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Monday, August 29, 2011

0 Gluten Free Key Lime Cupcakes

This past couple weeks have been quite daunting for me. I've been working quite a bit, so I sadly haven't had much chance to post recipes or cook. However, I have quite a few uber awesome recipes coming up, so I'm making up for it with high quality.

Now there are a lot of components to this dessert for sure, but all the hard work is worth the delicious pay off.

Here's a really zesty recipe that transforms key lime pie into a cake. It uses a gluten free graham cracker crust, homemade key lime curd, the cake recipe from my Tiramisu Cake, and a mascarpone cheese frosting. I hope you enjoy!

For the key lime curd, I use the following recipe from Allrecipes, "Fresh Lime Curd", and I substitute the lime juice with key lime juice. For this recipe, be sure to carefully temper your eggs, or else you'll end up with scrambled eggs in your curd.

Serves: 18 cupcakes
Prep Time: 35 minutes total

  • 5 minutes for the crust,
  • 10 minutes for the cake,
  • 10 minutes for the curd,
  • 10 minutes for the frosting
Cook Time: 25 minutes for the cake, 30 minutes for the curd

1 1/2 cup gluten free graham cracker crumbs
6 tbsp butter
1/4 cup sugar

227g eggs (4-5 large eggs)
227g white sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp baking powder
85g white rice flour
57g potato starch
28g tapioca starch
28g almond flour
28g brown rice flour
227g melted butter

5 egg yolks
1 cup sugar
1 cup mascarpone
1 1/2 cup heavy cream

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Prepare the Allrecipes version of Fresh Lime Curd. Click here for the link. Like I said before, be sure to replace the lime juice with the key lime juice, and be sure to carefully temper your eggs. At first the curd will look like this:
At the end after cooking, the curd will go from a grey-tan color to a bold golden green:

Refrigerate the curd while preparing the rest of the components.

Line cupcake tins with paper cups. In a small bowl, melt all the butter. Combine the crust ingredients, and then spoon crust into the bottom of each cup. Spread the crust into even layers.

In a small bowl, combine all the flours.

Fill a shallow dish with warm water, and place an empty medium-sized mixing bowl into the dish. Add the eggs, sugar, lemon, and vanilla, beat for about a minute. Remove the eggs from the water and beat them until they have tripled in volume, which took me about 5 minutes.

Gradually fold the flour into the batter until fully combined. Pour the batter into the cupcake tines, and bake for 25 minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

Place the cupcakes onto a cooling rack and let them cool completely.

To make the frosting, start a double boiler, and add the egg yolks and sugar. Cook over high heat until the sugar is dissolved, stirring constantly. Once sugar has dissolved, reduce to low heat and continuously whisk for 10 minutes. After the 10 minutes, remove the custard from the heat and whisk until it has thickened a bit, approximately 1 minute. Fold in the mascarpone until combined. Whip the cream in a chilled bowl until peaks form, and gently fold into the custard until well combined. Refrigerate the frosting until you are ready to frost.

Using a circular piping tip, or a knife, cut holes into the middles of the cakes.

Fill a Ziploc bag with the curd, and then cut off the tip to form a piping bag. Pipe the middle of the cakes with the curd.

Then frost the top of each cupcake with the frosting. Top the cupcakes with lime zest for garnish.

I hope you enjoy this recipe! Hope everyone has a good week!

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Monday, January 10, 2011

Roasted Potato Wedges

These are great as a side to just about anything!

-1 pound baby Yukon gold potatoes, halved (see below for my fab find)
-1 teaspoon olive oil
-1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary (I used Italian seasoning mix)
-2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
-1/4 teaspoon salt
-cooking spray

I found this little bag of potatoes and thought I would try them.  While they weren't so cheap, they turned out great!

1.  Preheat oven to 475.
2.  Combine potato and oil in a medium bowl, tossing to coat.  Combine rosemary, cheese, and salt in a large zip-top plastic bag; add potato, tossing to coat.  Place potato on a jelly-roll pan coated with cooking spray.  Bake at 475 for 20 minutes or until browned and crispy.

Yields 4 servings (about 3/4 cup)

Monica said...

Yum. I usually do red potatoes and I also do a lot of sweet potatoes. Always a hit in our house!

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10 September 2012

Welcome back to Grade 4K

Almost 12 months ago I posted Welcome to Grade 4K. It's been by far the most popular of all my blog posts with 902 page views at the time of writing. Now it's time to welcome you back to Grade 4K for the 2012-2013 school year. Come on in and take a look around.

Before you come in, you might like to look at our bulletin board.
The two posters are about myself and Mr Dy. In a few weeks time the board will be covered with posters that the children have prepared about themselves.

I found these bright coloured foam stars while I was home in Oz.
The children had great fun decorating their own stars with markers and glitter glue.
Every child in Grade 4K is a star and is encouraged to shine as brightly as they can.
On your right as you walk in the door are two sets of shelves, divided into 24 boxes. Each child has his/her own box to store workbooks, homework folders and work-in-progress. It does take a little time getting books out for lessons, but as the children become more familiar with the books they get quicker.

Above the shelves (or cubbies as the children call them) is our Star Helper wall, the Kindness Box, and some posters encouraging the children to do their best all the time. I love the bright colours and the encouraging messages. The pile of folders on the end of the shelves are for testing. They give each child his/her own space, and it helps me know that the work I get on a test is the child's own work.

Four tables, six chairs at each table. Sometimes I really like individual desks, but I'm used to these now, and have learned to make them work well.

Foam mats make the tiled floor a little softer for sitting on, and add another spot of colour to the room.

Books, books, and more books! I love encouraging my students to read.

A new set of Go For Green pockets was needed this year due to a slightly larger class size, and I was delighted when the lady in our local copy shop produced the clear pockets that I've used this year. Students know their own number so names are not necessary, make this reuseable!

For some reason Mr Dy's desk is almost always much tidier than mine!
I love these language arts posters. I inherited them from the previous 4th grade teacher
and they are perfect for 4th graders, especially as we work on various aspects of grammar.

I was fortunate to get these two new whiteboards in place of the one I had previously.
The board on the left has the weekly homework plan on it, which students copy into their Homework book. The right hand board has the daily schedule, date, and working space.

The column of words on the right were made by my 3rd grade students about 18 months ago. They are words students and teachers can use to encourage each other when someone has done a good job.
The noise meter is still working well.
The white posters in the centre show how to use some templates that I keep on hand for when the children are working on posters or displays.

So that's the Grade 4K classroom. I hope you enjoyed having a look around. Be sure to come back soon and find out what's happening in Grade 4K.

  1. What lucky children. You have made a great space for them. It looks wonderful. Hope the year goes well. God bless.

  2. It looks great! I love all the books you have!

    Sally from Elementary Matters

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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

36/365 • home made basil pesto

I planted a little herb garden some time ago, beneath a sunny front window.
Mint, thyme, oregano, parsley and basil. The herbs I use most regularly; stepping down from the deck into the dirt and picking handfuls of fragrant leaves as I need them.

Our constant warm weather had the mint growing spindly, the oregano spreading to reach the parsley and the basil becoming a small forest.
With chicken defrosted I thought basil pesto would be the perfect dinner time inspiration.

I cut off some stalks and bought them inside where Joel was given the job of picking off the leaves and counting out the cups. There is something special about using home grown produce to feed the family, that makes everyone want to be a part of. There was pouring and mixing, and tasting, and sneaking handfuls of nuts.
The scent of basil and parmesan invaded our kitchen and made our mouths water.

Making pesto isn't difficult. It is a very forgiving and versatile recipe and so very very delicious spread generously over filets of breast chicken and panfried in butter (and the possibilities are endless!).

my basil pesto

3 cups basil leaves
1/2 cup of pine nuts (or a combination of whatever nuts you choose, I used pine nuts, walnuts and cashews)
4 garlic cloves (or to taste, my cloves were rather small)
1 1/2 cups shredded parmesan
sea salt & ground pepper to taste
2/3 cup olive oil

blend all the ingredients except the oil until you reach a consistency you are happy with, and ingredients are chopped well. with the motor running, pour oil in in a steady stream.
scrape down the sides and ensure everything is well mixed.

This basic recipe yields a little in excess of this Bon Marche jam jar, and could easily be halved.

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Wednesday, 19 March 2008

Measure twice, cut once

Well....! Back to work then.

Boyd came down on Saturday with more big lumps of carbon fibre, a pair of exhausts and more importantly his grinder! Thanks to Alan Stringer for his lovely job repairing the rather second hand pipes and the spring reatainer at the head. They're now good as new, and fit to carry fast, hot, high pressure gas from cylinder head to just in front of the back wheel.

The fabled British Motorcycle Industry was always quite good at building good-looking but non-running mock ups. Preserving this tradition, we checked out Boyd's nicely repaired carbon fibre seat unit and fairing. And yes, they look good, they fit, and are functional. The tank-cover needs a bit of relief at the front, but looks like it will work. Boyd is justifyably pleased!

Looking quite good I think....

...and it even seems to fit me!
So we stripped it off again (nice and quick, and quite robust which is good- much more so than my rather Heath-Robinson effort with the SRX), and set about removing the lower engine mount to fit the XTZ cases.

Before Boyd had arrived, I measured and marked up the frame, the numbers you can see here.

And then here's the lopped-off frame mount. However it STILL culdn't be persuaded in, so the GrinderMan trimmed it up a wee bit.

However, by nightfall, the motor still wasn't in. WHY NOT?!?
Well, I'm not sure, I'll have a think, and a jiggle, and a jack, and kick, and lever, and a swear, and see if it will go. It very nearly lines up, but not all bolts will go in. Well, they'll all go in, but they wont all go in at the one time!
As a plus, with the whole back of the lump moved over 7mm, the chain alignment looks much better, and shouldn't require too much more fiddling.
However, I think its fair to say, sadly, that Team Thumper is not goinng to be able to make the grid for Rounds One and Two of the British Supermono Cup at Snetterton on 11 & 12 April. There just isn't going to be time to build, finish, and more importantly test and set-up. Safety is paramount both for us and other riders, so I think we'll have to be realistic and not rush onto the grid half-arsed. We are gutted, but circumstances dictated that its not to be. Oh well, philosphical as ever, we'll just have to get on as best we can.
We'll go and support all the other teams however, and will post a bit of info here.

Wednesday, 12 March 2008

David J Duncan 1936-2008

Davie finished his last lap slightly unexpectedly on the 27th February. He is sadly missed by all who knew him. A first rate engineer, Manx GP and TT racer 1958-1966, father and husband, he lived life to the full until his very last day and was my inspiration. My father's determination and tenacity in all of his endevours have shown me what can be achieved in life, in racing, in engineering and even economics when conditions are less than ideal.
I cannot consider what my own life would be if I had not known him. Always family man (once he'd hung up his race leathers leathers!), I can hear one of his adages:
"Enjoy yersel' now son. You're young for a short time, auld for a long time, an deid for a helluva long time!". Quite.
See you in the paddock, Auld Yin!
Life, however, goes on. Thus Team Thumper will endevour to get to the grid for the first two rounds at Snetterton, but we're now way behind schedule. Boyd is coming down on Saturday for a bit of head scratching, measuring, cutting and tea drinking. So after our enforced hiatus, we'll keep you posted on how its going.


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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Daily Herald Recycles Chicago Support for Dan Seals (UPDATED)

As if poor Democratic 10th District candidate Jay Footlik didn't have enough problems, it appears that the Daily Herald is trying to double-team him by reprinting letters to the editor signed by fans of Dan Seals that they have already published.

A few weeks ago, the Herald ran a letter written by one Eric Tobiason, a Chicago resident who thinks all of us on the North Shore ought to be like people in Chicago, whom he believes all support Dan Seals. Exactly why we up here should give a flying fig who people in Chicago think should be our congressional representative escapes me. And, this particular letter caught my attention just because it was an example of where a lot of Seals' support is coming from, e.g., Chicago, the 9th congressional district a la Jan Schakowsky, etc. I ranted briefly about this letter when it was first published on January 8, 2008, in the Herald.

Apparently, however, either the Herald thought the letter was so fantastic that it was concerned that some reader might have missed it, or they just aren't being too careful about what they publish nowadays, because it appears they re-ran the SAME LETTER by Mr. Tobiason again in this Saturday's edition. The wording appears off in a few instances, but it's obviously the same letter, down to the same story about sharing lockers with Seals (that must've been a treat). I guess they at least had the decency to write a different headline for today's version.

Generally, most newspapers try to balance (at least subconsciously) the number of letters among competing candidates. Does this mean the pro-Seals letters in the hopper were so few that they had to dig into letters that they had ALREADY used???

To be sure, that's probably not what happened, and it was just a mistake. And, clearly, everyone makes mistakes, even Team America. But, you would think the Herald would have a bit better quality and editorial control than this. Especially when it's such a daffy letter. I really am shocked that someone didn't pick this up over there.

BTW, I'm still waiting for that article exposing the Professor-gate issue. How 'bout it, guys?

UPDATED: As commentor "Barbara" explained, it appears as if the "recycling" that I stated the Herald did on the Seals letter by Tobaison may only have been an "online" artifact, as opposed to reprinting the letters in the paper editions due to separate geographical editions of the Herald using the same letters at different times (see the comments for Barbara's explanation). I guess the slight differences in the letters would have to be explained by editing, rather than slightly different versions of the letter being submitted by the author and printed at different times by the paper. But, in any event, the letters get double-billing on the Internet, with different titles, and at the very least, it gave me the opportunity to point out the ridiculousness of the Tobaison letter encouraging all us north shore-ers to vote the Chicago way, for their chosen candidate. Thanks for the schooling on the editorial process, Barbara, and I hopefully won't get fooled again (on this issue, anyway).

Anonymous said...

Do you have a photo of Eric Tobiason that we can caption?

Anonymous said...

Speaking of recycling, the Rezko name keeps resurfacing to haunt Obama. Now it appears that Rezko's fundraising activities on behalf of Obama during his U.S. Senate run will be part of the federal trial evidence used against Rezko.

Check out the Sunday Sun Times for more details. Obama's campaign responded to WRITTEN questions about this.

Everyone wants to be linked to Obama, right?

Louis G. Atsaves

Barbara said...

You’re usually pretty good, TA, but you must be too young or too electronic to know about replating. The Daily Herald, like Pioneer Press, has numerous editions replated for the different communities it serves. So, the letter than ran in Buffalo Grove two weeks ago probably ran in Arlington Heights this time.

Pioneer Press’s letters to the editor cannot be found on line and one must scour each individual paper as I did the other day. Seals had two letters, the same one from Tobiason and one published in the Lake Forester that also ran in yesterday’s News Sun.

Jay had an abundance of letters and a good number were replated from one edition to the other. I think I counted seven. That’s how the community papers, including the Herald, do it. The Tribune also does it in its Metro sections.

Anonymous said...

Good to see Jay's soon to be unemployed field director/future Clinton phone banker extraordinaire is still burning the midnight oil to share his thoughts on the Daily Herald.

Obama's fading campaign coupled with the rise of Hillary and the Mac Attack is about as good a January as Team Kirk could have asked for. I would love a Mac attack/Rudy team to send up to the Hill to be sworn in a year from today to join Kirk.

Team America said...

Barbara- you seem to know a lot about the newspaper business, obviously more than I do. And I suppose just under 40 counts as young, in many circles (although the grey hair is coming in nicely, thank you).

I am aware that Letters to the Editor are often edited for space considerations, etc. But I am not quite ready to buy your explaination, because the differences between the two forms of the letter, while subtle, still seem to be more significant than I would expect of an editor snipping here and there for space. Maybe I'll go check out the print editions at the library.

If I'm wrong, I'll be sure to let everyone know. But, at the least, it gave me an excuse to talk about that ridiculous letter from the Chicago guy again. ;-)

treehugger said...

Dan Seals' Web site continues to say, "The surge has not worked. We have no plan to get out."

Why has no one in the media questioned Dan Seals on the surge's apparent success?

Did everyone see this article?

i could be potus said...

Apparently, The Pup, through his website, is now calling many of his fellow Dems, including some very high-ranking Dems, liars.

See Danno, the reason that Iraq is not the leading election issue anymore is because the surge is working.

Sorry, no gloom and doom on the war front this time for you.

Perhaps that's why your look-a-like is also fading. Oh well, just think, there will probably be a go-for job for you on his Governor staff in 2010.

Anonymous said...

Iraq is not a winning issue in this district. McCain was right on the surge but it was good news for the country but bad news because it meant the issue faded. In this media market, reporters won't go for that level of questioning of a dan. They'll do a summer story on it, a fall one and then one in the run-up to the campaign. There's too much going on this year for this to get high level attention.

If the dems get hillary will be interesting to see if Mark gets a pass from the DCCC with his strong fundraising numbers and dems need to hang on to seats in red districts since member retention comes first before Also Ran Dan....

Anonymous said...

Where in that letter does he say that everyone in the North Shore should be like people in Chicago, and where does he say that everyone in Chicago supports Dan Seals? Apparently, based on primary election results, the vast majority of Dems in the North Shore do support Mr. Seals.


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Monday, 22 March 2010

New list of assets

One of the major feedback from Heather was to make more asses, so here's a list of possible new assets that Priya and I have come up with which we can make over Easter:

1) Bucket and mop (claimed by Priya)
2) Broken glass (Andy)
3) Vacuum cleaner (Simon)
4) TV remote (since we have a TV in our level) (Andy)
5) Computer monitor (the old fat ones) (Andy)
6) Cupcake with candle (claimed by Mark)
7) Moss floating on top of water on bottom level
8) Abandoned jacket, or a handbag? (soaked or dirtied up), or a hat (Aby and Priya: bags)
9) Rubbish, trash
10) Scattered books, magazines and newspapers (Zongyi)
11) Bottles and cans (Zongyi)
12) Desk with drawers (have drawers scattered about) (Zongyi)
13) Clock (claimed by Priya)
14) Broken mugs (claimed by Zongyi)
15) Stationary (claimed by Zongyi)
16) Pair of broken glasses... the ones you wear (Zongyi)

Simon said...

i wants the vacuum cleaner, and maybe the hat

Andy Lanfear said...

i'll do the computer monitor and the tv remote, can do more if need be

Andy Lanfear said...

also done some smashed glass

Aby Bagulay said...

i claim all greenery. want to do the bag too...

Aby Bagulay said...

Has anyone done the desk with drawers??

Zongyi Chen said...

I'll do the desk drawers.

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pocoster said...

lol guess ill do bottles and cans seeing as i drink so many of them i have plenty of reference XD.. oo and btw guys dont forget theres still alot of outstanding stuff that im waiting for and to be honest im panicing that its either gna all come in last minute or be left half finished. That doesnt apply to everyone and no doubt its probably done but hasnt been posted so i must stress if you have finished something please post it asap.

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i'll do the handbag :)


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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

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This is the ever popular DIB, with a new color: Gun Metal.

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Friday, 31 October 2008

Card readers

A 53-in-1 card reader?  It must be to good to be true.

After spending a brief period of time counting (three times), the various connectors the card reader actually supported came to 31.  So, I wondered, as many of us would.  What happened to the other 22?  Or did they count the various versions of the same type of card.  Like pcmia one thru four?

Wondering what winging an email off their way would produce.  I promptly sent one off.

Four days later a reply popped into my box from their support centre.

"Our reply regarding your question:
It's marketing. It just reads all cards. :)
Beware however that it does not support SDHC unless it is specifically stated."

So in the end, it's just a clever little marketing ploys to get us to part with our cash!

But even though a severe ticking off should be brought in by trading standards, do have to admire the company's honesty at answering a direct question.

Tuesday, 28 October 2008

Sun weblog writer

Well after hearing some negative comments regarding the sun weblog writer, I thought i'd give it a quick spin; just to see how useful, helpful and time saving it might be – especially in comparison to microsofts live writer.

Well it took a few minutes to eventually get the download, either sun's servers were under a bit of pressure or to many people siphoning off my connection. But it eventually downloaded and installed without a hitch.

I looked for a new program, but nothing. Opened oow (openoffice writer), to notice two new icons. The first a little feather with an upward pointing green arrow next to it and the second another little feather with a downward pointing orange arrow.

So I clicked on the open weblog entry icon the feather and downward pointing orange arrow icon, to get the following pop up.

Clicking on either of them produced, well, a basic ui.  But unlike the many complaints I saw on the site, it connected and retrieved without a hitch, as can be seen in the image below.

But  rather than use that to retrieve an existing post and have it do something untoward, i created a new post - this one - to upload and see what happened.

So clicking on the to weblog icon to upload a quick draft blog – this one – brought up the window (see image below), which was a tad basic but had the send as draft clicked.  Uploaded and then went to the blog to see how the first bit of the test came out...

Unlike windows live writer (which I must admit is a piece of software I find indispensable, I would even go so far as saying it's one of the best offline blog-producing bits of software i've used so far; it doesn't have the all in one place functionality i've become used toplaying with in wlv.  Just little things.  Like been able to easily change the displayed and click-able picture sizes by a couple of mouse movements, is an excellent implementation of resizing.

... and now over to the blog.  The sun weblog writer dismally failed.  First off, it published/posted to public despite the save as draft option been checked.  Secondly, the first image above failed to appear and paragraph spacing was doubled spaced.   Little things which wouldn't have made a great bit of difference four years ago, but things have moved on at breakneck spead!

So on this occasion the clear winner (splutter, cough, cough), is undoubtedly microsofts live writer.  Which, unless a decent open source alternative comes out, I heartily recommend.

Friday, 17 October 2008

Fattening fox

I have, albeit briefly, fallen out of love with my favourite browser - firefox.  We had a wonderful affair going back many years when all was perfect.  From when it initially poked its head through the holes left by the thundering internet exploriphant, which had terminally wounded the previous king of the jungle - netscape.

Through thick and thin, when ff refused to load bookmarks or refused to put them in the correct locations, to losing all the passwords in a minor tiff!  Through all of that we patched up and roared on.

But with the growing popularity of the add-ons things took a slight turn for the worst.  Was it a badly written meal ff had digested, causing it to go a strange colour of blue?  No just a badly prepared theme i'd stupidly installed.  But its initial speed was slowing, on some occasions even taking longer to load a page than it took ie to load and be ready.  Blasphemy!

The last time - when the camels back finally broke - ff was still loading up long after i'd loaded up chrome, checked my banking balance the weather and what was on at the local cinema before it sputtered onto screen.

What was going on?

A quick look through the trusty task manager brought up a few home truths.  Chrome with five tabs open was taking up only 56MB of ram. Firefox on the other hand (whilst still in its loading phase), was chugging through over 1.3GB of memory; before settling down to a relatively wieldy 215MB.

The only thing that had changed was the inclusion of more add-ons (figure 1). New add-ons that are recommended by someone you know which they just can't live without, you just have to try.  That other slightly strange but winking at you add-on from the pages of the latest magazine to hit the door, or viewed on a site, all offer time saving, enjoyment having wasting more time than sense hours of fun. The time had arrived to ruthlessly remove all those juicy helpful helpers.  To return the browser to a state of speed and efficiency - you might even find it crashes less frequently too.

Figure 1. Add-ons

Sigh, what to remove and what to keep...

  • The all-in-one sidebar I regularly use for its unabashed over helpful organisational abilities.
  • The latest add-on was Tab Mix Plus, which looks good adds to the functionality but I can do without for the time being.
  • Scrapbook is good but somewhat duplicating Google notebook so that will have to go.
  • Fire gestures - mouse gestures certainly require that onboard.
  • Firebug haven't really used it so that can go.
  • As can answers since I now use ubiquity for so many things.

...and on you go, through each add-on and saying yes or no.  Once you've reached the end of your list, you can restart firefox.

Firefox now consumes just 165 MB of memory to open before settling down to a modest 152MB. By just removing 5 add-ons the start up time has dramatically improved, and as seen below its memory footprint is now more manageable.

The image following shows how the new look slimmed down version looks:

So if firefox is causing you problems it may more than likely be an arrant add-on.  The best thing is to start the browser in safe mode:

Start menu -> all programs -> mozilla -> mozilla firefox (safemode)

which will bring up the following window:

Simply check the disable all add-ons option and click the continue in safe mode.  If that works and it starts okay (best to wait before the wonder of watching it zoom along is lost), then it is with great probability your add-ons.

Go on a helpful worthwhile mission: the add-on decluttering mission, and watch ff fly.


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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Google Introduced New Browser: Google Chrome OS

Google Chrome OSAn upcoming lightweight and an open-source operating system that will dominate the browser market today, that announced by Google. They name it as Google Chrome OS which is the natural extension of their previously released browser, Google Chrome. Google designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web, searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. That is why, Google announced a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. With Chrome OS, Google plans to follow the same formula it used with its browser. Chrome OS will run on x86-based PCs, as well as machines built around the ARM processor. I’ve heard in the past there has been some speculation that Google would develop its own operating system, but I think that Chrome's launch makes one thing is clear. The Web browser is Google's operating system. Users want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don't want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.


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Mellanox Unveils Network Acceleration Software Offering Low Latency

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January 19, 2012

Mellanox Unveils Network Acceleration Software Offering Low Latency

By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor

Mellanox (News - Alert) Technologies, a supplier of high-performance, end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage systems, announced the release of the latest messaging acceleration software offering the “lowest latency for high-frequency trading.”

The new Messaging Accelerator, VMA 6.0 delivers record-breaking, ultra-low UDP (News - Alert) latency under 1.4 microseconds and TCP socket latency under 1.7 microseconds. This, according to company officials, is twice more than competitive offerings.

The solution also features enhanced TCP and UDP acceleration support over ConnectX-3 VPI adapter cards, making it the ideal solution for a wide range of applications serving high frequency trading, databases, in-memory caching and more. Offering the fastest order execution time, VMA 6.0 enables enterprise financial firms such as exchanges to increase their competitive positioning.

 “VMA 6.0 enables the highest performance of any socket-based application over our leading low-latency interconnect solutions,” said David Barzilai, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies, in a statement.

 “VMA provides data center managers with the technology leadership for low-latency data distribution or high packet rates based applications, resulting in faster executions, lower response time and higher return on investment,” Barzilai added.

VMA 6.0 improves application-to-application performance and latency thanks to the ConnectX-3 support. VMA 6.0 leverages ConnectX-3’s new hardware capabilities such as hardware-based flow steering, which enables discrete acceleration of flows in a scalable and balanced manner.

VMA 6.0 and ConnectX-3 adapters also support PCIe 3.0, delivering future proofing and consistent low-latency for many-core compute platforms. Featuring a dynamically-linked user-space Linux library, the solution can accelerate messaging and streaming traffic.

Mellanox VMA 6.0 is currently available through all Mellanox channel partners and distributors, the company said in a press release.

Recently Mellanox Technologies announced that the company has joined the Open Compute Project under the Open Compute Foundation.

Mellanox also announced the immediate availability of 10GbE mezzanine cards based on Mellanox's energy efficient, high performance ConnectX-3 EN silicon that are compliant with the Open Compute Project specification.

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Friday, October 17, 2008

TZ doctrine tenet #6: Censorship is a dead end

I am strongly against the belief that media violence desensitizes people to aggressive behavior. We have been upset about linking electronic games to acts of violence or other criminal acts. We have been upset about the growing political movement against so-called violent electronic games. We have been upset about the vilification of the video game community by the media, church, and state. The speech will tell you the truth about video games and youth violence and aggression. It is directed toward the governments, the religious sects, and the media pundits. We shall win the government to our side. This speech shall put an end to video game censorship and the vilification of interactive entertainment.

It is a shame that video game players are very poorly looked upon by much of society, especially by the cults and governments. That has happened, not just in the United States. It has happened internationally. They should stop blaming video games for society's problems. I am getting tired of the media, religious cults, and state attacking the video game community. The video game community has been treated worse than television and motion picture community.

Video games have been used as a scapegoat for acting out violent or heinous crimes, insubordination (or difficulty obeying authorities), difficulty treating peers properly, and academic failure. It is feminism and other extreme political correctness that cause these ills, not video games. Anyone who supports or teaches the belief that violent video games desensitize an otherwise normal, sane-minded person into a violent criminal does not earn my respect, regardless of whether he or she has a title that demands respect.

Video game players are very good and compassionate people, despite the common ecclesiastical (or religious) and governmental (or political) criticism. They are not mindless idiots as the mainstream news media and the church and state think we are. I want to be a hero of the video game community. I am wholly and internationally against religious and governmental restriction and regulation of video games, for such restriction is religious and political nonsense. I am against church-sanctioned and government-sanctioned rating systems. Any desensitization to evil things has to do with incompetency, psychological conflict, and lack of training, not the content of the video games. Any religious organization that restricts video games is either a cult or a totalitarian religious organization (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses and Church of Scientology).

I left Jehovah's Witnesses fundamentally because of their stance on video games, and for influencing me to have misogynous (or anti-female) tendencies. I am rebuilding my life and have conquered misogyny. Theologically, Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult of Christianity and a totalitarian religious organization. Their actually false teachings do not really represent Biblical teachings. Not only I would leave my parents' home, I will also be willing to liberate gamers who are children of Jehovah's Witnesses but do not want to share that religious organization from their parent's home and construct new homes for them.

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that their religious organization is "the only true Christian organization." But it is a cult of Christianity, for they claim that their ideas are from God, but they are from the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society. Charles Taze Russell was exposed to the teachings of William Miller. The teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses are based on the Seventh Day Adventist Church and the Mennonite Church. Their video game teachings originated from Jack Chick. Jehovah's Witnesses claim to question or counter other religions. The Witnesses' stance on video gaming is far beyond the ESRB, and it is a plague to video game community and its industry.

I disapprove of censorship based on religion and/or political correctness. Any parents whose restrictions are based on the teachings of totalitarian religious organizations or political correctness are enemies of the video game community. Any politician, such as Joseph Isadore Lieberman, who is bent on restricting or regulating video games and those who favorite that stance on video gaming is also an enemy of the video game community.

Those who play video games do so to relax, and stray away from being accused of a crime. Gamers are better people than nongamers. Ex-gamers who gave up games for religion or to support the Liebermanites are traitors against the video game community. If I were to believe in romantic love, I would marry a younger woman who is also a Final Fantasy fan, but not an angry feminist or Jehovah's Witness (a member of my former religion). Older women are usually nongamers. It is not recommended for gamers to marry nongamers. Gamers must not vote for Lieberman or marry anyone who voted for Lieberman. Real gamers do not vote for Lieberman or practice religious organizations that restrict video games. I love the video game community, and I do not want any gamers to face restriction on video games.

Restricting or illegalizing video games, especially by means of outlawing the hobby, and whether entirely or content-wise, is evil, undemocratic, and totalitarian. It is also a violation of the First Amendment of U.S. Constitution. It does not only hurt the video game community and its industry, but it also hurts the economy and leads to unemployment and oppression. Such illegalization turns a democratic country into a brutal dictatorship. It may also destroy the video game community and tarnish the image of the video game industry and the economy.

Banning video games entirely or just because they contain violence, occultism, profanity, or whatever else is controversial, is not the answer, and it is unconstitutional. Such banning is Lieberman's idea. A professor at Nihon University in Japan indicated video gaming increases alpha brain wave activity, which lets gamers get more focused even outside gaming. A similar study indicates that school students who play video games at night or after doing homework, chores, or whatever their parents or guardians require them to do for the day tend to have more associates and make better grades than their nongaming counterparts at a similar grade point ratio.

We are on the side of the video game proponents. Those who oppose the video game community are on the side of the video game barbarians. is neutral in the video game controversy. 2002 is the worst year, not only for me, but also for the video game community.

Playing video games does not only keep us away from trouble, it can also keep a our minds off of the deaths of our loved ones. I am an accidentally hardcore gamer, because I was under intense social denial back in my school age. I play Final Fantasy games or listen to Final Fantasy music itself to heal or empower my emotions, and to make me happy. I gave up my parents' religion, Jehovah's Witnesses, for video games (specifically RPGs). Their religious organization is a cult of Christianity. Its founder Charles Taze Russell was exposed to the teachings of William Miller and borrowed the teachings of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. I also gave up that religious organization to become a hero of the video game community, and I want to support the video game community internationally. I do not want you fellow gamers join that religious organization either, because of their stance on video gaming is too restrictive, robbing of enjoyment of video gaming. I would rather to be a hardcore gamer than to have a romantic relationship with an angry feminist.

We shall see to it that the war of the video game controversy will be won by the video game community. The religious and political enemies of the video game community will one day meet their demise. The video game community shall be in peace and relaxation, without any Liebermanite or fundamentalist interference. A New Liebermanite or New Fundamentalist movement will be strictly forbidden. The hardcore gamers will be well understood. The Greek Law 3037/002 will be repealed, or else the Greek Parliament will face conquest. Video gaming will one day be a cultural phenomenon in almost every country as it is in Japan, and the video game market will expand. Localization will be beefed up.

Those totalitarian religious organizations, such as Jehovah's Witnesses and Church of Scientology, claim that video games cause violation, witchcraft, and degradation of youth, but that is their problem, and it is not so. Those religious organizations are extremist cults. They were exposed to the video game teachings of Jack Chick. So you must not convert to a totalitarian religious organization. Their stance on video gaming is too restrictive and set in detail. They will rob you of video gaming.

I have the Greek Parliament to keep an eye on through the Internet, but I live in the United States. I want to help the Greek gaming community, and march against that Greek Law 3037, which entirely banned electronic gaming. I was shocked that the Greek Parliament has betrayed the video game community with that law. Such law is unconstitutional, and if it lasts too long, it will turn Greece into a brutal dictatorship. Greece was ruled by a brutal dictatorship long ago, and it may happen with Greece again. The Greek video game community has been undergoing hardship with the Greek Parliament since law 3037, enacted in 2002. The hardship is horrible, not only for the Greek video game community, but also the video game community worldwide. We do not want the video game community in any country to suffer oppression, especially electronic game ban. I certainly do not tolerate electronic game bans. Let us save the Greek video game community, guaranteeing them the liberty to play video games. The Greek Parliament will suffer the consequences of enacting law 3037. Warfare would be the last resort. I support the video game community internationally. The Greek electronic game situation is a lesson against electronic game ban. Greece may suffer oppression and economic collapse, and Greek Law 3037 will degenerate into a brutal dictatorship and shedding of the blood of gamers if it does not get repealed, and the Greek Parliament may worsen its detriment against the Greek video game community and face warfare that way. If the Greek Parliament continues to oppress gamers, that regime shall face military invasion.

Video games have recently surpassed motion pictures in popularity, but it is unknown whether they can surpass television in popularity. Video games and the Internet will remain equally popular, for gamers need Internet access to communicate with each other and keep up with the news. Video games will one day replace motion pictures and become as much of a cultural phenomenon in North America and Europe as it is in Japan, and they will sport lush, realistic, true 3D graphics and nicely arranged or orchestrated audio. Video game OSTs from Japan will have their linear notes translated from Japanese to English and come to North America. I am sure RPGs will one day be the dominant video game genre. RPGs are the greater video games, while non-RPGs are the lesser video games. Because classic games are legends, let them be remade for a new audience, but port the original versions also. One day, the oppressive nongamer government will be overthrown, and the video game community will rule the United States, and ultimately the world. The heroes of the video game community will be remembered if any of them die. Let us fight those public video game criticisms and then enjoy those video games to our hearts content until the discs wear out. I would buy many video games myself, for I will rise from a casual gamer to a superhardcore gamer.

We shall rise up against all religious and political video game restriction, criticism, scrutiny, and regulation. We will stop being blinded by religious or political criticism and controversy again and enjoy many video games to our hearts' content until the discs wear out. The video game market will expand as time goes by. We must not judge a video game before playing it. We must give that video game an opportunity for a valid opinion from us. One day, it will be evident that gamers are good and passionate people. Video game criticism will one day be no more, and the Liebermanites will be no more. We should buy video games in order to love and support the video game industry. The video game market should expand to bring about more opportunity to buy video games. I recommend that Game Stops store should open in smaller cities and towns as well as large cities. Square Enix takes care of me and cheers me up with Final Fantasy. I love buying their games for I love Square Enix.

We are getting tired of those video game censors, which include the media-restrictive religious sects and certain politicians, standing in our way and making stereotypes of the gamers. We must march to speak out against gamer criticism.

Much of the creation of stereotypes of gamers is the work of a censor organization called Parents and Grandparents Alliance, Inc., a division of Accuracy in Media. That organization is run by Pat Boone. They are out to drive the youth into a state of eternal tedium (or boredom), not "make the world a better place for the youth." They claim "TV, pop music, movies, and video games are causing children to do sex, violence, drug abuse, and suicide!" They claim that the media industries, including the video game and motion picture industrs, are "guilty of a monstrous evil." They claim that it is the truth. A sample of such argument from that evil censorship organization can be found at this Disinfopedia article. This version did not mention video games, but it is a possible indirect reference to them. I was shocked at recent local newspaper advertisement last Saturday. It is closely similar to a sample like at what I liked aforementionedly, except that they included video games. They were telling lies about the media communities, including us the video game community. We must defend our freedom of expression and protect the video game industry against threats of government and religious censorship.

Those advertisements from Parents and Grandparents Alliance, Inc., have been disseminated in newspapers in July 2001, January 2004, and April 2004. I am well aware of such advertisements from them, and you should be aware of that. Those advertisements are controversial, and agreeing with them is not the way of a gamer. They are horrible and offensive to the media community. They have been castigating the media communities (especially the video game and motion picture communities) by using extreme negative adjectives, probably in a sense to deceive the government. That organization has been accused of campaigning to promote censorship. They are out to suppress everything that is fun and cheering up. Parents and Grandparents Alliance, Inc. must be stopped. They are a group of video game censors. Video game censors are bad and ruthless people, and they, including the Parents and Grandparents Alliance should be punished for their attacks against the video game community. Pat Boone and Joseph Lieberman are evil censors.

Also, as I said before, my parents' religion, Jehovah's Witnesses, is theologically a dangerous and demeaning cult, and a totalitarian religious organization. They are opposed to everything that is fun. Their founder Charles Taze Russell was influenced by the teachings of William Miller and borrowed teachings from the Seventh Day Adventist Church. They believe that those who think that the entertainment does not both them are "deceiving themselves with false reasoning." Is that true, or are they just calling that true? They like to criticize the opponents of censorship and support the censors. Jehovah's Witnesses are obviously too restrictive and defamatory. Joining that religious organization is not the way of a gamer, nor is supporting Pat Boone or Joseph Lieberman, or the other video game censors, or siding with the Parents and Grandparents Alliance. Therefore, disagreeing with me on this thread is not the way of a gamer. Video games have nothing to do with the Columbine High School massacre or the Virginia Tech massacre. Seong-Hui Cho was hardly a gamer.

Patricia Vance, the president of the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, is no stranger to the business end of the rod of the empire of video game censorship. She said that the mainstream news media is choosing facts about electronic gaming in order to show the electronic gaming industry in a negative perspective. Only a small percentage of recently released electronic games are ESRB-rated M for Mature, but that is the type of electronic games the mainstream media, the church, and the state always show when they want to drive home any point about electronic games. Electronic games that are ESRB-rated M for Mature have evidently dominated mainstream media coverage on electronic gaming. Although there is no shortage of electronic gaming coverage, whatever coverage is out there, outside of enthusiast coverage, the news media disproportionately focuses on certain types of electronic games or on partial information that does absolutely no justice to the interactive entertainment industry.Interactive entertainment, which includes computer and video games, has been subject to more regulation, censorship, and scrutiny than visual entertainment, which includes motion pictures and television programs, especially in the United States and Australia. At retail stores, according to Patricia Vance, the regulation of sales of electronic games that are rated M for Mature by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board is more than a 100 percent stricter than the regulation of sales of DVD’s of motion pictures that are rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. There are no expressions of outrage of about minors gaining entry to theatrical screenings of R-rated motion pictures. The Australian censorship regime, the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification, believes that there is a very special problem with electronic games.

Destructive political correctness, which is what this blog is mainly aimed against, is a threat to the video game industry. I disapprove of video game censorship or criticism on the basis of religious doctrines or false tenets of political correctness.

Video games are analogous to rock and roll. In the 1950’s, like electronic games today, rock and roll was a new work of art that was condemned for promoting aggressive behavior, thoughts, and affect among young people. Some rock and roll records were banned from the radio, and others had been censored. Politicians called for legislation against the reception of offending rock and roll records by post. But now, the Babyboomer generation who accepted rock and roll has grown up, and rock and roll has been considered a legitimate work of art. The same will go for electronic gaming by the 2030s.Most gamers (at least those I know) are good people and are very nice. The reason why this thread is entitled "Gamers are good people" is that it was influenced by an archived thread at Letting a video game experience decide what kind of person you will be is stupid and nonsensical. The video game players shall strike back against gamer criticism. Those stereotypes of video game players are so false, futile, useless, and evil. Any religious sect, including Jehovah's Witnesses, that restricts video games is theologically an authoritarian cult of Christianity, and here is a Web page about the strange beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses. We gamers will soon march and voice out against gamer criticism. Video game censors are evil people, and they shall be punished for the damage they did with the video game community.

wolf fella said...

You have HUGE problems,one example is this:you once said that you worship the Final Fantasy series MORE THEN YOUR OWN LIFE,that's so painfully sad.
Also you?Becoming a hero of the video game community?Don't make me laugh.
I agree that Video game censorship has become unfair against the video game community but NOT ALL Video game censors and stereotypes of video game players are false, futile, useless, and evil AND NOT ALL Video game players and hardcore gamers like you(you are just stupid) is good and compassionate people.ITS ALSO THE OPPOSITE AS WELL,GET THAT TROUGH YOUR HEAD. And there is NO SUCH THING as a "superhardcore" gamer/player.

First thing,this what you wrote on the Smashboards:"Unless Fire Emblem is represented the way I would like, I will boycott SSB4, thus deeming it Brawl all over again. The same will go for future SSB games."

Thats is just so STUPID.You gonna boycoot SSB4(and future SSB games)if Fire Emblem is not represented the way you want(or if at least one of your wanted characters does not get in)?,your stupidity and stubborness is so sad i don't know what to say.Your boycotts won't affect anything.Nobody cares if you boycott Smash forever or not.Not everything in life can go the way you want.

You also said this once:"I will be coming back one of these days and reclaim my SSB fandom. This is not the end of the world for me."
WHAT THE **** DO YOU MEAN "YOUR FANDOM"? Jeez,i feel sorry for family and your friends for having a weird person like you.
You are going to boycott a series JUST because that your favorite series doesn't get enough reps?
I dislike people like you.

Like a Smashboards member once said,if boycotting was the right thing to do then every Metroid Fan should be boycotting Smash Bros. Because of a lack of Metroid characters.

Nobody's forcing you to not play the SSB games,We could care less.

you once said this too:" Lyn not being playable in Brawl led me to boycott Brawl."
Thats like boycotting beans becuase one single bean doesn't taste like the others and so you boycott them.

"I am going to boycott the SSB series because of the excessive negative responses on my campaigns for it, and bad speculations, and about Fire Emblem being continually misrepresented."
Grow up and face the unfair side of life.

"It looks like SSB4 will be the second SSB game I will boycott."
Boycott a game that doesn't even exist yet,no words can describe how sad of a human you truly are Tedius.
Accept it, just that, you alone can't beat Nintendo, NEVER.
Lyn is as an Assist Trophy,so what? It bothered me that Saki and Stafy were both AT but i'am still happy they were still in,thats better then nothing.

"All you do is post to influence me to boycott a game through fabricatedly false allegations."
false allegations? Influence you to boycott future SSB games?
Again,you have HUGE problems.
you're too persistent.
Almost everything on your view on politics,religion and feminist is so stupid,untrue and pure nonsense.
You deny the fact that you are a sexism,stop doing that and accept it.
Good bye!I am sick of you.

Tedius Zanarukando said...

You are going to boycott a series JUST because that your favorite series doesn't get enough reps?
I dislike people like you.

No, I did not boycott SSB just because Fire Emblem did not get enough representatives. I rejected it because I was bothered too much about Lyn being an Assist Trophy and that Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu was virtually unrepresented.

"Almost everything on your view on politics,religion and feminist is so stupid,untrue and pure nonsense.
You deny the fact that you are a sexism,stop doing that and accept it.
Good bye!I am sick of you."

No, that is a complete distortion. What I say about feminism and politics IS true and common sense. It is based on historical and scientific evidence. It is what you say about my views that is stupid, untrue, and pure nonsense. What feminist say about men is untrue. I am sick of those feminazis like you. I am sick of those feminist hate comments. I still cannot accept being called a sexist. The word sexism is nothing but a word used to force the feminist lie on people like me and to advance the sinister radical feminist agenda.

Tedius Zanarukando said...

Wolf fella, stop denying that you are nothing but a feminist-brainwashed bullhead. You have been brainwashed by our corrupt society. I do not support all those media claims. What the media claims about feminism, domestic violence, and politics is untrue and pure nonsense. I represent what humans should really think. You represent what the feminist want us to think, which is untrue. Feminists believe that women get paid less than men for the same work at the same pace, but that is untrue. Women do not do the same work at the same pace as men.

Tedius Zanarukando said...

Consider Angry Harry is no stranger to the truth. He has the same views I have, but even more.

Tedius Zanarukando said...

This is an antifeminist blog. Feminist hate comments do not belong on this blog. Comments from feminists from are unwelcome here.

wolf fella said...

I know about Angry Harry and i honestly couldn't a shit about him because his views are just as pathetic as yours,sometimes even more.
And just so you know,i'am not one of the feminists from and i never said i was a feminist.

Tedius Zanarukando said...

You are nothing but a man who was deceived by feminist indoctrination. You may not be a feminist, but you have been brainwashed by feminist indoctrination. Angry Harry's views are common sense and so are my views. Those who call my views or Angry Harry's views as pathetic, what not, are liars. I am not John McCain, who is a pure liar, but you are. I am like the founding fathers of our country. It is your views that are pathetic. Your views are nothing but a rehash of the views of a corrupt and outdated society. I cannot afford another 30 years of the same old feminist ideology that started in the 1970s. You must realize that we need a men's movement.

I still worship the Final Fantasy series.

Tedius Zanarukando said...

Also, feminists from are unwelcome on this blog. SorceressEdea7 is one of them, who attempted to post a comment on this blog. She is worse than you are. is the most corrupt of all boards I was banned from, which are not many.

wolf fella said...

You can continue to say whatever you want but i'am not deceived or brainwashed by feminist indoctrination or feminist indoctrination. I don't support everything the feminists are doing but they do have good plans for what they are doing and it is still yours and Angry Harry's views that are pathetic.

Its true that our society is corrupt, i won't deny that but neither you or Angry Harry can make it any better,in fact you will only make it worse.
And for the last time i'am not of the members from but i can see why they hate you and they doesn't have to be corrupt becuase of that speaking of which,you have said once that everyone who hates you is corrupt,thats NOT TRUE no matter what you think.
By the way, i have seen your whole "Tedius Zanarukando doctrine tenet" and i will say one thing that is true about it:ITS ALL NONSENSE BULLS**T.
I don't care if you still worship the FinalFantasy series,it is truly one of the best RPG series and i like RPG games as well but its sad and odd to worship fictional games more then your own life.

It was stupid of me for coming to this sorry excuse for a blog in the first place so consider this the last time you will ever hear from me.Be glad Tedius,after this you will never waste your time with me anymore unless you are stupid enough to reply back to me.
I will continue to live my life with my friends and family,playing my favorites video games and work hard to become one of the good people who really tries to change our society for a better future and neither you or Angry Harry(or whatever his real name is)
are one of those people. Say whatever you want to me now but people like you won't affect me one bit.
You and Angry Harry will one day pay the prize for your useless goals.

Tedius Zanarukando said...

I CAN make society better, and you are a liar. I got what it takes to do that. I had enough of males being set up into trouble with the law. The agenda of the feminists from is what will make society worse. The TZ doctrine is only stereotyped as nonsense. They are based on factual or historical evidence. You are like John McCain, who make artfully contrived lies. You are nothing but a fool who is unresponsive and makes excuses for not accepting the TZ doctrine. What you say about the TZ doctrine is a distortion. I have had enough of your comments at this blog. You just do not understand the TZ doctrine, and what you said about it is only by hearsay. It is not yet fleshed out enough to understand it.

Tedius Zanarukando said...

My views may appear to some to be pathetic, but they are true. I had enough of those negative comments about the TZ doctrine or Angry Harry. What Angry Harry says is true. The reason why hates me is that they want to enforce feminist indoctrination. One member of posted a murder threat against me. They support a one-sided view of gender equality that has been supported by just about any feminist. They believe that discrimination against men is acceptable but that discrimination against women is not. That is a very destructive and divisive belief. My enemies from promote destructive and divisive feminist beliefs.

Tedius Zanarukando said...

There are millions of people like me or Angry Harry and a few people like you. The tenets of the TZ doctrine are being spread fast without my knowledge. I am not a misogynist like those bullheads think I am. Women do not get paid less than men. They earn less than men because statistically they chose to do easier jobs and take more time off work for family obligations and chose to be less committed to their careers. You and those at are supporters of the Rockefeller based governing elite, and I am opposed to the governing elite.


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Thursday, February 23, 2012

#44 Blake Lewis

Next on my American Idol finalist countdown is my number 44 finalist, pop star and beatboxer Blake Lewis. He is the runner-up of American Idol season 6, losing to Jordin Sparks, my favorite of that season. His major debut album A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream) was released in December 2007 through 19 Recordings Ltd. and Arista Records. On October 30, 2007, his pre-album single "Break Anotha" was released. The album landed at number ten on the U.S. Billboard Billboard 200 as its peaked with 97,500 copies sold in its debut, and sold over 350,000 copies so far. After the release of his second single "How Many Words", which peaked at number eight on the U.S. Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs, he lost his deal with Arista Records, but he got signed to the independent label Tommy Boy Entertainment.

His sophomore album, Heartbreak on Vinyl, was released on October 6, 2009. The first single "Sad Song" was released on July 21, 2009 and peaked at number ten on the U.S. Billboard Dance Radio Airplay. The album charted at number 135 on the U.S. Billboard Billboard 200, number twenty on the Billboard Independent Albums, and number seven on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums with over 4000 copies sold in the first week (1000 of those were digital downloads). At the time of American Idol season 8, I ranked Lewis at number 36.

Blake Colin Lewis was born on July 31, 1981, in Redmond, Washington, the city I may never step foot in as it is the home of Microsoft Corporation and Nintendo of America, to Dallas and Dinah Lewis. His mother Dinah is a guitarist and former rocker. He is an only child (as is Anoop Desai) and is of Welsh, Swiss, German, and Irish descent. He attended Kenmore Junior High and later Inglemoor High School (which is part of the Northshore school district) in Kenmore, Washington. During his high school tenure, Lewis participated in many high school state competitions . He also participated in numerous musicals, as well as comedy and rap videos with his friends. In many of these videos, he portrayed his alter ego, Jimmie Walker Blue, the character he introduced during the semi-final round of American Idol.

Lewis started beatboxing at the age of 17. He picked up this talent purely by ear, listening to CDs of beatboxing, after he was inspired by Matthew Selby, a former member of the Los Angeles based a capella group group M-Pact, of which fellow American Idol semi-finalist Rudy Cárdenas was also a member of.  Aside from singing and beatboxing, Lewis plays the guitar, keyboard, and percussion. and has written many songs such as "She Loves the Way", "Emotional Waterfalls", "Dumpty Humpty" and "Jealousy".

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By Erin Butterfield

My classmate Nicole and I arrived in New Jersey at 4:00 in the afternoon on Saturday, February 19th. We were welcomed by my Uncle John and the most adorable kid ever — my little cousin John Michael. After catching up with the family and letting Nicole fall in love with JM and his clever antics, after a few riveting rounds of Uno and one delicious taco dinner, we headed out to Julie’s house.

Julie is one of the heads of Girls Learn International, the organization that I represented at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 55. Julie, her comic-loving fiancé Matt, and their indescribable beagle Simon, warmly greeted and welcomed us into their lives and home for what would be the next week. We chatted and played Lego Star Wars Wii long into the night, and then found soft comfort in our beds. I slept wonderfully, but not long enough, a recurring pattern for us that week.

On Sunday morning Matt drove the three of us to the train station. We arrived in New York City at Pace University, where we met another GLI staffwoman named Georgia, along with dozens of other women and girl delegates of the CSW. Aside from the registrar first thinking that Georgia was a minor, and then thinking that she was my mom, everything went smoothly.

The keynote speaker of Sunday’s event of Girls Stand Up was a previous president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet. She was the first and only (so far) female president of Chile, and many other countries (including the US, which claims to be so progressive) haven’t had one yet. She talked primarily about the group that she’s starting called UN Women, which is all about raising awareness and taking action for gender equality.

Many of these women are seen as staunch feminists, which is often thought of as women who think of their own sex as superior to that of men, but actually they just want equality. They want to be neither better nor given more opportunities than men, and no matter what some people say there is no country in the world that has complete gender equality yet. Ranging from issues like access to education, to equal pay, to how gender is portrayed in the media, women and girls all over the world face discrimination. Ms. Bachelet, along with many others, believes that the UN’s goals haven’t covered women and girls enough as they should, and UN Women will finally do that.

At CSW55 we talked primarily about girls and women in relation to the STEM field; that is, science, technology, engineering and math. We discussed why girls and women aren’t as common in these fields as men, and what we can do to change that. The review theme was violence, so we talked about sex trafficking, child brides, and other forms of violence against girls and women that are seen worldwide. In both the review theme and the primary theme we talked about boys and men, and how they played into these themes. I was grateful to hear many women say that they knew men weren’t the only perpetrators of violence or discrimination, and that boys and men are also victims.

Through the next week I participated in writing the Girls Statement that was presented to the UN General Assembly. I made connections with girls and women alike, and heard many wonderful speakers. But through all of this I didn’t meet one single person that thought that women deserve any more rights than men, which is a common misconception about this type of “feminist” or “female-dominated” event. We just want gender equality, and if men and boys ever start to receive less opportunity or respect than women and girls, we will all start attending a Commission on the Status of Men. But for now it’s the women’s and girls’ rights that have yet to be fulfilled that we need to bring to everyone’s attention. The main thing that GLI does is to help provide an equal education for girls worldwide, which is the main human right that is violated based on gender. There are others as well, and if you are interested please enlighten yourself, or talk to anyone in GLI or involved in gender equality and human rights.

To leave you with today…Ms. Bachelet ended her speech by saying that girls and boys are “not just tomorrow’s leaders, but also today’s.” Go forth and make a difference!


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Saturday, September 01, 2007

Radio Beacon

It's inevitably the most tangentially connected news peices that lead me to the most interesing and arcane radio tidbits. I read this on the CGC.

Fred Caughell of Bakersfield was issued a Citation for allegedly operating a Hamtronics R901 receiver which transmitted a weak but still illegal signal on a 406 MHz distress frequency. Distress frequency? It seems intuitive that Mariners would need specific distress frequencies, but Bakerfield is land locked if you hadn't noticed. Apparently we landlubbers also have distress frequencies. So it's here that we go to the books. Beginning in the early 20th century, the radio frequency of 500 kHz has been an international distress frequency for Morse code maritime communication. That we already knew. that's not even close to this frequency. It turns out thsi is not at all like a standard SOS.

The story turned out to be way more interesting than that. It turns out that 406 MHz is a frequency assigned for a satellite Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB). These are used in the Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS) and designed to operate with the Cospas-Sarsat system. Who? Cospas-Sarsat is an international satellite-based search and rescue system, established by the USA, Canada, France, and the USSR way back in 1979. These automatic-activating EPIRBs, now required by international convention for many kinds of ships including commercial fishing vessels, and all passenger ships.

They transmit the signal to help rescuers located and identify a vessel from anywhere in the world. The newer devices incorporate GPS receivers making them even more accurate. More here, and here. The system clearly works as worldwide over 22,058 people have been rescued through use of the system.

COSPAS is a Russian acronym. "Cosmicheskaya Sistyema Poiska Avariynich Sudov", in English this translates to "Space System for the Search of Vessels in Distress". SARSAT is an acronym for Search And Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking. More here.
So in short Fred wasn't really endangering anyone allegedly or otherwise. There are no sinking ships in Bakersfield, nor should his weak signal interfere with anyone that was. But the rules are the rules.


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B.A.P’s Bang Yong Guk Drops Teaser Photos And Video For New Solo Release “Yamazaki”

Bang Yong Guk has shared a first look at his upcoming solo release! On June 22, the B.A.P leader released two teaser images and a video for his upcoming track “Yamazaki.” Bang Yong Guk worked on the song with producing duo Ye-Yo, who previously hinted at its upcoming release. The evocative teaser video for “Yamazaki” gives us a listen […]


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Lutheran Social Services of the South Names Edgar Ricalde Foster In Texas Regional Director
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Today, Lutheran Social Services of the South (LSS), an organization committed to ending multigenerational child abuse through innovative children’s services, announced the leadership appointment of Edgar Ricalde as Foster In Texas (FIT) regional director.

“Lutheran Social Services of the South is excited for Edgar to take on his new role as regional director of Foster In Texas,” said Robert Leal, LSS Executive Vice President of Programs. “His experience and skills will prove invaluable in providing quality care to the children in our program for years to come.”

In his new role, Ricalde will use his expertise in providing quality social services to oversee administrative and fiscal supervision of foster care services. He most recently served as area director of the LSS Laredo office and brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field of foster care. Prior to stepping into his position as area director, Ricalde served as executive director for Voz de Ninos, a court appointed special advocate program which serves the abused and neglected children of Webb County. Ricalde received his master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas-Pan American.

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Lutheran Social Services of the South is committed to breaking the cycle of child abuse in Texas through innovative children’s services, including foster care, adoption, education and residential treatment. LSS is a 501(c)(3) faith-based nonprofit organization that currently serves more than 32,000 individuals in need annually, including children, the elderly, the disadvantaged and those affected by disasters in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma.

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First Lady Says She "Confiscates" Daughters' Halloween Candy

Holiday treat indulgences should be time-limited, according to Mrs. Obama...
First Lady Michelle Obama has an easy parental solution to ensure that daughters Malia, 13, and Sasha, 10, don't overdose on the tons of candy they gather when they go trick-or-treating for Halloween. It's swift and easy: Mrs. Obama "confiscates" the girls' treat bags, she revealed during a recent roundtable interview with digital reporters. (Above: The First Couple hands out Halloween treats at the White House on Saturday night)

"What we do is we get that bag of candy, and I let them hang out with that bag for maybe a day or two, and then I confiscate it," Mrs. Obama said.

The First Daughters trick-or-treated in the DC area last year, and both dressed up as food: Malia was costumed as a Sour Patch Girl, while Sasha haunted the night as a turkey. But while they get to celebrate Halloween, the girls aren't allowed to participate in the time-honored tradition beloved by America's kids: Keeping their Halloween candy haul in their bedrooms.

"I confiscate it, because it's like, you just don't need to have this in your room; it's not good," Mrs. Obama said.

The First Lady is running a national campaign to combat childhood obesity, and she said the idea is that the girls should enjoy their sugar on Halloween without worrying about over indulging, but then the uneaten candy has to be removed.

"The temptation is too great," she said.

On Saturday, extra pieces of candy were added to White House goody bags for the Presidential Halloween celebration, after President Obama publicly worried that the mansion would "get egged" because Mrs. Obama insists on handing out dried fruit to celebrate the nation's biggest candy holiday. The treat bags included a scoop of dried fruit, a box of White House M&Ms with the Presidential seal, and a White House Sweet Dough Butter Cookie, just as they did in 2009 and 2010. But packages of Reese's candy were added at the last minute to the treat bags, which were given out to thousands of invited kids.

Mrs. Obama's approach to holiday treats is all about balance, she said.

"If you make good choices every day—I tell this to my girls all the time—when it's time for the holidays and the fun stuff and the birthday parties, you don't have to worry about it because you're doing what you're supposed to be doing every single day."

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Mrs. Obama also revealed her approach to limiting her own junk food indulgences. Asked what she does to manage "midnight cravings," Mrs. Obama said that the kitchen pantry in the Residence is stocked with exactly what the President complained about: Dried fruit. The First Lady said she asks White House staff to keep "dried and fresh fruit, cereals, crackers, and nuts" available, and to put these in clear containers so they're easily visible and available.

"I'm a salty snack person," Mrs. Obama said. "So if a bag of chips were there, I'd eat the whole thing, so I just can't have it around. And I think the same thing is true for the kids. It's just tough temptation. So we try to put out healthy snacks in clear containers."

"I just tell them, 'Don't put junk in there,' because if it's there, it wouldn't even matter what it was," Mrs. Obama said, adding that she'd eat it.

The White House released the recipes for the Halloween cookies and for the dried fruit mix. The First Lady's forthcoming book, "American Grown," will offer readers plenty of healthy eating advice, as well as recipes and gardening tips.

Mrs. Obama's remarks about the First Family's eating habits came on Oct. 17, during her first-ever roundtable interview with writers from digital outlets, which was conducted in the White House. Twelve outlets were represented, including Yahoo's Shine, and iVillage, and MSNBC. (Above: The First Lady during the roundtable)

*Top photo by AP; second by Chuck Kennedy/White House

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