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This morning I went to Juanita park and saw some bass, but no luck having any bite from them.

Searched the web and still earthworm seems the best friend … here is some tips on how to raise them from the web (http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/001-099/nb070.htm)

“You can keep your own earthworms, too. The smaller species are better
than the big night crawlers. Use a wash tub or large box with a few
screened holes in the bottom for drainage. Place it in your basement or
a cool shady place and fill it with 3 parts of good black soil mixed with
1 part of decaying leaves or grass clippings. Twice a month mix into the
top layer 4 cups of oatmeal, some fatty meat scraps and some meat
bones or cracked chicken bones. Keep the soil moist but not saturated.
If the worms come to the top it is too wet and they are in danger of
drowning.

“On a long trip, worms can be transported in a box of moist earth or in
sphagnum moss obtained from a florists’s greenhouse. The earth is
better too dry than too wet. Do not use sand. Worms eat their way
through soil. Sand scratches their insides and kills them. A dead worm
is no good for bait.”

Lele ran to the wall to join in his team, but his coach leaded him in front of me and asked to take Lele home. I smiled to the coach and said ok.  When I turned to Lele, my eyes were in tears. I said something to Lele in order to let me calm. Finally I could say goodbye to another mother.

Lele has soccer ball class every Friday morning. Every time he is reluctant to  go to the class. This morning he told me he was not interested in the soccer ball. I told him not to waste money and to be nice to his classmates. Then we hurrily headed to the class.

Fredo hit his classmates twice. One was happened when they were walking backward. He came up against a short boy. He stoke the boy on the head and shoulders several times. His coach stopped him and asked him to say  sorry. The other one was happened when they were kicking the soccer ball to his coach. Lele ran around instead of kicking the ball. Lele ran to Harrison who is his classmate in the last session and began to beat Harrison on the head, face, and shoulders. The coach stopped him before I got there. My heart was twisting not only because Lele hurt his friend again but also I felt the feeling of  Harrison’s mother. The coach told Lele to go home. After talking with Lele and getting a promise from him, I let him join his team again. Not until he got there, the coach leaded him to me.

Finally Lele got a punishment for his hitting. When I stepped to the car, I thought it over if this is the result I force Lele to play the soccer ball. Anyway, he doesn’t show any interested in playing soccer ball. I shouldn’t push him and give him a chance to hurt other children. We decided to quit the soccer ball.

When I played any video in Windows Medis Player,  I had sound but no picture. I searched the Internet and knew many people met the same problem. The common solutions include installing a codec software, re-installing Windows Media Player, using other powerful media player softwares,  uninstalling all other media player, and so on.  I tried most of them except installing a more powerful media player (because I found the real solution when I downloaded the software).

The solution for this problem is to change the video acceleration setting.

1. Open Windows Media Player -> Tools -> Options  -> Performance;

2. Change the video acceleration setting to None;

3.  Click Ok and restart Windows Media Player.

Weekly Petroleum Status Report  Release Schedule: Wednesday after 10:35 a.m. EST (for tables 1 and 11-17 in txt, csv, and xls formats) and after 1:00 p.m. EST (for pdf files and appendix C) (schedule)

Also This Week in Petroleum Release Schedule: Wednesday @ 1:00 p.m. EST

1) APE to WAV: http://supermmx.org/linux/mac/ (seems not included in most distributions, need to compile by yourself): mac cd.ape cd.wav -d
2) WAV to MP3: lame –preset standard cd.wav cd.mp3

3) Split: mp3splt -f -c cd.cue -o “@n” cd.mp3

4) Tag: mp3info -a artist -l album 01.mp3

Lele’s allergy to some food additives. The cakes from the store always bring rashes on his face. So I revised the pound cake recipe by using cream cheese instead of half butter.

I am not sure if this cake can be called pound cheese cake, but I think this name is more suitable than any other name. Don’t care about the name. Just make a delicious cake in a every easy way.

Tools:
a handheld blender
a big bowl
measure cups or scale
rubber scraper
loaf pan or angel cake pan

Ingredients:
4 oz (113 g) butter
4 oz (113 g) cream cheese
1 cup (190 g) sugar
4 eggs
1 1/2 cup (160 g) flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
3 tablespoon (50 g) milk

How:

Place an oven rack in the middle level position and preheat oven to 350′ F (180′ C).

Grease the cake pan if your pan is not non-stick.

Mix flour and baking powder in a medium size bowl.

Put butter, cream cheese, and sugar into a large mixing bowl. Blender until creamy in consistency. Then add in eggs and continue blender until creamy. Add in flour mixture and milk and mix well using blender. Transfter batter to the cake pan and bake in preheated oven for 40~45 minutes.

Tip: Microwave 15 seconds in high fire before eating.

Variation:

1. You can get cup cake if you use cupcake pan. Don’t forget to shorten the baking time.

2. Put 1 1/2 cup blueberry on the top of the batter, you will get blueberry cake.

3. Put 1 cup nuts on the top of the batter, you will get nut cake.

4. Add more milk, you will get soft cake.

I have the need to read some obfusticated javascripts from Zillow. GNU indent doesn’t seems to support javascript. Tried a web based tool from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty-printing and it worked. Save this experience here, I am sure I will meet similar problems in the future.

Commonly known as the Beige Book, this report is published eight times per year. Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources. The Beige Book summarizes this information by District and sector. An overall summary of the twelve district reports is prepared by a designated Federal Reserve Bank on a rotating basis.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/FOMC/BeigeBook/2008/

The Employment Report

• Importance (A-F): This release merits an A.
• Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.
• Release Time: First Friday of the month at 8:30 ET for the prior month
• Raw Data Available At: http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm.

In Craigslist, you can find posts for a well maintained used car from someone that is leaving the area due to job relocation, as well as for a car that looks nice, but whose owner is trying to get rid of like hell. It is important to use good keywords that can land you a larger percentages of the former. Some of the good examples that I have used are: relocation, receipts, receipt, loan, offer, ugly, bad, firm (price), hate, afford, “one/single/original owner” “service records” “two cars” title “must sell” “selling my” “selling because”. Make sure you contact the owner and chat as long as you can and as many times as possbile, and really understand the reason behind the selling. The communication efforts and time spent on chatting will never be too much …