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For the Public
The Hyper Kamiokande Experiment
Hyper Kamiokande (Hyper-K) is a proposed next generation neutrino observatory. The one million tonnes of water in the detector will detect neutrinos from a man made neutrino beam, the Sun, the atmosphere and the cosmos. Hyper-K will give us a deeper insight into our Universe at the largest and smallest scales.
Hunting Neutrinos
Neutrinos see the majority of the atoms around us as empty space. They do not have an electric charge and therefore only interact through what is called the weak nuclear force. This fundamental force of Nature has a very short range, no greater than the size of an atomic nucleus. The nucleus of an atom is where most of the mass of an atom can be found and so it is the most likely place for a neutrino to interact with an atom. But, the nucleus is 10,000 times smaller than the atom itself. This means that to a neutrino 99.99% of an atom is essentially empty space because it cannot interact with it.
Even if a neutrino does come into contact with the 0.001% of the atom that is the nucleus it is still a game of chance as to whether the neutrino will interact or not. To give an idea of how rarely they interact let us consider one source of neutrinos: The Sun. Right now there are around 200,000,000,000 neutrinos flowing through your
body from the Sun every single second. Even if you lived to the ripe old age of 80 years old (~43,000,000 seconds) you would be lucky if even one neutrino even noticed that you existed by interacting with an atom in your body. They are extremely ghostly.
So how do we see them? Well it is all about increasing the odds of catching a neutrino on a very widely spaced net of atomic nuclei. We can do two things either get more neutrinos passing through the net or make the holes in the net smaller. The first solution requires us to create a man made beam of neutrinos, which is part of the Hyper-K program of activities. The second solution requires us to build the biggest detectors that we can with as much stuff for neutrinos to interact with as possible; Hyper-K is the biggest neutrino detector ever proposed.
The Detector
Hyper-K is designed as a scaled up version of the extremely successful Super Kamiokande (Super-K) detector. The tried and tested technologies used in Super-K will be replicated on a much larger scale. Super-K contained 50,000 metric tonnes of water as a net in which to catch neutrinos and Hyper-K will have 20 times this amount, weighing in at 1,000,000 tonnes! The water will be contained in two large cylinders lying side-by-side; 250 m long, 54 m high, and 48 m wide. These cylinders will be caverns cut into rock underneath the mountains in western Japan located just 8 km south of its Super-K predecessor. With a net of this size Hyper-K offers improvement in every area of our understanding of neutrinos.
The Science
Hyper-K is more than a detector it is an observatory to look at neutrinos coming from many different sources. Each neutrino source can tell us a wealth of information. Hyper-K will be able to give us an insight into the creation story of the Universe from an understanding of why the matter making up every atom in our body is preferred over it’s opposite number antimatter. This understanding will come from precise measurements of a phenomenon known as neutrino oscillations. Neutrinos from the Sun, atmosphere, and a man made beam will offer answers to this and other long-standing questions.
Hyper-K will also forge ahead in the field of neutrino astronomy. Light from distant sources in the cosmos can be absorbed by clouds of dust or deflected by large galactic magnetic fields. Neutrinos on the other hand fly straight and true direct from the same cosmic sources. Supernova explosions are the violent death of massive stars and the source of much of the heavier chemical elements in our universe. They can outshine the galaxy in which they reside but this is just 0.01% of the overall energy release in such an explosion; 99% of the energy is released in the form of neutrinos. If a Supernova occurred within our galaxy then Hyper-K would detect 50,000-500,000,000 neutrinos, depending on how distant the Supernova is, in just 10 seconds. This would give us unprecedented information about the death of stars and their enrichment of heavy elements.
Hyper-K will also continue the work of Super-K when trying to observe the decay of protons. As far as we understand it the proton is stable; it does not decay as there is no similar particle lighter in mass. There are processes, however, in exotic theories that allow the proton to decay. These theories explain a common origin to the forces of nature in the very young Universe and are called Grand Unified Theories. With a common origin it is rare but possible that the proton could decay and in it death produce a positron (antielectron) and a neutral pion (a meson, quark-antiquark pair). The more atoms there are in a detector the more protons will be around that might decay. As Hyper-K will be the largest ever particle physics detector it will contain the most protons and can put the best limit on the possible decay lifetime of the proton.
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Online Advertising
Interest or Intent Targeting?
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With Intent Targeting, the advertising is delivered to people who are actively looking to buy your product or service. There is a very good match between the ads and the potential buyer. Search Marketing platforms, e.g. Google Adwords Search Network, employ Intent Targeting.
With Interest Targeting, the advertising is delivered to people who appear to have an interest in a product or service but who may or may not be intending to make a purchase. Social Media platforms, e.g. Facebook Marketing employ Interest Marketing.
There are several online advertising channels available. Channels vary greatly regards the extent to which the ads are matched to website visitors.
Worldwide, Google is by far the leading search marketing platform, excluding Russia where Yandex leads the way and in China where Baidu is the top advertising platform.
In Search Marketing, e.g. in Google, the visitor types his target subject (e.g. Siem Reap Hotels) into the search box. Google knows the intent of the visitor which enables the Google Adwords system to show relevant ads and obtain some response from the visitor. The visitor is typically directed to the advertisers website and hopefully a purchase is made. Google Adwords is a Pay-Per-Click (PPC) system. Its expensive but highly targeted and effective.
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Recent advances in data gathering (of user activity) and improved artificial intelligence, are expected to lead to an impressive determination of intent, based on behaviour, narrowing the gap between search and social media marketing.
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Even with a great website ranking (ie great SEO and inbound links, a website's organic placement on google search results etc may not be very high due to intense competition. Note: organic placement is the non-sponsored section of the search results.
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Google is by far the most prominent of the search advertiser channels. Other important channels include Bing, and Yahoo.
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Social Media interactions can build brand recognition, trust and loyalty due the humanisation element. However, this is really only relevant to big international brands, e.g. Coca Cola, and Multi-National hotel chains.
Brands which are active in social media may be seen as an authority on subjects and therefore may attract a following, which in turn can increase visibility and inbound traffic.
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The pope of palm beach A Novel. / Tim Dorsey.
Dorsey, Tim. (Author).
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From Florida's king of mayhem-"compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey-comes a diabolically madcap adventure featuring the indomitable Serge A. Storms.No one worships the Sunshine State as much as Serge A. Storms. Perpetually hunting Floridian arcana and lore, he and his permanently baked sidekick, Coleman, are on the road again. This time they're on a frenzied literary pilgrimage that leads them back to Riviera Beach, the cozy seaside town where the boys spent their formative years.Growing up, Serge was enthralled by the Legend of Riviera Beach, aka Darby, a welder at the port who surfed the local waves long before the hot spots were hot. A god on the water, the big-hearted surfer was a friend to everyone-the younger surfers, cops, politicians, wealthy businessmen and ordinary Joes-a generosity of spirit that earned him the admiration of all. Meanwhile, there was a much murkier legend that made the rounds of the schoolyards from Serge's youth-that of the crazy hermit living in a makeshift jungle compound farther up the mysterious Loxahatchee River than anyone dared to venture.Then Serge moved away. But never forgot.Now he's back, with those legends looming larger than ever in the rearview mirror of his memory. As his literary odyssey moves north from Key West, closer and closer to his old stomping grounds, Serge digs into the past as only Serge can. Along the way, he unintentionally disturbs some long-forgotten ground, attracting the attention of a cast of villains that only Florida can produce.As the body count grows, so does the list of questions:Why are the guys in the hard hats worried about the monkeys? When do you hack a motel air-conditioner? How does Coleman get high with cat toys? Who is expecting the dildo? And will book tours ever be the same after Serge decides to check one out?Told in alternating flashbacks between Serge and Coleman's childhoods and the present day, The Pope of Palm Beach is a witty and deliciously violent delight from the twisted imagination of Tim Dorsey.
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Electronic reproduction. New York : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2018. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2692 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).
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Humor (Fiction).
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The truth is that i haven't discussed it thoroughly with my wife. (avoiding;insecure? not so much)
I grew up at a very young age as i am still quite a young man(31), so decision making comes very easy, not always so quickly. Depending on the stakes of course.
I've always been who I am, so "SATANIST" is what others call it. I actually grew up in a Jehovah Witness household til about 11 when my family broke up. My father was actually an elder. He also acted as a Ministerial Servant within his organization. So you could say I was privy to insider info just because of him. I noticed pretty much right away it was bullshit. Something to do with prayer NOT working. But, i was also expected to do things like speak in front of large congregations at a young age. I was 5 when i gave my first public talk.... (the stage was powerful, i liked that part)
So as Diciplin stated, yes, I also understand the value of taking from organizations. Like the kid in "A Bronx Tale" (Robert DeNiro, Chaz Palmonteri), i sort of got two educations one from school, and one from the street.
The initial thread was about something entirely different. But as i have had happen more times than not, the Ladies and Gentlemen who run this site bring the knowledge that you just cant find in any other group. Where usually' there is only one or two stars and everyone else is the back up cast or extras.
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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney greets supporters following his Nevada caucus victory over Newt Gingrich Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP
In the summer before the 2004 US election I was in Maine, which at the time was considered a swing state. There I met Cynthia Huntington, who adopted me as a friend and invited me out for a picnic. We were talking politics on the banks of Lake Tunk when she explained a personal and economic dilemma that, for her at least, held electoral consequences. She was 60 and had a hernia but had no health insurance and no means to pay for an operation.
She had a choice. Wait five years in pain and possibly peril so she could qualify for Medicare, or have her operation immediately – in which case the state would pay for it and in return get her property when she died. She'd worked all her life and did not want to leave her children with nothing. Tough as the decision was, she did not believe the outcome of the election would make it any easier. "They don't give a shit about us," she said, suggesting that she might vote for Ralph Nader. "They're all rich people and they're all run by corporations. They don't care about the fact that I need surgery and can't pay for it." "You want to let Bush back in and make things even worse?" asked her friend. "Worse than what?", replied Huntington. "Kerry's not going to get me my operation."
There is precious little room for sanctimony in American mainstream politics. True, Democrats talk the language of inclusion, uplift and compassion more fluently and believably than Republicans. But their record in office, broadly speaking, suggests anything but. The Republicans cheer a Republican governor, Rick Perry, because he has executed more prisoners than anywhere else. A Democratic crowd wouldn't do that, but Democrats would still execute people. When Bill Clinton was running for president, he made a special trip back to Arkansas to oversee the execution of Ricky Ray Rector – a lobotomised inmate so mentally incapacitated that when given his last meal, he opted to save the desert for after the execution. Unlike Newt Gingrich, no Democrat would ever claim that Palestinians are "an invented people" who only came into existence in the 1970s. But when it comes to foreign policy, there is not a substantial difference between Democratic and Republican policy in the Middle East. Drones still fly, Guantanamo still stands and rendition continues.
This is not to claim that there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans, or that that difference may matter: that's an argument worth having, but it's not the point I'm making here. It is merely to point out that when Democrats start to sound sanctimonious, the ground beneath them starts to open up and swallow them whole. The difference between the two resembles James Baldwin's description of the North's treatment of African-Americans compared to the South's: "What it promised it did not give, and what it gave, at length and grudgingly with one hand, it took back with the other."
So for all the excitement over Mitt Romney's statement that he's "not concerned about the very poor", Democrats should be careful for two reasons. First of all the full quote does not suggest that he doesn't care about the "very poor", only that he believes that their needs are already taken care of whereas those who are struggling are on their own. "I'm in this race because I care about Americans," he said. "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich, they're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of the America, the 90, 95% of Americans who right now are struggling and I'll continue to take that message across the nation."
The aim here is not to give Romney the benefit of the doubt. As a millionaire several times over who is campaigning for the rights of millionaires to be even richer and the poor to sacrifice even more, he has all the benefits he needs. But the desire to take quotes out of context in order to frame candidates is juvenile and makes the chance that there will be any substantive debate – which is what this country needs – more remote. Otherwise politics is reduced to a gaffe-fishing exercise which, in a 24-hour cable environment, will always produce a catch. It's obvious how this works for journalists and political operatives; it's not so clear what's in it for the poor.
It was no less ridiculous when Republicans honed in on John Kerry referring to the funding for the Iraq war: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." For anyone who knows anything about senatorial procedure, it made perfect sense. Republicans were banking on the fact that most people didn't. Any strategy that relies on people not wanting to know the facts cannot lead to much good, even when it works.
As the party of "welfare reform" that repealed Glass-Steagal – financial legislation that could have thwarted the severity of this recession – the Democrats have not done an awful lot for the "very poor" since Lyndon Johnson either. Unlike Republicans who openly lobby for the class interests of their corporate supporters and deliver on them, Democrats do not promise substantial changes to the lives of ordinary working people and rarely deliver even on the symbolic ones. In short, Democrats demand a greater class attachment than they offer and therefore deserve. That doesn't mean they should not criticise Romney for what he said, but that a bit more humility in how they do so might rescue them from accusations of hypocrisy.
For the real problem with what Romney said is not that what he said about "not being concerned about the very poor" was true: while I might disagree in context it made sense.. It was that pretty much everything else he said was a lie. He's not going to repair the safety net, in fact he's going to rip a huge whole in it, and the 90, 95% of Americans who are now struggling are going to continue to struggle if he wins. According to Nobel prize-winning economist and New York Times journalist Paul Krugman, "his Medicaid proposal appears to involve a 40% reduction in financing compared with current law." His repeal of Obama's health care laws would be disastrous for the that third of Americans who, according to a new measurement by the Census Bureau which takes regional cost of living, medical payments and other expenses that do not intrude on the official poverty count, found a third of Americans are either in poverty or desperately close to it.
Romney's election in particular, and the Republicans in general, would be a terrible thing for poor and middle class people in America. Since we can prove that by exposing what he actually says and does, why insinuate it by lambasting him for something he neither said, nor meant?
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
Example of a floating desk top (courtesy of Phil Curtis):
Phil Curtis' Standing Desk
Phil Curtis' Standing Desk
With increased height, it'd be one of simplest standing desk designs, and I am planning to do this at home. But, I am not sure how exactly the desk top (i.e., the wooden board) is supported against the wall.
As you can see, the design isn't using any heavy-duty shelf brackets, or any apparent support beneath. How can this be accomplished?
(FYI, mine is going to be larger, around double the size of the desk top you are seeing in the picture.)
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Here's another example: flickr.com/photos/andreaslarsen/8248953223/in/… – its_me Jun 30 '13 at 11:03
Look closely at the other example; you can see the suppport brackets like Michael Karas describes below – Niall C. Jun 30 '13 at 14:04
@NiallC. You mean the long stripe in the corner? Yes, I noticed that, but it's stretching from below to far above the desk, to the monitors. Here's a HQ version of the image: i.stack.imgur.com/5tbCH.jpg – its_me Jun 30 '13 at 16:07
I meant the one you linked to in the first comment, sorry for the confusion. There's something under the desk, stretching from midway under the laptop on the left to midway under the tablet on the right. I think the "long stripe" in the photos in your post is conduit for the monitor cables. – Niall C. Jun 30 '13 at 16:39
That strip in the corner of the first pictures is most likely a mask to cover up cables for power, video and camera for the items mounted on the wall. – Michael Karas Jun 30 '13 at 18:20
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You would need to mount wooden strips along the walls that screw into the studs. Then the desktop sits on top of those strips and is fastened from the underside to the strips.
To achieve a more sleek look you could also consider the use of some lengths of aluminum angle iron that is screwed into the studs and into the bottom side of the desk surface.
Either type of mounting strip could be painted to match the wall to make it much less noticeable.
You will want to get this mounting strip along as many edges as possible and into as many studs as possible. Cantilever forces due to the open out side corner of the desk can be significant so make sure of two key things:
1. Make sure that the desk top material itself can withstand the cantilever forces without a lot of flex and breakage. (Unsupported thin particle board would not be a good choice).
2. Make sure that fasteners used up into the bottom of the desk surface get a good bite into the material.
Here is a picture showing a cross section of the wall and desk showing how the aluminum angle stock would be applied. You would likely want to use screws into the studs that are a bit longer than what I showed.
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Ah, I kinda get the idea now. But, how exactly do I do this: "Then the desktop sits on top of those strips and is fastened from the underside to the strips." – its_me Jun 30 '13 at 11:05
@its_me - See added drawing in my answer. – Michael Karas Jun 30 '13 at 12:47
There are also a few systems that install a pair or more of rigid pipes or solid metal brackets perpendicular to the wall studs (sticking out) and then slide on a fairly thick shelf that has an internal channel to hide the pipe or bracket. Set screws under the shelf then hold it in place. This requires a custom shelf, not impossible for the DIYer, but a challenge. these shelves are usually not too deep. A desk would require some additional support at the outer edge such as Michael Karas has illustrated. – bib Jun 30 '13 at 15:27
The "wooden strips" Michael refers to are commonly called cleats, and this is also how cabinets are attached to walls. If this were a shelf, it would be called a floating shelf. – rob Feb 18 '14 at 17:35
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Later this month inside the Conservation and Restoration Center, the chapel car 5 Messenger of Peace will be married to its new trucks, which are special frames with wheels, bearings, and brakes. The trucks (we think, based on castings and other details) date from circa 1901 and will get some new parts, are in a sense borrowed, and will be carbon black. So how appropriate to now look at the origins of those trucks and how they compare to the originals.
Messenger of Peace was built by Barney and Smith of Dayton, Ohio in 1898. The car was one of the longest cars built to that date and incorporated all the latest design advances. It included 6 wheel trucks reinforced with steel flatbars on either side of the oak frame members. Sadly, those original trucks were (we believe) scrapped in 1948 when the car was repurposed as a roadside diner.
The Museum has several railroad cars it has been holding to provide parts for others. While most were originally acquired for the Collection, they were later removed either because they were redundant or because they were in very poor condition. They provide couplers, brakes, hardware, and even wood moldings to make objects in the Collection more complete.
Imhoff Crane lifts the X-127 while the
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A late nineteenth Century car called the X-127 was one such car. It was outfitted with trucks of the same design that the chapel car was built with and they are in great shape. They received some structural upgrades circa 1927, but are visually nearly identical to the originals. Earlier this month, Snoqualmie’s own Imhoff Crane set up at the CRC and made quick work of the truck exchange. They lifted the car one end at a time and replaced the original trucks with a set of shop trucks the Museum uses to move projects around.
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Samsung region-locks Note 3 to prevent imports, but simple workaround exists
The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is a highly anticipated device all over the world, having been already released in some countries too. Singapore customers must wait one more day to get their hands on one. However, as everyone rushes to get their hands on the latest and greatest Note from Samsung, you must note (no pun intended) that Samsung has taken the peculiar step to region lock their device. What does this mean?
If you are a gamer you will definitely have heard this phrase ‘region-locking’ being tossed around more often than not. What it refers to is locking the use of a device’s online and gaming (or in the Note 3’s case, cellular) capabilities when not using it in the region where you bought your device from. The Galaxy Note 3 is employing a similar tactic, but all is not as bad as it seems.
This region locking will only affect those who look to buy a Note 3 handset from a country in a different region as specified by Samsung. This device will lose it cellular capacity if used with a SIM-card purchased from a different region. This move is mainly targeting consumers from other countries importing sets from a place where the devices are cheaper. This way, Samsung loses a large chunk of their profit. However, as said in the title, there is a simple workaround for this.
All one needs to do is buy a SIM-card (prepaid or postpaid) from the country of purchase and just boot the phone once with that SIM-card inserted. This will deactivate the region-lock permanently, and from then onwards you can use a SIM-card from any country in the world. Thus people who are used to buy local SIM-cards when traveling to a foreign country, fret not. As long as you have switched your phone on with a SIM-card from the country of purchase, there is no fear.
This ‘fact’ that the Note 3 would be permanently region locked first came out in a Wednesday blog post by the British online retailer Clove.
Here’s what Clove said:
However what Clove is assuming is that UK customers will not bother inserting a UK SIM-card at all, and try to use a US SIM-card directly. That’s where they are wrong. This region lock is only aimed at people looking to import sets from overseas, and thus those who will use it in the UK beforehand can from then onwards use it in any other country.
Samsung Germany has confirmed that Clove is incorrect. They have reiterated that the region lock is removed after a single use in the country of purchase. They said the following (translated from German):
From the statement, it is not entirely clear, but it also confirmed that after the first unlock the SIM lock is completely removed and then local maps can also be used worldwide. So you activate one of the devices in the intended market, the SIM lock is removed and then you can also use local SIM cards when traveling abroad. If you buy a Galaxy Note, for example, 3 in Germany and enabled it in Germany or another of the countries listed, then it can be also outside Europe, such as the U.S. or Asia use.
Regardless of motives, it is very surprising to see Samsung implement a region-lock. Estimates show that profit margins are not that greatly reduced, unlike those of game consoles. While the PS3 did away with region-locks, the Xbox 360 had stubbornly held on to this philosophy. However, in the face of losing sales, Microsoft decided to do a 180 (pun intended) and removed region locks from their upcoming Xbox One. Moreover, surely Samsung will know about this workaround, and should know that if someone is willing to take the risk of importing a foreign handset, they will have no qualms about spending just a few more dollars to remove the region-lock.
So, at the end of the day, those who will use this device at least once in the country of purchase, fret not. You will not be affected by this at all. On the other hand, if you have pre-ordered a foreign set, or have already purchased it, you should go and find yourself a prepaid card from the region of purchase and boot up your phone with it inside.
Readers of Twenty First Tech, what do you think about this attempt by Samsung to stem the importing of devices? Leave your thoughts in the comments below, and like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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castillo washed
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Meet our castillo washed coffee farmer, Martin Tapias
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How long have you been growing coffee and what got you started?
I started growing coffee 38 years ago. At first I worked at others people's farms because I didn't have my own. Then later on I was able to purchase Campo Alegre and started growing coffee on my own. I always believed coffee was the best option for a farmer in the region where I am from - as long as you are willing to work hard and be organized with what needs to be done at the farm.
What is your favorite part of growing coffee?
Coffee is very labor intensive from the start to finish. It is hard work and if you think about it, 9 months of the year you are spending money, time, labor just taking care of the trees so they are healthy and you have a good Harvest. Even though harvest time is more labor intensive it is definitely my favorite part of growing coffee, because you see the result of a year long effort.
What is your favorite part of growing coffee?
Starting up a coffee farm is very challenging. Coffee is a crop that takes time to be productive, usually 3 to 4 years. You have to be resilient and be willing to work hard even though you won't see the result of your efforts until later.
What is unique about how you grow and harvest coffee?
That's a hard question. I have a lot of respect for other coffee growers and I believe we all have a lot of things in common. I also believe every single farmer has his own style. In my case, I like to pay a lot of attention to the health of the coffee trees, making sure they are getting all the nutrients they need to be productive. I also pay a lot of attention to sorting my coffee, making sure just the best beans are part of the final product.
What are your plans to continue improving quality?
Keep reinvesting at the farm. I would like to keep improving the wet mill. Also I have learned how important the drying process is to the cup quality, so I want to add more drying beds. I'm also planning on planting new varietals that are known for better tasting profiles.
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What does NCSU think and do mean?
What does NCSU think and do mean?
Think and Do is the university’s brand theme. It’s an expression of NC State’s mindset and our ongoing mission to create prosperity. We encourage you to talk about how you think and do on behalf of the university; but when you do, you need to make sure not to dilute or obscure the impact of Think and Do.
Is an essay required for NC State?
What is North Carolina’s state slogan?
Esse quam videri
What is the #1 party school in America?
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
What is the state bird and flower of North Carolina?
North Carolina natives know the cardinal is the state bird and the dogwood is the state flower.
Who said to be rather than to seem?
Alastair Humphreys
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To be rather than to seem. We North Carolinians don’t feel as though anything; we feel things or we don’t. And we will tell you about it, rather than telling you that it may perhaps somewhat be something that might well have crossed our minds.
What does Videri mean?
to be rather than to seem
Who first wrote the phrase to be rather than to seem?
Esse quam videri is found in Cicero’s essay On Friendship (Laelius de Amicitia, chapter 98). Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt (“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so”).
What is the state motto What does it mean?
Most of the United States’ 50 states have a state motto, as do the District of Columbia, and 3 U.S. territories. A motto is a phrase intended to formally describe the general motivation or intention of an organization. State mottos can sometimes be found on state seals or state flags.
What does Esse Quam Videri mean in English?
Esse Quam Videri, the state motto of North Carolina, is a Latin phrase meaning “to be rather than to seem.” Its origins are traced to Cicero’s essay titled “Friendship.” Distinguished jurist and historian Walter Clark selected the state motto and drafted the bill for its adoption in 1893.
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Here’s our extremely definitive list.
• Maine.
• 44. California. “Eureka” (I have found it)
• Arizona. “Ditat Deus” (God Enriches)
• Indiana. “The Crossroads of America”
• Alaska. “North to the Future”
• Utah. “Industry”
• Delaware. “Liberty and Independence”
• Maryland. “Fatti maschii, parole femine” (Manly deeds womanly words)
Which state is called the beautiful state?
What is Vermont’s state motto?
Freedom and Unity
What is the Vermont state tree?
Sugar maple
What is Vermont’s state animal?
Morgan horse
What is Vermont’s state food?
List of U.S. state foods
State Food type Food name
Vermont State flavor Maple
State fruit Apple
State pie Apple pie, required by law to be served with: a glass of cold milk, a slice of cheddar cheese weighing a minimum of 1/2 ounce, or a large scoop of vanilla ice cream.
State vegetable Gilfeather Turnip
What is the state bird of Illinois?
Northern cardinal
What is Vermont’s nickname?
The Green Mountain State
What are Vermonters called?
Why is Vermont so green?
Vermont landscape is 75 percent forested, and the state is the fourth most forested state in the United States. Forest clearing became widespread around 1800 as Vermont farmers became suppliers of wood products, food, and wool to a rapidly growing nation.
Why Vermont is the best state?
Vermont not only has breathtakingly picturesque landscapes and endless scenic places to explore, but the state also has exceptional food, safe cities, great schools, and down-to-earth people.
Is Vermont a nice state to live in?
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Passenger Train Derailed in Kensington, MD
Aired July 29, 2002 - 14:59 ET
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Just to give you a perspective; we're following a breaking news story right now in Kensington, Maryland. This is where an Amtrak trail derailment has taken place. This is what we can tell you so far as we are looking at live pictures here from one of our affiliates, WUSA in the area.
This Amtrak train was coming from Chicago heading to Washington, D.C., where at some point something went wrong. We don't know yet what caused this derailment, but it happened in Montgomery County, Kensington, Maryland. Five passenger cars, we know so far have turned over; possibly a sixth down at embankment. Not quite sure if this is actually the sixth car or one of the five. We are still trying to piece it all together.
What we can tell you, so far, no fatalities. A number of survivors already out of those passenger cars. You are looking right now at fire crews, firefighters and police officers, trying desperately to get those injured individuals out of that passenger car there, as we bring you the latest on this train derailment in Montgomery County, Maryland, also known as the Kensington area.
Steve Eisen, freelance photographer there on the scene. He's been updating us from time to time in between taking pictures. Steve, thanks so much for making time for us.
STEVE EISEN, PHOTOGRAPHER: OK. It's a little difficult for me to hear you. There's helicopters flying over my head. I don't know if they are news crews or medevacs. There are still a number of people critically injured and trapped in some wreckage further down the line. I said to one of the fire chiefs of Montgomery County Fire Department, district chief, his name is Bob Steppins (ph). He tells me there's as many as 12 cars there overturned.
PHILLIPS: Twelve cars now?
EISEN: That's correct.
PHILLIPS: He's the fire chief there in the area has told you 12 cars overturned?
EISEN: That's what he is telling me. I personally can only see about five of them myself, but there's some further ones down the line which are hidden by trees. PHILLIPS: OK. We are also told, Steve, I don't know what the fire chief told you, but the PIO for the police department told us that so far no fatalities. What did the fire chief tell you?
EISEN: OK. As far as I can tell, there is no fatalities, but I'm busy taking a lot of pictures, a lot of people with head wounds and wounds of the blood nature, bandaged up. Some people have some back problems. Obviously, in an overturned train car you are going to have people with injured backs. So far I've personally seen approximately 20 to 25 people that have been assisted and taken out on stretchers.
PHILLIPS: Steve, I know you brought us an incredible interview just moments ago, you just handed your phone over to a survivor. Are you in a position possibly that while you take some more pictures, we could talk with another survivor?
EISEN: Right now, down in the wooded area where fire department people, personnel are very busy trying to further extricate and load people on stretchers. All the EMS and fire personnel are very, very busy. There is no one else I cab grab at the moment. I can only further tell you that you still have some very seriously injured people still mixed amongst the wreckage that are being worked on and being help extricated from the scene.
PHILLIPS: OK. Well, then while you are right there, keep in mind if there's someone you can pass the phone to, Steve, by all means do it. But as you are right there close to these rescue crews as they are trying to save these individuals, sort of can you give us a play- by-play and give us an even better description? Are they using ropes, are they using...
EISEN: OK. I don't know whether you want me to stay on the line with my phone line open, or whether we are going to disconnect?
PHILLIPS: OK. You stay with me as long as you can, Steve, OK?
EISEN: Hold on one second. Sir, were you on the train? No? OK. There's a few more people coming out. I'm trying to ask them if they were on the train or not. Hold on a second, please. Were you people on the train? No. OK. These are people that evidently live in this residential area, which is known as Kengar.
EISEN: K-e-n-g-a-r.
PHILLIPS: Kengar. And now I understand that a lot of these residents came out and started helping rescue these passengers. Is that true?
EISEN: Physically, I do not know if they went up on top of the train or not. I don't see how they could have before the fire personnel got here and put ladders up on the overturned cars. I don't see how they could have gotten on top and pulled these people out of these windows that are facing up, and also another side facing down on the tracks.
PHILLIPS: All right, Steve, we are looking at live pictures...
EISEN: From what I can see, I'm looking at cars number four and five. All the people have been taken out of those cars. There's obviously cars five, six and seven, and if there's more, fire personnel is still working on getting people out of those cars that are still overturned.
PHILLIPS: All right. We are told right now so far no fatalities at least. Six people critically injured at this train derailment.
EISEN: Hold on one second. I have Chief Bob Steppins (ph) who may be able to talk to you.
PHILLIPS: Perfect. That's perfect, Steve. All right, get him on the line.
If you are just tuning in...
EISEN: Bob, this is CNN, they're live on the air. They'd like to know, Chief Steppins (ph), if you can talk to them at all about anything.
EISEN: OK. I'm sorry, he says he doesn't have any time to be able to talk to you at this time.
PHILLIPS: That's all right.
EISEN: He's too busy.
PHILLIPS: You know what, I've got to tell you, we need to hire you as a reporter and a photographer, my friend. You are doing a great job working the scene there.
Why don't you go ahead and tell us exactly where you are and what you can see, Steve.
EISEN: Well, there's some homes adjacent to these train tracks which are approximately 30 yards away from the train itself. There's some more fire personnel, EMS personnel walking down to the scene.
Hold on a second. I have to stop and take some pictures. Hold on one moment.
PHILLIPS: OK. I'll brief viewers here. He's doing an incredible job. That's Steve Eisen, a freelance photographer there on the scene working it for us, getting information, telling us what it's like there on the ground. He did bring us an interview with a survivor just moments ago, Paula from Chicago. She was traveling with her 13-year-old girl. Did an interview with her, via Steve's cell phone. This is what she had to say.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PAULA: We were in the second car -- or third car behind the engine. We were in the upper deck in a sleeping car. Suddenly, the train started to lurch and started to fall off the tracks. We landed on our side. We had a little bit of trouble getting out of our sleeping berth, because it was on the ground, and then climbing to the upper part of the train and climbing down.
The last cars in the train are the coach cars, and they are having a little more difficult of a time because they are in a very wooded area of this -- this section of the residential area.
PHILLIPS: Once again, you are hearing from Paula. She was heading from Chicago with her 13-year-old daughter. You are looking actually now at pictures. Are these live pictures, or is this -- OK, this is tape that we just got fed in from the crew there on the scene in Montgomery County, or Kensington, Maryland, rather. You are seeing rescue crews, firefighters, also a number of survivors here from this train derailment.
Let's see if we can listen to this interview here with this survivor.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hadn't ridden the train for 25 years or so. And I was almost complacent and (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Stacey (ph), we cannot hear him.
PHILLIPS: OK. We are having a hard time, a little technical problems there. That's what happens when you have live breaking news, trying to bring you some sound there with the survivor. These are live pictures from WTTG.
If you are just tuning in, we are following what we are told now a 12 passenger cars have overturned after this Amtrak train derailed, heading from Chicago, Illinois to Washington, D.C.
Here's a look at the route right here. If you are looking at your screen to the left, the train came out of -- left Chicago, Illinois, rather, heading to Washington, D.C. About 10 minutes before getting to Washington, D.C., we are told that this train derailed; 12 passenger cars overturned. At first we were told four. That number has been upgraded, according to the fire chief on the scene. He was talking to a freelance photographer Steve Eisen. We had been talking to him for a matter of minutes. He's taking pictures there on the scene. He calls in every few minutes that he can to update us on what he sees. So far, we are told, no fatalities. So far, no fatalities, but six people critically injured. Dozens and dozens of other people injured.
Fire crews right now trying to get people out of those passenger cars. A number of people have already escaped. They broke through emergency windows, other windows on the train. You can see right here some of the doors even open. Crews are, as you can see right there, crossing -- actually, not quite sure why they are crossing off the windows. I'll have to ask as soon as we get someone else on the line to talk about the crews and what they are doing. We'll find out exactly what these pictures mean. If that means that passengers are out of there, if there are passengers in there that desperately need help and fire crews need to tend to the people in those passenger cars.
But right now, six critically injured. No fatalities. This is what we are told, as 12 passenger cars have overturned. If you are just tuning in, this Amtrak train leaving Chicago heading to Washington, D.C. derailed just about 10 minutes before arriving to its spot.
Now we are going to take you to a live interview with Mary Schiavo, former inspector general with the Department of Transportation. Mary, you are coming to us live from Los Angeles. Do you hear me OK?
PHILLIPS: Great. Thank you so much for being with us. She's live in our studio.
First thing I want to ask you, Mary, one of the individuals with whom I spoke talked about the heat, and possibly that maybe the heat may have caused these tracks to buckle. It's something that has happened in the past when the conditions, the weather conditions are like this. What can you tell us about heat influencing track to buckle? Explain that to us.
SCHIAVO: Well, actually it can when you have very high heat conditions, it can actually cause the train track -- obviously it's metal -- to expand, and the track can literally stretch out or can buckle or can expand. And actually from one of your shots, it did look -- of course, the train has gone off the track -- but it did look like that.
And of course, one of the difficulties is in inspecting the track. It's -- the railroads have had some difficulty with this issue for a very long time, because this is a known phenomenon. There are also problems with, of course, the track under supports, et cetera. But it's difficult as to how frequently they need to inspect the track and running some sort of inspection mechanism.
So if the heat does cause this, the track to deform, come out of shape, or you have other natural problems and other conditions in other places -- recently, they had a derailment in Florida and people were looking at other kinds of conditions there. But one of the issues is how frequently do you do inspect. And here with this train, this particular train being a double-decker train, it's a train that has overnight compartments in it, et cetera, it's interesting that this is the one that went off the track. And again, you would have different sort of load factors on the train, and then the heat would certainly cause the track to have some deformity.
PHILLIPS: All right, you mentioned a number of things. First of all, let's talk about the inspection mechanism. When you say that, is there some type of inspection mechanism in place to give the train or those on the train, driving the train -- I hope I'm using the proper term -- sort of a heads-up that the track is buckling?
SCHIAVO: Well, actually, there are methods. There are, for example, things that you can literally run down the track, inspection capabilities. You can always do more low-tech, literally looking at, walking, inspecting the track. There are devices you can use to actually run along the track, but obviously they don't run them in advance of every train. And in many cases, it is the train engineer literally looking and seeing the conditions.
Now, here, obviously it was a curve. There was foliage et cetera around the track, but there are more mechanized inspection methods that aren't in use sort of frequently or at all times, and of course literally the railroad say we couldn't possibly run them in advance of every train.
So while you could do more inspections, the inspections that they do obviously do leave the trains vulnerable to having a situation where the heat can cause the train to -- the train track to go out of shape. There's of course vandalism that sometimes can go undetected. Sink holes, you name it. But tracks are vulnerable, and it's very difficult to inspect them in the -- in advance of every train trip through, but there are more methods, additional methods, including some technological means to do more inspections.
PHILLIPS: Mary Schiavo, we're going to ask you to hold tight for just a minute. Marty is former inspector general for the Department of Transportation. Marty, you are giving us some fantastic insights. Please hold on just for a second. Right now, I want to go to the phones. Vernae Graham, Amtrak spokesperson, on the phone from California. Vernae, what can you tell us?
VERNAE GRAHAM, AMTRAK SPOKESWOMAN: I think you probably have all the general information that the train, the capital (ph) limited train number 30, and it derailed about 1:55 Eastern time. The train was carrying approximately 190 passengers, 12 crew members at the time of the derailment.
PHILLIPS: Vernae, how many people did you say? I'm sorry.
GRAHAM: One hundred and ninety.
PHILLIPS: One hundred and ninety people.
GRAHAM: One hundred and ninety customers and 12 crew.
PHILLIPS: OK. Thank you. I'm sorry. Continue. I apologize.
GRAHAM: The train consisted of two engines and 13 passenger cars, and preliminary reports from the scene indicate that we have 11 passenger cars that have derailed. PHILLIPS: OK, 11 have derailed.
GRAHAM: Right. Right now, the local authorities have responded, and minor injuries have been reported. The train, as you well know, derailed on tracks owned and operated and maintained by CSX corporation.
We have also set up an 800 number for -- a toll free number for the families of our passengers on train number 30. And that number is 1-800-523-9101.
PHILLIPS: 1-800-523-9101.
GRAHAM: Yes, and we have dispatched a customer care team to the site, to respond to the incident.
PHILLIPS: So for those that may have had someone on board there, it was train number 30, leaving Chicago at what time?
GRAHAM: It left Chicago -- I actually...
PHILLIPS: That's OK. While you look for that, we did tell folks it was heading to Washington, D.C., arrival time about 1:45 Eastern time. One the phone with us, Vernae Graham, Amtrak spokesperson on the phone from California. She's telling us about train number 30 here; 11 -- confirming that 11 passenger cars have overturned in this derailment that took place not long ago.
Are you still with me, Vernae?
GRAHAM: I sure am.
GRAHAM: The train originated out of Chicago at 7:00 p.m..
PHILLIPS: 7:00 p.m.
PHILLIPS: 7:00 p.m. last night?
GRAHAM: Yesterday, yes.
PHILLIPS: 7:00 p.m. last night, OK, and was heading to Washington, about to arrive at 1:45 this afternoon. OK.
Vernae, what can you tell us about the heat possibly have causing these track to buckle?
GRAHAM: At this time, I think we are still assessing the situation. I don't have any information on that, but as we get the information, we will give updates, updated -- updates as needed.
PHILLIPS: Has that been a common problem with you?
GRAHAM: As far as the heat?
GRAHAM: We have not had any reports of any sort of heat-related incidents recently, but as you well know, it has caused -- it has been a cause, a concern in the past.
PHILLIPS: How often are these tracks inspected, Vernae?
GRAHAM: Actually, I can't tell you any more information about that. I think that you probably have to contact CSX about that.
PHILLIPS: OK. But indeed there are inspection mechanisms?
GRAHAM: Most definitely.
PHILLIPS: ... that are in place for this.
GRAHAM: Most definitely.
PHILLIPS: OK. Vernae Graham, Amtrak spokesperson, on the phone with us from California. Thank you so much, just confirming that 190 people were on this train that left Chicago 7:00 p.m. last night. Twelve crew members, 190 passengers. Now telling us 12 passenger cars have overturned. The fire chief, rather, on the scene, had said 12, but according to Amtrak, they are telling us 11 of these passenger cars derailed.
Let's bring Mary Schiavo back in. She's live in our Los Angeles studio. Former inspector general for the Department of Transportation. Mary, are you still with us?
SCHIAVO: I am. Thank you.
PHILLIPS: You bet. I noticed when I brought up the issue of the heat possibly causing these tracks to buckle, the spokesperson for Amtrak wasn't real comfortable talking about that. Is this something that is not an easy thing to address? I mean, you are looking at the scene here. You said it looks like those tracks did buckle.
SCHIAVO: Well, right. And remember, Amtrak runs the trains, and the spokesperson for Amtrak was exactly right. But CSX owns and has to inspect and repair and keep the tracks up to standards. And that's been a great difficulty for some time, because the cars and the trains and the passengers riding over them belong to one entity, and yet they have to rely upon CSX for the maintenance and upkeep of those tracks.
And there are other things that can cause difficulty. We have seen difficulty everything from the support ties underneath the tracks to the soil conditions to actually the pins holding the rail down, in many cases have had difficulty even with the quality of those materials.
So lots of things can cause a train to derail, but unfortunately for Amtrak, they don't own the tracks. They don't maintain the tracks, and in some cases, obviously, it's another entity they have to rely upon to do that.
The federal rail inspectors -- obviously we do have an agency that is supposed to assist in inspecting both the tracks and the cars that move over them, the trains that move over them, and that's the Federal Rail Administration -- it's a very small agency. In the past, they have had difficulty mounting a very rigid and sort of nationwide inspection system. They have sometimes had special emphasis on maintaining crossings, et cetera. But this was clearly not a crossing.
So you have a lot of entities involved, and Amtrak is not the only entity here involved. In many cases, it is a totally different company, CSX, that is responsible for the tracks that it has to travel over.
PHILLIPS: So, Mary, Amtrak, it's Amtrak, though, that is selling these tickets and getting these passengers on board. What type of communication, how does Amtrak deal with CSX? Does Amtrak need to check in with CSX on a regular basis, saying, hey, have you inspected these tracks? What have you done lately? Show me your inspection papers; we want to make sure our passengers are safe?
SCHIAVO: Well, certainly they can and they should do that, but they are supposed to also have the help of the Federal Rail Administration, the federal agency to do that, and of course, Amtrak is sort of contracting, almost a holding company, if you will, and they do have a lot of subcontractors that they deal with. And there will be a lot of questions asked here.
And this has been a problem that has come up before. The entity with the trains selling tickets has to travel over tracks maintained by another company. How do they go about inspecting it? How do they put the CSX and others to the test to know that they're really providing safe tracks? And how about requiring more inspections, et cetera? This is not the first time. If that is involved here, and that obviously could be something else, but if that is involved here, this will not be the first tragedy caused by these sorts of issues and multiple layers of companies involved in transporting passengers over the rail lines of this country.
PHILLIPS: And by no means are we saying that it was a buckling of the track that caused this, in no way are we blaming CSX or Amtrak. We are looking at possible scenarios here with Mary Schiavo, former inspector general with Department of Transportation, no doubt an expert on incidents like these.
Mary, we are going to ask you to hold tight. Coming up, we're going to talk to a former Amtrak engineer as we continue to follow breaking news and Amtrak derailment out of Kensington, Maryland. Stay with us.
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Redesigned with an all-new cab and HVAC system, the 1021G wheel loader offers best-in-class visibility and improved ergonomics to maximize operator comfort and combat operator fatigue. Designed for high production applications and operators who demand the most out of their machines, the 1021G features SCR engine technology ensuring unmatched fuel efficiency, no regeneration, no expensive Diesel Particulate Filters (DPF) to replace, and no extreme exhaust temperatures. In addition to over 50,000 lbs of breakout force, the 1021G also features the CASE cooling cube, which provides direct access to cool clean ambient air to all coolers, as well as an optional reversing fan that keeps the coolers clean and keeps the machine working, instead of having to clean clogged coolers.
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Racconti di Guerra
AWOLnation…al Service
Un altro racconto di guerra; questa volta l’utente SingaporeanSloth scrive:
Inspired by another story in this sub about a guy called Garcia going AWOL, I have to recount the best AWOL story I have from my time doing National Service (NS) as an infantryman in the Singapore Army.
We'll call the star of this story, and my platoonmate, Shady, because that's very, very similar to his actual nickname, and because he bore a vague resemblance to a Chinese Eminem (what you get when you buy your rappers from Wish). This story is really one of the craziest I have, so I expect that some people may disbelieve, and I don't have any way of proving it without doxxing myself and Shady. However, I can personally vouch that everything in it is 100% true, and I'd love if some of my fellow Singapore Army servicemen who have heard this story chime in, because Shady was such a legend by the end of this story that most of Selarang Camp (the base where I was stationed) knew about him, including my secondary school friend who was a medic, mentioned in my previous story, and probably a decent portion of the Singapore Army who served 2016-2018 (you'll soon see why). But please don't dox him.
So, my first impression of Shady was formed when, on the first day we were assigned to our unit, 3rd Battalion, Singapore Infantry Regiment, “Scorpions”, Shady decided to steal another platoonmate's PT shoes. A pair of shoes with a hole in them. Yeah. We found the shoes pretty quickly, and Shady had an unpleasant talking to with my platoon sergeant (PS), who we'll call First Sergeant (1SG) Highspeed (he was a career soldier, and a badass who served in several “cool-guy” units before and after his stint as our platoon sergeant). 1SG Highspeed decided not to charge Shady, but made it clear that Shady had better wake up his idea (Singapore Army slang that means to unfuck oneself). Shady did not take this message to heart, as you shall soon see.
AWOL Story 1: Shady Begins
So, less than a month after that, Shady goes AWOL the “normal” way, not booking-in after booking-out for the weekend. Oh well, no big surprise. If anyone from the platoon would go AWOL, it would be him. Life, mostly focused on training to be infantrymen, goes on as usual, and my platoon commander (PC), 1st Lieutenant (LTA) Horlan (Singapore Army slang for lost, some stereotypes are universal) and 1SG Highspeed carry out the normal procedures, reporting Shady as AWOL. LTA Horlan and 1SG Highspeed visit his house, no sign of Shady. So they turn the case over to the military police (MPs), making it “official”, and they make regular visits to his house and Shady's particulars are taken down so that if he ever has a run in with the normal Singapore Police Force (SPF), they'll see that he's flagged as AWOL.
Shady ends up booking-in again after about a month, and ends up charged, and sent to the detention barracks (DB, the Singapore Army's prison) for about a month (the typical punishment is imprisonment as long as you were AWOL, also, the time you need to serve is extended by the same duration). We find out that he went AWOL because his girlfriend was jealous and couldn't stand being apart from him (which I don't understand, since we could leave on weekends, and it wasn't exactly like Shady was having beach parties surrounded by hot chicks during the week). But I heard she had a great pair of tits, so I can understand Shady's devotion to her, at least a little.
Shady initially seems like he's become a born-again model soldier, and we're strictly told by our PC and PS not to tease him about going AWOL or his time in the DB (for example, we would be charged ourselves if we asked if he became anyone's prison bitch). The unit holds Scorpion Open House, a family day event, and I notice with some amusement Shady, his parents and girlfriend having an amicable conversation with our unit's officers, the men who charged him.
AWOL Story 2: Illegal Immigrant Boogaloo
After a few months, Shady again doesn't book-in after a weekend. 24 hours pass and he's still not back, so the AWOL process has to begin. LTA Horlan and 1SG Highspeed are livid. They pay a visit to the HDB (apartment block) where he lives and spot him and his girlfriend at the void deck (ground floor). Shady spots them, or at least their uniforms, and without saying a word to his girlfriend, bolts. But LTA Horlan and 1SG Highspeed have a plan. 1SG Highspeed, an incredibly good-looking guy (it's not gay to think he's hot, we all thought he was hot), goes over and begins flirting with his confused girlfriend. Meanwhile LTA Horlan goes after Shady. Caught between a rock and a hard place, Shady heads back to his girlfriend and, according to 1SG Highspeed, actually hides behind her while she gives 1SG Highspeed a tirade, after realising why they were looking for him. 1SG Highspeed gives shady an ultimatum: if he's a man, be back in camp by 2300 hours that day, and it ends there.
Of course, that's not what Shady does. We find out through one of his few friends in the platoon that realising he's soon gonna be flagged for the SPF, he and his girlfriend pack their bags, buys two plane tickets, and withdraws all his saved Singapore Army pay as cash, and takes a flight that night to Australia.
A year goes by, and we hear little of him. We think of him less and less often, thinking he's gone for good. But no! He returns! I play a small part in this story, as I am actually on guard duty the night he returns. His girlfriend actually walks him to the camp gate and there he is, emaciated, wearing a ratty T-shirt, bermudas and with hair that looked like he didn't get it cut since the day he left. I was left to hold the fort and watch the gate, but I get to see him handcuffed by the guard commander and brought to the company office. They initially handcuff him to a railing at the smoking corner, and our company sergeant major (CSM), our new PC -LTA Horlan and 1SG Highspeed since having transferred to another unit- LTA Fridge (because he was always cool and collected, and a huge guy, a wall of muscles literally the width of my actual fridge, and slightly taller, with biceps larger than my head) and our new PS, Staff Sergeant (SSG) Bamboozled (he was not the sharpest tool in the shed) have a talk with him. They eventually cuff him to a window railing in the company office, before the MPs come to pick him up and send him to the DB.
We find out that he and his girlfriend spent the year in a $20 a night motel somewhere in rural Australia, as an illegal immigrant, before his money ran out and he had to come back. I'm kinda surprised that he didn't try to get a cash-in-hand job in the construction industry or whatever, but I'm also not surprised.
LTA Fridge, who has not met Shady before, actually fights for him, and gets him a very short stint in the DB, only a few days or so, and he's back in the platoon. After a year, the platoon has changed though. While before, he was seen as one of us, if a little rebellious, a modern-day Singaporean Robin Hood, sticking a finger in the eye of the Man, there was now a clear divide. The platoon had an in-group. Shady was the only one out of it.
AWOL Story 3: The Finale
This time, Shady is determined to be the worst soldier he can possibly be. His first day back, he throws a shit fit when we go to the armskote (armoury) to draw arms for training. The armskote is separated from the guys drawing arms by a grilled window which the weapons are handed through, and Shady jumps up and clings onto this grill, while screaming his head off, like some sort of pai kia (Singaporean slang for trashy) Spiderman. LTA Fridge comes down to see what the commotion is about and Shady, presumably not wanting to be bent like a fucking pretzel, drops off the grill and behaves. My friend who works in the armskote and shared a bunk with Shady was kinda shaken by the incident. Little did he know what was to come.
Early the next morning at 0200, Shady wakes his section second-in-command (2IC) up, and tells him he thinks he's not gonna be at the outfield training later that day. The 2IC, who thought he meant that he was gonna report sick, says something to the effect of “I don't care anymore Shady, do whatever the fuck you want”.
When I wake up later that morning, something major has clearly happened in Shady's section. The guys are all shook-up but also laughing. Turns out, Shady wakes up at 0400, and grabs a parang (machete) from the sections stores, and attacks our platoon medic, who sleeps in the same bunk as him, the 2IC and my friend. They're able to get away, and rescue the medic, and someone even has the foresight to grab the bunk keys, letting them lock Shady inside the bunk, where he slams his parang against various things. LTA Fridge, PS Bamboozled and CSM arrive, and manage to talk him down, getting him sent to the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), where after staying a few weeks, he finally gets what he wants, a PES F (discharge from the Singapore Army due to mental health issues).
With some irony, he only got out about 6 months before we would have ORD (discharge after finishing service) anyway. I don't know what's happened to him since. I wonder if the trouble was worth it to him
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The saga continues...
I've installed the harness, still have a lot of trim removed in the hatch area, and trying to resolve a few issues.
FWIW, I recently installed the headlight switch that has the rear fog lights...the USA builds do not have that switch, but the vehicle itself is capable of using it - I plugged it in, the rear fog lights now can be turned on/off via the new coding, no additional wiring, just replace the switch.
This brings up a question: The rear taillight assemblies have four wires in their connector. The light has four functions, and I assume it needs ground (unless it gets that by the bolts holding it in). It has: running lights, fog light, turn signal, brake light. How does it get those four functions with four wires in?
Second observation and question: After installation, the only trailer signals I can get to function are turn signals (both left/right and hazards work), and running lights. I did not check rear fog lights, as the 'trailer' I have (actually a bicycle light board - if you're from Europe, you know what that is) doesn't have a foglight in it. So, it must be listening to the CANbus, or it wouldn't operate the running lights or the turn signals, but it is not operating the brake signals. The light board appears to be wired correctly.
Third question: for redundancy and certain emergency situations so you still have trailer brake lights and hazard warnings if the CANbus is off or not functioning (like say the car is off, locked, and you have the hazards on), the harness connects into the vehicle and taps the center brake light line and the right turn signal. The center brake light is supposed to be a black/yellow wire. In the location they indicate in the instructions, I could only find one black/yellow wire, but if it were operating correctly, even if the CANbus wasn't working, it would operate the brake lights. I was wondering if anyone knows any good reason you couldn't tap the brake signal at a taillight verses buried back in the harness elsewhere. If so, which lead is it at the right taillight. Someone had told me blue/black stripe, but there is no wire there with that coloration, or the black/yellow that's supposed to be the center brake light (I sort of would have expected them to all be the same color for the brake function, but hey, I didn't design it).
One of the special features of the Right-Connections harness kit is that it does not require the vehicle to be recoded, as opposed to the OEM kit. Well, it may work fine in the UK market, but unfortunately, it appears that's not true for the USA market vehicles - they would not say it would work, so I can't blame them for any issues....just wondering if anyone else has resolved this.
Now, if BMW made an OEM harness available in the USA, I'd have picked one of those up.
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The Inner Workings of Spells of Love
There are a lot of things that people are trying to do to make sure that they can fall in love in the way that they have always dreamed. There are many people who try spells of love in order to see what is going on and to try and make it so that they can achieve their goals without issues, but there are a lot of considerations that need to be looked at before anything else in your relationship. What can you do to make it more exciting and wonderful for you in the long run?
spells of love
Your brain chemistry can help you to answer that a bit. You see, the mind is a powerful thing and there are a lot of little things that you need to be able to do to make it all work out. If your mind is not prepared for whatever it is that you’re looking to do with your life, then you will have a lot of difficulty in regards to how you want to get there to make things happen. Not only that, but you will start to see that the steps you are taking toward romance are not necessarily going to be reciprocated, no matter how hard you may try to make it happen in the first place.
Everyone that has been in a long term relationship has noticed that phases of ´lust´ and ´romantic love´ tend to disappear over a certain period of time- usually from two to four years- when our brain lowers the production of dopamine and norepinephrine and increases the serotonin levels setting our bodies on the third phase of ´attachment´. But, what is attachment and is it actually going to matter?
This phase leads us to feel calmer and develop deeper feelings of affection and union with our partner. Even though, when the phase kicks off it can be pleasurable calm after a storm of feelings- after a while can lead us to routine and boredom. Thankfully, that doesn’t mean that you are going to want to leave the person that you love. If you are devoted to it and you want to actually move forward with your relationship, you want to start thinking about other factors and know that, no matter what, you’re doing what you can to keep up with love and see a difference in how you want to get to this point in all of the things that you want to be able to achieve.
But what are the factors that make ´romantic attraction´ last? How can we make this period longer and enter on the ´attachment´ phase without completely losing the excitement provided by our brain chemical reactions? That’s where using magic and other resources can actually be a pretty big deal. Consider looking at all of your options and seeing what it could do for you in the end, it will be a huge help and allow you to really fall in love with the person who has caught your eye.
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Cat show planned for this weekend
June 13, 2013
You may as well call this Saturday “Caturday” in Lawrence.
More than 100 cats and their owners will be traveling in from throughout the region for the Kansas City Midwest Cat Show at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2110 Harper St.
Twenty-three breeds will be represented and each cat will be judged within its category: kitten, adult, household or altered. The show and the judges are affiliated with the American Cat Fanciers Association, an international purebred cat registry.
The show will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for children, seniors and millitary personnel and free for children under 6.
Raffles, a silent auction, information booths and vendors selling cat supplies will be part of the event.
Matthew Herbert 2 years, 5 months ago
Can I drop off my cat? No returns, please.
gatekeeper 2 years, 5 months ago
And right across the street, hundreds of cats are desperate to find loving homes at the animal shelter. I hate these cat and dog shows and all the hype around having to have a pure bred animal. There are so many wonderful animals that need homes and people are stupid and spend hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars on a pure bred.
I used to have a Persian cat that was rescued. A breeder was practically trying to force rape to get her to breed because she was perfection. She didn't want to. The breeder had all her claws removed and would beat her. Still never got her to submit and get pregnant. They finally tossed her for dead. For every "good" breeder out there, there's a dozen bad ones that abuse and neglect the animals - they only care about the kittens and puppies they can make money on and if your cat wins at a show, they'll make more money. It took me years to get that poor cat to act like a normal cat. Just like most pure breds, she had lots of health issues.
Please don't attend these shows and don't purchase pure bred animals from breeders. Always adopt from shelters and save the lives of animals that desperately need homes. If you have it in your head that you just have to have a pure bred, then adopt from a rescue group. There's a rescue organization for almost every breed of cat and dog out there.
Lisa Medsker 2 years, 5 months ago
This made me bawl. Who beats a cat? Or anything smaller than they are, for that matter?
gatekeeper 2 years, 5 months ago
I rescue lots of animals and it's amazing how people will abuse and dump animals. I have a house full of once-neglected, dumped animals.
I live my life by a simple quote from Dr. King Jr.:
Lisa Medsker 2 years, 5 months ago
...And, by the way, glad she was rescued by someone who obviously loved her, being willing to put the time and energy into "rehabilitating" her! "Rescue" is the best breed, by far!
Leslie Swearingen 2 years, 5 months ago
Thanks for the comment. It is very true and also glad that she was rescued by you.
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[LISTEN] Yung - Uncombed Hair
Danish quartet Yung have revealed the latest track lifted from their forthcoming album "A Youthful Dream". It's a furious track that leads you astray at the beginning because it's just a lot down-tempo compared to their other work, but it sure enough sparks into life.
The track is a corner-stone of their live sets and I bet they'll be performing this one for years to come, it's just got 'mosh-pit' written all over it!
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hacking a program.
Ok.. I am new to this kind of programming so i have a question? How can i find out with what program was a program made.. I mean. I have an .exe and i wont to reproduce it by scrap. How do i know with what program it was made so i can do it? Or i have the .exe and i want to modify it. Can anyone help me?
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Smells Like Alcohol and Mold
First off, if you happen to be in New York City tonight, I have rejoined my old band and we are playing at 8 pm at some place called The Underscore at 89th street and First avenue. We'll be playing garage nuggets and stuff from bands like The Heartbreakers and The Stooges. Should be interesting, as I have only practiced with them once!
End of commercial message.
So , I went to see Bruce Springsteen in New Jersey last nite. Talk about preaching to the converted, the entire arena hung on every word sang and note played. As expected, it was a great show and a whole lot of fun. The band is tight, Bruce is still Bruce and the beer flowed all night long. More details of the show can be found here.
We got lucky. A business associate is friends with the publisher of a very well known music magazine and they are doing a cover story on Springsteen. As a result, they had all access passes. We were still in traffic trying to get to the show when my buddy got a text message "where are you guys, I'm with Bruce". Well, we didn't get there in time to meet Bruce. However, we were able to upgrade our tickets from behind stage nosebleeds to 15th row, right off the floor in the first section. So that worked very nicely.
Plus, Bruce is nice enough to let his wife sing a song... I think it was called "Piss Break". Maybe not, but that's what I did during the song!
Here's one for you philosophers... the line for Guinness and Bass was non existent. Yet the line for Coors Lite was 20 deep. What the heck is wrong with people? Why would anyone drink crappy beer when they could drink Guinness (for the same price!). Fukkin Jersey-ites!
Anyway, hungover to hell this morning. My wife told me that I smell like alcohol and mold (and this was after I showered!).
When I am this hurt, I like to ease into the day with the smooth sounds of Black Flag. Here's your chance too!
Zooomabooma said...
Ahh yeah, the smooth sounds of Hank Rollins to cure a hangover.... ohhhh-kay.
Anyway, walking back after my run and listening to Magic again, I pondered: what if Bruce (semi-)retired and just played weekends and surprise gigs BARS on the Jersey Shore and around NJ/NYC? Would people move to Jersey from Germany and Brazil and Arizona and Minnesota just to be able to hear him all the time? Would there be sure a demand that such gigs wouldn't even be possible? I guess what I'm gettin' at is he's become huger than life and it's really somethin' to see.
And all those people seein' Bruce rock out in a bar holding only 200 people, they'd all be drinkin' piss beer. It's not just people in NJ, dude... that's everywhere. So sad. I'd rather not drink than indulge in Pukeweiser or coors or corona. Gimme a Bass or Guinness any day!
MRow said...
Dood. Saw the Boss twice on the "Born in the USA" tour - my jaw was on the floor for both 4+ hour sets. I was the best thing I'd seen up to that point in my life.
Did he slide across the stage to kiss Clarence? Is Clarence even in the E Street Band anymore? Is Clarence still alive?
Nazz Nomad said...
clarence had a chair/stool that he would recline in when he wasn't playing the horn (or hitting a tambourine). No kissing and no sliding from Bruce... he's 58 after all and he might have broken a hip!
The e-street band would make a heckuva bar band, that's for sure!
Jeff said...
Coors over Guiness? I'm with you. I had a friend who would always refuse to drink Coors saying, "That money is going straight to Jesse Helms!" As if that wasn't bad enough, it's piss beer.
Good luck with the gig. Let us know how it goes.
Nazz Nomad said...
I never made it to the gig last nite! aargghhh. NY had a major torrential rainstorm and out where I live, the highways were actually shut down due to flooding.
I might be getting old,but r n r isn't worth possible vehicular sucicide anymore.
manicgirl said...
You know, I check this site all the time and I missed your entry re: playing with *band*. I'da been there as it's merely across town on the bus for me. Good thing I didn't go. I'da been ranting about it all night.
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Q: CT Scan radiation dose ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars, 0 Comments )
Subject: CT Scan radiation dose
Category: Health > Medicine
Asked by: crash1977mtl-ga
List Price: $20.00
Posted: 29 Jun 2006 11:26 PDT
Expires: 29 Jul 2006 11:26 PDT
Question ID: 742075
I just had a CT Scan of my sinus and neck. I am concerned because I
thought the procedure was uncessesary, and I am trying to determine
how much radation I was exposed to. I have the following data which
the technician provided to me. Can someone please translate this into
MSV or MREMS, or tell me if , overall, the dose was low or high, and
within normal values for this type of procedure, and what the
associated risks are for this type of exposure?
CTDI vol mgy 23.30
DLP 766.93
Effeciency 97.4 %
CTDI vol mgy 12.88
DLP 179.15
Effeciency 97.4 %
CTDI vol mgy 19.51
DLP 312.89
Effeceincy 85.7 %
Thank you
Subject: Re: CT Scan radiation dose
Answered By: welte-ga on 30 Jun 2006 10:03 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
Hi crash, and thanks for your question.
The better measure of total exposure for a study is the DLP (Dose
Length Product), rather than CTDI (CT Dose Index), which is related
more to the dose per single CT slice. Going from DLP to exposure
requires some assumptions about the types of scan performed. Here is
a good paper that looks at exposure relative to DLP for different
types of exams:
Van Unnik JG, Broerse JJ, Geleijns J, Jansen JT, Zoetelief J, Zweers
D. Survey of CT techniques and absorbed dose in various Dutch
Br J Radiol. 1997 Apr;70(832):367-71.
You can find the full free text here:
See particularly Tables 3 and 4 and Figure 3 on page 559. This gives
a conversion factor of 1.90 x 10^-2 mSv / (mGy-cm) for neck exams and
0.62 x 10^-2 mSv / (mGy-cm) for head CTs (which are similar to sinus
CTs). These factors are dependent on the specific scanner used, but
give reasonable estimates on exposure.
So... You had 2 scans of the neck which gives an exposure of
766.93 mGy-cm x 1.90x10^-2 mSv/(mGy-cm) = 14.57 mSv
179.15 mGy-cm x 1.90x10^-2 mSv/(mGy-cm) = 3.40 mSv
For the sinus CT, we get
312.89 mGy-cm x 0.62 x 10^-2 mSv/(mGy-cm) = 1.94 mSv (the potential
error here is on the order of 10%)
The FDA gives a good, brief overview of the risks associated with
various exposures from CT examinations here:
For an CT exam with an exposure of 10 mSv, the increased risk of a
fatal cancer is 1/2000. Your total exposure was (14.57 + 3.40 + 1.94)
mSv = 19.91 mSv, conveying an increased risk of
(19.91 mSv / 10 mSv) * 1/2000 = 1/1005 or about (0.1%). The natural
risk of fatal cancer in the US population is about 1/5 (about 20%),
meaning that your risk was increased from 20% to about 20.1% of
getting a fatal cancer. The Health Physics Society states that
adverse effects have not been reliably demonstrated below 100mSv:
You can find more detailed information on the effects of ionizing
radiation from the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic
The types of cancers typically associated with low level radiation
exposures are various types of sarcomas (soft tissue tumors),
leukemia, and lung cancers among others. See the reference above for
more information.
Based on Table I in the above source, your exposure for the sinus CT
was similar (they give 2mSv) to the typical head CT dose and is the
equivalent of 243 days of exposure to background radiation or 100
chest x-rays.
For the neck scans, we can get an estimate on the typical exposure by
converting from the typical exposure for head CTs and using Table 2
from this source:
The relative normalized effective dose to convert from head to neck CT
is (0.0054 / 0.0023), so using the data from above source for typical
head CT exposures, we expect about
(0.0054 / 0.0023) * 2 mSv = 4.69 mSv
Your exposure for the second scan was in this range. The exposure for
the second scan was a few times higher, but might be due to some need
to repeat the scan (motion, poor positioning, artifacts, etc.) or
different scanner settings compared to the second scan. This isn't
that uncommon, since the second scan is usually with IV contrast and
the timing of the scan needs to be different to visualize the vascular
structures in the neck. Another possibility is that the scans were
done with different slice thickness for finer detail, resulting in
more slices.
I hope this information is helpful. Please feel free to request
clarification prior to rating.
Request for Answer Clarification by crash1977mtl-ga on 30 Jun 2006 21:27 PDT
Thank you for the information. As I am only 29 years old, I am worried
that due to the dose of close to 20 msv this could have a negative
impact moving forward.
Your assumption on the 2nd scan is correct, I had contrast (iodine) injected.
Could you tell me if 14.57 msv for this type of neck scan with
contrast is within expected ranges, and how much additional msv the
radioactive iodine contains? Does the dose of 20 msv carry any
increased risk for reproduction?
Clarification of Answer by welte-ga on 01 Jul 2006 12:43 PDT
Hi again,
The 14.57 mSv is somewhat higher than the typical range for neck CTs,
and may indicate that multiple scans needed to be taken (and are
counted as one). Another possibility is that the current was
increased to get a better quality scan, etc.
Your total exposure was about 20mSv, causing an increased lifetime
risk of cancer of 0.1% (total risk 20.1%). This estimate on increased
risk refers to cancers that typically appear on the order of 20-30
years after exposure, meaning that people who have this level of
radiation exposure, but who are already 90 years old, are unlikely to
live long enough to realize an actual fatal cancer from the radiation.
Their risk is the same, provided they live long enough. In your
case, the 0.1% increased risk is more meaningful, since you are quite
likely to live another 20-30 years.
In any case, as I stated, the Health Physics Societies states that
adverse effects have not been reliably documented below exposures of
about 100 mSv, so the 0.1% increased risk is likely more theoretical
than real. In other words, below about 100mSv, the increased risks of
getting cancer are so small that they are dwarfed by other risk
factors, making it almost impossible to do studies that are large
enough to establish that a cancer was likely caused by prior radiation
In terms of reproductive risks, the Health Physics Society has an
excellent summary of both the risks with regard to gametes (sperm,
eggs) and to a fetus:
"According to published information, the reported dose of radiation to
result in an increase incidence of birth defects or miscarriage is
above 20 rad or 200 mSv."
They also state that during the first 2 weeks of pregnancy, doses of
much greater than 50mSv are required to induce a miscarriage.
In terms of damage to sperm or testes, the same source states
"For those patients who remain fertile after [radiation] therapy,
their reproductive risks are not increased significantly. In other
not an increased incidence of chromosome abnormalities or genetic
the National Cancer Institute, which indicate that patients who had
cancer and received chemotherapy and radiation did not have an
increased incidence in genetic disease or birth defects in the next
generation although they did have problems with infertility."
Regarding exposure to ovaries, a question relating to a higher dose,
in this case to the abdomen and pelvis rather than the neck (closer to
the ovaries, so higher dose) was answered by Dr. Brent of HPS,
indicating that the risk of mutations passed to a child approach zero:
Finally, the iodine used for CT contrast studies is not radioactive.
It is more radio-opaque than blood, and so shows up within the
vessels. This helps to distinguish, for example, lymph nodes from
blood vessels, etc., which is particularly important in the neck,
where the anatomy is quite complicated.
I hope this information is helpful.
Very good - excellent - thank you.
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Navigation Tips
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Ipod Shuffle 07/19/07
Here's today's iPod Shuffle...
1. Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
2. Swamp - Talking Heads
3. Presque Rien - Francis Cabrel
4. Down So Long - Jewel
5. I'm Looking for a New Love - Jody Watley
6. Symphony B in B Flat Major - Allegro Molto - Franz Joseph Haydn
7. Touched by the Hand of God - New Order
8. Qu'est-ce Que Ca Te Foute - K-Maro
9. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Serenade in G Major, K. 525 Movement 1 - Mozart
10. Wild Honey - U2
2 stitch(es):
Karin said...
Wow! This could be my ipod (well "bean" actually). I have very eclectic musical tastes and it's definitely reflected on my playlist :). You are so right about the addictive nature of sock-knitting, small, portable, easily finished - what more could a knitter ask? Other than a second pair of hands perhaps :)...
V. said...
Seven Nation Army is a good number, so is Feel in Love with a Girl by The White Stripes. There is also a Feel in Love with a Boy by Joss Stone, also good. I've been getting into Joss Stone lately and like her very much.
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Does anyone have a SolidWorks seat they are willing to sell?
Hi, I am an university student, and I've been using the SolidWorks student edition for many years. I've gotten quite comfortable with the software, and I really love using it. Recently, I've started posting models to GrabCAD and creating youtube tutorials, but technically speaking, that isn't allowed with the student edition.
I want to continue sharing though, I think it's a great way to continue learning and give back to the community that helped me get to this point, so I am considering buying a standard SolidWorks license, but as you can imagine, it's a lot of money for a student!
That's why I was wondering if you have an old SolidWorks license or a SolidWorks license you don't really use that you would consider selling to me?
Thanks for your time!
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What People Should Know About Barber Haircuts
20Most people who go to the barbershop for haircuts do not understand a lot about the barbershop or its traditions. When people think about the barbershop, they usually think about things such as the barbershop’s red, white, and blue pole that basically is an image that is tied to the barbershop tradition. People also think about the barbershop chairs that spin around and go up and down to make adjustments for the people sitting in the chairs.
There are several other things that people think about when they picture the barbershop. However, typically the first thing that most people think about regarding the barbershop is the barber haircuts. It is the barber haircuts that standout as the main thought concerning the barbershop for most people. The long success and tradition of the barbershop can be traced back to the barber haircuts, which serve as the foundation for all that the barbershop has become.
Even though haircuts are the primary draw for most people that go to the barbershop, many still do not understand what really stands behind the haircuts at the barbershop. The barber is the driving force behind haircuts at the barbershop, but not for the obvious reasons. What people should know about barber haircuts is that customer service is the main reason why haircuts at the barbershop are so popular.
The barbers that provide the haircuts are gifted and talented individuals who make people look amazing with great haircuts, but what keeps these same people coming back week after week, month after month, and year after year is the customer service. People are treated well by the barbers at the barbershop along with receiving great haircuts. In the end, people can go a lot of places to get haircuts; however, barbers provide sensational haircuts combined with sensational customer service. The combination is incredible and it keeps people coming back over and over again.
People looking for great haircuts and great customer service can find both at Premium Barbershop. The barbershop is what Premium Barbershop is all about. Providing haircuts and customer service at a high level are the primary goals at Premium Barbershop.
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Maltose-forming \α-amylase is a glycoside hydrolase family 57 (GH57) member that is unique because it displays dual hydrolysis activity toward \α-1,4- and \α-1,6-glycosidic linkages and only recognizes maltose. This enzyme was previously identified only in Pyrococcus sp. ST04 (PSMA); however, we recently found two homologs subgroups in Thermococcus species. One subgroup (subgroup A) showed relatively high amino acid sequence similarity to PSMA (\>71\%), while the other subgroup (subgroup B) showed lower homology with PSMA (\<59\%). To characterize the subgroup B maltose-forming \α-amylase from Thermococcus species (TCMA), we cloned the CL1_0868 gene from Thermococcus sp. CL1 and then successfully expressed the gene in Escherichia coli. Although TCMA has a different oligomeric state relative to PSMA, TCMA showed similar substrate specificity. However, TCMA was shown to hydrolyze maltooligosaccharides more easily than PSMA. Also, TCMA displayed different optimum conditions depending on the glycosidic linkage of the substrate. TCMA had the highest activity at 85\°C and at pH 5.0 for \α-1,4-glycosidic linkage hydrolysis whereas it showed its maximal activity to cleave \α-1,6-glycosidic linkages at 98\°C and pH 6.0.
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Pink Stuff
This can be a salad or a dessert It's one of my...
6300Jul 30
This is a list of Recipes created by texasgirl8585.
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kombarean: "just do it!"(meet us in the quizzes)
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Dehydration and Water vs. Gatorade
Quench your thirst and fix your dehydration with a tall, cool glass of water.
Image Credit: Milan_Jovic/E+/GettyImages
If you're feeling thirsty, you may be dehydrated. When it comes to replenishing your fluid losses, you may wonder whether you would be better off with plain water or Gatorade for dehydration. Well, that depends, but in most cases, water makes the best choice for rehydration.
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Dehydration occurs when a person loses more fluid from his body than he takes in. Symptoms include, but are not limited to, having a dry, sticky mouth; tiredness or lethargy; thirst; muscle weakness; headache; and dizziness or lightheadedness. Drinking water or sports drinks regularly can help to prevent and treat mild dehydration, but there is some dispute as to which is better.
Read more:How to Tell if You Are Dehydrated
Possible Causes of Dehydration
When illness occurs, however, thirst may not be a factor; therefore, it's important to take in fluids regardless of whether you feel thirsty. Even when vomiting occurs, it's important to rehydrate with as much fluid as often as possible.
Dehydration Due to Illness
Drinking water is a safe, healthy treatment for dehydration caused by symptoms of illness in adults. Other fluids, including fruit juices or carbonated and caffeinated beverages, may actually worsen diarrhea, furthering a person's dehydrated state.
Gatorade Benefits
Loss of water due to sweating because of climate conditions or exercise can lead to mild dehydration. It was for this purpose that Gatorade was invented in the 1960s by a group of scientists at the University of Florida. Gatorade is essentially flavored water that contains sodium, a key electrolyte lost when you lose water.
Hydrating with Gatorade vs. water before and during a sporting event has been shown to increase a player's level of endurance and strength during play. However, there is little evidence that Gatorade is more beneficial than water when treating dehydration caused by anything other than sweating.
Read more:How to Hydrate When Dehydrated
Special Considerations for Children
Children are at higher risk for more severe forms of dehydration. When a child becomes sick, her body is less likely to recover from the rapid fluid loss that occurs from fever, vomiting and diarrhea.
Rehydration products may help children with illnesses, to help prevent and treat dehydration. However, Gatorade is not designed to replace fluids lost due to illness and is not recommended to prevent or treat dehydration in sick children.
Special Considerations for Older People
Older people are more susceptible to dehydration due to a number of factors, including decreased thirst; changing water metabolism; loss of physical and/or mental autonomy; illnesses characterized by tremor, such as Parkinson's disease; fear of incontinence; and weight loss.
Water is ultimately the best way to stay hydrated for older people, although Gatorade could be used to stimulate thirst due to its sodium content. Older people should drink small amounts continuously throughout the day, not a massive amount all at once.
Read more:Pros and Cons of Gatorade
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Atrioventricular Dissociation
Updated: Nov 16, 2017
• Author: Chirag M Sandesara, MD, FACC, FHRS; Chief Editor: Jose M Dizon, MD more...
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Atrioventricular (AV) dissociation is a condition whereby the atria and the ventricles activate independently of each other. The normal activation—sinus node followed by the atria, AV node, and then the His-Purkinje system causing ventricular activation—is no longer observed. AV dissociation may occur when a subsidiary pacemaker in the AV node or the ventricle overtakes the sinus node for impulse initiation due to slowing of the sinus node, or it may occur when a subsidiary site (ie, the ventricle) beats faster than the sinus node, such as in ventricular tachycardia. The causes of AV dissociation are important to understand as they impact the treatment plan.
The escape of a subsidiary (latent) pacemaker in cardiac tissue may occur if the dominant pacemaker (the sinus node) slows considerably. A subsidiary pacemaker in the AV junction or below may activate at a faster rate compared to the sinus node and thereby cause AV dissociation without retrograde atrial capture. [1, 2, 3] For example, sinus bradycardia, with a very slow sinus rate, may allow the AV junction to become a subsidiary pacemaker and thus activate independently from the sinus node (see the image below). AV dissociation does not imply AV block, but both AV block and AV dissociation can occur concurrently. [4]
Significant slowing of the sinus node allows for a Significant slowing of the sinus node allows for a subsidiary pacemaker (atrioventricular [AV] junction) to activate, causing AV dissociation.
In general, AV block is associated with a faster atrial rate than ventricular rate. The P waves, representing atrial conduction, cannot activate the ventricles in complete heart block. In AV dissociation, a block is not necessarily present. If a P wave is properly timed, it may conduct to the ventricle in AV dissociation; this is termed a capture beat. Heart block, which may occur with AV dissociation, is discussed in detail in the Medscape Drugs & Diseases article Atrioventricular Block.
The prevalence of AV dissociation is unknown. No racial preponderance or age predilection exists, and men and women are equally affected.
Types of AV dissociation
There are two types of AV dissociation, complete and incomplete.
Complete AV dissociation
Complete AV dissociation occurs when the atria and the ventricles activate independently from one another and the atrial rate is slower or equal to the ventricular rate. The fact that none of the P waves conduct has more to do with the timing of the P waves in relation to the QRS complex rather than the presence of AV block. [5]
Incomplete AV dissociation
Incomplete AV dissociation occurs when there is either intermittent atrial capture from the ventricles or intermittent ventricular capture from the atria. During incomplete AV dissociation, some of the P waves conduct and capture the ventricles (ie, interference AV dissociation, see the image below).
Interference AV dissociation occurs when a well-timed P wave conducts via a nonrefractory AV conduction system. Interference AV dissociation is initiated by slowing of the sinus node due to sinus bradycardia or sinus arrest, thereby allowing an independent subsidiary pacemaker in the junction (narrow QRS complex) or the ventricle (wide QRS complex) to take over ventricular activation. [6]
This rhythm strip reveals interference atrioventri This rhythm strip reveals interference atrioventricular dissociation, as there is a P wave conducting to the ventricle in the third and seventh beats, whereas the P wave fails to conduct to the ventricle in the other beats.
In contrast, during isorhythmic AV dissociation, a synchronized dissociation occurs when the atrial and ventricular rates are similar, demonstrating an apparent association of the two cardiac chambers. [7] Either slowing of the sinus node discharge rate or the emergence of a slightly faster subsidiary pacemaker controlling the ventricles is the common initiating event. Junctional rhythms may show isorhythmic AV dissociation as the P waves and QRS complexes appear to have a close relationship to one another; however, they are actually activating independently from one another. With close observation of the rhythm strip, the P wave may be either just prior, inscribed within, or seen in the terminal portion of the QRS complex (see the image below).
Isorhythmic AV dissociation. There is AV dissociat Isorhythmic AV dissociation. There is AV dissociation with independent atrial and ventricular conduction at similar rates.
Ventricular tachycardia may occur without retrograde atrial activation (due to complete retrograde block) causing AV dissociation, because the atria and ventricles beat independently and the atrial rate is slower than the ventricular rate. An accelerated junctional rhythm with a slower sinus node rate may also be associated with AV dissociation and retrograde block.
The cause of atrioventricular (AV) dissociation is due to an increased rate of a subsidiary (escape) pacemaker and/or a decreased rate of the sinus node. The use of certain medications including beta-blockers, digitalis, and calcium channel blockers may lead to slowing of the sinus node and cause a subsidiary pacemaker to activate in the ventricle or AV junction. [8] Vagal activation (eg, neurocardiogenic syncope, vomiting) may cause this as well. AV dissociation can also be seen after radiofrequency ablation of the slow pathway responsible for AV nodal reentry tachycardia, leading to acceleration of an AV junctional activation that is faster than the sinus node activation. After exertion, if AV dissociation is present from an escape pacemaker, it can be a normal phenomenon.
Accelerated activation of the subsidiary pacemaker can occur during surgical and anesthesia interventions (including intubation), conditions that increase catecholamine levels (including vasoconstrictor infusions of inotropes), myocardial infarction, structural heart disease, hyperkalemia, ventricular tachycardia, or ventricular pacing.
Major causes of atrioventricular (AV) dissociation include high vagal tone, sinus bradycardia, ventricular tachycardia, nonparoxysmal junctional tachycardia, junctional escape rhythm, and an accelerated idioventricular rhythm. [9, 10, 11, 12, 13]
In nonparoxysmal junctional tachycardia, junctional rhythm/tachycardia occurs at a rate faster than the sinus rate, without retrograde atrial capture. This is observed in clinical situations such as digoxin toxicity, sinus bradycardia with escape junctional rhythm, and after cardiac surgery, particularly aortic valve surgery or replacement due to its close anatomic approximation to the AV node and His-Purkinje system. [14]
Long postectopic cycles allow an escape junctional rhythm as well. A normal sinus beat followed by a premature ventricular beat resets the sinus node timing cycle. Occasionally, especially in sinus node disease, the sinus impulse takes longer to activate than usual and a junctional escape beat or rhythm may follow, and this may lead to AV dissociation as the sinus node activates much slower than the junctional escape rhythm.
The prognosis is generally good, but it may depend on the severity of the underlying problem causing the AV dissociation. Although benign, it may indicate serious underlying cardiovascular issues (eg, ischemia, digoxin toxicity). For conditions in which AV dissociation may be iatrogenic (ie, high doses of beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, or digitalis in the setting of renal failure), the prognosis is excellent, as removal of the cause eliminates the problem. Occasionally, AV dissociation can affect hemodynamics and cause a reduction in cardiac output or blood pressure, but once treated the prognosis is excellent.
AV dissociation is generally benign. Any adverse effects are related to the ensuing bradycardia, AV dyssynchrony, or underlying conditions.
Complications of AV dissociation are generally due to hemodynamic compromise due to the processes that cause AV dissociation (eg, ventricular tachycardia, severe sinus bradycardia). The low blood pressure and very fast or very slow heart rate may lead to traumatic syncope. Hypoperfusion of end organs due to brady or tachyarrhythmias is possible. Acute renal failure from a reduction in renal blood flow due to a low cardiac output is commonly seen in severe bradycardia and AV dissociation. Ischemia or myocardial infarction could occur in cases in which the tachyarrhythmia or bradyarrhythmia coupled with AV dissociation may lead to reduced coronary artery perfusion. These clinical situations may require immediate resuscitative efforts to establish both normal a blood pressure and heart rate to allow adequate end-organ perfusion.
Patient Education
AV dissociation should be discussed with a patient who is symptomatic to identify the underlying cause(s) and discuss methods to prevent the problem. Patients with marked sinus bradycardia and AV dissociation may need a pacemaker. Patients with a history of AV dissociation requiring treatment or withdrawal of an offending drug (ie, medication induced) must be informed of the condition that led to AV dissociation (ie, digitalis use in renal failure or high dose beta blocker use to treat hypertension), be aware of the consequences if no changes in medications are made (recurrent dizziness, syncope, trauma) and must inform their health care providers to avoid such medications to prevent it from recurring. Patients must be also be counselled on the effects of deleterious drug-drug interactions (ie, taking clonidine for hypertension and a concomitant beta blocker for atrial fibrillation) to avoid initiation of AV dissociation.
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Candidate Experience: Consulting Firm vs. Insurance Carrier
by Agatha Caleo, Candidate Representative to the Candidate Liaison Committee
A common question asked by candidates searching for their first actuarial job is, “Should I work for a consulting firm or a traditional insurance carrier?” In Future Fellows December 2008 & March 2009, we addressed several myths about the similarities and differences of consulting firms vs. insurance carriers from the points of view of long-term actuaries. For this article, we decided to interview people at an earlier point in their careers: candidates.
Dan DiMugno, ACAS, has worked for insurance carrier Travelers for five years in a variety of roles. Ken Steinhauser has been a consultant in life and annuities for Oliver Wyman for two years. In his five-year actuarial career, Manpreet Mann has worked at both a carrier and a consulting firm, first at The Hanover and now at Aon. All have reached or are very close to achieving Associateship in their respective actuarial societies and are active in their companies’ student programs. All three of our candidates sat down together to talk about their personal experiences.
Which has the best environment for passing exams?
Our candidates felt that while there were differences in the study culture between a consulting firm and an insurance carrier, one was not necessarily “better” than the other. While number of study hours was similar, how each candidate scheduled his study time varied. Steinhauser said of studying at a consulting firm that “people who are most successful at it around here build a lot of buffer into their study schedules.” Mann agreed that a buffer is necessary to allow for flexibility when client needs arise, stating, “There are situations where if you’re studying and a client calls you up or a broker calls you up, you’ll have to take the call and put your study time on pause, but you can always get back to it at a later time…In general, we’re able to use our study time as we need to.” In contrast, at a carrier, DiMugno’s study time was a little more structured, generally two hours each day during exam season. He said that if an important meeting comes up months before the exam, he generally adjusts his study schedule and attends the meeting, but as the date of the exam approaches, focus shifts and “study time takes priority over certain work items.”
Everyone agreed that their study time was respected by colleagues and supported by management. Most of their coworkers are taking or have taken actuarial exams and are very understanding of the process. Steinhauser took it a step further, explaining that “a consultant spending hours studying is a tangible investment for a consulting firm and so I think from that standpoint the good managers … realize that getting people all their study time and making sure that everyone’s passing exams on the first try is the most efficient way to run the business.” “It’s not just management that wants you to pass but each other as well,” added DiMugno. “There’s no cut-throat type of feeling.”
Which has the best training program?
Our candidates agreed that training at an insurance carrier is more formal. Carriers can often provide targeted training because their candidates are working on more focused tasks. They then use formal rotation programs to expand the breadth of a candidate’s knowledge. Steinhauser said candidates in consulting tend to get “thrown onto live work and pick it up as you go.” Neither he nor Mann had formal rotational programs at their companies. “However,” Mann explained, “we do work with a lot of different products and get to work with different people as well, so we are able to see different areas of the profession.” If candidates’ learning styles do not match the company’s training philosophy, they can still be successful; they might just have to work a little harder.
Which has a better work-life balance?
DiMugno says work-life balance is part of the culture at his carrier, but it may be a function of the large pool of actuaries; greater ability to spread the work around makes this “possibly more of a large carrier thing than a carrier thing,” he said. “Work-life balance is sort of an individual concept,” stated Steinhauser. While he agrees that the “hours tend to be a little bit longer or a little bit less predictable,” it appears the stereotype of the overworked consultant is false, at least in this case. Mann said when he moved from carrier to consulting firm, he traded a more structured schedule with fewer hours for a more flexible schedule with occasionally longer hours. Client needs must be met, but he can always ask for help from other analysts if the work starts to overflow.
How is the work different?
The work can vary drastically. It is less about consulting vs. carrier and more about the exact position you are assigned. DiMugno has been in a rotational program at Travelers, with jobs ranging from auto reserving to profitability analysis for international markets. Steinhauser builds models for life- and annuities-related products for Oliver Wyman’s clients. At The Hanover, Mann worked in workers’ compensation ratemaking, including state filings; while at Aon, he spends most of his time in reserving for various casualty lines. As you can see, Mann’s consulting position at Aon is more similar to DiMugno’s reserving position at carrier Travelers than what Steinhauser does at consulting firm Oliver Wyman.
On the other hand, there are some common themes to the consulting vs. carrier work environment. Two examples are personal interaction and travel. As a consultant, Steinhauser spends about half his week away from his office working on-site at client offices. Mann, also in consulting, travels only occasionally but spends much of his time interacting with clients, both external and internal (such as brokers). As an analyst for a carrier, DiMugno spends a similar amount of time interacting with people, but they are all on internal company teams (claims, advanced analytics, etc.).
There are some general differences between working for a consulting firm or an insurance carrier, but it seems that where it matters most, conditions are comparable. Much more important is job description. Therefore, it is a good idea to keep options open and refrain from narrowing the job search too early by eliminating either consulting firms or insurance carriers from the pool of potential employers. Instead, a candidate needs to carefully evaluate each job on its individual merits.
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Maciej Gawroński, Head of Warsaw Office, contributes to biggest business daily in Poland
16 November 2011
Maciej Gawroński
In a full page article in “Rzeczpospolita” newspaper, the biggest business and law daily in Poland, Maciej Gawroński touches the sensitive issue of perpetual licensing of software under Polish law. The topic is sometimes questioned by Polish lawyers as it is not fully clear under Polish law.
In the piece, titled “It is possible to license software perpetually” Maciej argues that potential unstability of software licensing laws in Poland would effect in putting the country out of the mainstream of global information-based economy.
‘Whole virtual world is software-based. It is the software translating the digital signals into understandable information. There are millions of software programs out there. The relations between them are complex and consist of multiple elements. The licensed elements used by software makers are often used to build upon and add extra proprietary code. Therefore, in a short term, one-sided cancellation of contractual rights would mean that the software ecosystem as a whole would likely collapse due to legal reasons’
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Mature Subject Matter - Reader Discretion Advised
Go play, grown ups are talking.
By Dean L
If you are in France, you can't read this. You just voted in a socialist government because you couldn't handle the necessary austerity measures, in a country so socialist already, it shouldn't make much of a difference that the socialist won - there isn't much room to move left anyway:
France currently has a government that absorbs more than 50 percent of its economy. They have a cradle-to-grave employment system, where once you have a job it is virtually impossible to lose it no matter your level of performance.
The retirement system for many union and government employees allows a person to retire at age 55 at close to full pay. For a while they had in place a 35-hour work-week law, which is still followed by many businesses and government entities.
With these types of policies, it would seem difficult to imagine what a socialist government would change. But there is still room for movement to the left, according to the folks who are running.
One candidate, who was eliminated from Sunday’s runoff but whose ideas linger on, proposed that all income above $350,000 should go to the government. A cause célèbre of the campaign has been a $22 million euro bonus which reflected in large part accrued, deferred compensation paid to the head of one of France’s fastest growing and most profitable companies that has added hundreds of new jobs.
Clearly the French aren't prepared to face reality and would rather continue to live in a fantasy land of denial and everything-is-free-for-everyone bliss. That's not mature. Argue about the priorities and don't avoid the reality, and you can stay in the conversation. Denying the fiscal reality and leaning on "tax the rich" ad nauseum, means you don't have the maturity to face up to the facts. Greece - ditto, but at least you aren't going socialist in your elections. So, French or Greek, don't listen or read.
Speaking of which, if you are an Obama supporter, stuck in that same delusional state, you can't read this. You should instead go outside and play Occupy Something, or read a bedtime story that exalts your hero. For that matter if you believe that Keynesian solutions solved the problem of the Great Recession or that unemployment is in great shape or even decent shape, it's nap time - go dream about unicorns.
If you are still a global warming alarmist, go hug a tree - adults are talking here. We haven't got time right now to entertain your notions.
Free health care believer? Go to McDonald's and get yourself a Happy Meal, because there really is such a thing as a free lunch.
Anyone else under the delusion that government is the solution to everything, please walk away. We are trying to have serious discussions about solutions to problems that liberalism, progressivism and socialism have caused - government debt the world over with no clear way out save government austerity and private sector growth.
Growth of GDP combined with government austerity is the only way to solve the economic crisis that hasn't really been addressed. Government spending is like taking sand from the bottom of a pile in order to put it on top of the pile to make it higher. The reality is far worse than simply just some spending cuts or the ridiculous notion of ever more government spending. It's not going to be pretty, it's not going to be any sort of soft landing on Medicare or Social Security but it is going to be necessary. People have stuck their heads in the sand for far too long and it's time to be adult and start talking about some very uncomfortable choices that are going to have to be made.
I'm not sure how many of us are left in the room, but it's time to talk.
1. The problem though, of course, is that even if the adults are talking, the lunatic children are still in charge. It makes practically no difference however many creative, viable, and desperately needed solutions I, or any other person capable of reading the proverbial wall, come up with: without any way to enact them, the country is still doomed to fail.
That realization, of course, leads to the next one: the most important crisis facing the country is not the debt, or entitlements, or spending, or any particular policy, but rather the fact that idiots are allowed to govern by proxy. If someone can devise a solution to that problem, all others become easy (eg: you wouldn't need to worry about cleaning up Obama's mess, because Obama would never get elected in the first place). Conversely, as long as idiots are capable of electing imbeciles to office, all the brilliant plans in the world won't help at all, sad as that may be.
1. The solution to the dilemma as you describe it, is something that the left has long since mastered as a tactic. It's a matter of gaining control of those institutions that can influence (in this case dampen) the critical thinking of the public, namely education and media. The left knows this and they have managed to counter a smarter message (quality) with indoctrination (quantity).
The solution, more easily said than done, is to find viable alternatives to those two institutional advantages the left possesses. School vouchers, conservative media, more parental involvement in education for example represent possible solutions.
While I prefer to be an optimist and believe that childishness can be overcome, your point is well taken - if voters can vote for more 'freebies' for themselves they will do so. At some point a tipping point is reached where there is nothing left to take from others or no one left to borrow from and the country inevitably collapses.
Perhaps by it's very nature then, liberty and rational economic capitalism that leads to prosperity will always be transient in nature - those able to remove themselves from the collapse will go elsewhere and start anew. However as I said, I try to be an optimist and believe that America is the exception to that eventuality.
2. Great post! As conservatives and libertarians, it will be interesting to see where France choice leads them. As you say, they are already socialist; this move just seals the deal. Where in the world will their society be in 10 years? Hopefully we can write about it and warn Americans (and Canadians) of the clear-as-day results.
1. Even in France there was, or perhaps still is, hope. Granted that hope is much diminished today. But in defense of rationalism in France, I offer this quote from outgoing conservative president Sarkozy:
Socialist leader Francois Hollande said in the televised election debate with Sarkozy this class warfare jibe: "I protect the children of the Republic, you protect the most privileged." Sarkozy retorted "You want fewer rich people. I want fewer poor people." Classic. Not enough to win the election sadly, but proof that even in socialist France, there is the spark of true conservatism.
Where those ideas exist, there's still hope. That's a lesson for America too - the country can survive one term of a bad election. Maybe it can even survive two. But why risk it?
2. The people will decide. By majority vote. What will save the republic is if liberty is important enough to inspire people to think beyond just "Hope and Change."
I for one ain't holding my breath.
3. democracy at the breaking point. this could be very slow, certainly painful.
1. Painful for sure but slow, maybe not. At the breaking point, if not certainly then quite close. I'm not sure whether France is the canary in the coal mine, but Hollande is the Obama of France and he wants to reduce the country's dependence on nuclear power from 75% of it's electricity to 50% by 2025. How green is that?
As Sarkozy pointed out, why do that when oil prices are ridiculously high now? It's about appeasing leftist voting blocks. That trumps rationality. As Nick said above, the children are apparently in charge. Let's hope enough Americans see the lessons of Europe past and present and don't emulate France's decision to swing left in the face of socialist policy failures. That would be childish indeed.
4. From Yahoo! homepage:
French president: I won't be 'difficult'
New socialist leader François Hollande says he sees potential areas of agreement with Obama.
Of course he does. President Obama is not exactly an American Capitalist, now is he? He says he won't make things difficult for our Dear Leader. Hm.
1. Him simply saying that should be making things difficult for Obama, but don't hold your breath that it will.
5. Communism worked as long as it did in the Soviet Union because they controlled the movement of labor. If you go crazy with redistribution and punitive taxation in a country where the borders are open, you're asking for trouble.
1. Communism "lasted" as long as it did in the Soviet Union...
Fixed it for you.
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Slicing Up The IBS Pie
Susan: In mid-2008, I had a severe food poisoning incident with lots of diarrhea and vomiting. Later that year, I broke a toe and took Advil every day for a month. In October 2009, I started having problems being regular with my digestion. I saw a physician who gave me a course of antibiotics and proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). After taking them I was still experiencing abdominal pain and bloating.
Dr. Chutkan: An episode of food poisoning can be the triggering event for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) because the gut flora is thrown out of balance. The pathogen crowds out a lot of the beneficial gut bacteria, and even after the infection is over people are often still symptomatic because their healthy gut bacteria remain depleted and other species start to overgrow. Non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like Advil compound things because they make tiny holes in the intestinal lining that increase the gut permeability and can lead to leaky gut syndrome. A course of antibiotics plus PPIs on top of that can create a perfect storm of altered gut bacteria – what we generally refer to as “dysbiosis”.
Susan: From 2009-2013, I had several ultrasounds, and an endoscopy. I stayed on PPIs but my symptoms weren’t getting any better. My doctor tried me on several different brands of PPIs and finally put me on an antispasmodic, which he said was for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Dr. Chutkan: Susan had ongoing symptoms because the root cause of her GI distress had yet to be uncovered and treated. In addition, she was actually being treated with a drug (PPI) that can cause and/or exacerbate the very condition she was suffering from!
Note also that conventional testing like ultrasound and endoscopy cannot diagnose a disordered microbiome. Those are tools that are sufficient for some GI disorders like gallstones and ulcers, but ineffectual in this new era of microbially based conditions like SIBO. A breath test in theory would have been helpful, although because of her recent antibiotic treatment, there would have been a high likelihood of a false negative result.
The desperation that patients like Susan feel in the face of ongoing symptoms and no clear diagnosis (or at least no accurate diagnosis) is manifest in all the various OTC and prescription medications they’ll often end up trying.
Susan: I feel pain most of the time when I eat and I have severe bloating. I’ve seen my stomach go to 40 inches or more after meals. I’ve tried cutting out whole foods, the FODMAPS diet, and intermittent fasting. I’ve also tried acupuncture. At one point, I just stopped eating for days and I did feel a little better then.
Dr. Chutkan: The pain after eating in patients with SIBO is a result of bacterial fermentation of the food and production of gases like hydrogen and methane that distend the intestines and lead to excessive bloating. Many patients with SIBO say they feel better when they fast, but of course, starving your gut bacteria is not a sustainable long-term therapy.
Susan: My bloating and abdominal pain is worse than ever now and I’m tired of taking so many pills everyday. I feel like my symptoms have taken over my life!
Dr. Chutkan: Susan had initially been told she had reflux, and then was given a diagnosis of IBS. That speaks to the dangers of “lumping” rather than “splitting”: we should be slicing up the IBS pie and trying to uncover the root cause of bowel irritability, rather than making an empiric and generalized diagnosis and then simply prescribing a rotating cocktail of drugs. Susan’s “IBS” was caused by dysbiosis and SIBO, but there can be many other causes, including undiagnosed celiac disease, Crohn’s disease, fructose malabsorption, active parasitic infections, anismus, diverticulosis, gallbladder dysfunction, etc. The list of GI conditions frequently lumped together under a diagnosis of IBS is a yard long. A careful history and physical exam, followed by the right testing is critical in coming up with the correct diagnosis and treatment.
Susan’s history was classic for SIBO in many ways: the triggering event of food poisoning and Advil, compounded by PPIs and antibiotics, and then the ensuing bloating and abdominal pain. Her breath test did end up being positive for SIBO.
She had tried a lot of different diets but all of them focused on subtracting – removing grains or fermentable foods – without adding in the essential ingredient for rehabbing the microbiome: indigestible plant fiber. A lot of the complex carbohydrates she had removed (healthy grains, fruits and vegetables) actually play an important role in feeding gut bacterial species like Faecalibacterium Prausnitzii- one of the most prevalent species in plant eaters; it can boost the immune system and is protective against disorders like Crohn’s, obesity, asthma and depression.
Susan’s story had a happy ending. She was resolute about following our dietary plan, making sure she consumed at least 8 cups of leafy greens and fibrous veggies every day. She added back in some brown rice, quinoa and oatmeal, and within a few weeks was able to taper off the various medications she was taking. It took a full 5 months for all of her symptoms to resolve but she is now bloat and pain-free!
Learn more about diagnosing SIBO – check out SIBO or Reflux? A must-read for those diagnosed with reflux.
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Brad Pitt on Hubris, 'War Machine' and Having 'No Secrets' - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Fallon's "Breakdance Conversation" with Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt and Gen. Stanley McChrystal — the inspiration to Pitt's four-star Afghanistan commander in the upcoming Netflix war satire "War Machine "— would seem to be worlds apart. One, an affable member of Hollywood's elite; the other a hard-charging lifetime military man. But Pitt found one connection with his character: a swollen ego, and the damage done.
"Hubris is a trap and it's the trap of every great nation that has been number one for too long. You start believing your own stink," Pitt says. "Anytime I've gotten in trouble, it's because of my own hubris."
Pitt was similarly forthright in a wide-ranging interview last week with The Associated Press. He called directly — "Hey man, it's Brad" — and over the course of half an hour, discussed his present state of mind, his current attitude about acting and his alarm at the possibility of expanding the war in Afghanistan. Why the openness?
'Late Night': A Closer Look at Wednesday's Trump Rally
(Published Friday, June 22, 2018)
"I've got no secrets. I've got nothing to hide," said Pitt. "We're human and I find the human condition very interesting. If we're not talking about it, then we're not getting better."
It's undoubtedly a fraught period of transition for the 53-year-old actor. He said he's spending his time now "keeping the ship afloat" and "figuring out the new configuration of our family." ''Kids are everything," he said, of their six children. "Kids are your life. They're taking all the focus, as they should anyway."
Pitt was most keen to discuss "War Machine" and the strong passions behind it. The film, written and directed by the Australian filmmaker David Michod ("Animal Kingdom"), is based on Michael Hastings' 2012 book "The Operators," which chronicled McChrystal's tumultuous and short-lived stewardship of the war in Afghanistan.
"War Machine," which debuts on Netflix May 26, takes a slightly fictionalized approach. Pitt's character is named Gen. Glen McMahon, but the events and personalities covered correspond accurately with McChrystal's downfall. The switch, made after the project was announced, saved the film from some potentially thorny legal issues.
"We had no interest in impugning General McChrystal or any of his guys," said Pitt. "For me, the problem is more systematic."
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"The impetus for me was a visit to Walter Reed," added Pitt, who visited the military medical center in 2014 . "Those young men and women — who are absolutely heroic in a very harrowing situation — their lives are forever changed and so are their families. It just really made me question who is spending this currency of dedication. Who's writing the check? Who's making the order?"
Particularly galling to Pitt was the request last week by advisers to President Donald Trump and military officials for several thousand more American troops in Afghanistan, a war that has already spanned more than 15 years. It's time to rethink what "winning" means, he says.
"Nothing that we've ever done has said that more troops are going to do anything but cause any more damage, more loss of life and limb," said Pitt. "We talk a lot about supporting our troops but I think supporting our troops is much more than giving them money and a pat on the back. I think it's being responsible to how we use that ultimate dedication."
In "War Machine," Michod summons some of the spirit of war comedies like "Catch 22" and "M-A-S-H." The film captures an American military driven by politics, illusions and personal aspirations. Pitt's general, with a deeper, gruffer voice than McChrystal's, comes charging into Afghanistan with outlandish delusions of grandeur and departs amid self-inflicted scandal.
"We were tapping into a melding of war and comedy — two things that used to co-exist quite conformably, but in this day and age don't," said Michod. "It's very interesting to see how the two coexist in the public sphere given how strangely earnest all conversation about war has gotten in a possibly warped way. But there's something almost truer in that kind of great comedy treatment of decades past than the nature of the discussion that goes on today."
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Michod grants it's an approach that makes for some wild swings of tone in "War Machine," but he says a mix of absurdity and tragedy is ultimately more realistic.
"At core, the thing to me that's most powerful about 'War Machine' and what made it feel important to me was that it was about the way personalities can have an incredibly powerful and often a powerfully damaged ripple effect across the world," said Michod. "The movie is called 'War Machine,' but that machine is made up of individuals, individuals with their own strengths and ambitions."
Pitt said he discussed the film with McChrystal. "I feel for him," said the actor. "He's a product of us. He's us." McChrystal, who retired from the Army shortly after resigning command, has since launched a management consulting firm and penned a memoir. He declined to comment for this article.
Little about "War Machine" is typical for a Hollywood production. It would have never gotten made, Pitt said, without Netflix. The streaming service bankrolled the film for $60 million, making it one of Netflix's most ambitious projects yet.
"The degree of difficulty on this one was ten," said Pitt, "which is what makes it worth it for me to go get in front of the camera now."
Through his production company Plan B, Pitt has become a remarkably successful producer. He was behind two of the last three best-picture winners ("Moonlight," ''12 Years a Slave") as well as other acclaimed releases like James Gray's "The Lost City of Z." At times, Pitt — though he's prepping numerous projects, including a possible "World War Z" sequel — sounded almost as though his movie star days are behind him.
(Published Friday, June 22, 2018)
"I feel myself as I'm older gravitating more to the producing side than being in front of the camera," said Pitt. "It's a big commitment, a film, and it does take you away from your family. I just have to balance that. It's not less important, itself, it's just not as important as family. ('War Machine') I loved because it's after something and we don't know where we're going to end up. It's a delicate tightrope to walk."
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How to Calculate Transaction Costs for Bonds
When you buy or sell a bond, you pay transaction costs just as you do for other securities. Bond brokers generally do not charge commissions. Instead, they mark up the price of bonds to a little more than the market price for purchase and pay you a price marked down from the market price when you sell. Calculating transaction costs is mainly useful for bonds bought or sold over the counter. New issue bonds have the broker’s markup included in the bond’s par value, not listed separately. The same is true of bonds traded on exchanges, rather than over the counter. The pricing of exchange-listed bonds includes the transaction costs, so it can be hard to calculate them as a separate figure.
Ask your bond broker what percentage markup (for bond purchases) and markdown (for sales) you will be charged. Typically the markup or markdown ranges from about 1 percent to 5 percent of the bond’s original, or face, value. Brokers usually set higher percentages for small orders and set a smaller percentage on larger transactions.
Multiply the markup percentage by the face value of the bond. If you are buying a newly issued bond, you can skip this step because the broker’s markup is included in the price. Suppose you buy a bond with a face value of $5,000 and the broker marks the price up to the current value plus 2 percent of the face value. Your purchase transaction cost is 2 percent of $5,000, or $100.
Multiply the markdown percentage by the face value of the bond if you choose to sell it before the bond matures. Suppose you sell the bond for $5,000 and the markdown is 2 percent of the face value. That works out to a sales transaction cost of $100. If you wait until the bond matures, you can skip this step because the bond issuer must pay you the full face value of the bond.
Add the transaction costs for the purchase and sale of the bond together. If this is a Treasury bond you might have to pay a fee in addition to the broker’s markup and markdown percentages. If this is the case, add the fee to your other costs to calculate the total transaction costs for your bond investment.
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Kristen Stewart Says People “Don’t Know D–k S–t” About Her Personal Life in Vanity Fair France Interview
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Kristen Stewart is on the cover of Vanity Fair France
Kristen Stewart is an international woman of mystery — at least according to herself.
The actress, 24, is on the cover of the latest issue of Vanity Fair France, and in the accompanying interview, she says that people know very little about her.
"My true personal life, as much as people think they know about it, they don't know d–k s–t," Stewart says. "Who could? By the way, nobody knows."
The Twilight actress' romantic ups and downs have been heavily chronicled over the years. Stewart famously turned her relationship with on-again, off-again boyfriend Robert Pattinson sour in 2012 when she had a much-publicized affair with her then-married director Rupert Sanders. She later issued a public apology for the transgression.
"I never tried to shape people's perspectives of me, which is something that a lot of people do," she continued. "There are certain actors and artists who want to be a certain kind of actor or certain kind of artist, and I'm really not like that… In terms of what people consume about you and then subsequently how they shape their opinion of you, none of it is wrong. It's all a varied assortment of whatever flavors they've picked up at the newsstand or in the theater or on the Internet."
The Clouds of Sils Maria actress went on to add that even those close to her have trouble getting close.
"Nobody knows what the f–k is going on," she added. "You're going to die. You're going to lay next to the people that you know the most in life, the people that you're going to grow old with. But you're going to lay next to them in the middle of the night deeply curious about them and who they are, because nobody f–king knows anything."
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Hot on HuffPost Parents:
Early Childhood Memories Come and Go
Filed under: In The News, Research Reveals: Toddlers & Preschoolers, Research Reveals: Big Kids, Research Reveals: Tweens
Early childhood memories come and go until about the time kids hit their 10th birthdays. Credit: Getty Images
Ask your 9-year-old about his earliest memory, and he may talk about that bug he accidentally swallowed when he was 3.
Go up to him a month later and ask if he remembers the time he swallowed the bug, and you may get that look kids get when they suspect their parents are insane.
Don't worry. Neither one of you has lost your marbles.
It's all part of the phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. The Los Angeles Times reports early childhood memories come and go until about the time kids hit their 10th birthdays. What they are left with at that point are snatches of memories of life before kindergarten.
Like most of us, they remember nothing more than bits and pieces. But even those bits and pieces float in and out of minds during the first 10 years.
This fascinates Carole Peterson, a professor of psychology at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada.
"These are the memories we use to develop a sense of identity -- who we are and where we come from," she tells the Los Angeles Times.
Although infantile amnesia has been thoroughly studied in adults, Peterson led a team of researchers to find out how it works in children. That's when they discovered memories are like bubbles wandering through children's consciousness.
The Times reports Peterson and her team interviewed the same children two years apart. They found early childhood memories had solidified by age 10, but tended to come and go when the children were younger.
"By 10, their early memories are crystallized," Peterson tells the Times. "Those are the memories they keep."
But the memories are sporadic. We might remember getting a sliver at age 3, or our first taste of licorice. But that's about it.
Kind of ironic, psychology professor Elaine Reese of the University of Otago in New Zealand, tells the Times.
"You think about the emphasis on 0 to 3 in early education, but as adults we can't remember that period," she tells the newspaper. "It's one of those enigmas of science we'd like to understand."
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What are Social Change Organizations (SCOs)?
Through their projects, programs and other activities, SCOs address issues of critical importance to society by fostering positive, sustainable changes in human behavior that are linked to specific development outcomes. These changes may be socio-economic (e.g., reducing poverty through micro-enterprise development), socio-cultural (e.g., protecting human rights for traditionally excluded groups), socio-environmental (e.g., reducing the carbon footprint through recycling), or socio-political (e.g., increasing civic participation in local governance or achieving gender equity).
SCOs represent many different types of entities including units of local or national government; international organizations (e.g., Unicef and UNDP); international NGOs; grassroots community action groups; for-profit social enterprises; and alliances of for- and not-for-profit institutions. Local and national NGOs as well as social movements also fall under the SCO rubric as do enterprises created by social entrepreneurs. While SCOs take many forms, what they have in common is a commitment to generating and supporting the conditions necessary to achieve greater social wellbeing.
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What is Baptism?
See Romans 6:23.
1. Going down under the water shows death.
...the wages of sin is death...
Jesus came back to life after He died.
Please keep reading the Bible, and doing what it teaches.
A Lion Shall Slay Thee
...because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the Lord...
(From part of 1 Kings 20:36a)
A man was told something a little bit like, Because you haven't obeyed the Lord's voice, as soon as you've gone away from me, a lion will kill you.
lion with an open mouth
And, of course... what do you think?
It did.
The Lesson: Obey the Voice of the Lord.
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
alfredo indulgence
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I am seriously the worst new-years-resolutionary ever. So I start out the new year thinking I"ll lose a few. And I did (like 8!)....but now I've stalled and started creeping up again.
This is no good.
So what, dear readers, would the solution to such an issue be? Apparently, drowning my wobbly sorrows in alfredo sauce. Ugh.
Can't knock it though, this stuff rocks.....again, I can't vouch for authenticity or anything like that, but if you are looking for pure, unadulturated richness....I suggest you pick up a weeeeeeeeeee bit of cream and parmigiano-reggiano on the next visit to the store.
It seems that one of the hazards of hosting a dinner party is that I end up with little bits of ingredients leftover - things I wouldn't normally buy, like whipping cream (35% fat). SO, it would obviously be such a shame for this to go to waste.
So why not combine it with parmesan cheese, butter and eggs and make a SUPER nutricious meal. I didn't even make a freaking salad. Bah. Oh, and if you make this, eat it all at once. Cream sauce reheated is pure raunch - oily, separated-y gross crap. If you can't eat it all (and you can...heehee), toss the leftovers, as it would be a crime against food to eat them!
Linguine Alfredo (would have been fettucine, but I didn't have any!)
250 g dry wide pasta (like fettucine or linguine)
3 T butter
1 small shallot, minced
1 T flat leaf parsley, minced
3/4 c. whipping cream (or double cream, for the brits)
1 cup finely grated parmesan (I've said it before and I'll say it again, TOSS THE CRAP IN THE GREEN CAN). Grating cheese is NOT that hard.
1 egg
dash nutmeg
linguine and flat leaf italian parsley
(okay, so I'm not sure why one of the pieces of linguine is giving us the proverbial finger....weird)
1. Start water to cook pasta.
2. Over medium-low heat, melt butter and add shallots. Sauté until shallots are translucent and fragrant (5ish minutes). Add parsley.
3. Add cream and heat over medium-low (or low) heat. At this point, you should be able to start cooking your pasta - you don't want this sauce sitting for too long and you definitely don't want it to boil.
4. When the pasta is almost done, start whisking in the cheese - I toss very small handfuls over the sauce and whisk constantly. I've never had lump issues using this method.
5. Taste the sauce and add salt, pepper and nutmeg (optional) to taste.
6. When the pasta is done, drain (keeping about 1/2 cup of the pasta water) and do not rinse.
7. Throw the pasta back in the hot pot. Add in the egg and stir like mad (the heat of the pasta pretty much cooks the egg....and I'm skeeved by runny eggs....this is fine - trust me!).
8. Add the sauce, using pasta water if necessary, to make sure pasta is nicely covered.
9. Serve, topped with additional grated parmesan and pepper. Eat immediately. This dish really doesn't hold well.....but it's so rich and delicious. You'll love me forever if you eat this baby. Classic, unadulturated, pure indulgence.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
tarte tatin...old-fashioned, french fun
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For those in the know, the word "tatin" evokes images of a caramelized, buttery, apple tart. But for me, even though I'm somewhat 'in the know,' the word tatin has entirely different images.....
Tatin means France to me. When I was in my second year of university, I was toying with the idea of a third-year exchange overseas (I mean, who wouldn't want to live in France for a year???!!!??)....initially, I had thought about going to Nice, where there was an established exchange program, with over 35 Canadian students going.
But then M. Tatin stepped in. And I was no longer going to Nice. M. Tatin was a charismatic, compelling speaker...he milked emotion through his words, and conveyed enthusiasm like no one I've ever spoken to. And M. Tatin was there to promote the town of Tours. And so I went to Tours. M. Tatin was a 'dixhuitièmiste" (French literary specialty involving the enlightenment period in the 1700s) of course I took all courses I could find in this era.
M. Tatin was SUPPOSED to be our exchange advisor, yet magically could almost never be found. M. Tatin, while compelling, was also elusive, frustrating and absolutely the worst administrator I've ever met. But I still look back SO fondly at this man whom I'm certain doesn't remember me, but due to this tarte, whom I can't ever forget.
And I thank him. Tours was way better than Nice would have been...though Nice is still nice. ;)
And back to that tarte.....
I have never made this before. It was a bit of an adventure....but one that I'll happily indulge in again and again....and it was also a fabulous way to break in my brand new cast iron skillet. WoohoO! I based this on Mark Bittman's recipe (I love that man) with a few north-americanised the addition of a little sacriligious cinnamon and vanilla bean....not authentic, but I like it.
7 large tart apples (I used 3 granny smiths and 4 royal galas)
1-2 T lemon juice
8 T butter (1 stick), cut into pieces
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 t cinnamon
1/2 vanilla bean, scraped clean
Tart Crust
1.5 cups flour (plus more as needed)
1/2 t salt
2 T sugar
10 T butter (cut into 10 pieces)
2 egg yolks
3 T ice water, plus 1 T if needed
1. Make tart crust - combine flour, salt and sugar in the container of a food processor. Pulse once or twice. Add the butter and turn on the machine. Process until the butter and flour are blended and the mixture looks like cornmeal, about 10 seconds. Add the egg yolks and process another few seconds.
butter flour egg crumble
2. Place the mixture in a bowl and sprinkle 3 T of water over it. Use a wooden spoon or a rubber spatula to gradually gather the mixture into a ball; if the mixture is dry, add another T of ice water. When you can make the mixture into a ball with your hands, do so. Wrap the plastic, flatten into a small disk and chill the dough for 30 minutes. Ostensibly, this will ease rolling but it's still a HUGE pain.
round dough disk
4. Unwrap the dough and place it on the work surface. Sprinkle the top with flour. Roll with light pressure, from the centre out....if it seems extraordinarily sticky, add a little flour, but if it becomes sticky DURING rolling, just chill it a little bit. I actually tossed mine out in the snow (I had it on parchment paper) so I could peel the little bugger off.
(I let the dough chill was I was dealing with the apples, and then rolled it out while the apples were bubbling away!)
FOr the apple part of the whole deal....
1. Preheat the oven to 400F.
2. Peel core, and quarter the apples; toss with the lemon juice.
3. Melt the butter in a large cast iron skillet, and stir in the sugar, vanilla bean and cinnamon. Oooooooo....yummy golden goodness.
Mmmmmmm....butter and sugary goodness
4. Press the apple slices into the sugar, arranging them in concentric circles and making certain to pack them as tightly as you can (they'll shrink).
raw naked apple slices
5. Place the pan over medium-high heat. Cook for 15-20 minutes or until the butter-sugar mixture has turned a very deep, dark brown. While it is cooking, roll out the pastry. When the apples are ready, remove the pan from the heat. Lay the pastry on top of the apples, bringing the dough to the edges of the pan to seal it. Prick the dough with a fork and bake about 20 minutes or until the pastry is a luscious golden brown.
6. Remove the tart from the oven and let it sit for about 5 minutes. Shake the hot pan to loosen any apples that might be stuck. Invert the apple tarte onto a large serving dish, taking care not to burn yourself (the juices will go EVERYWHERE). Trust me. I got hubs to do this part....cast iron pans are freaking heavy. And not one of my apples stuck! :)
tarte tatin
I served this with a spiced whipped cream - 3/4 c whipping cream, 2 T sugar, 1/2 t cinnamon, 1/4 t cardamom. Make sure the cream is well chilled and whip away. :)
tarte tatin with spiced whipped cream
This should be served warm and pretty much right out of the oven....I made it earlier and just reheated so I could keep my sanity....
Thanks for reading! Stay tuned for camping cooking adventures!
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
a labour of....stuffing?
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Bulgur Risotto with Peas and Asparagus
Shamelessly stolen from epicurious.
5 tablespoons butter
1 large onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 1/2 cups bulgur
1/4 cup whipping cream
2 tablespoons chopped fresh tarragon
Additional freshly grated Parmesan cheese (optional)
Roasted Acorn Squash stuffed with Bulgur Risotto
3 small (or medium) acorn squash
1 recipe bulgur risotto
steamy acorn squash
Chicken stuffed with prosciutto and rosemary, topped with cider vinegar reduction
6 chicken breasts
1/4 cup kosher (coarse) salt
2 T sugar
1 cup hot water, 7-8 cups cold
6 slices prosciutto
1/4 cup (give or take) dijon mustard
montreal steak spice (or salt and pepper)
stuffin' for my chicken
stuffed chicken!
For cider vinegar sauce
1 tablespoon butter
3/4 cup sliced shallots
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup cider vinegar
1 1/2 cups beef stock or canned broth
souperoo with parsnips and cauliflower
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A dinner party is not a dinner party without a soup. I LOVE soup, and if I weren't so lazy, I could happily eat tasty homemade soup every day for the rest of my life.
So of course, when I was doing up the menu for my dinner party on Saturday, I HAD to have a soup. Yummy, yummy soupiness. I came across this recipe on Chowhound and thought that it might be rather tasty.
However, as written, it is bland city. I know there are those who would argue that the vegetables should stand on there own, but really, if boiled veggies were haute cuisine, then Britain would be the culinary epicentre of Europe....
You can check out Chowhound for the original recipe (only serves two - wtf is with that??? who makes two bowls of soup? if you're going to dirty all those dishes, don't you at least want some leftovers?)....anyway....
Cauliflower-Parsnip Soup with Beet Crisps
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
3 medium leeks, white and pale green parts only, halved lengthwise, rinsed, and thinly sliced
Freshly ground white pepper
1 pound peeled, chopped parsnips
1 head cauliflower florets, chopped
5-6 cups stock (I used chicken)
1/2 teaspoon crushed saffron threads
1. Heat the olive oil and butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. When the butter melts and foams, add the leek and season with salt and freshly ground pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until leeks are softened but not completely cooked, about 3 minutes.
2. Add the parsnips and stir to coat with the oil. Cook for about 4 minutes, or until parsnips are softened but not completely tender. Do not let the vegetables color (bah, I don't really see the importance of perfectly BLAND white soup - let 'em colour)
3. Add the cauliflower, stir, and cook for about 1 minute. Add the stock and crushed saffron threads. Bring to a simmer, reduce heat to medium low, and cook until vegetables are completely tender, about 8 to 9 minutes (due to inattention, mine probably bubbled away for 30 minutes or so).
4. Remove from heat and allow soup to cool slightly, about 10 minutes. Purée the soup in a blender until it is completely smooth (again, I LOVE the immersion blender - less mess, less work!) Return soup to stove over medium-low heat. Taste and adjust seasoning as necessary. Serve topped with beet crisps (which are hopefully crispier than mine)
Beet crisps
So, hubs still hates beets, and I'm still in LOVE with their fuschia brilliance. Not so much in love with their awe-inspiring ability to dye me pink, but gotta admire something that has that much natural power.
I *really* think this recipe would benefit from either the use of a mandoline or someone with far superior chopping skills...I did my best, but my slices weren't really thin enough to get crispy. They still worked pretty well though - and when you stirred them into the soup, they added a lovely touch of pink.
1 medium beet
1 cup vegetable oil
For the beet crisps:
1. Trim the top off the beet and peel it, leaving a 1-inch-wide layer of skin near the top so that you don’t dye your hand while slicing. Using a mandoline or vegetable peeler, make very thin slices of beet. (Yeah right - the vegetable peeler sucked, I ended up using a knife and rather awkwardly making the thinnest slices my amateur hands could do)
beet carnage
2. In a small saucepan, heat oil to 375°F. (The oil should be a depth of about 1/2 inch.) Add several beet slices and fry for about 30 to 45 seconds, shaking the pan a little. Remove beets from oil with a slotted spoon and place on a plate lined with paper towels. Sprinkle with salt. Repeat with remaining beet slices.
Here are my beet slices afterward....decidedly mushy, but still kinda pretty, no?
sad and sorry looking beets
Serve soup topped with beet chips. I almost think it would work better to julienne the raw beet and kinda stack it on would be just as pretty, but less work! Overall though, this wasn't the most amazing soup I've ever had - it was definitely decent, but could have used more seasoning....I initially thought to add some of my beloved smoked paprika (which would have been great), but since I've added it two my last couple soups, I thought I would step out of my newfound comfort zone.
cauliflower parsnip soup with beet "crisps"
a slightly sad start
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So I hosted some friends of ours this past Saturday for a fun dinner full of overindulgence, wine, water (oops) and food. I tried a whole whack of new recipes, as usual guinea pigging my unsuspecting (or perhaps at least slightly suspecting) guests on new recipes, culinary experiments and delightful nibblies.
Sadly, I had all of these delusions of a wonderfully sophisticated appetizer....belgian endive leaves, capped with fresh figs, crumbled feta and candied pecan halves....sweet, salty, acidic, all in sounded like a rather enticing beginning to what I hoped would be a tasty meal....
Well....I was foiled. Normally, when I have people over for dinner, I do most of my prep the night before (i.e., shopping, making soup, dessert, etc.) so the day I of, I usually need only worry about salad and bread. It didn't quite work out that way this time, so at 10am Saturday morning, hubs and I whipped out to our friendly neighbourhood Loeb to pick up the things I needed.
They didn't have endives. They didn't have figs. They didn't even have freaking pecans! Clearly, the endive appetizer was not meant to be.
It was actually kinda funny, I'd whipped through the store (while I sent hubs to the butcher and liquor shops) and then wandered back to the produce/cheese section. It was there that hubs found me, standing, lost, forlorn and highly peeved that I had to think of a new appetizer on the spot.
Eventually (after a few minutes of staring and scowling at the cheese in front of me), I decided on something quick and easy - smoked salmon with cream cheese on rye. I had capers, red onion and little slivers of lemon to garnish. It wasn't quite what I initially wanted, but I think it did the trick, especially because dinner was subjected to a weeeeeeeeeeee delay.
Totally my fault too. Some days, I really just shouldn't be doing anything that requires coordination. I was pouring water. And, because I'd set the table beforehand, I was pouring it at the table.
Bad bad BAD idea for me. Of course our Brita filter doesn't hold quite enough for six glasses of part-way through, I had to refill the thing. And by this point, I was getting impatient for dinner (hubs was late) and didn't want my guests to feel forced to stay uber I made the fatal error of NOT waiting for the water to gently and oh-so-slowly trickle its way through that blasted filter.
The next thing that happened is perhaps a bit too obvious.....of course the lid popped off the Brita. Of course the Brita is super huge and like a litre of water splashed across the table. And of course I used a table cloth and not place mats. And of course I have a brand new custom solid maple dining table. Gah.
Hence another dinner delay. Had to UNset the table, and throw the table cloth in the dryer (because OF COURSE it's the only tablecloth I have that fits the new table).
But at least we had salmon to tide us over!
lazy lazy appetizer
Friday, February 16, 2007
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Nigella Lawson's Chocohotopots with Berry Coulis
1 cup frozen berries
1/4 cup superfine sugar
1. Combine berries and superfine sugar.
Frozen Freshness
2 eggs
3 T flour
1 t vanilla
Butter and chocolate
seduction in a ramekin
pizza perfection
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I loves me a good pizza. This is one food that I seem to obsess over, relish and cherish in just about any format. I love thin crust, delicate Italian pizza. I love thick crust, greasy, Americanized pizza. I love anything in between. I'll eat almost anything on pizza (barring pineapple - sorry, just doesn't go).
But I always love trying something a little different....a little off the beaten track. Something so plain and boring, that somehow it seems exotic and fascinating. While pizza here in Canada seems to be a little over-cheesed, over-sauced and overly meaty, other countries have such interesting takes on this classic pie.
When I lived on my own in France, ordering a pizza was an indulgence for me. Cooking for one got old REALLY quick (particularly when your kitchen consists of a hot plate and bar fridge!), so it was a great treat to order (and devour!) an entire pizza. Yeah, I know...bad. Anyway, in doing so, I got a chance to explore some rather different pizza of my favourites was the reine pizza, festooned with the simplicity of mushrooms and ham (can't go wrong there!), but I discovered a truly amazing piece of pizza awesomeness.
It was the pizza dauphinoise from Allo-Pizza. I initially ordered it because it was cheap, but then I continued to order it because of its sumptuous yumminess. The toppings are simple - oregano, potatoes, cheese, persillade and crème fraîche.
My foray into persillade last week reminded me that it had been nearly five years since I last tasted this wonderful delicacy. So I hung on to the last vestiges of my persillade and started to plot....
And awesome pizza was had by all. Even hubs, who normally eschews my vegetarian pizzas for pepperoni-laden monstrosities, dove into this, having seconds and then thirds. Really yummy.
On a very sad note though, it is an RIP for my Silpat. I left my hungry hubby unsupervised and he CUT THROUGH IT with a butter knife while trying to get himself more pizza. I'm crushed.
;) He promised he'd get me a new one though.
Pizza dauphinoise
Crust (adapted from Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything, a book that any budding chef should aspire to own!)
1 teaspoon instant yeast
2.5 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 c cornmeal
2 t fleur de sel
1-1 1/4 cups warm water
2 T plus 1 teaspoon olive oil
1. Combine the yeast, flour, cornmeal and salt in the container of a food processor.
Pizza dough in progress!
2. Turn the machine on and add 1 cup water and 2 T olive oil through the feed tube. Process for about 30 secs,m adding more water, a little at a time, until the mixture forms a sticky ball. If it's too try, add another tablespoon of water (if too wet, sprinkle in a little more flour).
3. Turn the dough onto a floured work surface (I like parchment paper) and knead by hand a few seconds to form a smooth, round dough ball.
Pizza dough
(it's smooth-ish, alright????)
4. Grease a bowl with the remaining olive oil and place the dough in it. Cover with plastic wrap or a damp cloth and let rise in a warm draft-free area for about 1 hour (I think my yeast is toast because mine never really rose that much).
5. At this point, you can make pizza, or freeze your dough for up to a month. May I suggest pizza? I used this to make one large rectangular pizza (about 11x17 inches).
1 recipe pizza crust
1-2 small cooked potatoes, sliced (I nuked mine while I was waiting for the dough to rise)
1 onion, minced
1 small can pizza sauce (about 1 cup - you could go all martha on me and make your own, but seriously, I think if you make your own dough and persillade, you've totally earned the right to canneriffic sauce!)
5-6 ounces grated mozzarella
1-2 ounces grated manchego (or use cheddar)
1-2 ounces grated parmesan
2-3 tablespoons persillade (blended mix of evoo, flat-leaf parsley, garlic, salt and lemon zest)
1/4 c crème fraîche (I just used low-fat sour cream)
italian seasoning
1. Preheat oven to 450F. Spread out your pizza crust on a greased rectangular cookie sheet (if you're lucky enough to have a baking stone or pizza peel, use that and adjust accordingly - I presume if you have one, you should know how to use it....if you don't, feel free to pass it along! hahahahaha). Use patience to get the dough to spread. The gluten needs to relax, so give it a few tries.
2. Brush your crust with olive oil. Then top with sauce.
3. Sprinkle cheese over pizza - I grate my mozzarella coarsely, and use a fine grated for the additional cheeses. I like a blend of cheese, but you could forgo the others in lieu of just mozza if that's to your taste.
4. Sprinkle your cheesy pizza with italian seasoning.
5. Top with potato slices and minced onion, then add dabs of persillade and crème fraîche.
6. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Keep an eye on your pizza and make sure the toppings are done to your liking (I like my cheese browned, some people prefer it runny).
Enjoy! I suggest wine. Actually, no, I command wine. dauphinoise
Sunday, February 11, 2007
m-p-v done right
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Insalata Caprese
fresh baby greens (mesclun mix, arugular or spinach)
1 pint grape tomatoes
200 g bocconcini (minis)
1 bunch fresh basil
2. Drizzle vinaigrette and sprinkle basil. Yum.
Insalata caprese
Twice-baked potatoes with horseradish and dijon
3 MASSIVE baking potatoes
2 T horseradish
1 T dijon mustard
1/2 t sea salt
1/2 t black pepper, cracked
1/3 c sour cream
1/4 c whipping cream
garnish - parmesan cheese, paprika
Hollow potatoes!
Decorated, waiting to be browned
Steak with Green Peppercorn Cream Sauce
Top Sirloin
montreal steak spice (for grilling)
Peppercorn sauce
1 T evoo
1 shallot, minced
3 T marsala wine
1 cup whipping cream
Hubs rocks at bbq'ing.
Dinner time!
one of many reasons why I totally married the right man
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My husband is so cute. Like really, honestly, one of the most adorable men I have ever met. One night a week, I have a three-hour night class, leaving hubs to fend for himself....sometimes I'll stick something in the crockpot, but more often than not, he has to come up with something on his own.
When hubs was first left to his own nutritional devices (like seven years ago), he lived primarily on Lipton Sidekicks, dining on such delicacies as instant risotto, scalloped potatoes, or the perennial favourite, teriyaki noodles. It was in this state that I found him....a connoisseur of sodium, preservatives and articifical flavouring.
In the last six years, hubs has discovered the joys of virtually any cuisine (he's way less picky than I am) and has actually started to cook a bit. And spaghetti is his specialty.....usually he fills it with ground beef, lotsa garlic and all kinds of other yummy things.
Due to my newfound aversion to grocery-store meat, meat has been in scarce hubs decided to make himself a big pile of veggie spaghetti for dinner, while I was away trying to get smarter.
Not only did he make AWESOME spaghetti, he actually took pictures and documented it for me. How darn cute is that. Hubs is a far better photographer than I am....if you like haunting amazing places, you can check out some of his stuff on flickr. He typed out his recipe and everything....and he actually one-upped me on the photos - I usually just crank the ISO to 1000 so I don't need to drag the tripod into the kitchen.....he actually the tripod all set up too! Granted, that tripod has been in some pretty sketch places.....but really.....he's so cute. What a guy.
Hubby's Vegetarian Spaghetti
- 3 celery stalks, diced
- 2-3 cups chopped mushrooms
- 2 cups diced peppers (red or green)
- 2 cups diced red onion
- 1-2 cups diced cherry tomatoes
- 1 finely chopped hot pepper
- 5 cloves of garlic
- 3-5 basil leaves, finely chopped
- Montreal Steak Spice
- extra vigin olive oil
- 3 cups your favourite tomato sauce
- 1 pound spaghetti
1. Cook spaghetti according to package directions. Using a deep frying fan, pour enough olive oil to spread out and barely cover the bottom.
2. Shake in a healthy amount of Montreal Steak Spice.
3. Press the garlic into the pan and stir on medium heat.
4. Add red onion and continue stirring.
Red onion, garlic and evoo
5. Add the various chopped vegetables gradually over several minutes. As a rule of thumb, begin with the firmer/crunchier
veggies (celery, peppers) and leave the softer ones (mushrooms, tomatoes) for last.
6. While stirring, season to taste... I added a few shakes of dill weed and thyme.
7. Add pasta sauce and simmer until your pasta is ready.
Veggie spaghetti, prepared by hubs
:) Thanks for reading! Stay tuned for steak and potato madness!
Thursday, February 08, 2007
scovillian sacrilege
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Chowdown in t-3, 2, 1.....
So I ate something so hot last night I almost couldn't breathe. I've never had anything burn quite like that before....
I'm actually quite peeved, because the cause of my pain, misery and wretched burning was not actually even a hot pepper, as far as peppers go.
It wasn't the mighty habanero that seared my entire mouth and esophagus, but the lowly jalapeno. The heat of a chili pepper is measured in the amount of capsaicin it has (in parts per million), in Scoville units. I like a nice pepper, and often fill curries with Serrano peppers (technically, like 5 times hotter than jalapenos). I have no problems with amounts of Serrano peppers in my food.
But the blasted jalapeno is the most inconsistent beast. It drives me NUTS. Sometimes I buy a jalapeno and it's so mild, it's more like a bell pepper than anything else. No spice whatsoever. And other times, it's SO spicy it actually makes the food have an almost 'chemical' taste to it. It's not a tasty pepper. (Case in point: last night). a sauce to go on my wraps (which were awesome, eventually), I thought it would be tasty to mix together fat-free plain yogourt and minced jalapeno pepper, thinking that the yogourt would cut a lot of the heat. Maybe it does, but not enough.
I actually even attempted to bbq - the shrimp for our wraps was marinated in a yummy yogourt chipotle marinade, and then skewered and grilled. Hubs wasn't really up to grilling outside, so I decided to give it a whirl. I don't seem to have great luck when it comes to outdoor grilling (usually end up charring something beyond all recognition because I forget to go check it), and this incident did nothing to improve my track record.
After what seemed like an eternity out in the arctic blast, I thought the shrimp were done (though it was FREEZING and snowing, so it was hard to see, so I brought them back inside. I made a very pretty looking wrap with them, but when I cut it, I could see that the little guys were not cooked enough....decided lack of opacity the whole way through. So I took the remaining shrimp and shuttled them back out onto the grill.
But I didn't want to waste my yummy wrap that I'd already put together, so I decided to eat a bit of it (undercooked shrimp and all). The first bite was wonderful - tangy shrimp, sweet mango, the distinctive taste of coriander, and a pleasant, creamy bit of heat from the jalapeno yogourt. Delightful. Eagerly, I scarfed down the rest of that half of the sandwich.
And that's when things started to go wrong. What started as a pleasant level of heat just escalated and escalated until I actually had trouble breathing. My whole throat felt like it was swelling shut, my eyes were streaming and on top of this, the stupid shrimp were still out on the bbq. So I'm wildly grabbing the first creamy thing I see in the fridge (a large tub of vanilla yogourt) and forcing it down my throat, while grunting and gesturing to hubs to go save the rest of the shrimp.
It took two pounds of yogourt and nearly 30 minutes for me to be able to talk again. All from a STUPID jalapeno. Hubs was laughing at me, and I couldn't even yell at him, because even a five second break from yogourt scarfing caused my throat and mouth to absolutely burn. It was the worst thing ever.
Needless to say, my second wrap had NO jalapeno.....just plain yogourt. Hubs didn't have a single problem with scarfing down the hot peppers.....I'm not really sure why I did, as normally, I quite enjoy reasonable amounts of heat in my food.....this just wasn't pleasant though. I don't mind a burn where I sweat a little, but the whole "I think my throat is closing" feeling just sucked the big one.
But the wraps are AWESOME. This really is a yummy combination. And winter bbq'ing is always such a lovely treat. I LOVE the taste of grilled food, so this wrap was almost like a little touch of summer to liven up the cold. If you don't eat shrimp, you could easily use chicken, or even marinated roasted veggies for this. Highly recommended. Just maybe not the evil jalapeno......
Tandoori Shrimp Wraps with Chipotle and Mango!
1 pound shelled shrimp
1 cup plain yogourt
2 T fresh garlic, minced
2 T ginger, minced
3 chipotle peppers, minced
2 t adobo sauce (from chipotles)
2 T fresh lemon juice
1 T fresh lime juice
1/2 t cumin
1 t curry powder
1/2 t salt
1. Combine yogourt, garlic, ginger, chipotles, adobo sauce, lemon and lime juices, cumin, curry powder and salt. Let marinate for 1 hour (prepare your toppings in the meantime).
Marinated Shrimp - pre BBQ
2. To cook, skewer the shrimp (unless you find it fun to have them all slip through the grill and burn!) and cook for 3-4 minutes per side, until shrimp are done.
Here are my mostly-cooked shrimp....not quite cooked....back on the grill they went!
BBQ'd shrimp (kinda)
1 cup diced mango
1/2 cup chopped red onion
1/3 cup chopped coriander
1/2 cup yogourt (mixed with 1/2 jalapeno, at your discretion)
1 cup baby greens
8 flatbreads
In this picture, if you look carefully, you can see the little green pieces of jalapeno that led to my throat itches just thinking about it...gah.
Wrap toppings!
To make tasty sandwiches......
1. Warm up your flatbread. Top with baby greens.
2. Add one skewer of shrimp (about 6-7), some mango, red onion, coriander and a bit of yogourt sauce. Again, hot peppers at your own risk.
3. Wrap up and enjoy!
Yummy wrap!
Loved this. Will make again, but sans jalapenos.....burn, baby burn.........
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
redemption...sweet squash pepper redemption
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The cheese incident yesterday was not boding well for my cooking this week....the lingering odour when I got home from work today had me wishing we had one of those ionizing air filters to rid the house of all vestiges and memories of that putrified dairy product.
But today brought new food and new scents to the kitchen. Lovely, sweet, veggie scents. Soupy yummy scents. The taste and colour of spring, providing a bright spot in a dim, dreary winter.
Is there anything more cozy-smelling than soup bubbling away on the stove-top?
I'd argue there isn't (though roast turkey comes close). Soup is such a warm, filling comfort food....and puréed vegetable soup is a personal favourite of mine. When I was trying to come up with our menu plan this week, I was flipping through Cooking Light and came across a pumpkin-yellow pepper soup recipe that someone else has been so kind to post on RecipeZaar for your perusal. What attracted me to this recipe was not the pumpkin, but the fact that it could be adapted to use the 400g block of no-longer-frozen squash I had sitting in my fridge. Initially I defrosted it, thinking to use it in ravioli...but then I filled my ravioli with crab and had this squash.....sitting purposeless...
So I made squash pepper soup with smoked paprika. And while I was in the midst of making it, I decided that parsley leaves (initial garnish idea) were boring, and that persillade was the thing to top this soup. Persillade is kind of like a French version of pesto - fresh herbs, garlic, lemon and salt. Very simple, but a little blast of fresh flavour and a flash of colour.
Also, the initial recipe called for pumpkin seeds (that my discount grocery store didn't have) so I used wee little sunflower seeds to make mine look pretty. I served this with my classic green salad (using baby arugula and a red wine vinaigrette) and a few little cherry tomatoes. Yum. Hubs says two thumbs up. I concur. If you like soup, you'll love this. The bonus is that it offered me a chance to use a little bit more of the fabulous smoked paprika I bought a couple of weeks ago.
You should all throw out your regular paprika right now. Toss it! Find yourself some good spanish smoked stuff and you'll never look back. Ever. Again. Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy.
Sweet Squash Pepper Redemption with Persillade
1 T olive oil
3.5 cups chopped yellow pepper (about 3 medium)
1.5 cups chopped carrot (about 2 big ones)
1 chopped red pepper
1 cup chopped onion
2 cloves chopped garlic
3/4 t smoked paprika (I used bittersweet)
900 mL low-sodium broth (I used chicken, you could use whatever) (about 3.5 cups)
16oz/400g container squash purée
2 T lemon juice
black pepper to taste
1. In a large pot, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add peppers, carrot and onion. Sauté for about 10 minutes, until the veggies are softened and *just* starting to fuse to the pan.
Yellow pepper, carrot and red pepper
2. Add garlic and smoked paprika and stir to combine.
Bittersweet smoked paprika
3. Add broth and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes (or until veggies are soft). *If you're making persillade, now is a good time to do it. :)
4. Using an immersion blender, purée the softened veggies until relatively smooth. Add the squash and lemon juice and purée a little more. I like my soups relatively thick, so this was a perfect texture for me. If you like your soup thinner, simply add a little more broth or water and blend a little more. Yummy! Heat through.
To serve, top with persillade and a few sunflower seeds. This will warm you up on a winter night fo sho.
1/3 cup (packed) flat leaf parsley
1/2 t lemon zest
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 t fleur de sel
3 T olive oil
Put everything in a container and blend away. :) You can drizzle this on chicken, fish, or soups. I've actually had it on pizza (with sliced cooked potato) and it was amazing. I need to do that again sometime....
Squash Pepper Soup with Persillade
This dinner totally redeems yesterday's mess. I can't wait for soupy goodness for lunch tomorrow. :) Provided, of course, it doesn't explode all over my briefcase before I get to work...stay tuned for indian-mexican fusion tomorrow....chipotle....tandoori...shall the twain ever meet?
Thanks for reading!
Monday, February 05, 2007
if it smells bad, it tastes....
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Stinky, yucky cheese
I should have known better.
And will all of that ramble and is the recipe!
Galettes de Sarrasin
10 g fleur de sel (about 2 t sea salt)
75 cl cold water (3 cups)
1 egg
1. Combine the flour and the fleur de sel.
350g buckwheat flour
Sautéed Veggies
1 pound asparagus, trimmed and cut into 2" pieces
1 red pepper, chopped into 2 inch strips
12 oz oyster mushrooms, chopped in strips
1 clove garlic
1 T olive oil
salt and black pepper to taste
oyster mushrooms, red pepper and asparagus
Galettes (continued)
Here's one of my rounder specimens...
To make filled crêpes:
Filled galette
Galette and cidre doux
the one I actually ate....
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Mastering the Jerk
By Bill Starr
In Olympic Lifts
June 15, 2009
PDF Article
In recent years overhead lifts have experienced a revival in strength routines, and they’re also a big part of CrossFit. Of course, with my background in Olympic lifting, I’ve always encouraged my athletes to do presses and jerks—even my female athletes. Now, more and more scholastic and collegiate strength coaches are seeing the value of these two overhead movements and adding them to their players’ programs. Similarly, CrossFit athletes are putting weight overhead in their quest for total fitness.
Everywhere you turn you’ll see ads pushing some product, exercise gadget or video that claims to enhance core strength. “Core strength” has become trendy phrase. But overhead lifting makes all the groups that constitute the core a great deal stronger in a manner few other exercises can match. Elevating a loaded barbell overhead and holding it in position for five or six seconds strengthens the muscles and attachments of the arms, shoulders, back, hips and legs.
It must be understood that jerking a heavy weight isn’t just a matter of applying raw strength to the bar, like performing a squat or deadlift. It’s knowing how to utilize several athletic attributes, such as timing, co-ordination and speed along with strength. This is exactly why the jerk is such a beneficial exercise for athletes in a wide range of sports. Jerking heavy weight is particularly beneficial to throwers in track and volleyball and basketball players who need vertical strength to excel. In addition, jerks are an asset in nearly every athletic endeavor I can think of.
When done perfectly, the jerk is an aesthetic combination of power and grace, and that’s why so many athletes take to them so readily. They’re much more than just a strengthening exercise. They’re feats of strength that require a very high degree of athleticism. Agility, timing, quickness, co-ordination and determination are needed in order to jerk a heavy poundage.
Learn how to do the lift correctly. Diligently practice your technique. Then you’ll be ready to advance to a higher level of functional strength.
3 Comments on “Mastering the Jerk”
wrote …
Pg 7 at the bottom says "I recommend doing jerks in sets of no more than three
reps" Though out over head routine is: 1 rep press, 3 rep push, 5 rep jerk. I bet coach just wants us to over come the fatigue and get perfectly reset for all 5 reps. (how deviant, I love it...)
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Thanks very much for another great article. I have a question regarding recovery from the split landing. I've seen Coach Bs athletes move front foot first, then rear foot; this article advocates the opposite. How critical is this part of the lift, and what is the rationale behind either sequence. Should I do what is most comfortable? Appreciate any thoughts.
replied to comment from Eric Love
Eric, the foot recovery order that Bill Starr is advocating is related to the coaching difference mentioned of whether or not the rear leg should be straight or bent. The straight leg style tends to have more of the weight distributed on the front foot, so recovery from the rear foot first is necessary to avoid the weight overhead no longer being supported underneath. When using a bent rear leg, the weight is more evenly distributed and you recover with your front foot first and are able to push back into your rear foot with your quadriceps and tibialis anterior (muscle in shin) engaged and maintaining an even weight distribution.
Our weightlifting club and CrossFit affiliate follow Coach B's style with bent rear leg and recovery with the front foot first. The thought behind a straight leg is that locking out the joints is a stronger position, but it eliminates the activation of some very large muscles in the leg. Our observations in the gym and in competition have been that those who jerk with their rear leg straight will miss a larger percentage of their lifts with the tendency being to lose the weight forward. Forcing a straight rear leg can introduce a forward lean of the torso and moves the bar away from the hip (midline in the vertical plane). Also, by having more weight on the front foot, the margin for error is greater than if the weight is evenly distributed.
This isn't to take anything away from Bill Starr, the man is a legend. It's quite possible that most will be able to do similar weights with either technique (we'd argue that our technique will be better), but in competition (and training), consistency and making your lifts is just as important as how heavy it is.
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Account ACL "account administration" removes mcs group
Article ID: 74903
Updated On:
DX Infrastructure Management NIMSOFT PROBES
When removing the ACL permission "account administration" for end users accounts, this removes also the MCS group "setup cdm".
This is totally unexpected and illogical, because this group is needed in the customization/utilization of MCS.
Is this a known problem?
UIM 8.5.1 in w2012r2 with mssql MCS 8.51hf1
This is a known defect which will be addressed in a future patch or service pack for UIM.
Reference defect: DE349489
As an interim solution, please run the following SQL against the UIM database or schema:
Update SSRV2Template set acl='USM Monitoring Configuration Service' where acl='Account Administration';
Please restart the probe: mon_config_service on the primary hub.
Now, monitoring users will be able to see the additional "Setup" under Monitoring (as long as the package was previously downloaded to the archive.
Additional Information
Alternate solution for sites with the "Out of the Box" cdm 6.30 probe and MCS 8.51hf1
Please see attached file: "Setup cdm-1.41.xml"
Below are steps to deploy it.
1. copy the template to Nimsoft Installed dir folder-> probes-> service->mon_config_service->templates.
2. The template will automatically moved to "processed" folder 3. Open "probe utility" for "mon_config_service" probe.
4. Run callback "activate_template"
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Rob Brown (born c. 1971) and Sean Booth (born c. 1973), both natives of Rochdale. The group is one of the most prominent acts signed with Warp Records, a label known for its pioneering electronic music artists. Some journalists consider Autechre to be a paragon of IDM and one of the driving forces behind its development, though Booth and Brown are ambivalent in relating their sound to established genres.
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Discover the tactical move
Attraction is a tactic used to lure or force an opponent's piece to a square on which it can be exploited in some way. A sacrifice is often used.
White (to move) can see a way to attract the king away from protecting the pawn on h7
😙 How ? Explore Solution
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Air & Space (USA): life flourished on Mars in the past
©, SpaceX
In his new work, published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, Vincenzo Rizzo from the National Research Center in the Italian city of Cosenza asks a provocative question. Why do many scientists do not want to use geological methods to identify biological processes on Mars, while on Earth these methods are widely used?
He points to one case that took place in Germany in 1908. Then a scientist named Ernst Kalkowsky suggested that multilayer hummocks, columns and sheet-like sedimentary rocks, called stromatolites, are biological in nature. Contemporaries did not believe him. But it was later proved that Kalkovsky was right when it became known for what reason stromatolites are formed. And they arise due to the fact that biofilms consisting of cyanobacteria and other microorganisms capture sedimentary deposits. Stromatolites are the oldest evidence of life on Earth since they are at least 3.5 billion years old and still exist in some remote regions, such as Shark Bay in Australia.
In his work, Rizzo follows in the footsteps of Kalkovsky, analyzing images taken on Mars by the rovers Spirit, Optitude, and Curiosity. These images indicate the presence of biological macrostructures such as stromatolites. He believes that unless a different, non-biological explanation is found, removed by the Mars rovers should be considered Martian stromatolites. Rizzo demonstrates a large number of structures that are strikingly similar to terrestrial stromatolites.
In principle, I am very doubtful of evidence that is based only on external resemblance or morphology, since the human brain tends to see or fill with familiar images, even where they do not exist. But Rizzo in his analysis is not limited to appearance. He made me realize that if (and this is big if) stromatolites really existed at an early stage in the life of Mars, then they looked exactly like the samples that he found in the images taken by all-terrain vehicles.
Here comes to mind the famous saying of Carl Sagan (Carl Sagan):
“Unusual statements require unusual evidence.”
For each structure that appears as a result of biological processes, there is a certain geochemical or physical process that imitates it. Some of these processes may not be known to us, because they occur on other planets such as Mars. On the other hand, we now know more about Mars than in the past. We know that at the early stage of the history of this planet, there were lakes, and possibly oceans, including in the Gale Crater, where he made his photographs of Curiosity. Organic matter was found in that place, and we know that pieces of rock can get from Earth to Mars (and vice versa), and also that microbes can survive such a journey. What, then, is a more “unusual” statement? What on Mars during the early usable period were such life forms that were similar to terrestrial ones, and which produced similar biogenic structures? Or that Mars has always been and remains a dead planet?
© CC BY-SA 4.0, Alicejmichel
One way or another, the bar for applications for the discovery of life on Mars (both in the past and in the present) must be set very high. Even on Earth, it is sometimes difficult to decide whether a particular structure is the result of biological processes. Now we have more opportunities to explore Mars, but we still cannot do what we do on Earth all the time: go out into the street with a magnifying glass or other device, and study this or that mysterious feature.
If in the future we conduct an isotopic analysis of the structures discovered by Rizzo, which are similar to stromatolites, we will be able to obtain new evidence or refutation of their biological origin (life prefers lighter isotopes that we can use for verification). But I have suspicions that this hypothesis will face the same fate as Kalkovsky’s assumption. The final verdict will be issued much later, most likely when Mars will begin to investigate people who arrived there. And I hope they prove him right.
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Don: The Chase Begins Again
Don: The Chase Begins Again is a 2006 Indian action film directed by Farhan Akhtar and is a remake of the 1978 movie Don. This movie was produced under Excel Entertainment and stars Shahrukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Arjun Rampal, Ishaa Koppikar, Boman Irani and Kareena Kapoor in a guest appearance.
In 2006, the drug trade is booming. The Malaysian Intelligence and Anti-Narcotic Department are called upon for assistance by their Indian counterparts. There are rumours that a drug gang has recently moved their headquarters to Kuala Lumpur. The Indian team is headed by DCP D’Silva (Boman Irani) who wants to break the back of the drug operations of a drug king named Singhania. Helping him in this task is Malik (Om Puri). They believe that once they capture the Singhania’s dangerous lieutenant Don (Shahrukh Khan) they can capture all of them. Don’s gang comprises of Narang (Pawan Malhotra) and Anita (Ishaa Koppikar), his girlfriend. Soon, Roma (Priyanka Chopra) joins them but she has other plans – kill Don; Don was responsible for killing her brother Ramesh as well as his fiancee, Kamini (Kareena Kapoor). During a chase with the police, Don is seriously injured and is captured by D’Silva. D’Silva keeps it a secret that he has captured Don, even from his fellow officers. D’Silva then proceeds to track down a Don look-alike, a singer named Vijay (also played by Shahrukh Khan). He asks Vijay to infiltrate Don’s gang by pretending to be Don. In return he will make sure that the child Vijay found and adopted, Deepu (Tanay Chheda), gets a proper education. Meanwhile, Deepu’s real father Jasjit (Arjun Rampal) who has just been released from prison sets out in search for his son and to get his revenge on DCP D’Silva who arrested him and prevented him from rescuing his wife and child from blackmailers.
D’Silva trains Vijay and admits him to a hospital, the same hospital in which Don is also admitted and supposedly in coma, to surgically give him all the scars and birthmarks the real Don has on his body. However, Don dies of heart failure suddenly in front of D’Silva and the doctors, who are unable to save him. While Vijay is infiltrating Don’s gang, D’Silva is captured and killed in a fire blast. Vijay is forced to run from the police as well as Don’s gang members who are pursuing a disc, the last piece of evidence which has all of Don’s criminal activities loaded on it, a disc which can get him, Vijay, out of his mess.
Through various plot twists, Vijay recovers the disc. Eventually, it surfaces that D’Silva is alive and is actually Vardhan, a notorious underground criminal with a grudge against Singhania, Don’s boss, and eventually ends up killing Singhania. Vijay arranges a meeting with Vardhan and assists in his capture.
In a final twist, it emerges that the real Don is still alive, and was pretending to be Vijay who he killed and replaced while in the hospital. It was actually Vijay who had died in the hospital of heart failure in front of Vardhan (DCP D’Silva). In the end, both Don and Anita escape, bewildering the police and Roma.
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PureGym Summer Sessions: The Pure Beach Workout
When you're away on a beach holiday, finding the motivation to workout in the hotel gym isn't easy - especially when there's a gorgeous beach of golden sand and refreshing blue sea tempting you outside!
You don't have to give your fitness a holiday just because you're on one though. We've come up with a quick beach workout that will help keep your fitness ticking over and get you a healthy glow at the same time.
If you've never worked out on sand before you're in for a treat as the benefits are pretty impressive:
• Your body has to work harder on the uneven surface, which helps build your strength and coordination.
• As your body is working harder, you'll burn more calories during and after your workout.
• Sand is much kinder on your joints as it absorbs and cushions the force you apply to it.
And let's not forget you'll also be enjoying fresh air and a beautiful view. Ready to get started?
The Pure Beach Workout
The Pure Beach Workout should take between 20 and 25 minutes. Before you start, warm-up by jogging on the spot for 3-5 minutes. This will help get your heart pumping, increase circulation, loosen your joints, stretch your muscles and, most importantly, decrease the likelihood of injury. Keep it to a gentle jog though, you'll want to save your energy for the main workout!
Once you've warmed up, perform the following exercises one after the other with no rest in between. Repeat the circuit three times.
1. Side shuffles x 5 seconds each side
Lower into a half squat position with your hands in front of you. Facing forwards, shuffle your feet to the right for five seconds, then shuffle to the left for five seconds. This is an effective routine for burning calories and toning your leg muscles.
1. Broad jumps and shuffle back x 6 reps
Start in a squat position and jump forwards as far as you can, swinging your arms towards the sky as you jump. Run backwards taking short, quick steps to the start position and repeat six times. The combined running and jumping on sand will help test your core and leg muscles and your speed and agility.
1. Walk outs x 5 reps
With your feet hip-width apart, bend forward until your hands are on the floor. Walk your hands forward until your hands are slightly in front of your head. Hold, then walk back and return to start position. Repeat six times. A great exercise for your abs, arms, shoulders and back.
1. Squat jumps x 12 reps
With your feet shoulder-width apart, lower into a squat then jump explosively upwards raising your arms to the sky. As you land, drop into the squat position and repeat 12 times. Your quads and hamstrings will both benefit from this great exercise.
1. Hot feet x 1 minute
Simply alternate steps on the balls of your feet as fast as you can for one minute. Just imagine you're standing on hot sand, hopping from foot to foot. Actually, you might not have to imagine it if you're doing this on holiday! This great aerobic exercise will improve your cardio fitness, speed and agility.
1. Plank x 1 minute hold
Once you've finished, be sure to stretch it out and shake it off with these quick stretches. Remember to breathe deeply while holding each stretch for about 10 seconds.
• Tricep stretch: lower your right arm behind your head and pull down on your elbow with your left hand. Repeat with the other arm.
• Shoulder stretch: reach your right arm across your body and pull the arm towards you with your left hand. Repeat with the other arm.
• Chest stretch: put both hands together behind your back and pull them away from your body
• Thigh stretch: keeping your knees together, bend your right leg behind you and hold your ankle so it rests against your bum. Repeat with the other leg.
Don't forget to enjoy the view!
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One Last Request
This song is by Atkins Lane.
Can I touch you or can I be close to where you are I want to know what it's like to touch an angel's face can I hold you or can I breathe this air you breathe I long for everything around you one request, it's one request I have can I kiss you or can I gently press on your lips how does it feel to know you're something special could you pretend or could you let me stay asleep and never let me wake up from this dream and I haven't been myself since the day you left me I'm incomplete without you I don't know it's so much harder on my own I guess I'll learn it as I go (it feels so wrong when I'm alone).
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Fiction Vs Myth
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I'm putting episode 7 into a different category. It had the duel roles of introducing new characters and stories (sort of) while rebooting a franchise with pretty poor 'modern' movies. To me, episode 8 is the real one to look at. It should be entering new territory and has the potential to introduce a new mythology to us. To go away from dark vs light, which was a weakness of the entire franchise, and hopefully into a more nuanced understanding, could change everything. I'm hopeful but cautious.
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Patreon fee changes spark controversy among creators
Patreon fee changes spark controversy among creators
Crowdfunding service Patreon has sparked controversy with changes to the way it handles payment-processing fees on its platform.
Until now, the vloggers, musicians and other creators using Patreon to raise money from fans have absorbed the charges for processing payments as part of their 95% revenue share.
Under the proposed changes, a service fee of 2.9% plus $0.35 will be added on to the pledges by those fans (or ‘patrons’) meaning that every time someone pays a creator $1, they would now be paying around $1.38.
Patreon described it as “a change that allows Patreon creators to take home exactly 95% of every pledge, with no additional fees” but a number of creators aren’t happy.
Why? Because they’re concerned that the changes will lead many of the patrons paying smaller sums to stop supporting them.
“They're now going to add an additional 35 to the cost of every pledge, plus another 2.9%, which will increase most of my Patrons' pledges by more than a third. I wouldn't pay that, I wouldn't expect anyone else to either,” tweeted comics artist Gibson Twist.
Other creators have tweeted screenshots showing their patrons deleting their pledges: for example here and here. Patreon CEO Jack Conte responded by updating the company's blog post with more information.
"This was never (and still isn’t) about making more money for Patreon as a company. This is a strategic move to make our platform even better for creators and patrons in the future," he wrote.
"We want a Patreon where all creators receive their money as soon as a patron pledges. We want a Patreon where your patrons never have to wonder when they’ll be charged, or how much they’ll be charged, and this is the first step toward the improvements we’re making so that Patreon becomes a better system for everyone."
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1. Ranij at | | Reply
It looks like item song outfit not red carpet
2. colormenot at | | Reply
The dress is awful, but credit to her for making it look less trashy.
3. Pooja at | | Reply
Tacktastic!?!? Seriously?? No one else could have carried off the dress the way she did…i think she looks fab!! Cant look past those abs! *sigh*
4. Ik at | | Reply
She looks like an exotic dancer, if that was the intention then way to go.
5. Sapphire at | | Reply
That body!! She is seriously a killer. This woman can rule.
HHC please…I request you to post her appearances regularly. :D
1. Violet at | | Reply
Wow. How fit is she :O Credits to her for pulling this off rather well
1. Sapphire at | | Reply
I saw her song ‘Gangster Baby’ from the movie Action Jackson today and she really is a killer in that, killing with guns. What a coincidence!!
6. Asha at | | Reply
I can’t bring myself to hate the outfit…she actually does carry it off. My only grouse is those granny panties that are so clearly visible.
1. Sapphire at | | Reply
They are not granny panties. They come with the skirt, to cover that area, where everything else is transparent.
7. Sup at | | Reply
I know that word came to your mind guys.
The super tacky dress with a snug sari-blouse for a top, makes you beg for a dupatta..
and that stupid pose doesnt help.
There’s only so far a great body can go in saving you from fashion disasters.
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*I know why
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Example sentences for: dawn--if
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• They would rise before dawn--if the sun, which lingers obscenely above the horizon during the summer nights--would only set.
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The number system is a great policy that only government clerks and very lucky retail staff can still carry out due to insane lineups of snitty, impatient people with petty requests. On the wall, there is a counter which indicates which customer is being served and clients take numbers from a roll of tickets to wait in queue. If someone cannot wait their turn, the friendly customer service representative will then point to the tickets and say "Please take a number."
In my own daily events, there are many occasions where I'd like to ask someone to please take a number. Like when my jackass neighbour knocks on my door looking for weed every Sunday afternoon or when my super wants to discuss the way his tenants are frustrating him. If you've ever been called by a telemarketer at work, or if your boss asks you to go get their dry cleaning for them on your lunch hour.
The applications of this phrase are infinite, as everyone encounters bullshit that's unique to their own life. I'm sure at more than one point in time that you've wanted to tell someone to fuck off. This is just a polite way to suggest it.
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How a quartz watch works
How do quartz watches keep time? Steve Mould gives a great demonstration explaining how they work. Quartz is piezoelectric, which means when it is deformed it generates an electrical signal. A quartz watch has a tiny quartz tuning fork that's been calibrated to vibrate at 215 cycles per second. This signal is fed through a series of 14 flip-flop circuits, each of which divides the frequency of the signal by 2. By the time the signal goes through the 14th flip-flop, the frequency is one cycle per second.
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Steve.Keen at unsw.EDU.AU Steve.Keen at unsw.EDU.AU
Mon Oct 30 23:51:02 MST 1995
Jim, in my last polite to you, I tried to be as polite as possible.
After your last post, I'll give up on politeness as wasted effort,
and state my opinion of you and your interpretation of my work
bluntly. Your opinion of yourself is that your arguments,
|while undoubtedly incomplete due to their brevity, nonetheless
|point to the superiority of Marx over Keen, and show up fairly
|well the defects of Steve's case against Marx....
My opinion is that, if the following is what you think I say in
that thesis, then you lack the capacity to read intelligently.
Quoting you from a previous post, you say that:
|One of Steve's claims, repeated several times, is that there is
|a contradiction in Marx's writing. At one point (when considering
|simple circulation) Marx is supposed to have claimed that use
|value and value are "unrelated," and at another point (when
|considering the circuit of capital) that they are interrelated....
| Steve's feeling that Marx had stated initially that the two were
|"unrelated" results from a misunderstanding of Marx's conception
|of the relatedness of use value and exchange value. Marx never
|said they were "unrelated," even in simple circulation. One has to
|pay closer attention to what Marx said....
| The topics that can be discussed under the heading of "specific
|ways in which use value and exchange value interact" include
|"the use value of labor power," "the use value of the means of
|production" and "the use value of the precious metals," to name
|a few. And the specific ways in which use value affects exchange
|value become more critical in capitalist production than before,
|but these processes develop without obliterating the original
|distinction between use value and exchange value. There is no
|need to belabor this point. In any case, after arguing that Marx
|initially held the view that use value and exchange value were
|"unrelated," Steve showed how Marx held that the two are in fact
|related in specific ways, and provided copious documentation of
|Marx's views on the subject....
So I say that Marx says use-value and exchange-value are unrelated,
and then I say that he says they are related, and that's the
contradiction I'm pointing up? Bullshit! As I pointed out in
a previous reply to you, the point re "unrelated" was that:
"the use value *of commodty x* plays no role in determining the
exchange-value *of commodity x*"
On the other hand, at the conceptual level, the relationship
between use-value and exchange-value was the most important
aspect of Marx's thinking, which has been not merely negelected
by suppressed by previous so-called scholars on Marx. There is
*no* contradiction between the distinctions and dialectical
relations between use-value and exchange-value, on the one hand,
and the proposition that, in exchange, the use-value of a
commodity plays no role in determining its exchange-value.
The contradiction I explore is in the application of the
principle of the unrelatedness as it pertains to labor-power
on the one hand, and machinery on the other. In the case of
labor-power, Marx applies the principle to uncover the source
of surplus:
"The past labour that is embodied in the labour
are two totally different things. *The former determines the
exchange value of the labour power, the latter is its
use-value.* (Capital I, p. 188 Progress Press Edition)
However, when discussing machinery, he in effect relates the
use-value of a machine to its exchange-value by arguing
that the latter sets an upper bound on the former. The
contradiction takes several forms, one of which (cited in
part of my thesis which you decided you didn't need to
read) is to argue that the measure of a machine's
contribution to output is not its use-value, but its
"its use-value has been completely consumed,
and therefore its exchange value completely transferred to the
product." (*Capital*, p. 197.)
You, in your thickness, think you've refuted me: you have
instead done a "brilliant" job of misreading me.
You make much of me dumping on your contributions, Jim,
but I wasn't the only one to do so. Both John Ernst and
Jerry Levy also told you, in effect, to "bug off" and
read the literature, because, in Jerry's words, your
smug postings betrayed that you were unfamiliar with
"the last 20 years" of scholarship on the issue.
Most of the critical component of that last 20 years has
sought to do what you think I'm about:
|The point of Steve's thesis is to refute Marx, to disprove
|the labor theory of value, to expose the invalidity of Marx's
|central theoretical premise...
| Then Steve says, ..."there is a much richer analysis
|to be derived from the legacy Marx gave us, and reference
|must be had to Marx for both analytic and political work."
| This is just so much hokum. It is as though you can
|rip out a man's heart, and then tell him, "it's o.k.
|because you still have a perfectly good pair of lungs."
|No. If you disprove the labor theory of value, you rip out
|the heart. If you can prove that Marx was wrong on this,
|then there's no point in paying attention to him. He's just
|another 19th-century crank.
The labor theory of value has been taking intellectual body
blows from the time of Bohm-Bawerk on. They have been so
severe that many once-leading marxist economists--such as
Herb Gintis, for an obvious example--have abandoned not just
the labor theory of value but Marxian-style economics entirely.
Others, such as Roemer and his Analytic Marxism style, have
argued that, for instance:
"the relationship between exploitation and profits does not
depend on the proportionality of labor values to prices, and
so nothing of substance is lost by acknowledging that the
labor theory of value is false" (Roemer, 1988, _Free to Lose,
p. 47)
They have ended up adopting the methodology of neoclassical
economics, while the leading developers of non-orthodox
economics have been not Marxians, but Post Keynesians--most
of whom regard Marxian economics with almost as much
disdain as they do neoclassical economics. While I agree
with them about post-Marx marxism and the labor theory of
value itself, I feel that this leads them to reject Marx
in his entirity, when, in my opinion, Marx provides an
axiomatic foundation for Post Keynesian economics that could
make it much richer than it already is.
You seem to be utterly unaware of the parlous state of
marxian economics in general, and the incredible difficulties
that have been encountered by those who have tried to defend
the labor theory of value against attack. That's why I
gave you a set of readings Jim. If you want to rave down at
the pub with some leftie mates about the evils of capitalism,
then you're better equipped than most. But if you want to
mix it with modern fans and foes of the labor theory of
value, you're a century behind the debate.
That's why I haven't bothered replying to you: you misread
me and call it a critique; you are ignorant of a century
of scholarship and think you're an informed discussant. Sorry,
but I think you've got more in common with a Mormon
missionary, and until you show otherwise, I'll treat you
the same way I do them: by shutting the door.
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A Different Kind of Hero.
I can vividly remember growing up and feeling like my sister hung the moon. She was the epitome of everything "cool" and "smart" and "fun." I wanted so much to be like her. She was exciting and outgoing, and could run faster and jump higher than any boy I knew. She had the blond hair I always wanted and was the athlete I would never become. Everyone loved her and I admit that there were plenty of times that I felt quite a bit of jealousy towards her ease in social situations. She was my hero. The first hero I ever had.
Jill's life was always destined to go down a different path than mine. When she was my age, she was already a mother and a wife. She always knew that was what she wanted to be when she grew up. I always find it amusing when people downplay women who choose to be homemakers as a career, because I have seen first hand how difficult that job can be. It really is one of the most difficult career paths someone can go down, and I continue to admire my sister for excelling at it. With her hands full as a Mom to four children, all of which have classes and lessons to attend on a daily basis, Jill handles it the way she does everything else in her life. She glides through it, making it look like the easiest thing possible. When Jill went into the hospital last fall, it took no less than her 4 siblings, 3 in-laws, husband, parents, and 4 nieces to fill her shoes. That's just the way it is with Jill. She's got some tough Jack Purcell's to fill.
As the months wear on, and Jill has begun to update us on her own through her social networking sites, I am right back to where I was when I was 8 and she was 12. I watch in awe as my original hero emerges from what might be her toughest obstacle yet in the only way she knows: success. Her daily trials are many and her frustrations are probably more, but she does it all with dedication and her long-standing drive. Jill has always been someone that I admire, but she has become a different hero as of late. A better one. Her strength stands to remind me every day that life will never stop being difficult. And sometimes when you least expect it, it throws you a giant curve ball. But the way I see it, the real heroes in life aren't the people who climb one mountain. They're the people who never stop climbing them.
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Scott+Kimber+Ruby=Scimby said...
Love this...you do have a great sister, but you're a really great one to her too!
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[Photo: Lizz Schumer]
For Tempus Fugit cofounder Peter Schaf, the search to find and perfect the original Abbott's Bitters formula all began with his love of antique bottles. Schaf spent his childhood scouring antique shops, flea markets and garage sales for rare and unusual finds, which is how he first developed an interest in bitters. One of those was Abbott's Bitters, a once-iconic brand that Schaf and his business partner John Troia have spent the last seven years working to recreate.
Schaf has been in the business of producing historically-inspired spirits since 2001, when he started making absinthe. He said that recreating antique products like defunct bitters is "more complicated than just putting [a new] vodka into a bottle and slapping a label on it." I asked him a bit about the process.
When he decided to relaunch the Abbott's Bitters brand, Schaf wanted to ensure that the bitters would taste as close to the original as possible. To do that, he needed to find out just what made Abbott's the household name it once was, and how to recreate the flavor for the modern consumer. "I got to become a detective," he said. "Everything has a story. If it [also] has a history, it's that much better. It's fun to discover something someone didn't know."
Abbott's was first bottled before 1907 by the C.W. Abbott Company, so named for founder Cornelius F. and his son, Cornelius W. During that time, the product was known as "Abbott's Angostura Bitters," but the name was changed after a legal battle with the J.W. Wupperman Company, the United States representatives for Dr. J.G. B. Seigert's Angostura Bitters, the white-labeled bitters we know today.
The angostura comes from angostura bark, which Schaf determined was an essential ingredient in the original Abbott's. The formulation changed between its original bottling and the demise of C.W. Abbott & Co. in the late 1950s. According to Schaf, there were approximately four distinct periods in the product's recipes: pre-Prohibition, Prohibition-era, post-Prohibition to 1940, and 1941 to the late 1950s.
Bottles from the 1950s showed "no evidence of having any bark," Schaf said. "When you have a major component missing, something went wrong."
In 2007, Schaf and Troia acquired a handwritten recipe for an angostura bark bitters from a New Jersey company, O.B. Van Camp, which became one of more than 20 bitters recipes the pair tested in their efforts to recreate the original Abbott's flavor.
Schaf's research found that, unlike other early recipes, that recipe did not contain tonka, a flavoring used to mimic the flavor of vanilla. In the mid-20th century, Schaf explained, vanilla was often either replaced or cut with tonka, to extend the more expensive vanilla bean. Although other early recipes listed tonka as an ingredient, they did not list angostura bark, an essential element. That led to Schaf's deciding those recipes were ultimately flawed, and have since decided tonka is not an official Abbott's ingredient.
Although that recipe included some elements the testers ultimately decided to omit, some herbs that would make the final cut included cassia, cloves, and cardamom seed, which Schaf called "ingredients known to have been in that recipe that, when recreated, were similar to the taste of pre-Prohibition bitters."
Schaf and Troia tested each recipe against not only other recipes they found, but also against a dozen bottles of original Abbott's from those four distinct time periods. They also compared the flavor of bottles from different climates as well as time periods to discern the effects oxidization had on the liquid's flavor.
Next came barrel-aging, which Schaf said is an essential step that "people weren't talking into account. There's a big difference between the aromas of vanilla you get from wood versus what's just been in a bottle," he said. "It gives it a component that rounds it out."
They chose to macerate whole herbs in a single alcohol solution, which Schaf said is another method that many bitters companies and recipes don't call for. The flavors "need to marry together for some time," he said. "Otherwise, you get a flavor that is quite disjointed, because the herbs haven't really cozied up to one another. Very few bitters are aged to any extent," he added.
Finally, Schaf and his partner micro-oxygenated the samples, to achieve the effect of oxidization that had been detected in the original samples. Despite similarities between several of the recipes tested, the O.B. Van Camp recipe ended up coming the closest to the original Abbott's taste.
So what is that Abbott's taste, exactly? Schaf said it's what he calls "a universal flavor."
"A lot of bitters give a different flavor to a spirit, rather than enhancing its individual flavor," he explained. "We've used [Abbott's] in a number of things and it doesn't overshadow the spirit; it improves that flavor. It's hard to do, but it makes for a much more useful bitters."
For Schaf and Troia, "it's all about the history," when creating what he hopes becomes a bitters as universally stocked as Peychaud's or Angostura. "It took a long time, and we put [the recipe] under incredible scrutiny." According to Schaf, the product they came up with is "very close to what it was like in the early 1900s."
On their own, the Tempus Fugit Abbott's Bitters taste smoky, a little sweet and well, aged. There are strong undertones of anise and vanilla. It's bitter, strongly so, but with a complexity that would layer well with any number of spirits.
Tested against the classic Angostura in a Manhattan, the difference is immediately and starkly apparent. The Angostura Manhattan is the sweeter, vermouth-forward cocktail we know and love, with that hint of bitter undertone that really brightens up the spirits involved. The Abbott's Manhattan, by contrast, has that a smoked flavor, and tastes faintly herbal. The drink still has that Manhattan sweetness, but the Old Overholt we used comes forward more strongly. Like Schaf predicted, this one tastes more like the Abbott's encourages the spirits toward their best selves, rather than laying on top like flavored bitters can do.
It should be noted that though Tempus Fugit owns the trademark, Schaf and Troia are not the only ones who've been working toward resurrecting the defunct brand, which has resulted in a bit of a legal kerfluffle.
Tempus Fugits Abbott's Bitters have been released in small batches at select markets, but Schaf said that the aging process has "slowed down our release." He said that a full release is in the works for mid-January or so.
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Financial setbacks can be difficult at any point in your life, but they’re especially devastating during retirement. With no steady paycheck coming in, it can be terrifying to watch your retirement savings slowly disappear as you try to recover.
Nobody plans on things going wrong, but sometimes life just happens. You might be tempted to curl up into a ball and hope your problems just go away, but I will tell you firsthand that doing so won’t help you.
When things get tough, you need to remain positive, flexible, and determined. Following these four tips can help you recover from any financial setback you may face in retirement:
1. Assess your current situation.
Your first step is to gather as much data as possible. You want to know exactly what happened, why it occurred, and how it impacts you. Ask yourself:
• Was the setback caused by me, someone else, or some unforeseen circumstance?
• How will the setback affect me right now?
• How will it affect me in the future?
Next, gather together details about everything that makes up your present financial situation: income, expenses, savings, and investments. The objective here is to get as much information as possible in order to formulate the steps necessary for recovery.
2. Define your goals.
Once you have all of the facts, you need to set some goals. This means different things to different people, but it can be helpful to break down your goals by time and results, no matter what your situation.
For example, you may have just suffered a medical emergency that you paid for by tapping your savings or credit card. Your goal could be to have 75 percent of the debt or savings repaid within four years.
Remember, your goals need to be SMART: specific, manageable, ambitious yet achievable, realistic, and time-bound.
3. Determine your course of action.
There are several steps you have to put into action to rebuild your finances. Once you know your situation and have your goals set, make a plan or roadmap to follow.
Your plan needs to be in writing so you can refer back to it regularly and hold yourself accountable. Writing down your goals will help set you up for success.
4. Monitor and make adjustments.
No plan is foolproof or set in stone. Continue to mark your progress and, if necessary, make adjustments. You may find that you need more time to meet your goals, or something may come up that gets you off track and forces you to adjust your plan again.
Remain flexible. You may not always have control of the situation, but you can control how you react to it. If you regularly monitor your progress toward your goals and make changes when necessary, you will find that there is nothing that will keep you down forever.
Steve Repak is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, CFP® Board Ambassador, and financial literacy speaker. He is also an Army veteran and the author of Dollars & Uncommon Sense: Basic Training For Your Money. Follow him on Twitter: @SteveRepak
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England Fans Reported For Racist Chants About Rio… But Was It Racist?
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Following Rio Ferdinand’s withdrawal from the England squad, this country has shown a bizarre overreaction, both in the media and by fans. Rio’s back troubles meant he went through a phase of playing a handful of games of season but over the past couple of years the medical team at United has managed to keep our defender in good condition, thanks to a strict regime.
Playing 180 minutes for England during this two week period was not part of Rio’s regime so the club put pressure on him to pull out of the squad. When he flew to Qatar the press erupted with criticism, as if commentating on the game in Doha was comparable with him playing two games of football. Roy Hodgson was suckered in to it all, seemingly going back on his assertion that Rio would be picked again in the future. After initially saying he was “looking forward to hopefully selecting Rio for squads in the future”, Hodgson said “we should just wait and see” when asking about Rio’s future after the Qatar story made the news.
England fans reacted angrily to Rio’s decision (in all likelihood, which was actually the club’s decision) and sang about him in both games. “Fuck off, Rio Ferdinand, fuck off, Rio Ferdinand” was audibly heard but there have been reports since that they also sang “Rio Ferdinand, you know what you are” and “build a bonfire, build a bonfire, put Rio on the top, put Anton in the middle and we’ll burn the fucking lot.”
After the game, Hodgson admitted that he heard the chants but refused to condemn the fans for singing them. “Of course I heard it. I’m not deaf,” he said. “But I’ve absolutely no comment to make on it.”
England captain, Steven Gerrard, echoed this sentiment, saying: “I think the fans have shown their frustration about Rio not being here. They’re entitled to their opinion.”
England fans have today been reported to FIFA by Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) and their spokesperson said: “It refers to the racist abuse Rio Ferdinand received, along with his brother Anton. We don’t make the judgement. We send a report to FIFA but in the end its their decision whether they open proceedings or not. And whether they issue a fine or not.”
Were these chants racist though? Only the people singing them know that. A few months ago we were told that when we were singing about Liverpool being victims that we were singing about Hillsborough. It suited the media’s agenda at the time so they decided that all of Old Trafford were singing about a tragedy that took the lives of 96 people and ignored the actual reasons behind the chant. It is because of this that I feel reluctant to claim that the travelling England fans over the past week were racially abusing Rio.
Imagine Gary Neville had withdrawn from the squad back in the day. If the England fans were offended by that, would they sing about throwing brother Phil in to the bonfire too? Possibly/probably. The fact that John Terry racially abused Anton doesn’t necessarily mean that England fans venting about Rio were also racially abusing the Ferdinands.
However, Anton has never played for England, so you can argue it’s suspicious he got dragged in to it. Also, the “you know what you are” chant has strong connotations with racism, given that Chelsea fans sung in to Anton Ferdinand in response to the song being sung about Terry. In response to the claim that Terry knew what he was, a racist, was the suggestion that Anton knew what he was too, a “black cunt”. Of course, this is all presumptuous, but whatever those Chelsea fans meant, and whatever the reason behind England fans singing the same to Rio, it’s hard to argue that these categorically aren’t racist chants. There’s the strong possibility that some fans in the crowd did intend there to be racist connotations, whilst it’s just as likely that some fans were just enjoying giving Rio stick because they don’t like him and he plays for United. Let’s be honest, it wouldn’t be the first time.
“Phil and I went straight out to have a look at the Wembley pitch and were greeted by a chorus of ‘Stand Up If You Hate Man U’,” said Gary Neville in 1998. “We’ve had this abuse before playing for England, but over the last year it’s got worse.”
The biggest culprit in this ridiculous situation is the media though, who turned the non-story of Rio continuing with his plans to go to Qatar in scheduled time off in to an accusation that he had deserted his country. Even if you ignore the fact that Rio actually wanted to play, the amount of column inches that were filled with suggestions that his international career should be over and that he jilted England was totally over the top. They unnecessarily whipped these moronic England fans up in to a frenzy, leading them to believe they had justification for abusing Rio, when essentially nothing had actually happened. Players pull out of England duty all the time and then play in the following game for their club, yet they get no stick from the fans, but then, unlike this situation with Rio, the papers don’t spend days telling the fans that those players have done something wrong.
If FIFA do find the England fans guilty though, it will certainly put the England manager and captain in hot water, given that neither had any objections to those chants being sung…
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1. AndyD says:
Absolute non-story. ‘You know what you are’ is commonly sung to any player a crowd doesn’t like, regardless of whether they are black, white, green, blue etc. So that can be discarded straight away.
The second does not imply racism in the slightest. Anton is also not a popular character. Furthermore, this wouldn’t be the first time people have used threats to family members as a way of insulting someone. Hardly anyone knows rio’s other relatives’ names, so including anton makes sense.
Not condoning the anti-rio vibe whatsoever, but to claim these chants are racist is pure media bullshit. This entire country is getting completely ridiculous – are we allowed to say anything anymore without being accused of being racist? Unbelievable that so many on here are so blind. Go to a few stadiums that aren’t OT, where fans regularly chant throughout matches, and you’d be able to twist meanings in order to label all chants as ‘racist’
2. OAFC says:
@ united forever.
Why’s that because I point out what a bunch of hypocrites a large number of you are?
This chant was anti Rio and anti Man U. It may be stupid but the people who sing it have every right to do so.
Not everything is racist it’s just that a large number of people hate Man U and Rio , they don’t hate him because he’s black it’s because he let England down and is a self publicising wanker of the first order.
You sing build bonfire and you don’t mean it it’s just banter, England fans sing it and they are racist. Who’s brain dead? You couldn’t make it up seriously.
3. Bill Hick's Ghost says:
Clear from your post…..you still can’t work out the difference. Brain dead.
Rio’s a positive role model for young people. Sounds like you’re one of those jealous cunts, that likes to drown in their own negativity. Good luck with that!
4. Age of Reason says:
@ Bill Hick’s Ghost – Please enlighten us all as to what the difference is between a racist and an anti-scouse song? They both display rabid bigotry, prejudice and discrimination. None of those traits move human civilisation forward an inch. I find it depressing that someone would be so delusional as to think it perfectly reasonable to sing “the bonfire song” against one person/section of society but not against another. The most destructive societies in history have been full of people with a passionate hatred against others and an incapability to see their own intolerance. So, come one Socrates, share your wisdom. P.S. I find your username very ironic. Bill Hicks spend his all too short life railing against fat-heads like you.
5. Jorge Curioso says:
Rio Ferdinand, please STFU already.
6. Bill Hick's Ghost says:
Age of clueless
You lost all credibility, when you called me a fathead. You’re either a retard, or 10 years old.
Clear difference for me and any sensible thinking person.
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Demotion Engine
For whatever reason, platformers are a hot commodity right now. Or at least game companies act like they're hot, since they don't always sell terribly well. (Witness poor Sly Cooper, a brilliant game which has garnered lackluster sales.) In any case, Acclaim's latest entry into the venerable genre is called Vexx, and, like many platform heroes, Vexx has sass. That sass, unfortunately, is not enough to raise the PS2 version of Vexx above mediocrity. While Vexx eked out a win on the Xbox, its PlayStation 2 outing is held back by considerably worse graphics, longer load times, and stiffer competition.
There was some talk from Acclaim of how Vexx would have a "mature" story for today's more mature gamers. ("Platform gaming has grown up! Rescuing a princess and butt bouncing away your enemies has been replaced by avenging murder and a set of razor sharp war talons!") Well, if story matters to you that much then you're probably not playing platformers. And why is the titular hero of Vexx superdeformed, in his teens, and furry? Oops! Silly PR spinners. In any case...
The game follows the adventures of a pencil-necked, slightly furry lad named Vexx. (The trailing "x" is silent.) Vexx has anger management issues, perhaps partially due to the fact that his people have been enslaved by the Shadow Wraiths and forced to work in mines. One day Vexx rebels against a guard, which leads to the murder of his grandfather. Enraged, he sneaks out into the night to seek a weapon of retribution. Thus he finds the legendary Astani War Talons, the only weapon that can destroy Shadow Wraiths. With the Talons now permanently fused to his arms, Vexx sets out to save the world of Astara from the Shadow Wraith menace. Or, at least, collect lots of Wraithhearts.
The Sincerest Form
As soon as the very mature intro mumbo-jumbo ends, you're unleashed into Vexx's shattered world and are free to begin collecting Wraithhearts. As you start maneuvering Vexx around and learning his moves, you'll quickly begin to notice many parallels with Super Mario 64. Vexx's designers must have studied that game very carefully, because Vexx is essentially a rip-off of Mario 64. It may look a little different (it's worse aesthetically), control a little rougher (what's with the delay before you move?) and have a slightly larger focus on combat, but all in all Vexx is highly derivative of the six-year-old game that launched the N64.
Are you cool enough to hang with Vexx? (Get it?)
Whereas you collected stars in Mario 64, Vexx boldly turns genre conventions on their frickin' ear by having you collect Wraithhearts. It's the same idea, except Wraithhearts look like nasty beating organs (edgy! mature!) and there are only 81 or so to find, significantly less than Mario 64's 120. As in Nintendo's game, each heart in Vexx is accompanied by a hint to guide you to its location. Unlike in Nintendo's game, the hints are provided in the form of incredibly bad verse. Once you choose an objective from one of the nine worlds, platforming can commence.
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Paris: Prault(1786). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 390, 362pp. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine lettering and ornamentation, leather labels, marbled endpapers and edges. 2 folding maps, 3 folding plates. Light wear, offsetting to endpapers and slight occasional foxing, text is overall clean and the binding is tight. Chastellux served under the command of General Rochambeau during the US War of Independence, and was liaison between George Washington and Rochambeau.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover
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The Sogdian script developed from the Aramaic and was first used during the 4th century AD. The earliest form of the script, shown below, was used to write letters and for inscriptions. A cursive version of the script was used in secular documents, royal proclamations, and Buddhist and Manichaen manuscripts. The Sogdian script largely fell out of use during the 10th century, though was used to some extent until the 13th century.
Sogdian is an extinct member of the eastern branch of Middle Iranian languages once spoken in Sogdiana, a region that includes parts of China (Xinjiang), Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan. Yaqnabi, a language spoken in Tajikistan is thought to be a modern descentant of Sogdian.
Notable features
• Type of writing system: abjad / consonant alphabet
• Direction of writing: right to left in horizontal lines, or sometimes left to right in vertical columns
• Letters in Ancient Sogdian do not change their shape when joined, but in later versions of Sogdian, they do
Sogdian Ancient Letters
Sogdian Ancient Letters
Sogdian Sutra Script
Sogdian Sutra Script
Sample text in Ancient Sogdian Letters
Sample text in Sogdian Ancient Letters
at βaγw xutāw βarak nanyē-θβār kanak
(ēw-)zār βrēwar āfrīwan namācyu spātzānūk kaδ-uti wēšanu βaγān(u)
βyart pišt con xēpθ βantē nanē-βantē
To the Divine Master Barak(?) Nanethvar Kanak a thousand, ten thousand greetings, reverently with bended knees when received by their divinities. Written by his own servent Nanevante.
An Ancient Letter found in a mailbag in the Great Wall of China
Source: The World's Writing Systems; by Peter T. Daniels & William Bright; Oxford University Press 1996
Information about the Sogdian language and alphabet
Consonant alphabets (Abjads)
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Resistance is growing by Sean Savage
Resistance is growing by Sean Savage
Describing resistance
Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values describe the susceptibility of a specific bacterium to a specific antibiotic.
If the concentration of antibiotic required to inhibit growth exceeds a certain level, the breakpoint, the antibiotic in question becomes useless as a therapeutic agent because the breakpoint signifies the maximum dose of that antibiotic which can be given safely to patients.
Higher doses, even if they might be effective on the agar plate in the laboratory, would be hazardous to the patient. The breakpoint is the dividing line between the bacterium being sensitive or resistant to the antibiotic. Medical microbiology laboratories will usually report bacteria as either sensitive or resistant to an antibiotic, even if a more precise measurement has been made such as zone size around an antibiotic disc or MIC.
A set of terms has been developed to describe bacteria resistant to a number of unrelated antibiotic classes. These progress through resistance to increasing numbers of antibiotic classes from multi-drug resistant (MDR), extensively drug resistant (XDR) to pan drug resistant (PDR). The relationship between these classes is illustrated in the Venn diagram below with the definitions for each.
Diagram divided into sections. The left hand-side section represents bacteria that are not multi-drug resistant â includes isolates non-susceptible to more than or equal to one agent in less than or equal to two antimicrobial categories. The right hand-side of the diagram represents multi-drug resistant bacteria. Within this section is a circle representing extensively drug resistant classes and there is a smaller circle embedded to right of the larger circle representing bacteria that are pan drug resistant.
Diagram adapted from article “Multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pan drug-resistant bacteria: an international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance” by Magiorakos et al. This article is available as a pdf to download below.
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Nobody was arrested for the crime I suffered, can I still make a claim?
The phrase ‘criminal injury’ covers a broad spectrum of occurrences. Put simply, it means an injury sustained by an innocent party following a criminal act perpetrated by someone else. In some cases this injury may be direct, having been caused by something like an assault or mugging. Other cases, however, may involve being a bystander or onlooker at the scene of a larger crime such as an armed robbery.
In all of these cases, the injury sustained may be either physical or psychological, since witnessing violent crimes can often leave people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, re-living the event over and over and developing symptoms such as depression, agoraphobia and panic attacks.
If you have been injured in this manner then it can have a devastating and long term effect upon your life. In simple terms it may severely impinge upon your earning capacity, both now and in the future. Any physical injuries suffered may alter your quality of life on a permanent basis, whilst psychological damage can be just as long lasting, and the distress this can cause is something which you deserve to be compensated for.
The process of making a claim for criminal injury is slightly different to that which is involved with other forms of personal injury. Rather than claiming against the actual person responsible for the crime itself, you’ll be claiming from a government funded body known as the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA). What this means is that it doesn’t matter if the person responsible doesn’t have the money to compensate you, and even if the criminal has not been arrested or charged, you can still make a claim.
So yes, you will still be eligible for compensation even if the police haven’t arrested somebody, as long as it can be demonstrated that a crime actually took place, that you were an innocent party and that you suffered an actual injury.
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The Philippine Digital Landscape
Internet and mobile marketing in the Philippines is moving at a rapid rate. While it was at its infancy in 2007, the industry is experiencing rapid growth rates, not far behind its counterparts in North America and Europe, Advertising and marketing play a vital role in the internet and mobile industry, as like any other media channel, the survival of internet and media companies rely on marketing for revenues. The explosion of internet companies like Google and Yahoo! has changed the way internet is used in marketing, and the same can be said of telecom companies revolutionizing mobile marketing.
To date, web and mobile accounts for 10% of advertising spending in the US, and is expected to increase to 40-50% within the next couple of years in certain industries.
In the Philippines, marketing through the web has taken off, and is on a growth spurt.
It has been estimated that online ad spending would sum up to only P100 million, just at 0.2%, of the total advertising spend. Mobile shares the same fate, although while they are higher than web advertising, they are also a small percentage of the total ad mix.
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Some Mechanical and Structural Aspects of the Smolensk Crash
By Dr. Gregory Szuladzinski, Ph.D., MSME
8. Other Possible Considerations of this Incident
With this type of analysis there is always some uncertainty relating to the available information. Let us say that someone does not believe in time-space records, and asks: Why is it not possible that the explosion took place after hitting the ground?
The answer is simple: the parts were scattered over a wide area with a width of about 40 m and a length of 130 m. A ground surface explosion can create such a result, but then the scene of the event would look different: the trees around would be mowed, and there would be a clear imprint in the ground, perhaps even a crater. Besides, we would not be able then to explain the rotation of the main part of the fuselage around its longitudinal axis.
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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz vol.104 no.4 Rio de Janeiro July 2009
Oxidative stress response to menadione and cumene hydroperoxide in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida glabrata
Mayra Cuéllar-CruzI, II; Irene CastañoI; Omar Arroyo-HelgueraI; Alejandro De Las PeñasI, +
IDivisión de Biología Molecular, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Camino a la Presa San José 2055, 78216 San Luis Potosí, SLP, México
IIUniversidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Instituto de Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería, Área Académica de Química, 42060 Pachuca, HGO, México
Candida glabrata is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that can cause severe invasive infections and can evade phagocytic cell clearance. We are interested in understanding the virulence of this fungal pathogen, in particular its oxidative stress response. Here we investigated C. glabrata, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans responses to two different oxidants: menadione and cumene hydroperoxide (CHP). In log-phase, in the presence of menadione, C. glabrata requires Cta1p (catalase), while in a stationary phase (SP), Cta1p is dispensable. In addition, C. glabrata is less resistant to menadione than C. albicans in SP. The S. cerevisiae laboratory reference strain is less resistant to menadione than C. glabrata and C. albicans; however S. cerevisiaeclinical isolates (CIs) are more resistant than the lab reference strain. Furthermore, S. cerevisiae CIs showed an increased catalase activity. Interestingly, in SP C. glabrata and S. cerevisiae are more resistant to CHP than C. albicans and Cta1p plays no apparent role in detoxifying this oxidant.
Key words: Candida glabrata - menadione - cumene - CTA1 - Candida albicans - Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Reactive oxygen species (ROS), including superoxide ion, hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radicals, are normal by-products of aerobic respiration. ROS can damage all biomolecules, but cells have developed enzymatic (catalases, superoxide dismutases and peroxidases) and non-enzymatic (glutathione and thioredoxin) mechanisms for keeping ROS levels low. Phagocytic cells, which are the first line of defence against fungal infections, generate ROS in order to eliminate invading pathogens (Mansour & Levitz 2002). Interestingly, pathogens have co-opted these well-conserved antioxidant mechanisms to evade phagocyte defences, thus survival and persistence are ensured (Thorpe et al. 2004, Temple et al. 2005).
Candida glabrata is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that can cause severe invasive infections and recent surveys show that C. glabrata is one of the most frequently isolated species in hospital acquired disseminated infections (Trick et al. 2002). C. glabrata virulence factors have only recently begun to be identified (Kaur et al. 2005). C. glabrata has a well-defined oxidative stress response and we have previously found that C. glabrata can withstand very high concentrations of H2O2 relative to that of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and even Candida albicans (Cuéllar-Cruz et al. 2008). Resistance of cells to H2O2 in stationary phase (SP) is dependent on the concerted role of Yap1, Skn7 and Msn4, well-conserved stress-related transcription factors. In log-phase cells (LP) C. glabrata adapts to high levels of H2O2 and this adaptive response is dependent on Yap1 and Skn7 and partially on Msn2 and Msn4. The single catalase gene Cta1 is absolutely required for resistance to H2O2 in vitro, however in a mouse model of systemic infection the catalase is dispensable. A strain lacking Cta1 showed no effect on virulence (Cuéllar-Cruz et al. 2008).
In this report, to better understand the oxidative stress response in C. glabrata, we screened the resistance of C. glabrata to two different oxidants: menadione and cumene hydroperoxide (CHP). We asked whether C.g.Cta1p is important for this response. We compared the resistance to these oxidants with the distantly related fungal opportunistic pathogen C. albicans and the non-pathogenic and closely related yeast S. cerevisiae. For S. cerevisiae we used a laboratory reference strain and two clinical isolates (CIs). In addition, we determined catalase activity in these strains.
Strains - All strains used in this study are summarised in Table.
Media - Yeast media were prepared as described (Ausubel et al. 2001) and 2% agar was added for plates. YPD media contained yeast extract (10g/L) and peptone (20g/L), supplemented with 2% glucose.
Menadione and CHP sensitivity assays - All the starting overnight cultures of C. glabrata, C. albicans and S. cerevisiae were grown in YPD for 36 h at 30°C. Menadione and CHP (88%) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. All liquid cultures and plates were incubated at 30°C. For sensitivity assays for LP cells overnight cultures were diluted in fresh rich media, YPD, in such a way that cells went through seven doublings (D) to reach OD600nm 0.5. The cultures were divided, exposed to different menadione or CHP concentrations and incubated with shaking for 3 h. After the treatment the oxidant was removed and the cultures were adjusted when needed to O.D.600nm 0.5, serially diluted in 96-well plates and each dilution was spotted onto YPD plates and incubated at 30°C. Each dilution had the same amount of cells.
For SP cells, 36 h cultures were diluted to O.D.600nm 0.5 with spent media from the same culture. The cells were divided into aliquots and treated with menadione or CHP at different concentrations for 3 h at 30°C. After the treatment, the oxidant was removed and the cultures remained at the same O.D.600nm 0.5. The cultures were diluted in 96-well plates and spotted onto YPD plates.
All manipulations for these assays were performed in our 30°C temperature-controlled room to prevent abrupt changes in temperature because it has been reported that cold shock has an impact on oxidative stress resistance in S. cerevisiae. The experiments were repeated three times.
Preparation of cell-free extracts and catalase activity assay - The cells were grown for 48 h in YPD containing 2% glucose and were harvested by centrifugation at 800 g for 10 min. Cells were washed twice with distilled water and resuspended in lysis buffer [potassium phosphate (pH 7.0) supplemented with SIGMAFAST protease inhibitor from SIGMA] and 0.5 g of glass beads (SIGMA). Cells were frozen and thawed two times and the mixture was vortexed 4-6 times with 1 min cooling on ice. The lysate was centrifuged for 20 min at 4°C to remove cell debris and glass beads. The supernatant was used for enzymatic activity. Protein quantification was determined by Bradford assay (Bradford 1976). Bovine serum albumin from Sigma was used as standard. Catalase activity was determined in cell-free extracts by a spectrophotometric method that measures the breakdown of H2O2 by catalase (Aebi 1984). Assays were performed four times. The catalase activity was normalised to total protein from the lysate and expressed as units per mg of protein. One unit is defined as the amount of catalase required for degradation of 1.0 μmol H2O2 per min.
C. glabrata resistance to menadione - In order to understand the oxidative stress response in C. glabrata, we decided to assess its resistance in LP cells to menadione, a cytotoxic quinone that generates superoxide. The cells were grown and exposed to menadione (Fig. 1). C. glabrata BG14 (wt, reference strain) grows in up to 0.2 mM menadione. However, the cta1Δ strain, which lacks the single catalase gene, showed reduced resistance to menadione (Fig. 1A). We then assessed whether C. glabrata cells are more resistant to menadione in SP (Fig. 1). Both strains BG14 and cta1Δ exhibited increased resistance to menadione to the same extent (Fig. 1B).
C. albicans, S. cerevisiae and C. glabrata resistance to menadione in SP - Once we had established C. glabrata resistance to menadione in SP and that Cta1 was dispensable, we decided to compare its resistance with a C. albicans strain (an opportunistic fungal pathogen), a S. cerevisiae lab reference strain (non-pathogenic) and two S. cerevisiae CIs in SP. The cells were grown and exposed to menadione (Fig. 2). C. albicans, which is distantly related to C. glabrata, is more resistant to men-adione than C. glabrata (Fig. 2). C. albicans can grow in up to 1.2 mM menadione while C. glabrata can only grow in up to 0.8 mM (Fig. 2). S. cerevisiae lab reference strain W303 showed resistance only up to 0.2 mM menadione. However, both S. cerevisiae CIs (YJM128 and YJM336) showed increased resistance to menadione. These strains were able to grow in the presence of 0.6 mM menadione (Fig. 2).
C. albicans, S. cerevisiae and C. glabrata resistance to CHP in SP - We decided to determine the resistance of these fungal strains to CHP, an organic hydroperoxide, in SP. The cells were grown and exposed to CHP (Fig. 3). Both strains, BG14 and cta1Δ, were resistant to 0.4 mM CHP (Fig. 3) and more resistant than C. albicans strain CA5, which showed sensitivity to 0.4 mM (Fig. 3). Interestingly, the non-pathogenic S. cerevisiae strain W303 and both CI strains, YJM128 and JYM336, showed almost the same resistance at 0.4 mM CHP as C. glabrata. At this concentration, C. albicans strain CA5 is completely sensitive (Fig. 3).
C. glabrata, C. albicans and S. cerevisiae catalase activity - We have previously shown in plate assays that C. glabrata is more resistant to H2O2 than C. albicans and S. cerevisiae (Cuéllar-Cruz et al. 2008). Therefore, we decided to assay catalase activity in these strains. Surprisingly, C.g.B14, C.a.CA5 and S.c.W303 showed almost no difference in catalase activity (Fig. 4). As expected, the C. glabrata strain C.g.cta1Δ that lacks catalase showed no activity. However, S. cerevisiae CIs showed increased catalase activity, consistent with the fact that these S. cerevisiae CIs are more resistant to H2O2 than C.a.CA5 and S.c.W303 (Cuéllar-Cruz et al. 2008) (Fig. 4).
Pathogens are able to evade oxidative killing by phagocytic cells by using the well conserved enzymatic and non-enzymatic mechanisms that keep ROS, generated naturally by aerobic respiration, at low levels (Gonzalez-Parraga et al. 2003). In this way, pathogens can survive and persist in their host. The oxidative stress response for C. glabrata has only recently been described (Chen et al. 2007, Cuéllar-Cruz et al. 2008, Roetzer et al. 2008). C. glabrata is extremely resistant to very high levels of H2O2 and can evade phagocytic cell clearance (Kaur et al. 2007, Cuéllar-Cruz et al. 2008). C. glabrata has one catalase (Cta1p) that is required to respond to oxidative stress generated by H2O2 (Cuéllar-Cruz et al. 2008). Furthermore, the well-conserved transcription factors Yap1, Skn7, Msn2 and Msn4 coordinate, in part, the oxidative stress response in C. glabrata (Chen et al. 2007, Cuéllar-Cruz et al. 2008, Roetzer et al. 2008). In this report, we investigated the natural resistance of C. glabrata, C. albicans and S. cerevisiae to menadione and CHP. In addition, we measured their catalase activity in SP. Fig. 1A shows that LP cells of C.g.BG14 (wt) can resist up to 0.2 mM menadione and that this resistance is dependent on Cta1. Menadione is a cytotoxic quinone that generates superoxide and it has been shown that exposure to menadione induces the expression of S.c. and S.p.Cta1 (Nakagawa et al. 1995, Osorio et al. 2003). This result suggests that the superoxide generated by menadione is dismutated to H2O2, which is then reduced by the catalase. In SP the resistance to menadione is increased and there is no difference in resistance between BG14 and the strain lacking the catalase (cta1Δ) (Fig. 1B). However, the increased resistance in SP is not surprising. It has previously been shown that SP cells of different pathogens are more resistant to different stresses including oxidative stress (Cyrne et al. 2003). Interestingly, Cta1 is dispensable in SP and this suggests that other genes are compensating for the lack of Cta1. However, this phenomenon appears to occur only in SP. In LP these genes may be silent. Other elements in SP that could be playing important roles in detoxifying oxidative stress are superoxide dismutases, glutathione, glutathione peroxidases and thioredoxins (Jamieson 1992, Jamieson et al. 1994, Stephen & Jamieson 1996, Zadzinski et al. 1998). In any case, the regulatory network of the oxidative stress response in SP in C. glabrata is an important aspect that requires further studies.
We compared the resistance to menadione in SP between C. glabrata and the closely related non-pathogenic yeast S. cerevisiae and the distantly related opportunistic fungal pathogen C. albicans. As shown in Fig. 2, C. albicans strain C.a.CA5 is more resistant to menadione than C. glabrata and S.c.W303 is even more sensitive. The enzymatic removal of superoxide ions is carried out by the enzyme superoxide dismutase. Thus, the resistance to menadione shown by C. albicans could be explained, in part, by the fact that C. albicans has six superoxide dismutases genes, SOD1, SOD2, SOD3, SOD4, SOD5 and SOD6. It has been shown that C.a.SOD1, C.a.SOD2 and C.a.SOD3 are important for protection in LP and SP and that C.a.SOD1 is important for virulence (Lamarre et al. 2001, Hwang et al. 2002, Martchenko et al. 2004). On the other hand, C. glabrata possesses only two superoxide dismutase genes, C.g.SOD1 and C.g.SOD2, which are orthologs of S. cerevisiae S.c.SOD1 and S.c.SOD2 (Longo et al. 1996, Pereira et al. 2003) and C. albicans C.a.SOD2 and C.a.SOD3. Analysis of the amino acid sequence homology between C. glabrata, S. cerevisiae and C. albicans superoxide dismutases showed that C.g.SODs are more closely related to S.c.SODs than to C.a.SODs [C.g.Sod1p (CAGL0C04741g) 83% identical/7% similar to S.c.Sod1p; C.g.Sod2p (CAGL0E04356g) 70% identical/11% similar to S.c.Sod2p, 58% identical/14% similar to C.a.Sod2p; 54% identical/13% similar to C.a.Sod3p]. Interestingly, both S.c. CIs YJM128 and YJM336 are more resistant to menadione than W303 (Fig. 2) and it has been shown that these CIs are also more resistant to H2O2 than W303 reference strain (Cuéllar-Cruz et al. 2008). These results support the idea that pathogens need to have a proper response to oxidative damage in order to survive within the host (Clemons et al. 1994, McCullough et al. 1998, Cassone et al. 2003, Munoz et al. 2005). These CIs could have acquired an increased expression/activity of SOD and multiple drug resistant genes and/or reduced permeability.
We investigated the natural resistance of C. glabrata to CHP, an organic hydroperoxide. As shown in Fig. 3, C. glabrata is more resistant than C. albicans. S. cerevisiae (W303 and CIs) are almost as resistant as C. glabrata. The oxidative stress generated by CHP is removed in part by glutathione peroxidases and glutaredoxins. One likely explanation of the difference in resistance between C. glabrata and S. cerevisiae and C. albicans could be gene dosage. S. cerevisiae possesses two phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase genes, GPX1 and GPX2, eight glutaredoxin genes, GRX 1-8. C. glabrata possesses five glutaredoxin genes, GRX1 -5 and four glutathione peroxidase genes, GPX1-4. Whereas C. albicans possesses only three glutaredoxin genes, GRX1-3.
Analysis of the catalase activity (Fig. 4) showed almost no difference between C. glabrata, C. albicans and S. cerevisiae, whereas C. glabrata has been shown to be more resistant to H2O2 than C. albicans and S. cerevisiae (Cuéllar-Cruz et al. 2008). This result indicates that there must be additional elements in C. glabrata that determine the increased resistance. Interestingly, S. cerevisiae CIs showed increased catalase activity. This result suggests that S. cerevisiae CIs could have acquired a more robust response to oxidative stress in order to evade the attack and elimination by phagocytic cells. It would be interesting to determine if Cta1 expression is upregulated and/or the activity of Cta1 is increased in S. cerevisiae CIs.
Currently, we are making knockout mutants of C. glabrata SOD, GPX and GRX genes in order to evaluate their role in the response to menadione and CHP. Furthermore, we are determining whether expression of S. cerevisiae Cta1 is modified in CIs.
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Received 10 August 2008
Accepted 16 April 2009
Financial support: MCC (163140) and ADLP (CB-2005-48279) are fellows from CONACyT.
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Sunday, June 7, 2009
Some Preliminary Comments on Crothers' Relativity Claims
The work of Stephen J. Crothers has been promoted heavily by the Electric Universe advocates, as one of their 'experts' on issues of Special & General Relativity. There is even a section of his papers on the plasmaresources site. Mr. Crothers' main page on this site, The Black Hole, the Big Bang, and Modern Physics', provides some strange reading.
This is a preliminary examination of some of Mr. Crothers' papers. It is by no way complete, but there are enough interesting errors in the works I've examined so far to make a few comments. I've concentrated on the paper “On Certain Conceptual Anomalies in Einstein's Theory of Relativity”[4], with some supplemental reading of references [1,2,3].
Crothers seems to take particular issue with the concept of black holes in general relativity. However, it appears most of his complaints are non-issues if it is impossible for an infalling observer or particle to actually cross the event horizon. I know of no astrophysical processes involving black holes that actually require infalling material to cross the event horizon[6], though I have seen this description used in press releases. If the singularities in the Schwarzschild metric at the center and at the event horizon are not reachable by an observer, then Crothers issues are largely moot. In some older literature, stars collapsing to the Schwarzschild radius were often called 'collapsed stars' which might be a more technically correct way to describe these objects. I have my own favorite 'black hole paradox' which demonstrates that the idea popularized in the media and science fiction of falling through the event horizon probably cannot occur.
Each section of "On Certain Conceptual Anomalies in Einstein's Theory of Relativity"[4] states some conclusion backed by claims which are at best weak, and in a number of cases, scientifically wrong. Here's a few I found that can be described with a minimum of mathematics.
[4, Section 2]: “Misconception: that Ricci=0 fully describes the gravitational field”
I find several problems in this section, as Mr. Crothers attempts to justify this statement.
1) The issues attributed to the statement describing "the perceived source of the field in terms of its center of mass" is a red herring. Newtonian gravity has a similar issue in that the exterior field of a spherical shell of mass is identical to the field of a point mass at the center of the spherical shell, a location where there is no actual mass. So what is Mr. Crothers' point?
2) The statement that one needs two line elements to describe the metric for the interior and exterior of the mass is somewhat strange. The 'two' line elements cover two non-overlapping, but continuous ranges of the independent variable, r, and therefore the elements are considered to be a single function, the function being described as piecewise. This is standard knowledge, in which case, why does Crothers mention it at all. Perhaps he does not understand it?
3) Mr. Crothers makes a fair number of his claims based on the concept of an 'incompressible fluid' in relativity. However, an 'incompressible sphere of fluid' is not a valid concept in relativity. In terms of the equation of state, incompressible means
where \rho is the fluid density and P is the fluid pressure. This means it no amount of change in fluid pressure will change the density of the fluid. This could also be inverted to read
But this term is directly related to the speed of propagation of disturbances in the matter, AKA the speed of sound. The general expression for the speed of sound in a fluid, c_s (not to be confused with the speed of light), is
Therefore, it is trivial to see that a truly incompressible fluid must have an infinite speed of sound. This is in violation of the principle that there is a limiting speed for signal propagation in relativity.
The mathematics does not stop one from combining these contradicting concepts, but the results and conclusions from such an analysis cannot be trusted. I found the reference to an early paper where Schwarzschild explored this problem historically interesting, but the paper was largely ignored after the realization of this contradiction. Modern researchers use more realistic equations of state, derived from nuclear experiments or theory, when dealing with compact objects. There have been some examinations of ways to treat incompressibility in GR[5], but Mr. Crothers does not use this.
[4, Section 3]: “Misconception: that General Relativity permits point-masses”
This section seems to rely on the bizarre claim that things permitted in General Relativity do so in violation of Special Relativity. This is backwards and misses the point of the distinction.
1) Special relativity is 'special' because it is limited to the 'special 'case of observers in uniform relative motion. General Relativity is the more 'general' theory, permitting non-uniform motion (accelerating) observers. Special relativity is a subset of General Relativity. In general relativity, the metric can have the very general form:
where x_i represents generalized coordinates. Due to the symmetry of the metric tensor, these 16 functions reduce to 10 independent functions.
Special relativity is limited to the much simpler Minkowski metric,
which simply means that the g_mn terms are constants limited to values of 0, 1, and -1. All solutions in special relativity are solutions in general relativity.
This suggests that Mr. Crothers does not understand relativity at all. Any conclusions based off the notion that SR is a more fundamental theory than GR, is immediately suspect.
2) Point masses are used in Newtonian gravity and point charges are used in electromagnetism. This idealization is convenient for modeling systems where the range of motion is much larger than the dimensions of the objects. This assumption essentially says that tidal effects, due to a finite object size, are negligible.
In “A brief history of black holes”[2], Crothers makes a related bizarre claim:
Even the electron has spatial extent, according to experiment, and to quantum theory.
Crothers gives no reference for this claim and it is simply wrong. I haven't done quantum electrodynamics (QED) since the late 1970s, but QED treats electrons as point particles. An experimental upper limit of about 1e-22 m has been placed on the electron's size from scattering experiments. This is far smaller than the classical electron radius of 2.8e-15 m obtained by equating the total electrostatic energy to the electron rest mass. References to the papers on this work can be found at Wikipedia: Electron-Fundamental Properties
But even mathematically, this makes no sense. Infinitesimals, a mathematical entity that is as small as it needs to be, down to a point, are the foundation of calculus which forms the mathematical underpinnings of modern physics & engineering. One technique, Green's Functions, builds the fields of extended objects by integrating (essentially summing) the fields of point sources, represented as a Dirac Delta Functions. Point sources are the foundation of much of mathematical physics.
[4, Section 7]: "Misconception: that "Schwarzschild's solution" is Schwarszshild's solution"
I found this historically interesting, and I'll probably examine that aspect of it further. However, it is irrelevant to the physics whether Schwarzschild said anything about black holes.
It is not clear whether Crothers totally denies the validity of relativity or is promoting an alternative interpretation or another theory entirely.
I found nothing in Crothers writing on the experimental implications of his claims beyond his claimed non-existence of black holes. Mr. Crothers needs to explain why we get experimental agreement in spite of his claimed flaws in relativity? There is plenty of experimental evidence of the validity of general relativity (pulsar timing, accretion disk doppler profiles, GPS) [7,8].
2. S.J. Crothers. A brief history of black holes. Progress in Physics, 2:54–57, April 2006.
3. Stephen J. Crothers. On line-elements and radii: A correction. Progress in Physics, 2:25–26, April 2007.
4. Stephen J. Crothers. On certain conceptual anomalies in einstein’s theory of relativity. Progress in Physics, 1:52–57, January 2008.
5. F. I. Cooperstock and R. S. Sarracino. General relativistic incompressibility. Nature, 264:529–531, December 1976. doi: 10.1038/264529a0.
6. K. Thorne, R. Price, and D. MacDonald. “Black Holes: The Membrane Paradigm”. Yale University Press, 1986.
7. Clifford M. Will. The confrontation between general relativity and experiment. Living Reviews in Relativity, 9, 3 2006.
8. Scott Rebuttal. I. GPS & Relativity, April 3, 2009
S.J.Crothers said...
My reply to Bridgman is here:
Anonymous said...
Towards the end of last year (2008) I started a thread in the ATM (Against The Mainstream) section of BAUT Forum on Crothers' papers.
Readers of this blog entry may be interested in the discussion (in a nutshell, Crothers' work contains many fatal flaws, and even rather simple misunderstandings), which extends over many pages and includes links to earlier internet discussions (including some involving GR experts), as well as some irrelevancies. Interestingly Dave Smith makes a brief appearance :-)
S.J.Crothers said...
Nereid: You cite a forum that has no scientific credibility, and which posts incessant nonsense to mislead the gullible. You have the link to my response to Bridgman, with links to various of my papers. So tell us all where my work is 'flawed' and contains 'simple misunderstandings'. In fact, here is a starter for you: try to prove me wrong by proving that 'r' in the so-called 'Schwarzschild solution' is not the inverse square root of the Gaussian curvature of the spherically symmetric geodesic surface in the spatial section. Also, prove that 'Schwarzschild's solution' is Schwarzschild's solution. Schwarzschild's actual solution forbids black holes. And also prove that Einstein's pseudo-tensor is not a meaningless concoction of mathematical symbols. Until you actually do some science all you are doing is demonstrating your ignorance.
Anonymous said...
S.J. Crothers: What, in your opinion, is the best internet discussion forum, from the perspective of scientific credibility?
OK, three of the best.
For a discussion on your question, why not join the JREF forum, or Physics Forums? Not only do they both have latex enabled, but there are also lots of people who'd be most interested in any such discussion.
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My Mate-vation
by Eugene G
A lot of people drink coffee, it's the second most consumed beverage after water worldwide. My second most popular beverage is yerba mate tea and coffee falls on the 3rd place. Guayaki brand seems to be the most popular, well at least the easiest to find pretty much anywhere. As the people at Guayaki say; Yerba Mate has the "strength of coffee, the health benefits of tea, and the euphoria of chocolate" all in one beverage. As me and Igor (my photography assistant) say, "Be Happy, Drink Guayaki"
The cans are easy to consume, the gourd on the other hand takes a little getting used to... I'm still getting used to it.
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Wednesday, 17 July 2013
CS2 At Aldgate East - Just One Junction.....
The death of Philippe De Gerin-Ricard on London's Cycle Superhighway 2, near Aldgate East Station on the A11 Whitechapel Road, has been covered by many others, but what will it take to make the area safe?
As this death is still under investigation by the Metropolitan Police's Road Death Traffic Unit, I am not going to postulate on how it happened - I have my suspicions and I know the police do. But, as I do cycle through this area every so often, I can confirm that it is intimidating, scary and not a place to cycle for the fun of it. I have a few ideas which I think would make things safer, but it will mean a reduction in traffic capacity.
The only three-quarter decent bit of CS2 which is westbound, just
west of the Bow roundabout. You are protected from traffic, but there
needs to be a little more protections for pedestrians and the width of
the cycle track is a little tight when busy.
Image from Google Streetview.
CS2 currently runs from the Bow Roundabout and follows the A11 before fizzling out at the Algate Gyratory. As it happens, my usual journey into The City carries on through the gyratory westbound to Fenchurch Street and then over London Bridge.
But, my return journey is always via Tower Bridge and so I miss out the eastbound gyratory without having realised it before; coming back via Mansell Street (one-way northbound), although the right turn back onto the A11 means I have to cross 2-lanes of left turning traffic first. In essence, this part of The City is a complicated mess of wide one-way gyratory systems which are geared to moving traffic around quickly - that is another discussion altogether.
CS2 at Bow Road going under the "Ferodo" railway bridge. Not even
cycle lanes here and the blue stripes are squeezed next to the bridge
piers. The central hatch area is to create a right turn pocket into
Addington Road which could be accessed from many other locations
and could be closed off.
Image from Google Streetview.
CS2 is not fun to use. Apart from a tiny bit of cycle track at the Bow end, the whole route is a mixture of advisory cycle lane, bus lane, blue stripes and the odd cycle logo on a blue background. Wherever there is a narrowing, the cycle lane goes and we are just left with blue paint which has nothing going for it in terms of cyclist protection, although I do concede it stops you getting lost.
So, when one travels along CS2 (apart from the nice first bit) one is constantly bugged/ intimidated by traffic passing closely when you are following the blue stripe; one constantly overtakes and is overtaken by buses; there is the inevitable conflict at junctions when wanting to go straight ahead or right because left turning traffic puts you in conflict when going ahead; and right turns often mean crossing two lanes of traffic (yes, it is pretty much a dual carriageway!). There are advanced stop lines at the signalised junctions, but they are only really of use for those wishing to carry on ahead or turn left and that depends on when you arrive in them.
Mile End Road, westbound approach to Grove Road/ Burdett Road
junction. Do you fancy turning right here on two-wheels?
Image from Google Streetview.
This on-carriageway arrangement carries on along the whole route and in both directions. The route (which opened in 2011) doesn't even follow the massively out of date London Cycle Design Standards which was published in 2005. The scheme was rushed in and it is absolutely clear that the brief was that the scheme should not affect traffic flow at all. Mind you, this kind of approach can be found all over London, not just on CS2.
Of course, those with a memory which can cope with a year's passing will remember the little sports day we had in London last summer. Part of the deal with the Olympic movement was that London would shove in some VIP lanes for the Games people. There was outcry and a massive amount of planning, but in the event, the traffic disappeared and it ran very well. This proves that it is possible to make decisions to remove traffic lanes when it suits.
A11 westbound.
Image from Google Streetview.
So, back to the scene on the death. The junction in question if the A11 Whitechapel Road where it meets the A1202 Commercial Street and Leman Street. The junction is signalised with staggered pedestrian crossings (green men) on all arms, except Leman Street which has a straight across green man.
The two A11 approaches have 3 lanes; left/ahead, ahead and right. There are no cycle lanes, but Advanced Stop Lines (ASLs) are in place on all arms except Leman Street which is a two-lane one way street going away from the junction and for the A11, there are blue stripes running through the junction itself (which are seen all over London).
In Commercial Street looking over at the two lane Leman Street
which is one way going away from the junction. The City is to the
right and Stratford to the left.
Image from Google Streetview.
Commercial Street has two lanes, left and straight on with the right turn banned, except for buses, taxis and cycles. There are yellow boxes in the junction and so coupled with the one-way Leman Street and Commercial Street's banned right turn, this is a classic attempt to maximise traffic flow. Oh, all the traffic lanes are narrow which is another symptom of capacity problems.
If we go back to the basics of the process used in casualty-reduction schemes, the highway engineer is looking to reduce conflicts in space and time. By this, I mean that different traffic movements are given their own space (lanes) or conflicts are separated by time (green man versus green traffic signal). If we move beyond casualty-reduction to casualty-prevention, we need to be looking at how people need to pass through the junction and separate out the hazards in space and time from the outset.
Leman Street outlined in red with the "yellow" main roads picked out
in green. Leman Street is actually part of a larger network bounded
by really main roads which are very wide and should be taking the
traffic through the area.
Image Google Maps.
The first thing to look at is Leman Street. It forms part of a larger network of one-way and two-way streets which are bounded by the A11 Whitechapel Road, A13 Commercial Road, A1203 The Highway, Butcher Road (Limehouse) and the Mansell Street/ The Minories and Aldgate gyratory complex. In short, a white road in lots of yellow roads on the map. This area has mixed usage such as dense residential, commercial, local shops, schools and indeed part of Cycle Superhighway 3 on Cable Street. The obvious answer is to close Leman Street and make the junction 3-arm which removes several movements and conflicts from the off. There are other crossroads within the larger area and so these need to be made 3-arm, but on the opposite side (if that makes sense) as we still need access into this local area.
Now we have an area without a side road, a protected cycle track can be built which bypasses the traffic signals and provides a link into Leman Street (filtered permeability). The Commercial Street arm is more tricky. We might consider traffic turning left and right again as the ahead movement is gone and other junctions will have a knock on back to this if they are reworked. The cycle track can allow all movements (and a connection to Leman Street), but the issue is dealing with pedestrians.
We are not allowed to use zebras with traffic signals and besides, a zebra over the cycle track and then a pelican over the road is confusing for pedestrians. We are also not allowed to use any flashing amber signals to allow modes to mix. We could use toucans (with separation) to cross pedestrians and cyclists, but if we give an all round green, there is conflict and do cyclists on a superhighway really want to use a push button?
This is the bit I struggle with in terms of converting European arrangements to the UK. I am sure another blogger will know how cycles are detected elsewhere, but UK cycle detection is always rubbish, but I think we need some narrow field detection on the cycle track in advance of the junction which may trigger demand or we go for fixed timings which are improved and changed as time goes on and hopefully cyclists make up a greater proportion of movements.
One possible layout, but things are getting complicated!
Anyway, I have had a go at trying to draw up an idea of how the junction could be reworked. It is fairly idealised, but I think it can be squeezed in as the layout does not have the staggered pedestrian refuge areas in the pelican crossings. Blue is CS2 separated from pedestrians by a kerb, with a hard strip between CS2 and the carriageway (somewhere to stick traffic signals?). Green is a "local" cycle track (protected) and buff is footways. The red 'L's are pelican crossing points. I have not shown any cycling road markings.
Leman Street is closed, but allows cycles to turn left in and out, with a speed table to assist pedestrians crossing the cycle track as it is an uncontrolled crossing point. Westbound (towards The City) maintains 2 ahead lanes and has a right turn lane. Eastbound maintains 2 lanes with the left lane being ahead/left. In terms of signal stages for traffic, this would run with 2; the first is the A11 arms running together with eastbound getting a red before westbound so that right turners can clear the junction. Then Commercial Street would run. Right turns by cycles would be two-stage, so for a right turn into Leman Street, one would cross Commercial Road and then the A11.
I have assumed that pedestrians would get a green man as a single stage allowing all 3 arms to cross at the same time. With cycles, it gets trickier and I have not got to grips with the sequence yet, but cycles could all get green at once (using low level signals?) and have to give way to each other through the junction, or there could be pedestrians and cycles running together, but over two stages; first A11 cycles would run when pedestrians cross Commercial Street, but have a cycle red on Commercial Street. Then Commercial Street cycles can exit with pedestrians crossing the A11 on both arms, but cycles are held on the A11. Of course, in the second arrangement, cycles would get a green on cycle routes not crossing a road when traffic runs.
And this is the point of the blog. This is just one junction on one direct route into The City. The A11 has lots of junctions like this to deal with and I am not sure we can maintain the two traffic lanes in each direction and have right turn pockets at each location. If we lose traffic lanes, cyclists and pedestrians might gain, but bus passengers won't. All of this needs to be decided and it starts with a policy; that is, a plan agreed by politicians and not just the Mayor.
We are at the end of the era where paint 'n' signs make a cycling scheme, we need to build stuff with the same vigour as we used to have for catering for private cars (and may do again soon with the current lot running the show). We will have to accept that this work needs the kind of budgets spent on revamping town centres, station forecourts and the like and this is not going to be isolated junctions, this will be entire routes and will need serious investment - think about schemes on a scale like Exhibition Road, but everywhere and for years. In terms of removing traffic capacity - should anyone need to be driving so close to the centre of London other than those moving goods or many people?
There will be more deaths, more protests and more debate before things start to change, but in my view, unless we are radical, we may as well use the paint to squeeze even more car lanes into what space is left. I think the Mayor should spend less time on planning his island or looking to bury roads (Really? Does he know how much tunnels cost these days?) and think strategically on cycling.
I will leave you with a view of Commercial Street and the question: what will this area look like in another 100 years?
Commercial Street, just a little way back currently and c.1907.
Over 100 years the tram was clearly the transport mode of choice.
Image from Google Streetview and Wiki Casebook.
1. In you photo of the Ferodo bridge, the right turn pocket is actually for Addington Road I think, not Kitcat Terrace, which is before the bridge. Addington Road is not a dead end, and could be closed off to Bow Road
2. I agree with the general thrust of your blog, which is that roads such as the A11 need to be put on a 'diet'. As you say, "I am not sure we can maintain the two traffic lanes in each direction and have right turn pockets at each location." I fully concur.
However, the fact that Leman Street is marked on the map in white, and Minories in orange, is a bit misleading.
According to Google maps, Leman Street / Dock Street is actually the A1202, whereas Minories, though nominally the A1211, is more like a side road. The only motor traffic which routinely uses Minories are buses.
In practice, the gyratory which links Tower Bridge with Commercial Street works as per this map.
Regarding your point that we are at the end of the era where paint 'n' signs make a cycling scheme, it's a shame we didn't first get to the point where a comprehensive, city-wide cycle network was made to function.
It's either network first, and then a separation of functions; or isolated pieces of quality infrastructure first, and then join up the pieces. Top-down or bottom-up? It's pointless asking you to supply any evidence that the bottom-up approach would work better, since there isn't any. So we'll just have to agree that one approach is evidence-based, and the other approach is informed by ideology (i.e. wishful thinking).
3. We do appear to be stuck between a rock and a hard place in the UK when it comes to traffic controlled junctions. As you say, if we want/need to have two straight on lanes on our main routes, then we're going to be pushed for space to fit in dedicated turning lanes that provide the desired temporal separation of motor vehicles and bikes/pedestrians.
The Dutch system when it comes to designing these junctions says, start with a big junction and if it doesn't fit, make some compromises by allowing sub-conflicts where the risk is acceptable or by limiting traffic movements (closing junction arms, restricting turns, introducing one-way).
The problem we have in the UK is that our system doesn't cater for allowing sub-conflicts between motor vehicles and bikes/pedestrians. As you say, we're not allowed orange flashing arrows or combined zebra and pedestrian lights (and we have no concept of a bicycle zebra).
I'm not sure if there is a solution that fits within the UK framework. Without allowing sub-conflicts the only solutions are:
* Limiting traffic turning movements
* Restricting the number of through lanes to provide space for turning lanes
* Separating motor and bike/pedestrian light stages temporally rather than spatially (bikes go on motor all red and vice versa)
None of these are a very satisfactory solution for every situation. Without allowing sub-conflicts we're always going to have a sub-optimal set of solutions to pick and choose from, but it's going to be a tough nut to crack.
4. mjemmeson - quite right, I have updated the comment. Thanks for pointing it out. My usual journey is a blast along the A11 and I don't venture into side roads that often!
bikemapper - the whole area is a mess of one-ways and gyratories and the 'A' road classification is pretty arbitrary. This is purely some thinking on my part about an area I don't know well (other than the junction) and one potential reworking of a junction as a 3 arm junction is easier to deal with than a 4-arm.
In practice the whole corridor and indeed parallel corridors need looking at. Evidence is always difficult, but the old LCN approach did not increase levels of cycling much as it concentrated on A-B routes and not how other side routes fed in or out (the dense filtered permeability).
Some early figures from a scheme built under the Sustrans Connect 2 banner (cannot tell you where as I worked on it!)is showing an increase in trips using the route (19,000 new trips attracted to the route projected for 2013 compared to 2009. A modest start, but cycle count data shows the increase in trips and face to face interviews suggest that the sections of the route which are away from traffic either through parks or on cycle tracks are very popular.
We need the dense networks, but we need direct protected routes as well and my post was to explain the difficulties at one junction, let alone a whole route or indeed city!
Paul James - All you state is spot on. The only ideas I have (which need a change in law) are cycle signals (see my recent post!) or perhaps zebra stripes on cycle tracks having the same meaning as regular zebra crossings. Needs a change from the government and a cultural shift.
5. "Evidence is always difficult, but the old LCN approach ..."
I have asked you before not to talk to me about the old LCN. I do not regard it in any way as relevant to the issue under discussion, which is top-down or bottom-up?
When I ask for evidence that the bottom-up approach is the correct one, what I am really asking for is quotes (see here). Such-and-such a person said such-and-such a thing about the value of pursuing a piecemeal approach, for example.
But to say that finding this evidence is "always difficult", is another way of saying, "There is no such evidence."
Just to be clear, I totally accept your view that we need direct protected routes as well as a dense network. But which comes first?
With a top-down approach, the dense network would come first; with a bottom-up approach, the direct protected routes would come first.
I am saying, "Network first, and then a separation of functions." What are you saying?
6. bikemapper - the issue here is how we rework junctions to protect cyclists and how much work will be required to roll the idea out across London - yes that will include a dense network.
As you know, I have to have a foot in both camps and I cannot ignore LCN as in my neck of the woods (Outer London), it is spine for direct travel by bike.
What we need to do is perhaps use the routes which won't be mentioned as boundaries to smaller areas which need to be transformed for access only to vehicles (no through traffic), but dense filtered permeability.
The trouble is, much of the money for the boroughs comes from TfL and they call the shots in terms of providing evidence on use which on the whole doesn't exist.
The Sustrans approach was interesting as they convinced the funders (Big Lottery being the main one) that if we build protected routes (which may be a bit more leisure in Outer London)users will appear and that is where the data (physical counts) is showing it to be true.
As I have stated before, CS2 is simply an extension of LCN12 and both provide direct routes between town centres, but it's quality is poor with very little protection. The bit of LCN12 where I live is not busy like in The City, but I would estimate that where it is on the carriageway, even with advisory cycle lanes, two thirds of cyclists are on the footway - they do not like the traffic.
1. Ranty, I am preparing a blog about the Cycle Superhighways, and I was looking to see what other people had said, and I came across this blog, and I saw that I had commented. I must say that I hardly recognised myself in the comment I made above: I came across as very aggressive, and that's not really me at all. I apologise.
Hopefully you will recognise that my attitude was born of total frustration. We have got such a long way to go in London, and as Dave Horton says:
"We need to develop our visions and move beyond the shame of speaking them. Find our voice. Of course we must compromise – to make cycling big requires working with others, and that inevitably entails compromise. But unless they know what we really stand for, those others can’t know by how much we’re compromising."
And then, as he goes on to say:
"Just one example – the conversion of two lanes of a dual-carriageway’s four into top-notch space for cycling. Howls of protest, obviously. But the prospects of such change have to be higher the more people see them as forming part of an ongoing societal project to re-design our cities away from cars towards bicycles. The more people can see and understand the bigger picture, the more supportive they will be."
I genuinely cannot understand how anyone would think to do differently to what the Dutch and Danes did in the 70s, and the Germans did in the 90s, to wit, plan a network, study it, and then get it up at running by doing as much as possible at least bureaucracy first (that is, says Cycling: the way ahead, all of the installation measures which call for little planning and which are needed to get a network to function may be adopted automatically, "without major risk of error or loss").
Alas! we ain't never going to do it that way for as long as out strategy is informed not by evidence, but by ideology.
I was pushing you hard because obviously your opinion would have some sway. I didn't mean to push you quite so hard as I did, but even so, I notice you still didn't answer my question, which is, very simply, top-down or bottom-up?
2. Apologies for the lack of reply. First, you didn't come across as aggressive as you had reasoning behind the points - for me aggression is where the person has no reasoning!
Top top or bottom up. To be absolutely honest, I don't know. I am a kerbs and tarmac person, not a planner or indeed a well-informed campaigner.
Things have moved on apace in London since this post and as explained in the "about" section of this blog, I am learning! The N-S and E-W superhighways are of course important spines, but I would be the first to accept that they are not making a dense network.
What they (hopefully!) will do is deal with the majority of capacity and technical layout issues in one big hit which will lead to people realising that if it can be done on those streets, it would be a doddle elsewhere.
On the other hand in the day job, I have a good feel of which way the political wind blows and there is definitely a case for bottom up to get little things in which get people use to interventions so when you proposed something more radical, it seems less radical.
Yes, so on the fence to some extent because it depends I guess!
3. Thanks for your reply, Ranty.
You say that the two new Superhighways would "deal with the majority of capacity and technical layout issues in one big hit which will lead to people realising that if it can be done on those streets, it would be a doddle elsewhere."
Alright, okay. I don't much agree with this, but I am not going to argue about it. Okay. But having proved this point, what's on the agenda for the next mayoralty, I wonder? Prove it again? And then, probably, prove it again somewhere else? And so on, and so on, until eventually?
As to your second point, consider some of the comments from aseasyasriding's blog about the Perne Road roundabout:
"No-one ever seems to make the first step towards proper safe cycling infrastructure in the UK or properly designing cities to avoid problems like this from occurring. Rather, designers attempt to resolve large-scale problems by altering one junction at a time."
"It’s about time road designers were held up to the highest professional standards backed up by the scientific method, not whatever passes as the current party political whim."
If the political wind is blowing in the right direction – as it is in Bristol, say, or Brighton – good luck to you. If not, tough titty. As a professional, how would you feel if the political wind was against?
For myself, I would sooner trust to proven strategies than to political winds. The case is that every town and city in this country could at least have a *functioning* cycle network.That wouldn't be difficult.
There is definitely a case for bottom-up, as you say. But why not do bottom-up within the framework provided by a functioning cycle network?
The designer of the Perne Road roundabout said that they could have provided a segregated cycle track around the perimeter, but that there was no off-carriageway infrastructure to link into and no prospect of providing any in the foreseeable future.
If there was a functioning cycle network in place – which there easily could be in Cambridge – easily – he would have been laughed to scorn had he used a similar argument.
There is definitely a case for bottom-up, as you say. But what is the *evidence* for it?
7. Middle of the Road segregated cyclist CENTRE lanes avoid left turn deaths, opening car doors, taxi pick-ups, bus stops, parked police cars, hgv & van deliveries. Placing the cyclist in the middle of the road asserts an esteemed visible dominance that best seperates the responsibilities and procedures of motorist and cyclist. It solves the dangerous manouevre of the cyclist moving from the nearside kerb across the road looking over the shoulder at any oncoming traffic from behind in order to make a right turn! MIDDLE of the road CENTRE lanes use unused dead space taken up by chevrons or 3 metre wide unused pavements as in Piccadilly or Regent St High Holborn Holloway Rd Kensington High St Streatham etc etc. Claim 50 cms of both pavements on TOWER Bridge and create a middle of road segregated CENTRE Lane north going from 4 am to 13.00 and South going 13.01 to 3:59 am. CentreLanes avoid shoppers and pedestrians so politically they won't be so opposed by retail groups and other powerful bodies? CentreLanes use less space than go dutch schemes and are inherently safer In many respects.
8. adam kingdon - trouble is, how will cycles get in and out of the many side roads they want to use - we cannot put traffic signals in at every junction?
9. "In terms of removing traffic capacity - should anyone need to be driving so close to the centre of London other than those moving goods or many people?" Very good point. I would also add infrequent private car trips requiring short-term, relatively expensive car parking, and maybe some fleet parking for essential services. But catering for regular car trips with all day cheap car parking? Those days should be over.
Two other points:
Firstly, "traffic" needs to be re-defined away from its implied car-centricity and be applied to people e.g.
Secondly, transport engineers should be now be focussing on maximising *people* throughput and not solely motor vehicles. I suspect that a road like The Overtoom in Amsterdam (dual tram tracks, dual one-way cycle tracks, footpaths and one lane in each direction for private motor vehicles) has a higher people throughput capacity than the four-lane road traffic control layout that could be fitted in the same space. The Dutch Crow "Design Manual for Bicycle Traffic" Table V19 implies that a 2.5 metre wide cycle path can carry at least 750 bikes per hour, which is a significant fraction of the nominal 1,800 motor vehicles per hour for a single motor vehicle lane (assumed speed 60km/hr which is probably too high for urban areas).
10. Of course, there are other needs for cars in cities - some disabled people for example have no option but to drive.
We have the Traffic Management Act which does define traffic as including cyclists and pedestrians, but is often taken as a proxy for vehicular traffic; but politicians can change who gets priority of course!
Interesting link and one we could all learn from in writing committee papers, especially as we should be giving neutral and factual advice.
1,800 vph is about right, even on a single carriageway road in town - not nice to cycle within or to try and cross.
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President Barack Obama joked with CBS' Steve Kroft that the White House press corps is "incorrigible" when Obama and Hillary Clinton's joint "60 Minutes" interview turned speculation about whether Clinton would run for president in 2016.
Kroft asked Obama if there was a "date of expiration" on his endorsement of Clinton. Obama heaped praise on Clinton during a 30-minute long interview on "60 Minutes" Sunday night. It was Obama's first-ever joint appearance with anyone other than First Lady Michelle Obama.
Neither Obama nor Clinton would speculate on 2016. From the transcript of the relevant part of the interview:
Steve Kroft: What's the, I have to ask you, what's the date of expiration on this endorsement?
Secretary Clinton: Oh, Steve, what-- you know--
Steve Kroft: No, no, I have to ask that question. I mean, come on. You're-- I mean, you're sitting here together. Everybody in town is talking about it already and the inter-- and this is-- it's taking place.
President Obama: You know, Steve, I gotta tell you, the-- you guys in the press are incorrigible. I was literally inaugurated four days ago. And you're talking about elections four years from now.
Secretary Clinton: Yeah, and I am, as you know, Steve, I am still secretary of state. So I'm out of politics. And I'm forbidden from even hearing these questions. I think that, you know, look, obviously the president and I care deeply about what's going to happen for our country in the future. And I don't think, you know, either he or I can make predictions about what's going to happen tomorrow or the next year. What we've tried to do over the last four years is get up every day, have a clear-eyed view of what's going on in the world. And I'm really proud of where we are.
Here's video of the first part of the interview (the exchange from above comes toward the end):
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Statistike bolesti cjepljene i necjepljene djece
Bolesti kod necjepljene djece
Rezultati našeg istraživanja na trenutno 8157 djece pokazuju da su djeca koja se nisu cjepila puno manje oboljevala od uobičajenih bolesti od one djece koja su cjepljena! Budući da su djeca koja su ispitivana većinom bila u dobi 0-2 godine, a te bolesti se obično ne pojavljuju u toj dobi, rezultati su podjeljeni po dobi ispitivane djece. Informacije o nacionalnosti, spolu, dobi, dojenju i ostalim pojedinostima možete pogledati ovdje.
Ako želite sudjelovati u daljnjim istraživanju i dati svoje podatke, možete to učiniti u ovoj anketi.
Najčešće bolesti koje imaju necjepljena djeca
Astma, vručica i neurodermatitis su u današnje vrijeme najraširenije bolesti kod djece. Nedavna istraživanja u Njemačkoj pokazuju slijedeće rezultate kod 17461 djeteta u dobi 0-17 godina ( KIGGS ): 4.7 % ima astmu, 10.7 % vručicu, i 13.2 % neurodermatitis. Ti postoci su nešto drugačiji u drugim zapadnim državama, npr. u SAD-u 6 % ima astmu, dok u Australiji ima 14-16 % ( Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW ).
U našem istraživanju rasprostranjenost astme među necjepljenom djecom je oko 2.5 %, vručice 2.5 % i neurodermatitisa 7 %.
Prema KIGGS-ovom istraživanju, više od 40 % djece između 3-17 godina ima pojačanu osjetljivost na barem jedan alergent ( od 20 testiranih alergenata ), a 22.9 % ih je imalo neku alergiju. Iako nismo vršili krvne pretrage, oko 10 % ispitanih tvrdi da je njihovo dijete imalo alergiju. ( klikni na sliku za povećanje )
Atopija kod necjepljene djece
Detalje možete pogledati ovdje.
ADS, hiperaktivnost, autizam, problemi kod spavanja, problemi koncentracije i migrene
ADS i hiperaktivnost su zastupljeni kod 1-2 % djece u našim ispitivanjima, ADHD u Njemačkoj je 7.9 %, a 5.9 % ih je na granici kojima još nisu dijagnosticirani.
Detalje možete vidjeti ovdje. Postoje slučajevi autizma kod necjepljene djece, kod našeg ispitavanja bilo ih je 4 među svima. Od te četvoro djece, jedno je imalo izrazito veliku koncentraciju žive, aluminija i arsena. Kod drugog djeteta majka je imala visoke razine žive u sebi.
Otitis, sinusna oboljenja, herpes, bradavice, polipi i gljivična oboljenja
KIGGS je pokazao da je 12.8 % djece u Njemačkoj imalo herpes, a 11 % otitis ( upala uha ). Ako to usporedimo sa necjepljenom djecom, možemo primjetiti da je herpes među njima izuzetno rijedak ( manje od 0.5 % ).
Sinusne upale kod malene djece su porasle na visokih 32 % (Albegger KW. Banale Entzüngen der Nase und der Nasennebenhöhlen. In: Berendes J, Link JR, Zöllner F, eds. Hals, Nasen-,OhrenHeilkunde in Praxis und Klinik. Band I. Obere und untere Luftwege. Stuttgart: G Thieme Verlag, 1979: 11.1–11.32.). Kod našeg ispitivanja, manje od 1 % djece je imalo upale sinusa, a oko 2 % ih je imalo samo jednom ili jako jako rijetko.
Kod djece ispod 3 godine bradavice su jako rijetke. Kako bilo, iznad 3 godine ipak se više pojavljuju i postotak raste. Od 4-6 godina, 5-10 % djece ih ima, od 16-18 godina 15-20 %. ( U našim ispitivanju je samo 3 % imalo bradavice.
Detalje možete vidjeti ovdje.
Smanjene motoričke sposobnosti, problemi sa zubima, bolovi kod rasta i skolioza
Detalje možete vidjeti ovdje.
Dijabetes, epilepsija, napadi, neurološka i autoimuna oboljenja, bolesti tiroidne žlijezde
Nacionalni Institut u Americi je izjavio da 23.5 % Amerikanaca boluje od autoimunih oboljenja. Oko 7 % su djeca. Dijabetes je zastupljen 0.2 % u dobi do 20 godina (National Diabetes Fact Sheet). KIGGS analiza je pokazala 3.6 % slučaja epilepsije, dijabetesa 0.1 %, bolesti tiroidne žlijezde 1.7 %.
Detalje možete vidjeti ovdje.
Direktna usporedba KIGGS i ispitivanja (09.2011.):
Izjave roditelja o bolesti svoje djece ( na engleskom ):
“My 3 vaccinated children were sick often during their first 2 years, suffered from ear infections repeatedly for which the doctor was constantly prescribing antibiotics, which would never work on the 1st round. They'd go through 3 separate rounds of antibiotics before the infection would be gone, meanwhile they'd develop diarrhea and candida diaper rash. They got every "bug" that was going around and strep and tonsilitis on several occasions. They all have skin conditions which the doctor has diagnosed as keratosis pylaris. My unvaccinated child has never been sick beyond a slight, short-lived cold. Never had an ear infection and has no skin issues either.”
“He has never had an ear infection or serious illness that required medication and he turned 2 in Dec 2010. Vaccinated kids I know, including my 8 year old, were always sick. Croup, eczema, RSV, Scarlet fever, strep, roseola, thrush, ashthma, food allergies, other allergies, and most of all ear infection after ear infection. Comparing my daughter's health records she was on antibiotics over 14 times her first 2 years of life. She was SOOO sick all the time...doc said it was normal and compared to friends kids it was. Everyone had sick kids ALL the time. It is considered normal in kids under 3. She was not in that argument of picking it up at daycare does not work. I could not take her anywhere of she was sick. Even pneumonia!
"We have three incredibly healthy children in our family that have all grown into highly effective professionals. The children have never had headaches, nosebleeds, vaginal infections, gut issues... none of the common ailments that people believe are normal, but are actually signs of disease."
"My son was born out of hospital at a nurse midwife birthing center 6 min. from a major medical facility, all natural and he has been breastfed up to 2+ yrs of life. He's an incredibly astute young toddler with a very active imagination and great sense of humor. He knows his alphabet and is approaching learning to put together words already. He's amazing and I attribute it to his lack of medical "care" involvement. I'm a health care professional and very attuned to the faults in our system here in the US."
"Trust in strong immune system. Use natural foods diet, homeopathy, vitamin C and herbs to strengthen"
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VAŽNA NAPOMENA: Opisi bolesti i mogući načini liječenja namijenjeni su isključivo informiranju i zdravstvenom prosvjećivanju opće populacije, te nipošto ne zamjenjuju liječničku dijagnozu ili liječenje. Za sve dodatne informacije vezane uz Vaše zdravlje obratite se svojem liječniku. Ovdje navedene informacije sakupljene su iz raznih izvora, stručnih knjiga, interneta, kao i ljudi koji se profesionalno bave liječenjem. Ne odgovaramo za nikakve eventualne posljedice Vašeg liječenja - Vi sami ste odgovorni za svoje zdravlje!!!
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5 things that startups should do to encourage gender diversity at workplace
Workplace diversity can be of competitive advantage. Time and again research and surveys have proven that companies with diverse teams are better poised in decision-making and perform better across functions in the organisation. But bringing women into the boardroom has been a long-drawn challenge for corporates. A majority of organisations have tried to implement measures aimed at increasing gender diversity among senior executives, but very few have achieved notable improvements.
In the startup landscape that is primarily dominated by men in leadership roles, it is heartening to see that women are coming forward and co-creating the startup landscape. It is encouraging to see that the divisions of technology, operations and finance are led by women who are skilled leaders and command domain expertise. When you open yourself up to considering a diverse team, you end up hiring the best people for the right roles. It would be great if the business results can link to equal representation of men and women in the team.
5 things that you should inculcate to ensure equal opportunity to men and women at workplace:
1. Equal opportunity for all: Right mix of inclusion and equality makes good business sense. Since the Founders of most of the startups are well educated global individuals and have worked with organisations, they understand the need forfair amount of representation of women in leadership roles as well as other significant functions running across organization. A lot of women are setting-up enterprises and making a success of it. So it makes sense to provide women the necessary opportunity, mentoring, trust their decisions, align flexible policies wherever needed and see them gleam and shine. Set an example to stand apart and be recognized within the employer community too.
2. Create an Ombudsman for independent grievance handling: We know that financial institutions like Banks have Ombudsman to investigate the grievance/complaint of the customers against any anomaly. Similary, many large corporates like GE, Coca-Colahave a policy where they have appointed an Ombudsman from within the organization to look into grievances of the employees in fair and just manner. If the startups too can create a system where an employee can reach out to the designated person for necessary safeguards for protection of employees from reprisals or victimization, for whistle blowing and redressal in good faith. This will give confidence to the employee that unfair practices will be dealt with severely by the highest authority in the organization and act as a deterrent too.
3.Parity of income, opportunity and promotion: Companies world over are increasingly realizing that the roles and functions are independent of gender and if anyone has the requisite experience, drive and passion to perform, than it is unjust and unfair to hire and pay differentially just because of certain mindset or culture. According to Monster Salary Index (MSI) data from 2016, the current gender pay gap in India stands at 25%, where men earned a median gross hourly salary of Rs 345.8 against women who earned only Rs 259.8. The gap has narrowed by two percentage points from 27.2% in 2015 and is closer to the 24.1% in 2014.As a startup, since one is in the driving seat and can create culture of fair pay and equal treatment for all. This can have a significant positive impact on the business bottom line and sends out the right message to the team as well. The tradeoffcan be increase in loyalty, enthusiasm and transparency across length and breadth of the company. While this is a big agenda, any baby step can make a beginning.
4.Friendly and flexible HR policies: It is often thought that women intend to give-up their careers due to pressing personal issues or demanding work pressure. In reality that is not the case, most of the women intend to stay and make their mark. Since startups are high energy environment with tighter deadlines and quicker burn out ratio, the companies can frame policies to let people work out of home or anywhere they since everyone is connected all the time. Small yet effective policies like buddy program to help people re-join work after career break, short sabbaticals to pursue interest and passions, referral programs to recruit women employees, cross functional moves, paternity leaves can make whole lot of difference.
5. Mentoring for all: Traditionally men have been groomed and mentored for senior level roles, now women are demanding the same to make a smooth transition. This indeed can be a head turner for startups to roll-out the mentorship program for women employees to help them achieve their full potential. Companies than identify the stalwarts in the team and assign a coach or a mentor to them to help the in their personal and professional, they can even identify a program from a renowned institute for a better skill enhancement since different sectors have different talent pipeline and eventually higher growth path.
We have a B2B e-commerce start-up where women represent 30% of the leadership team and are designing means and ways to increase the number of employees across functions in the company. Building teams on equality is key aspect in being productive and in fact have a competitive edge in the market. It is heartening to see companies have started sensitising their teams on the need for inclusion of women across functions including leadership team, women are spearheading crucial functions like product development, engineering, design, finance and sales and proving their mettle in the role of their choice. These are exciting times and startups are leading the road to showcase the change with more open and positive approach paving the way for new future.
[The article has been contributed by Founder & CEO of Moglix]
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Up on the Mountain
Enjoy! I hope you will! Fan+recommend. Thank you my lovelies muah!
1. Up on a Mountain
Upon a mountain, painted brick-red from the sun setting on a wintry horizon where the world can sing all sorts of songs together. The rhythm of the songs beat in my heart. We live near that mountain with walnuts and apples in a one-room kitchenette above the Some Day Liquor Gardens where diverse people come from miles around to dance and sing with us. They see how beautiful we are but beauty is more than a trait, their diversity is most beautiful. People are always here because nobody can make it in this world alone.
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The Norwegian painter Nikolai Astrup is a unique and innovative artist. His paintings feature intense use of color, depicting lush landscapes in the Vestlandet region, as well as the traditional way of life. He was born in 1857 and died in 1956. In his later years, he focused on creating more modern works based on traditional themes. Despite his innovative style, his work remains timeless and is a must-see for art enthusiasts.
Astrup lived and worked in Alhus, where his father served as pastor. He was discouraged from studying at home, so he was sent to his grandmother's school in Trondheim. The boy's enthusiasm for art came before his graduation. He showed no interest in natural science or mathematics, and was often ill. His artistic interests, however, led him to explore the world of art in art galleries. In addition to modern Norwegian landscape art, he was inspired by the art of Norwegian masters of the past.
His works are now regarded as national treasures. The exhibition at KODE, the largest museum of Norwegian paintings, showcases a variety of his work.
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Principles of QF-PCR
Published: June 7, 2017
QF PCR analysis includes amplification, detection and analysis of chromosome-specific DNA sequences known as genetic markers or small tandem repeats (STRs).
Fluorescently labeled marker specific primers are used for PCR amplification of individual markers and the copy number of each marker is indicative of the copy number of the chromosome. The resulting PCR products may be analyzed and quantified using an automated genetic analyzer.
The genetic markers/STRs may vary in length between individual chromosomes and subjects, depending on the number of repeated STRs. The relative copy number of each allele is determined by calculating the ratio of the peak areas or peak heights detected for each marker.
A normal diploid sample has the contribution of two of each of the investigated chromosomes. Two alleles of a chromosome specific marker are detected as two peaks in a 1:1 ratio when the marker is heterozygous and as one peak when the marker is homozygous (have alleles of same length). The detection of an additional allele as three peaks in a 1:1:1 ratio or as two peaks in a 2:1/1:2 ratio indicates the presence of an additional marker copy possibly corresponding to an additional chromosome, as in the case of trisomy. Subjects who are homozygous or monosomic for a specific marker will display only one peak.
The inability of STR marker analysis to distinguish subjects who are homozygous or monosomic is a major shortcoming when testing for sex chromosome abnormalities. When STRs specific for chromosome X are used, some samples from normal XX females may show homozygous QF PCR patterns, indistinguishable from those produced by samples with a single X, as in Turner syndrome. Incorporating additional X-chromosome STR markers into the analysis will reduce but not eliminate the likelihood of homozygosity. To facilitate the detection of monosomy X the Devyser QF PCR kits include X-chromosome counting markers for relative quantification of chromosome X to an autosomal chromosome.
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Topic Title: TUTORIALS: Titanium: The green metal for the 21st century
Topic Summary: G. Chen, University of Nottingham. PPT presentation of FFC Cambridge Process for electrochemical reduction of TiO2
Created On: 10/29/2007 1:04 PM
10/29/2007 1:04 PM
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On-board hydrogen storage has not yet reached beyond 6 wt%, suggesting a longer time for commercially viable hydrogen powered vehicles to battle against global warming. The situation would not have been so constraining if car manufacturers replaced steel components by titanium ones because both are similarly strong, but titanium is 40 % lighter (and more corrosion resistant). A lighter titanium car would allow additional load capacity for the heavy hydrogen storage system. However, titanium (~$8000/tonne-sponge from the Kroll Process) is far more expensive than steels (~$150/tonne-steel from carbothermic reduction with CO2 emission) for automobile applications. Titanium can find many other applications, such as chemical processes and devices, if only the metal could be made cheaper.
William Kroll, the inventor of the industrial titanium extraction process, predicted in early 1950s that titanium should be made cheaper by electrolysis in 15 years. Half a century later, more affordable titanium is indeed being promised by the development of the accidentally discovered FFC (Fray-Farthing-Chen) Cambridge Process in the past decade. This presentation explains this new process in terms of technical innovation and scientific principles with emphases on the reduction of CO2 emission from, and economical impact on the metallurgical and automobile industry.
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Fast/Tender Beef (Meat)
This page isn't a recipe, although it is concered with food and cooking. It does divide into 2 rough parts, that concerned with the speed of cooking, and that about how to make meat tender.
Cooking Speed
For any small piece of meat, the cooking time depends on how long that piece of meat is at the cooking temperature. Lower temperatures require longer times. In cooking, there are often a few different minimum temperatures which need to be considered.
Food safety as practised by most people is a relative term. Only labs can do things like culturing to actually measure bacterial counts. Bacteria is the typical thing we are worried about, although things like parasites and poisons might also be involved. A rule of thumb to get you started is that most of the things we are worried about like to live at temperatures similar to our body temperature. At higher temperatures we can kill them, and lower temperatures usually put things to sleep/hibernation. In food science, they are asking that we either keep the temperature below 4C (40F) or above 60C (140F). The colder temperature is significantly below what any comfortable room temperature might be, and the higher temperature is higher than the warmest temperature on Earth (near equator).
The safest way to cook food is to obtain some minimum temperature. The typical recommendation is to reach at least at least 63C (145F). and we want to minimize the length of time the food is cooler than 60C (140F). Cooking food until some kind of colour change happens (beef turns brown for example) is not a safe way to cook. The chemical reactions that change the colour of beef happen faster than the ones which call any dangerous organisms, so you can find meat that "looks" cooked, but is still unsafe.
These cooking recomendations are largely assuming the meat has not been penetrated (pierced) in any way, so that any bacteria (pathogens in general) are only on the surface. If we are cooking the center of the meat to 62C, the surface is expected to get considerably warmer than this. Cooking meat that has been pierced (flavour injectors and inserting garlic are examples) or ground (hamburger) or cut up (leftovers) requires cooking to 74C (165F) in general.
Contrary to expectations, the colour of meat isn't an indicator of "doneness", usually measured on the rare - medium - well-done scale. If meat is held at 75C for a long time (say for example, bagged in a water bath for 30 minutes) the meat will be well-done but still red in colour.
So, we cook our meat to attain some magic temperature at the center of the meat. Meat closer to the surface will have been heated to a higher temperature. If we want to cook meat faster, the biggest trick is to get that center of the meat closer to the surface. Meat that looks like a sphere or a cube takes longer to cook, than meat which looks like a disc (steak). Bone conducts heat better than muscle does (the meat), so a piece of meat with a bone in it might cook like a thinner piece of meat. In the microwave, this isn't necessarily true.
The other part of the fast cooking problem, is getting the heat to the meat. Air is a good insulator and has little thermal mass. If we want to cook meat fast, we need to minimise how much air the heat has to pass through. The typical way most people do this is to fry foods, so we are conducting heat across oil instead of air. What is usually a better medium for cooking is water. Poaching is one technique employing water for cooking. Steaming is another method employing water. If we put the water under pressure, we raise the boiling temperature, and can further reduce cooking times. Adding salt will also raise the boiling temperature, but this may then introduce salt to the meat, which might not be desired.
If we are cooking meat in water, probably the best method is to put the meat, and any flavouring agents, inside a sealed bag with no air in the bag. That way the large excess of water doesn't "disolve flavour" from the meat. Another method is to flavour the water.
So, fast cooking would indicate that the thickness of the meat be the same as "bite size", and we bag the meat before we cook it in boiling water. The boiling water could be salted or pressurised. The problem with bagging meat however, is that finding out the internal temperature punctures the bag. If we bagged a few "test samples", we could puncture them instead, as long as they are all the same thickness. You want enough water that the bags don't touch the bottom (and melt) or stick to each other.
Tenderising Meat (Beef)
Tenderising meat is about breaking up the structure of the meat. Grinding meat into hamburger is probably the ultimate in tenderising.
Your butcher probably makes something called minute steak, which is a thin piece of meat which looks beat up. You can also beat up the meat yourself. You do want to use something clean. One recommendation is to use something which looks more like an array of small sword than a hammer, to put a bunch of small nicks in the thin cut of meat. You would apply this piece of equipment across the meat in 2 perpendicular directions on both sides, thoroughly nicking the meat.
Some cuts of meat, such as flank steak, have a pronounced grain to them. All the muscle fibers run in a common direction. You will end up with a more tender product, if you cut the meat against (across) the grain after cooking. Cutting it thinly across the grain is better than cutting it thickly across the grain.
There are a few kinds of fruit which can chemically tenderise meat. Papaya might be the best known. I think Kiwi is probably the most effective, half a kiwifruit can tenderise up to 5 pounds of beef. Pineapple is a mild tenderiser. Figs are even less potent as a tenderizer. Apparently pears have a tenderising enzyme, but I don't know which one. The enzymes responsible do not diffuse well in meat, and only tenderise the meat they diffuse into. If the cooking temperature doesn't get high enough, the enzyme may not be completely broken down, which can give you some surprises in the leftover department. Papaya can requires temperatures as high as 85C (185F) to neutralise it. Most of the chemical tenderisers also make use of acids, typically vinegar, but could be lemon juice (citric acid) or other food acids. Acids will denature proteins, which is part of the tenderising process. Alcohol (ethanol) will also denature proteins, but not as effectively as acids. Wine would be the typical marinade ingredient using alcohol.
Aging (especially dry again) can tenderise meat. However, keeping meat around for long periods of time uncovered requires clean conditions. And you lose meat, as the overdry outside "husk" gets cutoff before cooking. Aging is done at low temperatures, below 4C (40F) and above freezing. Meat freezes at a temperature slightly less than 0C (32F), but not a lot below 0C.
Cooking tough meats for a long time will tenderize them. Stews are a great way to make use of tough meat.
For those who are extremely adventurous, apparently the shock wave of an explosion will tenderise meat. This method needs to be used with care if you actually want to have some meat to cook. :-)
With almost all of these tenderising methods, we are perforating the meat. The meat must then be cooked to 74C (165F). Just say no to the idea of rare or medium cooked meat that has been tenderised. Acids will "cook" a food at room temperature, but I have no guidance as to how acids substitute for temperature in cooking food safety of meat.
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ronnie picks rose petals
and eats them, chews the pink yellow
in his cigarette teeth. his sister, peggy,
asks how they taste, and he says, "good,
like whimsy and perfume," and picks three petals
fat with pigment and water; she tastes the first
and likes the second and the third is the sweet on her tongue
when ronnie dies of liver failure. she eats the reddest
blooms on his casket.
if tommy were a girl and jenny
a boy, the children would be perfect:
tommy with impish nose and nymph hands,
jenny rumbling with the rooneys from new city,
and mother frets for both their blond[e] heads.
peggy buys the twins paletas, and ronnie
stays with grandpa, most days. he comes home
and tells jenny they're blackfoot: she could have
been a warrior woman, and tommy a medicine man,
and mother wouldn't fret when tommy kissed jason.
ronnie is sixteen and thin.
willy is the youngest boy and clings to skirts,
plays with dolls because eva smothered him. tommy
pushes him down the stairs when jenny will call him faggot
if he doesn't; willy cries until his eyes look like cracked eggs
and tommy takes him outside to play beneath the fire escape.
they toke, fingers shaking because mother might smell
from her incessantly open window, but she smells delinquents
and yells names that aren't her children's.
"tommy, my head feels funny."
"yeah. that's the good part."
eva lives with her husband and visits
because mother is overwhelmed; eva
looks like austria, eva speaks her mother's severe,
eva was the beauty queen and tells peggy she looks
pretty when she braids her hair. "we're lakota, you know,
from our father's side. he was a war hero."
"we're blackfoot." peggy smooths eva's bleached hair with oil.
"ronnie says we're blackfoot."
"ronnie's a moron." but ronnie talks to grandpa,
and eva leaves when evening falls.
tommy overdoses; peggy sold him his first hit,
and jenny married a rooney. eva attended the wedding
but only held their first son. the other two were square
like ronnie in manhood: ruddy-faced and stout, grounded.
willy is sixteen and thin.
jason stands at ronnie's funeral, watching
peggy nibble and sob. he touches her shoulders
and she looks at him. "you came?"
"tommy was close to him."
"i know he was. everyone was close
to ronnie, and i'm sorry about tommy,
i'm sorry i didn't come. i'm sorry eva didn't
come. i'm sorry jenny came but with rooney
slurring his thick tongue and beat sons;
i'm sorry, i'm sorry for pollen and florists
and germination and dead flowers. i'm sorry
you loved him, and i'm sorry. i'm sorry."
she quivers in sallow skin, chewing.
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Bernoulli's equation and a stream of water
1. Jul 28, 2008 #1
A continuous stream of water is flowing out of a faucet and falling into a sink below. Explain why this stream of water is narrower at the bottom (near the sink) than at the top (near the faucet). Hint: Think about the change in velocity and the change in pressure as the water falls.
2. Relevant equations
3. The attempt at a solution
As the water falls the velocity should increase so the pressure should decrease. Wouldn't a decrease in pressure cause the water to spread out near the bottom?
2. jcsd
3. Jul 28, 2008 #2
Note that in Bernoulli's equations you have K/V and U/V on both sides, K being kinetic energy, U being potential energy, and V being volume. delta(K) = -delta(U); taking that into account, P1 = P2.
There is a continuous volume flow for ideal fluid flow. So A1v1 = A2v2. At the bottom, v2 > v1 and so A2 < A1.
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How Is Jealousy a Pervasive Theme in ''the Lady or the Tiger?" ?
How is jealousy a pervasive theme in ``The Lady or the Tiger?`` ?
Jealousy is a theme that is present throughout the story ‘’The lady or the Tiger?’’. Written by Frank R. Stockton in 1882, The Lady or the Tiger is a very famous short story about consequences of your actions, jealousy and decisions. The emotion of jealousy permeates the society in which the story is occurring in the 18th century. In the story, there are three ways that jealousy supports this thesis. First, the king is jealous of his daughter’s happiness. Secondly, jealousy is a feeling that is sometimes accompanied by sadness, anger and disgust. Finally, jealousy is mainly perceived by the princess’s character in the story.
Main point 1:
The king expresses jealousy towards his daughter’s happiness.
• Detail: The king subjects his daughter’s lover to judgment in the public arena.
• Explanation: The king disapproves of the relationship between his daughter and the lover.
• Detail: The king loves his daughter more than anything else in the world.
• Explanation: He wants to keep her close to him and won’t let anything hurt her.
• Quotation: ‘’(…) she was the apple of his eye, and was loved by him above all humanity’’
The father of the princess showed he felt jealousy but not only that. Jealousy is an emotion that can be linked to other feelings also.
Main point 2:
Jealousy is often accompanied by feelings of anger, sadness and disgust.
• Detail: The daughter is very sad about the king’s decision to judge her lover.
• Explanation: She still has very strong feelings for her lover and wishes for their relationship to continue.
• Quotation: This royal maiden was well satisfied with her lover, for he was handsome and brave to a degree unsurpassed in all...
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Saturday, October 22, 2016
Forgiveness For Personal Growth
People, as we all know, are subject to corruption. We are capable of error and known to be fallible in general. What's new there though? It's part of something most people call the "Human Condition" (though I posit that it applies to all living creatures).
However, we do have things we can do about those conditions. We have idealism. We have integrity and self discipline. Those are skills that must be practiced in order for them to help us but we do have them.
One of the bigger problems many people seem concerned about is the "What If" and "Now What?" Basically, they want to do when they realize they are likely to err or have realized that they have erred or to what extent.
What do we have to help us become better people at those times?
We have appreciation and we have forgiveness. Those are both very powerful influences on our constant effort at becoming or maintaining being better people.
Appreciation seems to be the more simple of the two. It really is having the knowledge of the situation and that it has happened to others and that it is not insurmountable. From experience AND appreciation, we gain wisdom.
Forgiveness is something special though. Forgiveness requires appreciation. IT also comes in multiple forms. There is forgiving oneself, an important and necessary thing. There is forgiving others for two things. Something that directly affected you and something that indirectly affects you if it affects you at all.
For example, In forgiving ourselves, we first need to recognize and appreciate that we erred and that we are not alone in our error. Everyone makes errors in various degrees but no one is exempt from them. What are these "errors" I am talking about? Depending on who you talk to they call them different things. Christians and others like them refer to them as "Sins". Personally I find it a bit dramatic but point remains that these are things we as people are susceptible to.
Greed, Envy, Laziness, Undisciplined, Recklessness, miserly-ness, Being "hot-headed", Thievery, those kinds of things. We engage in these things all the time. Many times they are petty infractions and harm no one except perhaps yourself. Sometimes they are much more serious things and harm not only yourself but others around you.
Sometimes the errors we make, the "sins" we commit", are accidental or incidental. Sometimes they are more egregious and intentional. The degree, scope and scale may change from person to person and situation to situation but every person is subject to being errant.
Once we identify that we have erred we need to appreciate the error. I don't mean in a positive "Ooh look what I've done." kind of appreciation but an, "Ah, I see what happened there. Hmm, I see how it got to that point and where missteps were made."
Once we can truly appreciate what our error has been, we can then forgive ourselves in that we acknowledge that A) we regret what we have done, B) we are determined to correct it and C) we make amends for what we have done, if amends can be made.
Keep in mind, acknowledging our "human condition" is not an excuse to err or to shrug our shoulders and make no efforts to improve and learn from errors. It is only part of the acknowledgment and appreciation of what we are and how we find ourselves in these situations.
When we can earnestly forgive ourselves, sometimes it is not enough. Sometimes we seek others forgiveness in order to move forward and make progress. No one is entitled to forgiveness. Often it must be earned by demonstrating regret, intent to improve and making amends to someone who has been harmed, particularly if it the one who has been harmed that we seek forgiveness from.
Sometimes in order to forgive ourselves, we need to know that we can be forgiven by others who can appreciate the human condition. If someone else can find it in themselves to forgive us, we can then see our way to forgiving ourselves and begin the journey of learning from the experience, working to improve and make the necessary amends.
Christians and other religious groups have the same concepts, they just use different words to express them. Where I say "appreciate", they say "attrition", Where I say to identify improvement on that error or fault within us, they say "contrition". Lastly, where I discuss making amends, they say "atonement".
The difference, if any, is that other groups may call not only for doing those things for yourself or other people, they would say those things need to be done because God was affected or offended an needs to be shown the same.
Topixqui as we are, already have the understanding that God has full appreciation of the "human condition" (though we don't limit it to just humans). After all, God made things as they are with full knowledge of what will and does happen. They were made to happen in the way they do so that we can learn to be better people. He requires nor desires any atonement from us because that's not the point of our being here. We are here specifically so that we can err and then learn from it. By learning from these experiences, we can then become more like God in being capable and have a more true understanding of life.
Appreciation and Forgiveness are very important tools for us. They allow us to see the errors of our ways, to understand those errors for what they are are and how to improve and then to carry out that improving of ourselves.
A topixqui like myself is available to listen to other people and help them to appreciate the situation. We might then, if desired and requested, give our own forgiveness and make suggestions as how to improve and make amends.
A topixqui does not ever imply that this process is required or must be complied with in order to receive any other assistance from us. That's not how we work. We are the shelter in the storm. We are the guide on a path and we are a host in times of respite and learning.
Should you ever find yourself "stuck" in a situation where you are in a rut of a bad habit or desire to change the ways you feel have led you down a wrong path, we are here to help.
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Coronavirus update 5-15
Governor’s Office Daily COVID-19 Q & A
May 15, 2020
Restore Illinois
Q: When the plan discusses a “gathering,” is it a gathering in the same building or the same room? For example, what if there is a church or center with multiple rooms and there are 10 or less in each room? A: The limit on gatherings is meant to protect from the risk of infection since the more time spent with a person with COVID-19 in close quarters, the more likely it is that the disease will be transmitted, and the more people in a room the higher the risk that someone may have COVID-19. Depending on the size and configuration of a building and its rooms, it is possible that more than one 10-person gathering could occur within a single building (such as school building with many classrooms). However, the guidance remains to keep gatherings to the fewest number possible with social distancing and no more than 10 people in proximity to each other.
Q: Legislators are actively engaged in trying to help people who have issues with the Illinois Department of Unemployment Security (IDES) system and have been reaching out to the department’s liaison and with only one person actively answering legislator questions it takes a few days to receive a response. Has the agency thought about adding additional legislator contacts in regards to constituent unemployment issues?
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1 Night 2 Days S3 Ep 146 Extra Debate
Topic: You’ve come to discover that your girlfriend, whom you’ve been dating a long time, is two timing you with your friend. What will you do?
Has someone been watching Jealousy Incarnate? Ha.
For TaeHyun, he’ll cut ties with both his friend and the girlfriend. JongMin cuts in, disagreeing, saying that it sounds too much like a sad and pitiful story.
Why? Because the woman is too pitiful. JunHo and Defconn don’t understand at all and criticize him but DongGu asks why she should be pitied. JongMin’s answer is because the woman too, is sick. What?
JunHo gets terribly confused, asking what sickness she has and JongMin replies that she has sickness of the heart. Uh… Defconn asks just what’s the relationship between the heart and cheating.
JongMin feels that a woman not being able to erase the other one in her heart is not necessarily 100% the woman’s fault. He says that rather than think that the woman is bad no matter what, it’s better to think that there’s a reason she’s acting this way.
TaeHyun asks him what he’ll do then and he asks if he really has to answer that. Pfffft. They all point to the last line in the question and so he answers, “break up with everyone!” HAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!
JunHo would throw both love and friendship away. No, he’ll throw love away… and then when that friend gets a girlfriend, he’ll date her. PFFTHWAHAHHAHA!
“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth! I’m going to have my revenge!”
I can’t believe him, HAHAHHA! And even JongMin agrees with his thought process! But then TaeHyun breaks his day dream and asks him how sure he is that he’ll be able to get that girlfriend, heh.
JunHo replies that he’ll manage himself well, and his skin too… pfft.
Defconn notes that the question never says if she’s dating anyone else, meaning that there’s a possibility that she’s not just a two-timer but a three-timer, four-timer and because Korean actually use the word “legs” instead of the word “timer” here, he even throws in an octopus, heh. So his method is to find all those other guys quietly and reveal just what kind of woman she is with a bang.
Then JongMin cuts in to ask that he doesn’t have such an experience before right? HA. TaeHyun mutters that it sounds like he only watched dramas (and thus doesn’t have real-life experience or understanding), heheh. JunHo goes towards the question paper and then points to the words, “long-time” and “dating” and says that Defconn has neither, hee.
JongMin shares that he had such an experience before, when he was younger. A friend had introduced a girl to him and so they “dated”. But then when he went to his friend’s house to play, his friend was on the phone with the girl and that night, that friend told him that he and that girl liked each other. Are you JungWon? Pfft.
Totally absorbed, TaeHyun asked him what he did… and JongMin replied that he cried. HAHAHHA! Aw. He really cried a lot!
He’s still in contact with the friend but when they tell him to contact that friend, he answers that that friend is now living in Vietnam. What? Vietnam is close to Thailand! (Sorry for all the Jealousy Incarnate references if you haven’t watched that show.)
He tells the others that his friend and that woman broke up, and the woman had told him not to meet his friend or her anymore. What? That’s so selfish.
JunHo asks JongMin if that girl has seen his friend and JongMin replies that he doesn’t know. JunHo: “they’ll meet.” AKA, they’re gonna meet again without him knowing and DongGu, who’s been quiet this whole time, adds, “even now”. HAHAH.
Defconn tells him to share his opinion and DongGu says that so far, they’ve all been saying the same thing – breaking up. But actually, the important thing is… and Defconn interrupts to to say that even then, there’s no other choice other than to kill them both, HAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAAA! TaeHyun laughs that he’s watched a lot of bad dramas and Defconn bursts out, yeah, he did! Then JunHo insists on having revenge. Pfft.
DongGu says that morally, she’s definitely wrong, but adds that love can’t be judged by morals. Oohhh…
He says that since it’s the woman he loves and the friend he likes, he’ll just push them together and back out.
TaeHyun then asks about making the woman choose between the friend and him. Heh. Since he knows about everything, why not just choose and end it cleanly and JunHo does the Korean equivalent of eenie-meenie-minie-moe, HAHAHHA.
He and JunHo stand to demonstrate how they’ll make her choose and then JunHo asks for a moment. They should have time to charm and attempt to appeal to her! HAAAAA!
JongMin laughs that the method of solving it is really clean. JunHo agrees, telling the girl to just choose and the captions tell us that that’s the Variety way, heh. Lightly.
TaeHyun just says that if she chooses him, then they’ll just continue to date, but DongGu adds that a person who cheats will… surely cheat again. JongMin agrees, adding that even the person who got cheated on will start getting suspicious.
That stuns everyone. Then TaeHyun asks if that happened to him, haha. But JongMin is serious this time. Because of the hurt he/she’d received, it’s best to get over the problem fast.
He then adds that since no one’s broken the law (and JunHo cuts in to ask if he’s done anything like that too before, haha!), it’s better that they just let go of/solve it well.
(Why does the sound quality suddenly worsen towards the end… =.=|||)
10 thoughts on “1 Night 2 Days S3 Ep 146 Extra Debate
1. thanks for trans..aww such pity this get cut from broadcast but glad they still share 😛
maybe because cheating topis too heavy for variety lol
Jong Min sure is real life Jung Won
2. Oh wow thanks for posting this and translating the whole comversation 🙂 I saw the note in the actual episode informing us to go online to watch more debates. I’m delighted to find it here. Thank you. 😃
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Remember the "New" Teen Titans: Kid Flash
It's been a month since my special look back at the classic 1980's Wolfman/Perez New Teen Titans series left off, so sorry for the delay, and here we go again with a look back at the young hero who ultimately became the third scarlet speedster to be called the Flash.
Wally West is the nephew of Iris West (and therefore, Barry Allen's nephew by marriage), he was first introduced in The Flash vol. 1, #110 (1959). When Wally was about ten years old, he visited the Central City police laboratory where Barry Allen worked, and the freak accident that originally gave Allen his powers repeated itself, bathing Wally in electrically-charged chemicals. Suddenly possessing the same powers as The Flash, West donned a smaller version of Barry's Flash outfit and became the young crime-fighter known as Kid Flash.
Wally soon adopted a slightly different, yellow-and-red outfit with his hair exposed, and became a founding member of the original Teen Titans, along with fellow sidekicks Robin and Aqualad. Always something of a straight-shooter from rural America, Kid Flash sometimes felt out of place alongside more flamboyant heroes such as Speedy and Wonder Girl.
As a young adult, West was present when the Titans reconstituted as the New Teen Titans, but he eventually discovered that his powers were failing and even damaging his body. He retired from crime-fighting until a cure could be found for his condition. However, Wally was called into action again by the Crisis on Infinite Earths event, in which his uncle Barry Allen had vanished. As a side effect of the energies he was exposed to during that adventure, West's powers stabilized. However, he could no longer run at the same extraordinary speeds as his uncle. Wally’s powers were limited to the speed of sound and he had to eat vast quantities of food to maintain his metabolism. He chose to retire his Kid Flash identity and adopted the costume and name of the Flash to honor his uncle and maintain their heroic legacy. He did, however, make his identity public knowledge in order to keep from replacing Barry Allen in the minds of the public. This made him the first sidekick to actually take on the name (and role) of his mentor.
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Sunday, August 31, 2014
Men's Frock Coat
From the seller:
RARE Gents European Brown Silk Embroidered Tail Coat ca 1750
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This gorgeous gents coat is made from a light brown silk satin and is heavily embroidered in pastel silk floss. It has a full skirt in back, pocket flaps and deep cuffs. It's trimmed with embriodered silk buttons. Underarms are very slightly discolored, some embroidery loss, mostly on some buttons, both elbows mended, a few small frayed spots mainly in seams, lining soiled and worn at the back of the neck area. De-accessioned from the Met. Museum of Art. It measures 34 inches around the chest, across the back shoulder is 14 1/2 , sleeve is 23 and it's 42 inches long. I think it's in great condition for the age and a real beauty to add to a collection.
From Me:
I'm all about those cuffs! They still have the earlier styling to them but the coat itself is taking on the style that would be popular well into the late 18th century.
1. How does an average Joe get their hands of an 18th century frock coat that was deaccessioned from the Met?? And then sell it on Ebay?!?!
1. There was a HUGE auction a few years back where the Met de-accessioned like half their textile inventory. I actually have one or two pieces that they once owned thanks to that auction. I think it was way back in 2011?
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It’ll Happen
I wish I understood you.
I wish I didn’t have to try.
I’m sick of second guessing.
I’m sick of asking why.
I can’t wait to go home.
I can’t wait to say goodbye.
But when you’re gone,
I miss you as the days go by.
You don’t need to do anything,
You won’t even have to try.
It starts in your stomach.
You feel it begin to boil.
Your muscles begin to clench.
Your teeth grind together.
Your fists are suddenly balled.
Your heart is pounding so hard you can feel it in your ears.
Your senses have never been this sharp.
Your body is vibrating with adrenaline.
You’re ready to attack.
You launch yourself at him.
Your iron fists collide with his jaw.
You see blood fly across the room in slow motion.
That one punch would have been enough to knock him out cold.
But you cannot and will not stop yourself.
You feel invincible.
You pick him back up and your attack is merciless.
You use every single limb in your body to destroy him.
You hear the wet thump of your fist connecting with his bloodied face over and over again.
You feel his hot blood spray across your face.
You feel a shudder.
You look down, your chest heaving, your arms still curled up, ready to annihilate any sign of life.
You see before you a tangled mass of bone blood and skin.
You drop his lifeless body on the ground.
You are bathed in his blood, its dripping all around you.
It trickles down your face, past your lips.
You slowly lick it off.
Warm, metallic, tangy and oddly sweet.
Whiskey Is Risky
17 years and 364 days had passed.
It was bitterly cold and I was cold and bitter.
I needed to get out.
Two phone calls and a car ride later we were sitting in his room,
admiring a bottle of black label.
We went up to the roof to look at the stars.
There were none.
One sip. two sip. three sip. four.
The layers came off,
the rest was a blur.
A mixture of ecstasy and shame.
A moment of clarity.
An almost empty bottle lying on the floor.
Before I knew it I was home.
Swaying and willing myself to hold the whiskey in.
An eternity in a spinning elevator can make you sick to your stomach.
I wiped my mouth and stood under the shower with all my clothes on.
At twelve my phone began to ring.
Over and over again.
I couldn’t even open my eyes.
Everything went black.
I woke up the next morning still drunk from the night before,
to flashes of clinking glasses and clumsy bodies writhing on the floor
My initiation into adulthood was complete.
I was fucked.
No one ever knows who you really are.
You try to show them how you see yourself and in return they show you how they see you.
The picture they paint is rosy.
The qualities they see scare you because you think they don’t actually exist.
You find yourself wanting to fit into the mould their expectations have set.
So you try.
Self improvement is great…
Just as long as you remember to stop becoming once in a while, and just be.
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August 3, 2009
Look at what my balcony has provided me with! I am so proud of my tomato plant! (yeah the big ones split and not all that edible but it's still a tomato!)
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1. This is from the same tomato plant that you thought was dying!! Yay!!!
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A Literary Tour de France
Neuchâtel, where the STN had its printing shop and headquarters, was the main city in the Swiss principality of Neuchâtel, which had governed itself under the suzerainty of Prussia since 1707. The city’s geographical position favored commercial connections in Northern Europe through the Rhine and in Southern Europe through the Rhône. The STN also shipped many of its books into France through passes in the Jura Mountains, which formed the French-Swiss border immediately to its West. One route led through the rugged “Trou de Bourgogne”, visible in the background of this engraving from 1780.
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Page last updated at 10:50 GMT, Thursday, 21 June 2007 11:50 UK
Eyesore or gem: Milton Court
Milton Court
(Picture: Sarah Duncan)
Five controversial buildings - should they stay or go?
The Barbican is one of the UK's most controversial collections of buildings, a massive concrete city within a city, squatting in an area of London flattened during World War II.
Should Milton Court face the wrecking ball?
No, it should stay
Yes, it should go
I don't know
6699 Votes Cast
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion
Its famous arts centre has been voted London's ugliest building, but the fanatical support of residents in the complex and its Grade II-listed status means its future is assured. It remains a symbol of the previous generation's efforts to change the way we live through architecture, a concept still cherished by some, but loathed in equal measure.
But before the Barbican was built, there was a little brother. Milton Court, designed by the same architects, housed both a fire station and a weights and measures office. Now much of its structure is deserted, and it is heading for demolition.
Milton Court
The structure has echoes of Le Corbusier (Picture: Sarah Duncan)
Owned by the City of London, it will make way for a block containing tuition and rehearsal space for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as well as flats. Unlike its celebrated brother, Milton Court is unlisted, but campaigners are still trying to save it.
Here Eva Branscome, of the Twentieth Century Society, argues it is an important building that can be rescued by redevelopment, while architect Guy Booth, says Milton Court is symptomatic of the bad, egotistical architecture of the 1960s and 1970s and should be flattened.
We have been worried about this building since it was not listed together with the rest of the Barbican in 2001. It has been at risk of demolition ever since.
It was the first phase of the Barbican development but was built as an island site that is connected to the residential development via a footbridge. This position has made it extremely vulnerable and there are now plans to demolish this really outstanding concrete structure.
Milton Court was designed in 1959 by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon who had first designed the Golden Lane Estate and then went on to build the Barbican. This was its first phase. It is an extremely important building in its own right, entirely apart from the role it plays as a part of the already Grade II-listed Barbican Complex.
The public services of the building - fire station, coroner's court, office of weights and measures, civil defence school and mortuary - are successfully integrated within its architectural form, as well as the residential component and public walkways.
This was later explored further at the Barbican on a much larger scale. The scale and facade design of the building, as well as the way that its concrete mass appears to hover over the pilotis [columns that raise the structure above ground level] show a striking similarity to the work of influential modern architect Le Corbusier. This is a highly sculptural building with an exciting and restless interplay of mass and space.
We are not saying that this building has to remain completely unchanged in form or function. On this site there is a lot of flexibility because there is the courtyard of the former fire station that was a part of the original use. In addition to the existing building and on top of the new facilities for the planned music school, 35,000 square feet of residential space could easily be created within a new drum-shaped glass structure.
The Barbican proper is safe
Assael Architects have come up with just such a sleek and contemporary design. They have chosen a shape and material that is in striking contrast to the brutalist concrete building by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon - a highly successful scheme that shows that there is scope to develop and even enhance Milton Court.
It is completely possible to accommodate the City of London's brief within the existing site and without tearing down Milton Court in doing so. It is an incredibly wasteful approach to simply dispose of an excellent and viable building in the name of profit-making.
There is no doubt that Milton Court contributes significantly to the fabric and historic context of the City and we consider it a major oversight the building has not yet been placed under historic protection. We had recommended that it be listed last summer and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport is still considering whether to do so or not.
Never mind saving this building, blow it out of the ground.
You have this pink concrete frame that has this top floor on pilotis. The fenestration [distribution of windows] down below doesn't work. It is as dull as dishwater.
[Grand Designs presenter] Kevin McCloud said 'in the shifting sands of city building, it looks like an eroded boulder, a sculpted lump of igneous rock'. But if this is sculpture, it is sculpture in a ditch.
It is out-scaled by the rest of the Barbican. It was a try-out, but now nearly 45 years later, I would have the thing ripped down. It doesn't contain beautiful cafes and restaurants. It's just a non-space.
Milton Court
Demolition and replacement beckons (Picture: Sarah Duncan)
The theory of modernism was more powerful than the practical result. The theory was superb but a lot of it was politically motivated by communists. Socialist theory said this would be great architecture and this is how people will live. Rarely do these master plans ever work.
You had these reinforced concrete blocks, and the problem is that in England things go green in the winter because it goes slimy.
You go into a building and there is this acreage of open plan non-entity. You look out of a window and there is this dead pigeon on a concrete slab. That is what Milton Court ended up as being. It never, ever was attractive to people.
What architects wanted to do by the mid-1970s was get away from this and make human corners. You go into a building and it's cosy and lovely and human. Successful modern shopping centres have cosy corners where you can sit down and have a coffee.
It doesn't matter as an architect how much money you are earning and how many prizes you win, if you haven't got the human touch. The architects [of the era] were so arrogant, they just wanted to get in the architecture glossies. It is all for other architects to look at. It is a backslapping society.
The Barbican always reminds me of a giant reinforced concrete club sandwich with skewers sticking out of it. The Barbican has a certain mystique, but Milton Court doesn't. It has no mystique whatsoever.
Let's just take some good photographs, put them in an album and get the thing razed to the ground and do something amazing that is going to last. Milton Court is totally separate from the Barbican so it can have surgery... the bulldozers.
Below is a selection of your comments:
Keep it... of course if one had any confidence in the architects profession to replace it with something better....but they don't buildings that ordinary people might like do they, only stuff that might win applause from their peers and a mention in their trade mags.
Michael Beaman , London
These buildings should have a special list naming them for what they really are - Structural Sin!
Barry Watson, Glasgow
I used to work in London around the corner from the Barbican. The whole place is a mess - a total eyesore. Time for a change and into the modern world.
Dave Burgess, Australia
As Guy Booth says, it doesn't fit in it's local space, the Barbicans dramatic & it's resident slove it, the same cannot be said of Milton Court. Just because "Chamberlin, Powell and Bon " designed it doesn't make it less of a carbuncle.
Duncan wood, Cambridge
I love everything about the Barbican, and I love this building too - I never even knew it had any significance until I read this article. That said, it isn't as good as the Barbican itself, and we can't preserve everything, so may be it is time it should go - as long as the Barbican itself is kept!
Dan Bidewell, London
This is history of the future. Not necessarily this specific building, but it was a style that was used in the 70's. All other examples of different styles of architecture throughout history have been preserved, why not this? Unfortunately I know that the concrete used has a much more limited lifespan that most construction materials, but it is a shame that a use cannot be found for this (maybe a government department). It might not be pretty, but once upon a time it received planning approval and was designed by an Architect, so it must have been 'thought of' by more than just someone. Out there is a comittee of Councillors who approved this!
simon bole, ipswich
If you flatten the Barbican arts center, please complete the job and raze the awful National Theatre and put something more imaginative and attractive and theatrically inspiring in its place!
David Wrede, Ex- Londoner
Reinforced concrete, ugly tower blocks and 'idealistic' buildings shaped the post-war era and ruined our beautiful towns and cities. Many of these buildings had no sense of space or of the landscape in which they were built. A walk around Milton Court is so depressing that you wonder how it was ever innovative. It needs to go so that everyone who lives in, works in or even visits the Barbican can be proud of a building with a sense of space which is built for everyone to enjoy.
Nicholas Parsons, Horsham UK
By all means save Milton Court, if only to remind us that even the City of London had a civic duty once upon a time to provide the type of public services this building once offered in a user-friendly, convenient and life-saving form. (The fire station did sterling service during the war and beyond.) The building is a reminder of a more mindful, compassionate age. However, the needs of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) have to be taken into account also, especially if, as it seems, there is no room for them anywhere in the recently expensively refurbished Barbican Arts Centre concrete sandwich, more's the pity. So let's move ahead and convert Milton Court to provide GSMD with what it requires. There must be at least one architect out there who can respect the building and its past while achieving all such a well-deserving organisation as GSMD needs so desperately. Perhaps a competition might be in order or is this really nothing to do with architecture, just a question of much the City can make by erecting a nothing building that will provide a high-enough price or sufficient income to cover the costs of providing GSMD with the performance area it so desperately needs. After all, the City gets all the prestige it could ever want from owning and running this world-class conservatoire. As for television presenters, what do most of them know other than how to read a cue card?
John Bailey, London
How can you save a building when its own apologist calls it brutalist? There is nothing left today of the old City. It has all been torn down in the name of...profit. So why not this, which so spectacularly fails those men and women it was allegedly built for?
Pierre Constantin, United Kingdom
As a nearby resident, i find it quite a silly 'discussion' - for the simple reason that the 80s turquoised-glass-class building behind it (you can see it in top photo) a trillion times more hideous! I must say though, Milton Court is a nightmare for wheelchair users. When the lift is (very often) broken, one has to reverse BACK about 300m to get out of the complex... very annoying...
Daniel Brown, Barbican, London
It may not be pretty, but architectural trends of today leave a lot to be desired.
Andrew W, Crewe UK
I trained at the Guildhall school of Music and Drama. The facilities are in desperate need of updating and Milton Court is such a obvious choice of location. It comes down to this for me: Buildings or people. We have the chance to create a great and inspiring new workspace for young students of the arts or we can keep an ugly old building. Not much of a choice really is it? We should be moving forward, not looking back.
Jake Thornton, Los Angeles, USA
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When Numbers Get Messy
I’m not a “numbers” person by nature. It takes a lot of energy for me to engage in statistical analysis, and it almost always involves taking my stats textbooks from the bookshelf and pouring over step-by-step instructions on performing certain statistical tests.
In many ways, though, numbers seem easy –– they are fixed, tangible things, right? It’s not difficult to count the number of people who attend worship or how many dollars are in the offering plate each week.
At the beginning of every year, congregations across the UCC collectively groan as the reminders start pouring in about Yearbook reporting. Churches are asked to provide numbers such as total membership, average weekly worship attendance, child and adult baptisms, confirmations, confessions of faith, transfers in and out, deaths, faith formation program participants, total income and operating expenses, pledges and offerings, capital payments … need I go on?
These numbers are not always easy to obtain, and each of these categories comes with its own set of definitions. In the grand scheme of things, however, they are relatively “easy” numbers.
numbersBut what do you do when you are asked to report the total number of people in the past year who perceived that their lives were impacted by your church in a meaningful way? How would you know the ways that another individual perceives something? What is meant by “impact” –– are we talking small impact or large impact? What counts toward impact? Parents who come into your building each day to drop off their children at the daycare in your church, or community members served by your food and clothing bank, or the couple who was married in your church last summer? Moreover, what is meant by “meaningful”? How do we even measure that?!
This is precisely what we are asking churches to report this year through a new category called “Community Engagement.” The UCC office piloted this category during last year’s church reporting cycle; and the one question that was asked repeatedly during the pilot was, “How does our church even begin to come up with a real number for this?”
While we have now created a set of guidelines/definitions for this category (and for another new category called “Total Church Participants”), many congregations will still have questions about particular situations unique to their ministry contexts and outreach efforts. My response to those questions will be the same each time: “It depends on whether you think that was a meaningful interaction which impacted those particular people.”
This is enough to make any statistician fold in the towel. Numbers aren’t supposed to be subjective! How could these numbers mean anything if it’s up to each individual church to decide what counts?
The fact of the matter is that these numbers do mean something, even if some congregations can only provide approximate guesses. They mean a great deal to churches themselves because this number can reflect their impact beyond the walls of the building. For some congregations, the mere act of contemplating community engagement is a fruitful process for mission planning, as well as a visible signal that a decrease in more tangible numbers (like membership or worship attendance) does not mean a decrease in the vitality and mission of the church.
Yes, these numbers are much messier than what has been required in the past; but they may be the ones that matter most.
Access instructions and other resources for UCC church data reporting online, and contact your Conference or Association with any questions.
Sparking Ministry Conversations
What efforts and activities would you include in your church’s “community engagement” figure? What are some other ways to measure your church’s impact in the world?
This article was originally posted on ucc.org via Congregations Weekly. Congregations Weekly, formerly known as Stillspeaking Weekly, is published each Wednesday and exists to prompt conversations among congregational leaders, boards and committees about timely and substantive issues facing local church life: naming realities and inviting opportunities. Subscriptions and an archive are available here.
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Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working
Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working
Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working
Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working
An earlier edition of this extraordinarily prescient, elegantly written book created a sensation among Washington and media insiders when it was published more than five years ago under the title Demosclerosis. In it, Jonathan Rauch, a former correspondent for The Economist and a columnist for Notional Journal, showed with startling clarity the reasons why America's political system (and, in fact, other political systems as well) was becoming increasingly ineffective. Today, as Rauch's predictions continue to manifest themselves in a national politics of "sound and fury" and little effective legislation, and in increasing voter cynicism, this book has achieved renown as the classic and essential work on why politics and government don't work.
In Government's End, Rauch has completely rewritten and updated his earlier work to reassess his theory, analyze the political stalemate of the last few years, and explain why sweeping reform efforts of the kind led by Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and NewtGingrich aren't the answers. He also looks ahead at what is likely to happen -- or not happen -- next, and proposes ideas for what we must do to fix the system.
For anyone who cares about the health of American democracy -- and indeed of international security -- Government's End is a fascinating, disturbing, and vitally important book.
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Between the time when the results became clear and the moment when the new president-elect emerged to acknowledge his victory, two long hours passed. a crowd of fifty thousand stood waiting for their man in front of the Old State House in Little Rock, Arkansas, shivering in bitterly cold weather that, being unseasonable, caught people in their shirtsleeves. Millions of citizens elsewhere waited, too. Younger people could barely remember a Democratic presidency and wondered how the first Democratic president-elect in sixteen years would sound. Their elders wondered whether the new man would show that he had learned from his Democratic predecessors' mistakes.
At 11:22 P.M. central time, on November 3, 1992, Bill Clinton finally emerged, looking exhausted but happy. He had made history, and he knew it. His speech was short and began with thankyous for the crowd, the family, the voters, the running mate. Then came what was, in effect, the first substantive statement of the Clinton years. He announced that he would "face problems too long ignored," and that people needed to be brought together "so that our diversity can be a source of strength." Then he said: "I think perhaps the most important thing that we understand here in the heartland of Arkansas is the need to reform the political system, to reduce the influence of special interests . . .
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Wrapped Plastic Egg Tutorial
We dropped our eggs off in the mail- I'm hoping they'll reach their recipients by Easter and hopefully brighten some postal workers' day on the way.
I have to admit, those plastic easter eggs make me a little bonkers. They're great for Easter egg hunts, but then they're all over, you step on them, and they're not especially attractive. Fortunately, this week I managed to turn some of them into something a little nicer looking.
I think they're pretty cute! Here's what you need:
Plastic Egg
Clear Craft Glue
Yarn (I liked the look of Sugar 'n Cream- and there are so many colors)
You'll also want a baby wipe on hand to wipe the glue from your fingers.
Swirl the glue around one half of your egg, then spread it around with your finger.
Starting at the top, loop the yarn around on itself and wrap it around. Continue swirling the yarn around .
Work the yarn all the way to the center of the egg, then cut the yarn on a diagonal (this helps it lay flat). Turn your egg over and repeat from the other end.
Ta Da! The whole process takes about 5 minutes.
Mama D said...
That is a brilliant idea! Nicely done!
Elizabeth said...
What a cute and simple project! I really like it.
Turtle said...
Do they still open and close? So cute!!
Rae said...
@ Turtle- they don't, but I think if you wre careful about how far you wrapped, you could make them that way. I'm not sure how much of a gap that would leave.
James and Elizabeth said...
that is awesome. I think I'll have to try and make a few myself. So cool.
Amy said...
so Cute! So did they make it to their destinations safely?
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