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As noun
a room equipped for taking a bath or shower
toilet (def )
As Idioms
go to / use the bathroom, to use the toilet; urinate or defecate
As verb (used with object)
to drain of strength or energy, wear out, or fatigue greatly, as a person:I have exhausted myself working
to use up or consume completely; expend the whole of:He exhausted a fortune in stock-market speculation
to draw out all that is essential in (a subject, topic, etc
); treat or study thoroughly
to empty by drawing out the contents:to exhaust a tank of fuel oil
to create a vacuum in
to draw out or drain off completely
to deprive wholly of useful or essential properties, possessions, resources, etc
Chemistry, Pharmacology
to deprive of ingredients by the use of solvents, as a drug
to destroy the fertility of (soil), as by intensive cultivation
As verb (used without object)
to pass out or escape, as spent steam from the cylinder of an engine
As noun, Machinery
the escape of steam or gases from the cylinder of an engine
the steam or gases ejected
Also called exhaust system
the parts of an engine through which the exhaust is ejected
As noun, plural roofs
the external upper covering of a house or other building
a frame for supporting this:an open-timbered roof
the highest part or summit:The Himalayas are the roof of the world
something that in form or position resembles the roof of a house, as the top of a car, the upper part of the mouth, etc
a house
the rock immediately above a horizontal mineral deposit
As verb (used with object)
to provide or cover with a roof
As Idioms
go through the roof, to increase beyond all expectations: Foreign travel may very well go through the roof next year
Also, hit the roof
to lose one's temper; become extremely angry
raise the roof, Informal
to create a loud noise: The applause raised the roof
to complain or protest noisily: He'll raise the roof when he sees that bill
As noun
an opening, as in a wall, serving as an outlet for air, smoke, fumes, or the like
an opening at the earth's surface from which volcanic material, as lava, steam, or gas, is emitted
the anal or excretory opening of animals, especially of those below mammals, as birds and reptiles
the small opening at the breech of a gun by which fire is communicated to the charge
a means of exit or escape; an outlet, as from confinement
expression; utterance; release:to give vent to one's emotions
the act or fact of venting; emission or discharge
As verb (used with object)
to give free play or expression to (an emotion, passion, etc
):to vent rage
to give public utterance to:to vent one's opinions
to relieve by giving expression to something:He vented his disappointment by criticizing his successor
to release or discharge (liquid, smoke, etc
to furnish or provide with a vent or vents
As verb (used without object)
to be relieved of pressure or discharged by means of a vent
(of an otter or other animal) to rise to the surface of the water to breathe
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Atheism Is Not the Lack of a Belief/Claim
(1)Atheism is not a claim; it is the lack of a claim––the lack of belief in Theism. We've heard that one many times. At least, I have. What follows below will be a dialogue between myself and an imaginary atheist who thinks (1) is the way to go about handling Theism.
A. Atheism is not a claim and so it shoulders no burden of proof. It is the lack of the belief in Theism.
B. So it is a lack of a claim, and thus not a claim, yes?
A. Yes, that is what I said.
B. Just making sure. So a claim is simply a proposition?
A. What is a proposition precisely?
B. Well, it is a claim about reality.
A. Oh! Certainly then; atheism is not a claim about reality, but a lack.
B. So it is not a proposition and certainly not a command?
A. Yes, it is neither a proposition nor a command.
B. If atheism is neither a proposition or a command, I have no idea what it means. Is it not babble crammed together with letters?
A. No, no! It is certainly not babble! You misunderstand me. Think of some being in a far off galaxy known as Zoidyxilumop. Do you not lack a belief in such a being?
B. I did! But now that you've mentioned it––now that you've mentioned the proposition that Zoidyxilumop exists––I no longer only lack a belief, but also deny the proposition that Zoidyxilumop exists.
A. What are you getting at?
B. It's all good and well to say I lack belief in x when I have no idea of the proposition x, but when I am aware of such a proposition, then I do have some belief about it. That is to say, I no longer only lack a belief, but affirm or deny a proposition, or maintain that I believe neither that it is or that it is not.
A. You say Zoidyxilumop does not exist? How could you say that?
B. I can be quite confident that no such being exists. You did make him up after all. Either way, you did not respond to what I said.
A. I am not quite sure what to say.
B. Now it is time I ask you an important question: do you have knowledge that there is such a proposition as that God exists?
A. Yes, I do know that such a proposition exists (in the mind).
B. So you cannot simply lack a belief in it. You either affirm, deny, or withhold judgement about it. And since you think the proposition God exists is not true of reality, then an affirmation of the opposite is explicit in your denial.
A. But what about babies? They lack belief in God?
B. Yes, they lack belief in the proposition that God exists, and in the proposition that God does not exist. They are babies after all! You on the other hand do not only lack belief, but also affirm the opposite.
A. So is Atheism a claim?
B. Yes, it is. Atheism is the claim that God does not exist, and since such a claim/belief excludes belief that God does exist, it is the lack of such a claim. Yet it is more. It is the lack of a claim, but also the affirmation of the denial of that claim. We might distinguish between Ignorant Atheists (those that know nothing of the proposition that God exists – for instance, babies) and Atheists (those that do know of such a proposition and indeed deny it).


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Plamen Staikov, who accidentally had a puncture in the 2nd staged of the rally "Bulgaria", rides on the limit with full throttle in the 3rd stage "Avren 1" and was the fastest in it. He set a time of 8:57.4 min and outpaced by 13.4 sec the leader in the overall standings Yagiz Avci with codriver Bahadir Gusenmez with Peugeot 208 R5. Ugur Soylu was third for the stage with the codriver Aras Dincer. The successful performance of Ignat Isaev with codriver Milen Iliev from the start of the rally continues. He is the fastest in the stage of the Bulgarian drivers with a time of 9: 24.7 min, being the 5th overall.
In the general standings a leader is Yagiz Avci with a total time of 38:05.4 min. He has an advance of over 1 minute ahead of Burak Cukurova / Vedat Bostanci with Škoda Fabia R5 – 39:11.1 min Isaev continues to be the 3rd 0 1:47 min from the leading driver. With his victory at the stage Staykov moved to 27th position in the overall standings. In the single-car championship Hyundai Racing Trophy the fastest in the stage was Martin Koev, who left behind him Simeon Simeonov. The latter continues to lead Koev in the overall standings with 15.5 seconds.
Meanwhile, it became clear that for technical reasons Orhan Avcioglu is out with Ford Fiesta R5 before the start of the 2nd stage. He has broken an alternator belt that rotates the water pump. He was driving without hydraulics.


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Ed Miliband will deliver "power to the people" in 2015 with a pledge to freeze gas and electricity prices for the first 20 months of a Labour government.
The groundbreaking intervention into the energy market would force the Big Six energy companies to curb their rip-off prices.
The move would save an average household £120 and businesses £1800 over the period.
The Labour leader announced the plan to rein in profiteering power companies in a "Britain can do better" appeal for a Labour government in 2015.
Energy firms last night raised the prospect of the lights going out in shortages if their profits are hit.
Miliband's surprise move came during a policy-heavy speech to the party conference in Brighton.
He said it was time to "press the reset button" on the price of energy.
He said: "The companies won't like it because it will cost them money. But they have been overcharging people for too long because the market doesn't work."
Energy bills have risen by almost £300 since the Coalition came to power. It is the biggest cost businesses face after wages.
A recent Which? consumer report estimated the Big Six energy companies had overcharged British consumers by £3.9billion a year since 2010.
It puts Miliband on the right side of the battle to restore Britain as a country where everyone benefits fairly from growing prosperity.
He said: "They used to say a rising tide lifts all boats, now the rising tide just seems to lift the yachts."
In an hour-long speech without notes, he made an appeal to Scots to reject independence next year.
He told the story of Cathy Murphy, a Glasgow woman whose life had been saved in a Liverpool hospital. He said: "The nurses and doctors don't ask whether she is Scottish or English, the hospital doesn't care where she lives. They care about her because she is Scottish and British."
Playing the NHS card infuriated the SNP, who said Miliband did not understand how the health service operated in devolved Scotland.
Miliband made a series of big policy announcements throughout his speech. The bedroom tax would be abolished, the minimum wage raised, business taxes cut and childcare guaranteed from 8am to 6pm.
He also promised votes for 16 year olds.
Miliband accused the Tories of taking Britain on a low-wage race to the bottom. He said: "David Cameron talks about Britain being in a global race.
"But what he doesn't tell you is that he thinks the only way Britain can win is for you to lose."
Miliband said that means "the lowest wages, the worst terms and conditions, and the fewest rights at work – a race to the bottom", adding: "The only way we can win is in a race to the top."
He promised to clamp down on rogue landlords and the exploitation of foreign workers.
Turning his fire on Tories who have jibed that he is a weak leader, he faced down Cameron. He said: "If they want a debate on leadership and character, be my guest."
Cameron, he said, sided with the strong against the weak – with Murdoch against press victims, with the tobacco lobby against cancer charities and with millionaires who want a tax cut.
He added: "There's an easier way to remember it.
"He was the Prime Minister who introduced the bedroom tax, I'll be the prime minister who repeals the bedroom tax."


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Congratulations to TWG Construction, LLC. on the Safety Resources, Inc. 2015 Project of the Year for Penn Street Tower.
Congratulations to TWG Construction, LLC. on the Safety Resources, Inc. 2015 Project of the Year for Penn Street Tower.
It's always a blast at our annual Christmas party. Gag gifts, white elephant gifts, games and a pitch-in. Oh! And of course, the ugly Christmas sweater contest.
In the field, overlooking Indianapolis's beautiful circle.
Photo Credit: Tim Foulks
Out in the field again, this time near the Kentucky River. A barge passing through a canal lock on the Kentucky River.
Photo Credit: Karl Weisser
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The new Cummins Distribution Center project overlooking downtown Indy. Highlighting the various temporary guardrail systems around the project.
Photo Credit: Aaron Wissen
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The Indiana Roofing Contractor Association (IRCA) annual luncheon and tradeshow.
Overlooking the Indiana Statehouse from behind a rooftop guardrail system.
Safe use of suspension scaffolding on a current Safety Resources project.
Different day, different job; Performing sonar inspections of a dam.
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Guardrail system overlooking downtown Indianapolis.
The Dog Days of Summer: Heat Stress and You
By: Tim Foulks
September 2015
Preventative measures to reduce and control the frequency of heat-related illness should be discussed and reviewed with your team at the beginning of the warm season. Preventative measures include:
1) Selecting appropriate clothing that will wick away sweat and keep the body cool. Light colored, loose-fitting, cotton (or other breathable material) should be worn, while non-breathable synthetic clothing should be avoided. The right clothes will allow sweat to evaporate from the skin resulting in a cooling effect for the skins surface.
2) Begin hydration before outdoor work and repeat often. Drink enough water so that thirst is not experienced. Drinking about 1-cup of water every 15-20 minutes will help prevent dehydration. Additionally, drinks that contribute to dehydration should be avoided (alcohol, fluids with large amounts of caffeine and/or sugar).
3) Gradually increase the duration and intensity of outdoor work to properly allow the body to acclimate to high temperatures. Complete heat acclimatization can require up to 14 days of exposure, and can vary from person to person. Slowly integrate workers into the warmer environments and introduce breaks often at first while the body is adjusting to the warmer climate.
4) Pay attention to weather reports and schedule work around cooler parts of the day. Attempt to limit work activities during the hottest part of the day, particularly during humid days that may increase sweating and decrease time to dehydration. If work must be performed during the warmest part of the day, try to provide shade and offer frequent hydration and rest breaks.
5) Stick to the Buddy System. It's essential to monitor your own physical condition as well as that of your coworkers. Having a designated person check in with workers to monitor signs and symptoms of heat related illness and provide cool water will help to reduce the frequency and severity of heat related illness. The designated person should be responsible for and allowed to have workers take breaks when heat related illness is a potential concern.
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I'll be busy later today. I need to write Christmas Cards that we're going to send to our family and friends. Print out already for the return addresses. I'm really excited for this Christmas. Though we only have few days to spend time with my husband's sisters. Will go back home on Christmas Day. My husband has a Wrestling practice for the Holiday Tournament in Springfield, Missouri. Anyway, I'll get off in here now as I need to start writing on the Christmas Cards that we're going to send.
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December 06, 2010
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Peruvian food is having a moment — and nowhere is that more evident than at Tito's Ceviche & Pisco, a new upscale Peruvian restaurant on Magazine Street.
The last time I visited Tito's, it was fairly late by Uptown standards — past 9 p.m. on a Tuesday evening — and the dining room was packed. Inside, white linen-topped tables were filled with diners eating delicate quinoa salads or digging into giant platters of arroz con mariscos. Outside, a smattering of folks braved the crisp fall air to sip on pisco sours under the branches of a towering magnolia tree.
Service is poised and informative, which adds to the elegant dining experience. A television above the bar runs a loop showing Peruvian landscapes, which is a little distracting and doesn't fit with the upscale ambience.
To start our meal, golden-fried cancha — crispy corn kernels — arrived alongside a creamy and deceptively spicy cilantro sauce. Next there were plates of delicate ceviche — the restaurant's namesake, but hardly its only offering. The ceviche Criollo features a Gulf fish such as drum layered with thinly shaved red onions and sweet potatoes, swimming in the country's ubiquitous leche de tigre, a citrusy elixir with the soft heat of aji amarillo peppers.
Part of what makes Peruvian cuisine fascinating is the country's diverse culinary influences, stemming from China, Spain and Japan. The latter's presence is most obvious in dishes carrying the nikkei name, a hybrid cuisine with both Japanese and Peruvian influences. In the nikkei tiradito, thinly sliced tuna is served with slivers of avocado and lightly drizzled with lime, soy and sesame oil for a delicate and flavorful finish.
Tacu tacu con lomo saltado is a dish that seems emblematic of chef Juan Lock's Chinese and Peruvian heritage. A crispy rice cake made with fried rice and creamy canary beans is topped with seared tenderloin tips, tomatoes and onions, all in a soy-rich "oriental" sauce, which soaks into the rice, lending each bite a delicious umami kick. The same canary beans find their way into a warm, creamy stew served with an enormous braised lamb shank drizzled with a cilantro sauce, a hearty dish appropriate for autumn.
A traditional take on a Peruvian causa — mashed potato terrines flavored with lemon juice, aji amarillo and olive oil — is layered with sweet lumps of crabmeat and avocado, topped with chopped hardboiled eggs and black olives. The indulgent starter is more than enough for two people to share. Also delicious are skewers of grilled veal hearts — crispy and earthy without overbearing gaminess — tucked beneath a blanket of garlicky chimichurri.
Portions run large with many dishes, and to cap off an evening here, alfajores (buttery shortbread cookies) are the perfect finishing touch. A simple treat filled with a rich and sweet dulce de leche, they're all diners need to complete an elegant meal showcasing Peru's multifaceted cuisine.


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Police arrested one man and are still looking for another in the June 6 sexual assault of a woman and the beating of a man, authorities said in a news release.
Joseph Peter Morgan, 25, and his accomplice broke into the couple's Jim Taylor Drive apartment at 11 p.m. earlier this month, Sgt. Don Stone said in the release.
The 19-year-old woman was sexually assaulted, Stone said. The 27-year-old man was beaten.
The woman escaped through a window, ran to a neighbor's apartment and called police, Stone said. The man also was able to escape, but only after being chased by Morgan and the other man, both of whom were armed and took an undisclosed amount of cash from the couple's home, he said.
DNA taken from the apartment led detectives to Morgan, who was arrested at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Stone said.
Morgan, 8122 Ned Ave., was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on one count each of aggravated second-degree battery, armed robbery, second-degree sexual battery and simple battery.
Anyone with information about Morgan's accomplice can contact police at (225) 389-4869 or Crime Stoppers at (225) 344- STOP or (225) 344-7867, Stone said.


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Book Review: Japanese Cocktails
Japanese cocktail recipes for beginners
Despite being home to some of the best bartenders in the world (by now many will have heard of Hidetsugu Ueno, bartender at the legendary Bar High Five or Kazuo Uyeda, purveyor of the 'hard shake') Japan is better known for its beer and its sake than for its cocktails. Even Japanese whisky enjoys a higher profile thanks to Bill Murray and a certain Suntory Limited.
Enter Yuki Kato. In her new book, Japanese Cocktails, Kato makes the case for Japan to be taken seriously as not only a cocktail loving culture, but also as a destination for those seeking to experience the unique flavor of ingredients like ume, yuzu and shiso.
The book is organized into four sections: sake cocktails, shochu cocktails, whisky cocktails, and cocktails made with other ingredients such as rum or vodka. Along the way, we encounter Japanese standards such as the Hinomaru (sake and umeboshi), the Oolong Hai (barley shochu with oolong tea) as well as curios like the Tokyo Dome (barley shochu, apple juice, lemon juice and ginger ale) and the Oyaji (whisky soda with the additions of a slice of orange and maraschino cherries).
From the outset, Kato demonstrates that she is able to discuss Japanese concepts of balance and seasonal produce in a way that is readily accessible. Although raised in Japan, she understands her audience may not be familiar with ingredients such as shichimi togarashi (a Japanese mixed spice) and writes for those with little or no knowledge of Japan or it's drinking culture.
"Drinking," she writes in her introduction, "is an intrinsic part of traditional Japanese family culture. Many homes include a well-stocked liquor cabinet with Japanese whisky, Scotch, bourbon, sake, and shochu. Sometimes you'll find a case of domestic beer, but alcohol like wine or chu-hai, canned cocktails, are not typically kept on hand."
Here, Kato also points out some of the essential differences between Japanese cocktails and their western equivalents. She notes that Japanese cocktails are, by and large, light on alcohol. She quite rightly observes that "It is not a Japanese custom to drink without eating, so there are not many bars that serve alcohol without food in Japan. Paring food and cocktails may be new in some countries, but not in Japan". Readers may be forgiven, then, for wondering why Kato did not complete this thought by adding food pairings to her recipes.
The recipes themselves are, on the whole, mercifully straightforward. Those seeking a challenge, however, may want to look toward the Hotate-zake ("In a small saucepan over medium heat, add butter, scallop, and rosemary and heat for 1 to 2 minutes") or the Bubble Shooter (remember to marinate those salmon eggs overnight!)
Alongside are brief snippets of cultural background, and while well chosen, there's not a great deal of depth. There are passages on baseball in Japan, Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market and cherry blossom season, but few of these go beyond the tourist brochures. Nevertheless, there are also some great little tidbits of information scattered throughout the book, such as the fact that the Kamiya Bar in Asakusa, Tokyo lays claim to being the oldest bar in Japan (1880).
The book's structure make a good deal of sense – the four sections are easy to navigate and let's face it, this is the kind of book you dip into rather than read from cover to cover. Still, international readers might question which cocktails are commonly found on Japanese menus, which are unique to particular Japanese bars, and those that are Kato's own original recipes.
Japanese Cocktails' credits afford copyright to Suntory International Corp. As a result, some parts of the book feel like an ad campaign. Unsurprisingly, this is particularly the case in the whisky section, where the history of Japanese whisky may as well be the history of the company.
Japanese Cocktails is a good English-language introduction to the world of Japanese drink culture. Those new to sake and shochu are going to want it on their coffee tables. Those with a serious interest in the history of Japanese cocktail culture, however, will be hoping Kato's follow-up explores the subject in greater detail.
Japanese Cocktails
Mixed Drinks with Sake, Shochu, Whisky and More
by Yuri Kato
Illustrated, 96 pages
Chronicle Books, 1,384 yen
Japan Booze Blind: Oktoberfest
Host Christopher Pellegrini samples some of the many beers on offer at the 2010 Oktoberfest in Hibiya Park, Tokyo. But which was his favorite?
Tokyo Bites: Oktoberfest
Despite some unseasonably wet weather, Christopher Pellegrini joins in the revelry at this year's Oktoberfest in Hibiya Park, Tokyo.
Recipe: Negitoro maki
An easy recipe for negitoro maki that can be adapted to suit your own taste.
Norimaki is the ever-popular type of sushi which comes wrapped in nori (seaweed). This particular recipe has tuna inside, but you could just as easily fill your norimaki with other ingredients. Indeed, the American California roll is essentially norimaki with avocado.
For this version you'll need a makisu (bamboo rolling mat). Naturally, makisu are easy to come by in Japan (here they're available from supermarkets and even 100 yen shops). Elsewhere, you should be able to buy one from any good Asian grocery store.
- 2 go sushi rice (refer to the chirashizushi recipe)
- 5 to 6 sheets of nori (seaweed)
- 400g of (preferably fatty) tuna
- 10 asatsuki chives
Method (makes 5 -6 rolls)
First, prepare sushi rice according to the chirashizushi recipe. Next, mince the tuna with two kitchen knives until it becomes a rough paste and thinly chop the asatsuki chives.
Toast a sheet of nori by passing it over a high flame to make it crispy and dry.
Set the makisu (bamboo rolling mat) onto a flat space. Place the sheet of nori onto the mat and then gently spoon some of the sushi rice onto the seaweed. Spread it over the sheet, leaving 3 cm uncovered at the top and bottom.
Place some of the minced tuna and a pinch of the chopped asatsuki onto the rice (if you're worrying about quantity, aim for roughly 1/5 to 1/6 of each ingredient per roll). Now dab your finger in water and run it along the edge of the seaweed (the area that isn't covered). Lift the edge of the bamboo mat and the nori sheet together nearest you, and bring over to meet the far edge of the sheet. Gently press the bamboo mat around the roll to shape it.
Finally, slice the roll into 6 – 8 equal pieces. Use a moistened cloth to clean the knife after each use.
Repeat this process 5 – 6 times.
Tokyo Bites: 2010 Thai Festival
Rachael White reports from the 2010 Thai Festival in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo.
Recipe: Fresh Strawberries & Japanese Whiskey Sabayon
Rachael White explains how to prepare this delicious seasonal dessert.
As an expat in Tokyo, finding recipes that make one feel "at home" can be challenging. Many recipes westerners are familiar with require the use of an oven (not a common appliance in most Japanese kitchens). This recipe for fresh strawberries with whiskey sabayon fits the bill for a dessert that is: 1) simple to make with basic ingredients that can be found in Japanese grocery stores and 2) does not require an oven.
If you have a stove, a whisk, and a little time, you are more than equipped to make this impressive French dessert with a little Japanese flair. Sabayon, or zabaglione in Italian, is a southern French dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, and wine. The ingredients are whipped like crazy to form a light, foamy, creamy topping for fruit, cake, etc. In this case, Japanese whiskey and a touch of vanilla extract replace the wine. Sake would be an excellent substitute as well.
This time of year is especially good for strawberries in Japan. Although they can be found year round in some grocery stores in Tokyo, spring time seems to be when these ruby-red jewels are perfectly sweet and delicious. If they are purchased outside of the season, the texture tends to be hard and the inside is white and nearly tasteless. So, carpe diem and seize the strawberries, friends!
Ingredients (Makes 4-6 servings)
- 8 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup Japanese Whiskey
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 pints strawberries, hulled and quartered
Combine the whiskey, vanilla and sugar in a bowl. Whisk to combine. Put the egg yolks in a medium glass or aluminum bowl. Add the whiskey mixture to the egg yolks and whisk lightly until the egg yolks are just broken. Place the bowl over a double boiler over medium heat. *Note: If you do not have a double boiler it is OK! Just find a heatproof bowl that will fit in the top of a small/medium saucepan.
Fill the saucepan/double boiler with about 2 inches/5 centimeters of water. (Make sure the bottom of the bowl is at least an inch away from the surface of the water. If it touches the water, the eggs will scramble.) Whisk constantly for 10-12 minutes until the egg mixture has almost doubled in volume and is light and foamy. The color should change from egg yolk yellow to a light, creamy, pale yellow color. Remove from the heat and the double boiler.
Divide the strawberries into 4 dessert bowls. Spoon the sabayon over the strawberries and garnish with mint leaves.
Restaurant Review: Plik chee fah 2 (Shinjuku)
Reliable Thai, only a few minutes walk from Shinjuku Station.
One of the quirks of living in Tokyo is that some types of cuisine are ubiquitous, while others are virtually ignored. There are numerous French bistros, Italian pizzerias and Chinese fast-food joints, yet finding a decent bowl of Vietnamese pho or Malaysian laksa can prove difficult. And don't even get me started on the dearth of Lebanese or Moroccan food.
Thankfully, good quality Thai cooking is well represented. From the casual charm of Shinjuku's Bankirao to the upmarket Mango Tree in Marunouchi, lovers of lemongrass and chili needn't go far to get their fix.
One of the most popular is Plik chee fah. Hidden away on the 5th floor of an unremarkable building on the west side of Shinjuku Station, Plik chee fah serves up good quality renditions of familiar favorites – curries, noodle dishes and spicy salads. The restaurant is especially popular at lunchtime, when it packs in the crowds of (mostly) young professional women.
Like so many of Tokyo's other Thai restaurants, this 5th floor loft space isn't much to look at. Plastic tablecloths protect the furniture from falling debris and the window curtains appear to have seen better days. Nor does it stand on formality – although the soundtrack of Thai pop is for the most part unobtrusive, the same cannot be said for the widescreen television which gets switched on mid-evening. All this, of course, is part of the charm, but probably not ideal for that intimate candlelit dinner.
The weekday lunch menu (11 am to 3 pm) consists of a dozen or so 'sets', including standards such as kao man kai and tom yum goong, for under 1000 yen. On the weekend, the restaurant serves up a lunch buffet between 11 am and 3 pm. On a recent visit, the minced chicken and basil proved especially popular (I apologize to anyone standing in line behind me).
As one would expect, the dinner menu is more comprehensive. It contains all of the classic Thai dishes one usually comes across in Tokyo: pad Thai (1200 yen), fried morning glory (a tad overpriced at 1200 yen) and popia tod (spring rolls) for 1000 yen. There are also a couple of surprises: Chiang Mai's signature dish, kao soy (1300 yen) and a wide selection of salads, including yam wun sen (spicy noodle salad – 1200 yen) and yam mu yaw (Thai sausage salad) for 1300 yen.
We decided to take things slow and to start with drinks and the yum wun sen. The waiter, however, had other ideas. Service was extremely fast. Our salad arrived only moments after ordering, and seemed none the worse for it. A riot of flavors accompanied the first mouthful. First sour, then salty, then sweet. The perfectly cooked texture of the squid and shrimp was impressive.
Next, we decided on the kao soy. Essentially a chicken noodle soup, the Chiang Mai original balances different textures (soft noodles/a crispy noodle garnish) and flavors (sweet coconut milk/spicy chili). We found Plik chee fah's version went overboard with the coconut milk. Thick and glutinous, it was a little too sweet. This could have been helped by a dash of lime juice, but like many other South East Asian restaurants in Japan, a side dish of lemon substituted for lime.
If you're looking for satisfying, unpretentious Thai, Plik chee fah will not disappoint. On leaving, the staff thank you twice, in both Thai and Japanese.
Now what's "That was delicious" in Thai?
Directions: Plik chee fah (2) is located on the 5th floor of Meiko Building in Nishi Shinjuku. To get there, walk out Shinjuku Station's Odakyu Exit and proceed down the hill toward Seibu Shinjuku. On the left side of the street you'll see a large pachinko parlor. The restaurant is located in a small building in the street to the rear.
Tel: 03-5326-8588
5th Floor of the Meiko Building, Nishi Shinjuku.
Recipe: Asian-style roast chicken salad
This Southeast Asian dish is incredibly simple to make. The salad employs one of the great flavor combinations – sesame and roast chicken.
It also contains nam pla, the aromatic Thai fish sauce, which adds depth to the flavor. If you don't have any on hand, you can substitute nuoc man, the Vietnamese version of the same thing (although in Japan, nam pla tends to be easier to find than nuoc man – I buy mine at Seiyu supermarket).
Serve with with rice noodles such as pho.
Ingredients (for 2-3 people)
- 250g chicken breast
- 1 tablespoon of sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons of roasted sesame seeds
- 1 teaspoon of fish sauce (nam pla or nuoc man)
- 2-3 fresh lettuce leaves
- 1 green pepper
- 1/4 of a red onion
Break the lettuce into bite-sized pieces by hand. Thinly slice the onion (against the grain) and cut the green pepper in half and then into thin strips.
Place the vegetables into a bowl, then pour just enough water to cover them. Add 4-5 ice cubes to keep them crispy. Leave these in the water for about ten minutes, then drain.
Sprinkle a pinch of salt and 1 pinch of pepper over the chicken breast and let it sit for for 5 minutes. Next, dribble a teaspoon of Thai fish sauce over the chicken and let it sit for another 5 minutes.
Spread the sesame oil over the chicken breast with a cooking brush (or use the back side of a small spoon). Dust the roasted sesame seeds over both sides of the chicken.
Preheat the oven to 210 degrees Celsius (410 Fahrenheit) and place the chicken on a tray covered in baking paper. Cook in the oven for 20-25 minutes.
When the chicken has finished cooking, take it out of the oven and let it cool. Once ready, tear the chicken into bite-sized pieces by hand. Plate the vegetables and then decorate with the pieces of chicken. Garnish with coriander (cilantro to those in North America) and a piece of lemon or lime.
May '10 Magazine Roundup
What's new in Japan's food magazines? Marcus Lovitt conducts a whirlwind tour of Japan's culinary rags. This month: dancyu, ELLE à table, Syokuraku and Ryori Tsushin.
Foreign visitors to Japan frequently complain about the limited number of western breakfast options available. And let's face it: pre-dawn sushi at Tsukiji or a bowl of soba at a train station aren't for everyone, especially if you have young children in tow.
For those not enamored of chain coffee shops (Excelsior, Starbucks or the ever-smokey Dotour) the only options appear to be expensive hotel restaurants or to pick something up at a local bakery.
It's an unfortunate fact that Tokyo lags behind other major cities when it comes to breakfast options. While there are plenty of great independently-owned cafes, few open before 10 or 11 am. Why? Most Japanese eat at home, or skip the meal altogether in the rush to catch that train to work.
Things may be changing, however. Much has been made of Australian chef Bill Granger's latest venture, bills in Yokohama. Renowned for his Australian-style breakfasts, Granger has attracted a lot of attention for his focus on Aussie staples such as Eggs Benedict and buttery pancakes.
Acknowledging the western predilection for a morning dose of cholesterol, this month's dancyu (860 yen) is all eggs, done every which way. The magazine introduces restaurants offering classic egg dishes (boiled, scrambled, fried) as well as some of their recipes (eggs Benedict, egg sandwiches, huevos a la flamenca and puddings).
Another of dancyu's themes is seasonal vegetables – spring cabbage, spring onion, asparagus, green peas, and tomato fruit. The magazine includes seven recipes which make the most of what's now available in Japan's grocery stores.
ELLE à table (720 yen), meanwhile, looks at the latest French restaurants to open in Tokyo. The editors write that since the end of 2009 Tokyoites have enjoyed an increasing number of reasonably-priced French establishments. Rents have decreased because of the recession and young chefs are finding it easier to open their own places. ELLE writes about eight casual French dining options. They also focus on 3 locations: Nishi Azabu; what ELLE calls the 'Art East Area' (the area around Bakurocho and Asakusabashi) and 'Ura Ginza' (Higashi Ginza and Shintomicho). Finally, the magazine profiles seven new restaurants renowned for the quality of their food.
Syokuraku (860 yen) fills much of its May edition with those delectable dumplings, gyoza. The editors recommend gyoza restaurants based on five categories: fried gyoza, large gyoza, crispy gyoza, boiled gyoza and gyoza served on a frying pan. The magazine also visits Utsunomiya and Hamamatsu, two Japanese cities which are famous for the dish.
Finally, this month's Ryori tsushin (980 yen) examines 'sake for wine lovers'. The magazine explains how to approach sake by showing a comparison between sake and wine. They also suggest restaurants which provide a high-quality sake line up as well as food. Elsewhere in the magazine is devoted to dashi. Based on the notion that dashi is one of the key elements of Japanese cooking, the editors explain how to cook this combination of konbu (kelp), katsuobushi and water. They also present six dashi-based recipes.
And also…
Otoriyose, the practice of ordering regional specialties online via sites such as Rakuten, is currently a major trend. All of this month's magazines go out of their way to list websites where readers can purchase items such as gyoza (Syokuraku) and pâté (ELLE à table). The latter magazine even introduces a bar in Ginza (named chikappa) focused on otoriyose from Kyushu.


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Abuse Week
Behind Bush's latest assault on the press.
On May 16, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan expressed outrage over Newsweek's story that a U.S. military report was going to acknowledge that guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention center had tried to put a copy of the Quran down a toilet. "The report had real consequences. People have lost their lives,"McClellan said. "Our image abroad has been damaged." The next day, after Newsweek had fully retracted the story, McClellan added that the magazine had a responsibility to "help repair the damage" to our reputation in the Muslim world.
Let's see. A mistake … lives lost … America's image abroad damaged. Does any of that sound vaguely familiar? A few instances do spring to mind. Newsweek didn't have anything to do with them. McClellan's boss did.
Item: The Bush Administration endorsed poorly sourced and documented reports by Iraqi defectors that Saddam Hussein possessed and was continuing to develop weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear ones. On the basis of this mistake, Bush led the country into a war, which may or may not be justified depending on your point of view but which almost certainly would not have happened otherwise. So far, approximately 1,600 American military personnel, at least 2,000 Iraqi police and guardsmen, and upwards of 20,000 civilians have died as a direct result. America's reputation for speaking truthfully and acting in accord with international norms was flushed down the latrine, with very real consequences, including for our effort to contain nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea. Unlike the Newsweek story, the administration's WMD screw-up was not a good-faith error or the result of simple sloppiness and haste. As the recent Intelligence Commission report showed, the findings of the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, and Energy Department stretched the evidence for Iraqi WMD, which was then misused and oversold by former CIA director George Tenet and Vice President Dick Cheney, among others.
Item: At prisons in Afghanistan, U.S. military personnel employed interrogation techniques that are indistinguishable from torture, including "stress positions," sleep deprivation, intimidation by ferocious dogs, and various forms of humiliation. According to Human Rights Watch, there have been at least six deaths in U.S. custody in Afghanistan, four of which have produced military indictments for murder or manslaughter. In Mother Jones,Slate's Emily Bazelon wrote in detail about two of those cases at the Bagram base, where prisoners were evidently beaten or tortured to death. Beyond the prison walls, the open-ended detentions and abuses in Afghanistan served to undermine America's reputation for fair play, adherence to international standards of legality, and decent treatment of prisoners. These abuses may have contributed as much to the recent anti-American riots in Afghanistan as anything in Newsweek.
Item: American military personnel tortured, sexually humiliated, and apparently caused the death by torture of at least one inmate at Abu Ghraib, managing to make the Iraqi prison even more notorious under our management than it was under Saddam Hussein's. Mistakes at Abu Ghraib included extensive and offensive sexual humiliation, such as forcing male prisoners to masturbate, parading them around naked in front of women guards, and photographing them in degrading postures. Again, unlike Newsweek's error, these were in no way "honest" errors at any level. The abuses were the foreseeable consequence, if not the intentional result, of standards and policies promulgated by the Justice Department and the Pentagon, including a ruling that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to prisoners held there, and the authorization of specific interrogation techniques. The jihadists who murdered the American civilian Nick Berg said they were doing so in retaliation for Abu Ghraib. The abuses caught on camera there have done incalculable harm to America's image around the world and handed an enormous propaganda victory to those hostile to the United States.
Item: Here are some things that Scott McClellan does not dispute happening at the Guantanamo detention center: A female interrogator removed some of her clothes and sat in the lap of a detainee who was a devout Muslim; a female interrogator smeared a detainee's face with what she told him was menstrual blood and said the water would be turned off in his cell, so he would be unable to wash; a female interrogator grabbed a prisoner by his genitals; an interrogator gagged with duct tape a prisoner who wouldn't stop chanting Quranic verses; commanders requested permission to use water torture on detainees to make them think they were suffocating; interrogators intimidated prisoners with vicious dogs. The scandalous mistreatment at Guantanamo, along with the denial of any legal rights to detainees, has done enormous damage to America's reputation for respecting human rights and abiding by the rule of law.
None of this is said to excuse a piece of bad journalism by some good journalists. (Disclosure: Slate is owned by the Washington Post Co., which also owns Newsweek.) But let's be clear: Newsweek hardly bears sole responsibility for rioting deaths in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which were fomented by anti-American agitators and reflect both a pathological religious fanaticism and anger over many other issues. What's more, Bush's flacks are in no position to prosecute this case. When it comes to torturing inmates to death, sexually humiliating prisoners, and otherwise doing our best to outrage the religious sensitivities of devout Muslims, Scott McClellan has nothing to say. But faced with an erroneous charge that an American guard might have insulted a copy of the Quran, he turns livid and demands satisfaction. There's something of a pot-and-kettle problem here.
But the problem with the Bush administration excoriating Newsweek's insensitivity to Islam isn't just hypocrisy. There's a larger issue of bad faith and an underlying lack of appreciation for the necessary role of a free and independent press. With increasing forcefulness, Bush has tried to undermine the legitimacy of the media, or at least that subculture within it that shows any tendency to challenge him. When the Bushies say there ought to be more of a check on the Fourth Estate, they aren't really asking for more care and accuracy on the part of journalists. They're expressing frustration that they still have to put up with criticism at all.


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PITTSBURGH, PA (PRWEB) November 17, 2016
An inventor from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, wants to streamline the important task of clearing snow and ice from roads. "I created this device to help prevent injuries and save lives, to boost the economy and promote business," he said. "Now the worry about laborious shoveling and salting can be a thing of the past."
The STREET HEATER provides an alternative way to clear snow-/ice-covered roads. It eliminates the need to plow and pile snows, which saves time and effort. It also contributes to fresh groundwater supplies.
Most important, STREET HEATER promotes safety and helps prevent injuries and fatalities. Featuring an ergonomic, easy-to-use design, it can be produced in versions for airports and railroads.
The original design was submitted to the Oklahoma City office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 15-OLC-122, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com - https://www.youtube.com/user/inventhelp


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Summer 2012 Recent Events
Abby's House joins Giving Common!
Abby's House was one of the first 300 non-profits – and the only one in Worcester! – to join the Giving Common, a new initiative of the Boston Foundation. The Giving Common is a database of in-depth organizational profiles that can be searched across 175 fields of data. It's designed to provide donors, funders, and the general public with the data they need to make informed giving decisions and gives non-profits a chance to tell their story directly to potential donors
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36th Anniversary Dinner to Celebrate Our Volunteers!
In June, Abby's House celebrated its 36th
Anniversary. The Volunteer Dinner gives us the opportunity to recognize the accomplishments, dedication and energy of our board members,
volunteers and interns. Thank you to all the members of the Abby's House community who attended the celebration.
Ladies Night Out!
On Thursday, May 10, Abby's House held Ladies Night Out at the Dzian Gallery on Water Street. The event featured cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, desserts, massages, card readings, raffles and merchandise from a variety of area vendors. We had great fun and the event raised more than $750. Thank you to the attendees, the massage therapists for donating their time, the vendors, the local businesses who donated raffle prizes and David Papazian for donating the space!


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Latest Trends of Chevrolet Cars? Kevin Sheehan is Skeptical
Kevin Sheehan is aware that if you are regular reading respected US road and Track magazines, and then you will definitely get the information on the Chevrolet cars. it is ranked as one of the top-selling vehicles in the world of automobiles. Chevrolet cars are the more compact, slicker and lighter than any other car which is available in the market. The range of this car includes smaller to a bigger edition of this car. But all these models are just as powerful as V8 engine. Some changes of these cars are specially made due to government legislation and some changes are made because of the consumer desires and demands. This car is the product of one of the leading automobile manufacturing company.
Before designing the model of this car, they especially focused on the entire essential requirement of the customers or buyers. While production, they only used efficient auto parts. It helps to enhance the performance of the car. From the day of launching this car, the number of customers is increasing day by day. All editions of these Chevrolet cars have something special which catch the attention of the customers. Chevrolet cars are now available in different sizes. Hence, depending on your choice and requirements, you can select your desired car. Kevin Sheehan has worked within the automotive industry and is aware of the different attributes people are looking for in cars.
Chevrolet cars are now available with V8 engine arrangement. The interior of this car especially has classic royal touch. The outer body of the car has very attractive exterior. Its quality wheels will definitely make your ride smooth on the rough roads. The pair of side mirrors is helpful to judge the other vehicle, which is passing nearby you. The material of this car is resistible. The performance of Chevrolet cars will be further improved with weight reducing capacity composites such as magnesium and aluminum. The capacity of the engine has around 5.5 liters. Apart from all these, this car is more efficient. The prices of this car are not so high. Those who want to buy this car at more affordable cost then prefer to buy used cars.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) August 13, 2012
Kino Classics is proud to announce the Blu-ray and DVD release of Buster Keaton's The Navigator, widely recognized as one of the classics of silent screen comedy. Now, this acclaimed film makes its Blu-ray debut, mastered in HD from a 35mm negative from the Raymond Rohauer Collection, with color tinting according to the original specifications.
The Navigator comes to Blu-ray and DVD on September 4th, with a SRP of $34.95 for the Blu-ray and $29.95 for the DVD edition. Both are currently available for prebook.
This edition from Kino Classics features musical accompaniment arranged and composed by Robert Israel (in 2.0 stereo and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1), and comes packed with special features, including a featurette, written by film historian Bruce Lawton, about the making of the film and Keaton's fascination with boats as sources of comedy; an audio commentary by silent film historians Robert Arkus and Yair Solan; a photo gallery; and audio of a 1913 recording of "Asleep in the Deep", a popular song of the period referenced in the film.
This is the tenth of Buster Keaton's independently-produced feature-length comedies that Kino Classics has released on Blu-ray. Kino has also previously released all 19 of his silent short comedies on Blu-ray, as well as the 16 talkie shorts Keaton made for Educational Pictures in the 1930s.
A precursor to his classic The General - only centered around a 500-foot steamship rather than a Civil War locomotive - The Navigator demonstrates Buster Keaton's ability to transform complex machinery into large-scale comedy props.
In a return to the "pampered youth" role he had played in The Saphead, and would play again two years later in Battling Butler, Keaton stars as Rollo Treadway, an inexperienced lad of extraordinary wealth (and surprisingly little common sense) who finds himself adrift on the Navigator with no one else on board except an equally naive girl. After discovering each other's presence in an ingenious ballet of unintentional hide-and-seek, the couple resourcefully fashion a home for themselves aboard the derelict boat, in spite of their unfamiliarity with the tools of domesticity.
A series of mis-adventures ensue: on the high seas, on the ocean floor, and in the face of a fleet of angry head-hunters.
The Navigator was co-directed by Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp, and was shot largely on board the Buford, an ocean liner which Keaton and his art director arranged to use for the filming of this picture. When the film was first released in 1924, it contained color tinting, which has been restored to this edition according to the original specifications.
Special Features
- Mastered in HD from a 35mm negative from the Raymond Rohauer Collection, color-tinted according to the original specifications
- Music arranged and composed by Robert Israel, in 2.0 Stereo and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Featurette, written by film historian Bruce Lawton, about the making of The Navigator and Keaton's fascination with boats as sources of comedy
- Audio commentary by silent film historians Robert Arkus and Yair Solan
- Photo gallery
- Audio of 1913 recording of "Asleep in the Deep", performed by Wilfred Glenn
U.S. 1924 Color Tinted 60 Min. 1.33:1 1920 x 1080p
The Navigator
Directors: Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton
Genre: Comedy
Blu-ray SRP: $34.95
Street date: September 4, 2012


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Aussie paediatrician calls for a ban on cough medicines for childrenNovember 17th, 2007 - 3:53 pm ICT by admin
Sydney, Nov17 (ANI): A leading paediatrician has called for a ban on cough medicines for infants in Australia , claiming that they are ineffective and potentially dangerous.
Professor Colin Robertson, director of respiratory medicine at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, told a GPs conference in Melbourne recently that doctors and parents routinely prescribe and administer cough syrups to babies "to make themselves feel better, but they do nothing for the child".
"In fact, it's becoming increasingly obvious that they do more harm than good, so we need to ban the practice all together," News.com.au quoted Prof Robertson, as saying.
In August, the U.S food and drug administration issued cautions regarding the use of over-the-counter cough preparation for children, particularly those aged under two, prompting a national voluntary withdrawal of medications specifically designed for babies.
The warnings were in response to a report from the US Centre for Disease Control, which documented over 1500 emergency hospitalisations of young children who had suffered adverse effects from cough medication out of which three died.
Other studies, including an updated Cochrane Review issued this year, found no evidence to support the use of cough medicine in children in general.
"Given that there's no good evidence of benefit and there's the potential for serious adverse events it seems quite appropriate to take notice of the FDA warnings and ban the use of cough medications in children under two," said Prof Robertson.
"And parents of older children should be made aware that they are ineffective, he added.
He further revealed that a few Australian products were specifically designed for infants but households regularly used children preparations in lower doses for babies.
"The dilemma is that colds are common and they cause symptoms in children and as parents and physicians we feel obliged to do something to make them better," he said.
"By giving them something it makes the prescriber and the administrator feels better but doesn't do anything for the child and puts them potentially at risk.
"Therefore they need to be disciplined to change their practice," he added.
Prof Robertson also explained that most claims in advertising for cough medicine products were "ill-founded" because they were based on poorly designed randomised controlled trials. (ANI)
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Hi Lovelies
Well we literally had an hour's break from the awful rain, wind and fog that has plagued us for the last week here in North Wales. For the first time, in what seemed like ages, the sun came out and it was just gorgeous. Now most people would think, brilliant, I'll go for a walk/ do some gardening/ shopping or some other 'normal' activity. However, my first thought was "I'll get hubby to photograph my backlog of sewing projects". A great idea in theory but not so good in practice. I think dragging him out of a warm, cosy house, especially when he had just made a cup of coffee was probably not the best idea I've had this week. Although it looked nice outside, it was pretty chilly and I think he just wanted to get the task over and done with as quickly as possible. The final result was an array of blurry photographs with wind blown hair and clothes and even a few photobombed by the dog. Luckily there were a handful of shots of each project that I've managed to salvage so I won't need to drag him outside again for a few days. A note to myself in future, perhaps just ask him to photograph one project at a time!
Anyway, onto today's project – another knit. Do I work with anything else? Not very often it seems. This is made from the Sewaholic Renfrew pattern.
I was initially a little concerned about using this pattern as the largest size on the packet is a size 16 with the following measurements: B:41″ (finished 43″), W:35″ (finished 39″), Hip: 47″ (finished 45″). Now that is nowhere near my ample measurements of B: 46″, W: 41″, H: 52″. However, I reasoned that with it being a knit pattern and if I graded up somewhat I could finish with a top that would fit me.
The fabric I chose was a medium weight knit from Guthrie and Ghani 144cm wide and £10.50 per meter. It is a mixture of polyester, viscose and spandex (the website doesn't list the exact proportions) and it has a 25% crosswise stretch which although not a huge amount for a top is adequate for this pattern.
I wanted to make View A and for the largest size the pattern suggests 1.6 m. I knew I was going to grade the pattern up and with having stripes to match I didn't want to risk running out so I purchased 2m.
Changes I made to the pattern
- I graded the pattern up to a size 18 at the shoulders, 18/20 at the bust and 20/22 at the waist/hip area
- I added in a traditional FBA and dart. I know that darts are a bit of a strange choice on a knit but personally, I would rather have that extra room and good fit and to be honest, I don't think you can really see the dart unless you look very closely. In the past I have tried this method on knits but I seem to end up with puckering under the arm and being of the 'ample bust' variety, I find that I still get a lot of stretching across the front. However, I know that this method works for many other people so I guess, as is the way with sewing, there are different ways of doing things and you need to use the method that works for you.
- I shortened the sleeves by 1.5″ – the perils of short arms
- I chose not to use the attachable cuff or waistband sections. With the grading up I had done I would have struggled to get the waistband to fit me properly and as I had already shortened the sleeves I didn't want to then add on extra length in the arms.
- I lengthened the bodice front and back by 1″ to compensate for not using the waistband
- I narrowed the shoulders by 3/4″
- I did a forward shoulder adjustment of 0.5″
Construction process
- I pre-washed my fabric and tumble dried it. I know you are supposed to dry knits flat but in reality everything I own goes into the tumble drier.
- I used an 80/12 ball point needle to sew this project with.
- I used a sewing machine to attach the seams together with a zig zag stitch set to 2.0 length, 1.6 width. I then overlocked the seams to neaten the seams
- I used clear elastic to strengthen and stabilise the shoulder seams.
- After attaching the neckband to the bodice I top stitched just underneath the neckband seam with a zig zag stitch to ensure that the seam lay flat.
- I handstitched the cuff and bodice hems by hand using a herringbone stitch so that it had some stretch but would not be visible from the front.
Things that didn't go so well or things I would change next time
- Even though I pinned my bodice very carefully to ensure that all of my stripes matched and I used a walking foot on my machine the fabric still slipped a little and the stripes shifted just a tad. Probably not enough that most people would notice but I'm sure that you fellow sewers will spot the mismatch immediately. Besides using washable fusible tape on every seam (which would get expensive) or hand basting everything I'm not sure what else I could have done. Do any of you have suggestions on how to keep stripes perfectly matched whilst sewing them?
- I've got a small diagonal crease from the armpit down to the chest area. This tutorial explains how to remove that crease so this is something I need to look into when I next make this top (I have two more versions waiting to be blogged about I apologise in advance that the same issue is present on them also.)
- I didn't get the neckband to lie perfectly flat. I cut the neckband as per the pattern and I also measured it against the bodice to ensure that it was around 10% smaller. Despite carefully stretching it more around the tighter curves of the neck it doesn't lie as I would want. I did wonder if this might be because the fabric is a fairly stable knit with only 25% stretch – or am I just looking for an excuse when it is really an operator error?
- I think I would like an additional inch added to the length as I tend to prefer my tops to be on the longer side.
The finished top
I'm really pleased with my new top. I'm happy with the fit, I don't think there is a lot I would change next time. The fabric looks and feels lovely, my only gripe is that I wish it was available in other colours as I would like to make it again.
Cost to make:
Fabric £10.50 per meter – I used around 1.7 meters = £17.85
1 reel of thread – £1.65
10 cm of clear elastic for the shoulder seams – 10p
Overall Cost = £19.60


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We are a small breeder of Burmese with over 40 years of experience. Our Queen is a brown burmese called Nutmeg and our kittens are predominantly browns, however we do occasionally get chocolates and blues in our litters.
We don't have any kittens at the moment but please do keep checking back as we will update when we do. If you are interested in a kitten from ourselves then feel free to leave your details with us through our contact page and we can get in touch direct.
We are based approx. 15 miles north of Manchester.
If you are interested in one of our kittens then we would
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#NUTS Grand Finale
All good things must end. Join us on Tuesday, May 26 at 3:30pm EST for our #NUTSGrandFinale! After five years of hosting Twitter's Not-so Usual Therapy Session, #NUTS, we've decided to call it quits. Not because we're cured and no longer need therapy, but because we need to focus on some exciting opportunities on our horizon.
We're not going away. We'll still be traveling, eating, blogging, making videos, podcasting and participating in other twitter chats. (Please sign up for our newsletter to keep up with out latest adventures.)
Thank you and all of our amazing Guest Therapists enough for making Tuesdays the most fun day of our week for so many years. We'd especially like to thank @VickyAkins for inspiring so many of our #NUTS themes and questions. Please stay in touch. If you ever need us, we're always just a tweet away.
In the words of Carol Burnett, "I'm so glad we had this time together"
Thank you and Cheers!
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Her is the first film Spike Jonze had made from his own original screenplay. The inspiration came to Jonze in the early 00s when he saw an advertisement for a text messaging service that claimed to offer artificial intelligence and wondering what such would be like in reality. Jonze had previously ventured into themes of machine love with Im Here (2010), a thirty minute short film made as a promotion for Absolut vodka featuring a romance between two robots in a future L.A. Her has accrued a great deal of awards attention and made it onto a number of critics Top 10 lists for 2013, including winning Best Film with a number of critics circles and being nominated for several Golden Globes, including Best Musical/Comedy, Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay.
Her is Spike Jonze tackling the world of electronic relationships. This is a genre that has not fared well on screen think the utter banality of Youve Got Mail (1998) or the cliche internet stalker stories that turn up in episodes of shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigators (2000-15). Part of the problem is the very uncinematic nature of typical internet relationships that consist of two people who spend most of the film apart and communicating only by typing. The best of these was probably the Belgian film Thomas in Love (2000) about a lonely agoraphobic house-ridden man who tries to develop an online relationship. Similarly, the idea of the romantic relationship between human and A.I. has not climbed out of cliche treatments on one side, there is the silly pop fantasy of Electric Dreams (1984) about a man and his PC in competition for a girls affections or the android love story of Making Mr Right (1987) and the ridiculousness of the attraction between androids in Logans Run episode Futurepast (1978) where the machines emit sparks whenever they are aroused, and on the other the rather absurd notion of machines developing sexual desires such as the horny computers/robots of Demon Seed (1977) and Saturn 3 (1980). The best of these AI romance stories has probably been the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode In Theory (1991) where the android Data decides to engage in a relationship, while subsequently the excellent Ex Machina (2015) turned the anthropomorphism of this on its head with chill regard in its ending.
Compared to all of these others, Her immediately feels like something astonishingly fresh where Spike Jonze avoids all of these cliche treatments. Jonze and Joaquin Phoenix aim for and find a wonderful intimacy. This is a film that never strains at cliches either of machines or romance, it feels natural and freely generated and the results are quite amazing. Joaquin Phoenix made up in a pair of pants that seem to come up to his chest and with glasses and mustache that make him look like a nerdy Groucho Marx but with more soulful eyes gives one of his best performances, toning down a good deal of his usual screen persona to play inward. This is a romantic, nice guy Joaquin that we have never seen him play before. Indeed, one actually failed to recognise it was him on first viewing of the trailer. Jonze also gets beautifully natural and unrehearsed seeming performances out of others like Amy Adams and Olivia Wilde.
Her is also Spike Jonze addressing the essential modern question of reality and simulacra and the amazing ways that humanity manages to get the two blurred and entirely twisted on their heads. Again, most film treatments tend to get caught up in cliche treatments of these but Jonze never does the film regards romance with a machine and romance in the flesh as equally viable alternatives, not something where the humano-centric and emotional is automatically regarded as superior to the artificial. In truth, what fascinates Jonze is the love of the peculiarity of the mental spaces his protagonists travel into and the very science-fictional concept of how people normalise technological change and the strange oddities that result. This is evident from the opening scene where we see Joaquin Phoenix narrating the composition of one of his love letters and we realise that he is writing the female part and then see it being printed off his computer screen as a handwritten letter and learn the company name is beautifulhandwrittenletters.com. Jonze is determined to completely turn anything normally expected about sexual interactions on their head in the sidesplittingly hilarious scene where Samantha decides to employ a surrogate (Portia Doubleday) so they can physically consummate their relationship a scene that is not unreminiscent of the wacky identity-bending games that went on in the John Cusack-Cameron Diaz-Catherine Keener love triangle in Being John Malkovich. There is something uncannily on the ball and hilarious about just how Jonze skewers internet dating and relationships in an extremely funny phone chatline scene early on with Joaquin talking to a Kirsten Wiig-voiced caller who abruptly asks to be strangled with a dead cat in the midst of their phone sex fantasy.
A good deal of the appeal of the film is Spike Jonzes wonderfully nonsensical sense of humour. Her is not as surreal a film as his other work, rather it works through its nonchalant naturalism. Jonze has created the setting of a slightly near future world with great detail. Even just a scene where Joaquin Phoenix is in transit and we see him voice scanning through his emails, skipping bills and news headlines and then returning to look at semi-nude pics of a starlet so perfectly exemplifies completely normal behaviour the way a lot of people look at online headlines and the very science-fictional such being spun for technological changes. Especially cute are some of the videogames, like when we see Joaquin sitting at home casually walking with his fingers to move his player character through an alien labyrinth and the side-splitting scenes where he encounters an NPC avatar that greets him with a barrage of fuck yous and then starts offering sarcastic commentary when Samantha interrupts and brings up a profile of his blind date. Equally hilarious is the Perfect Mommy game that Amy Adams plays later in the film.
The film arrives at a unique and unexpected ending I was wondering how it was going to wrap things up (and do so without entering into cliches) but Jonze ends up surprising us. Maybe the only complaint you could make about a film of so many surprising depths and unexpectedly tender moments is that it seems to exist free from any commercial context. In the real world, the OS that Joaquin Phoenix buys would come with its manufacturers brand-name all over it and/or constant urgings for him to upgrade for a better experience get the gold class OS extension to have a full sexual relationship ... personalise it with our new range of 3D avatars ... Your thirty day free trial period has ended, insert credit card details for continued access. Even the character of the surrogate seems to exist out of any context you keep wondering why someone would suborn their body to be used by two other people in such a manner and with so little obviously in it for them. We are told it is not a financial service, so what then a peculiar group of fetishists who exist to act as surrogates for others?
(Winner in this sites Top 10 Films of 2013 list. Winner for Best Original Screenplay, Nominee for Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) and Best Supporting Actress (Amy Adams) at this sites Best of 2013 Awards).
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Re: The Abell family of Birmingham UK
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Re: The Abell family of Birmingham UK
I have a book that I bought for my ancestors of a different surname, it is the "HOFFMAN-MANNING-SIMMONS FAMILIES OF N.Y." by Joyce Williams Hoffman and C.William Hoffman of Port Charlotte, Florida.
It has information on the descendants of Robert ABELL,Esq. of Stapenhill, County of Derby, England. Dates range from 1500's to 1765.
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Just another geeky origami post which is LONG overdue. I've been meaning to do more one dollar origami, but I've either been too lazy or actually been doing other things, like watching videos and listening to music and working really, really hard... plus socialising with friends (any excuse really ¬_¬" - lazy Geek is back in the house!).
So I started off with this Simple $ Fish - created by Joshua Koppell... I thought it was going to be hard when I saw the folding for the tail bit, but no, it was very easy! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11426805/scaffold/scaf07.pdf
Next I made this $ Crane by following this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgyrOKZI_YA Quite simple. But lots of folding!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgyrOKZI_YA Quite simple. But lots of folding!
This one is a bit too simple. The instructions on this one are not too great though. But because I used to make many of these (smaller versions) in the past (I have a Ferero Roche box full of them) I knew how to make it! $ Lucky Star http://www.origami-resource-center.com/dollar-lucky-star.html.
This is a very easy $ Duck. I made this after an attempt of trying to make a kayak (I tore the dollar a little bit so I converted it to this duck!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAOqPypO98w
Well, just making these for now. I will be back to do more! :P ....
And now I'm on holiday for TWO WEEKS... This post is actually a clue of where I'm going next! I will try and blog as I go along, but showing pictures on here might be a problem. So you peeps may have to wait until I get back!!
Adios amigos (and no, I'm not going to Mexico!). ^_^


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On October 5th, the Chicago International Social Change Film Festival will be kicking off at the Showplace Icon Theater on Roosevelt Road. Showcasing films that "heighten public conciousness" of social issues, one of the festival's featured screenings will be The Microlending Film Project, a documentary that explores the impact that "global microfinance" has on communities, especially for women who live in poverty.
The film is a "passion project" of Rachel Cook, a former futures trader who was inspired to produce it after reading an op-ed in the New York Times.


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Borrowing and credit scoring
What you need to know
Like other responsible lenders, to help us make decisions on when to give you credit, we use a system called credit scoring when we assess your application. This is designed to give you straightforward answers and clear explanations.
Why do we use credit scoring?
Credit scoring is a method we, and many other lenders, use to predict how likely we are to get back the money we lend. It's a consistent, accurate and fair way of assessing risk.
To work out your credit score, we look at:
- information you give us when you apply
- credit reference information e.g. whether you have kept your payments on your credit accounts up to date or whether you have been or are in arrears
- your history with us
How does credit scoring work?
We give you points for each bit of relevant information, then add them up to get to your credit score.
Once you've scored a certain number of points (and met our other policy requirements), we'll usually approve your application. The score you need to get your application approved may vary. To help make sure our systems remain secure and fair, we keep the finer details of how we work out your score confidential. Our branch and call centre staff will not be able to provide the full details of your score either. But it is important that you complete your application in full, because if you leave something out it may affect our assessment.
We use credit scoring when we look at applications that use credit. We'll tell you when you apply for one of these if you're going to be credit scored.
Credit Reference Agencies
The main Credit Reference Agency in Ireland is the Irish Credit Bureau (ICB). The ICB maintain records on an individual to assist lenders to assess credit applications.
What information is provided from a Credit Reference Agency?
Credit Reference Agencies keep records about people's credit history to help financial organisations assess credit applications.
- These records may include:
- registered court judgments
- register of electors
- bankruptcies and insolvencies
- credit agreements in arrears
- previous credit searches by other organisations
How is a Credit Score calculated?
The credit scoring system allocates points for each piece of relevant information and these are added up to produce a score. Provided your score reaches a certain level, your application for credit will generally be agreed. In order to protect the integrity of the scoring systems, the way your credit score is calculated must always remain confidential.
Can you get your own credit report?
To get a copy of your credit report from a Credit Reference Agency, you must complete an application form. Please contact ICB for an application form to be posted to you or you can download the form from www.icb.ie. This form should be completed, signed and returned to ICB along with a fee of €6.00 which can be a postal order or bank draft.
As ICB have a responsibility under Data Protection Legislation to keep your records secure, they cannot discuss any aspect of your credit report with you over the phone until after you have received your credit report and can quote the unique reference number from the report. Processing time takes approximately 3-4 working days excluding postage to and from ICB and starts from the time ICB receives your completed application form. Once you receive your credit report you may contact ICB to discuss it further if you wish.
What if the information the credit reference agency has is wrong?
If you feel the details in your credit report are inaccurate you may request to have the information corrected.
You must start by contacting the Lender and request that they make the necessary changes to your record. If the information is accurate, the Lender is not obliged to change it. ICB can only make changes to your credit record upon written instruction from the Lender.
The address of the ICB is:
Irish Credit Bureau
ICB House
Clonskeagh Rd
Dublin 14
Tel: (01)2600388
If your application is refused, you will be given a brief explanation of why you were refused. You may also have the right of access to your personal records held on our files. This can be obtained by written request to your branch and on payment of a fee.
In general your application can be declined for two reasons:
- A scoring decision, where your overall score was not sufficient to reach our acceptance pass mark
- Specific lending policies e.g. as a responsible lender it is not our policy to offer credit to applicants who might find it difficult to meet the repayments
A few simple ways to try to improve your score
Make all your regular payments on time
Always try to make at least the minimum payments on any credit products you have, on time. Missing or making late payments can often be registered on your credit report and this may harm your chances of getting credit in the future.
An easy way to help you avoid late payments is to set up a Direct Debit. If you're in difficulties, you should speak to your lender who will be able to help you.
Close any accounts you no longer use
Having a large amount of credit that you do not use can affect your credit score. For example, if you have a credit card with a limit of €5,000 but you never use the card. Keeping accounts open that you don't use can also make you more vulnerable to fraud. Also if you have old accounts, such as mobile phone or credit cards, they might be registered at a previous address that can affect your ID checks.
Manage your applications carefully
Making lots of credit searches in a short space of time can affect your score, so it may help to space out any credit applications, and those for things like car insurance and mobile phones. Moving house can also disrupt your score, so try to make important applications before you move. Finally, check if the product you're interested in offers a quotation facility so you can check any terms before applying, and, without your credit search being recorded.
If you have other credit accounts with us, why might we refuse your application?
If you have other credit accounts with us, why might we refuse your application?
Your personal circumstances often change over time. So when we make our assessment we look at any current information that is available to us. This information may mean it is inappropriate for us to offer you additional credit at this time.
Would an application ever be turned down because of where you live?
Would an application ever be turned down because of where you live?
No. We won't decline your application because of where you live, unless for example you live abroad and the product is only available to Republic of Ireland residents.
Can you appeal against a decision?
Can you appeal against a decision?
Yes. But we can't guarantee the outcome will be any different. Giving us any information we didn't take into account originally should help. You'll find details about our appeals procedure at your local branch. If you decide to make an appeal, you should give us any relevant information you feel supports your request, for instance, if you have additional regular income or investments that you didn't include on your application.
If your application is turned down, can you reapply?
If your application is turned down, can you reapply?
If your circumstances change we'll be happy to look at a new application from you. If your circumstances haven't changed since your last application, it's unlikely our decision will change. But we won't turn down an application just because we've turned one down in the past.
Applying or reapplying for credit with us or another lender will also have an impact on your credit rating. Remember that lots of credit searches in a short space of time can affect your score, so it may help to space out any credit applications.
If we turn you down, will other lenders automatically do the same?
If we turn you down, will other lenders automatically do the same?
No. Every lender's scoring system is different. But the credit reference agency will keep the search we did about you on file, and if another lender uses the same agency, they will tell them about it.
Applying for credit with another lender will also have an impact on your credit rating. Remember that lots of credit searches in a short space of time can affect your score, so it may help to space out any credit applications.
Who makes the decision on whether to provide credit?
Who makes the decision on whether to provide credit?
We make lending decisions based on the information provided by the ICB, your history with us and the information you provide when you apply. The ICB do not decide who should get credit.


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Places of Interest
- Brecon Theatre – Whilst in Brecon why not visit the Brecon theatre.
- Jazz Festival – Here in August, visit the jazz festival in Brecon.
- Abergavenny Food Festival – Here in September, visit the food festival in Abergavenny.
- Villages en route to Brecon – For info on the villages en route to Brecon.
- The official Brecon Beacons site – Discover the beautiful Brecon Beacons.
- About Abergavenny – For information on Abergavenny.
- About Crickhowell – For information on Crickhowell.
- Brecon Walks – For information on local walks.
- Walking festivals
For information on local walks.
- Brecon Beacons Bus Services – For information on bus services around the Brecon Beacons.
- Fishing Supplies – If you need fishing supplies along the canal.
Places to eat and drink along the canal
- Beaufort Arms – Gilwern
Keith and Andrea offer a wide range of local produce, cooked to order.
- Rectory hotel and Golf Course – Llangattock
A restaurant based within a conservatory overlooking the golf course and the Black Mountains.
- Bear Hotel – Crickhowell
The menu offers a wide range of locally sourced ingredients, well cooked to suit traditional tastes or those guests with an appetite for finer dining.
For more information on the renovation of the canal
- Mon and Brec Canal Trust – The trust is working to restore the 200 year old waterway.