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Monday, July 28, 2014

Summer Time, Summer Time.......

Happy Summer to all of you out there that read and follow Better Than Burgers!
I hope your summer is going as you've planned and that you are
enjoy many wonderful recipes from our blog.
Summer is crazy busy here which brings me to having to make a decision to take a 4-6 week break
from blogging. My baby is preparing to enter her senior year in high school, and I have grandbaby #3 due in just a few weeks. Between the 2 events taking place in my life, among the many other things....I won't have time to do much blogging for awhile. Please continue to use our fabulous recipes already on the blog, share them on Pinterest and facebook and enjoy all of the time you get to spend EATING all this yummy stuff!!!
I will return to blogging the first part of September, until then.....
ENJOY your summer!

Monday, July 21, 2014

Julie's Strawberry Banana Smoothie

SMOOTHIES....are you tired of them yet??? NOT ME!
"Breakfast in a cup" I like to say... THIS smoothie is rich and creamy...and delicious....YOU might even
think you are eating at some fancy little drink shop.

Julie's Strawberry Banana Smoothie
1 lb strawberries, tops cut off
2 bananas (peeled of course)
1/2 c. milk
1 c. vanilla ICE CREAM (yes, you heard me right)

Combine all ingredient in a blender. Blend on high until smooth or to the consistency you like. ENJOY!

Friday, July 18, 2014

Orange Blueberry Syrup

My husband is a HUGE fan of pancakes...I think he could eat them ALMOST daily, but I'm nice and shake up his breakfast menu....that way he won't get tired of them. He likes his with the plain ol' maple syrup...nothing special, nothing fancy....BUT because I get bored of serving pancakes the SAME way, I make different syrups, sauces, toppings etc.... so its like eating an entirely different thing every time.
This Orange Blueberry Syrup was a fun (yes food can be fun) and yummy way to shake the pancake thing up a bit and everyone loved it!

Orange Blueberry Syrup
2 c. frozen blueberries
1/4 c. water
1 c. orange juice (already made)
1 1/2 c. sugar

1/4 c. cold water
4 T. cornstarch

In a saucepan, combine first 4 ingredient. Stir and bring to a boil. In a small bowl, combine cornstarch and water to make a thickener. Gently stir small amounts of thickener into berry mixture....just a little at a time, stirring in between, and returning to a boil, so that you don't make your syrup too thick (add SOME thickening, return to boil, if you want it thicker add more and repeat process). You may or may not want ALL the thickening in your syrup.  Simmer. Serve with your favorite pancakes, waffles, french toast etc..

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Cake Doughnut Muffins

Who doesn't like a old fashioned "Cake Doughnut"?! These tasty little gems are a "healthier" version
of those favorite pastries (sort of....). They are not only moist and scrumptious, but they make the house smell soooooooooooo good too!

*They warm up great, taste fabulous cold and they freeze well too!

Cake Doughnut Muffins
1/4 c. butter, room temperature
1/4 c. oil
1/2 c. sugar
1/3 c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 t. baking powder
1/4 t. baking soda
3/4 t. ground nutmeg
1 t. cinnamon
3/4 t. salt
1 t. vanilla
2 2/3 c. flour
1 c. milk

Spray muffin tin with cooking spray. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. In a mixing bowl, beat butter, oil and both sugars until smooth. Add eggs and mix until combined. Add all spices, along with baking soda, baking powder and vanilla. Stir until combined. Add flour and milk. Stir just until ingredient is incorporated, you don't want to over mix. Divide batter into muffin cups. Bake 15-17 minutes. Cool slightly before topping with glaze (recipe below).

** NOTE...mine were a little darker than I like them, so next time I would cook for 13 minutes. Check yours and get them out when they are done the way you like them. :)

6 T. melted butter
2 c. powdered sugar
3/4 t. vanilla
2 T. HOT water

Mix all ingredient together. Whisk until smooth. When muffins have cooled slightly, dip the crown of each muffin into the glaze. Allow glaze to harden just a bit, then repeat the process. Serve with butter or eat as is.

Monday, July 14, 2014

Cheeseburger Bow Tie Pasta

We've all heard of  the boxed meal, "Hamburger Helper"....which isn't bad, in fact I've eaten Hamburger Helper before and it can be pretty good (after its been doctored up a bit)... Well, this recipe is a HOMEMADE version of the boxed quick meal. Its full of rich fresh ingredient that makes dinner time

Cheeseburger Bow Tie Pasta
1 lb. bow tie pasta, cooked
1 lb ground beef, cooked
3/4 c. milk
1/2 t. garlic powder
1/2 t. season salt
2 1/2 c. grated cheddar cheese
1 t. pepper
1/2 t. salt

Cook ground beef until done. Add salt, pepper, season salt and garlic powder to meat as you are cooking it. Drain fat from meat. IN a saucepan, cook milk and cheese until melted. Add meat to cheese sauce and mix. Add COOKED bow tie pasta and stir. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Serve immediately. Top with extra cheese if desired.

Friday, July 11, 2014

Julie's Stacked Breakfast Omelet

This is a fun way to serve an omelet... and it tastes superb too. Everyone in the house
will LOVE this delicious new way to eat eggs and hashbrowns!! You can
make enough for one person or for 10 people....its very versatile that way.

Julie's Stacked Breakfast Omelet
1-2 potatoes, grated (more if you are serving more than 2 people)
3 T. butter (real butter)
season salt

Melt butter in a small frying pan. Place freshly grated potatoes into hot butter. Spread potatoes out so they cover the bottom of the pan. Add as much salt, pepper and season salt as desired. Cook on medium high until potatoes are browned and crispy then flip over. Potatoes should be pretty much cooked together and will form a "patty". Continue to cook until other side is done. When done set aside while you cook the omelet.

4 eggs
1/2 c. cooked, crumbled bacon
1/2 c. cheddar cheese, shredded
2-3 T. butter (real)

Beat eggs in a small bowl. Melt butter in a small frying pan. Pour eggs into HOT pan with melted butter. Cook until edges are set up. Add cooked bacon. Continue to cook until you can see that the eggs are almost done, flip over and cook other side. Top with cheese. Remove from pan. Cut "potato patty" in half, place each half on a plate. Cut "omelet patty" in half, place each half  of omelet on each potato half (refer to picture if you are confused). Serve immediately.

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Spicy Grilled Salmon

I love Salmon, well seafood of any kind, but Salmon is one of my favorites.
I love the way the lemon, garlic and cayenne compliment the flavors of the salmon. There isn't enough
cayenne in this recipe to make the salmon hot, but it adds just the right amount of ZING to it. Mmmmm!

Spicy Grilled Salmon
1/4 c. oil
1/4 c. lemon juice
1 t. lemon pepper
1 1/2 t. garlic powder
1 pinch of cayenne pepper
6-8 Salmon Fillets

Mix all ingredient (except Salmon) together and stir with a whisk until combined. Place salmon on a platter, using a pastry brush, brush oil mixture onto meat. Place on a hot grill. Grill meat on one side for approximately 3-4 minutes, then turn it over, brush other side of meat with oil mixture. Grill for another 3-4 minutes or until done. When grilling salmon, grill 7-8 minutes for every 1" of thickness....so grilling time really depends on the thickness of your meat. Serve with your favorite side veggie for a delicious, healthy dinner!

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Pecan Carrot Cake Waffles

These Pecan Carrot Cake Waffles are like eating dessert for breakfast....Serious YUM!! There
is no reason that you shouldn't divulge in such a scrumptious breakfast, so pull out a mixing bowl
and start mixing...you can thank me later!

Pecan Carrot Cake Waffles
2 c. flour
1/2 t. salt
2 T. sugar
1 1/2 t. baking soda
1 t. cinnamon
1 t. nutmeg
1 t. allspice
1 3/4 c. buttermilk
2 eggs, separated
1/2 cube butter, melted
1/2 t. vanilla
1 c. chopped pecans
1 1/2 c. grated carrots

Combine all dry ingredients (first 7 ingredients) , stir completely , set aside. Mix together buttermilk, egg yolks (separate egg whites from yolks, set egg whites aside), melted butter and vanilla. Add dry ingredient. In a separate bowl, whip egg whites until peaks form. Gently fold into batter. Add carrots and pecans. Stir gently until ingredient is incorporated. Heat waffle iron until hot. Spray with cooking spray. cook according to waffle iron directions. Continue until all waffles are cooked. Top with Maple Cream Cheese Syrup (recipe below).
Maple Cream Cheese Syrup:
4 oz cream cheese
1 cube butter
4 T. maple syrup
Place ingredient in a microwave safe dish. Microwave on high for 1 minute, stir....continue to cook for 1 minute and stir, until ingredient is mixed and melted. THEN ADD: 1 1/2 c. powdered sugar and 1/8 c. pecans. Stir until combined. Serve on top of Pecan Carrot Cake Waffles.

Friday, July 4, 2014

Aunt Jo's Summer Salad

Happy Independance Day!!!!
We hope your day is filled with the best memories and delicious food!
We would like to thank the many
servicemen  and women who have fought for the freedoms that we all enjoy. Because of the sacrifices they have made for us we get to live in this free land and enjoy all that we do!
Have a wonderful, spectacular, fabulous kind of day!!

Since today is one of the biggest barbecue days of the year, I thought it was only
appropriate to post something you can actually eat with your meal today.
This salad is OH SO GOOD! It was given to me by one of my aunts, from another one of my
aunts.....and coming from such reliable sources I got busy and made it right away. I love the
crunch of the peppers and corn together. This would be a huge hit at any family barbecue or served
as lunch on a hot day!

Aunt Jo's Summer Salad
3 large red peppers, diced into small pieces
1 bunch of green onions, cut into small pieces
1 bag frozen corn, thawed but not cooked
2 c. shredded cheddar cheese
Mayonnaise (NOT salad dressing), enough to make your salad creamy

1 bag Chili flavored Frito Chips

Mix all ingredients together in a mixing bowl (except chips) until combined. Refrigerate for 1-2 hours so that the flavors can marry. When ready to serve, add chips...OR let guests add chips to their own salad. THIS WAY if there are any leftover salad,  the chips aren't directly in in it so they won't go gross and soggy. Serve and enjoy!!
* You could also use pepper jack cheese in place of the cheddar cheese....I think I will try that next time.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Peary Delicious Smoothie

You will be seeing a lot of smoothy recipe this summer. We like them for snacks, for lunch, for
breakfast...just any ol' time. Smoothies  scream summer and are so refreshing. They can also be
frozen and made into popsicles...MMMMMMMMMMM!
These Peary Delicious Smoothies have just a hint of pear in them
and give them a new and different taste. They are creamy and a great way to start your day!

Peary Delicious Smoothie
1 lb. strawberries
1 c. vanilla yogurt
2 banana's
1 c. canned pears, drained
1/2 c. orange juice

Cut the tops off strawberries. Place all ingredient in a blender, starting with orange juice first (liquid needs to go on the bottom so that the fruit won't get stuck in the blades). Blend on high until all fruit is mixed and your consistency looks like a smoothy. Serve immediately.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

I went to Boston several years back and ate my first Baklava. From day one, it was a "must have" every
morning on our trip.....a race to the little bakery in our hotel to grab a piece before it was gone. When I
found this recipe, I knew I MUST try it! It was easier  to make than I thought and tasted as
fabulous as I remember! I thought I was right back in Boston...where the Baklava melted in my mouth!

2 c. chopped almonds
1 c. chopped walnuts
1/4 c. sugar
3 T. bread crumbs
2 t. cinnamon
1/4 t. ground cloves

2 c. sugar
1 1/2 c. water
1/2 t. cinnamon
1 T. lemon juice

1 1/4 c. melted butter (real butter)
20-24 sheets of Filo Pastry

Grease a 9x13 baking dish. In a mixing bowl, combine all ingredient for the "Filling". Stir until combined. Set aside. Place all ingredient for "syrup" in a sauce pan. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Let simmer for 10 minutes. Cool completely.

Remove Filo Pastry dough from package. Laying each sheet in the pan one at a time and brush with melted butter. Continue processes until 10 sheets have been buttered and layered. Spread filling over the pastry sheets. Top the filling with the remainder pastry sheets, one at a time and buttering each sheet completely. Brush top pastry sheet with butter also. With a sharp knife, score the top layers into squares. Bake for 1 hour at 325 degrees. Remove from the oven and slowly pour syrup over the top. Cool. Let sit 5-6 hours (I let mine sit over night) before serving. DO not cover. It holds the moisture in and causes the Baklava to go soggy.


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The Importance of Connectivity in Healthcare

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Legislative Update: ESEA, Higher Education Regs, i3 Grants, Bills Introduced

House Passes Two ESEA Bills with CTE Elements

This week the House Education and the Workforce Committee held a markup of two recently introduced ESEA bills, H.R. 3989, the Student Success Act and H.R. 3990, the Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act. The Committee approved both pieces of legislation by party-line votes of 23 to 16.

The Student Success Act included elements of the Education for Tomorrows Jobs Act, a bill introduced by Rep. Glenn Thompson (PA) last year. The bill allows school districts to use ESEA funds to integrate academic and technical education, and encourages the creation of partnerships between school districts, institutes of higher education, business and industry, and other stakeholders.

The markup was largely partisan with Democrats opposing the bills and offering substitute bills as their only amendments. There were several Republican amendments to note. Rep. Todd Rokitaâ€™s (IN) amendment to reduce the number of U.S. Department of Education staffers was accepted along a party-line vote. However, an amendment from Rep. Thompson to change the Title I funding formula to help smaller population districts was defeated by a vote of 22-16. Such a change would have benefited rural areas, such as Mr. Thompsonâ€™s district. Ranking Member George Miller (CA) argued that a change to the formula like the one proposed would not be fair to high population districts that would lose money.

Chairman Kline (MN) intends to move the bills to the floor for a vote in the near future. We will keep you posted on the progress of these two pieces of legislation.

House Passes Bill to Repeal Two Higher Education Regulations

The House this week passed H.R. 2117, the Protecting Academic Freedom in Higher Education Act by a vote ofÂ 303 to 114. This bill would permanently repeal the credit hour and state authorization regulations (which went into effect July 1, 2011), with the goal of reducing college costs and increasing student choice. More specifically, the legislation would prohibit the Secretary of Education from promulgating or enforcing any rule that defines â€œcredit hour,â€ and would ease the burden on distance education programs from meet any state requirements in the state where the student is located. The Senate has not indicated whether they will vote on similar legislation.

Next Round of i3 Grants Available

The Department of Education is now accepting pre-applications for the next round of Investing in Innovation (i3) Development grants. The i3 development grants provide up to $3 million to support â€œnew projects or programs with high potential for success but which have been implemented previously in only limited contexts.â€ The deadline to submit a pre-application is April 9, 2012.

Bills Introduced

Student Right to Know Before You Go Act

Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) introduced S. 2098, the Student Right to Know Before You Go Act, which intends to give students and their families the information they need to make better informed decisions about pursuing higher education. In its simplest terms, the bill would make it easier for students to find information about how long it would take get their degree, how much debt they could expect to owe after graduation, and how much they can expect to earn in a given field.

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Monthly Archive for September, 2013

: September, 2013

Marc Martin Marches Back to Cougar Country

  It’s a season of transition for the University of Houston football team. The Coogs enter a new conference (the American Athletic Conference) and await the completion of a new home stadium –

UH Poet J.S.A. Lowe Among Gulf Coast Readers

She hadn’t planned on returning to Texas, but poet J.S.A. Lowe found her way back to the Lone Star State. A doctoral student in the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, Lowe is among the


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Steny Hoyer: Lawmakers ‘would be kidding ourselves’ to push for gun control in GOP House

At a breakfast interview with reporters hosted by the Christian Science Monitor Wednesday, Hoyer said that advocating for greater gun control is “the right thing for us to do,” especially, he added, in light of the intended nature of such weapons.

Analysis: With Cruz and Dewhurst, the loathing is personal

Cruz said his father, a Cuban immigrant, received a Dewhurst mailer this week that accused his opponent of being unpatriotic.

Americans frustrated by campaign’s negative tone, but don’t expect it’ll change

A new Knights of Columbus-Marist poll found that nearly 8 in 10 Americans, or 78 percent, say they are “frustrated” by the current tone of political campaigns

George W. Bush declines invitation to GOP convention

A spokesman for the former president said Bush declined an invitation before details over a potential speech were discussed.

Biden cancels campaign trip to Houston after Colorado rampage

Vice President Joe Biden abruptly canceled his planned political trip to Houston hours after a gunman killed at least 12 people in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater.

Asian American leaders express concern about voter ID laws

With changing laws, voters may not be aware of the state’s requirement for proper identification, said Christine Chen, executive director of Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote.

Rush vs. Batman: Limbaugh sees liberal conspiracy in movie villain named Bane

We don’t doubt for a second that once this latest “Batman” becomes a megahit, Democratic operatives will be making Bane/Bain references with such regularity that you’ll want to hurl. That said, there are (at least) two problems with Rush’s liberal conspiracy theory.

Can Gallego’s fundraising prowess overcome Rodriguez’s lead in Texas runoff?

Pete Gallego again has outraised Ciro Rodriguez in campaign donations, but the two candidates remain in a neck-and-neck in a Democratic primary runoff for a San Antonio-based congressional district,

Commentary: Ted Cruz is big winner of final GOP Senate debate

A debate, whatever the format, is just not Dewhurst’s forte, as he himself pretty much admitted Tuesday night, and he went on to prove it. He looked uncomfortable, often stumbled, and at times found himself on the defensive. It was not a good night for him.

Obama opens up massive 48-point lead among Latino voters

Obama’s margin is even larger in 13 critical battleground states, where the incumbent Democrat leads his Republican challenger by 71 percent to 21 percent, the Latino Decisions poll found.


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Rockets end road trip with another loss to Clippers

LOS ANGELES – The Rockets were not the team that the Clippers had twice destroyed in November, but they were not the team that had rolled through the past two months either.

That team might have had a much better chance than the version the Rockets put on the floor. The problem was that while the Rockets could overcome the issues they still have not conquered against some teams, they did not do enough other things well enough to give away so many points and possessions and still beat the Clippers.

Without the high-scoring offense that had marked much of their roll to the league’s best record since New Year’s, the Rockets struggled with the problems they had not eliminated. They gave up offensive boards. They turned the ball over. Most of all, they failed to shoot their way past their familiar shortcomings, as the Clippers held on for a 101-93 win to complete the Rockets five-game West Coast road trip with signs of progress but still obvious work to do.

“They had 30 points off of our turnovers, 20 turnovers,” Rockets coach Kevin McHale said. “And they had 19 second-chance points. You give up 49 points, that’s just too much. We did not play a very clean game today, didn’t play a very smart game, didn’t play a very good game.”

The Clippers had scored 27 points off turnovers in the first two meetings, but rolled up 30 off Rockets turnovers on Wednesday. The Rockets might have overcome that had they shot better, but Chandler Parsons struggled through a 3-of-13 night and James Harden had just five of his 18 points in the second half when the Rockets could not keep pace.

“As a team, we couldn’t get it going in general,” Harden said. “Our wings couldn’t really make a shot and get to the paint. Jordan (Hamilton) was the only one that could knock down a consistent shot.”

Hamilton made six of his 12 shots, including four 3-pointers, for his 16 points in this second game in the Rockets’ rotation. Dwight Howard made 9 of his 12 shots to score 23 points, but the Clippers kept him surrounded, with the Rockets shooters – other than Hamilton – unable to take advantage of the opportunities they had. They missed open shots and a staggering number of layups.

The Rockets had spent much of the game somehow keeping themselves in range. By the fourth quarter, however, they seemed to have little left for a final push.

“Even though we got back in the game, we’ve got to make sure we take care of the ball,” Howard said. They played some pretty good defense tonight, but we’ve got to get better on the offensive end.”

Even with all the fast break and second-chance points the Clippers scored, hitting 18-of-30 shots on the break or off the boards, the Rockets kept them under control the rest of the game, when they made just 23-of-63 shots. They even overcame another terrible, sluggish start when the Clippers rolled to a 17-4 lead as McHale called two time outs in four minutes and called on Hamilton and Donatas Motiejunas off the bench in the first six minutes.

“They always get off to great first quarters,” Harden said. “We let it happen again. Coming out to 17-4, trying to fight our way back, we got back in the game.

The Clippers took a 74-73 lead into the fourth quarter and were 21-0 record when leading after three. But the Rockets had remained in the game by doing just enough to stay within a good offensive burst. They withstood Blake Griffin dominating to start the second half by switching Howard over to him. They took away the second-chance points the Clippers were piling up in the first half. They got good shots.

They just could not get the sort of shots they normally love to fall. When Darren Collison, who played most of the second half after Jamal Crawford was ruled out at halftime, scored on three-consecutive possessions, the Rockets finally ran out of time. But they believed they had let the game get away when despite their successes, they had not solves their remaining problems.

“If we play solid and not give up so many points off turnovers, easy points in transition we’d make it easier for ourselves,” Harden said. “Too many … turnovers, especially against this team, is tough to do, especially in LA. And we gave them so many second-chance points. The combination of those two things is not good.”

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Rock and a Hard Place

Over the past several years, a significant debate has arisen over the future of energy in the U.S. Advocates and industries from all sides have been clamoring to fit their piece into the new-energy pie, where renewables such as solar and wind contend with concepts such a “clean coal” and nuclear (which has recently come under significant scrutiny in the face of Japan’s current nuclear crisis).  Another energy source that has received a good deal of attention in recent years is that of natural gas, with President Obama himself identifying natural gas as an important component in America’s energy future.

Yet recently, a major push-back against natural gas has begun to occur. The focus isn’t so much on the gas itself, but the technology used to obtain it. High-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or “hydrofracking” as it has been termed,  is a fairly new technology that has enabled energy companies to extract gas that currently exists buried underground in shale rock. Supporters of the practice claim that hydraulic fracturing is a perfectly safe technology that will move the U.S. towards energy independence and a greener future. However, this past February the New York Times published an article that refutes these safety claims. It cites unreleased EPA reports that suggest the chemicals used in hydrofracking are contaminating ground water and waterways in areas where the drilling is taking place, as well as areas where the wastewater is being shipped for treatment. A 2010 documentary entitled Gasland yielded similar results. After being approached by an energy company about signing a lease to extract natural gas from his land, filmmaker Josh Fox explored the process of hydrofracking. This project lead him to find and document the profoundly negative impact hydrofracking has had on communities across North America.

What, you might ask does this have to do with the usual food and farming topics I usually cover in my blog entries? Much of the drilling is taking place on and around agricultural land. The Marcellus Shale, the area in New York and surrounding states that is being targeted for drilling, is also an important agricultural area in the New York foodshed. Among the many concerns that anti-fracking advocates have is that the drilling will contaminate the land and water in these areas, making it unfit for agricultural production and destroying the livelihood of regional farmers.

The debate over hydrofracking is heating up, as New York State’s temporary moratorium on permits is set to expire in July. Public officials and anti-fracking activists are hosting a series of events over the next few months to call attention to the issue.  On May 5th Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer,  State Senator Liz Krueger, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, Councilmember Rosie Mendez, and Baruch Grassroots are co-hosting a free screening of Gasland, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Josh Fox.

On May 16th, the Baum Forum, in conjunction with Parsons The New School for Design, will be hosting Water Fight! Fracking, Food, Art & Economy. This half-day conference will include speakers from a range of disciplines discussing the adverse environmental and economic impacts that gas drilling in New York State would have on the region. Full event details for both events are below.

Event Information:

Gasland Screening
May 5th
Mason Hall, Baruch College
Cost: Free

Water Fight! Fracking, Food, Art & Economy
Date: May 16th
Conference: 2-5:30pm; Local Food and Discussion: 5:30-7pm
Tishman Auditorium, The New School
Free; $10 suggested donation

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Marcellus Shale Map Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Google is building a new operating system and kernel to run low-power and fully featured devices for the internet.

Fuchsia (pronunciationon: /ˈfjuːʃə/ few-shə) is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees. The first, Fuchsia triphylla was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola by the French Minimmonk and botanist, Charles Plumier, during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles. He named the new genus after the renowned German botanist Leonhart Fuchs

Google has started building a new open-source operating system that doesn’t rely on the Linux kernel.Instead of the Linux kernel, Google’s new OS uses Magenta, which itself is based on LittleKernel, a rival to commercial OSes for embedded systems such as FreeRTOS and ThreadX.

Magenta can target smartphones and PCs thanks to user-mode support and a capability-based security model like Android 6.0’s permissions framework.

When will Google new OS Fuchsia ready ?

The OS has support for 32-bit and 64-bit ARM CPUs, as well as 64-bit PCs. Travis Geiselbrecht, one of the Google developers working on Fuchsia, also confirmed Fuchsia will be ready for Raspberry Pi 3 “soon”.

It’s not clear yet how Google plans to place Fuchsia with respect to Android and Chrome OS. It could, as Android Police speculates, replace both. So far, Google’s only description of itis: “Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)”.

How to be part of the OS ?

GIT repositories are online and kicking, indulge in Fuchsia

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Owner and founder of Hackology Internet Security Portal and BlackAngel. These days teach hacking so others can stay safe. Apart from hacking, a Movie Fanatic.Also run a tech Blog, small projects like encrypted paste etc and various PoC and research articles

  • I don’t think there is a need of another operating system. As the title says goodbye to Linux, this is not going to happen because there is no future for new operating system and Google has already tried it with Chrome OS.
    Well Drhack when will you start writing your own Operating System 😉

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Alerts & Outbreaks [Dec, 17, 2014]

Fake WhatsApp emails, texts and voicemails spread malware to mobiles

Microsoft, BlackBerry, Android and (jailbroken) Apple phones infected with Inception/Cloud Atlas malware that steals sensitive user information.

Emsisoft Lab [Jun, 16, 2012]

“Thanks for joining Classmates”, and others…

Following the recent malware scams using various popular brands, like Craigslist, Vodafone, Apple, Verizon, and LinkedIn – some new phishing emails are popping up yet again this week, purporting to be from Amazon, PayPal, Twitter, Habbo Hotel and – a social networking site. As you can see below, the emails look very professional and […]

Emsisoft Lab [Jun, 7, 2012]

More malware spam campaigns

We have detected some more spam emails spreading within recent days that try to infect the user’s computer with a trojan. At this time some of emails are purporting to be from Craigslist, Vodafone, Apple, Verizon, and also LinkedIn. Here are some screenshots of the email. Craigslist IMPORTANT – FURTHER ACTION IS REQUIRED TO COMPLETE […]


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Monday, 14 October 2013

By-Election Previews: 17 October 2013

Six by-elections will be held on 17th October.  In the north of England, the Conservatives and Lib Dems have rural seats to defend at opposite ends of Cumbria, while in the south of England the Lib Dems, Labour and the Conservatives defend seats in Luton, Thurrock and Sussex respectively.  On the Welsh Elections blog Labour are on the defensive in a Port Talbot by-election with several bizarre features.

Carlisle City Council, Cumbria; caused by the resignation of Conservative councillor Nicola Clarke who is moving away from the area to be closer to her family.

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This is one of Carlisle's rural wards, covering the parishes of Dalston, Cummersdale and St Cuthbert Without immediately to the south of Carlisle.  Dalston, the first stop out of Carlisle on the Cumbrian Coast railway line, is the largest population centre in the ward and has a decent amount of industry, with a Nestlé factory making powdered milk and a BP fuel depot.  The Dalston parish covers a wide area including the hamlets of Gaitsgill and Raughton Head further up the Caldew valley.  Cummersdale is a small Carlisle dormitory village, while the St Cuthbert Without parish runs along the A6 and West Coast Main Line to the south of Carlisle, including the villages of Wreay, Blackwell and Durdar together with some Carlisle overspill.  Possibly the main reason to visit the ward is Carlisle Racecourse, which is located at Blackwell.

Since 2004 Dalston's three seats have been split between the Tories and Lib Dems, the Conservatives finding themselves unable to unseat Lib Dem councillor Trevor Allison, who has seen his majority increase from one vote at the 2004 election to 552 at the most recent poll in 2012.  A second Lib Dem councillor was elected in 2006 but the Conservatives recovered that seat in 2010, and Nicola Clarke was re-elected in 2011 just as comfortably as Allison was the following year.  The ward is split between two Cumbria county council divsions: at the last county elections in May Allison won the Dalston division with a seven-point lead over the Tories, while in Wetheral division (which includes the St Cuthbert Without parish) the Tories won with UKIP second.

Make of that what you will.  Carlisle-based Michael Randall will try to defend the seat for the Conservatives, while the Lib Dems have selected Dalston resident Michael Gee.  The Labour candidate is Ruth Alcroft, from the village of Aglionby east of Carlisle, while UKIP's nominee is Robert Dickinson, who stood in May's county election in Dalston.  The Greens' James Tucker completes the ballot paper.

Parliamentary constituency: Carlisle
Cumbria county council division: Dalston (Dalston and Cummersdale parishes), Wetheral (St Cuthbert Without parish)
ONS Travel to Work area: Carlisle

Ruth Alcroft (Lab)
Robert Dickinson (UKIP)
Michael Gee (LD)
Michael Randall (C)
James Tucker (Grn)

May 2012 result LD 1033 C 481 Lab 305 UKIP 174
May 2011 result C 1108 LD 500 Lab 478 UKIP 170
May 2010 result C 1715 LD 1241 Lab 658
May 2008 result LD 1151 C 928 Lab 216
May 2007 result C 1037 LD 598 Lab 319
May 2006 result LD 891 C 874 Lab 246
June 2004 result LD 1048 C 1047 Lab 310
May 2003 result C 780 LD 654 Lab 281
May 2002 result C 766 LD 537 Lab 281

South Lakeland District Council, Cumbria; caused by the resignation of Liberal Democrat councillor Mary Orr on medical advice.
"The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers
Little we see in Nature that it ours
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. --- Great God!  I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn."

Wordsworth composed those words while wandering through the marshes around the Westmorland village of Heversham, at the head of Morecambe Bay on the Kent estuary.  Heversham, with its twelfth-century church on an eighth-century site, is the southernmost village in the Levens ward, which fills the space between Kendal and Morecambe Bay.  Levens itself lies at the centre of the ward and is known for the Elizabethan manor house of Levens Hall with its fantastical topiary garden.  Levens Hall is still in private hands, but the ward's other stately home, Sizergh Castle in the Helsington parish at the nothern end of the ward, is now in the care of the National Trust although still home to the Strickland family.  The Stricklands were were major landowners in Westmorland and their name is commemorated electorally in the name of one of Kendal's wards.

The local parliamentary constituency, Westmorland and Lonsdale, is now one of the safest constituencies for the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron having increased his majority to enormous proportions at the 2010 election thanks to the substantial Labour vote in Kendal voting tactially Lib Dem almost en bloc.  Levens ward, however, was voting strongly Liberal Democrat long before Farron got into Parliament, and if anything has been swinging towards the Conservatives over the last decade, although it has not yet achieved marginal status.  Mary Orr was elected for the ward in a May 2011 by-election following the death of the previous councillor, and re-elected for a full term in 2012, beating the Conservative candidate 56-40 (the Greens were the only other party to stand).  The ward is split between two county council divisions (Lower Kentdale and Lyth Valley), both of which voted Conservative in May's county election very comfortably.

This by-election is a straight fight.  In the yellow corner is Annie Rawlinson, a businesswoman from Levens who ran the 2013 London Marathon in aid of the Samaritans.  In the blue corner is the Tories' 2012 candidate for the ward, Brian Rendell from Leasgill in Heversham parish.  Seconds out!

Parliamentary constituency: Westmorland and Lonsdale
Cumbria county council division: Lyth Valley (Helsington and Levens parishes), Lower Kentdale (Heversham parish)
ONS Travel to Work Area: Kendal

Annie Rawlinson (LD)
Brian Rendell (C)

May 2012 result LD 635 C 458 Grn 45
May 2011 by-election LD 667 C 472 Lab 58
May 2008 result LD 737 C 412

Luton Council, Bedfordshire; caused by the resignation of Liberal Democrat councillor Martin Pantling to take up a new career which is incompatible with his remaining a councillor.

Luton: Fairford Avenue
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North-eastern Luton this, along the A6 to Bedford and possibly best known for Barnfield College, Bedfordshire's largest FE college.  Politically this was a safe Lib Dem ward during the last Labour government with the Conservatives running second, but in 2011 Labour came from fourth place to split the ward's two seats.  Pantling was top of the poll 96 votes ahead of his running mate, who was beaten by the leading Labour candidate by just 14 votes.  The Tories, who always poll around 600-700 votes here, fell to third place but the lead Conservative candidate still finished in front of the second Labour candidate.

So a tough fight is in prospect where all three parties will fancy their chances.  Clive Mead, a former councillor for Challney ward who lost his seat in the 2011 election, defends the Lib Dem seat.  Francis Steer stands for the Labour Party and the Tories have selected local chartered account Geoff Simons.  Completing the ballot paper is the Greens' Simon Hall.

Parliamentary constituency: Luton North
ONS Travel to Work Area: Luton and Watford

Simon Hall (Grn)
Clive Mead (LD)
Geoff Simons (C)
Francis Steer (Lab)

May 2011 result LD 904/808 Lab 822/679 C 691/657 Grn 171
May 2007 result LD 1074/1050 C 665/639 Ind 501 Lab 288/269 UKIP 137 Grn 124
May 2003 result LD 1001/887 C 698/614 Lab 285/261

Thurrock Council, Essex; caused by the death of Labour councillor Diana Hale at the age of 66.  Hale had served as a Thurrock councillor from 1988 to 1997, before being forced to resign to become principal of Thurrock Adult Community College; she returned to the council in 2007.

Houses on Stifford Clays Road
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This is a residential area at the north end of Grays, off the A13 dual carriageway, about which I have very little to say.  So we'll move straight on to discussion of the ward's politics, which are more interesting.  This ward was a key marginal on Thurrock council during the tail end of the last Labour government: the Conservatives won the ward's two seats at the 2004 election (when the current boundaries were introduced) with majorities of 127 and 95 over Labour and held off Labour in 2006 by 34 votes.  Labour gained one of the Conservative seats in 2007 by 130 votes, in an election which saw a very high third-place BNP vote of 24%, and followed up in 2010 by gaining the second seat with a majority of 76.  The formation of the Coalition greatly reduced the area's Conservative vote and Labour's majority increased to 354 at the most recent election in this ward in 2011, UKIP finishing close behind the Conservatives in third place.

Labour's current majority control of Thurrock Council will be on the line in this contest with them currently holding 24 seats to the Conservatives' 21 and three independents, with the vacant seat holding the balance of power.

Defending for Labour is Sue Shinnick, an outsourced council administrator.  The Conservatives have selected former councillor and Kent county council officer Danny Nicklen, who still lives in his former ward in Stanford-le-Hope.  UKIP's candidate Clive Broad will hope to improve on the 24% and third place he achieved here in 2011.  The ballot paper is completed by Liberal Democrat candidate Ken Mulroue.

Parliamentary constituency: Thurrock
ONS Travel to Work Area: London

Clive Broad (UKIP)
Ken Mulroue (LD)
Danny Nicklen (C)
Susan Shinnick (Lab)

May 2011 result Lab 877 C 523 UKIP 475 LD 68
May 2010 result Lab 1184 C 1108 UKIP 642 BNP 249
May 2007 result Lab 762 C 632 BNP 435
May 2006 result C 829 Lab 795 LD 296
June 2004 result C 788/756 Lab 661/645

Chichester District Council, West Sussex; caused by the resignation of Conservative councillor Maureen Elliott.

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For our final by-election this week we travel to the most westerly village in Sussex, hard up against the River Ems which forms the border with Hampshire.  This village is aptly named Westbourne, and its parish has the same boundaries as the Westbourne ward of Chichester district.  Westbourne's claim to fame is that the churchyard has England's oldest yew avenue.  Part of the parish (including the hamlet of Aldsworth) lies within the South Downs National Park.

To describe Chichester politics I can do little better than quote Anthony Wells, who stated in his Almanac of British Poltiics that even once the revolution comes the Chichester Workers' Soviet would be Conservative.  Thus are Westbourne politics; since the turn of the century the closest the Tories have come to losing the ward was at the most recent election in 2011, when they beat a Liberal Democrat candidate 62-38.  However, local politics became interesting this year when UKIP gained the local county division (Bourne) from the Conservatives by 83 votes.

What effect will this have on the by-election?  Hoping "not a lot" is the defeated county councillor from May, Mark Dunn, who is the Conservative candidate for the ward by-election; he is from the village of Stoughton, in the South Downs to the north-east.  Southbourne parish councillor, writer and historian Philip MacDougall is the Liberal Democrat candidate.  UKIP's candidate is Alicia Denne, from Bosham on Chichester Harbour.  Also standing in the by-election are former Labour PPC Andrew Emerson for a new far-right outfit called Patria, and Green Party nominee Thomas French.

Parliamentary constituency: Chichester
ONS Travel to Work Area: Chichester and Bognor Regis
West Sussex county council division: Bourne

Alicia Denne (UKIP)
Mark Dunn (C)
Andrew Emerson (Patria)
Thomas French (Grn)
Philip MacDougall (LD)

May 2011 result C 515 LD 315
May 2007 result C 445 LD 172
May 2003 result C 391 Lab 122 UKIP 101

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    Friday, Oct 28, 2011 Kelly Fletcher

    We’ve mentioned Bridget Brennan and her wildly popular book “Why She Buys” here on the Her Voice blog before, in discussions about gender and its effects on consumer behavior as well as how friendships between women play a role in the shopping experience. Brennan recently spoke candidly about her thoughts and expanded on some of the ideas from her book.

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    There's a new documentary about the representation of women in the media and it's really gotten people talking. The film, MissRepresentation, premiered on Oprah's OWN Network last night and attempts to shed some light on how the mainstream media portrays women and girls. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom (pictured below with Gloria Steinem, Daphne Zuniga and Geena Davis), the film provides an up-close look at how women in positions of power are scrutinized by members of the media in ways that their male counterparts are not.

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    TV's Portrayal of Public Relations

    Tuesday, Oct 18, 2011 Kelly Fletcher

    The workplace is a popular setting for some of today’s most beloved television shows (The Office, Law & Order, Gray’s Anatomy, and 30 Rock to name a few). From hospitals and police precincts to radio stations and automotive garages, just about every workplace imaginable has been used as a backdrop. There’s a new show on NBC called Free Agents that caught our attention because it’s a sit-com where the workplace happens to be an advertising & public relations agency.

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    Kelly Cutrone speaks her mind {@peoplesrev}

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    We've expressed our admiration for the fabulous Kelly Cutrone here on the Her Voice blog in the past and a recent article in Advertising Age magazine only further supports our claim that she is amazing! Kelly is getting ready to join the panel of judges for the upcoming season of America's Next Top Model, taking over for Andre Leon Talley, who is leaving the show.

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    Ad Icons, Who are they really for?

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The last little bit: strategies for maximizing value of older workers

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As we look at employment trends in the U.S., the specter of baby boomer retirement looms as an unresolved question for many organizations. How will they replace the leaders who have driven their success up to this point? Their leadership bench often seems thin, and organizations find themselves in competition for the same small pool of potential leaders, driving up prices for talent acquisition from the outside. While organizations recognize the value of developing their own talent pools, that long-term strategy may not address their short-term staffing needs.

There are also issues aplenty for older workers. Many of them find their skill sets less relevant in the modern business context. Discrimination against older workers may limit their options, and their values may not be aligned with their company’s direction. For the age 50+ worker, their motivation may shift from thinking about climbing the corporate ladder to figuring out how they will spend the time that they have left until retirement. They can find themselves fighting for relevance in a fast moving and constantly changing business environment.

For companies and workers, here are some strategies for maximizing value of the last little bit:

  • Be a lifelong learner. When I ask older workers what they do about their own learning and development, I often hear the response, “very little.” Ongoing development is a shared responsibility between workers and organizations. The organization should set expectations for annual learning goals, and provide resources for individual development. The worker needs to push themselves out of their comfort zone to acquire much needed new skill sets in order to keep themselves relevant and in demand. Development does not stop at age 50, and acquiring new learning is as energizing for older workers as it is for younger ones.
  • Transfer knowledge. Erik Erikson, the great psychologist, theorized about the stages of human development. For older adults, he wrote about the choice of generativity vs. despair, whether adults would be able to pass on their knowledge to a new generation or fall into regret about how they have spent their time. For organizations, this may require setting up systems to codify and manage tacit knowledge of older workers, lest they lose the value of this information. Other options to leverage the wisdom of older workers include mentorship programs, utilizing leaders as teachers in training programs, and establishing team coaching positions to help pass along the lessons of experience.
  • Get creative. There are many different work models that can create mutually satisfactory environments for older workers and organizations. Part-time work may be an attractive option to help workers transition into their next life stage. Establishing ongoing consulting relationships can be another way to keep highly valued employees connected to the organization. As the unit of work shifts from the job to the project, attaching senior level workers to projects might be a good way of transferring knowledge to younger workers. Older workers greatly appreciate acknowledgement of their contributions, and younger workers are eager to gain the information that they need to drive their own career growth.
  • Embrace changing technology. There is no denying the fundamental revolution that the use of technology has driven in our work life. For example, the use of social media represents a powerful new way of reaching relevant communities. However, many older adults have yet to leverage this communications channel. Rather than decrying this change, older workers will need to learn to utilize these technologies in new ways to maintain their marketability. For organizations, providing training and resources for skill acquisition will help them drive productivity. Additionally, utilizing technology to set up virtual work relationships may help older workers continue to contribute from remote locations, minimizing travel and improving work-life balance.
  • Have a plan. For organizations, it is important to create a formal succession management plan that identifies potential successors for key roles. This will enable them to prepare candidates by ensuring that they have the needed experience and competencies to hit the ground running in their new positions. For individuals, it is equally important to have a life plan. Setting tangible goals and implementing plans to accomplish those goals is fundamental to their ongoing success. Organizations can help support these efforts by providing consulting help for older workers for financial and retirement planning.

The wisdom, energy and knowledge of older workers represent an underutilized resource in today’s organizations. By adopting some of the strategies outlined above, organizations and individuals can partner to make the most of older workers’ final working years before retirement, helping to revitalize their careers and add more value to the teams within which they work.

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    December 18, 2014 at 1:04 pm

    The only disagreement I’d have is that this is not just for the 50+ but the 30+ should already start thinking it inside their minds, and the 40+ should have a few ‘experiments’ running on – e.g., to test and understand what works for them. Regarding the strategies, you are spot on!

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PrivateCloudTargetingCloud architecture is fast becoming the more widely used choice for enterprises, as many of them understand clearly all of the benefits of such an infrastructure. You get scalability of the system together with your business, rapid deployment and easy management of new applications and at the same time, impressive TCO reduction. But all of these benefits are gained only if enterprises make the right decision while choosing the appropriate private cloud for their business.

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Jelastic makes DevOps possible without hiring specialized skill sets by providing a self-service web portal for app developers and cluster admins. Jelastic’s dashboard and admin panel provide all of the tools necessary to configure, deploy and manage Jelastic resources, including easy integration with popular solutions. This reduces operational overhead, freeing up resources for new products, allowing them to concentrate on really difficult tasks and issues.

SSH Gate

Jelastic users can remotely access individual application containers for applications deployed on the PaaS in order to see their processes, file system, and log files. This provides users the best architecture to manage their applications.

SSH Gateway accepts users’ connections from the internet and then transmits these connections to the desired container, using an internal network.

  • Interactive menu and the ability to travel across many environments and containers, without unnecessary extra authentication
  • Direct connect to any container with support of SFTP, SCP, FISH, Puppet, Chef, Capistrano, etc.

These are just some of the main benefits that make Jelastic cloud the right solution for enterprises that want to get efficient, profitable and scalable PaaS for their business. Easily configured and managed, Jelastic provides a turnkey private cloud that works.

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Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Pebble Watch: First Impressions

I ran to my Best Buy store on Sunday, the day the Best Buy was slated to start selling the Pebble Watch. However, due to the holiday the week before, the shipping schedule was off and there were none yet in the store. However, the Best Buy employee assured me he would call me when they came in, and he did, and I was able to get one (of the two!) that arrived.

It is definitely a cool device. However, since there are not a lot of them out on the street yet, it is truly an early-adopter's dream! I had to work hard to learn how it worked and, more importantly, the best ways to make it work for me.

The Pebble, for those of you that do not know, is a smartwatch that interfaces with your Android smartphone or iPhone via Bluetooth to provide notifications on your wrist. I would call it a pseudo-smartwatch since you cannot use it to send anything back. You can receive phone call info and SMS messages and you can control the music on your iPhone via the Pebble, set up to four reminder alarms, and, of course, change your clock face at will!

The Pebble watch has an e-ink display (like the original Kindles) and can be easily read in the sunlight. There is also a back-light for use in the dark and you can simply shake your wrist to make the light comes on.

Here is an unboxing video posted on Sunday from a user who has an Android device, but the set-up on the iPhone is pretty much the same.

It does not come with any real directions, probably because it is still a work in progress, but Pebble has information on their site to help you out. If you start searching for ideas, you might get confused between the Android phone owners and the iOS phone owners as to the capabilities of the watch. The new iPhone iOS 7 is going to allow notifications from third-party apps and to devices via Bluetooth which will be a boon for the iPhone/Pebble-owners crowd.

Here is the link to the user guide from the Pebble site: http://help.getpebble.com/customer/portal/articles/957384-pebble-user-guide

I started to use some workarounds with Pushover and IFTTT, which will work for some things, but once I realized, if I only had everything I wanted to be notified about sent to SMS, I could easily receive the updates on the Pebble.

Since I already had my Twitter direct messages sent via SMS, I asked Adam Bellow to send me a DM so I could see how that worked. He is too funny!

I wanted my iCal appointment reminders to go to my Pebble, but, as the iOS instructions for setting up notifications page states, that functionality is coming soon to the Pebble.

However, I knew there had to be a way to make that happen and I searched "sending iCal reminders to SMS" and came up with this great workaround that totally makes sense-- just use the email equivalent of your mobile phone number (mobile phone number followed by @ mobile company designated address) and send the appointment reminder to that email address! Here are the instructions and it worked like a charm!

Another tip-- if you cannot get an app or watchface to install from your phone app, use the desktop, go to the site, download the .pbw files to yourself, and install them via the email app on your device. Pick them to open in the Pebble App.

Tip #3: You can make a QR code and put it as a watchface in your Pebble and you will always have your contact info ready to share! It needs to be 144x144 pixels.

Do you have a Pebble watch yet? Any ideas for use in the classroom?


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The Freewheel line with a couple of English friends.

It takes a lot of beer to keep the wine business running smoothly. Here in Redwood City, we are very fortunate to have a great English style ale producer right in our backyard: Freewheel Brewing Company. The staff of K&L are fictures at our local pub, and it is a rare moment when one of us isn't there having a pint and a bite of their excellent food. We are also lucky enough to be the first place to offer their bottled beer for sale. If you have never had it, the Freewheel Brewing "FSB" Freewheel Special Bitter, California (500ml) is the benchmark in fresh, balanced, smashable ale. We will do our best to keep some in stock for you, the customer too!

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2004 Highfield Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough New Zealand ($13.99) This is a new offering in our portfolio of Kiwi sauvignon blancs, and a fine one indeed. Meticulous vineyard work and grape selection along with cold fermentation contribute to the perfumed nose of lime blossom, pink grapefruit, red bell pepper and minerals. 2004 Thorn Clarke Terra Barossa “Importers Reserve” Cabernet Sauvignon Barossa Valley South Australia ($10.99) It’s tough to find good cabernet at this price, but once again they deliver. The bouquet shows notes of plum, cherry, black current, earth and a hint of herbs. Aged in French oak, there are hints of spice along with the fruit character framed by supple tannins leading to a fine finish. 2003 d’Arenberg “Laughing Magpie” Shiraz-Viognier McLaren Vale South Australia ($19.99) A blend of shiraz co-fermented with 6% viognier. Showing aromas of honeysuckle, marmalade, blackberry, and a hint of pencil lead, on the palate this is full bodied with wonderful balance, fine dusty tannins and great length. This is a superb price. I’d recommend putting some aside to drink over the next 3-5 years. 2002 Penfolds Bin 389 Shiraz-Cabernet South Australia ($18.99) Know as Baby Grange or Poor Man’s Grange, this wine shows elements of pepper, earth, black cherry, cassis, current and notes of cedar, spice box and mocha. I had the 1986 of this wine not long ago and it was absolutely terrific. A great cellar candidate, too! —Jimmy C

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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Add shadows to your Second Life images

The new Second Life viewer 1.23 RC0 (recently released) include "as non supported feature", the deployment of shadows.

Shadows are a decisive feature for photography and machinima artists. Shadows inject realism to scenes and make more convincing characters and objects. There's a group on Koinup to share/collect/discuss Second Life images with shadows.

Its called With Shadow (created by Bark) and I invite you to visit and join this group. If you happen to use the Shadows Viewer and take some pics, remember to share them in the group!

You can get more info on how to enable the shadows in your Second Life experience, by reading this piece on New World Notes

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Friday, September 4, 2015

Live today.

I learnt a really good lesson on last few weeks.

It is a super personal thing so I won't jot down that much details. But I will try to spill as much as I can, because this blog purpose is for sharing.

"Sharing is caring ♥"

So, I learnt to live today.

This contradicts my usual belief that I always love to dream. I am always excited to my future! I love to have visualising dream, Law of Attraction as how people say it nowadays.

Technically, I create my dreams. That interests me, so I dream a lot.

My most common dreams are:

* Healthy and blessed life for me (and everyone around me).
* Improve my drawing skills.
* Earn money enough for me (and everyone around me) to live well and prosper.
* More opportunities for me to explore the world.
* Find what I want to do in my life.

Common dreams, okay.

I have uncommon dreams as well:

* I wish for courage to love people who hurt me.
* To be able to see the good side in everything.
* I wish to see the border between world and heaven; the enlightment.

Okay it is called uncommon because I am scared of dreaming those points. I mean, I am still in between okay and not okay for those dreams.

Now, talking about me.

I am the girl who most people called: mysterious, not that much talking, and deep.

Most of my friends called me: born-creative, talented, fun, and timid as well.

My closest people to me called me: exaggerated, noisy, insane, clumsy, lazy, cute, kind and idealist.

Myself called me: cute *cough*, cruel, evil, bad, harsh, more selfish than selfless, and having unlimited ideas sparking out from my head twenty-four seven. That I have always been a night owl (yet I keep preaching people not to be a night owl, shame on me).

To be honest, I should say.

I might appear kind, girly, nice and yadda yadda. (Thanks to my innocent look face? haha)

I might sound very open, I tell people everything about me, I share everything about me, I love to share stories and I love listening to stories #typeO #forreal

But in my deepest chamber of heart, I am waaaay more than that.

I have hidden cards inside me. Many many of it; and it will take you to pass your limit line for me to spill even one of it.

I am that 5 centimetres tip of the hugest iceberg in this world. People may think they know everything about me, but they don't.

Even my own parents don't know everything about me.

And trust me, I sometimes have to go through the trouble to understand myself.

I don't think letting people know about me nakedly has its own benefits anymore. I stop giving people trump cards to live my life. I start to be more selfish than the normally selfish me.

Okay I do feel that I mostly am selfless because I love to see people happy to achieve their dreams, but I also have significant amount of selfishness inside me.

I want myself to be happy, I want to achieve my dreams by any (good) means.

I hate things, I don't forget, I don't forgive. I hold grudges.

You can say it is hell inside my heart hahaha *cough* for real.

Okay, going back here.

So my point is, it doesn't matter how everyone defines me.

I am me.

And everyday I change.

Everyday I grow. Everyday my brain grows some cells of wisdom, and rots some of it as well.

Everyday I learn and I look forward. I never look back.

I believe past is behind for a reason. No scientific experiments have ever proved that we can step even one second backward in this life.

I also believe that future is unknown for a good reason as well. I believe there is no need for us to know what is going to be happen in the future.

Even if time-travel is possible, I wish to know the reason why.

Sure, it is exciting and fun and amazing. But I wish that everything remains the way it is now. No meddling the past, and no kaypo-ing the future.

So let's say if you know that you are going to die tomorrow, what do you want to do now then?

Tell people the things you are dreading to tell? Buy things you want to forever? Say 'I love you' to everyone you love but you don't dare to? (Tbh I don't do it as well, just because I am not accustomed for saying my feelings).

And other countless things I believe you would do whatever you want to do without worrying about anything; just because it is your last day of breathing.

But why?

Why should you wait to your knowledge of your death day to do all of those things above?

Why don't you do all of those things above, right now? You have no knowledge what is going to happen tomorrow.

I can see that this is people nowadays' logic; let's do it later, we still have time. I have more important things to worry about now, can't I worry about my ownself?

Well, you surely can. I never tell you to stop what you are doing.

I just want you to take a look above you sometimes, take a deep breath, look at the sky, and enjoy that very moment of yours.

I am not advising you to let go all of your problems and worries like you are going to die tomorrow. You are responsible of yourself, so if you have problems, take your time and enjoy every single day solving it.

What I want is for people to sometimes let go of their problems, take a deep breath and understand that it is okay not to get everything as how they want it to be.

Everyone has their own problems, and it depends on everyone how they face it. Some people are more carefree than the rest; and it is really okay.

My two-cents for people who are stressed over it that it takes their soul away until they cannot live their life:

Don't worry too much, nobody knows what is going to happen. Just do your best now, do what makes you happy. Because that is the only important thing. You are the only person who can feel the effect from what your mind is thinking, make it good. Why would you want to make yourself miserable?

I always like the quote: "Live today as if it were your last."

When you fully realise that it is your last day, you won't waste a single second to worry about anything else. You will suddenly realise that it is important to enjoy your every single breath, to treasure this very moment.

To truly live today.

Sure, I believe that not everyone can settle their mind problems fast. Everyone takes their time to settle their emotional baggage, to find out what they want to do in this life, to cautiously plan about what they think as their perfect future.

I do that, everyone does that, this is human nature of intelligence. And I am really proud us as human being.

But what saddens me is that people always think they have time--that they stop doing what is truly important: to live today and to be happy. They work so hard to the unknown future that they stop caring about their own happiness.

Truth to be said: they don't know whether they have that enough time they have always accounted.

They always think that it is okay for them to do all of things they want later because they need to sort out their worry and problems slowly.

They believe that happiness is a result of achieving something. Happiness is something to look for out there. Happiness will come once you have overcome your problems.

That is just wrong.

I learnt another thing recently that happiness is none of those things above.

Happiness is not a result of achieving something. Happiness is not something you look for outside. Happiness doesn't lie behind your problems.

The truth is, happiness is something you grow inside you. It is your own state of mind. You can be happy by altering how you think about yourself, and everyone else, and everything else.

It is somewhat related with my main topic today. You can be happy by living today, accepting life the way it is, working hard to achieve your dreams, and never stressing anything.

There are tons of happiness theories available on internet, you may apply anything that suits yourself the best. As long as it really makes you happy, then that is what matters.

And I am happy for you if you can discover that for yourself.

The good thing about this is that you can stop worrying about looking for happiness, because you can grow it by yourself inside your heart. In fact, that is the only way for you to achieve true happiness that won't disappear.

So you have one less thing to worry about, and you can live today more easily. Isn't that a good thing?

But there is another common case, let's say that there are some things you have been working your hardest as it is your ultimate dream, and it doesn't go as how you wish it should be.

There will be disappointments, but don't let it eat your happiness. Accept it, and stay happy. If you want things to be different, then change your perception about it and work harder for it. Pursue your dreams happily, and still remember to live today. Because that is what matters.

Your happiness is what matters, nothing else.

Besides, we don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. And I think it is a good thing that we don't know.

Nobody knows. Not even any of the best fortune tellers in this world. They may have abilities to tell your fortune, but they cannot predict what is going to happen in the future.

Let's say, a fortune teller tells a man that this year he will prosper. Unless he works hard and live his life for it, he will not prosper magically.

I believe fortune tellers are giving advice to people so that people will be encouraged to live his life better. Both good and bad tellings are meant to encourage people to do better and harder in their life. There is no reason for them that upon receiving those tellings they will stop live their life.

Fortune tellers may help (some) people, but in the end the person who will enjoy what you do everyday is only you. People around you are not going to enjoy it, they are going to enjoy themselves upon what they have done in their life.

That it comes to my realisation that worrying too much about your past and your future is a completely useless thing to do.

One simple reason: you can do nothing about it.

As I said above, past is behind for a good reason. So is future, unknown for a good reason.

My point here is that, I need to live today.

We all need to live today.

I am not the type that dwells in the past, because I hate reminiscing memories. I know this against my purpose of blogging, but I really want my past to remain in the past; unless I want to reminisce few things for a good reason.

I am the type that dreams of my future.

I learn to be excited toward amazing future! I am so excited daydreaming everyday and every night.

This is fun; until I no longer live today.

And this is where I made a huge mistake.

I am busy thinking about future that I no longer live today.

We all realise that the difference between life and death is only an unknown away. I realised this after receiving the news that my good friend passed away earlier this year.

And I learn that this may happen to everyone, tomorrow.

Or the next hour.

Or next minute; you know. The extreme kind. But still, it is possible.

Nobody knows what is going to happen in the future.

Everybody worries about it, but eventually I learned that it is not necessary.

You have your own worries, you are afraid of things.

But I learn that it won't take you anywhere.

Now that you think about this, you might worry that death might fetch you tomorrow or anytime it would be. Then you ask me how should I react to it.

Nothing I can do about it.

But if I live my life to the fullest today, I have no regret.

Regret, that is what everyone is afraid of right?

But that is not my point of talking about this.

I talk about: live today.

Don't dwell too much about your worries. Live today, enjoy today.

Sure, dreaming is good! I still do it. In fact, I do it all the time!

It is very important to plan about future; I am the type that plan things (not that detail though). It is very important to draw a blueprint of what you want to do in the future.

Long term plan is what they taught us to do in classes, and this is very useful.

But, as a person, be flexible. Plans need to be flexible; you will need the skill to adjust your plans to your circumstances.

Don't be too harsh to yourself.

I know some people are hitting their limits; I hit mine so many times. And my way of cooling it down is by blogging and sharing. I am that quiet person, but I always need to spill things out. This blog has been very patient in pilling all my thoughts, as I am not a person who is good in speaking this many things to people.

If you hit your limit in stress and worry, try to go outside of your cave, look for someone you can lean on. You don't have to spill everything out like me (I don't do that to people as well, anyway). I just believe by looking at other people (or animals, or plants, or anything else that calms you), it will chill you down.

That brings us to my point: live today. Don't stress things.

Live today as fullest as you can, realise your dreams, follow your plans, but don't forget to enjoy every second of it.

Sure, you might need to have a huge plan for your huge problems. Let's say, you wish to solve your big money problem by creating big plans in earning money.

Create your plans, dream high, and work your best to achieve it.

But never stress it, never let worry and discourage eats your soul away.

Do all things above happily, enjoy every breath you take.

My father always tells me this: never be afraid, and never regret.

Never be afraid to do what you think is right; live today.
And never regret what have you done, look forward and walk happily.

Live today, and stay happy. Because that is what matters.

Lots of love ♥

  1. for someone who doesn't always know what to say, you sure said a lot in this blog. and I mean, well said! *applause*
    For someone who always want to make others happy, it took me years to learn how to make myself happy first and I'm still learning. Coz I guess old habits die hard. :S
    but you are right. this blog post is right. some might think that it's not all are, but to me it is.
    Thank you for sharing :)

    1. Thank you!! (/ ;__;)/
      I know what you mean. It is so easy for me to hate myself for thousand of reasons; but we all need to learn to love ourselves. And it takes lots of practice. I guess, I need it as well. Because we need to realise that we can only depend on ourselves, although our parents and beloved family might have unconditional love for us, they won't be there forever beside us. We need to find our inner strength.
      Thank you thank you for your feedback! I really appreciate it! Live well, my friend :)

  2. It really is easy to say to live life to the fullest, but I really find it so hard to do some things which needs a really bold step forward. I guess it has to do with my lack of confidence too.
    This blog post is really inspiring :') I came to realize lots of things that I never thought about before. Thank you so much for the post!!!

    1. Yes I know how hard it is! But people say the first step is the hardest! And don't worry, you are not alone. I have hard time even now to take my first step. And you're welcome!! :"D

Thanks for the lovely comments! It makes my day ♥


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Eversheds Competition for LLB2

Eversheds are a major international City Law Firm who launched their competition for 2010 today – the LLB2 student with the best piece of Tort coursework will secure a week-long work placement at Eversheds. In today’s tough economic climate, this type of work experience is hard to come by and would be a very good addition to your cv.

Here’s what the two winners from last year had to say about their experience…

Joseph Young

Last summer I won the Eversheds LLP Essay Prize for GDL students and was invited to join the firm for a week’s work experience. Writing my essay just after the intensity of the GDL exams was difficult, as I’m sure you can appreciate, after 11 weeks of solid revision looking at law journals was low on my list of priorities! However this also meant that I was sharp and had cases at my fingertips to form an idea of how I would answer the question before engaging in detailed research.

A number of factors encouraged me to enter the competition, primarily Eversheds reputation as a top ten law firm, the chance to gain some fantastic commercial legal experience and, not to mention, achieve a brilliant addition to my CV in lieu of training contract applications etcetera.

After being informed that I had won, I was invited into Eversheds to talk to Lorraine Igoe, their Graduate Recruitment Advisor, and discuss which departments I would like to sit in. Given a choice of two from Eversheds’ five departments, I chose to split my time between Commercial Litigation, to gain some contentious experience, and Commercial IP, as I am interested in working in media and copyright law.

Starting the week in Commercial Litigation, or Com. Lit., as it was invariably called by the trainees, I was assigned a buddy who made me feel very welcome and straight away assigned me various research tasks, such as looking into battle of the forms cases within shipping law. I was also given the task of proof reading a request for arbitration regarding an SPA with a leading airline catering company. This was brilliant as it gave you an insight into the nature of the dispute and allowed you to learn a great deal while performing a valuable role. I also had the opportunity to accompany solicitors to the Royal Courts of Justice on a number of occasions, taking notes, meeting and talking to the barristers and observing the court proceedings in general.

Secondly I sat with the commercial IP team and immediately was given some high quality work; after looking into the background and previous client correspondence of an employment issue with one of the IP team’s clients, I took the opportunity to draft a letter of advice to the client which I then discussed with a solicitor and an associate. I was also invited to join a client meeting regarding a patent dispute, for which I helped prepare our file and took detailed notes.

I also had an opportunity to meet with Ian Gascoigne, the partner who oversaw and marked the essay competition, and chat about the week and what in particular I had enjoyed about working at Eversheds.

During the week I was keen to make the best of various opportunities to socialise with trainees and members of the firm. I sat with trainees from various departments for lunch on most days and met up for drinks in the downstairs coffee shop turned bar on Thursday and Friday night. I found the other trainees very friendly and welcoming; indeed I was invited to play rugby with the firm at the Law Society Sevens the following week, another enjoyable experience.

Overall this was a fantastic opportunity and well worth the initial effort, not least to gain a thorough understanding of the work undertaken by a leading City law firm. Furthermore the meritocratic credentials where recognised by those working at the firm, giving a positive impression of my dedication and commitment to law.

Traudi Chu

As a result of winning the Eversheds essay prize competition; I was put on a work placement for a week at Eversheds. We were given a choice of five departments in which we were allowed to select two out of the five departments.

We were also allocated a supervisor (who was actually a partner within the firm!) and a trainee who acted as my buddy. On the first day, we were ushered into IT training rooms and briefed on how to use the computer system. We were then given a tour of the office. I was immediately impressed with how little hierarchy there was within the firm as everyone was extremely approachable.

I spent the first three days in the competition department in which I spent my time researching on points of law for live clients as well as internal meetings. During the last couple of days, I was then moved to the corporate department in which I was involved in taking minutes for the client meeting. Towards the end of the work placement, I was then called for a meeting with the partner to discuss my experience at Eversheds and I was fortunate that the firm has an open door policy for my many questions!

During my time at Eversheds, I felt involved from day one. I was amazed that they were able to provide me support and supervision to allow me to be involved in doing real work. It gave me a priceless insight into what life as a solicitor at Eversheds would be like.

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Friday, December 18, 2009

URL Session Tokens Easily Compromised (12 Robots - Jason Dean Blog)

I have said on several occasions that catering to users who insist on disabling cookies is a bad idea. I have blogged a couple times on the reasons.

So why am I suddenly bringing this topic up again? Well I recently read (I cannot recall where, it was probably on the OWASP site) about a way that session tokens in URLs can be easily compromised. I am a little embarrassed that I never realized that this vulnerability existed before. It is pretty simple.

The vulnerability in this case is the web browser's behavior of sending a CGI variable called REFERER or HTTP_REFERER onto the page that the request was directed from. So if I click on a link on index.cfm that takes me to test.cfm then in the CGI scope of test.cfm will be a variable called HTTP_REFERER.

This is a great post explaining some of the mechanics of fishing and how session tokens in the URL can be very dangerous. I still don't understand the problem of cookies these days. If you use session tokens or are considering it, this excellent post by Jason Dean is worth the read.

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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Snowy Moscow

It's been fun in the snow for Belly as she turned a year old. And yes, she's wearing pink, fleece dog-booties — otherwise she ended up with snowballs on her feet. Now hopefully the snow will calm down in the gorge long enough for us to drive to Portland (and then to New York for New Year).

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Friday, January 2, 2015

Flirty Friday: The Hanging Tree

Hanging Tree Remix

I’m sure that by now, a lot of you know the Hanging Tree song that was featured in the Mockingjay movie. I loved the song, and enjoyed the emotion it evokes throughout the film.

I was listening to the radio the other day, and heard a remix of this song, and LOVED it. It adds a pop flair to it (I love pop music) and makes it something fun to dance along to.

The original version was perfect for the movie, but I love the remix for every day life. What do you all think?

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