimes (1945) and Billy Budd (1951), Benjamin Britten's Gloriana may never be part of the standard repertoire, but the ROH has now given us a fine new perspective on this opera. Exactly sixty years after its first performances to celebrate the Queen's Coronation, this newly imaginative, clever and colourful production …
Death in Venice, English National Opera, London Coliseum, June 2013
Gustav von Aschenbach, the protagonist in Thomas Mann's 1912 novella is enraptured by a Polish boy Tadzio, just as Mann himself was during his 1911 stay at the Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Venice Lido. Britten's opera fully brings to life Aschenbach's suppressed passion, and the haunting Venetian soundscapes, complemented by Deborah Warner's remarkable …
Albert Herring, English Touring Opera, ETO, Linbury Studio, Covent Garden, October 2012
This delightful comic opera by Benjamin Britten creates a deftly woven musical tapestry performed by thirteen instrumentalists and roughly the same number of singers. Eric Crozier based his libretto on a tale by Guy de Maupassant, transferring it to a Suffolk town and creating a glorious critique of small town mentality, pomposity and sexual repression. …
The Prince of the Pagodas, Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, June 2012
King Lear meets Sleeping Beauty in this mid-1950s fairy tale creation by John Cranko, to music commissioned from Benjamin Britten. After the Cranko ballet fell out of the repertoire, Kenneth MacMillan made his own version in 1989. This revival now contains some cuts to the music that he originally intended, but was not permitted to make. …
Peter Grimes, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, June 2011
This production brings out the horrid awkwardness of Grimes's estrangement from the local community, eliciting our sympathy for him …
A Midsummer Night's Dream, English National Opera, ENO, London Coliseum, May 2011
…if you're willing to accept a representation of mysterious forces in the otherwise mundane world of human beings, then this is strongly recommended as an intriguing take on Britten's opera.
The Turn of the Screw, ENO, English National Opera, October 2009
With thirteen musicians in the pit, under the direction of Charles Makerras, the musical rendering could not be better
Peter Grimes, English National Opera, London Coliseum, May 2009
…what really drove Britten's masterpiece home was Stuart Skelton [as Grimes], Felicity Palmer [as Mrs. Sedley], the chorus, and the conductor Edward Gardner.


Learn about the lip-balm myth from BellaSugar!
Whenever the cooler months come around, men and women alike start reaching for their favorite balms to soothe their chapped lips. Regardless of what kind of lip balm you use, however, you've probably heard of so-called "lip-balm dependency." While you may just love the feeling of swiping that cooling balm over your dry lips, people have gone so far as to suggest that certain balms contain ingredients that actually dry out your lips, making it difficult for you to ever stop using them.
Dr. Elizabeth Tanzi, codirector of the Washington Institute of Dermatologic Laser Surgery in Washington, D.C., is quick to blow the lid off these rumors. "There is no truth to this at all," she says. "ChapSticks and lip hydrators have waxes or emollients in them to create a barrier to keep lips hydrated." The barrier prevents dryness caused by the elements, so it's practically impossible for balms to actually dry your lips out. So it turns out that lip-balm addiction is only in your head. But excessive dryness could be caused by a bigger issue, so you should check in with your dermatologist if your lips refuse to smooth out.


Abstract The S‐phase checkpoint maintains the integrity of the genome in response to DNA replication stress. In budding yeast, this pathway is initiated by Mec1 and is amplified through the activation of Rad53 by two checkpoint mediators: Mrc1 promotes Rad53 activation at stalled forks, and Rad9 is a general mediator of the DNA damage response. Here, we have investigated the interplay between Mrc1 and Rad9 in response to DNA damage and found that they control DNA replication through two distinct but complementary mechanisms. Mrc1 rapidly activates Rad53 at stalled forks and represses late‐firing origins but is unable to maintain this repression over time. Rad9 takes over Mrc1 to maintain a continuous checkpoint signaling. Importantly, the Rad9‐mediated activation of Rad53 slows down fork progression, supporting the view that the S‐phase checkpoint controls both the initiation and the elongation of DNA replication in response to DNA damage. Together, these data indicate that Mrc1 and Rad9 play distinct functions that are important to ensure an optimal completion of S phase under replication stress conditions.
(2004) J Bartek et al.
(2015) FM Bastos de Oliveira et al.
Analysis of DNA replication profiles in budding yeast and mammalian cells using DNA combing.
Mechanistically distinct roles for Sgs1p in checkpoint activation and replication fork maintenance.
Checkpoint mediators: relaying signals from DNA strand breaks.
Regulation of the mTOR complex 1 pathway by nutrients, growth factors, and stress. (2010) Shomit Sengupta et al.
The DNA damage response and cancer therapy (2012) Christopher J. Lord et al.
A DNA Integrity Network in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (2006) Pan Xuewen et al.
GINS maintains association of Cdc45 with MCM in replisome progression complexes at eukaryotic DNA replication forks. (2006) Agnieszka Gambus et al.
Regulation of ATR substrate selection by Rad17-dependent loading of Rad9 complexes onto chromatin. (2002) Lee Zou et al.
Hydroxyurea-stalled replication forks become progressively inactivated and require two different RAD51-mediated pathways for restart and repair. (2010) Eva Petermann et al.
A multidimensional chromatography technology for in-depth phosphoproteome analysis. (2008) Claudio P Albuquerque et al.
Homologous recombination and its regulation (2012) Mario Spirek et al.
Replication fork stalling at natural impediments. (2007) Ekaterina V Mirkin et al.
A unified view of the DNA-damage checkpoint. (2002) Justine Melo et al.
Translational regulation of gene expression during conditions of cell stress. (2010) Keith A Spriggs et al.
Small-molecule–induced DNA damage identifies alternative DNA structures in human genes (2012) Raphaël Rodriguez et al.
Mrc1 is a replication fork component whose phosphorylation in response to DNA replication stress activates Rad53. (2003) Alexander J Osborn et al.
p38MAPK is a novel DNA damage response-independent regulator of the senescence-associated secretory phenotype. (2011) Adam Freund et al.
Oxidative stress and autophagy: the clash between damage and metabolic needs. (2015) G Filomeni et al.


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					curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SAFE_UPLOAD, true);
				}
				 else if (defined('CURLOPT_SAFE_UPLOAD')) {
					curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SAFE_UPLOAD, false);
				}

				curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postFields);
			}
			 else {
				$header = array('content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8');
				curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
				curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, substr($postBodyString, 0, -1));
			}
		}

		$reponse = curl_exec($ch);

		if (curl_errno($ch)) {
			throw new Exception(curl_error($ch), 0);
		}
		 else {
			$httpStatusCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

			if (200 !== $httpStatusCode) {
				throw new Exception($reponse, $httpStatusCode);
			}

		}

		curl_close($ch);
		return $reponse;
	}

	public function curl_with_memory_file($url, $postFields = NULL, $fileFields = NULL)
	{
		$ch = curl_init();
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, false);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

		if ($this->readTimeout) {
			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $this->readTimeout);
		}

		if ($this->connectTimeout) {
			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $this->connectTimeout);
		}

		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'top-sdk-php');

		if ((5 < strlen($url)) && (strtolower(substr($url, 0, 5)) == 'https')) {
			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
		}

		$delimiter = '-------------' . uniqid();
		$data = '';

		if ($postFields != NULL) {
			foreach ($postFields as $name => $content ) {
				$data .= '--' . $delimiter . "\r\n";
				$data .= 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="' . $name . '"';
				$data .= "\r\n\r\n" . $content . "\r\n";
			}

			unset($name);
			unset($content);
		}

		if ($fileFields != NULL) {
			foreach ($fileFields as $name => $file ) {
				$data .= '--' . $delimiter . "\r\n";
				$data .= 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="' . $name . '"; filename="' . $file['name'] . '" ' . "\r\n";
				$data .= 'Content-Type: ' . $file['type'] . "\r\n\r\n";
				$data .= $file['content'] . "\r\n";
			}

			unset($name);
			unset($file);
		}

		$data .= '--' . $delimiter . '--';
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=' . $delimiter, 'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data)));
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
		$reponse = curl_exec($ch);
		unset($data);

		if (curl_errno($ch)) {
			throw new Exception(curl_error($ch), 0);
		}
		 else {
			$httpStatusCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

			if (200 !== $httpStatusCode) {
				throw new Exception($reponse, $httpStatusCode);
			}

		}

		curl_close($ch);
		return $reponse;
	}

	protected function logCommunicationError($apiName, $requestUrl, $errorCode, $responseTxt)
	{
		$localIp = ((isset($_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR']) ? $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] : 'CLI'));
		$logger = new TopLogger();
		$logger->conf['log_file'] = rtrim(TOP_SDK_WORK_DIR, '\\/') . '/' . 'logs/top_comm_err_' . $this->appkey . '_' . date('Y-m-d') . '.log';
		$logger->conf['separator'] = '^_^';
		$logData = array(date('Y-m-d H:i:s'), $apiName, $this->appkey, $localIp, PHP_OS, $this->sdkVersion, $requestUrl, $errorCode, str_replace("\n", '', $responseTxt));
		$logger->log($logData);
	}

	public function execute($request, $session = NULL, $bestUrl = NULL)
	{
		$result = new ResultSet();

		if ($this->checkRequest) {
			try {
				$request->check();
			}
			catch (Exception $e) {
				$result->code = $e->getCode();
				$result->msg = $e->getMessage();
				return $result;
			}
		}

		$sysParams['app_key'] = $this->appkey;
		$sysParams['v'] = $this->apiVersion;
		$sysParams['format'] = $this->format;
		$sysParams['sign_method'] = $this->signMethod;
		$sysParams['method'] = $request->getApiMethodName();
		$sysParams['timestamp'] = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

		if (NULL != $session) {
			$sysParams['session'] = $session;
		}

		$apiParams = array();
		$apiParams = $request->getApiParas();

		if ($bestUrl) {
			$requestUrl = $bestUrl . '?';
			$sysParams['partner_id'] = $this->getClusterTag();
		}
		 else {
			$requestUrl = $this->gatewayUrl . '?';
			$sysParams['partner_id'] = $this->sdkVersion;
		}

		$sysParams['sign'] = $this->generateSign(array_merge($apiParams, $sysParams));

		foreach ($sysParams as $sysParamKey => $sysParamValue ) {
			$requestUrl .= $sysParamKey . '=' . urlencode($sysParamValue) . '&';
		}

		$fileFields = array();

		foreach ($apiParams as $key => $value ) {
			if (is_array($value) && array_key_exists('type', $value) && array_key_exists('content', $value)) {
				$value['name'] = $key;
				$fileFields[$key] = $value;
				unset($apiParams[$key]);
			}

		}

		$requestUrl = substr($requestUrl, 0, -1);

		try {
			if (0 < count($fileFields)) {
				$resp = $this->curl_with_memory_file($requestUrl, $apiParams, $fileFields);
			}
			 else {
				$resp = $this->curl($requestUrl, $apiParams);
			}
		}
		catch (Exception $e) {
			$this->logCommunicationError($sysParams['method'], $requestUrl, 'HTTP_ERROR_' . $e->getCode(), $e->getMessage());
			$result->code = $e->getCode();
			$result->msg = $e->getMessage();
			return $result;
		}

		unset($apiParams);
		unset($fileFields);
		$respWellFormed = false;

		if ('json' == $this->format) {
			$respObject = json_decode($resp);

			if (NULL !== $respObject) {
				$respWellFormed = true;

				foreach ($respObject as $propKey => $propValue ) {
					$respObject = $propValue;
				}
			}

		}
		 else if ('xml' == $this->format) {
			$respObject = @simplexml_load_string($resp);

			if (false !== $respObject) {
				$respWellFormed = true;
			}

		}

		if (false === $respWellFormed) {
			$this->logCommunicationError($sysParams['method'], $requestUrl, 'HTTP_RESPONSE_NOT_WELL_FORMED', $resp);
			$result->code = 0;
			$result->msg = 'HTTP_RESPONSE_NOT_WELL_FORMED';
			return $result;
		}

		if (isset($respObject->code)) {
			$logger = new TopLogger();
			$logger->conf['log_file'] = rtrim(TOP_SDK_WORK_DIR, '\\/') . '/' . 'logs/top_biz_err_' . $this->appkey . '_' . date('Y-m-d') . '.log';
			$logger->log(array(date('Y-m-d H:i:s'), $resp));
		}

		return $respObject;
	}

	public function exec($paramsArray)
	{
		if (!isset($paramsArray['method'])) {
			trigger_error('No api name passed');
		}

		$inflector = new LtInflector();
		$inflector->conf['separator'] = '.';
		$requestClassName = ucfirst($inflector->camelize(substr($paramsArray['method'], 7))) . 'Request';

		if (!class_exists($requestClassName)) {
			trigger_error('No such api: ' . $paramsArray['method']);
		}

		$session = ((isset($paramsArray['session']) ? $paramsArray['session'] : NULL));
		$req = new $requestClassName();

		foreach ($paramsArray as $paraKey => $paraValue ) {
			$inflector->conf['separator'] = '_';
			$setterMethodName = $inflector->camelize($paraKey);
			$inflector->conf['separator'] = '.';
			$setterMethodName = 'set' . $inflector->camelize($setterMethodName);

			if (method_exists($req, $setterMethodName)) {
				$req->$setterMethodName($paraValue);
			}

		}

		return $this->execute($req, $session);
	}

	private function getClusterTag()
	{
		return substr($this->sdkVersion, 0, 11) . '-cluster' . substr($this->sdkVersion, 11);
	}
}

?>

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Visting PhD candidate presents research on machine learning
By PETER NOVELLO | February 20, 2020
COURTESY OF CAS GUSTAFFSON
Hui Guan of North Carolina State University presented her work on reuse-centric optimization.
Machine learning has proliferated virtual personal assistants, online video streaming services and social media platforms, providing users access to personalized technologies.
Hui Guan, a doctoral candidate of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, presented her research discoveries on the intersection of machine learning and programming systems in a talk on Feb. 13.
The talk, titled "Reuse-Centric Programming System Support of Machine Learning," was for the Department of Computer Science. It examined the use of machine learning to enhance the models and predictions of various computing systems.
Guan discussed the methods she employed to optimize the opportunities to reuse machine learning processes and models and programming systems.
Guan started her talk by describing recent breakthroughs in machine learning, including Microsoft achieving human performance on the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) benchmark, an assembly of resources used to examine natural language understanding systems, in 2019.
Guan then presented the audience with a question: What are the prospects of 2020 witnessing a breakthrough in machine learning systems?
She presented the diverse applications of machine learning, describing its tangible use in self-driving cars and medical care, as well as the many ubiquitous forms of cloud technology. Guan's research concentrates on improving the efficiencies of the computing models supporting the proliferation of these machine learning systems through the combined use and study of programming systems and machine learning algorithms.
Guan introduced the concept of reuse-centric optimization, which involves the reuse of algorithms, implementations and infrastructures supporting machine learning processes. The significance of these different programming components were articulated in the findings of her work on convolutional neural networks (CNNs).
Guan provided the example of a CNN as a computing tool used to distinguish an image of a dog from one of a cat. Her research studying the intersection of programming systems and machine learning processes involved pruning CNNs to enhance machine learning efficiencies, which culminated in the Wootz compiler.
Guan posited that a pre-trained CNN is essential to fine tune a data set, which consists of removing parameters and retraining the CNN to choose the best "candidate" for reuse. Use of a pre-trained CNN significantly reduces the time consumed by repeating the process.
Guan noted that some challenges she has encountered in her work include the automatic generation of code to support reuse, concurrent training of parallel tuning blocks and the composability of systems to allow for greater scalability.
In an interview with The News-Letter following her talk, Guan noted that another challenge of her research is needing experience in both machine learning and programming systems. However, she finds this challenge to be rewarding.
"It is very nice to be in this interdisciplinary area to collaborate with people from both sides," she said.
Despite the technical challenges of modifying the efficiency of machine learning processes, Guan's research observations have addressed the time consuming efforts of pruning CNNs.
Guan stated that there was a 90 percent initial increase in accuracy in the pruned CNN variants, with pre-trained layers reaching accuracy quicker.
Overall, Guan reported that her research demonstrated a speedup of 186 times in CNN pruning, a phenomenon she considers as saving manual efforts.
"[It is necessary to] look at deep learning through the lens of compiler or programming systems... and to identify reuse opportunities and translate them to performance gain via programming system support," she said.
Another aspect of Guan's research involves the memory reuse of CNNs. Guan emphasized that CNNs are used in safety application systems, such as those found in self-driving cars, and that memory faults threaten the reliable predictors of these systems.
Guan noted that possible causes of memory faults include the surrounding environment, temperature and manufacturing defects.
Guan also admitted that the current error correction code presents a large spatial cost and is oblivious to CNNs.
She proposed zero-space memory protection of CNNs as a solution to the current memory issues plaguing these systems and noted that this would offer the same protection guarantee while minimizing the financial costs of space.
In a zero-space memory environment, Guan expressed that weight distribution-oriented training is used to regularize weight training, with no large values in the first seven bits in every 64 bits of data. Guan shared that the CNNs used in this approach converged without any accuracy loss, suggesting the efficacy of this memory protection.
Following the presentation of her research projects, Gaun discussed her motivation for pursuing this type of research and future research interests, which include efficient CNN pruning, building reliable and robust machine learning algorithms, and uncovering the hidden reuses of machine learning programs.
"This is mainly because we care about performance... For machine learning problems, deep learning is the most time-consuming, and training one network is time-consuming, [so we must] target the most pressing issues that we can solve to bring a larger impact," she said in an interview with The News-Letter.
Guan also expressed her excitement about the current machine learning applications at Hopkins, such as those in bioinformatics, natural language understanding and vision-based robotics. Guan hopes that her research can be used to optimize machine learning systems and assist in reducing the time constraints of such technological systems.
"I would like to see how my research in reuse-optimization can actually help all those applications," she said.


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Data centers may soon fill centuries-old buildings in downtown St. Louis. At the same time, the rate of businesses migrating out of the city is increasing, but the area is becoming more attractive to the data center industry. Three companies that already occupy data center space in downtown St. Louis are planning to expand their operations.
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CANCELLATION OF HIGH SCHOOLS ISICATHAMIYA CHOIRS COMPETITION
(Durban Black Drifters, with Chris Ntuli in the red shirt)
Durban Black Drifters has sadly announced the cancellation of the 18th High Schools Isicathamiya Choirs Competition scheduled to take place on April 24, 2020, in the Playhouse Opera due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
All choirs are urged to abide to all necessary safety measures. Students must not despair as a suitable alternative date will be announced immediately when the situation comes to normality.
A brainchild of Chris Ntuli and TV/radio and theatre guru, Caroline Smart, the Isicathamiya Music Workshop project was first conceptualised in 1990. It was later presented to a classroom in 1992, with a dry run conducted to a number of schools in Kwamashu where Ntuli used to reside back then in J section, a stone's throw from the famous Princess Magogo Stadium.
"The end result was unbelievable as schools started and quickly embraced the first of its kind, unique and unheard of music school workshop programme," says Ntuli. "Communities, students and teachers are warned to never be confused by opportunists who are now purporting to be teaching this genre to schools. The fact is, for the past 28 years, Durban Black Drifters are the founders, officially registered and remain sole proprietors of Isicathamiya Schools Workshops project, including the 18th High Schools Isicathamiya Choirs started in 1999, which is a direct result of this programme and soon to be launched High Schools Isicathamiya Music TV show. Furthermore, the project strives to shape and guide these young men to be better citizens who'll be respectful, competent, reliable, efficient, self-reliant, embracing and upholding their culture when they leave school.
Started in 1992 as a workshop project by Durban Black Drifters, the event has established and transferred skills to over 2,000 school groups. Other artists the project has produced are Ngcolosi Home Boys from Botha's Hill, Abafana Basentembeni from Melmoth; Mpumalanga White Birds from Hammarsdale and Uglama kaMaskandi from Pietermaritzburg, to name but a few. It has won a BASA award and numerous other cultural awards as the best youth-based Isicathamiya music development project. DBD has been in music for three decades. They've toured France, Belgium, Norway, Canada, USA, China and Japan. Drifters have also appeared in a Broadway musical written by American playwright, Ermill Thrower, called Hurricane Katrina, dedicated to the flood victims of New Orleans in 2004.
Ntuli, as a leader, has worked and recorded two albums with Ladysmith Black Mambazo entitled Ukuzala Ukuzelula and Thuthukani Ngoxolo. He later translated both albums for Paul Simon with help from a friend, Msizi Shabalala. He further appeared with Mambazo on King Cetshwayo' musical play, written and directed by Prince Njengabantu Zulu who had just came back from exile in America in 1994. Others he has recorded with include Aerto Moreira (Brazil), Madala Kunene, and late musicians Sipho Gumede, Busi Mhlongo and Jabu Khanyile.
Ntuli has come a long way with his music when he first came to Durban in the early 70s. He spent his first two years on the streets in Point eking out a living from shipping contractors earning R2 a day. When the chips were down, he would go for days without a meal. Having worked for various publications, Ntuli is acknowledged as a rare and unique kind of musician who possesses many years of experience in marketing and media. Before engaging in music full-time, he was employed as a sales promotions manager for the long-established national daily newspaper, Sowetan. He also holds a modelling diploma obtained in 1983 from Sexy Katz Modelling School in Bree Street Arcade in Johannesburg.
Ntuli boasts huge experience in music mixing and mastering gained from working extensively under the leadership and guidance of Joseph Shabalala and award-winning engineer, Neil Snyman. He also recorded and produced the first Isicathamiya compilation CD released under Universal Music label, featuring 17 Durban-based veteran Isicathamiya groups in 2010.


I found another card, from my dads friend John Smailes. That's him on the left. I don't recognise his cap badge, the other obviously DLI. My dad, George Carpenter, was in a home guard anti aircraft unit and is on the right in the photograph.
I'm just trying to find a little more information about Streatlam camp.
My uncle, John Carpenter was, as I've been told, an instructor at Barnard Castle.
I also have this Christmas card and I know Smailes was a friend of the family who lived in the same street as my mother and father - Hyde Park Street Gateshead.


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Yes, this recipe is about adding raw dough to your ice cream! And it tastes so delicious. But wait, don't run away. This dough is safe to eat. There are no raw eggs and it's much better than the dough you have when you bake chocolate cookies.
The key to this delicious ice cream treat is to make a killer chocolate cookie dough. I love to experiment with foods and I try to get the best mix of flavors even when I only use simple ingredients. When I was younger, I used to eat raw dough with eggs but I know it's no good. Then I came up with this recipe.
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So, I needed a cookie dough that doesn't contain eggs but has a chewy texture and didn't fall apart when you take it. Why are eggs a key ingredient in many recipes? Basically, they keep other ingredients together. When it comes to cookie dough, though, there are other way to keep everything together. You only need a liquid ingredient to substitute eggs. Milk is the easiest one but not the only option. Adding a little bit of milk keeps everything together. I recommend you using your hands and press the dough together. You can also wrap the dough in saran wrap.
Oh, and I'm always get a little bit impatient when I wait for my cookie dough ice cream to freeze. The longer you wait the better the texture will be, but I just take it out half way through the freezing process because it's so delicious. The ice cream is melty but I'm totally fine with that because the taste is amazing. If you have more patience than me (20 minutes is enough), you can eat harden ice cream with the dough and enjoy it to the fullest. It also looks better on pictures when it's frozen.
Making homemade ice cream is much easier than it sounds and it require only basic ingredients. Most likely you already have some of them in your fridge. If you were to check my fridge, you will see that I have different types of milk, buts and vegetables. I use them all for my desserts and last-minute recipes.
In addition to using only simple ingredients, this cookie dough ice cream is incredibly quick to make. All you need is to combine everything together and then chill the butter in the freezer. Whipping up the dough takes 5 minutes. And it's worth your time, you can trust me on that.
This recipe is made of sugar, salt, vanilla, flour, chocolate and milk. There are some other ingredients but this is the base. Baking soda isn't necessary because we don't bake anything. The whole process takes 5 minutes. I believe you should chill the dough in the freezer but if you don't have time, just skip this step. You can add the dough to the ice cream when it's frozen (or half frozen).
This delicious dessert is packed with flavorful, homemade cookie dough and chocolate chips. You can't make the cookie dough any better, the result is always the tastiest dessert you can find. Try this recipe and you won't be disappointed.
Start by making the dough. Place sugars and butter in a bowl and mix everything together with a mixer. Add milk and vanilla, stir with a spatula. Add flour and salt, combine everything together. Slowly add more flour to get the texture of the dough.
Spread the dough out on a flat surface, the layer should be 1 inch thin. Place the dough in a freezer for 25 minutes, then chop into small pieces.
Finally, make the ice cream. Take condensed milk and vanilla and combine them in a bowl. Take another bowl and whip heavy cream for 5 minutes until you can see peaks.
Pour the cream into the milk, take a pan and pour the mixture into it. Sprinkle the dough on top of the mixture. Stir the mixture with the spatula, the chips should be spread throughout the mixture. If you feel that you need more chocolate chips, feel free to add them.
Cover the ice cream with the foil and place in the freezer for 4 hours. It gets even tastier if you meal prep the dessert and eat it next morning.
Once you're done with your ice cream, you can put it in a container and freeze. It can stay there for a week or two. I'm always happy to have my dinner when I know my ice cream with cookie dough is waiting for me there. If you love chocolate, and you're the one who always eats ice cream, this is the perfect recipe for you. This is the best option for summer but you can make it any time you like.
Even if you're dairy-free, you can use this recipe as the main idea and substitute some products to fit your preferences. You can put ice cream in a cone and serve it for a family party or gathering. Everyone will eat at least two cones!
Ice cream is my weakness. A wonderful creamy taste of ice cream with bits of crunchy cookies will give you real pleasure. It's unusually delicious. The recipe causes my admiration.
Hi, everybody. Very tasty ice cream cookies .My family loves him very much .I am a great cook with experience and I had this recipe with great pleasure .I advise everyone to try to cook .
A great recipe when there is not a lot of time to spend in the kitchen. I'll definitely try to do it. I have two children who like to eat sweets. Thanks to the author for the delicious recipe.
You know what I like more than the ice cream, the ice cream is very refreshing and tasty thanks a lot for the recipe.
Quick and easy cookie dough bites, Yum-Yum!


A Quiet Canyon at Devils Tower B&B wasn't always quiet. Our home started out at a Y2K Survival and Off-the-Grid dream in the early 1990's by folks from the West Coast. Shortly after the anticlimatic New 2000 Year celebration, the house went on the market and they went their separate ways. Fast Forward a decade and we move in to make Devils Tower area our home and start raising our family. Still running the Off-the-Grid Solar Panels, Wind Generator, and our Hobart Welder. December of 2014, Electricity was trenched in and the lights were on! May 2015, the Mountain Valley Room opened for guests. The High Plains Suite opened August 2016. We are still remodeling and correcting our home, but the view stays!


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package com.example.googleplay.http.protocol;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import com.example.googleplay.domain.AppInfo;
import com.example.googleplay.utils.LogUtils;

/**
 * 首页网络请求
 * @author Administrator
 *
 */
public class HomeProtocol extends BaseProtocol<ArrayList<AppInfo>> {

	private ArrayList<String> mPictures;

	@Override
	public String getKey() {
		return "home";
	}

	@Override
	public String getParams() {
		return ""; // 此处应该传空串,不要传null
	}

	@Override
	public ArrayList<AppInfo> parseData(String result) {
		try {
			JSONObject jo = new JSONObject(result);
			// 解析应用列表数据
			JSONArray ja = jo.getJSONArray("list");
			ArrayList<AppInfo> appInfoList = new ArrayList<AppInfo>();
			for (int i = 0; i < ja.length(); i++) {
				JSONObject jo1 = ja.getJSONObject(i);
				AppInfo info = new AppInfo();
				info.id = jo1.getString("id");
				info.name = jo1.getString("name");
				info.packageName = jo1.getString("packageName");
				info.iconUrl = jo1.getString("iconUrl");
				info.downloadUrl = jo1.getString("downloadUrl");
				info.des = jo1.getString("des");
				info.stars = jo1.getDouble("stars");
				info.size = jo1.getLong("size");
				appInfoList.add(info);
			}

			// 解析轮播图数据
			JSONArray ja1 = jo.getJSONArray("picture");
			LogUtils.i("ja1 = " + ja1);
			mPictures = new ArrayList<String>();
			for (int i = 0; i < ja1.length(); i++) {
				String pic = ja1.getString(i);
				mPictures.add(pic);
			}

			return appInfoList;

		} catch (JSONException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return null;
	}

	public ArrayList<String> getPictureList(){
		return mPictures;
	}

}


Azure Functions Tools Roadmap (Andrew B Hall) - Interesting post that explains why we should prefer the Azure function template over the VS2015 tooling.
Monitoring errors in Azure WebJobs with the ErrorTrigger extension (Vivien Chevallier) - Nice tutorial, with the full solution available on Github, that explains how to catch the error in our Azure webjobs.
Unmasking your swagger with proxies in Azure Functions (Shayne Boyer) - This post explains how to use Azure functions Proxy to improve the developers' experience.
Use a container to show your function swagger (Shayne Boyer) - Nice quick tutorial to get a more professional structure easily.
Dockerizing Nerd Dinner: Part 1, Running a Legacy ASP.NET App in a Windows Container (Elton Stoneman) - Interesting walkthrough where a legacy application is packaged in a Docker container.
Dockerizing Nerd Dinner: Part 2, Connecting ASP.NET to SQL Server (Elton Stoneman) - Second step in a great tutorial that goes further than the usual hello word, showing how to migrate an application into a multi-container solution.
Easy data generation with Faker.Data (Guy Barrette) - A quick introduction to a nice little gem that saves us a lot of time.
Getting Started With Chart.js: Line and Bar Charts (Monty Shokeen) - I've use Chart.js in a project recently, and should I had this great tutorial would have saved me a lot of time.
Using memory cache in ASP.NET Core (Gunnar Peipman) - Great quick tutorial to know how to setup cache and distributed cache (required in cloud solution).
Bots are the new Apps – Part 2 (Alexandre Brisebois) - This post asks a lot of questions. .Bots are could be very powerful but are they easy to build? Iterate, test, fail, learn, and try again.


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PLANET OF EVIL
Planet of Evil is the first opportunity viewers had to see the fourth Doctor – after nearly a year in the role – operating the controls of the TARDIS. Not so for Tom Baker himself. His next story, Pyramids of Mars, was actually filmed before this one and also featured scenes in the control room of the TARDIS.
You and I are scientists, Professor. We buy our privilege to experiment at the cost of total responsibility.
Doctor to Professor Sorenson, episode 4
Tom and Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith
in the jungles of Zeta Minor. Picture © BBC
Leaving Harry to return to London via British Rail, the Doctor and Sarah's journey back to the capital aboard the TARDIS is interrupted when they receive a distress call coming from Zeta Minor, a planet on the very edge of known space. Here, on the fringes of creation, borders between the universes of matter and anti-matter are very thin. Recent excavation activities by a geological survey party – hunting for new energy sources – has ruptured these borders, leading to a series of grisly deaths, and escalating peril for a space party sent to rescue this expedition.
The Doctor deduces that, just as the known universe has a binding intelligence, so the universe of anti-matter is driven by a darker, more savage energy that, once unleashed, will infect all who come into contact with it. For some in the expedition it is already too late. As the body count rises, the Doctor must convince the leading geologist, Professor Sorenson (Frederick Jaeger), that only the return of any harvested samples to their point of excavation, and the sacrifice of Sorenson's own infected body can restore the balance and reseal the rift between the two universes.
But Sorenson's regression from man into anti-man is now embedded and underway. Even as the survey's rescue ship attempts to escape from Zeta Minor, the savage monster that was Sorenson begins stalking the decks and cabins… Somehow the Doctor must prevail against an enemy born from the forces of creation.
Planet of Evil is available on Region 2 DVD
PYRAMIDS OF MARS
THE ANDROID INVASION
THE BRAIN OF MORBIUS
THE SEEDS OF DOOM


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My #1 priority is to help you define and achieve the vision for your music!
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After the Victory Shield and a trip to the Nike Tournament in Florida, the England U16s will settle down for their third major tournament of the 2013/14 season. It will be a further prelude for the annual Montaigu Tournament, taking place this Easter.
England will face Spain, Belgium and Denmark. Highlights will be on FA TV. While some might point to results and frown, the individual talent on hand shows the continued progression across age groups for England.
Most of the latest squad participated in the recent 2013 England U16 summer training camp at St. George's Park, but it will be the first time that Yan Dhanda of Liverpool, Zachary Dearnley of Manchester United and Aston Oxborough of Norwich City actually link up with a final England selection.
In what is certainly one of the strongest England U16 midfield groupings yet, Kenny Swain will have to think long and hard about who he appoints as his central playmakers.
"This year, we've got around 50 players to look at, whereas in the past it has been closer to 30.
"As a result, the opportunities to give all of these players time on the pitch is becoming more difficult so with that, came a fantastic opportunity for us to extend the programme and therefore the opportunities for players.
"We need to challenge our best players more on the international stage and give more opportunities to the players who are really threatening to get into the squad.
brilliant tournament and priceless education for all those involved.very impressed with the midfield!
Darnell Johnson from Leicester City F.C finished the week with a confident 1st half performance against Belgium.One for the future!


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Making Money With Digital Photography - 5 Quick Ideas To Get You Started.
It sounds harder than it is. Simply put, take some of your best photos and submit them to some well known stock photography sites. They are easy enough to find just by searching for "stock photography' in Google. The sites will then review the photos and if it's approved, you will get paid $ 1 – 2 every time your photo is used.
There is more to making money as a digital photographer with screensavers than people realize. Using a theme, take a series of photos then make a screensaver. There are a lot of screensaver sites you can submit to, and if the photos are good they'll do well. You could consider selling the screensavers on eBay.
Speaking of eBay, this is a great source of business. Set up a local service photographing eBay items. People selling on eBay often use poor photos of images they sell over and over.
I have a friend who is doing this. He started out by taking photos of people's wedding as a hobby and now it is a huge business for him. He is making a lot of money as a digital photographer.The trick is to get a reputable name in wedding photography, provide a good quality product and have a equally credible website to promote yourself.
Restaurants will often need photos of both their premises and their dishes for menu's and websites. Designers who work with restaurants are always looking for photographers. Once you get a good reputation with a designer, you can freelance yourself out. Or you can work directly with restaurants. This could lead into work from weddings that are holding their wedding reception at the restaurant. Restaurants are a great source of work for making money as a digital photographer.
These are just a few of many profitable ideas you can look at to start making money as a digital photographer. Part-time for extra cash or full time work, working freelance or for someone else. There are a lot of choices for you.
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No, this is not a recipe. This came right from the grocery store. There are not many who truly care for it. However, both my sister and I do.
We love fruticake. The kind with all that citron, cherries and nuts in it. Not the homemade kind made with just dates, walnuts and cherries. The sticky kind. The kind that comes wrapped in cellophane with an expiration date far into the future. The rectangular kind. This one was pre-sliced for me so I limited my slices per day to two. Damn, this stuff is the bomb!!!!
Seeing it on the display in the grocery store, I grabbed one...only one. Then when I got home and indulged in my first two moist slices, as I swallowed, I sent a text message to my kids: "Hint, hint...Stop & Shop has fruitcake (which happens to be someone's favorite) and it's on SALE."
I am back. lots of blogger hitches.. hope I can keep it all on track now.
I love fruit cake.. my mother used to make one a week.
I bet the kids brought you one !!
Always nice to treat ourselves to something we like.
thanks for your message.. glad to be back.
We like fruitcake too....the dark stuff.
I just might have to pick one up for him!
I have never HAD fruitcake!
I've never had fruit cake because I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like it. However, don't let me stop you from enjoying your cake!
It's the bomb alright!!!??!?!? A bomb!!! Never give me a fruitcake!!!! Haha-but loved your post!!


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Showing posts with the label Top Model
The Daily Beast: "Hollywood Takes on Autism"
Over at The Daily Beast, you can find my latest piece, entitled "Hollywood Takes on Autism." The article explores the portrayals of people with autism spectrum disorders in pop culture, from films like Dear John and Adam to television series like Grey's Anatomy, Parenthood, Community , and The Big Bang Theory . I also talk to some of theses projects' creators--including Community creator Dan Harmon and Parenthood showrunner Jason Katims--about why they are--or aren't--labeling their characters as autistic. Head to the comments section to be sure and let me know what your take is on this trend and whether it matters or not that these characters are labeled or whether it's the discussion of neurodiversity that their presence creates that's far more important.
Channel Surfing: CW Renews Five, Kripke Steps Down from "Supernatural," Dinosaurs (and Spielberg) at FOX, Montgomery and Blucas "True Blue," and More
Welcome to your Wednesday morning television briefing. The CW has given early renewals to five of its series, including freshman drama The Vampire Diaries , reality series America's Next Top Model , and Gossip Girl, Supernatural , and 90210 . However, not on the list are One Tree Hill , which has even odds at renewing, the ratings-starved Melrose Place , and newbie Life Unexpected , which has struggled in the ratings. ( Variety ) There's a bit of a caveat to that early Supernatural renewal. Entertainment Weekly 's Michael Ausiello is reporting that creator/executive producer Eric Kripke will be stepping down as showrunner on the Warner Bros. Television-produced series, with executive producer Sera Gamble set to take over the reins next season. "Kripke will remain actively involved in the show — and not just in name only," writes Ausiello. "Although CW and Warner Bros. reps declined to comment, a Supernatural insider assures me that Kripke and his current
Channel Surfing: "Chuck" and "Dollhouse" Still Bubbling Away, FOX and NBC Close to Locking Schedules, "Reaper" Not Dead Yet, and More
Welcome to your Thursday morning television briefing. Just what will happen with bubble series like Chuck and Dollhouse ? It looks like the fate of many of this year's bubble series, including those and such series as Cold Case, The Unit, My Name is Earl, Scrubs , Gary Unmarried, and Old Christine , will come down to the wire. "Negotiations continue on fan favorites Chuck and Dollhouse , with the shows facing cost-cutting requests from their respective networks, NBC and Fox, and their pickup odds seeming to shift from moment to moment," writes Hollywood Reporter 's James Hibberd. "Both could go down to the wire." ( Hollywood Reporter ) FOX and NBC are close to locking their fall schedules and will do so by tomorrow. FOX is said to be considering ordering a sixth season of reality series So You Think You Can Dance to air this fall, immediately after the fifth season runs this summer. Other possibilities include overweight dating series The Fatchelor , wh
Channel Surfing: Jennifer Esposito Gets "Burn Notice," Chevy Chase Finds "Community" Spirit at NBC, "Top Model" Riot, and More
Welcome to your Monday morning television briefing. Samantha Who? 's Jennifer Esposito has been cast in a multiple-episode story arc on USA's Burn Notice , where she will play Michelle Paxon, "a Miami PD detective who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about Michael." Esposito is expected to first turn up at the start of Season Three of Burn Notice , scheduled to debut in June. ( Entertainment Weekly' s Ausiello Files ) Chevy Chase, who'll be seen later this season on NBC's Chuck , has been cast as one of the leads in NBC's comedy pilot Community , where he will play a community college student who has been married five times, opposite Joel McHale. Pilot will be directed by Joe and Anthony Russo ( Arrested Development ). ( Hollywood Reporter ) Richard Dreyfuss ( Tin Man ) and Jason Biggs ( The Pleasure of Your Company ) will star in CBS comedy pilot Happiness Isn't Everything , about adult siblings and their parents who are "overinv
The Goddess Was Discovered By Her Gait: "Top Model" Looks to Scale Mount Olympus in Cycle Twelve
Oh, the shrieking. Yes, I'm talking about yet another cycle of the ubiquitous CW reality competition series America's Next Top Model , which kicks off its twelfth cycle tonight. This season seems to be especially high on high-impact casting: it seems as though each of the contestants this year seems to have some sort of life-changing experience, medical issue, or just plain "quirky" backstory that the producers are thrusting front and center. In the first hour alone, we're introduced to an epileptic, a burns survivor, a girl so obsessed with blood that she's been craving a nosebleed all of her life, a street preacher, and a woman who spends two nights in a toilet stall in Manhattan's Port Authority so she can audition for the series... and, we're told, whose infant daughter died from an epileptic fit. Overkill? Yep, it's all a little much and this type of casting threatens to turn Top Model into yet another iteration of host/executive producer
Channel Surfing: Delany Wonders Who Will Be Next to Leave Wisteria Lane, CW Orders "Melrose Place," Starz Renews "Crash," and More
Welcome to your Tuesday morning television briefing. Dana Delany admitted that none of Wisteria Lane's residents feel exactly safe these days, following the announcement that Nicollette Sheridan will leave Desperate Housewives . "Everyone is vulnerable on Wisteria Lane -- any of us could go," said Delany. "Every single person in that cast feels like their days are numbered. I think [Marc Cherry] likes to keep people on their toes." An upcoming storyline will find Delany's Katherine in potential jeopardy. "It's good," said Delany of the upcoming plot, "because that sense of not knowing keeps the actors on their toes and it keeps the audience anticipating." ( Entertainment Weekly 's Ausiello Files ) Pilot helmer alert: The CW has given an official pilot order to Melrose Place , an update of the soap to be overseen by Darren Swimmer and Todd Slavkin ( Smallville ). Pilot, from CBS Paramount Network Television, will be directed by D
Channel Surfing: "Fringe" to Move Production to Canada, "Dollhouse" Drops in Second Week, Pilot Castings, and More
Welcome to your Monday morning television briefing. Hopefully everyone is recovered from Oscar weekend and perhaps some of you even made some quick cash from some Oscar pools. FOX drama Fringe will move its production from New York City, where it has shot its first season, to Vancouver, Canada, should the series be renewed for a second season. The decision, made by studio Warner Bros. Television, is said to have been made because of the likelihood that New York State's film/TV production tax incentive initiative funds, which have run out of coin, will not be replenished. "In this challenging and uncertain economic environment, we have made the very difficult decision to move," said Warner Bros. in a statement. "We did not come to this conclusion easily, but economic and practical imperatives dictated that this decision be made in a timely manner." ( Entertainment Weekly ) In its second outing, FOX's Dollhouse fell fifteen percent in the ratings on Friday
Channel Surfing: "Life on Mars" Co-Creator Likes US Version; Jamie Bamber "Too Scared" to Play the Doctor, Potential SAG Strike, and More
Welcome to your Tuesday morning television briefing. While everyone is buzzing about the possible SAG strike, I hope you all tuned in to last night's episode of Chuck , the final piece of the three-part Jill storyline. Life on Mars co-creator Ashley Pharoah has praised the US version of the series, calling it "marvelous." In New York to receive an International Emmy for best drama for the original UK version of Life on Mars , Pharoah was pleased that the producers had changed the mythology of the series for the US audience and that the studio had moved the action from LA (where it was based for David E. Kelley's original pilot ) to gritty New York City. "They're changing the mythology, which I think is all right," said Pharoah. "It has to be different. Otherwise everyone just goes on YouTube and sees how it ends." ( Hollywood Reporter ) Just how would a SAG strike affect a television industry still recovering from the crippling 100-day WGA s
Over the Top and Into the Distant Future on "Top Model"
America's Next Top Model has never been a bastion of high-quality entertainment; there's always been a guilty pleasure aspect to watching the series, which pits a group of naive (and often aggressive) girls against one another as they live in a plush house (which never seems to have enough bedrooms) and compete for a Cover Girl cosmetics contract and an agency deal with Elite Model Management. And yet throughout the many cycles of this reality competition, host/executive producer Tyra Banks has managed to make the series a platform for her talk show host persona, one which embraces the differences in people (i.e., Heather) while also holding up some of the very same stereotypes she wants to shatter (telling a plus-size model that she's too thin). I do have to give her credit for being a shrewd producer and for celebrating diversity among the model wannabe population. This cycle of Top Model has made headlines because of its inclusion of the series' first transgender
Exclusive: "Top Model" Trans Contestant No Stranger to the Series
Much has been made of the decision by the producers of CW's America's Next Top Model to include a trans contestant among the mix of girls vying for the top prize on the next cycle of the reality competition series. The CW announced earlier this week that Isis, a 22-year-old former office assistant from Maryland, would be among the pack of wannabe models competing for that Cover Girl contract this fall. Isis, who was born as a male, would be the first trans contestant to make it on the series, though previously Claudia Charriez had made it to the semi-final rounds, though she was disqualified because of her status as a trans woman. Take a look at this clip of Claudia discussing her brush with Top Model on the first season of The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency [via fourfour ]: Which brings us to today. It seems as though the producers have changed their tune from when Claudia auditioned originally for Top Model , given that they are now allowing Isis to compete in the
Whitney and Anya Size Up the Competition on the Season Finale of "Top Model"
I am very happy about the outcome of last night's season finale of America's Next Top Model ("And the Winner is..."), especially going into the final round with three really strong competitors in Whitney, Fatima, and Anya. These girls were strong models, took consistently great photographs, and each represented a different facet of beauty in a compelling, different way. I thought they all did much better with the English-language Cover Girl commercial than most of the other girls from previous cycles of the series, who always had problems memorizing the copy, looking pretty and happy, and just being generally convincing in front of the camera. I thought Whitney looked great and totally did the signature Cover Girl smile with poise and perfection. Anya actually did a better job than I thought she would, given her strange pidgin accent (which always sounds more Eastern European to me than Hawaiian) and the copy was a series of hard-to-say tongue-twisters. (I still can
Long Live the (Drag) Queen on "Top Model"
I cannot even tell you how happy I am this morning after watching last night's episode of Top Model ("Ready for My Close-Up"). The competition was down to the final four girls and, while I was sad to see Kat go last week, I was (mostly) happy with the remaining models. That is, with the notable exception of Dominique. Over the past season, Dominique has transformed herself into an unlikeable, overly-confident, agressive candyholic who thrives on conflict and pushing people's buttons. I think she photographs extremely old and, while she has shown some signs of improvement, her photos--even when the judges praise them--seem extremely lackluster and flat. Her appearances at judging are comical... and terrifying. Just take a look at last week's, er, Flashdance-inspired ensemble to see what I mean. She just doesn't look like a model, not even for a second. Her revamped hairstyle make her look like a soccer mom and her clothing selections make her seem not so much
XOXO, CW: "Gossip Girl" and Five Other Series Renewed
Fans of freshman drama Gossip Girl can rest a little easier: the series will be returning for a second season of Manhattan-based intrigue and innuendo next season. (Maybe the mysterious Gossip Girl herself had some dirt on Dawn Ostroff?) Gossip Girl was one of six series that received early renewal orders today from netlet The CW, according to a press release issued by the network. Other CW series getting the thumbs up for the 2008-09 season include America's Next Top Model, One Tree Hill, Smallville, Supernatural , and Everybody Hates Chris . All six series will return for the fall season, while the lack of a mention for freshman comedy Aliens in America does not bode well for that series. Also missing from the renewal list: Reaper . Stay tuned.
Sneak Peak: The First Two Episodes of Catfights-and-Catwalks Series "Top Model"
Confession: I came to Top Model pretty late in the game, despite some people (ahem, you know who you are!) telling me that I had to tune in for several seasons (sorry, cycles). I'm glad that I did end up succumbing to its twisted spell; the series is pretty darn addictive, if only for its unintentional humor, surreal photo shoots, and the high drama and (sometimes) high fashion of its abrasive contestants. So I was overjoyed to take a sneak peek over the holiday weekend at the tenth cycle's first two episodes and look at some of the drastic changes in store for the CW-based reality series. It's definitely hard for a series like Top Model to sustain the same energy and drive of earlier seasons, but so far this season proves to have a new spark, perhaps due to the series moving production from Los Angeles to that fashion epicenter, Manhattan. The first hour, which airs on Wednesday evening, is the typical casting special we've come to know and love from previous cycle
America's Next Top... Cover Girl?
I swear, if Chantal won this season on America's Next Top Model , I was going to stop watching this series because I just could not take it seriously anymore. Whew. Fortunately, Chantal didn't walk away with the top prize--the cover of Seventeen magazine and a $100K contract with Cover Girl Cosmetics (as Tyra reminds us each and every week)--but I was blown away by the fact that she was chosen first at the judging panel and guaranteed a place in the final two, a move which eliminated far stronger competitor Jenah, whom I believe could actually have a future in high-fashion modeling. Rather than go into details about Top Model 's season finale, which as usual featured yet another Cover Girl photo shoot and commercial, I wanted to talk about something else: the complete and utter disconnect between what the judges claim they are looking for and what they actually end up awarding the top prize based upon. Throughout this entire competition, the judges continually harraung