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On a mission: Workshop for science teachers highlights K-State Olathe's outreach in food safety
Since its grand opening in late April, Kansas State University Olathe -- the Kansas City area's newest campus -- has been focused on its mission of research and outreach in food safety and animal health.
With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reporting that about a third of the U.S. population has mild to severe illnesses caused by pathogens in food each year, food safety is an increasingly important topic. More than 5,000 people in the U.S. die from food poisoning annually.
A workshop to update science teachers on the latest food safety information will be June 13-16 at K-State Olathe. Registration for the event is filled, an indication the K-State graduate campus is offering the type of educational programs wanted in the Kansas City area.
Teaching Food Safety Through Food Science is an interactive hands-on in-service program to prepare 20 teachers to educate middle and high school students about food safety through existing food science units and/or courses in the family and consumer sciences, agriculture or science curriculum. The intended outcome is high school students knowledgeable about food safety, food science and career opportunities related to public health, according to Beth Montelone, professor of biology and program director for One Health Kansas.
One Health Kansas, a sponsor of the workshop, was developed by K-State and is funded by the Kansas Health Foundation. Its mission is to promote awareness and understanding of the interconnections among human, animal and environmental health. K-State Olathe is the other core sponsor.
"The teaching workshop fits perfectly with our research and outreach mission in food safety," said John Pascarella, associate dean of academic and research programs at K-State Olathe. "Many of the teachers participating in the workshop are from Johnson County and will receive stipends through support from the Johnson County Education and Research Triangle -- JCERT -- funding that supports K-State Olathe. We are proud to be hosting what we hope will be the first of many teachers workshops in the areas of food safety, animal health and biotechnology."
Other partners in the workshop include Sysco Kansas City Inc., the Kansas Department of Education and Danisco Ingredients.
As part of the training, teachers will participate in classroom, laboratory and industry instruction focusing on food science, food microbiology fundamentals, microbes and food spoilage, prevention of food-borne illnesses, and food science-related careers, Montelone said. The program will integrate current K-State research and industry best practices, guided by national standards related to science and career and technical education.
Participants will tour Danisco and Sysco to learn about food-handling practices the two companies have in place.
Workshop presentations will be on a variety of topics surrounding food, from microbiology and safe food handling to food-borne illness case studies.
Instructors for the workshop include food scientists and food safety specialists from Sysco, Danisco and K-State, including experts from the Food Science Institute, K-State Research and Extension and K-State Sensory Analysis Center.


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2010-11 (Freshman):
Finished the season with an 11-7 mark, going 4-2 at the No. 3 and 6-3 at the No. 4 ... Swept Christopher Holter of Brown to open the season … Grabbed a 3-1 win over Will Gruner of Williams Nov. 21 … Defeated Dartmouth's Christopher Jung, 11-6, 11-4, 11-6 ... Downed Ryan Herden of Western Ontario, 3-1 ... Swept opponents from St. Lawrence and Hamilton in back-to-back matches ... Helped Harvard capture fifth at the 2011 CSA National Team Championship winning all three of his matches (Princeton, Dartmouth and Cornell).
Before Harvard:
Earned five letters in squash … Captained squash team as a senior … Three-time All-Inter-Ac selection … Received the Wayne C. Astley Award for squash sportsmanship … Awarded the Mind, Body, Spirit Prize for excellence in athletics, sportsmanship and academics … U.S. Squash under-19 national champion in 2010 … Ranked No. 1 in the U.S. throughout the 2009-10 season in the U-19 division … Member of the U.S. national team that competed at the World Junior Squash Championships in 2009 … Mid-Atlantic Squash Association champion … Episcopal Academy won the National High School Squash Championship in 2009 and 2010 … Laude Society member … Spanish Honor Society member.
Enjoys reading and video games … Brother, Devin, won the under-17 U.S. Squash National Championship in 2010.

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Giguere talking today, and my choices for free-agent pickups if I were him
***Update: Just to give you a preview of tomorrow's story in the paper: It's going to be a quiet day for the Avs on free-agent day. Also, Theo, Bruno, Sauer and Finger are good as gone.
Before I get started, let me just say this: the Tampa Bay Lightning are insane. They just gave Ryan Malone $31.5 million for seven years, guaranteed. Insane. This is nothing more than a mediocre power forward, who played on a line much of the time with Sidney Crosby and still had only 51 points in 77 games for the Pens last season. He was terrible in the Finals against Detroit, too, a total non-factor.
Mark my words, that signing will be the kind of albatross around Barry Melrose's neck like Bobby Holik was to the Rangers, or Alexei Yashin on the Island.
Francois Giguere should be making the media rounds today, talking about the Avs on the day before free agency.
I think it's going to be a fairly quiet day for the Avs, but to quote Dennis Miller, I could be wrong.
But the Avs don't have quite the payroll flexibility they had last year, especially not with the signings of Foote and Liles to a combined $7 million for this coming season alone.
The Avs had to overpay a little to keep Liles, but I think it's a smart move to keep him. He's still young, still learning as a D-man, and I think the elimination of a contract distraction will help him play better than he did last year.
Plus, now the Avs can use him as trade bait if they want to in the next four years. It's always smart to not lose an "asset" (I hate that word when referring to human beings) for nothing, so it was a good signing there.
Foote was a foregone conclusion to come back, and it's a smart move to keep a veteran like him around – one who can still play and one whom the Avs gave up a first-round pick this year and, now, a fourth-round pick in 2009 to get.
Then there's the Joe Sakic situation still hanging over their heads. Will they have a big salary cap opening, or won't they?
Still no decision, folks. I'm as exasperated by it as you are, trust me. Joe isn't returning any calls these days, either, so it's been a total blackout for any kind of news with him lately.
Looking over the free-agent list as of Monday morning at about 7:30, it's not as strong as previous years. The guy I would have really wanted is Brian Rolston, but now the Lightning own the rights to talk to him, and they must think they can sign him if they gave up a conditional draft choice for the privilege.
If I were Giguere, I'd really look hard for a third-line center, a guy who can play some defense, a guy with speed. Is Mike Peca a little long in the tooth for such a role? Perhaps. But he's a guy I might think about pretty hard. He played in the Cup Finals just two years ago with the Oilers, and he's got talent. The problem is, he's getting older and he's hurt a lot.
But I definitely think the time has come to dump Tyler Arnason from a third-line role, and just get a guy in there who wants to check and play good defense. The Avs need a shutdown, checking line, period.
Stephane Yelle is also going to be available. Does Yeller still have something left in the tank? I think he could give the Avs a good year, for sure. Don't be shocked if that happens. He still has a place in the Denver area, by the way, and I know he never liked leaving here. Craig Conroy is another guy who could fill such a role, but he, too, is getting a little too gray around the temples.
One guy I wonder about a little is Brendan Shanahan? I'd love to have Shanny on my team. I just think he's a great mentor to younger guys, and he can still give you 20 goals a year. I don't think he wants to leave New York, but if I'm a team looking for some veteran leadership up front – which I think the Avs will need with the exit of Andrew Brunette and the uncertainty of the Sakic situation, he's a guy I'd love to have if I'm Giguere.
What say you, Avs nation? Who should they get – assuming they're not in on the Hossa-Rolston-Campbell sweepstakes, etc?


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On Art Work in LincolnWhat the Haydon art Club is Doing
The Nebraska State Journal, June 14, 1891
The Trial of the TrollyThe First Electric Car to Lincoln Park.
The Nebraska State Journal, June 18, 1891
A Veteran Hotel KeeperHalf a Century in the Harness
The Nebraska State Journal, June 21, 1891
Cost of the Sheedy CaseAnd the Present Term of Court
The Nebraska State Journal, June 25, 1891
About the Asylum
Lincoln Herald, June 27, 1891
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In today's technology-driven world, the best-run firms have clear clarity across all phases of their operations that allow them to respond quickly to various situations, and cope with changing requirements, ensuring improved flexibility, efficiency, and reliability. And, the business becomes easy to handle with the usage of SAP solutions.
Why SAP?
SAP is one of the most widely used software suites across all the platforms. It offers collaborative solutions to all types of businesses. It offers solutions for CRM (customer relationship management), SCM (supply chain management), and enterprise planning. Many firms have been using SAP solutions to run their businesses; there are many Fortune 500 firms that use SAP for daily reporting and operations.
Companies use this due to deficiencies discovered in the information systems architecture. Most systems run on automation that controls some core business operations. When there are inconsistencies or errors between two systems, it often leads to biased or mismatched management reports. To prevent the inconsistencies, firms replace old business tools with SAP solutions.
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The advantages of SAP in business are many; the highly efficient and modern systems support the unparalleled infrastructure in the IT industry. The R/3 system covers all tractions and commercial processes in a single or group of firms. IT-specific SAP solutions have already has more than 12million users across the globe.
The business can drive maximum from SAP solution concept; it combines content, tools, and direct access to SAP to handle all processes, starting from deployment, implementation, control, and improvement. It supports the connection between IT infrastructure and business processes.
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There are many IT associates and experts working across the full spectrum of SAP solutions, planning, and implementation. Grom is one such organization that helps entrepreneurs and business owners to transform their operation to be better aligned with IT specific best strategies. The associate applies superior expertise, deep industry knowledge, and unmatched delivery capabilities to drive breakthrough outcomes. Developing innovative SAP solutions, mobility, and HANA platform is Grom's passion.
The Sap solutions help you build a set of cross-functional and integrated business processes with great ease.
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Before implementing the SAP solution, a complete analysis of current infrastructure is made. This process identifies all the issues for rectification and refinement. The short or long-term plans are formed and then categorized as per the priority and severity. The internal workflows are also identified, so that whole SAP systems functions efficiently. The initial process itself identifies the fault and comes up with the solution to rectify the problem. The internal flows are created to build a practical business strategy.
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Since SAP solutions rely on business service architecture to improve adaptability, efficiency, and standardization, the cost involved in the process is reduced, thereby increasing the flexibility. SAP solutions extend the operation by extrapolating collaborative functions and transactions.
On the Whole
There are lower risks associated with SAP based business solutions. SAP optimizes and integrates business operations and reduces the need of third-party software suite. So, it'd only be wise to consider SAP solutions for your business to minimize the cost, and improve the cash flow.


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I just liked you... Tom Botkin
I just liked you... Tom Botkin
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The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away. ~Wayne Dyer
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Nice. Getting to the end. Looks like we're going to give away a gray Weight Weenie (I THINK... Unless the one on the shelf gets sold first...). Remind your wives, husbands, boyfriends, friends, and pets (if they have Facebook pages) etc. The more folks who could win the hammock and then give it to you, the better your chances of winning are!
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If Phishing Email Can Kill NY Power Grid, Lack Of Cybersecurity Legislation Is Not The Problem
from the oh-come-on deptWe've been talking about the faux urgency to pass some cybersecurity legislation coming from the federal government, with plenty of fear mongering from politicians who never seem to want to point out any factual basis for why we need such new laws. Instead, it's all been about Hollywood movie script-style scenarios about planes falling from the skies. It appears that the White House is heavily involved in this bogus fear mongering as well, having recently set up a "simulated cyberattack on New York City's power supply" to convince elected officials to move forward on the legislation.
During a classified briefing in the Office of Senate Security, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan showed lawmakers how a hacker could breach control systems of the city's electric system and trigger a ripple effect throughout the population and private sector, according to a source familiar with the scenario.Now that's interesting. Just how could a hacker breach control systems of the power grid? Apparently with an email phishing attack:
"The fact that we could be subject to a catastrophic attack under the right circumstances and we now know some of the things that would help us to protect against such an attack, that's why it's important now for the Congress to take this up," Napolitano said in an interview with POLITICO.
During the simulation, the hacker gains access to the electric supply's control system through a simple "spearphishing" attack, in which a worker merely clicks on a link in an email that appears to be from someone they know.Um, there's your problem. If the NYC power grid is attached to the public internet in such a way that it can be taken down, then um, shouldn't we take it off the internet? This isn't about cybersecurity, this is about common sense, where things like the power grid should not be accessible via the internet -- and I'm pretty sure they're not (back here in reality). But in the world where we need fear, uncertainty, doubt and the ability for the federal government to spy on private networks, we have to pretend such a scenario is likely.
Of course, I also question why the White House chose NYC as the showcase for the simulation and suggested that there would be deaths and other massive harm from such a power grid takedown. After all, it was just about a decade ago that the power grid in the Northeast did, in fact, fail. It was an inconvenience for many people, certainly, but it was hardly damaging in the way the White House seems to have implied with this scare tactic.
So, once again, can we take a step back and ask some simple questions: what's the real threat and the real risk here? If it's that the NYC power grid is accessible by a simple password over the public internet, then the problem isn't cybersecurity, it's whoever was stupid enough to connect the power grid to the internet. Let's fix that. But let's not regulate and spy on large segments of the public internet to cover for a few bad decisions.
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Online Directories
What Are They?
Online Directories are exactly what they sound like – listings of people or companies posted online, most often categorized by demographics – location, industry, etc. The discrete parts manufacturing and machining industries are well represented, with some dating back to the dawning of the Web in the 1990s.
Why Are They Important?
The primary purpose of Online Directories is to create channels that lead to your Website, to make your business found in context by buyers and prospects looking for services like yours. These online models are often discounted, due to the emergence & evolution of content management technologies, Online Marketplaces, Search Engines, and other information providers that serve the manufacturing markets. However, Online Directories are very important to establishing or maintaining the online prominence for your shop. For starters, since they've been online for so long, search engines often return their listings high in search engine results pages (SERPs). Also, many long-time or established buyers or purchasing professionals that are your prospects include them in the discovery phases as they look for new suppliers. Consider Online Directories as manually-managed Search Engines for your markets.
Key Elements & Considerations:
Be as thorough as the given Online Directory will allow through its interface. Fill out all contact and descriptive information fields that are provided
ONLY include your company in Online Directories that serve the industries you serve – a 'shotgun' approach (including your business in directories for any market or industry that you don't serve) takes more time and effort than its worth, and will likely deliver few (if any) legitimate prospects for your business
Similarly, ONLY list your company for those categories and capabilities that you are qualified to deliver on. It's a mistake to believe a buyer looking for something specific will readily listen to you if she feels duped; you will lose more business by following this path than you'll gain. Just don't do it
For those directories that allow it, place as many 'deep links' into your Website as you can. Deep links are links to pages other than your Home Page, deeper in your site – like your facilities lists, qualifications & certifications, and vignettes
Many Online Directories charge for 'slotting' of your business' listings – that is, moving you to the top of the category pages for which you've registered. Your best strategy is to resist paying for placement for a time. It's best to obtain free listings in these directories and measure the results over time to assess which ones are attracting the most valuable attention & deserve consideration for your slotting dollars
Like Forums, list your business in any and all Online Directories that are provided by the associations and trade groups that you're a member of. They're free, and that's what they're there for. And they're as contextual a listing as you can get
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|Zori & Ned Staples c.1897, St Paul,MN
I am in touch with her great granddaughter thanks to Ancestry.com. Tragically, they lost all of their family photos when their home burned down in the Sycamore Fire of 1977. I immediately emailed her to share this great news. She was ecstatic and happened to be planning on visiting her mother (Zori's granddaughter) on Thursday, so this will be a fantastic surprise!
The boy in the portrait is Zori's son Edwin Herrick "Ned" Staples who was born in 1895. I tried to narrow down the exact year of the photo by researching the photographer. Thanks to the Minnesota Historical Website's list of photographers, I was able to find quite a bit about this photographer. Alfred U. Palmquist, also known as A.U. Palmquist, was born in Finland on 21 June 1850 and died 23 March 1922. He was well known for his images of Sitting Bull which can be found all over the Internet, including at the Library of Congress, Amazon and various auction sites. He worked in Minnesota from the 1870's to the 1900's and had a number of locations over the years. This photo has the address of 88 West Fourth Street, which, according to the listing from the Minnesota Historical Society below, was his location from 1891-1899. Since he was at this same location for quite awhile, I will have to hazard a guess that the photo is c.1897 when Ned would have been about two years old.
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened." The author, humorist and journalist Mark Twain wrote this when he was 75. A century later, folks are still blaming aging for their memory problems. But based on encouraging new research, it might be time to rethink the commonly held view that aging is a main factor for mental decline and memory loss.
Our brains do in fact shrink as we age, which may account for some decline in brain function — including memory. But what's got researchers all abuzz is that getting older doesn't have to mean you're destined for a life of lost car keys. A growing body of research points toward lifestyle as having a much bigger impact on our ability to process, store and recall information. That means what we eat and drink, how much (or little) we sleep, how we socialize, what medications we take, how much physical activity we get and even what we do for a living all matter. The reason that's so exciting: Unlike genetics and aging — two uncontrollable things that also account for our brain health — how we live our lives is, to a great extent, within our control.
With that said, who wouldn't want to take a proactive stance to maintain, and in some cases reclaim, brain health? After all, an intact memory allows you to remember a name, hold a job, drive a car, live independently and enjoy reading, biking, knitting, playing the guitar and your children and friends.
Scientists are now saying that it's possible to reverse some of the wear-and-tear damage on our brains that comes from constant exposure to stress-induced hormones like cortisol and norepinephrine. Manage the stress and you can reverse the shrinkage and the associated memory loss.


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Hi everyone! I'm so glad I found this forum. My name is Stacey, and I'm a stay at home mom, but I also have a small business I run from home. I am an Army wife, and have 3 children. 2 of my three have special needs. One is on the Austism Spectrum, with sensory processing issues, and also ADD, and the other is REALLY AD/HD (boy do I see myself in him haha)
Right now my oldest who is on the Spectrum is 9, and in the 3rd grade. I am sickened with the issues we've had with him in school, and at this point I am ready to home school him next year because of it all. I am considering the online public school because I think it would be so much easier to stick with it with our hectic schedules/lives, and honestly my amount of patience.
However, my younger son is doing so well at school. Part of me feels like you can't just home school one or two, but then again why not? My oldest son really needs this, but my younger son is in a Pre-K-D class and doing wonderful, and will just begin Kindergarten next year, so I'm kind of wait and see with that one.
I guess that's my biggest question. Am I valid in my thinking? Is it OK to start with one and see how it goes? Or am I wrong for not just home schooling all of them?
Very seriuosly considering homeschooling, but have questions
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Well, all children are different, and not all schools are bad. If your younger son is doing well, there may be no burning need to pull him out - though it certainly is possible, and not that difficult, to do preschool activities at home. I would say that in this instance, there is no wrong answer, and you should do what seems best for your children.
I am in the same position as you! I have four children and am strongly considering pulling two out of public school and homeschooling them, and leaving the other two in public school. I think it is best for our family and for our kids, and I don't really want to jump straight into homeschooling all the kids. Looking at their learning styles and how they are succeeding, I think it will work for us. I have no advice for you, but I wanted to let you know that you are not alone!
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Bulldogs Fall To No. 18 Washington In Second Game Of Day
SEATTLE – The Yale softball team is only seven games into the 2013 season, but the Bulldogs already have their first dramatic victory. Lauren Delgadillo led off the bottom of the seventh inning with a home run to left-center field to lift Yale to a thrilling 6-5 victory over New Mexico in its first game of the day at the Husky Classic at the University of Washington.
The Bulldogs (2-5) fell to No. 18 Washington 12-3 in the second game.
Delgadillo was 3-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI against New Mexico. Riley Hughes and Jennifer Ong each had two hits. Freshman Rhydian Glass started in the circle and struck out six in 5.2 innings. Kristen Leung earned the victory in relief, tossing 1.1 scoreless innings.
It didn't look like the Bulldogs were going to need any late-inning heroics after they scored five runs in the first inning. Ong led off with a double, and Tori Balta followed with a single. Delgadillo and Hughes then delivered back-to-back RBI singles. Hannah Brennan drew a bases loaded walk to force home the third run. Allie Souza added an RBI single, and Ong capped the rally with her second hit, an infield single that scored Hughes.
New Mexico (13-14) got right back in it with four runs in the second. The Lobos then tied it with a run in the sixth, setting up the dramatic finish.
"We came out ready to play today," said Yale head coach Jen Goodwin. "Whenever you get five runs in your first at bat, you know it will be a good day. We battled down to our very last at bat. Playing a great team like New Mexico and winning in our last at bat, there's not a better feeling."
Ong, Balta and Hughes had hits in the second game against Washington. The game was scoreless after two innings, but the Huskies (18-5) scored four times in the third and five times in the fourth.
Yale scored its three runs in the fifth with the help of some wildness from Washington's pitcher. Christy Nelson and Kelsey Warkentine walked and Hughes singled to load the bases. Ong, Sarah Onorato and Balta all drew bases loaded walks.
"Playing a top-25 team was a great experience for our team, and we swung the bat well against some of the top pitching in the country," Goodwin said. "We competed and held them scoreless for a few innings. Once they got their timing down it was tough to hold them back, but I'm very proud of our performance in the tournament."
After a day off on Monday, the Bulldogs play a doubleheader at Seattle University of Tuesday.
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People power has forced a County Hall U-turn over the scrapping of subsidies for rural buses across Lancashire.
Cabinet members were hearing today that controversial plans to save £3.8m by withdrawing support from all loss-making evening and weekend services are to be abandoned due to a public outcry.
Instead the authority intends to review 72 routes on their individual merits, while at the same time ordering operators to cough up more to keep "lifeline" services running.
County councillor John Fillis, cabinet member for highways and transport, revealed the switch had come about after a programme of public consultation meetings demonstrated the strength of feeling against subsidy cuts.
He was expected to tell today's cabinet meeting: "Together we've had frank and honest discussions about the challenges we face and how best we can respond as a community to the significant financial pressures being placed on us by the Government.
"As a result I'm pleased to say that the removal of subsidies to all evening and weekend services, on a blanket basis, will not be going ahead.
"Whilst reviewing every bus route on a case-by-case basis over the next few years it is my ambition to work with operators to push for a better deal for Lancashire.
"I will be asking that where companies make significant profits from popular routes in the county they work to help offset the costs of those which are less profitable or make losses."
Coun David Borrow, deputy leader of the council, added: "We cannot continue to give millions of pounds to subsidise the profits of companies running these routes.
"We need a new deal for Lancashire."
The announcement was good news for campaigners across the county, like the Lune Valley where a "Save Our Buses" protest resulted in a 1,300-name petition being presented to Coun Fillis at a public meeting in Caton.
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Candied Yams with Marshmallows
I experienced my first real Thanksgiving after Lulu and I got married. I say real because I had my very first Thanksgiving meal in July 1998. I know it sounds weird... As a child, I used to go to the US for the summer. Every summer, I'd be hosted by an American family through an agency. It was always a very neat experience. It offered me the opportunity to experience the culture and customs of America while sharing my own culture and customs with the host family.
When I met Reneé and Steve in the summer of 1998, they asked me to cook a typical French meal for them. I made a roasted leg of lamb and crunchy oven roasted potatoes. The next day, Reneé surprised me with a full Thanksgiving feast with all the fixings. I have very fond memories of my time at Reneé and Steve's in Williamsburg, Virginia. They even attended our wedding.
One of the dishes that really stood out was the candied yams. I had not eaten yams (or sweet potatoes, to be more accurate) in France, and this was my first experience with them. The yams were sweet and creamy, and the marshmallow topping was a nice touch.
I now make candied yams with my little sisters-in-law each Thanksgiving. It's a fun recipe for them to make because it's easy and also because they love to eat it. I get added pleasure out of passing on traditions that were taught to me in the past by my former host family. Thanks Reneé and Steve!
The marshmallows before melting in the oven.
Yields: 8 servings10 yams (or sweet potatoes)
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
6 tablespoons granulated sugar
9 tablespoons light corn syrup
juice of half a lemon
4 tablespoons apple cider
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon extract (or powder)
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg, freshly grated
280 mini marshmallows, (the kids counted them and ate the rest of the bag!)
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Sweetening: In a bowl, combine the butter, sugar, 1/2 cup of corn syrup, salt, cinnamon extract, nutmeg, lemon juice and apple cider. Reserve about 2 tablespoons.
Steaming the yams: Peel the yams and dice them into 1-1/2-inch pieces. It's preferable not to cut them too small as they might fall apart. Fill a pot with cold water until it barely touches the steamer level. It's important to start with cold water so the yams cook evenly. Place the yams in the steamer, bring to a boil and reduce the heat to medium-high. Steam for about 8-10 minutes. The yams should be fork-tender but still firm. Remove from the steamer. Let them cool a little. Once the yams are cool enough to handle and have"dried" (with no excess water), sprinkle with flour. Add the sweet mixture. Toss well.
Baking yams: Place the yams in individual greased ramekins (or in a large baking dish). Bake for about 20-25 minutes. Toss halfway through the baking process. Drizzle with the remaining tablespoon of corn syrup and the 2 tablespoons of sweet mixture. Cook for another 20 minutes.
Assembly time: Top the ramekins with mini-marshmallows. Place in the oven for about 2-3 minutes until they begin to melt and are slightly golden.
Serve immediately.
You can mash the yams when they're cooked and soft if you like or serve them as is. You can also omit the marshmallows if you like. It's just something the kids love.
Steaming the yams is not essential. You can skip this step if you like but they'll take a lot longer to soften in the oven.
I sweetened the yams halfway through the baking process as the sweetening syrup sinks to the bottom of the ramekin. Adjust the sweetness to your liking.
If you don't have apple cider, you can use apple juice or water.
For a vegan version, substitute vegetable butter (a vegan oil-based margarine) for the butter and use vegan marshmallows. I'll post that recipe soon.
Yams and sweet potatoes are high in fiber so indulge without guilt.
It's preferable to eat the candied yams topped with marshmallows right away; otherwise the marshmallows cool and become hard and gritty. Believe me, there's no such problem in my home as the kids devour every last bite!
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I didn't have time to take a picture; the little munchkin already attacked it with her spoon .


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I was just wondering how someone should address supernatural/spiritual claims. I've had people tell me all sorts of crazy stuff. For example, I had one person (someone quite close to me actually) tell me they had a book which taught them how to get in peoples heads, and that by using the book they were able to get in someones head and see through their eyes and things like this. Supposedly the person they did this to said he was creeped out by it because apparently they knew things about him that they couldn't have known without getting in his head. I've also had people claim other sort of supernatural and spiritual things and I really don't know how to address them. I can pretty well take on people who claim to have personal relationships, but outside of those types of claims I have no idea. Of course I could ask for proof, but there is no way for them to prove it, essentially I'd have to have been there seen everything myself, but anyway, how could I go about addressing this stuff? I know there is an explanation for it, and I don't want to just flat out say the person is lying because often times I think people are genuine and things really did happen which aren't explainable to them so they attach supertnatural explanations since they know no other way of explaining it, and then they exaggerate things to make sound more remarkable than it actually is.
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So I wonder what actually is effective in getting people to question paranormal beliefs? I don't know of any research that has been done on that. It would be a useful thing to research. But again, even if skeptical questioning "takes", if it makes an impression on the person, they would rarely change their mind on the spot.
Yes, to me now, anything paranormal is such an impressively radical claim about the nature of reality that it's the explanation of last resort.
But it wasn't always that way. Once talking about OBE's, a skeptic asked me "well what does a person see with when they're out of their body? Their ghost eyes???" That made an impression on me because I hadn't "gone there" mentally, and I realized that yes, any such experience would have to have a concrete explanation.
I didn't say at the time, "oh, you've convinced me it's well-nigh impossible". Nor was I a believer - only someone who'd seen accounts of NDE's and found them intriguing. I enjoyed entertaining the thought.
Sartre said "To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head", and other people's questioning can break bones in one's head. (although the "bones in the head" made by a successful religion like Christianity, are hard to break.)
I wonder if, instead of statistical design of parapsychology experiments, a course in skeptical thinking would be useful. The basic skeptical knowledge that Mike Shermer presents in The Believing Brain. Classroom experiments in debunking, placebo effect, the malleability of our perceptions ... Teaching people the good questions to ask of believers. Perhaps if one has a class of paranormal believers - what are their paranormal beliefs actually, how about running an experiment to test them?
I've wondered what's effective to counter anti-vaccination attitudes. That's an irrational belief that results in people dying, especially children and babies - so there has actually been some research on what is effective to promote vaccination, I think parents who were vaccine-hesitant said they would get their children vaccinated if they were afraid of the consequences of not vaccinating. The horrendous videos of babies with whooping cough, babies dead of vaccine-preventable diseases, stories of people's children who died when they didn't have to, seem likely effective.
Fear is a very powerful persuader and it gets people's attention. I feel strengthened and reassured when something spooky turns out to have a good everyday explanation. Perhaps this has an application to dissuading people from paranormal beliefs.
There may be biochemical aspects to being a paranormal believer. Mike Shermer mentioned some experiments done by - I think - Susan Blackmore - an ex-paranormal believer - that showed paranormal believers were more likely to see patterns, creatures in ambiguous images.
I got a lot less mystically-minded after I quit eating gluten and some other foods. I used to think a lot about God and souls, as a reification or poetic figure of speech.
But then I read about how most Americans believe in a personal God (at least claim to), and after initially thinking "isn't it nice to be for once in the majority?" I was disturbed and decided I didn't literally believe in God.
About quitting gluten, dairy and some other foods, I wrote "I had spent my life in dreams. My feelings and thoughts were very loud, calling me to pay more attention to them than to objective reality. My vision was ensouled - my abstract perceptions, my emotional thoughts were also visual perceptions. My feelings were alive in my vision, as small almost-hallucinations, as if my vision were permeated with something transparent that moved and sometimes formed shapes that were feelings. Out on walks, I had an unpleasant, compulsive fascination with graphics, posted announcements, art - as if there might be something very interesting, or it was something I needed to see - but I was annoyed to have to look, too."
That sounds interesting, and it was. But it also had VERY severe negative effects (described in the rest of the essay).
There are ideas that people with a "leaky gut" - high intestinal permeability, which celiac disease causes - can be psychologically affected by opioid peptides that are breakdown products of gluten. I don't know how much scientific support there is for those ideas. Also it seems that schizophrenia is sometimes caused/aggravated by gluten, and this might be the result of an immune reaction to gluten.
Anyway, one can see how someone whose brain has a lot of semi-autonomous activity, or somehow causes them to see patterns where others don't, would become a paranormal believer. The ghost-believer or ghost-interested person I mentioned earlier, is like that. He has a lot of highflown foggy ideas about math and physics without coming up with definite mathematical hypotheses or working out an actual physics theory. It's disconnected patternicity.
The point of teaching students about the proper design of experiments is precisely to enable them to distinguish genuine knowledge from statistical accident. It is the entire basis of experiment. One result is never enough, experiments must provide enough data for analysis.
This is what is going on with the reported discovery of the Higgs boson—events are so rare that it takes a long while to accumulate enough data to eliminate chance.
As long as we rely on anecdotal evidence, we have nothing reliable. There has been an argument going on in psychology whether psychoanalysis is a science. The problem comes down to the fact that each patient's case is unique in its very essence, which makes it impossible to establish general principles on a sound basis. Economics to some extent suffers from the same problem: when do you truly know something in economics?
If there is anything in the gluten question, it will be established by experiment, that is, collecting data from a large number of cases under controlled circumstances. There is no question that this can be done, but with psychoanalysis and economics the circumstances will not permit it.
The point of teaching students about the proper design of experiments is precisely to enable them to distinguish genuine knowledge from statistical accident. It is the entire basis of experiment.
Sure, but you said students just got bored when you taught them this, and it didn't seem to be persuading anyone out of paranormal beliefs.
So what does work, to train people to have a questioning rational attitude?
If there is anything in the gluten question, it will be established by experiment
Exploring immune reactions to food seems to be a very active area of research! If you type "gluten schizophrenia" into Medline, a great deal comes up. That research is finally being done. For many years, people have experienced psychological and physical effects from food sensitivities that aren't classical food allergies, without having the validation of science, but they're getting validation now in terms of psychiatric effects of gluten . Also food sensitivities in general can have a psychological effect, it seems ADHD in children is sometimes affected by specific foods.
I typed "gluten schizophrenia" into Medline because that's the closest thing to gluten effects on paranormal belief systems, that seems likely to get plenty of research attention. Paranormal beliefs, like believing in telepathy, various magic powers, being visited by aliens, are usually part of schizophrenic thinking, although schizophrenics invent their own paranormal belief system :) rather than adopting a paranormal belief from the many floating around them.
It would be VERY interesting to investigate whether people on average get more rational with a gluten/dairy free diet, since certainly irrationality is a huge problem in the world and may be the end of us. How one can even measure "rationality", I don't know. I don't know how much or how often gluten affects people psychologically, but it can.
I looked a little at research on paranormal believers. Apparently it's associated with having been abused as a child, also with stress - people's likelihood of having paranormal belief goes up after a very stressful event (like 9/11), and the author of the book I looked at snippets of, thought this is because paranormal beliefs gives people a sense of control. Also "UFO abductees" may be people who were abused as children, translating their experiences into something less threatening, as in "So far from being my parents who did those things to me, it was ALIENS".
I don't know why someone would feel a sense of control from a paranormal belief. Paranormal believers can actually find their beliefs to be distressful and threatening. For me, not adopting paranormal explanations to interpret my own experience, feels more like mastery.
Anyway, understanding what causes people to hold paranormal beliefs is crucial for knowing how to counteract them.
Sure, but you said students just got bored when you taught them this, and it didn't seem to be persuading anyone out of paranormal beliefs.
That's the way it seemed to me, but of course it's hard to tell. These days students grow up with television, electronic games, etc. and it is difficult to get them to concentrate on anything serious for longer than five minutes. However, the responsibility of the teacher is not to entertain, but to instruct.
Back in the eighties computer science was swarming with majors, students who thought that they would be spending their time playing computer games and having fun. When they found out they would have to learn mathematics for their computer courses, they began dropping like flies. For most students anymore, if it's not fun, they won't bother to learn.
Male students no longer dominate in scientific and engineering majors. In fact they constitute less than half of the total college population these days—they simply do not have the intellectual stamina for hard subjects. It's women and foreign students who are taking the lead.
In terms of neurochemistry of paranormal belief:
A researcher gave 20 paranormal believers and 20 skeptics L-dopa, which increases dopamine levels; on the L-dopa, the paranormal believers had more false positives, and the skeptics missed fewer scrambled images of faces.
Paranormal believers are more likely to see patterns and connections between events, so in a way the L-dopa made the subjects more paranormally inclined.
It would be interesting to find out if gluten increases dopamine levels for the people who have schizophrenic-type symptoms from gluten - hallucinations, ideas about telepathy, etc.
When I went to college the undergrads were only about 10% women. It felt very weird!
ps a lot of paranormal beliefs are more fragmented than an actual religion, so those people are more talkable-to. With a religion, someone has likely been indoctrinated since they were a little child; they have a whole social group built around it, their friends support it, it's tied in with their sense of belonging and morality, it tells them that unbelief is the bottomless pit of hell - it's like they have a mental spider in there, tying their mind up in silken spider ropes.
It really would be nice if atheists could or would swim around in as-ifness - think in a paranormal or religious way without actual belief. I had a dream recently where the Bible appeared and I thought "all that wonderful psychotic stuff" with some regret. (this is not about the actual book, which I've never read much of, but the book as a symbol of a kind of consciousness that I miss)
But actually we have people misusing that state of mind, religious states, to oppress people so much - and rationality is so lacking in the world, that one feels surrounded by a sea of irrationality - so defensively atheists lock out religious states of mind. Not necessarily all atheists of course, but it's the culture.
Certainly not necessary to have a religious or spiritual experience and then become religious. Or to see a ghost and then become a paranormal believer. That would be jumping to conclusions, and in a huge way.
I saw my astral body once, the first time I did TM - but never afterwards. I had the impression, thinking about it later, that it was real in the sense of being a potential vision for people - I mean, that other people under the right circumstances would see a very similar vision. It was attached to me by a thin glowing cord, but I didn't see where the cord was attached to me.
So how does one avoid being seduced by paranormal/religious thoughts? because some of those ways of thinking are very seductive? It would be very gratifying to have magic powers, be immortal etc. - so people do often just consent to believe in such things.
I made a comment earlier in this thread, that religious belief involves more elements than paranormal belief, so it's often more pointless to discuss with religious believers than with paranormal believers.
God is entirely a wish to connect to a sublimated-self ... It's funny to me that own Self is linked to Desire and devilry. .....Satan was a selfish angel because he turned away from God.From an atheist point of view, that is towards an unsublimated Self.
But theists don't see it that way. That's why they say things like "I would rape and murder if I didn't believe in God". From their point of view, the "God" out there, the morality, the higher self, is NOT part of them. Everything good about them gets displaced out to "God".
When a theist says they'd be so terrible without God, atheists often think the theist is confessing to be a horrible person. But they don't realize that what the theist is effectively saying is that "without all that is good in me, I'd be doing terrible things". The theist doesn't realize that becoming an atheist is a process of integration with the "God" out there, not the loss of everything good.
There is an aspect of the astrale body that is confirmed by synchronicities.As if by getting closer to the pivot of inner being, it provokes them. Jung writes of this. It's wierd but confirming. I get it bumping into people it is very odd i should.
This reminds me of how, as an abuse survivor I sometimes seem to have a magical "radar" for abusers and an invisible target painted on me that abusive people can see ...
There is much more that people perceive about other people, than we explicitly know about. Very small things that we might not even notice consciously - like someone's quick eye movements - tell us things about them. So trusting one's intuition doesn't have to involve any paranormal beliefs.
As for one's mind influencing reality (to encounter certain people etc.) in some magical way, no good evidence for that. It's a common perception that some coincidences are happening more often than chance and naturalism will allow, but people have various biases that tend to cause that perception.
I have had many supernatural and paranormal experiences in my lifetime. Of course, you cannot prove them. That is because the phenomena comes from within you - not from outside of you. This makes it all superstition and covers all phenomena including God and religion, demons, etc. If I knock on wood and ask,"Hey, Splitfoot, are you there," it proves that I believe already. Therefore, anything that follows is predetermined by my mindset. This is why Oral Roberts saw Jesus 70 foot tall in Oklahoma, and nobody else did. In other words, it's all bullshit!
James Randi is a magician who has for years offered a million dollar prize for anyone who could demonstrate a paranormal ability under rigorous conditions. Nobody has ever won this prize, although the people who volunteer for the Million Dollar Challenge are convinced they have paranormal abilities. There are many videos of these challenges online.
Its all bullshit alright! All supernatural claims are descriptions of miraculous events and miracles are used to mislead and even fool others. People cannot be made to believe untruths like religions without deception.
In India, rationalists like Dr.Kovur challenged god-men professing to show miracles to prove them but none ever came forward,
lol thanks for all the responses guys, never expected this to be so popular.
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OAKLAND — Police have released a picture of a missing historic box made of California gold and worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that was stolen from the Oakland Museum of California last week.
The museum's insurance company is offering a $12,000 reward for the return of the Gold Rush-era quartz and gold box with ornamentation depicting scenes from early California, museum officials said.
"With an object like this it's less about the value of the actual material then it is about the historical value," said museum Executive Director Lori Fogarty. "The (monetary value) can fluctuate depending on how it's sold, who is looking to buy and what the demand is."
A scale used to weigh gold was also taken during the Jan. 9 heist but it was later found elsewhere at the museum, Fogarty said.
The theft, which occurred when the museum was closed, was the second break-in at the facility at 1000 Oak St. in two months. The thief apparently forced his way into the second-floor exhibit through an emergency exit door just a few feet from where the 3-pound jewel box was encased in a Plexiglas display wired to an alarm, museum officials said.
During last week's theft, a security guard heard the alarm and could see the intruder on a screen in another section of the compound, which stretches for a city block along Oak Street. The guard called Oakland police, but the thief had already left by the time officers arrived.
Since the latest heist, Fogarty said the museum has added round-the-clock inside security guards and night guards outside the museum. The museum has also added cameras, alarms and additional interior and exterior lighting, she said. The museum has also signed a contract with a security consultant to assess security systems and identify what more can be done to keep the place safe.
Museum officials say the historic jewelry box was made between 1869 and 1878 by a San Francisco goldsmith, A. Andrews, who also signed the piece. It is 7 inches tall, 9 inches long, and 7 inches deep, according to a description from the museum.
Museum officials are worried the thief will melt down the irreplaceable box, which includes gold that hasn't been mined in California since the 19th century.
This is the second theft of this box. It was also stolen in 1978 but later found and returned to the museum by an art appraiser in 1985. The appraiser did not know the box was a stolen item.
The previous burglary happened about 11:30 p.m. Nov. 12. Gold nuggets and Gold Rush-era pistols were stolen during a late-night break-in.
Video surveillance tapes were reviewed, but no arrests have been made in the November theft and the items have not been recovered. In the November burglary, police said someone broke a door to get inside the museum and then exited the building through a different door.
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COLUMBIA -- Georgia may be ahead of South Carolina in a lot of ways, but not when it comes to beer.
South Carolina lawmakers are moving toward allowing breweries to serve up to four pints of beer on site.
But Georgia is struggling at a more basic level: Legalizing the sale of beer to be consumed off the premises. The practice is already permitted in S.C., which lets breweries sell customers 288 ounces to take elsewhere.
"We're very interested in what South Carolina's brewing industry has accomplished," said Nancy Palmer, vice president of development for the Georgia Craft Brewers Guild.
"There are ways in which we can emulate it sometimes and beat it out other times."
She said the organization may push for on-premise pint sales if the members of the Guild call for it.
"Clearly there's some liability, insurance, tax issues, if all of a sudden you allow people to drink on premise," said Palmer, who lives in Athens, Ga.
"It may be the kind of thing some brewers may not be as interested in. But maybe one day we'll go where South Carolina is going, or we might go in another direction."
She said advocates are intensely focused on first freeing up breweries to sell beer to consumers to drink off site.
The bills to do so, H. 314 and S. 174, fell short before Georgia's Crossover Day, the deadline for legislation to clear one chamber in order to have a chance of becoming law.
"Our aim is to let the dust settle, to get together outside of the capital and work with some other stakeholders," said John Pinkerton, president of the Guild. There had been some concern that the change would alter the three-tier system of producers, distributors and retailers.
Pinkerton's Moon River Brewing Co. in Savannah is a brewpub, which is permitted to serve its beer on site.
Meanwhile, in South Carolina, Jaime Tenny, president of the S.C. Brewers Association and owner of COAST Brewing Co. in Charleston, S.C., said the "pint bill" pending in the S.C. Legislature would allow the state's growing brewery community thrive.
South Carolina's proposal, H. 3554, is expected to pass the full S.C. House, and a companion bill in the Senate, S. 423, was approved by a subcommittee on Wednesday. Rep. Bill Herbkersman, R-Bluffton, is among its cosponsors.
"They could still do the sample, but then say, 'oh, I really like that. Let me have a whole pint of that,'" said Tenny.
"Having the ability to sell pints really helps with cash flow," she said.
"Anything I can sell on site for profit I can put back into my business and expand."
A report from the National Beer Wholesalers Association on the industry's commercial boost lays the beer industry out in terms of public benefits.
In South Carolina, taxes by beer distributors were enough to fund 5.4 million teacher hours or to maintain 8,003 miles of highways for a year. In Georgia, taxes equated to 10.6 million teacher hours or maintenance of 14,816 miles of highways.
Distributors are considered one tier of the three-tier system, where they take beer from brewers or importers and sell it to retailers. The report linked the success of small brewers to distributors, stating that many small operations wouldn't be be able to sell the volumes of beer that they do without them.
Tenny, Pinkerton and Palmer emphasized that the breweries are small businesses whose employees represent active citizens and entrepreneurs.
Pinkerton pointed to the Guild's logo, a rubber boot worn by brewers.
"The boot for us is an important symbol," he said. "We are working people. Most of the business owners that are represented in this trade organization are the people who still make the beer. We're not fat cat corporations."
There are 12 breweries in South Carolina and roughly twice as many in Georgia, while North Carolina has more than 60.
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I just got two of the PC-V1100 on clearance. This is a well made case, BUT both are missing the grill and thumbscrews that attach to the bottom , at the front, It filters the air for the front fan. Both of the cases we received have gaping holes on the chassis that will allow a lot of dust in. I went to the website of the seller ( large retailer ) today, and I see the underside pic they have do not show this piece. Most underside pics on the web of the PC-V1100 show this part, but I do see a couple of pics that don't have it.
I think the same parts are used on other Lian Li cases.
Can you please fill-out the form in the link below, and include pictures as well as let us know where you bought it?
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well, this case has a 120mm intake, and a 120mm on the side panel. The side panel fan has a opening that has a metal screen, but no filter media. That might be correct.
I think I just need the parts for the front air intake, as pictured here. The bracket, screws, and filter media.
I'm in the exact same situation, as are two people who I directed toward this deal from TigerDirect. These are lovely cases from what I consider a high point in Lian-Li's history so far, and the price was unbelievable (even in Canada, where we get hit with higher pricing and shipping). The missing filter seems odd, and wasn't a running change made during production to my knowledge.
Hopefully, Lian Li will take care of us. These parts are very cheap to make. I would think it cost less than a dollar to produce them
Lian Li says they don't have the part, so we are on our own on this one.
any of you guys good at custom fabrication of small aluminum parts? looks like a simple aluminum stamping...
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and another review of a silver PC-V1100 plus model. No filter bracket either. Look close, you can see it does not have one either.
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perhaps they deleted it on the plus model at some point in production..it would be fairly restrictive since the 120mm fan already has a filter media in front of it. Still, I would think it will dump a lot of dust in the case.
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That heavy formed plastic packaging that's "welded' on the edges, you know, the kind that everyone bleeds from when cutting open.
If you wanted to get creative if you bend it to shaped/form and apply heat it will for the most part retain it's shape.
Parts needed:
Packaging from, say, a surge suppressor, or anything that offers the length needed
Razor knife
Metal straight edge
Drill and bit to open some holes and a block of wood for backing/to drill into
Optional: Heat gun or high wattage blow dryer to "set' any bends
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#2 - Consider your PSU to be the foundation from which all else is built upon. Anything built upon a weak foundation is poorly built.
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Thanks for your feedback. Yes, The PCI-01B does indeed fit in the D600 case. Just for future record, the PCI-01B fits in all our cases except our small form factor ones. The installation of the PCI-01B is simple enough, and the instructions are in the packing. You shouldn't have a problem, but let me know if you do.
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Is it strange that someone would say "My hero, supermodel, highest example for faith and action died in the electric chair…or by being hung or being killed by a firing squad?" Yet, we Christians say the very symbol of our faith is the cross, the instrument of punishing criminals. It may be a careful look at the scandals much in the news today may shed light on why this is.
Child molestation, sexual scandals, embezzlement, murders have filled the news lately. We are so sensitive to sexual and financial scandals that perhaps we have not considered the greater scandals. I've wondered why "bribery" has not been mentioned. It is a commandment just following the 10 commandments in Exodus 23:6-8; "You shall not pervert justice…you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials." Public officials are bribed by special interests and Washington and our system of government is corrupted by bribery as are local courts.
The Britannica World Language Dictionary includes as one definition of scandal, "that which causes reproach." In one way, violating the laws of God represents scandal for it brings reproach from God and often from mankind. "Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach against any people." (Proverbs 14:24) "Reproach" is another word for "disgrace."
As to the church and scandals of history, I think with sadness of Pope Urban ll calling for European Christians in 1095 to wage war on Muslims and recapture Jerusalem, where some pilgrims had been roughed up visiting the holy shrines of Palestine. "God wills it!" he acclaimed and promised crusaders could keep the treasures and land they captured, even promising they would have all sins forgiven and received instantly into Heaven, escaping purgatory if they were killed in battle. The Muslims promised their warriors 70 (some say 72) virgins and endless delights in Paradise if they were killed. Greed motivated both empires and across Europe fervent but misled Christians first killed Jews before heading East to capture or kill the Muslims. Once they captured Jerusalem, 75,000 Muslims were killed and beheaded and Crusaders went into the holy shrines to praise God for His mercy. That was scandalous, so scandalous that Muslims today point back to that sad moment in history to give them cause to hate and fight and kill Christians. The Reformation…Inquisition...the years when the Ku Klux Klan were burning crosses and killing or terrorizing…scandalous!
The greatest scandal, however, is associated with the cross and Jesus. A great minister preached a famous sermon entitled "The Scandal of the Cross!" His point was that all mankind has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Sin brings reproach and disgrace. The only ransom to restore us would be the blood of a righteous man-lamb-sacrifice. Because of the scandal of sin, Christian theology teaches there is no forgiveness of sin except through blood shed (death) by a righteous offering and Jesus offered Himself as "the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world." Paul says in I Cor. 1:18 "The cross is folly to those who are perishing but to us who are being saved it is the power of God."
It is because of the greatest scandal that Jesus lived, died and was resurrected, offering his Spirit to all who accept the offering that cancels the greatest scandal, sin-reproach-disgrace. A little girl, just learning math, entered a church and seeing a cross, said, "Look at the big 'plus' sign!" Indeed it is as it removes the negatives of sin, shame, reproach, disgrace and scandal.


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The Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 11, No. 1 Spring 1984
William S. Hopwood DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR ACCOUNTING RESEARCH FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Karen S. Hreha UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Abstract: The paper presents an historical summary of the major issues and events which led to the development of the practice of taxation by accountants in the United States. This development was marked by tremendous conflict between the legal and accounting professions.
The purpose of this paper is to provide an historical summary of the major issues involved in the dispute between lawyers and ac-countants for the right to practice tax in the United States. Determi-nation of the major issues is based upon evidence gathered from the Journal of Accountancy and the American Bar Association Journal. These journals are the primary publications which repre-sent the thought of the two professions. By examining the bibliog-raphy, one can see that most of the documentation for this paper has been taken from the Journal of Accountancy. The reason for this is that the American Bar Association Journal published much less on the subject. The volume of articles appearing in the Journal of Accountancy reflects the tremendous concern and importance which the accounting profession attached to the dispute.
Published facts of the two journals may not be entirely represen-tative of both sides of the conflict. However, the object of this paper is to highlight the major events and issues that had a significant effect on the outcome of the dispute between the professions.
The Journal of Accountancy was an official publication of the American Institute of Accountants (AIA), now known as the Ameri-can Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Please note that where the position of the AIA is stated in this essay, such position may not have been an official one. This can be distinguished by ex-amining the footnote to determine whether it is merely an editorial.


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Saturday, December 4, 2010
Strait of Gibraltar Swim Association.....New Records
Rafael Gutierrez, President of the Strait of Gibraltar Swim Association (ACNEG), announced last week that starting in 2011, records for age categories will be established. This is exciting news for all marathon swimmers worldwide. It's been long overdue that swimmers should be recognized for their achievements in their designated age groups. I hope that other swim organizations will start to follow his leadership. Currently most of the major marathon swims throughout the world have records for the fastest man /woman and oldest man/woman and don't acknowledge age group records. Marathon swimming is becoming more popular every year and most athletes enjoy comparing their swim times to others in their age group. Rafael has the positive insight to move this sport forward. I would highly recommend for any marathon swimmer to attempt swimming the Strait of Gibraltar with ACNEG ...... Rafael and his crew are very dedicated to this sport and they make every attempt for a swimmer to be successful in their crossing. Thank you Rafael for adding these new record categories.
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Got the app yesterday, absolutely fab, dont mind spend a couple of quid, a what is really the equivlant of a set of 20-30 superb image postcards, but all in one place. Great job you guys!
theCOLLARBONE, a collaboration between Camille McMillan and Luke Scheybeler, formerly involved with, respectively, Rouler and Rapha, launched its iPad app earlier this month and road.cc caught up with them recently to find out the background to it and their future plans… take it away Simon.
One of the reasons I bought an iPad in late 2010 was the dizzying thought of being able to swipe through the virtual editions of L'Equipe and the Gazzetta dello Sport at the same time print copies were hitting the newsstands in Paris and Milan.
I'd give little thought to what else I'd use it for, but the size and sharpness of the screen made it perfect for photography, whether uploading and editing my own pictures without having to lug a laptop around, or viewing other people's. So when news arrived that theCOLLARBONE iPad app had been launched, I was keen to find out more.
The men behind theCOLLARBONE – also planned to be made available as an iPhone app, with an Android version as well as possibly other platforms in the pipeline – are photographer Camille McMillan and designer Luke Scheybeler.
Both have been involved with what have become iconic brands within cycling since their launches in the middle of the last decade, McMillan as editor at large of Rouleur, Scheybeler as co-founder of Rapha. He also created the design style of Rouleur magazine, and now runs the design and branding company Scheybeler+company. He designed the tax disc on the iPayRoadTax jersey, too.
Initially launched as a Tumblr feed last year which displays just a tiny selection of McMillan's work, the venture was conceived first and foremost as a way of showcasing cycling photography on the iPad, as Scheybeler explains.
"The idea for theCOLLARBONE came from excitement about the new medium, excitement about the possibilities for photography and a desire to experiment with it. We talked about it and said, let's just do something. This could work," he says.
"We were looking at the Guardian Eyewitness app, which was one of the first really elegant photography apps. It's very simple, just a single stream of photographs and the quality of the photography is brilliant.
"We loved it, we thought it was fantastic, and we said, let's do something similar that's inspired by this, but that has more of a niche focus, so obviously cycling is what Camille has been obsessed with since he was racing as a kid and something I've been very close to with starting Rapha and being involved in that side.
"So we decided to take it as an inspiration and turn it into a platform for great cycling photography."
The app itself is free to download, as are some of the galleries that go to make up its content - one, which brings together 26 pictures taken by McMillan over the years, is called The Selection, Part 1 and is a good introduction to his work. While the focus is firmly on the pictures, tapping on an individual photo brings up commentary from McMillan which gives an insight into the background of the shot.
"The interesting angle we try and get with a lot of those collections is if you read the commentary from Camille, it's about the photographer's perspective and I don't think you get that a lot from sports photographers, it's a unique thing we've managed to tease out," says Scheybeler.
While some of the galleries that make up the app's content, and which will continue to be added to on a regular basis, are free, most it has to be said are not. Asked whether this might cause some resistance on the part of potential users, McMillan points out that the cost - currently ranging between 69p and £2.99 depending on the gallery - compares favourably to that of magazines.
Scheybeler also frames the issue against the wider question of paid for versus free content, saying, "If you look at technology, it's a massive disruptive force on the media industry. Whether it's Hollywood films or the music industry, it's massively democratising or marking it very easy to share content. So what it's done is it's pushed the price of a lot of the content down.
"The way in which some people are responding to that is by saying 'everything should be free, everything should be given away,' but I don't believe that. There's a certain set of content that's going to be free, and that's probably the vast majority of content, but the really high quality stuff that you can't get from anywhere else you're going to have to pay for.
"We're not going to be showing advertising on the iPad, but we are going to be charging effectively micro-payments per collection. In terms of working out how much people are willing to pay for those things is still an open question, but if you look at the Six Day collection [comprising 36 images], those images are on film, it's a season or two of images, if you break that down and work out how much it costs to process the film and have the eye and the equipment, if you look at it on that basis, it's an absolute bargain to get those images in a format that looks really good."
He has a point. Personally, I have stacks of cycling magazines sitting at home that cost getting on for a fiver a time, many of which will never get opened again. What I've found with the iPad is that carrying it around everywhere, I do tend to go back to the more powerful and engaging content again and again - and the COLLARBONE certainly falls into that category.
There's been a lot of discussion on social media such as Twitter about whether the likes of Graham Watson have had their day as more of a reportage style of cycling photography, boosted by publications such as Rouleur, has come to the fore. However, theCOLLARBONE team agree that for as long as newspapers, magazines and websites need to get that picture of the winner crossing the line or the victorious rider on the podium, those photographers will continue to have their place.
What McMillan and Scheybeler are looking to do instead, is get beneath the skin and behind the scenes of a sport that is perhaps uniquely photogenic.
"There's a place for all that and you wouldn't be able to remove Watson from his throne," maintains McMillan. "But I think there is room for other photography. People are drawn to it, it's very visual, people want to explore it."
Scheybeler adds: "The stuff that's interesting about cycling isn't just the racing, it's a soap opera, and the whole culture that surrounds the sport, and the weird, slightly ritualistic 'oddness' of the sport is very interesting. That's what I'm interested in, and Camille too. Most of it's behind-the-scenes action, the sideshow, the stuff you see when you're looking away from the race," he continues.
"There's an amazing amateurishness even about professional cycling. It's all a little bit crap. That doesn't diminish my love for it, if anything it increases it. Obviously the top guys are paid huge amounts and it's quite glamorous, but if you dig below the surface, actually, it's not that glamorous. It's delightfully amateurish. I love that stuff. I think it's brilliant.
"Cycling is a unique sport in that the photography is better than most other sports in the world, simply because it's not in stadiums," he points out. "It's a very visual sport and I think it's very suited to a photographic treatment."
A case in point is a shot of a road passing through an Italian mountain village, taken during last year's Giro. Look closely, and i the convex mirror on the wall of a building you can see one name reflected, drawn in pink chalk on the road; 'Contador.' Earlier this month, of course, the 2011 Giro winner was stripped of that title by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, now making the image a particularly powerful one."It's poignant," says Scheybeler.
While Rouleur itself has recently launched an iPad app - essentially enabling you to download a virtual copy of the magazine for now, although that looks likely to evolve with other features going forward - Scheybeler isn't convinced that print transitions well to the device, although he is defintely a fan of hard copy.
"I love print, print's amazing," he enthuses. "Certainly people like Tyler Brulee, what he's doing with Monocle magazine, his complete rejection of moving towards digital media is fantastic. I think the world would be a much poorer place without print, without daily newspapers without really high quality magazines and we agree Rouleur is one of them
"But even if you look at technically clued up magazines like for example Wired, you see what they're doing on the iPad and it's too complicated, it's slick but not particularly compelling, I think once you delve beneath the surface you'd much rather read the magazine because the quality of the magazine is based on the writing and I don't think the iPad is actually a very good thing to read on."
Instead of looking to replicate a magazine format, then, the pair are looking to develop theCOLLARBONE in other ways, such as adding audio to galleries, for example through interviews with photographers, riders or commentators. During the launch phase, however, they are keen to keep things simple and let it gradually evolve.
Future galleries will feature other photographers besides McMillan - one went live this week of pre-season training camps in Mallorca featuring Team Sky, Lotto-Belisol and RadioShack Nissan, taken by Kristof Ramon - while others will draw heavily on his own personal archive. Those may include past editions of races such as Paris-Roubaix as previews to this year's Spring Classics, plus a behind-the-scenes gallery from the Tour de France.
One particularly striking shot that would be likely to feature in the latter was taken at the Hotel de Crillon on Place de la Concorde the evening after the final stage of the 2007 Tour de France. It shows David Millar buttonholing Lance Armstrong on what McMillan described as "a very strange evening" and was used in the Garmin rider's autobiography to illustrate a episode in which, by his own admission, "I'd lectured him for too long... perhaps 10 minutes too long..." It's that behind the scenes access that Scheybeler and McMillan see as one of theCOLLARBONE's big draws.
I ask McMillan and Scheybeler to choose their own personal favourites from the shots contained in The Selection Part 1 gallery. McMillan singles out one taken on the Tour of Missouri showing the empty High Road team bus, with three vacant chairs that ordinarily would be occupied by the driver, Bernie Eisel and George Hincapie, saying "photographically, I love that picture."
"But," he adds, "if there's a back story there's a picture of Ian Stannard leaning up against a bus at one of the semi-classics and that picture I really like because by the end of this Classics season I think people are going to be talking about him."
Scheybeler, meanwhile, selects one showing the aftermath of a chute on Paris-Roubaix.
"I quite like the ungainly stuff, there's a couple of shots of Roubaix with riders all over the road, it's not a bad crash – I never watch replays of crashes, it's almost disrespectful because these guys are doing their job – but I quite like a comedy, slow-motion crash," he reveals.
"There's some really awkward, ungainly moments in cycling, and Camille talks about this, some of those shots manage to capture a real beauty in the awkwardness."
One of my own personal favourites from McMillan's work can be found on theCOLLARBONE's Tumblr feed, although I imagine the square crop means it's unlikely to find its way onto the iPad app.
To begin with, the juxtaposition of the riders on the final stage of the Tour de France whizzing past a giant screen that shows those very riders from another angle is rather disorienting.
But then you realise that McMillan is there somewhere towards the left of the peloton on the giant screen, capturing the riders as they flash past, as well as the TV feed itself.
For those of us who follow racing through the medium of television, it's the frozen moment of action captured by the photographer that we see afterwards that often endures.
Here, the two come together, and I think reflects theCOLLARBONE's ethos; it's giving us a different perspective on the sport, quite literally in this case, and one that without McMillan's lens we wouldn't otherwise see.
Simon has been news editor at road.cc since 2009, reporting on 10 editions and counting of pro cycling's biggest races such as the Tour de France, stories on issues including infrastructure and campaigning, and interviewing some of the biggest names in cycling. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, his background has proved invaluable in reporting on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, and the bike industry. He splits his time between London and Cambridge, and loves taking his miniature schnauzer Elodie on adventures in the basket of her Elephant Bike.
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The apps (and creators) that are worth paying for are the ones you'll value. Not just because you parted with money for it but because you decided it was worth something in the first place.
"For those of us who follow racing through the medium of television, it's the frozen moment of action captured by the photographer that we see afterwards that often endures."
Absolutely. The still photograph will have its power tomorrow and in 50, 100 years time. It's a different power to that of moving images but IMHO no less valuable, and can tell a different story to that on video when showing the same event.
Some people may think GW is outdated but in the end his photos still tell stories. There is always room for new methods and new angles, and I appreciate seeing the sport from a variety of angles, but don't write off what I'd term (for lack of a better phrase) the 'money shots': those crucially important moments in telling the story of the event - when the winner crosses the finish line first or the decisive attack in a mountain stage. There's no merit in producing photos of pretty villages or the grupetto if what matters is happening 15km up the road.


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Say, that you are handling a multi-step process (like a complex registration form, with a number of steps the user has go through in order). You need to be able to save the current state of the process (e.g. so the user can come back to that registration form later and continue form the step where they were left off).
Obviously, you'll probably want to give each "step" an identifier you can refer to: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Your logic will check for this
step_id (or whatever you call it) to render the appropriate data.
The question: how would you identify the stage after the final step, like the completed registration state (say, that you have to give that last "step" its own id, that's how your logic is structured). Would it be a
999, a non-integer value, something else entirely?


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From personal experience, the roads in the Ardennes region aren't amazing to ride on thanks to lack of maintenance. Luxembourg however is an entirely different story. Every road we have tried is like a billiard table and the views amazing.
Patti and I can recommend a great campsite near the town of Larochette. Restaurant, shop and bar on site. Tents welcome but also camping pods. If anyone wants to look, http://kengert.lu/.
Fuel is generally cheap and German autobahns are twenty minutes away for the hooligans.
The only downside is the 4+ hours journey time from Calais.
Patti and I have been considering a road trip to Prague, with the tin tent, for a few years.
Our anniversary is 7th June and we'd be happy to spend it among friends.