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HBO TO MAKE SEASON TWO PREMIERE OF COMEDY SERIES BORED TO DEATH AVAILABLE VIA HBO iPAD APP AND OTHER DIGITAL OUTLETS
NEW YORK, NY (September 27, 2010) - For the first time ever and on the heels of the Season Two premiere of Bored to Death, HBO is offering the full first episode via the promotional HBO iPad App beginning today. The first episode will also be available through October 11th on additional digital platforms including HBO.com, the HBO iPhone App, HBO On Demand, Comcast's Xfinitytv.com, YouTube and iTunes.
"We consistently try to engage consumers with great HBO content experiences, so extending the brand and reaching out to a larger audience is always top-of mind," said Alison Moore, senior vice president, Digital Platforms. "The HBO iPad App, with its robust and vibrant interface, is a terrific vehicle through which consumers can discover and sample this critically acclaimed comedy. "
Bored to Death is the creation of author Jonathan Ames ("The Extra Man," "The Alcoholic") and stars Jason Schwartzman as the fictional Ames, Ted Danson as his needy mentor and boss and Zach Galifanakis as his best friend. The series follows the misadventures of Ames, a noir-fiction writer who moonlights as an unlicensed private detective listing his services on Craigslist. The executive producers of Bored to Death are Jonathan Ames, Sarah Condon, Troy Miller, Stephanie Davis and Dave Becky; co-executive producers, Tracey Baird and Donick Cary; supervising producer Martin Gero; producers Anna Dokoza and Michael Stricks. Bored to Death premiered Sunday, September 26th at 10:00 PM and airs on subsequent Sundays at the same time, exclusively on HBO.
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Adam Johnson has admitted he thought his old friend Joe Hart had denied him his moment of glory as Sunderland extended their impressive record against Manchester City.
The 25-year-old winger stood with his hands on his head on the pitch at the Stadium of Light after his England international team-mate had hurled himself across goal in an attempt to keep out his dipping left-foot strike.
Hart got to the ball after initially appearing to be wrong-footed, but several seconds elapsed before it became clear that he had been unable to prevent it from creeping under him and into the bottom corner to spark belated celebrations by Johnson and his team-mates.
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Quantum corrections to three-point functions of scalar single trace operators in planar ${\cal N}=4$ Super-Yang-Mills theory are studied using integrability. At one loop, we find new algebraic structures that not only govern all two loop corrections to the mixing of the operators but also automatically incorporate all one loop diagrams correcting the tree level Wick contractions. Speculations about possible extensions of our construction to all loop orders are given. We also match our results with the strong coupling predictions in the classical (Frolov-Tseytlin) limit.


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31 July 2007
Who the flip is in charge of this? (vol. II)
Posted by Johanna at 1:22 PM
Labels: Cate Blanchett, Ivanka Trump, magazine spread, Penelope Cruz, Rachel Bilson, Sienna Miller, Vanity Fair
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I know you think Ivanka is "striking" and I usually agree with your girl crushes, but on this one I'm gonna have to decline. How Cate isn't on that list is beyond me. WTF?
- July 31, 2007 at 2:16 PM
Am I the only one that is completely offended by Tilda Swinton's inclusion on the list???
I can live with Ivanka.
I would have chosen my fave fashionista politician Doris Matsui over Michelle Obama. Doris is always clad in Chanel.
- July 31, 2007 at 2:21 PM
Holy sh*t! 1000 posts already? Eat the whole cupcake, babe. Please?
Congrats. This is huge.
- July 31, 2007 at 2:26 PM
Impressive. Good job!
And I'm surprised you "approved" of Renee. Have you ever put her on here other than to slam her sense of style?
- July 31, 2007 at 2:37 PM
I LOVE Tilda Swinton. She is the only good choice on this list. I don't know all the others, but based on their photos you've linked to..blah. And Fran looks horrible. RZ...yuck. I hate her squinty face.
- July 31, 2007 at 3:15 PM
1000th post definitely warrants a party. I'll bring the noisemakers, and by that I clearly mean my friends and my low tolerances for alkeehawl.
Kiss on the forehead for keeping us entertained so frequently and so consistently. Yours is my fave blog out there!
- July 31, 2007 at 3:16 PM
If you don't agree with Charlotte Gainsbourg, who is absolutely fabulous, a personal style icon of mine and a major inspiration, then I have lost a ton of respect. Despite her famous parents, she has such a fantastic individual classic style. Bee is cute, but considering who her mother is it would be a scandal if she wasn't fashionable, however I don't think she should be on the list. Renee? She has people who dress her, usually Carolina, but at least she has good taste.
Where is Ceclia Sarkozy (her husband made the list), Alex Kapranos, the list is too Hollywood. Yuck.
- July 31, 2007 at 3:20 PM
- Johanna said...
I love Tilda as an actress, but as for her style, I'm almost never on-board. Just a tad too avant garde for my taste. Fun to look at sometimes but in no way an influence on me.
I'm toying with the idea...
I honestly don't know much about Ms. Gainsbourg other than that she was in Jane Eyre a million years ago. The few pics I've seen of her (one of which I linked you to) are puzzling to say the least, but I haven't come close to dismissing her. My not placing an "*" by her name is hardly worthy of you "losing a ton of respect" for me, I hope!
- July 31, 2007 at 3:25 PM
- Scott said...
One line: 5. Fran Lebowitz
The woman is stuck in the Nirvana nineties, so why would you take anything else from the list seriously?
- July 31, 2007 at 3:25 PM
Jo - Congratulations! And in honor of your great accomplishment, I bleev I shall make you a mixtape, which shall most certainly include some Charlotte Gainsbourg, and perhaps even some Keren Ann just because.
- July 31, 2007 at 5:05 PM
Congrats Jo you know I love your blog so keep up the great work....but we(I) need more pics of you.....
- July 31, 2007 at 5:13 PM
1000? True devotion. Congrats.
- July 31, 2007 at 7:46 PM
Johanna, I'm humbled by all that you do. I honestly don't know when you sleep. Kudos on your milestone.
- July 31, 2007 at 9:20 PM
Even though there's no way I'll be able to attend, if I don't get an invite to this party, I'm going to be peeved.
Congrats, you crazy hot girl! Can't wait to see the next 1000!
- July 31, 2007 at 9:57 PM
Hard to believe it's been a thousand already. I remember when this all started.
Outstanding execution of an extraordinary idea. I'm proud of you.
Well done.
- August 1, 2007 at 12:48 AM
- georgia said...
Congratulations! THANK YOU for all of your hard work. :)
- August 1, 2007 at 9:14 AM
- Melanie said...
So...I started reading these newfangled fashion blogs because I am basically style deficient, and I need help. Even with that in mind, I'd like to ask...is there any kind of pill I can take or cocktail I can drink to make me forget what Charlotte Gainsbourg is wearing in that IMDB photo?
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It is understood a fee in excess of £1m has been finalised between the clubs, the news coming just 24 hours after Sky Sports reported that Celtic had had a bid of around £900,000 turned down by their Scottish Premiership rivals.
United are due to return for pre-season training on Wednesday and Ciftci is expected to take part – but it remains to be seen if Celtic or any other interested clubs attempt to match Wigan's bid.
Citfci, who has one year left on his contract, scored 16 goals in 42 appearances for United last term, and has 33 goals in all competitions since signing for the club on a free transfer in 2013.
The Turkish-born Dutchman was a trainee at Portsmouth after signing from ADO Den Haag in 2007 and he made 19 league appearances for Pompey before a move to Turkish club Kayserispor.
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Operatic pop group Il Divo perform their hits and new material at an intimate concert in the beautiful surroundings of the London Coliseum. Formed in the UK by music executive and reality TV star Simon Cowell, operatic pop vocal group Il Divo consists of four male singers: Spanish baritone Carlos Marin, Swiss tenor Urs Buhler, American tenor David Miller, and French pop singer Sebastien Izambard. Since they launched in late 2004, Il Divo have achieved phenomenal worldwide fame and success, selling more than 25 million albums. The group has garnered over 50 gold and platinum awards in 33 countries. Their first four albums, Il Divo, Ancora, Siempre and The Promise have achieved 50 No.1 album chart positions internationally, including a No.1 debut in the United States for Ancora - the only classical crossover album to ever debut at No.1 on the Billboard Top 200. Fresh from their Classic Brit 'Artist of the Decade' accolade, II Divo perform at London's beautiful Coliseum, home of the English National Opera. This 2000 seat theatre offers a unique chance to see II Divo as never before. As part of this special performance, Il Divo unveil songs from their new album, including the sensational Dov'e l'amore.
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As Memorial Day approaches and the temperature starts to rise, many Americans reach for an ice-cold beer. Or perhaps, the wine lovers reach for a chilled chardonnay. While I enjoy both, when the weather turns to summer and white shoes emerge from the closet, I turn to one cold beverage-Rosé.
I am not talking about the sticky-sweet fermented juice that gives pink wine a bad name. The kind my great-grandmother liked to drink, and kept in a gallon-sized jug inside her fridge.
No, I mean a dry, crisp rosé from the South of France. Where, when you open the bottle, you can almost hear the drone of cicadas in the plane trees, the hum of sleepy bees in the lavender, old men playing pétanque in the town square. To me, it tastes like liquid summer in a bottle.
It surprises me how resistant people can be to trying a crisp, Provencal rosé. If they are unfamiliar with what pink wine can be, they often have bad flashbacks-to fruit punch with a kick of alcohol, to sticky jugs in the back of their great-grandmother's refrigerator.
At parties, too many of my friends give me a suspicious glance when I offer them a glass of chilled rosé. I can see in their eyes what they are too polite to say out loud, "Pink wine? Really, Sara? I thought better of you."
My response of, "It's from France!" does not usually seem to help.
"They eat snails in France," my friends' eyes tell me, "Please don't make me drink pink wine and eat snails. I thought you liked me."
But because I have always been a little bossy, and believe that in this case I do know what's best, I do not back down. Instead I pour a little into their wine glass, and over any protest, insist they give it a shot.
Those who are brave (or susceptible to peer pressure) enough to try the rosé are usually converted. Especially in the summer, a nice rosé is so much more than simply pink. As light and refreshing as any white, it is so much broader in flavor, that it can stand in the place of many reds that are too heavy in the heat. Its clean taste is invigorating as an aperitif, while it can also hold its own against the summer favorites of barbecued meat.
This makes sense, considering that the usual way to produce a rosé is halfway between that of red and white. After the grapes are crushed, the dark skins are allowed to remain in contact with the juice for a few days, no more than three, and then are discarded before the rest of the fermentation process takes place. In this way, the skins impart some tannins and some color, in order to create that signature pink.
So this Memorial Day, while others twist off bottle caps, I will crack open my first rosé of the summer. A glass of shimmering pink in my hand, I will toast the warm weather and wearing of white, in the way I like best.
Sara Joyce Robinson is a native of Southern California, where she was raised, educated, and still lives. She received her MFA in Fiction from the University of California, Irvine, and you can see what she is up to at SaraJoyceRobinson.com.
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A Perth taxi driver has had his cab licence provisionally reinstated after he was accused of taking a suspected bank robber to his home and showering with her.
The driver, Tony Vaisi, was initially hailed as a hero for making a citizen's arrest after he picked the suspect up in November.
However, the Western Australia Department of Transport suspended his licence after admissions in his statement to police raised suspicions he had breached the taxi driver's code of conduct, which bans sexual advances towards a passenger.
On Wednesday, State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) member Bertus de Villiers ruled Mr Vaisi could return to work until a final determination later this year.
The passenger is accused of a string of offences, including an armed robbery at knifepoint in Padbury, a car jacking and bank robberies in Dianella and Booragoon.
Mr Vaisi claimed at the SAT hearing the woman had held him hostage after entering his cab, and had forced him to drive her around.
But prosecutor Peter Busby told an earlier hearing an on-board recording from Mr Vaisi's cab showed he did not appear under duress, and his intention had been to persuade the woman to go to his home.
Once there, the hearing was told, Mr Vaisi had smoked cigarettes and drunk wine with her before showering and becoming intimate in his bedroom.
Mr Vaisi argued he had taken the woman to his house in an effort to gain her trust and to protect his safety.
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India is likely to witness a modest recovery in the coming year, even without major policy initiatives, largely owing to 'resiliency of consumption', according to a Deutsche Bank report.
"Recovery (in 2013) would be supported greatly if major initiatives were to boost investment and consumption, but it could take place in any case, in our view," said the report.
Even if the economy were to get no more than meagre policy support next year, chances are that consumption will remain strong.
Moreover, labour market surveys suggest both rural and urban wages continue to rise by 15-20 per cent, it said.
"Clearly reforms would be helpful to ensuring a lasting economy, and the authorities do look committed to delivering some key measures.
"But we think a case can be made for a near-term economic bottom even without major initiatives," Deutsche Bank Chief Economist Taimur Baig said in the report.
India had been growing around 8-9 per cent before the global financial meltdown in 2008.
The growth rate in 2011-12 slipped to a nine-year low of 6.5 per cent.
According to the official data, Indian economy grew by 5.3 per cent in the July-September period this year, while in the previous quarter, the economy grew by 5.5 per cent.
The government's recent reforms, include allowing foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, aviation and broadcasting, hiking diesel price, capping the number of subsidised liquefied petroleum gas cylinders, opening up pension sector to foreign investment and raising the FDI cap in insurance to 49
The factors that are likely to support the Indian economy's growth numbers pick up in external demand, RBI rate cut next year and robust consumption levels.
India, which is increasingly becoming vulnerable to global demand and price shocks is likely see a pick-up in external demand next year, moreover, exporters would also be supported by a weaker exchange rate, the report said.
The Deutsche Bank report further added that "the RBI is likely to cut rates next year, which should also help.
"And finally, we see consumption remaining resilient, helping anchor demand."
India's structural impediments are many; a cyclical recovery in 2013 may not need major policy push, any chance of returning to an over 8 pet cent growth trajectory would necessitate far greater boost to investment, wide-ranging fiscal reforms, and greater policy efficacy, it said.
"India is likely to face less pressure in 2013, but we hope the breathing room will not act as a deterrent to medium-term growth-critical measures," the report added.


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A second vessel carrying 109 passengers and two crew was detected nearby, also on Friday night.
The passengers and crew have been transferred to Christmas Island to undergo security, health and identity checks.


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Wine Spectator learned yesterday that, for the first time in the 27-year history of our Restaurant Awards program, a fictitious restaurant has entered its wine list for judging.
To orchestrate his publicity-seeking scam, Robin Goldstein created a fictitious restaurant in Milan, Italy, called Osteria L'Intrepido, then submitted a menu and wine list to Wine Spectator's Restaurant Awards as a new entry in 2008. The wine list earned an Award of Excellence, the most basic of our three award levels.
Goldstein revealed his elaborate hoax at a meeting in Oregon last week. He is now crowing about the fraud on his own Web site. The story has been picked up in the blogosphere, and now Wine Spectator would like to set forth the actual facts of the matter.
1. Wine Spectator's Restaurant Awards
Our Awards program was founded in 1981 to encourage restaurants to improve their wine programs, and to aid readers in finding restaurants that take wine seriously. The program evaluates the content, accuracy and presentation of restaurant wine lists. It does not purport to review the restaurant as a whole.
In the program's 27 years, we have evaluated more than 45,000 wine lists. There is no doubt that more restaurants offer good wine lists today than back in 1981. We would like to think that this program has contributed to that development. Further, our Dining Guide is a widely used resource by our subscribers. (View more information on the program here.)
2. How could a restaurant that doesn't exist earn an award for its wine list?
We do not claim to visit every restaurant in our Awards program. We do promise to evaluate their wine lists fairly. (Nearly one-third of new entries each year do not win awards.) We assume that if we receive a wine list, the restaurant that created it does in fact exist. In the application, the restaurant owner warrants that all statements and information provided are truthful and accurate. Of course, we make significant efforts to verify the facts.
In the case of Osteria L'Intrepido:
a. We called the restaurant multiple times; each time, we reached an answering machine and a message from a person purporting to be from the restaurant claiming that it was closed at the moment.
b. Googling the restaurant turned up an actual address and located it on a map of Milan
c. The restaurant sent us a link to a Web site that listed its menu
d. On the Web site Chowhound, diners (now apparently fictitious) discussed their experiences at the non-existent restaurant in entries dated January 2008, to August 2008.
3. How could this wine list earn an award?
On his blog, Goldstein posted a small selection of the wines on this list, along with their poor ratings from Wine Spectator. This was his effort to prove that the list – even if real – did not deserve an award.
However, this selection was not representative of the quality of the complete list that he submitted to our program. Goldstein posted reviews for 15 wines. But the submitted list contained a total of 256 wines. Only 15 wines scored below 80 points.
Fifty-three wines earned ratings of 90 points or higher (outstanding on Wine Spectator's 100-point scale) and a total of 102 earned ratings of 80 points (good) or better. (139 wines were not rated.) Overall, the wines came from many of Italy's top producers, in a clear, accurate presentation.
Here is our description of an Award of Excellence:
Our basic award, for lists that offer a well-chosen selection of quality producers, along with a thematic match to the menu in both price and style.
The list from L'Intrepido clearly falls within these parameters.
4. What did Goldstein achieve?
It has now been demonstrated that an elaborate hoax can deceive Wine Spectator.
This act of malicious duplicity reminds us that no one is completely immune to fraud. It is sad that an unscrupulous person can attack a publication that has earned its reputation for integrity over the past 32 years. Wine Spectator will clearly have to be more vigilant in the future.
Most importantly, however, this scam does not tarnish the legitimate accomplishments of the thousands of real restaurants who currently hold Wine Spectator awards, a result of their skill, hard work and passion for wine.
Thank you for this post. You have given quite a few additional details that Mr. Goldstein failed to mention. It appears on the surface that he is a dishonest person.
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Very nice to hear the other side of the story, sounds like Robin is a liar.
pissing people off since 1971!
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TM: As someone who has consistently called on Wine Spectator to do some legwork before conferring an award, I applaud the cleverness and diligence of your staffers to do things like call, and check Chowhound. Certainly not the same as asking your readers if they have ever been to L'Intrepido. But admirable none the less. Thanks for the information. Hopefully this will put an end to the countless posts that proclaim that all one needs to do to get an award is write a check.
There's a lot of things wrong in what was done, but the most troublesome to me is demonstrated in the statement above.
It's always good to be reminded that the internet is NOT a definitive source of information, and the greater bulk of what we read should be taken with a grain of salt.
Sometimes, a very large grain.
What is really amazing is that this knucklehead "presented" his findings on August 15. On August 18, he was back on Chowhound posting about the restaurant. Enuf already!
NOTE: Moderators over at Chowhound are quick. Alerted them to the fraud and TM's post, and the thread was edited in 5 minutes. No more Osteria L'Intrepido to be found.This message has been edited. Last edited by: JimmyV,
Thanks for coming on line and telling the WS side of the story. It is appalling, but not surprising, that only a handful of wines were chosen by Robin to try to get his point across . . .
Had this been a term paper, he would not have received a passing grade . . .
One more question - will this make WS change its criteria or fact-checking in the future? Just curious to hear what might be done differently to try to avoid this . . .
Thanks again! Cheers!
Larry Schaffer
tercero wines
Mr Goldstein must have a lot of time on his hands. All he has proven is that, with enough effort, you can create the basis of a fraud. What's the point? Just to prove that he is a fraud?
Thank you for posting your explanation.
Appreciate the response and detailed explanation, Thomas.
Wow, another person with to much time on their hands. To go to all that trouble, and for what?
Thomas, thank you for this. In light of these facts, I'm sorry for my previous post. I should not have jumped to conclusions.
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Personally I was foaming at the mouth to respond to the thread in our Forums regarding this - but an in house investigation of the facts had to be completed first...
I hope my colleague Tom Matthews' explanation answers all of your questions. I am however, disappointed at how many people jumped on the 'trash WS' bandwagon before both sides of the story had been told...
its amazing how one person's relative carnival barking can stain the hard work of so many people who do care about wine, and want to make sure other people get to learn about great wine and where to find it...This message has been edited. Last edited by: James Molesworth,
Thanks for being clear about this issue.
Thanks for your participation in this thread as well . . .
This situation certainly shows the power of the web and blogging - and how quickly information gets disseminated - whether it is accurate or not.
Will this change the way people react to 'news' in the future? Most likely not . . . but hopefully people will try to consider whether all facts are present before coming to conclusions.
Larry Schaffer
tercero wines
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Wine Spectator
Larry: This is the problem with the 'blogosphere'. It's a lazy person's journalism. No one does any real research, but rather they just slap some hyperlinks up and throw a little conjecture at the wall, and presto! you get some hits and traffic...
but frankly, I'd rather talk about wine...
An applause of appreciation for your endeavors (Thomas and James) to handle this situation appriately. And respect/kudos to laying out the facts in a very clear and concise manner. Well done.
Shame on Goldstein. Was he trying to make a point? Sure. But he failed miserably by resorting to fraud to accomplish this. In the end he accomplished nothing more than demonstrating that he's a complete tool.
I don't think the entire blogosphere should be clumped together - there are some very good blogs out there on all subjects, including wine.
The problem is more in the readership and how they interpret the information provided . . . Things are often presumed correct until proven otherwise in all forms of 'communication' and this is certainly the case here.
Thanks again for your participation here and hope to see you, Thomas, Jim L, and the rest of you on these boards more often!
Larry Schaffer
tercero wines
Go Yankees!
I think this may be the ideal time to tell everyone EXACTLY what the COMPLETE process is for evaluating a wine list for consideration in your dining awards after it is submitted.
I didn't hear about this until you posted this thread... And I've had bad wine experiences at WS award winners, but I have no problem with what and how WS does their restaurant awards. Someone scamming you is their waste of time, and I don't see it as any skin off WS's back. I still don't like paying full price for online and magazine subscriptions when you have both, but other than that... I still have the love for WS!
I appreciate the explanation. The fact that Goldstein was deceptive not only toward The Wine Spectator, but also in his attack leaving out his Chowhound and wine list scams, is enough for me. The people who jumped all over The Wine Spectator should have waited until they had read the response from Thomas Matthews. Anybody can fool virually anybody if they are deceptive and dishonest enough.
Just one more sip.
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cuffthis: try this link...nothing is being hidden. It's all in the mag too...
but methinks we have had this conversation with you before...
You have.
Just one more sip.
Let me get this straight. You try to do some due diligence (if anything was done) and you are coming up empty so the decision is to give them an award. This response is more damning than the scam. You need to get better spin control.
There was no need to run a scam to uncover the scam. Anyone was has wasted time in one of the crappy "winners" (and I have) knows that it is a worthless money grab.
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This afternoon, following my tasting of Saslove wines, I lunched with Barry and Roni Saslove at Tel Aviv's Carmella BaNachala. Chef Daniel Zax was in presence and, as he has done so often in the past, demonstrated handily that he does very nicely indeed with largely local, always fresh ingredients.
We opened our meal by sharing four first courses, the one that most enchanted me being of roasted chili peppers, those with just the mildest hint of heat, set on a bed of soft and almost creamy goats' cheese, sprinkled over with nothing more than lemon juice, olive oil and a bit of crushed garlic. From there it was on to sampling a grilled eggplant, that intentionally cut country-style in coarse bits and set on a bed of fine, rich tchina. Sprinkled over with olive oil, lemon and pine nuts the dish was good enough to finish off with the fine freshly baked white bread that was served.
Next on my agenda were two salads, the first of thinly sliced, perfectly ripe tomatoes, those served with a salty white cheese (from Mey'eeri if I am not mistaken), all complemented by black olives, coriander and chili, and the second of finely chopped fresh herbs made rich by olive oil, lemon juice and roasted cashew nuts. All in all, four dishes, each Mediterranean to the depths of its soul, and each executed with both simplicity and perfection.
Being brave of heart, before my main course, I sampled of the crab bisque. Just thick enough, with the sweet cream making itself nicely felt and adding a touch of decadence, and with a generous amount of calamari and shrimps in the soup, a treat by any standard.
As a main course I had to debate a bit because the lunch menu offers so many dishes which are Carmella specialties and with which I am well acquainted but who was I to resist moving away from the Mediterranean and into France with a portion of choucroute. What amused me was that there was no sign of choucroute (sauerkraut) on the dish that I was served. In its place, however, another Alsatian specialty of spaetzley(call those nokedeli if you prefer), super thin freshly made noodles based on , those first boiled and then treated to a herbed olive oil sauce. With those, two plump sausages, one in the style of knockwurst, the other in the style of bratwurst, both crisp on the exterior, bursting open to the touch of a fork and then bursting once again with flavor. With nothing more than a dab of mustard on each bite, the dish was a treat by any standard.
Be there no question but that chef Zax continues to do things right! No tricks here, just lovely dining in an equally lovely setting. The bill for my own lunch came to a very reasonable NIS 115.
Carmella: Rehov HaTavor 46 (the corner of Rehov Rambam), Tel Aviv. Open Sat – Thurs 12:30 – 23:00 and on Friday from 10:00-16:00 and 18:00-23:00. Tel: (03) 5161417.


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Officials did not disclose the contract value, but noted that it is a five-year contract with a provision for five one-year extensions. Phase 1A of the Pipeline Safety Enhancement Program consists of pressure testing approximately 360 miles of existing pipelines; replacing approximately 246 miles of the 3,750 mile pipeline system; and upgrading or replacing 173 mainline valves. SoCalGas is awaiting approval of the Pipeline Safety Enhancement Program from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which is expected in mid-2013. The scope of the pipeline testing and replacement plan is subject to change by the CPUC.
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Athletics South Africa says two athletes were under age 18. One of them tested positive for traces of an anabolic steroid. Six cases of alleged doping are awaiting completion.
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Escaped murderer Adam John Bowhay has been recaptured.
NSW Police confirmed that Bowhay had been caught on Thursday.
Earlier, ACT Policing sent two dog units to help search and were briefed by their NSW counterparts in case he crosses the border.
Bowhay absconded from a Cooma community work site on Tuesday.
A NSW police spokesman said the search for Bowhay had stopped on Wednesday night and resumed early in the morning.
Bowhay was convicted for the stabbing murder of Steven Jarvis at Casino in 1997, and is described as Caucasian in appearance, about 184cm tall, bald and clean shaven with tattoos on neck, upper arms and legs.
Queanbeyan police joined the search for Bowhay on Wednesday. He was spotted by a member of the public on Billilingra Road, south of Bredbo, about 11.30am today (Thursday 28 February 2013).
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Masterpiece Classic at 8 p.m. Sunday presents part five of "Little Dorrit" as trouble continues in London, but Mr. Dorrit and Amy remain in Italy.
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The court case over the future of the Midtown mansion known as the Nineteenth Century Club has been issued another deadline.
The plaintiffs in the Chancery Court case, which is now on appeal, have until Nov. 1 at 10 a.m. to raise an additional $50,000 in a court bond if they hope to stay demolition pending appeal.
Chancellor Walter Evans set the new deadline Wednesday, Oct. 16. Evans upheld, in a September ruling, the building's sale by the Nineteenth Century Club and its planned demolition.
But he stayed the effect of the ruling – essentially the demolition – pending an appeal which turned in a counter offer to buy the property and preserve the house.
The latest ruling came at the end of hearing in which those seeking to stop plans for demolition acknowledged their plans for a Nashville businessman to buy the house and restore it as a restaurant had fallen through.
Dave Wachtel also missed the Oct. 15 deadline to put up $40,000 in earnest money to solidify the tentative settlement and alternative that involved Wachtel and his investors buying the property from Union Group LLC, the company that bought the property from the Nineteenth Century Club.
"His investors have decided not to put that money forward," attorney and Shelby County Commissioner Steve Mulroy told Evans Wednesday.
Mulroy also argued against the plaintiffs being liable for any damages, saying another sale of the property to a buyer who would preserve the mansion could make up any money lost by Union Group or the Children's Museum of Memphis.
"We've heard that before," Evans commented.
Later, he declined to rule on the issue of damages.
The club donated most of the proceeds it received from the sale to Union Group to the museum. All of that money had been frozen or put in a court-controlled account until Wednesday. All sides agreed Wednesday that the club should have access to a small amount to handle its expenses. The rest remains inaccessible.
If those opposed to the demolition cannot raise the additional bond money ordered by Evans, which would bring the total bond to $100,000, the building could be demolished then. Or the state appeals court could grant its own stay of the demolition pending its ruling in a case that all sides speculated could takes more than a year even if it does not go to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
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The existing nuclear plants are definitely approaching end of life. New nuclear plants and technologies are pretty damned far away. The NRC definitely needs to shut down some of the older plants. What's more, the NRC definitely needs to start approving new plants and nuclear technologies more quickly. The licensing process is amazingly expensive. We're quickly going to arrive at an energy crisis due to lack of action.
reactors can be refurbished (usually "head" replacement, about $120M ten years ago), steam generators and primary coolant pumps replaced, etc.
I was scheduler in nuke plant, saw all those things done
not unknown, atoms are displaced. Ultrasonic techniques are proven to be the way to monitor crack and void growth from not just radiation but the thermal and pressure stress. Adoption in the USA has thus far been slow but will be necessary with a fleet of 60+ year old reactors.
A few extra decades of metal fatigue, what could go wrong ???
Reactors are made out of steel. Ferrous alloys and titanium alloys have a distinct limit, an amplitude below which there appears to be no number of cycles that will cause failure.
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Has been round for a good while.
Could be the parent was confusing embrittlement from stray neutrons with metal fatigue.
nothing that can't be detected with very reliable means, the only issue is to make those commonplace in USA if life extensions for these plants are to be the norm
reactors can be refurbished (usually "head" replacement, about $120M ten years ago), steam generators and primary coolant pumps replaced, etc.
I was scheduler in nuke plant, saw all those things done
While the steel, copper and aluminum swell, crack and break, crystallize and split. Great idea....not.
no, those things are inspected and replaced in the USA as required by the NRC. Nuke plants have to have ISI (In Service Inspection) and FAC (flow accelerated corrosion) programs. Japan, on the other hand, has in the past had pipe explosions because of lack of such inspection and maintenance programs
It will be interesting to see if once those new reactors are completed and on-line they can compete with renewable solar and wind energy.
But apparently it's thought to be a better idea to destroy the entire stock of precious hydrocarbons that took Nature a hundred million years to lay down in the next century by burning them instead.
But apparently it's thought to be a better idea to destroy the entire stock of precious hydrocarbons that took Nature a hundred million years to lay down in the next century by burning them instead.
Seriously, what's the better use of those hydrocarbons? I get the feeling people are treating it like a bank. But a bank takes savings deposits and loans them to someone else. So that money never just sits around. OTOH, if you don't pull oil out of the ground and do something with it, then you're doing nothing with it. Hydrocarbons sitting in the ground aren't at all precious.
So what are we going to be doing with those hydrocarbons in the future that is so precious?
If the engineers and safety ppl have top say in the matter it would likely be ok.
The problem is the money men and bean counters often end up with top
say and that doesn't end well as seen in other boondoggles.
The problem is that nuclear power has accrued such a bad reputation. And this with comparatively few accidents. But 'nuclear' is such a huge bogeyman that it is virtually impossible to build any new plants now, regardless of advances in technology. No one wants to have one in their 'back yard' under any circumstances. Given the psychological climate, we are better off working to move on without nuclear energy.
The current plants will stay operational indefinitely until there is an accident or there is simply a lack of ability to operate them. No new plants will be built. There was a brief window before Fukushima when public opinion was turning around, but after that accident, no amount of propaganda or new technology will be able to overcome the deep cultural fear of nuclear accidents.
In order to operate a nuclear reactor in the USA so much documentation is required that I would say there's zero chance of the USA running out of people capable of operating the older reactors.
The real problem is newer similar technology reactors should be cheaper (because they should be simpler). But in reality after three mile island the world drastically reduced construction of new reactors making new reactors far more expensive due to lack of economies of scale.
So instead of installing brand new reactor
I think you hit the nail in the head. This policy is ridiculous. They need to replace the reactors. There is no shortage of new and safer reactor designs.
It's a chicken egg problem. We don't build enough new reactors, and those require extensive on site construction. So they end up being soo much more expensive than upgrading and maintaining the existing ones.
And there's zero incentive on investing making new reactors cheaper, because there's not much demand. Until we tell the anti nuclear folks to shut up and go home, this will continue.
Well actually, I'm from Brazil, we have 2 nukes operating, building a 3rd one, plans for starting construction of another
I recall reading somewhere that the NRC has a two-year backlog in its approvals process i.e. a power generating company submitting paperwork for a Construction and Operating Licence (COL) today will get it looked at in 2016 at the earliest with a three to five year delay after that for a yes/no decision. The NRC is a US government department hence it's underfunded and woefully understaffed especially in the technical divisions as there are better career opportunities for the qualified engineers needed to go analyse the intensely technical submission documents for a new build.
As for existing plants reaching end-of-life, that's debatable. Usually by the thirty-year mark a plant's non-core units are in train to be replaced, things like steam generators, main pumps etc. Almost all of the current US reactors have upgraded to digital control systems if they were originally built with anaogue controls back in the 1970s. The key irreplaceable parts of a reactor are the reactor vessel and its containment and since they were originally overspecified and overbuilt to an almost ludicrous degree and they have no moving parts in themselves they usually pass inspection with flying colours. It tends to be external factors that will downcheck a reactor -- safety systems, steam generators etc.
If the NRC was to shut down older plants simply because they are old their capacity will be replaced with gas and coal, not nuclear because they're a lot less effort in terms of paperwork and currently they're about as cheap to run assuming no-one cares about the pollution they spew into the atmosphere 24/7.
The key irreplaceable parts of a reactor are the reactor vessel and its containment and since they were originally overspecified and overbuilt to an almost ludicrous degree and they have no moving parts in themselves they usually pass inspection with flying colours.
They won't last forever though, eventually neutron embrittlement will win.
New GenIII reactor designs have a shield/liner that sits between the actual pressure vessel and the core structures that hold the fuel elements and guides for control rods etc. This shield can be removed and replaced during a major refurbishment. It won't stop neutron damage to the vessel but it does cut it down somewhat, extending the reactor's effective life. The GenIII designs are expected to operate within spec for a century absent accident or something unknown appearing in that time (like the Wigner Ef
The proposed operating license changes would place no limit on the number of 20 year extensions, so perhaps a few reactors will end up in operation for a full century (if there's anyone left who can remember how to operate them then).
You are allowed to train people how to operate machines even when the machine is old. I'm pretty sure people will still understand buttons and knobs even in a future where everything else is touchscreens and direct neural interfaces or whatever.
You know, my experience with older technology is you can often teach someone the high-level stuff, but when you get into the really low-level stuff there's invariably a zillion little things which come down to lore and things you've seen before and just know about them but which aren't written down.
I have yet to see any sufficiently old system which is fully documented, actually matches what the documentation says, and doesn't have a bunch of little 'quirks' which prevent the new guy from ever truly understanding it beyond the basics.
Not knowing that you need to jiggle the control rod 3 times and do a quarter turn to the left to operate it is likely the kind of thing which is going to end badly.
Which is precisely why I've known mainframe programmers who retired, started collecting their pension, and then started getting 5x their salary in consulting fees to keep it running for their previous employer. Because, try as they might, you just can't find someone who really grasps the entire system.
I can't tell you how many times in my professional career the answer to "why does this work like this?" has been followed up with "now that's a funny story" followed by a description of some bit of arcane knowledge which nobody else truly understands except the guy telling the story.
Which is precisely why I've known mainframe programmers who retired, started collecting their pension, and then started getting 5x their salary in consulting fees to keep it running for their previous employer. Because, try as they might, you just can't find someone who really grasps the entire system.
Totally unrelated anecdote, but sort of related to your mainframe programmers. I did an HMI change over job a few years ago where the system had been designed and built by one guy and was full of all sorts of non-standard ideas and gotcha's (my fav was the onscreen button that wrote straight to the PLCs I/O). He had this idea that he was going to retire and then come back and support the system on contract rates. But apparently he pissed off so many people that when he retired they were glad to see him g
He had this idea that he was going to retire and then come back and support the system on contract rates. But apparently he pissed off so many people that when he retired they were glad to see him go, regardless of the state of the HMI.
The funny thing is it is just data, and a copy could be exported, setup in a parallel system
to just act as a backup for awhile, confirm it is keeping parity, then do a cutover during a long
holiday and do testing.
If it has issues return to the old system til the issues are worked out.
Its amazing how fear drives some places to hold onto legacy ancient gear.
In 2007 Dell was running on a Tandem mainframe supported by COMPAQ/HP.
And that is totally hilarious with it being Dell.
Nuclear plants are not run like IT shops--and thank God for that...
I sincerely hope so, I really do.
But my general lack of faith in humans still gives me pause for concern.
You've never worked inside a 40 year old nuclear plant before, have you?
Documentation is one thing, having people around who really understand the design principals and most critically what to do in the event of an accident is quite another. The problems they had at Fukushima were made worse by the fact that the people on the ground didn't understand what was happening. Monitoring systems failed and they didn't appreciate the potentials risks and didn't do the necessary checks that might have prevented meltdown.
Nuclear plants are complex. Mistakes have very serious consequences. Documentation alone is insufficient, you need extensive training programs and high wages to retain the skills you invest in, and at the moment that isn't happening.
I have never heard of the cheating schedule but I do know one way the Navy is changing. They used to have a rigorous nuclear training pipeline. Roughly 12-18 of 12-16 hours a day and 10-20 hours over the weekend. You had no life other then inside the buildings with no windows. You may have left the building after 8 hours of formal training for 30 minutes to eat but you came back to study until 9-12 at night every night with no exceptions. That training was your LIFE, you did nothing else but nuclear po
You know, my experience with older technology is you can often teach someone the high-level stuff, but when you get into the really low-level stuff there's invariably a zillion little things which come down to lore and things you've seen before and just know about them but which aren't written down.
A few days ago some posted a picture of my submarine shortly after launch to our re-union group's Facebook page. As a joke, I said everyone should post their age on that date. After I was challenged to be first
A few days ago some posted a picture of my submarine shortly after launch to our re-union group's Facebook page. As a joke, I said everyone should post their age on that date.
Hmm, I had just turned six when the boat I served on was launched.
And that's why instead of just handing the new recruit a pile of manuals and saying good luck, they have a system of seniority in place. As long as you keep hiring new guys to work alongside the old guys, that lore gets passed on.
Unfortunately, it looks a little better on the quarterly report if you skip the new hires and kick the can down the road. Right up until the road ends in a cliff.
It is really sad how the US cannot come with a good strong Nuclear Energy Policy and rules and regulations.
Being that voters on both sides a full of complete ignorance that they just make it worse.
The Democrats who support environmentalists (Scientists) and "environmentalists" (Tree Huggers) often get them confused and will be happy to believe that nuclear energy is like a controlled atomic bomb, thus must be decommissioned at all cost.
The Republicans who are in bed with the Oil industry will sometimes tolerate nuclear energy, however do not have the guts to push for it as it will step on the Oil Industry.
So what happens, we get regulations that are overly strict in the wrong areas and have gaping problems in the other.
Is nuclear energy a Clean Safe and Too cheap to meter? No, not by a long shot. However we have a trade off of saving CO2 output (our current big problem) with Storing and keeping safe hazardous waste for a thousands of years (a future problem, which could get better over time). There are a lot of safety protocols in place and newer designs get safer, I doubt we will see a nuclear explosion, however accidents could create nuclear radiation leaked which are toxic, that said coal spews out a lot of toxic stuff already. These safety protocols comes at a cost, so yes you will still need to meter to pay for the upkeep and running. However it is a source of energy that can be produces without killing the budget.
Nuclear along with Wind, Solar, Hydropower should all be added to the American clean energy strategies.
At the same time, I wonder if nuclear is enough cheaper than solar and wind to bother with? It is really hard to accurately value a huge investment that expected to last 80 years. What technological advances and political changes might happen in that time? 80 years ago it was 1934.
Large-scale thermal plants can store energy to moderate the supply, and we would need a more integrated national grid give more flexibility. But it seems doable. I'll grant there would still be some cost premium, so it won't happen if left to the market alone, but then again markets don't care about global warming or the problems of long-term waste storage (even if that's really just a political problem). I really like the fact that wind and solar can simply be torn down and hauled away, or upgraded as need be.
The two Vogtle reactors in Georgia started construction last year as did two new AP1000s Sumner plants in South Carolina, a total of four new starts. The news about the loan guarantees is just that, the loans themselves to pay for construction of the AP1000s had already been agreed. It was expected the guarantees would be issued.
As for long-term investments the US threw an immense amount of taxpayers money into something called the Interstate starting about 80 years ago. How did that work out for you?
There is a very real danger that come the mid 2020s people building new nuclear plants will be looking pretty silly in the face of what Germany will have done. Maybe they won't, but it's a definite risk for investors.
Simplified cost analysis:
Nuclear plant: Areva 1600 MW unit being built in Finland (and similar one in France, I think): Current cost estimate 8.5B euro (more than 11B USD). Raw cost per W (ignore service breaks for simplicity) becomes 5.3e/W. It does not take up that much space but due to people being allergic to nuclear power plant in their backyard, it needs to be located somewhere remote where there is cooling water available. Efficiency could be increased if the cooling water could be used for, say
Storing and keeping safe hazardous waste for a thousands of years
It's a solved problem. Re-process. It's only Americans who talk about "the storage problem" because you've never re-processed, so you don't even realise it's a viable option. All because of Jimmy bloody Carter.
believe that nuclear energy is like a controlled atomic bomb
I once saw someone argue that a reactor has far more uranium in it than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, thus if something went wrong it would be far worse.
I wanted to explain to him just how fucking stupid that was, but I just didn't have that kind of time. I instead told him to research the difference between "critical mass" and "supercritical mass".
And, you're right. This was your average liberal-leaning guy that is all about science unless y
Yes, however a nuclear reactor is built to generate power. an A-Bomb was built to explode.
A shovel has more metal then a knife, however a knife is often more dangerous.
"The Republicans who are in bed with the Oil industry "
Oil does not compete with Nuclear, solar, or wind! It is less than 3% of the electrical power in the US!
Natural gas yes, coal yes. Oil no! It drives me crazy every time I see people post about how we need to cut your importation of oil by building Solar, Wind, or Nuclear plants. We need to cut your consumption of coal by building Nuclear, Solar, and Wind!
Fear of the Middle East seems to be the favorite tool of those that want manipul
Actually oil is interested in keeping cheap, clean energy down. They see the Tesla Model S and shit bricks. An all electric car that critics are saying is the best vehicle on the market. Any new electrical capacity is bad from their point of view, especially if it isn't coal or gas.
Sigh.... Still have to trot out that oil company boogie man. The Tesla is a very good car but it is not "best vehicle on the market" it a very good vehicle but frankly their are no cars in the the Tesla Ss price range that are not very good. For 70k you get a very good car pretty much no matter what car you buy in the that price bracket. Well maybe a Land or Range Rover but those are not cars.
It is not the Oil companies it is the Coal companies. The coal companies have the perfect storm to fight nuclear. Th
if there's anyone left who can remember how to operate them then.
Seven years ago I met a former chief operator for Connecticut Yankee nuclear plant no.2; he had just been let go from the governing body at Stanford responsible for setting curriculum for nuclear plant operators, due to cutbacks in (federal) funding.
We speculated then that the U.S. would someday see the need for building new or updating existing nuclear power plants. So, what was obvious to us then, seems to be the future.
And, yes, finding qualified engineers to run the plants will be very, very difficult.
And, yes, finding qualified engineers to run the plants will be very, very difficult.
And just like airlines like ex-miltary pilots, I'm sure the nuke industry would like ex-military nuke plant workers
They love them. Join the navy and get into the nuclear power program leave and make 6 figures.
And, yes, finding qualified engineers to run the plants will be very, very difficult.
The Navy Nuclear Power School down in Goose Creek (just north of Charleston) graduates a new class every week.
I think there is a difference between nuclear power plant operators and nuclear power plant engineers. Kind of like the difference between people that use software and people that write software.
The nuclear power plant engineers mentioned in the great-grandparent are operators. Either way, I'm just pointing out there's a steady pool of trained and experienced people who would likely go to college and become full fledged engineer operators if the demand was there. (Many already do.) The OP considerably overestimates the difficulty of finding them.
I used to really love nuclear power. I believed that a safe plant was simply a matter of good design and good regulatory structure.
Then came the safety shutdown of the medical isotope reactor at Chalk River. "Good!" I thought. "The system works just like it should." The pressure started mounting because of the shortage. The safety commissioner refused to reopen the plant, and the pressure got worse. Then the government fired her and ordered the plant open again.
Nuclear plants are great, until the time comes when closing them is just too expensive. Then the government changes from engineering them to be safe to legislating them to be safe. Because nature is bound to follow legislation
But that's the point. It's the regulator's job to enforce the standards. The government cannot say "well, we're going to make an exception here. And here. Oh, and over there too." I realize the dilemma as far as probable harm to humans goes, but there's a huge risk in the downward slide of standards. This plant can't go offline because we'd have an isotope shortage, these ones cannot go offline because there'd be a power shortage. So exception after exception is made until you end up with a reactor that is
But they didn't! The damn plant had another safety shutdown because the reactor vessel was corroded to hell. I happened in 2009 and lasted over a year. Worldwide shortage of medical isotopes because *nobody had prepared for another shutdown.*
And as a point of interest, according to the safety commissioner, the risk was pegged at 1 in 1000. Which is pretty damn far away from the one in a million standard.
NRC, I live 40 miles away from a pile of unsecured spent uranium sitting next to Lake Michigan. I and my neighbors are not happy that your agency is allowing this spent fuel to sit there until 2080 next to the Point Beach nuclear reactor. How many accidents is it going to take for us to wake up? Your policies & lack of proper oversight at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New Jersey & the Indian Point plant in New York are deplorable. This nation cannot afford any more nuclear pollution. There is no
There are quite a few solutions to put the spent nuclear fuel to good use. It's still 99% fissionable material.
But as long as the nuclear is bad movement continues to pollute the debate, nothing will get done.
If all spent nuclear fuel in the USA were used in efficient reactors designed to use that material efficiently, that would be about 70 years worth of USA electricity (replacing all current sources of electricity, not just fossil fuels, like over 100 years replacing only coal, natural gas and petrol for
Nuclear is bad; I'll be happy to continue to be part of the movement for many years to come. I realize what you are writing is true but the problem, to me, is that we do not have efficient reactors to burn the fuel. I'm not happy with fuel laying around the country like it is. This madness; we do not have much in the way of nuclear waste repositories to deal with the refuse. I found it funny how you wrote how comments like mine "pollute the debate." Kind of ironic.
The problem isn't the spent fuel. The problem isn't the actual cost of the reactors.
The cost is:
1 - The NRC system leaves propective nuclear operators of new plants with an enormous uncertainty, even the part that depends solely on the NRC has no certainty. It's the typical big, government, setup to make government important, and the nuclear operators standing on their knees to get something
2 - Political uncertainty. The areas that consume the most electricity in the USA are anti nuclear. You can't even thi
If a nuclear reactor expected to operate for 40 years could last 80 years, then it has just become half as expensive to build per GWh of electricity produced over its lifetime.
And they keep saying nuclear is too expensive.
And the same guys saying nuclear is too expensive keep on fueling all anti nuclear intervention to make nuclear even more expensive.
Nuclear is cheaper than coal in countries that are serious about doing nuclear.
China, South Korea and India are doing it at a modest cost due to standardizati
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California's record-breaking rise in gasoline prices over the last week was so sudden, and so apparently unjustified by the supply-and-demand factors that usually control markets, that it's natural to suspect some kind of conspiracy at play. Among the suspicious is Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who sent a letter to the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission on Monday calling for an investigation.
Meanwhile, regardless of the spike's cause, Gov. Jerry Brown moved swiftly Sunday to implement a solution, asking state environmental regulators to allow early sales of California's winter-blend gasoline formula, which is cheaper but potentially more environmentally unfriendly than the summer blend. That was probably the right thing to do to help stave off serious economic harm. But in light of the conspiracy allegations and other factors, it also sets a worrisome precedent.
Are Californians the victims of market manipulation? That has been asked many times after sudden hikes in gas prices, but probes have turned up little or no evidence that companies intentionally restricted supplies. Because there are relatively few refineries that produce California's gasoline, which is cleaner but more expensive than blends sold nationwide, a slowdown here or there can have a dramatic impact on prices. The recent pain at the pump can be explained away as the result of an August fire that closed a big Chevron refinery in Richmond, a pipeline disruption and a power outage that temporarily shut down an Exxon Mobil refinery in Torrance.


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Eight cases of mumps have been confirmed at the Stevens Institute of Technology, according to a press release from the city issued Thursday evening.
The students affected have been vaccinated, the statement said. The cases were suspected for the first time last week and have since been confirmed by health officials.
There have not been any subsequent confirmed diagnoses.
"The city's Health Department has been working closely with Stevens since the beginning and we are thankful for their responsiveness and proactive efforts," said Mayor Dawn Zimmer. "Every precaution has been taken to ensure the safety of the public. The best way to prevent mumps is vaccination. Members of our community should follow the recommendations from health officials and contact their doctor if they believe they may have symptoms. We will keep the community informed of any new developments."
According to a separate statement released by the university, the cases were found in students ranging in age from 18 to 21. Each was given two doses of the mumps vaccine. The statement noted that mumps outbreaks have occurred in other vaccinated college communities, including at Ohio State University and Fordham University.
All Stevens' students are required to have several vaccinations before arriving on campus, including the mumps vaccine.
"Stevens is encouraging students and staff, or anyone who may have recently visited the campus or had close contact with a Stevens Institute of Technology student/staff member to visit their healthcare provider if they are exhibiting the following symptoms: swollen and tender salivary glands under the ears or jaw on one or both sides of the face, fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, and loss of appetite," said the statement.
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Topics: "Superior Young Professionals" & "Sustainable Commercial Fishing"
Description: A new Twin Ports organization had its kick-off event this week, hoping to connect young people living or working in Superior to a network that will help the community thrive.
And the upcoming Lake Superior Fish Classic puts the focus on sustainably harvested locally-caught fish.
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June 12, 2012 > Represent AC Transit on Citizens Advisory Committee
Have some ideas about how to improve public transit, especially bus service? AC Transit is looking for you. Let your voice be heard by joining the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) to make recommendations to the Alameda County Transportation Commission (CTC).The CAC serves as a liaison between the Alameda CTC and local communities and businesses in Alameda County. There is currently one vacancy on this committee representing AC Transit in discussing local transportation needs and issues.The AC Transit Board of Directors will appoint a candidate to the two-year term. To be eligible for appointment, the applicant must be an Alameda County resident and be able to attend committee meetings that are typically held from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month at various locations throughout Alameda County.Additionally, four times a year the CAC hosts a transportation forum from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., directly following the CAC meeting. All meetings are open to the public.AC Transit seeks applicants who are regular users of its bus service and reside within its Alameda County service area which includes the cities of Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland, Alameda, San Leandro, Hayward, Fremont, Piedmont, Newark and the unincorporated areas of Castro Valley, San Lorenzo, Cherryland, Ashland and Fairview.Applications must be submitted by Friday, June 29, 2012. Applicants must provide information on which lines they ride and how often they utilize AC Transit's bus service (daily, weekly, etc.).If interested, contact AC Transit District Secretary Linda Nemeroff at (510) 891-7201 for an application, then return the completed form to her at 1600 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA 94612 or by email to firstname.lastname@example.com. This appointment is subject to approval by the Alameda CTC.For more info about the CAC and Alameda CTC, visit www.alamedactc.org/app_pages/view/14.


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Coping With a Stroke: What to Expect When Becoming a Caregiver to Your Parent
It's every person's worst nightmare. The phone rings and it's a hospital attendant on the other end telling you your parent has suffered a stroke.
This can change your life in a single moment, sending you into a world of changes and new obstacles. You have now become the caregiver.
This is a scary experience, but it need not blindside you totally. You can cope if you are prepared for the changes that lie ahead, and you are willing to take the necessary time to learn how to care for your parent.
If your parent has a stroke, be prepared for these changes:
- After suffering a stroke, a person can have mood changes, crying easily or for no reason at all, or laughing out loud at inappropriate times. A person that was once shy and timid might now be impulsive, causing him or her to be reckless and at a greater risk for injury.
- Physical problems could also arise, such as problems swallowing, vision impairment or mobility issues. These issues all lead to lifestyle changes. Stroke survivors may need to learn how to prepare their meals, how to compensate for lack of vision or how to move around.
- Speech issues can result from stroke. Sometimes a person can't speak at all. Or, they may be able to speak, but can't understand what others are saying.
- Following a stroke, individuals often need to take numerous medications. Proper dosing will have to be followed, and you'll need to learn how the medications will affect your parent. For example, if a medication makes your parent bleed easier, they will need to use an electric or safety razor when shaving.
- Some stroke survivors need to rely on a wheelchair for mobility, at least for some period of time. You may need to make changes in the home to accommodate them. For example, a bathroom may have to be modified to include hand rails, a shower seat or a lowered toilet.
The more involved you are in your parent's rehabilitation process, the easier it will be when you take him or her home.
Hands-on training is the key to success. I suggest you join your parent during his or her rehabilitation sessions. You should become a fully integrated member of the rehabilitation team, working side-by-side with clinicians and staying informed at every stage of the process.
The more interaction you have with your parent throughout the rehabilitation process, the easier it will be when you have to care for him or her on your own.
You may feel overwhelmed as you help transition your parent to his or her new life. A good way to cope with these feelings is to share them. Seek out a support group in your area for the family members of stroke survivors.
You may also want to encourage your parent to participate in a stroke support group as well.
And get out of the house when you can. People who suffer a life-altering event, such as a stroke, can become depressed. It's good to get them out and among other people, doing the things they loved to do before so they can continue to live their life.
Being a caregiver to a parent who has suffered a stroke can be difficult. But you are not alone. There are still good times to be had. Use this time to bond with your parent, building an even stronger relationship than the one you had before.
And remember, it wasn't too long ago they were caring for you. This is just your time to return the favor.


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.NET Localization, Part 2: Creating Satellite Assembliesby Satya Komatineni
One time in .NET that you need to know about satellite assemblies is when you are dealing with localization. For localizing text, one doesn't hard code text on a page, but uses a key for that text. The text equivalent for the key is retrieved from a file called a resource file. A resource file is essentially a dictionary of associations between the keys and their textual values. You will have this resource file duplicated once for each language that you support. .NET will retrieve values from these multiple language-resource files based on the chosen language context.
Consider a resource file called MyText.resx. A resource file can be in any of three
different formats: plain text, XML, or a binary resources file. There are
utilities (
resgen.exe) that can convert a resource file from one format to the
other. Typically, this resource file, MyTest.resx, is called a default resource
because it is this resource file that the .NET libraries will go for, if there
are no language-specific resource files. This file gets compiled and becomes part
of your executable. If you named your application MyApplication, then you
will have
MyApplication.exe, containing your resource
MyTest.resources (Not
quite, but close).
Assume for a second that you are providing a language-dependent resource file called:
en-gb stands for the English language version of Great Britain.)
Typically, this file is planned for, and constructed outside of, the building process that is employed for constructing MyApplication. You will have to refer to the localization resources to find out why. Anyway, .NET provides a mechanism by which you can create an assembly that contains just the compiled MyText.en-gb.resx. This assembly is called a satellite assembly because the presence of this assembly is optional and standalone.
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So, in your localization process, you will be supplying these satellite
assemblies; one each for each language. And if you go through the MSDN
documenation for creating satellite assemblies, you will know that you use a
tool called
al.exe (Assembly Linker) to do this. When I went through this
documentation and also the documentation on the Web, the following
questions remained largely unanswered:
How can I use
al.exefor multiple resource files?
- What naming conventions should I use for the assembled resource files?
- Can I use the Visual Studio IDE for this purpose?
How can I use
ildasmto help me with this process?
Why do I need to use
Should I be using
In short, how should I go about, in a practical sense, using satellite assemblies in a non-trivial project (a project containing multiple resource files, one for each module, etc.)?
Why Can't I Use the Visual Studio IDE For My Resources?
You Can Create Resources
For smaller projects, this is quite doable. The process is as follows. Inside of Visual Studio IDE, you can highlight a project or a folder and add a new item of the type "assembly resource." This will create a resource file with the extension .resx. Because you are able to do this at a folder level, you can create resources at the root level of you project or at a sub-folder level. It is also clear that you can have multiple resource files in your project.
You Can Build the Application to Include the Resources
When you build the application after introducing the above resource files, you will see that the Visual Studio IDE has embedded these resource files into your application with the following names:
MyApplication.MyTest.Resources MyApplication.MyModule1.MyMod1.Resources
See the name change? These generated names are important, as you will have to use these generated names to access your resources. Let us follow up with an example of accessing these resources.
You Can Access Your Resources Based on Their Altered Names
ResourceManager rm = new ResourceManager (
String MyResourceTextValue = Rm.getString("MyResourceTextID");
Note: Read the included reference for a detailed discussion of how to use the resource managers.
Notice the first argument to the
ResourceManager -- this is the altered name of
the resource file. And it is also noteworthy that you will have to individually
access your resource files. There is no single global way of accessing the
resources from all of the resource files.
You Can Use Visual Studio IDE to Define Resources in Other Languages as Well
Taking your MyText.resx file and defining a language-dependent version is as easy as adding a new item under the same directory called:
Inside of this language-dependent file, you will specify your resources in Great Britain English. And when you tell Visual Studio IDE to build MyApplication, you will see that an extra directory is constructed under the bin directory, and a .dll file inside of it.
This DLL is essentially the satellite assembly of your resources. As you add more and more languages, you will see these satellite assemblies created automatically.
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This will work fine in a smaller environment where the developers are working as language translators as well. Once we introduce external language translators, it is better to remove these files (just the language-dependent ones and not the default ones) from the Visual Studio IDE environment and send them off to the language translators. Once the translations are available, we should be able to generate the satellite assemblies independently of the mainline Visual Studio IDE.
This separation will increase productivity due to its separation and fewer dependencies. The whole goal of this article is to show you how to go about explaining this extenral satellite assembly generation for multiple resource files.
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Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday unveiled details of a $74.2 billion budget proposal — the largest in Florida history.
Scott, who is seeking re-election in 2014, proposes to increase spending statewide by $4 billion, including $1.25 billion more for education. Much of that would cover a $2,500 teacher pay raise and a pension fund contribution that won't be felt in classrooms.
"It's the right thing to do for our children," Scott said of his spending plan as he stood at a lectern adorned with his budget logo, "Florida Families First."
As a candidate in 2010, Scott campaigned on a promise to shrink government, and his first budget in 2011 cut school spending by $1.3 billion. But his spending plan contains one of the biggest one-year increases in spending in Florida history.
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Opposition activists in Syria report that there's been another day of heavy shelling in a number of cities, as rebel fighters continue their guerrilla war to topple President Bashar Assad. Host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Peter Kenyon in Beirut, which has seen a huge increase in refugees in recent days.
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Sony have announced today that they are to give away a free PSM game, once every week for the next 6 weeks.
I didn't know the PlayStation mobile store was universal. Samurai Beatdown shows up free for me, but I bought it when PSM first launched, so my lost. I'm in the US, if it matters.


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Velocity Micro today announced the immediate availability of the Vision M35 desktop powered by AMD FX-9000 series processors. Specifically designed for gaming, enthusiast, and workstation applications, the Vision M35 boasts 8 unlocked cores of processing power at up to an amazing 5.0GHz thanks to the AMD FX-9590 and FX-9370 processor options. Configurations start at $2,799. Specs of the FX-9590 and FX-9370 are as follows:
"AMD FX Processors have allowed us to reach that 5.0 GHz milestone that seemed so far away just a few years ago," said Randy Copeland, President and CEO of Velocity Micro. "With up to 5.0 GHz Max Turbo frequency, the Vision M35 is an absolute monster and a great representation of the Velocity Micro brand. We're thrilled to have been a part of AMD's launch of these amazing processors."
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College baseball series with Flagler College originally set for Friday, Saturday, Sunday has been adjusted due to Friday morning rain. The three-game Peach Belt Conference (PBC) set is now a doubleheader Saturday, Feb. 22 at 2 p.m. with a single game Sunday at 1 p.m. at John Kurtz Field.
The series helps the Bobcats kick off the 2014 PBC season. Georgia College is 5-2 thus far this season, owning a series sweep of King University, taking one of three from No. 1 University of Tampa and a single game from the University of West Georgia.
Flagler has a 7-3 overall record, going 1-2 in PBC play at Lander University last weekend. The Saints took last year's meeting with the Bobcats two games to one.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.