During a recent discussion on the issue of diplomacy in the information age, hosted by the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, I got to mulling over the idea of the transnational public sphere.
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Opining at the Speed of Light
By Guest Blogger Sharon Halkovics I have a self-professed obsession with pierogi. I can’t pinpoint what it is exactly about those doughy, finger-pinched, half-moon dumplings – perhaps it’s simply an ancestral yearning attributed to my Polish & Hungarian heritage, or hailing from Cleveland, but one thing is for certain: I love good pierogi. When I moved to Colorado one of the things I missed about ‘home’ was the absence of ubiquitous Eastern European and German markets: The Hungarian butcher, homemade spicy kielbasa, authentic German liverwurst, the West Side Market, and the little Polish lady who handmade pierogies weekly to sell at the church down the road. Since I moved here 3 ½ years ago I’ve been on a mission to find and enjoy my favorite ‘comfort dumplings,’ but haven’t found quite what I’m looking for. Using Michael Symon’s recipe, I embarked on an adventure to make my own pierogi. I’ve always said I would master making them…and now is the time to start the process. This week I prepared my maiden batch of dough, caramelized onions, made mashed potatoes, and stuffed two dozen pierogi. They’re now happily resting in my freezer. Next week I’ll report on how they turn out once I boil and sauté them in a little butter and have them for supper
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For the Love of Pierogi
In the Spider-Man comics, the titular hero ensnares criminals by shooting lines of sticky liquid from devices in his hands, which quickly harden into solid threads. In the real world, a group of animals called velvet worms use a similar technique for a more sinister purpose – to trap their prey. Unlike Spider-Man’s synthetic webs, a velvet worm’s glue is entirely biological and an Australian scientist Victoria Haritos has uncovered its secret.
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Death from disorder: scientists uncover secret of the velvet worm’s quick-setting slime | Not Exactly Rocket Science
As part of the World Science Festival currently taking place in New York City, a full scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope is on display all week in the city’s Battery Park. The JWST YouTube channel had this funky time lapse video of the setting up. By the way, is it me or has the world gone nuts for time lapse videos in recent months?! Anyways, enjoy!
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James Webb Does NYC
Back in the late 90’s, I tried Mandrake Linux. It was one of only a handful of distributions (or distros) at the time and as my job was too entrenched in Microsoft technologies, I didn’t make the switch then. Today that number has grown exponentially
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Top 10 Linux Distros
A couple of years ago I wrote my first book, SEO Made Simple. For those of you who read the book and have followed me via this blog know that the book was developed for those who wanted practical advice for achieving number one rankings for their Web sites or blogs. Ever since the first book was published, I’ve had people asking me to teach PPC using the same, simple, easy-to-understand methodology.
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PPC Made Simple: Book Number 2
My black dress piece will be included in AWARD WINNERS 2010 at the Ontario Craft Council Gallery in Toronto this June and July. I regret that I wasn’t able to attend the awards presentation and opening of the exhibition yesterday
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While American kids are looking forward to graduation gifts of cars, clothes, electronics, or at least enough cash to buy same, kids in Finland are dancing in the streets because the new potatoes are in. ” The first Finnish new potatoes of the summer were lifted in Naantali’s Rymättylä on Tuesday morning. Farmer Heikki Vainio , 63, of Röölä was already in full swing with potato harvesting at 9 o’clock in the morning.” Summer’s first new potatoes available for graduation parties ” According to Vainio, the main thing is that the new potatoes are available in time for the school-leaving parties of the new upper secondary school graduates – the ones who will be receiving their white caps this year
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Graduations in the old country
It’s with great pride that I report on my high school alma mater This year’s prom “was not necessarily worse than usual, but the problem is it’s not getting any better,” For a historical perspective, it’s doubtful that there would have been much of this kind of stuff from a class of kids who looked like this.
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Oakmont scraps spring dance after ‘grinding’ at prom
20 unsalted dry roasted almonds 4-ounce goat cheese log, sliced into 1-inch rounds ½ cup panko Japanese breadcrumbs 1/4 cup egg beaters 6 cups washed spring mix salad greens 1 large tomato, sliced in chunks 1 English cucumber, sliced ½ cup Light Balsamic Vinaigrette (or any dressing = 25 calories per 2 Tablespoons) 2 cups cooked Israeli Couscous* * found in specialty stores or order online at www.chefshop.com 1. Prepare couscous according to package directions.
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Recipe Corner: Warm Goat Cheese & Israeli Couscous Salad
SWARTHMORE, Pa. – It certainly was a year to remember for Swarthmore Athletics: seven playoff teams, three All-Americans, 11 first-team Centennial Conference members, six Centennial gold medalists and one national champion and American record holder.
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Damn! I knew I made my promise to myself not to write about vaccines again for at least a few days too soon! Whenever I do that, it seems, one of two things happens. Either something important happens that, having become, however it happened, the go-to blogger for commenting on the anti-vaccine movement, I can’t ignore
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"Unscrupulous" skeptics versus the delusions of an anti-vaccinationist
Women who run businesses are working harder than ever to stay ahead of the curve. They are working so hard that more of them, at least in Florida, find that their career is interfering with their responsibilities at home, according to the Florida's Woman-Led Businesses 2010 study released today by the FIU Center for Leadership and The Commonwealth Institute South Florida .
Copyrights, are common concerns for craftspeople. If you’ve invented a unique product, you will more than likely want to protect it from others who can create knock-offs of your craft show gem at cheaper prices.
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Copyrights, Patents & Trademarks for Selling at Craft Shows
Police tonight revealed that 12 people had been shot by a cab driver who went on a bloody rampage in the Lake District before turning the gun on himself … Lake District shooting: TWELVE people gunned down by rampaging Derrick Bird, who then turned weapon on himself | Mail Online
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THE government is considering opening up the domestic accounting space to multinational audit firms such as KPMG, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Deloitte, a move that has long been opposed by local accountants. “We want to make foreign audit firms more accountable for their work and be able to take strict action in case of any deficiency in their performance and professional malfeasance,” said an official with the ministry of corporate affairs
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Govt may open doors to MNC audit firms
Companies managing to evade taxes on services received from abroad, such as management consultancy and banking, now may not be able to to do so as the government is all set to plug the loopholes in the system which helped flourish the practice till now. The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has written to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to provide it with the remittance data, which would help the department assess the import of services made by various companies.
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Firms will now pay tax on services taken from abroad
You’ll need a pair of 3D glasses with red and blue (to be more precise, cyan) lenses to watch any of the 3D videos that are available on YouTube or this pool of 3D images (anaglyphs) that’s on Flickr. For instance, here’s a 3D clip from the popular Avatar movie that you’ll only enjoy if you have the right colored glasses.
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Make Your Own 3D Glasses in 10 Seconds
Imagine the impossible. If Microsoft switched to Google Apps today, they could save around $277 million in costs per year, the employees at Microsoft will become 2.8 times more productive and they will have around 2.5 million extra hours per year to accomplish more productive tasks
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Now that you’re familiar with the VoIP essentials we can move on to VoIP protocols which are detailed in today’s article. Next time we’ll cover the VoIP Architecture, how to prepare your network for VoIP and how to activate VoIP which will get you to a good start with VoIP. Introducing VoIP Signaling Protocols Today I will introduce you to the VoIP Signaling Protocols
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VoIP Signaling Protocols