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'Snow Biking' makes tracks in Mammoth
Users argue for change of 21-year-old rule
A new recreation activity is beginning to emerge in Mammoth, but "snow biking" has some bumpy bureaucratic rules to clear before it can break into the trails system of the Inyo National Forest.
"I ride a bike with big fat tires made specifically to go on snow and sand," said snow bike enthusiast Alan Jacoby at a meeting of the Mammoth Lakes Recreation Commission on Tuesday, Feb. 5.
"It's picking up steam around the country, but unfortunately, in Mammoth Lakes I have nowhere to ride legally.
"It's not motorized. It looks just like a mountain bike but it's built specifically to have wider wheels and tires, which are made to float over snow.
"There's actually less impact on a groomed trail than snowshoers, Nordic skiers or snowmobiles, but because of the old rules of 'no wheeled vehicles' allowed on groomed trails, I'm not allowed to ride anywhere."
Jacoby, who is a cinematographer (for example, "The Drop-In Project") said he also skis and rides snowmobiles, waits for the weather to change, then zooms around the trails on his mountain bike in the summer. An accomplished athlete, Jacoby two years ago completed the grueling Everest Challenge cycling race on a single-speed road bike.
"We're all recreation people," he said to the commission, "so I don't see any reason why our snowmobile trail system shouldn't be open to bikes like mine."
It is not open to such bikes because of a 1992 rule prohibiting all wheeled vehicles on the trails. That does not mean the rule is set in stone, however, said Jon Kazmierski, the recreation manager in the Mammoth district of the forest.
"It all begins with a dialog," Kazmierski said.
Kazmierski said he himself has seen the bikes on the trails and is not inherently against having cyclists use them, but he conceded he had very little information. He also said he would go to work soon on scoping whatever impacts there might be.
Jacoby has a powerful ally in trails advocate John Wentworth, the director of the Mammoth Lakes Trails and Public Access (MLTPA) Foundation, who said he and his girlfriend had just ordered a snow bike (or "fat bike") frame for doing the same kind of riding Jacoby advocates.
"Emerging recreations are very big part of the mountain biking opportunity," Wentworth said to the commission. "It's a huge growth opportunity for the mountain biking community."
As it happened, Wentworth was as surprised as anyone by Jacoby's appearance before the commission. Unversed in the tangle of governmental procedures, Jacoby said he showed up, bike in hand, at the urging of commissioner Betsy Truax. Since Jacoby's appearance was not on the agenda—he appeared in the "Public Comments" part of the meeting—the commission did not discuss the issue at hand.
Rather, commission chair Bill Sauser, himself an avid snowmobile enthusiast, advised Jacoby to take his ideas to the Mammoth Lakes Trails Coordinating Committee (MLTCC). Jon Kazmierski, the recreation manager of the Mammoth Ranger Station has a seat on that committee.
Already, a number of areas have adopted the new sport.
Grand Targhee Ski Resort in Wyoming, for example, has fully embraced snow biking.
It is the first ski resort in the United States to endorse "fat bikes." Bikers who purchase a Nordic ticket for $10 per day or a Nordic season pass for $120 have access to the Grand Targhee Resort Nordic Trail System.
In addition, the nearby communities of Victor, Driggs, and Alta also have allowed the new bikes.
"Riding a fat bike on snow provides another recreational opportunity for guests to enjoy nature in the Tetons," the Grand Targhee marketing department wrote on its resort website.
The fat, snow bike was created to go where standard, all-terrain bikes can't. Proponents say the floatation and traction afforded by large-volume, low-pressure tires can carry a rider through otherwise unrideable terrain, such as sand, mud, wet rocks, roots, ice, and many kinds of snow.
Jacoby said his own bike has 3 1/2 inch tires, with less than 10 pounds per square inch (psi) tire pressure, and he said riders should only ride "in conditions where your bike would leave less than an inch divot in the snow, and to stay on the right side of the trails."
"It leaves less of an imprint than a sneaker on snow," he said.
"It's made to float over the snow and not dig into the snow, and when the conditions get too hard to ride it [deep snow], you can't ride. Those would be conditions where it would start making divots anyway, so there would be no point to ride."
Sauser reminded Jacoby that the Mammoth rules were created to protect the trails from damage, and thus the "no wheeled vehicles" rule. Snowshoes, snowmobiles and skis float on top of the snow and do not dig into the underlying trail.
Jacoby answered by saying those rules were probably created to prevent motorized wheeled vehicles from tearing up the trails.
"But I don't have the power to do what a motorized vehicle could do to the trail," Jacoby said. "A snowmobile will rip up the trail way more than I do."
At Grand Targhee, published rules of snow bike use are specific. They include stipulations that bike riders should let the track set until 10 a.m. on the mornings in which the trail is groomed, and warn riders what snow conditions are allowed.
"Do not ride in soft conditions," is one of the Grand Targhee rules.
"Hard packed conditions on trails with two inches of new snow is ok, more than two inches, you can't climb or descend very well.
"In a snow cycle of 12 inches or more, freshly groomed trails can be too soft. If you leave a rut, it's too soft."


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Friday, November 12, 2010
An Unexepectedly Delightful Morning
The morning started off well, though, because the sun was shining after a number of cold, gray, rainy days. When I arrived at the registry all the metered parking spaces were gone. I looped around a few times trying to nail a spot without success. In the end I decided to take a new road in hopes of finding other meters.
At last, there I found parking. Along with the parking I found a row of historic early 19th century homes. I was so tempted to grab my camera and take a stroll but I resisted.
It's not often that I find all facets of the work I love all within one block - genealogy research, historic houses and 18th century gravestone carvings.
Coming out of the registry I was washed with unusually sunny warmth for November. As I crossed the street heading back toward my car I couldn't resist pulling out my camera (which I carry with me at all times) and capturing the historic homes.
It's not often that a day trip and a location work out quite so well for me. It was truly an unexepectedly delightful morning.
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Nice when a plan you didn't have comes together, eh?
Sounds like an absolutely perfect day!ReplyDelete
Ah, Dedham. My home base. And vicariously yours too Randy as I keep bumping into your people. I'm on the lookout now for Seavers every where I go. And I see Nickersons everywhere too thanks to Laura Prescott. Yeah - the best plans happen when you aren't expecting them.ReplyDelete
My kind of day, Marian! I wish I had more like yours!ReplyDelete
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Taking breaks from the stress of a startup improves experienced entrepreneurs' mental well-being, but not inexperienced entrepreneurs' well-being, says a study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
"Inexperienced entrepreneurs actually become more stressed when they take a break from their work because they're not able to completely remove themselves mentally and they feel guilty about stepping away," said co-author Maw-Der Foo, associate professor of management and entrepreneurship at CU-Boulder's Leeds School of Business.
The study defined experienced entrepreneurs as those who had at least one prior startup experience, no matter the duration or whether it was successful or not, according to Foo.
"If you are an experienced entrepreneur, you know the value of stepping away from the problem for a moment," said Foo. "No one has really studied whether experience in a venture actually helps in coping, so these are new and somewhat surprising findings."
The study also found that combining breathers with productive time on the job — finding a balance — further improves the mental well-being of entrepreneurs who take breaks.
The study — led by Marilyn Uy while she was a doctoral student at CU-Boulder — looked at the effects of two coping mechanisms called active coping and avoidance coping. Uy is now an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
"In active coping, you take the bull by the horns," Foo said. "If you have a problem, you face it. If you lack sales, you make sales calls. If you lack funds, you seek out investors.
"Avoidance coping sounds negative, but it's not. It means getting away from the problem for a moment. You go watch a movie, go have coffee with friends or go on a vacation, for example."
For the study, published last month in the Journal of Business Venturing, survey responses from 156 entrepreneurs in various fields were analyzed. All participants were members of the Entrepreneurs Society of the Philippines.
In part of the survey, they were asked to think about the most stressful venture-related experience they'd been dealing with in the previous two months, and rate the extent to which they'd been using coping mechanisms.
They also were asked about prior startup experience and to rate their psychological well-being based on questions including, "Have you recently been able to concentrate on whatever you were doing," "Have you recently been able to enjoy your normal day-to-day activities" and "Have you recently been losing much sleep over worry?"
"We think that well-being is important because we know that many entrepreneurs are stressed and many ventures fail, not because the business is not profitable, but because many entrepreneurs just cannot take the stress, so they give up their venture in order not to have that lifestyle," Foo said.
He says the findings could lead to a future study of what predicts stress for entrepreneurs and how they can cope.
"Entrepreneurship is a very stressful occupation," said Foo. "We know entrepreneurs work longer hours and take fewer vacations. They're the boss, which means the buck stops with them, but it really means that they need to please suppliers and investors, attract good workers and to do all this with very limited resources."
Zhaoli Song, associate professor at the National University of Singapore business school, also co-authored the study.
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RENTON — Now that the Seattle Seahawks are the Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks, people want to know what's different. They want to hear how winning a title will change the team, how players will handle the spotlight and the expectations, how they'll handle being the hunted.
Two days into camp, it's pretty clear that in fact very little is different from a year ago. This notion that a title is going to change the Seahawks? Poppycock (note: always use a British accent when saying poppycock).
As much as people want to talk about a Super Bowl hangover or the fear of complacency setting in, when you actually watch a training camp practice in 2014, it looks, sounds and feels a lot like a training camp practice in 2013. Yes, there's a bit more media on hand — although there was plenty of attention on this team last summer as well — but little else has changed for the defending champs.
"We've been in the mentality we went into last season — some people's expectations was that we'd be in the Super Bowl and all of that — and we dealt with that at the time, so this is a carryover from that," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said. "I'm hoping that our guys feel comfortable with the expectations and that it seems normal for them to have this kind of attention and focus, and we'll deal with it properly by really focusing on what's at hand each day as it comes to us."
And OK, if we want to get technical about it, a little has changed. There's that shiny trophy in the lobby at team headquarters, and players have rings as well as their place in the history books. But even if ESPN and the NFL Network have a bigger presence at camp, and even if there are more fans on the bandwagon, it's not like this team didn't know pressure a year ago. Go back and read preseason coverage of the 2013 Seahawks and you'll find stories wondering how they'll deal with the pressure of being Super Bowl favorites as a young, inexperienced team.
The Seahawks were very much the NFL's "it" team in 2013 as well. Thanks to their strong finish to the 2012 season, their young, talented roster and a few splashy offseason acquisitions the Seahawks were national media darlings at camp a year ago, too.
"This is not a new conversation for us, it's not new language for these guys," Carroll said. "And as long as we do the work, that's what we have to recapture out here on the practice field, then we'll progress and try to take advantage of this opportunity."
If anything, handling the spotlight and the pressure should have been tougher a year ago. It was new to the Seahawks then, they hadn't known this kind of success, hadn't been in the limelight, hadn't been called Super Bowl favorites, so if that attention and those expectations didn't derail their 2013 season, why does anyone think it will now?
Plenty could stand in the way of the Seahawks repeating as Super Bowl champs, from their tough division to a bad run of injuries. But an inability to handle the pressure, failure to thrive in the spotlight? Those shouldn't be factors. Last year, when the Seahawks were a young team that hadn't accomplished much other than a strong finishing kick to the 2012 season, that was the time to wonder if they were ready for primetime, not now.
"I know that we're champions, we know how to do it," quarterback Russell Wilson said when asked if anything felt different this year. "But at the end of the day, it's a new year, it's a new beginning. The difference is everybody has felt winning before. They know how to get there, they know what it feels like to win, they know what it feels like to excel, so our goal is to get back there again. How do we do that? How we do that is by our work ethic, by our mindset, by the way we practice every day, what we do on and off the field. That's got to be our goal, that's got to be our central focus: how can we elevate our game to the highest level possible?"
Yes, the Seahawks are the prohibitive favorite to repeat this year, but they are embracing those expectations, not trying to avoid them.
"Nothing feels different," safety Earl Thomas said. "The only thing that feels different is we've got something to protect now. We understand that and we love that. We've been waiting for this opportunity to catch everybody's eye, and we want to keep that attention on us."
The Seahawks won't worry about whether or not they have a target on their backs, because the way they see it, if they stick to the formula that's gotten them this far, their talent will take care of the rest.
"We are who we are," Thomas said. "Nobody has our personnel, that's why they can't beat us."
Thomas, who also dropped such gems as, "I don't even fathom my full potential, it's crazy, because every year I get better," is supremely confident in himself and his team because he and the Seahawks have every right to be. It's the same reason Russell Wilson, someone you'd usually think of as a humble, team-first guy, said that he and Thomas, "talk about trying to be legendary."
The Seahawks won a title last year because they were talented, and because they could handle the pressure of being the favorites. Now they've turned their swagger up a notch — not because they're putting on a show, but because it's who they are. They're comfortable in their own Super-Bowl-champion skin, and no amount of attention or pressure is going to change that.
Herald Writer John Boyle: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India lost up to $211 billion in revenue by selling coalfields too cheaply, a Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) draft report said, sparking a furore in parliament on Thursday that added to pressure on the prime minister after months of scandals and policy missteps.
The prime minister's office called the estimated loss "exceedingly misleading," after the report - leaked from the federal auditor and published in the Times of India - prompted lawmakers to demand an explanation and rattled investors.
The auditor later backed away from the loss calculation and said its thinking had changed.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who oversaw the coal ministry during some of the period covered by the report, made no comment during his appearance in parliament on Thursday.
Singh has lurched from crisis to crisis since massive graft in the sale of telecoms spectrum surfaced two years ago, culminating in the quashing of licenses. The telecoms sale may have cost the government up to $36 billion.
The uncertainty over the coal contracts will add to investors' confusion about doing business in one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
The leaked draft from the auditor office criticised the allocation of 155 coalfields to about 100 private and some state-run firms between 2004 and 2009, questioning why they were not auctioned off to the highest bidder.
"This is the mother of all scams," said Venkaiah Naidu, a senior leader in the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, which forced parliament to briefly adjourn over the report. "The prime minister should reply," he said.
However, while the published excerpts criticised the government's methods, they stopped short of direct accusations of graft.
The firms mentioned include a subsidiary of the world's largest steel maker, ArcelorMittal, whose shares were trading down 3.2 percent in Amsterdam.
The draft said the policy undervalued the coal by at least 10.7 trillion rupees, or $211 billion at today's exchange rate.
But in a letter to the prime minister on Thursday, the auditor described the low-priced sales as an "unintended benefit" to companies that did not mean an equivalent loss to the exchequer.
"The leak of the initial draft causes great embarrassment as the Audit Report is still under preparation. Such leakage causes very deep anguish," the auditor said.
The letter was quickly tweeted by the prime minister's office in an apparent attempt to prevent a repeat of the telecoms crisis that last year sparked huge street protests and landed a minister and several company executives in jail.
Voters punished the ruling Congress party in regional elections last month. Last week, a coalition partner forced the railways minister to resign and on Thursday the government rolled back a plan to raise train fares - the latest humiliating U-turn in the sort of economic reforms investors say are needed.
In recent months, the hamstrung administration has flip-flopped on everything from foreign investment in supermarkets to a ban on cotton exports, creating a sense of paralysis at a time when economic growth has slipped sharply below the government's ambition of 9 percent.
Any suggestion of lost revenues also underlines the weakening state of the central government's finances. The budget deficit is expected to blow out to 5.9 percent of GDP this fiscal year from a goal of 4.6 percent, leaving the government financially stretched for the upcoming year and ahead of elections due by 2014.
India is the world's third-largest coal producer after China and the United States, but output has struggled to keep up with consumer demand for electricity.
The government handed out the coalfields at the centre of the controversy for a nominal cost to operators who promised to use the coal for their own power, steel and cement projects.
Many of the allotted fields have yet to be handed to the companies because of bureaucratic wrangles and environmental regulation.
"There are so many ifs and buts in this story," said a senior Indian industry executive, who declined to be identified because of the political sensitivity of the matter.
"Many of the blocks are uneconomic, you have to share between two or three parties and most of these blocks have hardly been explored at all. So remember, you would have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in exploration, development and infrastructure to exploit them," he said. "I think it will be forgotten quickly."
Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said the government did not seek profit from the allocation of coalfields. Instead, its priority was to stimulate growth in industry. New coal blocks will be auctioned, he said.
"We are working on putting auction norms for competitive bidding for new coal blocks. The process will soon be in place," Jaiswal told reporters.
ArcelorMittal India is a partner in two assets in India's coal belt and intends to build large steel plants with a capacity of 12 million tonnes a year linked to the fields. However, these fields are so far only at a prospecting stage.
"We were allocated suitable blocks on merit along with JV partners and in accordance with the government's policy and we have been working towards development of the same," a spokeswoman for the company said.
State-run power company NTPC told Reuters it had made no windfall profits from the allocations and that the lower costs meant cheaper electricity for consumers.
A sub-index of Indian steel stocks dropped 3.3 percent, while Mumbai's benchmark index closed down 2.3 percent.
Additional reporting by Sanjeev Choudhury, Nigam Prusty, Manoj Kumar and Ratnajyoti Dutta in NEW DELHI, Henry Foy in MUMBAI, Phil Blenkinsop in BRUSSELS and Jackie Cowhig in London; Editing by John Chalmers and Neil Fullick


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The deity of Jesus is a key issue for evangelicals. But how did early Christians come to regard Jesus as divine? That is, what were the key factors that led Jesus' early followers to proclaim that He is indeed God in the flesh? This question has been in the scholarly limelight for quite some time, most noticeably with the advent of critical Jesus studies in the late eighteenth century. In the early twentieth century scholars in the history-of-religions school, most notably Wilhelm Bousset in his 1913 work, Kyrios Christos: Geschichte des Christusglaubens von den Anfängen des Christentums bis Irenaeus, argued that attribution of divine status to Jesus was a development from within the Gentile church out of pagan worship in Hellenism. More recent works (such as Larry Hurtado, One God, One Lord, and Richard Bauckham, God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament) have addressed this question from Jewish backgrounds. This work by Collins and Collins focuses on the thesis that the Jews regarded the king of Israel as divine and that by extension the Messiah was viewed in the same way. Thus when Jesus' followers acknowledged Him as the Messiah, the key theological element for regarding Him as divine would have already been in place. Thus the concept of Jesus' deity was not a Gentile, Hellenistic development. Instead it arose naturally and appropriately out of a Jewish milieu through the relationship of the Messiah to Israel's kingship.
The book includes four chapters on background studies and four on biblical studies. John J. Collins addresses the topics of the king of Israel as the "son" of God, the concept of kingship in deuteronomistic and prophetic literature, the concepts of Messiah and Son of God in the Hellenistic period, and the messianic Son of Man concept. The author excels in presenting carefully constructed, textually defensible arguments, replete with extrabiblical data.
The following four chapters address the biblical data. Authored by Adela Yarbro Collins, they address in turn the Messiah and Son of God concepts first in Paul and the Synoptic Gospels, and then in the Gospel of John and the Book of Revelation. Similar in tone to the first half of the book, these chapters argue that the New Testament authors readily understood Jesus' life and ministry in terms of Jewish divine kingship.
The authors use the term "Messiah" in a minimalistic way. They say it refers to the future Davidic individual who will one day reign over Israel. Actually they say less about this term than many readers might expect. Also the authors consider that the term "Son of God" implies divinity; so they say more with this term than some readers might expect. For a different approach to this title see D. R. Bauer, "Son of God," in Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, 269–75.
A trend among scholars today is to view much of the early church's theology as arising from a Jewish milieu. Even so, proving that is a different matter. The authors have attempted to prove one facet of the larger question of the early church's belief in the deity of Jesus with ample textual data both from extrabiblical sources and from the New Testament. For this reason this is a positive study.
Some negatives, however, may be noted. Relative to the divinity of the king of Israel, the authors are somewhat guilty of Bousset's own history-of-religions error in making assumptions about its development. Their argument is that the belief about the divinity of the king made its way to Israel through Canaanite religion, which in turn was influenced by Egyptian religion. However, alternative views relative to this theme are not discussed (e.g., Ps. 2). Readers who disagree with this thesis might arrive at the same conclusion, but the starting point as well as the reconstruction of some of the data differs. In addition the authors accept without debate the theory of the deuteronomist and deuteronomistic history. Certainly this book was not the place to debate that theory, but again readers might put the pieces of the argument together differently if this theory is not accepted. Surprisingly the authors suggest that John 1:1c "may be translated either 'the word was God' or 'the word was a god.' " Current scholarship is decidedly on the side of the traditional translation, giving little or no credence to the translation "the word was a god."
This work is based on the Speaker's Lectures the authors delivered at Oxford University in May 2006. Thus the book has the slightly disjointed feel of oral lectures, which makes the thesis somewhat difficult to follow.
When all is considered, though, this is a helpful work. Ample evidence is given in support of the general thesis. The authors add scholarly support to one facet of the broad argument that the early church's declaration of Jesus as divine arose naturally from a Jewish milieu and was not, so to speak, a foreign import.
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Goals for Blood Glucose Control
Discuss blood glucose (sugar) targets with your healthcare team when creating your diabetes management plan.
People who have diabetes should be testing their blood glucose regularly at home. Regular blood glucose testing helps you determine how well your diabetes management program of meal planning, exercising and medication (if necessary) is doing to keep your blood glucose as close to normal as possible.
The results of the nationwide Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) show that the closer you keep your blood glucose to normal, the more likely you are to prevent diabetes complications such as eye disease, nerve damage, and other problems. For some people, other medical conditions, age, or other issues may cause your physician to establish somewhat higher blood glucose targets for you.
The following chart outlines the usual blood glucose ranges for a person who does and does not have diabetes. Use this as a guide to work with your physician and your healthcare team to determine what your target goals should be, and to develop a program of regular blood glucose monitoring to manage your condition.
|Time of Check
Goal plasma blood glucose ranges
Goal plasma blood glucose ranges
|Before breakfast (fasting)
< 100
70 - 130
Before lunch, supper and snack
< 110
70 - 130
|Two hours after meals
< 140
< 180
< 120
90- 150
|A1C (also called glycosylated hemoglobin A1c, HbA1c or glycohemoglobin A1c)
< 6%
< 7%
< = less than
> = greater than
> = greater than or equal to
< = less than or equal to
Information obtained from Joslin Diabetes Center's Guidelines for Pharmacological Management of Type 2 Diabetes.
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Volt Brunch in Frederick, Maryland
March 22, 2012 by Becca
So, GM called. And while I never take free shit for this blog (journalistic ethics and whatnot), when someone is handing over the keys to a brand-new, never-been-driven, cherry red Chevy, no questions asked, I couldn't resist the urge to pocket them and drive all over D.C. And Virginia. And Maryland. (Insert obligatory note about the great gas mileage, XM radio, leather interior, and smooth ride here.)
The weekend's plans were then nothing but road trips. First, to Shenandoah to hike Old Rag. Then, on Sunday, we bopped north to Frederick, Maryland, to explore the tiny town and have brunch at its most infamous dining establishment, Bryan Voltaggio's Volt.
Brunch at Volt was extraordinary. There is no other word for it. It wasn't just one of the best brunches I've ever had in my life, it was one of the best meals I've had in my life.
It was the service that did it. Phenomenal service means you're taken through your meal without ever having to worry or wonder. When the service is that amazing, you don't even notice it.
There are swat teams of waffle-weilding waiters carefully placing your plates before you. They appear magically, all at the same time. Before every course you suddenly have brand-new shiny silver. Your glass is always full. You have a fresh napkin each time you get up. It's effortless and easy to slip into being pampered that much.
The fun part is that Volt offers up this amazing service with a bit of tongue-in-cheek. The entire staff, for instance, is decked out in black vests and black tuxedo pants—but with brown Chucks. It's those little hints of personality that make the place. They make you feel like Bryan himself has given it his personal touch.
When we arrived, we were ushered into a lounge area, with plush couches, coffee table books, flower arrangements, and the bar. Above the bar was a plasma screen showing live video from the ceiling of the kitchen. Before we were even seated, we were gaping, open-mouthed, at that kitchen in action.
And then we were seated in the room that adjoined the open kitchen. And that's when the conversation began to center around the kitchen activity, which was quite extraordinary. A entire team of chefs, sous chefs, assistants, and servers were buzzing about in their Chucks. Some with Mohawks, some with tattoo sleeves, all of them in epic concentration on the masterpieces they were creating.
There are two brunch menus at Volt—a five-course set menu or a three-couse menu with about six options for each course. Both menu option No. 1 and option No. 2 offered beverage pairings and a cheese course for a bit extra. I, of course, went for the five-course set menu. The rest of my Bitches went for their options, orderings from the three-course menu.
Regardless, we each got twelve courses. There was no stopping it. I think they just couldn't be rude and serve me more courses than the rest of the table, and so we each got at least five courses dropped before us—and then cheese, and then dessert, and then a coffee cake to top it off.
It all started with the fennel and sea salt bread sticks. Four little bread sticks in a shiny silver cup. After that, a basket of amazing breads and pastries was offered up. Pastries that wouldn't normally be found in some of the most amazing pastry shops in D.C.—sitting in a basket, just waiting to be chosen. There were chive biscuits, cinnamon rolls, chocolate croissants, French bread with sea salt. Which would you like? They asked. Um, one of each?
We ordered cocktails. I had the Betsy, which was the champagne cocktail but ended up being almost all foam—like a beer with lots of head that never went down. Brooke and Joanna both had bloody Marys, which were obviously not a mix and were perfectly spicy. The servers were quick to bring the accoutrements, such as extra olives.
Eric had a spiced apple cocktail with a lemon peel on top. Very tart, but delicious. We all had coffee—which was served in a French press, of course, with steamed milk. We would have expected nothing less.
Before we even started on our main courses, a gorgeous dish with four macaroons was presented. Perched on little spoons, the pink dollops were just enough for a mouthful. Joanna, being the most adventurous, tried one first, and told us all that we would be surprised. She was right. It melted on your tongue—like a piece of chalky candy—but had a distinct, slightly odd taste.
Where to begin on the food? It's all a blur of endless, amazing plates. The most memorable taste, in my opinion, was also the most unexpected: the maitake steel-cut oats with sea greens and yeast. Sounds atrocious, right? It was a positively extraordinary, and savory. They cooked the oats into a risotto-type creamy mixture, and topped it off with meaty trumpet mushrooms that looked like tree stems.
I had two salads. Yes, two. The kampachi was super fresh. It was served with blood orange, ginger, and fennel. Not everyone likes bold favors, but the vegetables had a tangy sauce that worked well. I love how Volt serves some of its dishes, including the salads, with a bit of crispy pork on the side. It's a textural contrast that you can choose to include or leave out if you like.
My second salad was the burrata dish, served with thin slices of country ham, kalamata olives, and basil. The burrata was so creamy it spread across the greens. Brooke spent a good chunk of time marveling at the chefs in the kitchen who were treating the burrata as if it were a gently poached egg. This dish is quite the piece of art.
We each got the ravioli dish, which was actually only a few pieces of ravioli, topped with foam (always with the foam, you crazy chefs). The pasta was filled with goat cheese, and again topped with trumpet mushrooms and parsley root. The goat cheese was the anchor to this dish. We each had mixed feelings about the foam, saying it tasted like different things, but agreed it added a light texture to the pasta.
The sturgeon was a beautiful dish that showed the high points of the fish but didn't cover up the taste with too many additional flavors. It flaked perfectly onto the fork. It was moist and buttery, and served in a bowl—with a bit of foam, of course. The roasted brussel sprouts and root vegetables (faro, butternut squash) made for a lovely pairing.
Our third (fourth?) course was the lobster omelet. We were all a bit surprised to see a plain omelet with a lobster salad on the side. The salad came with my favorite new vegetable, salsify, which is actually a wildflower (read: weed). There were large satisfying chunks of lobster, so we did not feel cheated in any way. The flavor was perfect for a breakfast item, and the presentation allowed you to mix the lobster chunks with your omelet, or enjoy the salad separately.
There was another omelet on the table, too. The mushroom omelet, which was very rich and made with a lot of butter. The mushrooms themselves almost had the consistency of shredded beef. Filled with gruyere cheese and caramelized onion, this omelet was much heavier than the lobster variety. Plus, the breakfast potatoes it was served with were the most upscale breakfast potatoes I've ever had, with a balance of garlic and herbs. Perfectly cooked, of course.
Part of my five-course meal was the beef baby turnip. Three tiny bites of beef tenderloin were surrounded by colorful balls, which I wasn't entirely sure were turnips, potatoes, chard, or other vegetables. I didn't care; I popped them into my mouth. The beef was cooked to a perfect pink in the center.
Brooke had hen eggs, which she ordered with beef hash instead of pork belly. When she broke the egg she commented that this is exactly how poached eggs should be cooked. They were creamy and gooey without being cool. When mixed with the hash, this dish is the ultimate gourmet comfort breakfast.
The Belgian-style waffles were stunning, and we were served a double portion. They were a little chewy but crispy on the outside. Topped with cubes of apples, almost like an apple pie filling, they tasted delicious. It was accompanied with amazing fresh whipped cream.
I could not resist ordering the maple glazed bacon doughnuts. I knew it would be too heavy with everything I ordered, and indeed they were rich, but I'm so glad we got them. The three small donuts were perfect to share with the table. They were fresh and warm, and topped with finely crumbled (perhaps shaved) bacon—completely mind-blowing. It was just enough salt to bring out the sweetness of the maple. A slight meaty aftertaste, which was very adventurous for a doughnut.
We started getting delirious when the cheese plate arrived. We were all about to explode from gluttony, but again, the dish was too amazing to resist: five artisan cheeses, big portions, beautiful presentation. Slices of walnut toast were balanced on top of one another on folded napkins. The creamy, pungent cheese flavors—some super stinky, even—were a perfect ending.
Except we weren't done yet. Apparently we had ordered another dessert dish to share, the chocolate marshmallow. Another piece of art: the chefs had melted a marshmallow and scraped it across a plate of caramel so it became sculpture. It was drizzled with chocolate and little pieces of crunchy peanuts. Served with tiny scoops of ice cream. It was another amazing textural contrast, which this chef does so well.
We ended up spending nearly three hours at that brunch table. It was epic. In hindsight, we should have planned better going into this: fasting all morning and readying ourselves for such an epic meal. We just weren't expecting it to be so grand; it completely took us by surprise.
Afterwards we rolled ourselves out of the gorgeous restaurant and set off to explore. Adorable Frederick is full of old churches with pretty spires, museums, shops, and bridges over a picturesque canal. We made like a Chevy commercial as we sped out of Frederick and back to D.C., windows down, sunglasses on, completely satisfied from brunch.
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It's odd, I still find otherwise sensible people parroting the "thujone hype" about Wormwood and Absinthe.
A couple points which I will repeat.
Wormwood contains a compound called Thujone. This compound is toxic in large doses, (as is most everything you can possibly consume, including water.) Experiments with lab animals show large doses may cause convulsions. However, the LD50 (Median Lethal Dose) for Thujone is around the same as that of Caffeine and many other substances which are "Generally Regarded as Safe". No scientific evidence has ever been found for any sort of hallucinatory experience resulting from consumption of Absinthe or Thujone. Unless you count Delerium Tremens.
It would be impossible to consume enough of Absinthe (or similar) to result in a large enough dose of Thujone to reach anywhere near toxic levels for humans. Even with those Absinthe (or Absinthe-like substances) which tout their high levels of Thujone. Alcohol is far more toxic than Thujone (or Caffeine,) meaning, you would die of alcohol poisoning long before you reached anywhere near toxic levels of Thujone in your system.
Another point, Wormwood (Artemesia absinthium) is very, very bitter. A substance in it called "Absinthin" is among the most bitter substances known. Of those plants commonly consumed or used medicinally, only Rue is more bitter than Wormwood. Placing a piece of wormwood leaf on your tongue is not a pleasant experience. However, because properly made Absinthe is a distilled spirit, not unlike Gin, most of the organic substances, including the Absinthin are left behind in the still. Thus Absinthe is not a particularly bitter beverage, (depending on your perspective and whether or not you're a "super taster".) In any case, it's no Campari or Aperol.
A last point, proper distillation of Absinthe leaves almost no trace of Thujone in the final product. Almost all modern distilled Absinthes, and all vintage Absinthes which have been tested to date, fall below the levels of Thujone which the EU declares safe. Most would even probably test safe by the standards which the TTB (US Alcohol and Tobacco Trade and Tax Bureau) currently requires. Thujone does not like to be carried by the alcohol vapors along with the other desired elements. It only starts to come across in the still very late in the distillation, as the temperature rises enough for water and other undesirable elements to make their way into vapor. The only practical way to make a beverage with a large amount of Thujone is either by infusion or by adding Wormwood extract.
Interestingly, however, many old bar books contain recipes like the following, from from a 1934 edition of "Harry Johnson's 1882 New and Improved Bartender's Manual and a Guide for Hotels and Restaurants".
Gin and Wormwood: (Use a small bar glass.) Take six to eight sprigs of wormwood, put these in a quart bottle and fill up with Holland gin; leave this stand for a few days, until the essence of the wormwood is extracted into the gin. In handing out this, pour a little of the above into a small whiskey glass and hand it with the bottle of gin to the customer to help himself. This drink is popular in the eastern part of the country, where the wormwood is used as a substitute for bitters.
My initial impression is these recipes were really more intended as hair of the dog type tonics than recreational beverages, but I'm game.
I infused about a cup of Tanqueray Gin with a sprig of wormwood and a sprig of the indomitable mint which grows in our community garden for a couple weeks.
1 tsp wormwood infused gin and 2 oz Oude Genever. That was OK. Kind of bitter, ginny, and, well frankly, room temp.
I moved a few years forward, adding a teaspoon of cane syrup, and things started getting better.
I added ice and a lemon twist, stirred it up for a few minutes.
Goddamn if that isn't compelling in some inexplicable way.
Certainly not a modern cocktail by any stretch. But I like it. Funnily, the wormwood infusion seems to have real flavor comparisons to the Picholine olives I've been using lately in my cocktails.
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It's billed as being "designed by Amazon," implying the Fire is worth top dollar for the innovation the company brings to the table. That may be the case, but it's a test not just of Amazon's ability to build a phone but also the elasticity of its brand. Amazon wears more coats than Macklemore but some people still think of it as a bookstore. In reality, media sales are now less than a third of its overall sales and less than a fourth of what it sells in the U.S. Many see Amazon as an online department store, perhaps as a digital version of Wal-Mart or Costco, but it does much more nowadays. The company is not viewed as a Netflix, although it's trying to go there with its streaming-video service. Nor do most people see Amazon as the next FedEx, though it's on that path with the build out of its global delivery infrastructure. Amazon photo In tech circles, Amazon stands out for many reasons but mostly because it's become the leading provider of on-demand, online "cloud" computing services. It has kept ahead, in part, by continually lowering prices of these services, positioning them as a better deal than traditional, on-site computing and competing cloud services. Each of these views makes sense when you think about the evolution of the online bookstore that Bezos started 20 years ago. It snowballed, expanded and took over more of its shipping, then began renting out extra capacity on its network. Amazon's been selling its own line of gadgets for seven years now — starting with the Kindle e-reader — but people see them partly as extensions of the online store. The devices were priced low, reinforcing the perception Amazon is a place to go for deals. The lure of a bargain makes the commercial aspect of Amazon's devices more palatable. Yes, they funnel you to Amazon's store, but it's a trade-off you make in return for a decent gadget at a good price. Last week was a turning point, when Amazon decided to position its newest creation as a premium product on par with market leaders, such as the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy handsets. Bezos should be proud of the Fire. Out of the gate, the company produced what seems to be a pretty nice phone with some interesting features. The company is so proud, it opted to sell the Fire for top dollar and locked to a single carrier. The phone only runs on AT&T's network and sells for $649, or $199 with a two-year contract. With lower-end smartphones seeing the most growth lately and consumers moving away from pricey, restrictive plans, lots of people — including me — expected Amazon to price its phone like a Hyundai and not a BMW. Asked why Amazon went upmarket, Ian Freed, Amazon vice president of Fire phone, told me it's worth the price. "Consumers go to a product that has great value and great innovation, and we think we have plenty of that with Fire phone,'' he said. He then listed features such as its Firefly product scanner, free photo storage online and Dynamic Perspective, which creates a 3-D effect. "There's just a tremendous amount of value in this product," he said. There's also a swagger in the way Amazon is presenting its phone. Or maybe it's just being more candid about the confidence it has in the power of its brand and the wisdom of its move into the phone business. Bezos probably knows best, having analyzed the shopping patterns of tens of millions of people. But there's a huge amount of risk for companies that believe their brands and technology are strong enough to crack the handset market. Hewlett-Packard tried in 2010 with the innovative Palm phones but gave up less than two years later, losing $1.7 billion in the process. Facebook tried and failed twice with phones designed around its social network. Then there's Google, which bought Motorola's phone business and sold it two years later. Now there's speculation it will also drop its flagship Nexus phone line and leave the design and production to others. Bezos is undaunted. He opened the Fire launch event by touting his company's high ratings for customer satisfaction and brand awareness, and its success with Prime subscriptions and Kindle tablets. It's clear that consumers like Amazon. But I'm not sure their view of the company is expansive enough to see it as a designer of premium hardware. At least not until Bezos fires up the Dynamic Perspective. [do action="brightcove-video" videoid="3630218948001″/] Comments | Topics: Amazon.com, AT&T, Billionaire techies


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The Zimbabwe government is threatening to shut down "private and foreign" news media organizations that it says are "abusing their journalistic privileges by denouncing the country and its leadership."
The threat comes just days after the release of new US diplomatic cables by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks revealed widening rifts within the country's dominant party, ZANU-PF.
The warning was delivered by Media, Information, and Publicity Minister Webster Shamu, who alleged in the state-controlled media Tuesday that private and foreign press were denigrating the country's leadership, including President Robert Mugabe and his family.
"We are not against criticism," Mr. Shamu said, but "they are forcing us to take measures and they must stand warned."
"Of late, these media houses and pirate radio stations have intensified their vitriolic attacks and the use of hate language on the person of His Excellency, the President and the party in a well calculated move aimed at influencing the results of the forthcoming elections," Shamu said. "In other words, the execution of the regime change agenda has been intensified."
Leaked cables irk officials
Shamu's remarks come after a number of independent newspapers in Zimbabwe published stories about the latest release of confidential US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks. In the leaked cables, US diplomats in the US embassy in Harare reported on conversations with several members of President Mugabe's inner circle, including Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono and Professor Jonathan Moyo, a senior if somewhat independent member of the politburo of the ZANU-PF.
The fiery response by Shamu could be an indication of how seriously ZANU-PF leaders take the cables and their potential to disrupt the fragile coalition government in Zimbabwe, which includes members of Mugabe's ZANU-PF as well as top members of the two main opposition parties, both of them factions of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Zimbabwe is expected to hold national elections sometime next year, and thus, any talk of disunity within the ZANU-PF, rumors of Mugabe's ill health, or signs of sparring within the ZANU-PF to succeed Mugabe if he died or stepped down would almost certainly be unwelcome.
Using rhetoric often deployed against ZANU-PF's political rivals, the MDC, Shamu blamed the latest leaks on the West, and defended his government's rights to shut down news organizations in the name of Zimbabwe's national security.
"The hypocrisy of the West, particularly Britain and America, in regard to press freedom should be exposed," Shamu said. "These two countries have got some of the most Draconian media laws on earth, which severely restrict media freedom under the guise of protecting their national security."
"We have opened up to the BBC, we have licensed newspapers, and some have closed on their own, something that we had warned them that we need to be vibrant based on the performance of the economy," Shamu said. "We can not allow the denigration of the highest office in the land."
Newspapers face lawsuits
In addition to the threats of Shamu, some news organizations are facing the possibility of lawsuits for defamation.
Jonathan Moyo has already filed suit against the Harare-based Daily News for $100,000 over two articles published by the paper based on WikiLeaks reports.
The two stories reported in detail about cables in which Moyo allegedly advised the US government to send "positive signals" to the ZANU-PF in order to encourage ZANU-PF members to abandon Mugabe ahead of 2008 elections. According to the cables, Moyo told US Ambassador Christopher Dell that Mugabe feared being hung. Now Moyo says the articles about the WikiLeaks cables are "unlawful, scandalous, contrived, fabricated, false, absurd, and highly defamatory."
When the Wikileaks cables were first leaked, Zimbabwe's attorney general threatened to file charges against those of Mugabe's inner circle who met with the US Embassy. No such threats were heard today, when the US Amb. Charles Ray, the US envoy in Harare, confirmed on Facebook that he had met with Mugabe to wish him "a good trip to New York" for the upcoming UN General Assembly meeting.
"He (Mugabe) was mentally alert and engaging," Ambassador Ray wrote in his Facebook feed. "Like I said, it was a pleasant chat. Nothing on wikileaks. No wikileaks, no rants."
While Zimbabwe has opened up to independent media during the past two years of coalition government, the Zimbabwe information minister could signal a return to the dark days of pre-2009, where newspapers were shut down under the banner of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA). Even now, many press organizations maintain their headquarters in neighboring or Western countries, edited and written by exiled Zimbabwean journalists.
The Zimbabwe government has had strained relations with foreign press and governments. It banned many foreign broadcasting stations from Zimbabwe, including the BBC , CNN, Sky News, CBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation , ABC, and Fox News but overturned the bar in 2009.
During the March 2008 elections, which many foreign election observers said were deeply flawed, Zimbabwean police arrested a number of foreign journalists, including the New York Times' Barry Bearak, and the Times of London's Jonathan Clayton.
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Many people are unaware that they are exposed to cell phone radiation when their cell phones are in standby mode. This occurs because their cell phone contacts the nearest cell tower periodically to update its location.
In a moving vehicle, cell phones in standby mode contact cell towers more frequently. Thus, exposure to cell phone radiation from one's cell phone is greater in transit.
Two Swiss researchers, Damiano Urbinello and Martin Roosli, set out to measure personal cell phone radiation exposure during car, bus and train trips when one's own phone was in standby mode.
Their study just published in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology identified a source of cell phone radiation that may constitute a public health problem. Namely, secondhand exposure to cell phone radiation from other people's cell phones can be considerable while traveling on buses and trains (1).
During bus or train trips, individuals may be exposed to considerable amounts of cell phone radiation from other people's cell phones. Buses and railroad cars act like ""Faraday cages"" that reflect much of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell phones throughout the vehicles' interiors. Thus, all passengers, including infants and pregnant women as well as those without cell phones, may be exposed to considerable levels of cell phone radiation emitted by others' phones.
As for car trips, the results of the study suggest that exposure to cell phone radiation from one's own phone in standby mode is relatively low compared to overall exposures during public transit. Nonetheless, those who are concerned about their exposure to cell phone radiation should turn off their phones during car trips, or at the very least, avoid using their phones for calls.
● ""The study indicates that own uplink exposure during car driving can be considerably reduced (about a fraction of 100) when turning off ones own mobile phone in order to prevent it from location updates."" (1)
The researchers found that GSM, the 2G carrier system in Europe which is used in the U.S. for voice communication by AT&T and T-Mobile, is particularly problematic compared to UMTS, a 3G carrier system used for data transmission. The researchers did not test CDMA which in the U.S. is used by Verizon and Sprint for voice calls. Other research has found that GSM emits 13 to 28 times more radiation on average than CDMA during phone calls. No published studies have examined exposures from LTE, the 4G carrier system now in widespread use in this country.
● ""GSM levels in the reference scenario during bus and train rides were about 100 times higher than those during car rides. As a consequence of this high background exposure in trains, due to the use of other people's mobile phone in a closed area intensified by the Faraday cage effect, the relative contribution of the location update from ones own mobile phone is small"" (1)
The study also reported that smart phones, including the iPhone 4 and the Blackberry Bold 8800, which can operate on four radiofrequency bands emit more radiation during standby mode than classic phones, like the Nokia 2600, which operate on two bands.
Earlier this year, a study was published that examined cell phones in standby mode while stationary. Kjell Mild and his colleagues from Sweden found that under these conditions cell phones contacted the cell towers only once every two to five hours. They concluded that exposure to cell phone radiation in this situation ""can be considered negligible."" (2)
These studies should be replicated in the U.S. as well as in other countries since every cell phone carrier system operates differently.
In the meantime it is advisable to keep cell phone use in moving vehicles to a minimum as low level exposures to cell phone radiation have been associated with deleterious effects in humans.
To protect us from the health risks associated with cell phones and related devices (e.g., cordless phones, Wi-Fi, wireless Smart Meters and security systems, and cell towers), we need research independent of industry to develop biologically-based standards and safer technologies. A nickel a month from each cell phone subscription would suffice to fund a comprehensive program of research. Since the average cell phone subscription costs more than $47.00 per month, this tiny fee constitutes a prudent investment in our health and our children's health.
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Bolton manager Owen Coyle said on Thursday that Fabrice Muamba has been walking in hospital as the Wanderers midfielder continues his recovery from a frightening on-field collapse last month.
Muamba suffered a cardiac arrest in the first half of Bolton's FA Cup quarterfinal away to Tottenham at White Hart Lane on March 17.
The former England Under-21 international, who turns 24 on Friday, was regarded as "effectively dead" after his heart stopped beating for 78 minutes.
He is now recovering at the London Chest Hospital and last Friday a picture of him smiling was posted on social networking site Twitter.
Coyle, speaking at a news conference on Thursday, said: "He has done some short periods of walking down the corridor he is in as part of the unit, staying in intensive care.
"He is taking steps, talking and has that big smile which we love to see, so he is certainly progressing the right way."
He added: "My chairperson Phil Gartside was there yesterday [Wednesday] with our club doctor Jonathan Tobin, and our club chaplain Phil Mason will be there today to continue the support from the football club.
A long way to go
"A couple of players have been sending him messages and we are keeping in touch. It has been great to see that smile and he continues to get better.
"We have to stress that he still has a long way to go, but the improvement has been remarkable and long may that continue."
Meanwhile, Coyle said he hoped Lee Chung-Yong would be back in action before the end of the campaign after the South Korea winger suffered a broken leg in pre-season.
"Lee Chung-yong continues to get better—he has done some light training on the grass on his own.
"My hope would be—and he needs continued improvement for this—that he can join in my training with the group in a couple of weeks' time.
"Then, if that is the case, we would need a couple of reserve games and I'd be hopeful that he might be able to be involved before the end of the season."
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Best-selling author Rick Shelley brings listeners an explosive new series of future warfare. Lon Nolan, a young soldier expelled from Earth's prestigious North American Military Academy on trumped-up charges, is seeking to prove his worthiness in the Dirigent Mercenary Corps, where the bloody craft of battle has been refined into an art.
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Soldiering in SciFi
So reading the Publisher's summary you could be excused for thinking this would be some sort of Gary Stu coming-of-age military story that we all know from before. Well, it is not. And really it is very light on the whole science part of the fiction too. I mean there are space ships, but just as a means of travel and there are planets, but just so that the story can have a location to take place. That is it.
And the "trumped-up charges" part, yeah that's 5 sentences in this book, maximum. So what is this book then? Well, it is the story of a young man who goes off to war where he experiences combat for the very first time. We don't really know a lot about him, but we know he is afraid. That is all that this book does, it describes the journey of a young man from his home base into combat and through it. And there is quite a lot of combat, which was exciting enough, and I really did enjoy the fact that our hero is not in fact extraordinary. The downside to this is that not being extraordinary and without much of a backstory to him, our hero is rather bland. I was hoping for "Armor" and I think I got the somewhat honest descriptions of a soldier set in a science fiction universe. Fair enough.
The narration was decent, but one or two of the voices he did was, in my opinion, absolutely dreadful.
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By the books military Sci-Fi.
This book follows a new recruit in a mercenary army as he comes to terms with his new life and everything that entails. He struggles to prove himself and cope with the fact that he's going to have to lead men to their deaths. It doesn't get much more in depth than this, unfortunately, but it's an enjoyable ride. If you're new to the genre don't start with this book. I suggest starting perhaps with Old Man's War or the Prince Roger series. Once you start running out of the more well known series to read come back to this and give it a try. It doesn't compare with those classics, but it's worth a look.
This book isn't hard Sci-Fi by any means, but it gives you enough information about the universe and its workings to keep you interested and wanting to know more. There are a few problems I have with the world, such as old fashioned bullets being able to penetrate space age armor. With a slight rewrite this book could have easily been set in an alternate world to our own. The tech is simple enough that there was just no reason for the futuristic Sci-Fi setting. That said, if you're willing to turn off your brain for a bit you'll likely find this book to be enjoyable, but quite predictable.
The primary problem I have with the book is the narration. The narrator sounds like a robotic Swede. A strange description? It's a strange voice. Give the sample a listen for yourself. It took me about an hour to get over how strange the voice sounded and simply enjoy the book.
The first book was interesting enough that I'm going to give the second book a chance. Though if the plot doesn't pick up in the second book, I'm not sure I could give a third book a shot.
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A good first book. Here's hoping the rest of this series will get even better.
The author starts the series of with alot of room for "more" thank the gods for that.
Many others end up hobbling themselves in book one but this book gave me a more unfetterd feeling upon consideration of the future.
Book no2 just finsihed dl'ing so going to give that a try.
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BROCKTON, Mass. – In a combined 16 innings lefty's Kyle Szatrowski (Agawam, Mass.) and Patrick Austin (Torrington, Conn.) fanned a total of nine batters, while allowing four hits, all of which were singles, which resulted in no runs against as baseball cruised to a 12-0 game one win in seven innings and a 1-0 game two win Saturday afternoon at Campanelli Stadium in front of their biggest crowd of the 2013 season.
The victories were perhaps two of the most dominant pitching performances that the lefty duo has put together in the month of April. Even more impressive was the fact that Austin, through 7.1 was flirting with perfection.
With the wins UMass improved to 15-17, 7-5 in the Little East Conference, while the Panthers dropped to 17-18, 3-9 in the conference.
After the blowout in game one, which allowed Szatrowski to easily earn his fifth win of the year, Austin had just one run, which was scored in the first inning, supporting him. While most pitchers would beg for more support, the Connecticut native took that very slim lead and ran with it. In order, Austin retired a total of 22 straight batters, coupled with the eight batters Szatrowski retired to close out the opener the lefty's did not allow a combined 30 Panthers batters to reach base in Saturday's twinbill.
Proving to be the deciding factor in game one's seven inning mercy rule victory was a seven-run bottom of the fifth. Going into the inning UMB led 4-0, but that would all change as UMB broke the game wide open on just four hits.
Driving in a pair of runs in the inning was Patrick Murphy (Stamford, Conn.) on a two RBI single which scored Todd Ezold (Westfield, Mass.) and Ryan Manning (Plainville, Mass.). Senior Matt Consiglio (Southbury, Conn.) would also plate two runners on his lone hit of the game, a two RBI single to center field, which allowed Murphy and Charles LaPaglia (Marshfield, Mass.) to make their way around the bases.
After the seven-run fifth, UMB would put-up one more in the sixth to clinch the mercy rule victory. Ezold proved to be the Beacons big-bat in game one as he finished 3-for-3 with a double, a RBI and two runs scored. Almost every player in the Beacons line-up would record at-least one hit or at-least one run scored. Jamill Moquette (Boston, Mass.) and Ezold crushed their fifth and seventh doubles of the year respectively.
Szatrowski allowed just two hits in the win, and walked one. He fanned five Panthers and hit just one other. Chris Gilchrist was handed the loss, his third of the year, after surrendering four runs, three earns, on six hits. The final three Plymouth pitchers would surrender a combined eight runs, all of which were earned, on six hits over 2.2.
The nightcap was a much closer affair between the two squads as UMass managed four hits, while the Panthers recorded just two, both in the eighth to break-up the Austin perfect game bid.
In the bottom of the first, Jose Pena (Boston, Mass.) would reach base on a hit by pitch to lead off the inning. Consiglio would then drive in his teammate on a RBI double down the left field line.
Outside of the run in the first, the Panthers Rew Wilson was just as solid as Austin as he held the Beacons silent for seven straight innings. Through eight innings, Wilson allowed the one run on two hits and struck out five.
From there Austin did the rest as he put-up zero after zero. Each time he returned to the dugout the crowd became more anxious with Austin flirting with history right in front of their very eyes. But like all good things, sometimes they must come to an end and that was the case in the eighth inning when Dave Hall hit a single to right center, ending Austin's bid.
Now with their first runner on base in almost 10 complete innings, Austin had to settle down to keep the Panthers off the scoreboard. Hall would move over to second on a Dave Tammaro single through the left side putting runners at first and second with one out on the scoreboard.
With the tying run in scoring position, Austin turned to his defense which had backed him time-after-time all afternoon and on the very first pitch he got the Panthers to ground into a 6-3 double play to end the inning.
After UMB failed to produce in the bottom half of the inning, Austin returned to the hill and went on to retire the side in order with the first two outs coming on back-to-back K's.
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I was led here from a forum where I said I thought discussing this in a group would be better and this seems to be the most appropriate group.
I use: "Counting my blessings" and "grace" and possibly other words that come our of religious language. It would be nice to have a list of non-religious alternatives that would be understood by the general public. Maybe that's not necessary. I couldn't find anything like that online. What do you think?
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I use "grace" as a noun as well, denoting "gracious" or someone who expresses sincere gratitude, humility or respect to others.
"Blessings" I avoid (I absolutely abhor the term "gifted" though).
I don't personally have a problem with "Bless" or "Blessings" being expressed as a "throw-away" platitude, though I tend to dislike platitudes anyway, regardless of origin.
I suppose one alternative, though somewhat pessimistic would be; "It could be worse", or maybe it would be better expressed "I've been fortunate", …as in, "fortune favors the prepared mind"
…Ack! platitudes, now I feel dirty.
How about this one, "There but for the grace of circumstance go I" ?
Which sub-definition of the word "grace" are you using?
This has certainly come up before. Be sure to check in the Forum to see if there is a thread there, too.
I think a lot of us do this, as we've been raised in a culture that uses such language. That has more to do with our tendancy to copy our peers than it does with religion, I think. I never say "bless you" after someone sneezes, though I do use OMG! as an exclamation all the time, and sometimes I describe things as "a blessing in disguise." I certainly try to avoid using that last one, but sometimes it just seems to fit the situation.
I love to say Jesus Fucking Christ though! I can think of no alternatives to that and OMG!, as both seem to be so perfect for the occassions.
Oh, and I sometimes say in reference to something, "well, that's why god invented X," as if to say that X is the obvious solution.
"I love to say Jesus Fucking Christ though!"
Yeah…, I like "Holy Fuck!" as well as its scatological cousin too. Where appropriate of course… It's interesting that amongst Quebec Francophones, …almost all profanity is related to Catholic liturgy: "Tabernac!" "Sacrament!" "Câlice!" "Ostie!" being considered far "worse" than any scatological or sexual terms. Despite Quebec being 33% atheist.
I tend to avoid a lot of the non-irreverent references though.
I don't really think I do this consciously either, it's just that almost all of them are platitudes, which for some reason strike me as blatantly disingenuous whether or not their origins are in theism.
I even dislike the term "talented" as I associate it with "gifted" and consider both insults.
When I sneeze, I try to quickly follow with an "excuse me", hoping that it curtails the sometimes inevitable, "bless you", which makes me cringe. It actually seems to work most of the time.
"Bless you" cracks me up. Quick, your soul is trying to escape out your nose, cram it back in there! Humans think weird stuff sometimes. :)
You realize that your soul turns into a sparrow when you die, and ascends to heaven. (Must be a long flight. Not sure how the sparrow manages.)
Thanks for the responses. I'll have to think about them.
My husband stopped saying "bless you" when people sneeze (after all, we don't usually say it when coughing), though his lack of response in our culture seems uncaring. I think it takes a real effort to change a knee-jerk response like that which we're raised with. I do try to say, "Are you OK?" when someone sneezes or coughs or does something else that might indicate a health problem. Considering its history, though, I don't know why anyone is still saying it except out of habit from childhood. Of course, that's also why most people are religious or theist (including me - not "theist" but "religious").
I said "Oh my God" once as an expression of surprise - it was completely knee-jerk and I felt very appropriate in response to something my sister said, but then her response to me was, "don't take God's name in vain in front of me." with a definite expression of anger. This makes me more tend to not want to be around her than trying to control my language. I'm sure a lot of people have similar problems with relatives.
"his lack of response in our culture seems uncaring."
A replacement for the sneeze thing for some, is the German word for "health"; Gesundheit.
Though, the skeptic in me tends to avoid this one as being wishful thinking.
I sometimes say, "Good Sneeze" …probably because I enjoy a good sneeze.
"...don't take God's name in vain in front of me."
Those who say this to me get the reply, "Okay, please don't make any references to god at all around me, as I find them offensive when taken literally".
I agree about the reply to my sister's remark, but I have a knee-jerk of not wanting to offend, so it will be hard for me to learn to respond that way. I have changed from non-racist to anti-racist, so I can learn to respond differently, though it is hard. I meet monthly with a race discussion group, but I don't meet with a group that concentrates on atheism or anti-theism so that'll make it even harder unless this sort of conversation can continue and I visit this site more often.
"I agree about the reply to my sister's remark, but I have a knee-jerk of not wanting to offend, so it will be hard for me to learn to respond that way."
Neither do I, but I never say; "Oh my god!" with an intent to offend in the first place, so if someone takes offense, it's up to me to offer quid pro quo. Respect is a useless thing unless it's reciprocal (IMO).
"I don't meet with a group that concentrates on atheism"
Nobody in a secular/atheist/freethought group is likely to "call" you on any "blessings" or "grace" references, especially in the US where members are likely to be reconverts rather than "life-long" atheists.
I encourage you to attend MeetUps in your area though, you're close to the headquarters of many secular associations in DC. Wow, you do have a lot of options where you are! I seriously doubt any are even remotely "anti-theist" though, these groups tend to support tolerance for pluralism.
Should say: "likely to be deconverts"
Sneezes are easy. Even though it's German, gesundheit merely means "health". If you want to stick to English, you could always say "be in good health". Not common at the moment, but we could, in the immortal words of Capt. Picard, Make It So!! :-)
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Welcome to Found Off The Street, our look at cars usually found on the cape that rust liked so much it decided to summer there; Cape Cod, MA. Today we have a special Found off the Cape 1959 Cadillac.
Last week's 1957 GMC Panel Truck spent quite a bit of time sitting exposed to the harsh Massachusetts winter climate and had the scars to prove it. Although this week's 1959 Cadillac was found outside of Boston, about 70 miles north of the cape that rust remembered, it has been exposed to the same harsh New England winters. Like the panel truck, this old Cadillac's condition is a clear indicator the car has spent some time outside.
FOTS happened to go off cape this week not because we've run out of cars on the cape rust remembered, but because this Cadillac was too good of an off street find not to share. A rusty set of fins is hard to pass up, especially this pair. I was lucky enough to grow up around a beautiful original 1959 Cadillac (more on this in a future FOTS), which has left me with a deep love of these flamboyant cars.
Like every other Cadillac that left the factory in 1959 this one is equipped with a 390 cubic inch V8. I believe this Cadillac is a Series 62 rather than a Sedan de Ville from the lack of options on the car. The tell tale emblems for either model are missing from this particular example with no evidence of where they once were. Regardless of the exact model, the body style is a 4 window "flat-top" sedan, nicknamed for its unusual rear window design.
One look at the back of a 1959 Cadillac is all it takes to understand why the one year only design is one of the most recognizable cars ever made. The '59 Cadillac is recognizable to millions of non car lovers around the world, and represents the pinnacle of late '50s and early '60s American car design. Other fins might have been higher, but few were as overstated and recognizable as those on the 1959 Cadillac.
As you might imagine, a car with a design this iconic isn't usually something you come across for sale too often, and when you do the cars are usually total basket cases or high dollar cars in excellent condition. Finding a driver quality 1959 Cadillac at a reasonable price is a nearly impossible feat. For this reason, when I came across a one line advertisement for a "59 Caddy" on Craigslist last week, I decided to take a closer look.
The car was advertised for $2500 and from what I've seen in the past that rarely buys you much vintage Cadillac. I was pleasantly surprised when I showed up to find the car you see here. Like most old project cars in Massachusetts, there was some rust, but not so much it was beyond repair. The car was complete and miraculously the hard to find and very expensive curved glass was perfect. Even though the engine was stuck and mice had spent some time in the car, I could see the potential.
Last driven four or five years ago, this old Cadillac had been sitting next to a set of trash cans behind an apartment building ever since while the harsh elements took their toll on the car. I'll admit it, I was sold from the second I saw this car, especially since the recent sale of the Bumble Bee Valiant had left me without something old and rusty that didn't run. Despite my immediate desire to own the old beast, I decided to take the night to sleep on it.
You can probably guess what happened at this point. I made the call set on purchasing the car only to find some other less hesitant vintage Cadillac buyer had already purchased the car. All week I've been trying to convince myself that it is for the best that I didn't end up dragging the massive Caddy back to the cape rust remembered. Memories of bringing my '57 Plymouth back to life and a hopeful vision of a loving new owner have convinced me it's probably for the best. For now, this self consolation will have to fill the large void that would otherwise be taken up by 4770 pounds of old rusty Cadillac project car hell.


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A ceremony to inaugurate the cold stores was held in Chahar Asyab district. Addressing the gathering, Agriculture Minister Asadullah Zamir provided the details of the constructed cold rooms.
He said 61 cold facilities have been built in Mosihi district, 27 in Qarabagh district, 16 in Chahar Asiab district, 14 in Khak-i-Jabbar district and three in Bagrami district in a span of six months.
Zamir said the cost of the projects was shared 50-50 by the ministry and residents of the areas.
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