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As I sit looking out over the Old City of Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock where Abraham offered up Isaac, I have a few thoughts I would like to share about the people here and the existence of God.
Though a small fraction of the world's population, and though they've had no land of their own for 2,000 years, the Jews continue to exert a vastly disproportionate influence on the world. Abraham believed and obeyed God so God blessed him. Isaac was the son of that blessing. God said to Abraham, "Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him" (Gen 17:19).
God made promises to Abraham, to Isaac and to Isaac's son Jacob, and to their ancestors after them, and it seems the blessings are still in effect. I don't know that I could possibly articulate the details, but it certainly seems so to the observant eye. And in my mind, having spent so much time in this land, the Jews' continued existence and blessing here and around the world, is a huge argument for the existence of God. What an amazing thing that a people persecuted and scattered around the world would still exist and have such influence today even without the benefits of their own land for 2,000 years. God existence can certainly be seen in their existence.
The other son of Abraham, Ishmael by the servant Hagar, has also flourished. God also blessed Ishmael: "As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. But My covenant I will establish with Isaac" (Gen 17:20-21). The sons of Sarah and the sons of Hagar, both from the loins of Abraham, were both blessed and became great peoples — the Jews and the Arabs. And these brothers still struggle on the same land 3,800 years later.
But you will search in vain for Ammorites, Jebusites or Hittites. The blessing of YHWH never resided with them.
We have just arrived again on the holy ground of our fathers in the faith — the land where God Himself walked in sandaled feet. God walking in sandaled feet, how can that be?
Ah yes, here in Jerusalem where the Great Scandal took place, the ultimate fulfilment of the promises to Abraham: God became man through the line of Abraham. But how can the invisible, omnipotent, infinite God become man? And worse yet, how can God who took on flesh be executed like a common criminal? How could such a thing be?
This is great foolishness to most people, especially the Jews and the Muslims. But I relate profoundly with the remaining .08% of the people in Israel (or as they call it "Palestine") who still embrace the Great Scandal of the Incarnation and the Cross. I come to encourage and support them as my brothers and sisters in Christ. The Christians in the Holy Land — once many, now few — are mostly Palestinians. They are doubly blessed: by the blessing of God through the promise to Abraham regarding Ishmael, and by the blessing of God through the ultimate Son of Promise, Jesus Christ.
But I also can't help but see the special blessing that resides upon the children of Israel through the first son of promise — Isaac. This land is fraught with tension and competing religions and cultures yet both of God's blessings remain.
I will join the Jews in the celebration of JHWH, but I will also rejoice with the Christians in His Son Jesus Christ, God Incarnation. And I will pray for Jew and Arab alike that as children of Abraham they will all come to believe in the One promised to Abraham — his seed — Jesus Christ (Gal 3:16).
I will also wonder at the marvel of God's promises that are irrevocable. God exists and you can see it here in the streets of the Holy City of Jerusalem.


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From left to right: Eric Chu, Brian Melani, Tyler Moskowite, Nick Raymond
By Nick Raymond, engineering intern
Photos by Gregory Hayes, photo intern
For this Intern's Corner post, we (the MAKE interns) are going to give you a tour of our awesome new lab. It all began in a galaxy far, far away… or at least, in Sebastopol, CA (practically the same thing). We had just finished building and testing the Rubens Flame Tube from Volume 26 when the magazine's managing editor, Keith Hammond, called us all together for a group huddle. In so many words, he said that the entire magazine department would be moving upstairs and that our current lab needed to be packed up and ready to move as soon as Volume 26 was sent off to the printer. Oh – he also mentioned that the location for the new lab was currently unknown.
Over the next two weeks, we managed to pack up the majority of the lab, but no one really knew where to move all the stuff. The old lab was filling up with boxes, and we were running short on room. Tyler, Eric, and Brian's desks were lost beneath the rubble, and my desk had been disassembled so that we could put the finishing touches on the Drill Kart and take a few last minute photos for the article. And so it remained this way, with most of our tools and equipment boxed up and in piles while we awaited the moving date.
Tyler in the old Make Labs
Late one evening, as we interns toiled in darkness and clutter, Dale Dougherty, the founder of MAKE, poked his head into the chaos of our dilapidated mess and asked, "Have you guys seen the space for the new lab yet? If you all have a minute, lets go and take a look."
With Dale to guide us, we all marched upstairs to the second floor of the building. (I had heard stories about the second floor, a strange and mysterious area where no intern dared venture alone.) We walked through a dark hallway and past a pair of elevator doors, and then Dale turned around a sharp corner and stopped. He flipped on the lights and the stark white industrial-sized room came into view. The space was four times larger than the old lab and had tall ceilings and a row of windows on the north wall. Dale was the first to speak. "This will be the new Make Labs. What do you think?"
Over the next few weeks, all four of us worked to set up the new lab. We converted three small adjacent offices into mini workshops and a storage room for all of our building materials. The new lab is still a work in progress, but here is an initial tour the new and improved Make Labs.
Electronics Work Bench:
This work area is specifically for soldering and working with anything electrical. In the old space, we always found ourselves asking, "Who has the soldering iron?" and most of the time it was hidden under a pile of garbage on someone's desk or mistakenly put back in the wrong spot.
The area has three bins of electrical components that we use for most jobs which include resistors, diodes, transistors, potentiometers, breadboards, and of course LEDs. The best part of all is that everything is within arm's reach. This is also where we assemble kits for the Maker Shed to put on display or fix the various gadgets that break around the office. It's usually a little cluttered, but if you can find space to work, it has everything you need.
Electronics workbench station
Tyler soldering a kit for the Maker Shed
Work Bench and Tool Pegboard:
Some of the projects that we build in the lab require a decent amount of space for assembly. Others need a little finessing and the use of a vise and mallet. This section of the lab is set up so that we can have the majority of our hand tools right next to our work bench on the peg board. One bonus feature of the new lab is all the light that comes in from the windows. (The old lab had no windows, and sometimes felt like a nerd cave.) During midday the work bench gets flooded with sunlight. This is where all of the grinding, drilling, and hammering takes place, and for MAKE Volume 27, we even broke out the torch for a major project!
Nick using a torch to test a build for MAKE Volume 27
With the added floor space, we now have the option to expand our tool collection a bit. One tool that was too big for the old shop was a table saw. Three months ago, our friends at Bosch helped us out with our Drill Kart build by sending us a 36-volt cordless drill, and just this month they sent us one of their 10" portable jobsite table saws. It's a perfect size for the new lab, (thanks Bosch!), and now we can start to tackle some of the larger woodworking projects… Now, if only we had a black and yellow single-bevel sliding compound saw…
Tool pegboard
Nick using the new Bosch table saw
CNC Room:
One of my favorite spots in the new lab is the CNC room. Before the move, our lab was right next to all the magazine editors' desks, so whenever we would turn on the ShopBot Tyro CNC router or the Epilog 60-watt laser cutter, the office would reverberate with noise. Now we have our own room just for CNC work, with each machine hooked up to a ventilation system. Most of the time you can't even tell that we're using the equipment if the CNC room's door is closed.
The newest addition to the CNC room will be a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic. MakerBot Industries hooked us up with their latest and greatest, and we have been hard at work assembling the kit. (At posting time, Eric had successfully run the first print!)
The CNC room
Work Space:
Sometimes we need to do paperwork or jump online while proofing manuscripts and contacting the project authors with questions. Upon entering the lab, there is a long counter space for setting up laptops or reading over the instructions for the next build. And of course, no office space is complete without your very own arcade system. It's the perfect remedy for working out any inner-office aggression. Street Fighter 2, anyone?
Arcade system set up in the Labs
A large part of working at MAKE is documenting the build process. One great idea came from Steve Hoefer, to make an overhead camera dolly rig using PVC pipe and skateboard bearings. This is a great new feature of the lab, so be on the lookout for time-lapse videos and overhead shots in the future.
Tyler building the MakerBot under the overhead camera dolly system
Eric working, from the camera dolly's perspective
Other highlights include our storage and supplies room (not the pile of boxes on the right) and our flammable substances storage cabinet filled with all the nasty things you don't want spill. The ceiling-mounted electrical boxes are great.
To stay up to code, we also installed an eye wash station. Luckily we have not needed to use it yet, but we perform weekly safety drills to ensure that everyone knows how to operate the equipment.
Weekly safety drill using the eye wash station (Photo by Laura Cochrane)
Those are the highlights for now. Stay tuned to the blog for more Intern's Corner posts to see what will be coming out of the lab.
Flammable substances storage cabinet
Ceiling-mounted electrical outlet
Organized Chaos: aka our supply room
Special thanks to Gregory Hayes for shooting the photos.
Gregory shooting in the lightbox
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Publication Type: Abstract Only Publication Acceptance Date: 8/1/2004 Publication Date: 10/10/2004 Citation: Grubman, M.J., Golde, W.T., Rodriguez, L.L. 2004. Early Development of Adenovirus-vectored FMD Vaccine and Antiviral. European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease, Chania, Crete, Greece. P. 45. Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: Few effective intervention tools are available today to control FMD outbreaks. These include culling and slaughter of all animals in infected and neighboring contact premises and strict quarantines of the affected areas. These measures lead to massive accumulation of thousands of animal carcasses for disposal with the consequent disruption of commerce, tourism and transportation. Vaccination has been proposed as a tool to decrease susceptibility of animal populations in ring-vaccination schemes. Current vaccines have been designed and tested for protection at 3-4 weeks post-vaccination, creating a window of susceptibility in the vaccinated population. Previous experiments at PIADC have shown that recombinant Adenovirus-vectored FMD empty capsid (VLP) can protect swine and bovine against direct FMDV challenge by 7 days post vaccination. In addition Adenovirus-vectored porcine interferon can protect swine against FMD challenge in as little as 24 hours and for as long as 5 days post injection. The combination of vaccine and antiviral would close the window of susceptibility and could serve as emergency intervention tools to rapidly control FMD outbreaks. We are now taking these two products through early development utilizing a cell line approved for vaccine production and producing experimental vaccine lots under "Good Laboratory Practice" conditions in partnership with a private industry partner. With these products we will be evaluating novel approaches combining vaccination and antiviral therapy as intervention tools to rapidly control and minimize the impact of FMD outbreaks in the United States. |


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European-style hot chocolate means melting shavings, beads or disks of actual chocolate and adding boiling water or milk. That's what you do with Recchiuti Dark Hot Chocolate Pure Chocolate Pistoles, one of the favorites you'll read about.
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Product Reviews / Main Nibbles / Beverages Some Like It Hot: Cocoa & Hot Chocolate To Part 2Page 6: Hot Cocoa Brands O To Z This is Page 6 of a 10-page review of hot chocolate and cocoa brands. Click on the black links below to visit other pages. Hot Cocoa Brands O To ZHere's our final group of hot cocoa mixes, before proceed to the hot chocolate brands: Omanhene Hot Cocoa Mix. Very minimal chocolate flavor, but sweetness level is balanced, not overwhelming. First ingredient: sugar. Entire ingredient list: sugar, natural cocoa powder. Sodium content: 5 mg/serving. Light chocolate in color with a pleasant chocolate aroma. Price: $6.50 for 12 ounces. Read our review of Omahene Chocolate. Perfect Cup Premium Instant Cocoa Mix (purchased in supermarket; no website found, but label indicates product is manufactured for American Natural & Specialty Brands in St. Augustine, FL). Traditional milky brown cocoa color, with barely detectable chocolate aroma. Sweet, with hardly any chocolate flavor. First ingredient: sucrose. Also contains partially hydrogenated soybean oil, guar gum, sodium caseinate, sodium citrate, artificial flavor, dipotassium phosphate, mono- and diglycerides, and sodium silicoaluminate, in addition to other ingredients. Sodium content: 230 mg/serving. Sold at supermarkets; not available in our area so we could not obtain a per-box price. However, it is sold in bulk on Amazon.com. Slitti Miscela di Cacao (per cioccolata in tazza) [translation: cocoa powder for drinking chocolate]. This was a surprise. I've tried Slitti chocolates before and found them very pleasant, but this beverage (of a dark milk chocolate color with a moderate chocolate aroma) had a flat, unappealing, modestly chocolate taste with no hint of sweetness. First ingredient: bitter cocoa. Entire ingredient list: bitter cocoa, starch, sugar, natural flavors. Sodium content: not listed. (EDITOR'S NOTE: We're surprised too: we adore Slitti chocolate. We didn't taste this batch, but we're tempted to try another.) Price: $13.95 for 8.8 ounces. Swiss Miss Rich & Creamy Hot Cocoa Mix. Medium to dark chocolate color with a decent chocolate aroma. More stirring than usual required to dissolve powder; some remained undissolved and floated to top of liquid. Sweet, with little chocolate flavor. First ingredient: sugar. Also contains corn syrup, whey protein concentrate, hydrogenated coconut oil, calcium carbonate, dipotassium phosphate, cellulose gum, artificial flavor, carrageenan, and mono- and diglycerides, in addition to other ingredients. Sodium content: 170 mg/serving. $2.99 for 10 ounces. No e-commerce; available in most supermarkets. Valor Chocolates Cao (available at Chocosphere.com). A dark chocolate beverage with a great, true chocolate aroma. Moderately chocolatey, not-too-sweet cup of cocoa that seems very rich because it's slightly thickened with wheat powder. Nutrition information given is for 7 tablespoons of mix, but package instructions specifically for the U.S. call for 4 tablespoons of mix. First ingredient: sugar. Entire ingredient list: sugar, fat reduced cocoa powder (19%), wheat flour, lecithin, "aroma." Sodium content: 0 mg/serving. (EDITOR'S NOTE: There's also a sugar-free version sweetened with Maltitol and Ace-K). Price: $7.95 for 17.5 ounces. Vosges Haut-Chocolat Couture Cocoa La Parisienne (dark chocolate and vanilla bean). Not too sweet, with a nice dairy and deep chocolate taste. Long, lingering aftertaste. First ingredient: dark chocolate. Entire ingredient list: dark chocolate, cocoa, sugar, vanilla beans. Sodium content: not listed. Preparation instructions very complicated, more for professional than home use. Price: $25.00 for 16 ounces. Read our full review of Vosges Chocolates. Wegmans Extra-Rich Chocolate Flavor Instant Hot Cocoa Mix (purchased at a Wegmans supermarket, not found on website). Dark chocolate color with barely noticeable chocolate aroma. Off taste, combining salty, sweet, and vaguely chocolate flavors simultaneously. First ingredient: sugar. Also contains partially hydrogenated soybean and/or canola oil, corn syrup solids, sodium caseinate, dipotassium phosphate, mono- and diglycerides, and natural and artificial flavors, in addition to other ingredients. Sodium content: 150 mg/serving. $.99 cents for 10 ounces. No e-commerce. Continue To Page 7: Hot Chocolate Brands A To C Lifestyle Direct, Inc. All rights reserved. Photos are the copyright of their respective owners. |
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Mass Strandings Keep New Marine Mammal Facility Busy
In its first season, WHOI lab becomes a hub for cetacean research
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's new Marine Research Facility (MRF) opened its doors just in time for a terribly busy winter season. An unprecedented number of fatal dolphin and whale strandings near Cape Cod brought many veterinarians and marine biologists to Woods Hole to examine and dissect the animals in the MRF's necropsy suite and computed tomography (CT) scanning facilities.
More than 120 cetaceans beached themselves on the peninsula in December and January alone. A total of 178 cetaceans stranded in the whole of 2005, according to the Cape Cod Stranding Network (CCSN), which includes several WHOI researchers.
CCSN is charged by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) with managing stranded marine mammals and investigating why strandings occur. Their options include immediate release, transport to a rehabilitation facility if advisable and practical, or euthanasia in collaboration with WHOI biologist Michael Moore, who is a licensed veterinarian in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
"In January, we had a constant stream of mass strandings," said Andrea Bogomolni, a research assistant at WHOI and CCSN member. "It was day after day, dolphin after dolphin."
"At one point during one of the mass strandings, we had veterinarians and other researchers from WHOI, Tufts University, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the New England Aquarium all working in the necropsy lab at the same time," Moore said. "We had three tables going and examined two animals on each table through the day, with many other animals in the freezer awaiting examination."
A wide range of advantages
"This new facility has meant many things to us," Bogomolni said. "It has a monorail system that delivers animals to the tables, and the table heights are adjustable. That means no more bad backs.
"The tables have a down-draft function, with the air being scrubbed in the penthouse before it is discharged. That means no more complaints about odor," she continued. "We have space where collaborators can come and work with us with ease. The CT scanner on the premises lets us work with (WHOI biologist) Darlene Ketten's research group to scan appropriate cases before they're examined internally. And we have a really clean, sterile working area, allowing us to do good microbiology."
Beyond the continuing research to determine the causes of strandings, funded by the NOAA John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program, Moore said, "the MRF facility opening coincided with the start of a major three-year project for us funded by the NOAA Ocean and Human Health Initiative." That program investigates marine toxins and infectious diseases, chemical pollutants, coastal water quality and beach safety, seafood quality, and "sentinel species," which can offer early warnings of both potential human health risks and of human impact on marine systems.
"We are assaying seals and dolphins, both stranded and bycaught (caught inadvertently in fishing nets) for evidence of zoonotic agents (which can spread diseases from animals to humans under natural conditions)," Moore said. The agents include such organisms as Brucella, Influenza, Giardia, Cryptosporidium, and Leptospira, he said.
Birds and beaked whales
Another facet of the project includes research on infectious agents in birds, collaborating with researchers at the Wildlife Clinic at Tufts Veterinary School and Cornell University, Moore said. "It will give us and the regional health authorities very useful background data, should avian influenza become a local issue."
Strandings are common on Cape Cod, especially on the Outer Cape along the edge of Cape Cod Bay. Directed by Katie Touhey, the Cape Cod Stranding Network, covers 700 miles of coastline, with five employees and many volunteers, Bogomolni said.
In early April, the New England Aquarium brought a rare, 12-foot Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris), which had stranded on a beach south of Boston, to the MRF facility for forensic studies to try to determine what may have caused it to strand and die. Preliminary results indicate that the whale suffered from both chronic and acute diseases in several major organs, all of which may have contributed to its weakened state and stranding. It will be several months before all test results are available and final conclusions are reached.


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a small consolation for everything that didn't happen this summer. The projects
that didn't get finished. The friends that never got hung out with. The people
that never got met. The dress that never got worn. That beach/park/patio with the
twinkly lights you didn't spend enough time in. That album you didn't listen
to. That song you didn't dance to. That ONE hot night you should've gone out,
and stayed out, but didn't. The superhero costume you were gonna make for your
nephew's fourth birthday. The health problems that never got sorted.That flight you didn't book. That recipe with the figs and the cheese. The
road trip to Detroit. The books you didn't read. Oh god, don't even think about
the books.
Which is what brought me to the park that late afternoon in the
first place – an opportunity to continue reading Rebecca Solnit's The Faraway Nearby which I had started
two months before. And because the Universe is the way it is, and because
Rebecca Solnit is, quite frankly, The Shit, I came across this passage – where
she writes about making apricot preserves - just as I was in the thick of this sappy
I wish that I could
put up yesterday's evening sky for all posterity, could preserve a night of
love, the sound of a mountain stream, a realization as it sets my mind afire, a
dance, a day of harmony, ten thousand glorious days of clouds that will instead
vanish and never be seen again, line them up in jars where they might be
admired in the interim and tasted again as needed.
Sentimental,I know, but still. She had
basically just crawled into my brain.
Because what I wouldn't have done to put
up a handful of those moonlit evenings, as well as that very moment itself –
the (finally!) hot sun on my shoulders, the soft quilted picnic blanket (that I
have yet to finish quilting) under my legs, the smell of the pond (whatever, I like that smell) – the last of the very
few summery feelings I'd had all year. It was all too much. I packed up my
shit, I rode back to the studio, and for christ's sake I made a fucking
It has four Full Moons. Each
one occurs in a month during which I experience some kind of major attitudinal shift or upheaval about life in general: the Harvest Moon in September, the Cold Moon
(or Full Nights Moon) in December, the Pink Moon in April, and the Thunder Moon
in July. How do I know about these moons? Because how could you not google
various moon-related shit after the nights we've had?! Farmer's Almanac, get
familiar. A small cluster of twinkly pyrite stars hangs above them.


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Sheila Rolles' Grilled Red Snapper Serves 6
As a guest of The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, I was treated to a home-cooked meal by Sheila Rolles, a People-To-People hostess. The People-To-People program matches visitors with Bahamian families for a firsthand experience of island life. In preparing this recipe, Sheila plucked fresh goat peppers from the bush growing outside her kitchen door.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 15 minutes
3 small whole red snappers (about 1-1/2 pounds each), cleaned
1 tablespoon sea salt
2 yellow goat peppers or habañeros
3 limes
1 tablespoon fresh thyme
1. Score snapper (cut shallow slits in the flesh; Bahamians call this scorching).
2. Mash salt and goat peppers together with a mortar and pestle. Rub snapper with salt and goat pepper mixture. Place snapper in a large baking pan. Squeeze limes over fillets and sprinkle with thyme. Let fish marinate in refrigerator 1 hour.
3. Prepare grill. Position grill rack 4 to 6 inches from coals. To keep fish from falling apart when you turn it, place snapper on a special fish grilling rack or cover grill rack with heavy duty aluminum foil, perforated and lightly oiled. Place fish on grill and cook 5 to 7 minutes each side until flaky but moist. Slice fish in half before serving.


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"For the development of optical and infrared ultrafast spectroscopic methods, and especially for experiments using these methods to measure dynamical processes in condensed phase systems."
Dr. Michael D. Fayer received his BS in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969 and received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the same institution in 1974. He then went directly from Berkeley to join the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University in the field of physical chemistry and chemical physics. He became Professor of Chemistry in 1984. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the American Physical Society. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Professor Fayer's areas of research involve the development and application of ultrafast non-linear optical and infrared methods for the study of complex molecular condensed matter systems. He developed transient grating methods to study acoustic wave dynamics in crystals, liquids, and thin films; transport processes involving excitons, thermal diffusion in solids and films, and chemical species in gasses and flames; and electronic excited state dynamics in solids, liquids and gases. He developed ultrafast photon echo methods and related pulse sequences and applied them to the study of dynamics in crystals and glasses. He pioneered the application of ultrafast non-linear optical Kerr effect techniques for the study of dynamics in complex liquids. Most recently, he has used ultrafast infrared pulses from a free electron laser and from optical parametric amplifier systems to perform vibrational echo studies of dynamics in liquids, glasses and proteins.
Paul A Alivisatos (Chair), James L. Skinner, F Fleming Crim ('98 Recipient), George W Flynn (Vice Chair), Paul L Houston


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Chances are very good, if you grew up in New Orleans, one of the true rites of passage into adulthood was having a memorable "first drink" at Pat O'Brien's Bar.
Chances are even better that if you were a visitor to New Orleans, Pat O'Brien's was a "must-stop" kind of place, and taking home a souvenir hurricane glass was absolute proof that you indeed had visited New Orleans and you patronized her most famous bar.
Either way, a visit to Pat O'Brien's was not merely something to do; it was something you simply had to do to commemorate a life moment.
This year, Pat O'Brien's celebrates 80 years of serving untold hundreds of thousands of locals and visitors alike with one of the drinks so closely associated with New Orleans that to be here and not order a Hurricane from Pat O's is unthinkable.
To understand how Pat O'Brien's came to play such a big role in New Orleans hospitality, you have to head back to the passage of the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1933. Prior to that, Mr. O'Brien operated a speakeasy establishment at 634 St. Peter, one block towards the river from the current location. It was nothing out of the ordinary, except for the fact that it operated during a time when purchasing a drink from a bar was not the law of the land. Quite the opposite, in fact. But, hey, this was New Orleans and such technicalities bothered no one, not even the Feds who had bigger fish to fry in Chicago, New York, and Atlantic City, New Jersey.
A stand-alone bar serving drinks to thirsty citizens was not high up on the enforcement charts. So, when Prohibition was repealed on Dec. 5, 1933, it was truly nothing for Pat O'Brien's Bar to become legal. Although, he did rush it a bit by opening two days before Prohibition was officially repealed. Pat simply opened the doors and removed the guy who asked for the password for entry. Also a better grade of booze was now available through legal channels.
In 1942, Pat O'Brien and his partner, Charles Cantrell, decided to go upscale and moved the bar to a multi-room building at 718 St. Peter. That building was built in 1791.
Bit of a side note here: The original Pat O'Brien's Bar, 634 St. Peter, became the studios of noted French Quarter photographer, Johnny Donnels, who worked and sold from the shop for more than 50 years until his death in 2009 at the age of 84.
Pat and Charlie, whose names still adorn the sign on the front of the building at 718 St. Peter, expanded the business into compartmentalized themes long before this was done in the industry. There would be, of course, a Main Bar, a Music Bar, and, because this was New Orleans, a Courtyard Bar, rich with tropical plants and various seating areas.
The bar was a success, not the rip-roaring success it is today, but it was doing good business and the owners were still learning what the new space could do. Pat and Charlie did want to serve quality drinks and they put in an order for good bourbons, scotches, gin and the like to the liquor distributor.
They were told they could get what they wanted in the way of spirits but they had to buy 50 cases of rum from the Caribbean to earn the right to also purchase their desired spirits. The rum was ordered by the distributor and it was not "moving" out of the warehouse and into the market as fast as the distributor's owner would like.
Pat O's had a good business and they needed the products so the deal was consummated. Now they had a lot of rum, too.
Pat and Charlie had heard of a drink in the Caribbean Islands called a Hurricane. They felt they could create such a drink in New Orleans, using the mountain of rum they had just purchased, and putting the concoction into a glass shaped like a hurricane lamp. If they were looking for a signature cocktail, suddenly they had one. If they were not looking for a signature cocktail, suddenly they had one, and they also had the spirits they wanted in the first place.
From this point on, it all took off. These guys were on a roll. They created the concepts of the dueling twin pianos, the flaming fountain, and the tapping trays. Locals and visitors alike loved these new features and by the early 1950s, Pat O'Brien's was the must-do destination bar it has remained to this day.
In the late 1970s, Pat and Charlie brought into ownership some long-time and trusted staff and sold the bar to the Oechsners. George Junior was now in charge, and soon his son, Sonny, was involved. Today the granddaughter, Shelly Oechsner Waguespack, is vice president.
The family theme, which is so New Orleans, runs throughout Pat O'Brien's. Alvin Babineaux, a Cajun by way of South Texas, has been a 40-year fixture, following in the steps of his mother, who played piano. Alvin plays the tray, which requires no explanation because everyone has experienced the happy musical moments at Pat O's.
Patricia Morgan-Williams, a Charity Hospital baby and someone who has spent 46 years at Pat O'Brien's, has her own worldwide following as she handles her joys behind the bar. She likes to point out that our visitors are amazed by the 24-hour nature of New Orleans (most of them previously only attributed that time frame to New York City) and our civilized attitudes because we offer go-cups.
There are others in the organization who are multi-generational and long-time members of the employee group.
This is the New Orleans part of the story. In a neighborhood today renowned for music and laissez-faire attitudes, entire families for generations have been serving one of this town's signature drinks. It's not what you expect in today's franchise-filled, I'm-selling-and-moving-away, who-cares business environment.
Pat O'Brien's is celebrating 80 years in a family way. They think we are a part of their family because we have all been in their establishment. We think they are our family because we go there and feel at home.
There's not enough of that left in the world. Happy 80th Birthday, Pat O'Brien's.


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At the end of service in the teepee field and Eigensinn Farm nearly 100 people got to watch an impressive display of fireworks put on Oyster Boy. Happy Canada Day! Enjoy!
Monday 4 July 2011
Friday 24 June 2011
Grand Pre- beyond the dikes where will plan to have a lobster boil in 2012
We are getting ready to announce the location of the next Canadian Chefs' Congress in 2012. Nova Scotia is the host province and this is where we will celebrate the night before the congress starts.
White Asparagus for Halifax, Nova Scotia fundraiser
We were getting on Porter Airlines for Halifax at 06:00 the next day. I had to get my white asparagus ready for the soup I was going to make at Craig Flinn's Chives Canadian Bistro.
Thursday 2 June 2011
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Every Day is a Special Day TV: Sturgeon and Caviar in New Brunswick
We're visiting and working in New Brunswick this week. Today's episode was shot at Breviro Caviar.
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IBM will be working with two universities to explore the creation of an open, common user interface platform for mobile devices. The software developed by IBM, the National Institute of Design of India in Bangalore, and the University of Tokyo's RCAST, the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, will be made available as open source.
The new research partnership is part of the company's Collaborative Research Initiatives program. One of the goals of the most recent effort is to figure out how illiterate or elderly populations can use their mobile devices to exploit the information and services available to Internet users.
"Through this collaborative research initiative, we will uncover real information accessibility requirements and issues that the elderly and people in developing economies are facing today," said Chieko Asakawa, IBM Fellow and chief technology officer of IBM's accessibility research. "By focusing on mobile devices, which have a tremendous potential to empower them, we believe the findings will help us offer affordable services to a large population who are still deprived of access to key information sources."
"By bringing IBM's deep knowledge in mobile Web and [our] interface design and ethnological expertise, this initiative is aimed to develop inclusive technologies and help the underprivileged improve their lives," added Jignesh Khakhar of India's National Institute of Design.
IBM researchers in Tokyo and the human information engineering research team, led by Tohru Ifukube of the U Tokyo Research Center will focus their efforts on Japan's elderly population to investigate and determine real-life requirements of elderly people when using mobile devices.
"New technologies and various new services will continue to emerge, and mobile devices will become a window of opportunity for us to engage with information anytime anyplace," said Ifukube. "With IBM's expertise in accessibility technologies and mobile Web technologies, coupled with our expertise in five-senses communication and interface design expertise of [the National Institute of Design of India], we are looking forward to developing inclusive technologies for [the] elderly population to help improve quality of life."
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By David Crane
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February 8, 2009
While DefenseReview was at the CMMG Inc. booth at SHOT Show 2009, CMMG co-owner Jeff Overstreet showed us a very interesting prototype gas-piston/op-rod-driven AR-config semi-auto 12-gauge shotgun. The new shotgun features aluminum billet upper and lower receivers and winter triggerguard, and it will utilize a proprietary CMMG box magazine of as-yet unkown capacity, but we'll update this article as soon as we find out.
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And, here's a short video clip on it, courtesy of AR15.com:
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Singularity. A point in space-time where gravity becomes infinite. A technological future where artificial intelligence exceeds humans. A system where the smallest change can have big consequences.
A universe plunged into darkness, at the crossroads of theater and cinema, in which time and space cease to exist to make room only for the hero. This hero, nobody like you and me, overcomes his fears and societal taboos by discovering himself, by giving himself up to the eyes of the spectator.
Anything that once seemed substantial loses its importance and becomes a shadow except for being admired.
Accompanied by one or more window mannequins, these, like the term "singularity", can take on several meanings. Multiple metaphors representing the shadow of the model, societal indifference or even the archetype of the idealized body.
For this 14th collection of the project "Who's that nude in the living room?", Idan Wizen invites us to reflect on the place of the body, of being, of its modesty and its true essence in a society still shaken by the health crisis.
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Showing humanity as it is, in its most natural state, its nudity and diversity.
In our paradoxical society where the nude is banned from all social networks, and yet the pornography is easily accessible to all, Idan Wizen and his photographs take the opposite tack by putting the naked body in the foreground, replacing sexuality for the enhancement of all human bodies. He expresses his vision of our society through his art that is unique in its desire to represent humanity the way it is, in its most natural state, in its nudity and diversity.
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For over a decade, Idan Wizen has been receiving people in his photostudio to create from them a piece of art. With each person, he creates a unique fine art photography that is exhibited and purchased by art collectors. Over the years, he has realised thirteen different series that tell different stories about nudity and our society.
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The project called Un Anonyme Nu dans le Salon (french for Who's That Nude in the Living Room?), changes completely the vision of a naked body in society. The models are ordinary people and there is no casting. Oversized or skin-and-bone, midget or a giant, just a regular person from 18 to 99 years old, everyone is welcome. For most of them, the goal is to learn how to love themselves and to correct the disrupted and inaccurate vision of themselves.
The main idea of the project is to pay tribute to the uniqueness and diversity of the human race with its raw and unedited photographs. While fashion and advertising industries commemorate and glorify the perfect Apollonian and Aphroditian bodies, the artist stands aside of these dictates and has the courage to represent something different: a normal living body without any embellishment or beauty touch-ups. By showing his models without pageantry, and without erotism, the artist fights with one stone the growing puritanism and the omnipresence of pornography in our society, extracting at the same time the model from any socio-cultural background.


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Brian Acton is crossing paths again with Facebook. Over more than a decade of building and operating WhatsApp, the company's co-founder first competed against and then sold his instant messaging app to the social juggernaut. Only a few years ago he parted ways with the company that made him a billionaire in a bitter split over messaging and privacy.
Now Acton says the ongoing outrage over what Facebook has done to the messaging service he helped build is driving people to his latest project — Signal. Acton, who serves as the executive chairman of the privacy-conscious messaging app's holding company, told TechCrunch in an interview that the user base of Signal has "exploded" in recent weeks.
"The smallest of events helped trigger the largest of outcomes," said Acton on a video call. "We're also excited that we are having conversations about online privacy and digital safety and people are turning to Signal as the answer to those questions."
"It's a great opportunity for Signal to shine and to give people a choice and alternative. It was a slow burn for three years and then a huge explosion. Now the rocket is going," he said.
The event Acton is referring to is the recent change in data-sharing policy disclosed by WhatsApp, an app that serves more than 2 billion users worldwide.
Through an in-app alert, WhatsApp has asked users in recent days to agree to new terms of conditions that grants the app the consent to share their personal data with Facebook. Users will have to agree to these terms by February 8 if they wish to continue using the app, the alert said.
Acton said WhatsApp is grappling with incorporating monetization features while still protecting people's privacy. And its new "complicated policy" has forced WhatsApp and the media to scramble for explanations and "everyone is confused."
Acton did not disclose how many users Signal has amassed in recent weeks, but he said the app currently ranks at the top on App Store in 40 countries and on Google Play Store in 18 countries. (Signal is not the only app that users have explored in recent days as their new home. Telegram said on Tuesday noon that more than 25 million users had joined the platform in the last 72 hours. The app now has over 525 million monthly active users.)
According to mobile insight firm App Annie, data of which an industry executive shared with TechCrunch, Signal had about 20 million monthly active users globally at the end of December 2020. According to Sensor Tower, the app was downloaded more than 7.5 million times between January 6 and January 10.
Since its inception in 2018, Signal has promised that it won't sell its users' data and that it won't show its users ads. In 2018, Acton invested $50 million in Signal Foundation, a check that he said helped get the ball rolling. But how does the messaging app plan to stay afloat in the future?
Signal today also relies on donations to bankroll the business — and more users mean more donors, he said. "If Signal gets to a billion users, that's a billion donors. All we have to do is get you so excited about Signal that you want to give us a dollar or 50 rupees. The idea is that we want to earn that donation. The only way to earn that donation is building an innovative and delightful product. That's a better relationship in my opinion," he said.
Acton said this model has worked for the business, which keeps a small staff of below 50. Between its frugal spending and the foundation's largesse, Signal still has some money in the bank.
Signal Foundation has also previously said that messenger is its first product, and like Mozilla and Wikimedia Foundation, it intends to expand to more categories. Acton said in the coming years, the team will take a call on whether they want to work on email and storage products, but he said the current focus remains on the messaging app.
Even as Acton has publicly urged users to get off Facebook, in our conversation he did not suggest that people should stop using WhatsApp. On the contrary, Acton said he envisions people relying on Signal for conversations with their family and close friends, and using WhatsApp for other chats. "I have no desire to do all the things that WhatsApp does. My desire is to give people a choice," he said. "Otherwise, you're locked into something where you have no choice. It's not strictly a winner take-all scenario."
One of the criticisms that WhatsApp often receives is that it does not do enough to curb the spread of false information on its platform, which has resulted in real-life casualties. I asked Acton what Signal, which also protects its users' conversations with end-to-end encryption, would do if people started to use his app for a similar purpose. Acton said it's a difficult challenge and while technology and platform have their own share of responsibilities, they can only do so much especially when you can't look at the content of the conversation.
"You should be teaching your children good digital responsibility. Don't just immediately take the information that you get. Understand its source. Understand who are trusted sources. As a society, teach every member how it works," he said, pointing to earlier days of the internet when email scams were rampant and with time and education people learned how to identify them.


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Today may be the most important single day of the campaign. Obama won the debate. Everyone this side of Charles Krauthammer agrees that Romney was general and platitudinous and not that engaged. That makes two out of three. You might think that would mean momentum. And yet the conventional wisdom is congealing right now—it is hardening this morning, minute by minute—that Romney is going to win the election.
From Playbook, which distills the c.w.: President Obama won last night's foreign-policy debate on substance, in snap polls and with the pundits, but Mitt Romney did well enough that for the first time in six years, Romney folks emailed, "We're going to win."
In reality, Obama is the favorite. The state maps still make him so. Nate Silver, the only person who takes every single poll into account (plus loads of other indicators), still has him so. This emerging c.w. is built more on spin and smell, which the media are starting to buy. One piece that Mike Allen bought this morning in that Playbook item: A Romney aide told him New Hampshire leans their way.
Ridiculous. Even RCP has Obama +3 in New Hampshire. A poll yesterday had him up nine. He's never trailed there. It's been a fight, true, but he is clearly on course to win it. But the Romney aide just threw it out there. Not blaming him or her—it's the kind of thing you throw out when you want to start giving an impression of inevitability. But that is what the Romney team is trying now to do. (It's up to journalism, of course, to say when something doesn't seem true.)
And so, after their side's third consecutive debate loss, conservatives are the ones feeling confident. They are creating a reality. They're talking up Romney's supposedly unstoppable momentum now that he's survived the debates without making one of those Gerry Ford-style goofs (that's the bar now for the presidency?). They're tweeting things about Silver, sharpening their knives, contemplating his November 7 takedown. They're not quite measuring the drapes, but they're getting their rulers out of storage.
Factually, this isn't remotely justified. At worst from Obama's perspective, the thing is tied. As far as we know, looking at all the averages, on a state-by-state basis he's ahead. If you assume seven or eight states in play and go through all the permutations, Obama often wins by taking just two or three of them. Yes, a lot hinges on Ohio. But he can win even without it (he needs a strong inside straight, but it's possible). Romney absolutely cannot.
Conservatives know all this. But they're constructing an opposite reality. This is at the heart of everything going on right now, I think. It's what they can do that liberals can't really do. They've always done it. "Romney is going to win" in 2012 isn't so different from "We'll be hailed as liberators" in 2003. They say something and try to make it so, and the media go for it time and time again.
This is what's maddening to liberals about what Romney has done since the first debate. He's constructed a new reality about himself and he's gotten away with it, mostly. Specifically, it's that he's flip-flopped on all these things without the remotest hint of acknowledgement that the old positions even existed. Last night's Afghanistan pirouette was stunning.
We're used to a politician who says, "You know, I once thought…" or something like that. Then our minds can kind of buy the idea that he's flip-flopping. Most pols do this. It used to be thought by political consultants that pols had to do that part of it. But not Romney and his team. No acknowledgement, not an inch. A complete lie. And a real f-you, by the way, to voters who'd like to know why he changed his mind, except why bother, really, since there's no substance there. He changed his mind to win, period.
So today is the most crucial day of the campaign. Republicans are going to be filling journalists' heads with the inevitability "reality": a few poll results, a few morsels from the trail, and so on. A lot of the media will keep writing it that way, too.
What should Obama do? Well, Republicans want to make Democrats fearful and jittery and reactive—appear to be accepting the Republican premise. So basically, anything but that. These next two or three days will be crucial, and if the Democrats do seem fearful and reactive, they'll help the new c.w. congeal and maybe help seal a fate that the facts don't yet come close to foreordaining.


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New research suggests that choline supplementation in pregnant women lowers cortisol in the baby by changing epigenetic expression of genes involved in cortisol production.
If you're sick from stress, a new research report appearing in the August 2012 issue of The FASEB Journal suggests that what your mother ate -- or didn't eat -- may be part of the cause. The report shows that choline intake that is higher than what is generally recommended during pregnancy may improve how a child responds to stress. These improvements are the result of epigenetic changes that ultimately lead to lower cortisol levels. Epigenetic changes affect how a gene functions, even if the gene itself is not changed. Lowering cortisol is important as high levels of cortisol are linked to a wide range of problems ranging from mental health to metabolic and cardiovascular disorders.
"We hope that our data will inform the development of choline intake recommendations for pregnant women that ensure optimal fetal development and reduce the risk of stress-related diseases throughout the life of the child," said Marie A. Caudill, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Division of Nutritional Sciences and Genomics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
To make this discovery, Caudill and colleagues conducted a 12-week study involving pregnant women in their third trimester who consumed either the control diet providing 480 mg choline per day, a level that approximates current dietary recommendations, or the treatment diet which provided 930 mg choline per day. Maternal blood, cord blood and placenta tissue were collected to measure the blood levels of cortisol, the expression levels of genes that regulate cortisol, and the number of methyl groups attached to the DNA of the cortisol regulating genes (the epigenetic changes). Those from mothers who consumed the higher levels of choline showed reduced levels of cortisol.
"Depending on the relationship, one's mother can either produce stress or relieve it," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "This report shows that her effect on stress begins even before birth. The importance of choline cannot be overstated as we continue to unravel the role it plays in human health and development."
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From a developer's perspective, interacting with a Platform as a Service (PaaS) allows you to defer most of the responsibilities associated with deploying an application (network, servers, storage, etc.). That leaves two primary responsibilities: write the code and push it up to the platform (along with some configuration settings).
Often the platform will provide you with an arsenal of data stores to persist data produced by your applications. Riak and Riak CS are attractive data storage solutions for PaaS deployments because, as applications are spun up and down, the databases housing their data needs to remain available. In addition, Riak and Riak CS can scale along with your applications so that reading and writing data isn't a bottleneck.
(If you're interested in the differences between Riak and Riak CS, look no further.)
Cloud Foundry
One of the most popular open source Platforms as a Service is Cloud Foundry. So, how would you leverage data stores like Riak or Riak CS with it?
Service Broker
At a high level, a Cloud Foundry service broker advertises a catalog of services and service plans. For Riak, the service is Riak itself and the service plans are either a Bitcask or a LevelDB bucket. Cloud Foundry will not supply a Riak cluster for you: this must be something you've deployed and configured per the Wiring It Up section below.
You can think of the service broker as a middleman between your cluster and Cloud Foundry. The broker implements a set of APIs referred to as the Services API. As you interact with Cloud Foundry services, its Cloud Controller asks your broker to create, delete, bind, and unbind instances of your service. In turn, your broker talks to an appropriately configured Riak cluster and fulfills those requests (for example, by instructing the Riak cluster to create a new bucket with a Bitcask backend).
There are currently two versions of the Services API: v1 and v2. However, since v2 is the recommended broker by Cloud Foundry, we decided to use the v2 Services API to build a Riak service broker for Cloud Foundry.
Wiring It Up
The first step in connecting Riak and Cloud Foundry begins with having a specially configured Riak cluster. The "specially" part just means that it needs to be configured with the multi-backend.
The multi-backend allows Riak to be configured with more than one backend (for example, Bitcast and LevelDB) at the same time on a single cluster:
Next, connect Riak and the service broker by editing the service broker's configuration file and launching it:
Note: riak_hosts
can contain one or more Riak nodes. It is generally recommended to front your Riak cluster with some form of load balancing technology. If you have your cluster behind a load balancer, simply add only one host to riak_hosts
From there, you need to register it with your Cloud Foundry instance:
Note: xip.io is a service that provides wildcard DNS for any (public or private) IP address.
After that, just push your application to Cloud Foundry and create an instance of the service using the interactive prompt:
If we push up a sample application that just dumps the VCAP_SERVICES
environment variable as JSON, it looks like this:
The Riak service broker for Cloud Foundry is far from finished. The original use case was built to deal with application testing.
For example, the broker can allocate a Bitcask backed bucket to an application so that it runs its tests against a Bitcask backend. Afterwards, the broker can tear down that bucket and provide another bucket for testing backed by LevelDB.
Clearly, there are more use cases than this.
We encourage you to contribute to the project in ways that help steer it toward your use cases by opening issues and pull requests. The end goal is to pair this service broker with a full Riak BOSH release.
(If you're interested in a Riak BOSH release now, the community has put together a great starting point.)
To sum it up, Riak is a powerful storage platform for building applications that need to scale and cannot go down. Cloud Foundry is a tool that empowers developers by giving them an environment where they can simply push up code and have it transform into a running application.
Marrying the two is quite powerful and provides organizations with both a flexible application and data tier.
Helpful Links
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For the last five years, Danish photographer Thomas Bangsted has been creating these chaotic, strange, and memorable images. What I like about Bangsted's work is that it seems so painterly in the way it evolves. Unlike most contemporary photographers Bangsted does not work in series – each work is quite unique, has its own size, and its own character. This does not mean I'm against seriality, but the non-seriality of Bangsted's work is just one of its distinctive characteristics.
I'm not sure if there's anything particularly "Danish" about the work (many of the pictures were taken in America and England). Unlike Dutch or German photography which seems to be flourishing, I'm not aware of a school of Denmark – but there is a distinctive grey light to Bangsted's work and a moodiness that would not be out of place in a contemporary production of a play about that other famous Dane.


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Dear Sir:
Some Americans, especially Democrats, may have thought that the hypocrisy of the Bush administration—epitomized by the famous "Mission Accomplished" banner before the fighting in Iraq intensified—could not be surpassed. But Obama has done it! By reducing the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to "only" 50,000 and relabeling them "non-combat" (they will, of course, retain all their weaponry, be stationed in U.S. bases that have every appearance of permanency, and be on call to fight), Obama has outdone Bush by proclaiming The End of Combat Operations in Iraq!
The American people are eating it up. Every newscast on U.S. TV is celebrating this great achievement, as reporters fall over one another to interview service members who performed so heroically in killing intransigent Iraqis.
The Iraqis, of course, still don't have electricity for more than four hours a day, if they have it at all, and many of them lack access to clean drinking water and other basic services, including a decent education, while suicide and roadside bombings continue to maim and kill them. But, hey, they're able to vote, and they've only been without a functioning government for five months so far, while politicians seek to prevail in religious and ethnic conflicts that their "liberation" brought to the fore. Most important, American corporations will be making money from Iraqi oil.
Meanwhile, education in the U.S. continues to deteriorate—with mass layoffs of teachers, terminations of school buses, and pupils being required to bring their own supplies, even toilet paper, to school, where they can, however, in Texas and other leading states, learn that the U.S. was established by god as a Christian nation (Muslims out!), the greatest country the world has ever known. Roads and bridges continue to crumble, pollution of water and air increases, and global warming advances.
Americans die because they can't afford health care and some American children go hungry, while the U.S. Supreme Court expands the rights of corporations and limits those of citizens, and the votes of legislators are bought and sold with increasing openness. But what's to worry? Waging war has become the natural condition of American life, a "new normal" in a catch phrase of our time. How much education does it take to follow orders and, as declared by a recently promoted U.S. general, have fun shooting bad people, especially if one has had adequate religious indoctrination?
And isn't the military a great answer to unemployment among the minimally educated young? (Of course, as daily incidents in U.S. malls, offices, clubs, and schools show, one doesn't have to join the military in order to enjoy shooting people, but in the mililtary you can do it with impunity, even praise.) "Entitlements" such as Social Security and Medicare may have to be cut to support war–since what is spent on it can only be increased–while avoiding taxes on the corporations and their wealthy owners who profit from it. But that's surely a small price to pay for postponing the complete collapse of the U.S. empire. An achievement in Afganistan comparable to that in Iraq may be possible in only ten or so more years. So, Americans, enjoy your iPhones and iPads, the modern equivalents of Nero's fiddle, and on to Iran!
Kenneth G. Crosby
San Antonio Tlayacapan
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Streiht Up Menace Lyrics & Chords By Mc Eiht
MC Eiht's in the motherfuckin house. gyeah
And it ain't nothin but a compton thang y'all
And we ain't nuttin but niggaz on the run
And this goes out to my niggaz. gyeah
A fucked up childhood, is why the way I am
It's got me in the state where I don't give a damn, hmm
Somebody help me, but nah they don't hear me though
I guess I'll be another victim of the ghetto
Ain't no escapin, cause I'm way too young
Pops is dealin, and on top of that got moms sprung
Scheamin off the top, pops never figured
That he'd go down by the hands of another nigga
Now my pops is gone and that ain't no good
Got to follow in the foot steps of the homies from the hood
And where's the role model?
Niggaz putting brew in my fuckin baby bottle!
Damn, and through all the motherfuckin pain
They done drove my moms in-sane
So I guess I gotta do work so I ain't finished
I grow up to be a streiht up menace, gyeah
Uhh, come on y'all
Now I'm of age, and livin in the projects
Gettin paid off the clucks and the county checks
I'm Fil-ia fresh outta high school, never did I wonder
That the motherfuckin hood would take me under
Gyeah, I'm kickin it with the homies and they got the straps
Off to the corner store, owned by the fuckin {Japs}
See a bitch in the right lane so I comes with the mack
Astro Bam pulls a motherfuckin jack from the back
Now he's got the strap to my homie's head
See him play that shit cool, and don't be a fool!
He shot my nigga in the fuckin head
I caught one in the shoulder, if I didn't run I was dead
Now I'm layin in the hospital bed
Thinkin about them punk motherfuckers and my eyes is bloodshot red
Gyeah motherfuckers, I ain't finished
Be on the look-out for the streiht up menace, gyeah
Uhh, whassup y'all
Streiht up menace . damn!
Streiht up menace . damn!
I'm in too deep
I done killed a motherfucker and I just can't sleep
One-Time's tryin to do a smooth, creep
And on top of that
Niggaz after me for fuckin one of they hood rats
I ain't got time for the fuckin bitch's story
Niggaz want me gotta come to my territory
And ain't no "You Can Get the Fist"
Niggaz come, and they get done on they own risk
What is it all about?
Should I leave or should I stay cause I don't wanna punk out
Oh what should I do? The homies say
"The hood's where it's good, homeboy, I thought you knew"
So in the process to show the hood my best
No time to react, caught two in the chest
Now look who's down, I guess I'm finished
I go out like a streiht up menace, gyeah
Uhh, come on y'all
Streiht up menace . damn!
And on and on
I guess we outta here
Peace to my niggaz on the run
And it ain't nuttin but streiht up menaces, damn!
Just like I said before y'all
It ain't nuttin but a compton thang
And MC Eiht's in the house for the 93 shot
And this one's for the niggaz, gyea


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CMOS battery in my MacBook Pro (2007, pre-unibody) has died recently.
I am looking for a replacement, although all I could find so far was only used batteries off ebay.
It says following on the battery's shrink wrap:
7 8 21
Under the shrink wrap it says:
Made in Malasya
So I am wondering if I could simply take a good quality CR2025 battery and use it instead of buying a used one? Or is this some super-secret version of CR2025 only Apple managed to get its hands on and I'd better off getting a used one, although straight of a MacBook Pro?


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Dir: M. Night Shyamalan. US. 2013. 100mins
An intriguing but decidedly underwhelming mixture of genres, tones and sensibilities, After Earth has the benefit of being one of this summer's crop of aspiring blockbusters that isn't a sequel, prequel, reboot or based on existing material. But that supposed originality doesn't mean much when the execution is this scattershot, as director M. Night Shyamalan and stars Jaden Smith and Will Smith deliver a trite sci-fi adventure that's probably too intense for younger viewers and not sophisticated enough for adults.
Shyamalan shows an ability to build suspense during After Earth's second half when Kitai faces a series of tense attacks from different wildlife and even one of the pheromone-sniffing aliens.
Opening May 31 in North America before expanding across much of the globe the following week, this Columbia Pictures offering may feature Will Smith and his son equally in the ads, but Jaden is the movie's true lead, providing the soon-to-be-15-year-old his latest box office test. (His previous starring vehicle, the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid, grossed almost $360m worldwide.)
After Earth will need to do major work over the next two weeks before the June 14 arrival of Man Of Steel, which will presumably crush its competition. The Smiths' and Shyamalan's names will help commercially, but mediocre reviews may be a prelude to mixed word-of-mouth, dampening overall grosses.
Set 1,000 years in the future, and based on a story by Will Smith, After Earth depicts a society in which humanity has long since fled a devastated Earth, now living on a remote planet where they must fight fearsome alien creatures that track them by the pheromones they secrete when they're afraid. Wanting to spend some time with his son Kitai (Jaden Smith), who wants to be a soldier like him, the fearless, aloof Cypher (Will Smith) brings the kid along on a mission, only to have their spaceship damaged by asteroids and crash land on Earth, which is now overrun by hostile wildlife. With Cypher's leg broken, the inexperienced Kitai must journey alone across dangerous terrain to recover the ship's distress beacon that is the only hope of rescuing him and his father.
Combining a shipwreck tale with a fantastical Jules Verne-esque adventure yarn, After Earth also yearns to have an emotional core in which this chilly father-and-son relationship is warmed by the acknowledgment of a traumatic past tragedy that's spelled out in occasional flashbacks. (In addition, there's also a pseudo-philosophical bent to the film, which preaches the importance of not letting fear control our destiny.) No matter the clumsiness of the presentation, there is at least the attempt to deliver a summer entertainment that reaches for deeper resonance than is typical for such escapist fare.
Unfortunately, noble intentions aren't enough, and while Shyamalan (who co-wrote the screenplay with Gary Whitta) had success early in his career coaxing accomplished performances from young actors — most notably Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense — he isn't able to achieve the same feat with Jaden Smith.
After showing such promise in his first major role, opposite his father in The Pursuit Of Happyness, Jaden has since proved incapable of carrying a movie, his limited dramatic range particularly damaging in a movie like After Earth in which his character isn't just trying to stay alive but also grow as a person. Though it's certainly too early in his career to make any sweeping statements about his potential, at this stage he simply seems to lack the endless magnetism of his superstar father.
But then again, Will Smith isn't particularly gripping, either — although his lack of spark appears to be a choice. Playing a grizzled warrior who long ago learned to block any hint of fear so as to withstand humanity's lethal alien foes, the elder Smith speaks in a conscious monotone that suggests a man who's had to sacrifice an emotional connection to others in order to survive. (His name, Cypher, feels like an on-the-nose indication of his inscrutable personality.)
The problem is that his performance is so stilted as to be distractingly mannered. As a result, After Earth strands us with an unpolished young star who can move around freely but can't emote and his famous father who's confined to a chair and whose natural charisma has been frustratingly bolted down.
As he did with The Sixth Sense and Signs, Shyamalan shows an ability to build suspense during After Earth's second half when Kitai faces a series of tense attacks from different wildlife and even one of the pheromone-sniffing aliens. The effects work isn't always top-notch, but the relentless fright sequences at least stir up the senses a little.
Oddly, though, these sequences fall into a disappointing middle ground: They're certainly too brutal for younger audiences, but older viewers may find them to be unsatisfying. Furthermore, they point to a larger conflict within After Earth between crafting a bleak, dystopian life-or-death struggle and producing a more inspirational, heart-warming father-and-son story. Like the uneasy balance between Will Smith's natural presence and his son's strained emoting, this conflict never resolves itself, marooning the film.
Production companies: Columbia Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment, Blinding Edge Pictures
Domestic distribution: Sony Pictures, www.sonypictures.com
Producers: Caleeb Pinkett, Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, James Lassiter, M. Night Shyamalan
Executive producer: E. Bennett Walsh
Screenplay: Gary Whitta and M. Night Shyamalan, story by Will Smith
Cinematography: Peter Suschitzky
Production design: Tom Sanders
Editor: Steven Rosenblum
Music: James Newton Howard
Website: www.afterearth.com
Main Cast: Jaden Smith, Will Smith, Zoë Isabella Kravitz, Sophie Okonedo


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[Intro: rza]
Yo, the great Digi
"What are you looking for?"
The World's greatest mind
Bob Digital
"Man with no mother"
Yo, try to cross reference, my epic preference
Fresh mint, tight lint, you get trapped inside the monkey wrench
Ain't no landlubber ever gonna suit the sailor
I'm blessed like the seed who sucked the milk from Mahalia
You wishin' Shaolin Island could be swallowed up by the sea
Gobbled up, like the lost city of Mu and Atlantis
But I'm fierce as the cyclone winds that blew through Kansas
Have your clan stranded on the enchanted land of Gomer-Oz-Dabar
Gem Blue Star, razor blade scar
Who dare wanna spar bar for bar? Allah U Akbar
I turn the most degenerate hood into a pop star
Bless the seed who prays the Most High, without askin' why
Flicks from ocean shore, kick like Marshall Law
I might strike with the eagle claw or tiger paw
On the shores of African beach, facin' the east
White sands stretched out as far as the eye can see
Found buried by the sea
The heat of Allah son will crack through Antarctica
We ride blue whales, you sell Nautica ships on the carpenter
We should send all these Devils back to Hell
You small as to die in my sentence, I speak with vengeance
Snatch up 17 million plus 2 million Indians
Your incorrect retrospect on the situation
You didn't know it was a Wu-Tang affiliation
Legs weak like twigs, you're forbidden like pig
You can't fuck with the Zig-Zag-Zig
[Break: rza]
Raise your sword, and praise the Lord
And wage war on this wicked society
Raise your sword, and praise the Lord
And wage war on this wicked society
The village must be pillaged
The merciless, the Earth is damp from blood spillage
Cursed the ancestors and the seed of the assailant
Dissect his body like an alien
My seed must be spread
I bust sperm cells with Bobsleds
Then race to the egg and bring forth the
All you niggas out there who got money
Better watch out for the money hungry
Straight up...
The most beloved from a region undiscovered
I've been hovered over by black buzzard walkin' through public
Imagine the feelin' of growin' up, ten children
Stuffed inside a shack, in the project buildings
Women, infants and coupons, one stole Campbell's soup on
Stressed out with four kids, aborter
Next door the dope fiend neighbour tryin' to sell his little daughter
Poisonous, heat from the oven
The only way we had to live was survivin' off mommy's lovin'
Dead bodies found in the incinerator
Lights Out, somebody fucked up the generator
Talkin' welfare, cheese, franks and beans
Mud stains on mock-neck shirts and tainted jeans
Twisted up, how the fuck we get bended up?
And ended up in this four block radius where they enslaved us
Sweatin' from cheese ravioli with tomato sauce and anchovie
Spoiled, ah shit, my blood boiled
But fuck that, I'm ready for open hand combat
It's the tomcat, and my thoughts are unlimited
Inflicted fatal wounds and I'm immune, to your evil society
[Break: rza]
So praise the Lord and and wage war
Against this wicked society, society
Praise the Lord and raise your sword
Against this wicked society, society
Praise the Lord and raise your sword
Against this wicked society
There was a Legend of a Liquid Sword
That was Only Built 4 Niggas with Cuban Linx
Who +Entered the 36th Chamber+
And keep the true links, inherit +The W+ emblem
Movin' the muscle changin' and bone tendon bendin'
Science of 25 thousand year millennium
The sinners from the men who exiled the Indians from India
Who's times can't be measured linear
In all tribes on Earth who can't find a friendlier group of people
Who shunt all evil, treat all men equal
Even though we see through your wicked intentions
We gave you land to experiment with your inventions
But you strive for global lynchin', extension
But it's yourself that will become extinct
You inherit this power to think and build things
The free will to love, not hate or kill things
And when you went astray, we sent prophets to reveal things
And left scriptures behind to fulfill things
But you still wanna kill things, rob and steal things
So don't blame us when it's time to fulfill things and kill Kings
[Break: rza]
Raise the sword and praise the Lord
On this wicked society, society
Raise your sword and praise the Lord
It's a wicked society, society
Praise the Lord and raise your sword
Against this wicked society
Wage war
Against this wicked society
[Outro: rza]
Yo, the +Sickness+
That's what I want
"What are you looking for?"
"Man with no mother"
That's what I want
"What are you looking for?"
"Man with no mother"


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In this question [$A$] means the concentration of the chemical $A$ at equilibrium.
For a balanced chemical equation, where $A, B, C$ and $D$ are chemicals in aqueous solution and $a, b, c, d$ are whole numbers,
$$ aA + bB \rightleftharpoons cC + dD+ eH_2O $$
the law of mass action tells us that for a fixed temperature, there is a constant $K$ (called the equilibrium constant) such that
\frac{[C]^c[D]^d}{[A]^a[B]^b} = K
(note the absence of the solvent concentration $[H_2O]$ ).
In the blood, the carbonic-acid-bicarbonate buffer prevents large changes in the pH of the blood. Chemically, it consists of two reactions which are simultaneously in equilibrium
$$H^+ +HCO^-_3+H_2O\rightleftharpoons^{K_1} H_2CO_3+H_2O \rightleftharpoons^{K_2} 2H_2O+CO_2$$
Show that
pH =pK -\log \left(\frac{[CO_2]}{[HCO^-_3]}\right)\quad \mbox{where }K=\frac{1}{K_1K_2}
Think about this equation. It shows that the pH of the blood is dependent on the ratio of the concentrations of $CO_2$ and $HCO^-_3$. These are large in the blood, so small changes in the relative concentrations leads to very small changes in the pH of the blood. They act as a 'buffer' against pH change.
Now, make a new variable $x$ to be the fraction of the buffer in the form of $HCO^-_3$. Thus,
x = \frac{[HCO^-_3]}{[HCO^-_3]+[H_2CO_3]+[CO_2]}
Show that
pH = pK-\log\left(\frac{1}{x}-1 -K_1[H^+]\right)
By taking the value $pK=6.1$ and treating $K_1[H^+]$ as very small, reproduce the titration curve
1. Why is it numerically valid to ignore the $[H^+]$ term in the equation giving rise to the graph?
2. With the assumption that $K_1[H^+]=0$, use calculus to show that the second derivative of the pH is zero when $x=0.5$. Graphically, what does this correspond to?
bioNRICH is the area of the stemNRICH site devoted to the mathematics underlying the study of the biological sciences, designed to help develop the mathematics required to get the most from your study of biology at A-level and university.
Can you work out how to produce the right amount of chemical in a temperature-dependent reaction?


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Indiana June is the main character in a real-life Pick-A-Path Adventure story. She is cycling the globe and letting people vote to decide what she does next. Her fate is in your hands so get voting to choose how the story unfolds. Read more
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
I write a lot of blog posts. Hell, I do it for a living but this one has been particularly tough. There is no easy way to say it so here goes ...
I always knew the day would come when my pick-a-path adventure story would reach a natural conclusion. Today is that day. It dawned on me that I don't need people to vote where I go or tell me what do any longer – my inner compass is all I need to find my way.
I want to thank everyone who has been along for the ride. Whether you tuned in from the very beginning or met me somewhere on the journey, your support has been the single most important fuel for my tank.
I plan on keeping the indianajune.com domain alive but it will be reinvented in 2015 to house my new (ad)ventures and projects.
It seemed like a good excuse to look back at some of the highs, lows and interesting stats that have filled my blog for the past 3 years. I still scratch my head and wonder how the hell I ended up with 20,000 people around the world determining my path? I guess it made for an interesting story!
I'm back in Wellington, New Zealand for Christmas and yesterday when sorting through a box of old knick knacks I found this sketch. It's the very first version of my website, scrawled on a Paddy Power notepad (Ireland's version of TAB) with my travel buddy Greg. That means the design was conceived in an Irish pub, quite fitting!
Just 2 short months later my web wizard cousin Trev built it and I was on my way. On the 6th of August 2011 I set off on my bicycle from Dublin and put my destiny in the hands of the public. At the start it was just my friends and family voting but with media attention it soon snowballed into an avalanche of support. They voted that I work on a pig farm, swim with a famous dolphin named Fungie, pour pints of Guinness, go zorbing (not recommended!) and that was all before I left Ireland. I was visible on the road with my yellow pannier bags and Spin11 designed cycle jerseys.
I bought my new bike, Meg in Belfast and toured Scotland, England, France, Spain and caught the boat to Italy. Then there was a spot of biking in Australia and NZ before I was voted to switch continents to South America. I didn't speak a word of Spanish so the potential for misfortune was high. We all remember this video I made on the side of the road right? But robberies and electrocution aside, it was in a Buenos Aires hostel that serendipity stepped in and introduced me to Kunal, an enthusiastic entrepreneur who later became my OutTrippin business partner.
Who could have predicted that riding a bike with no particular destination would lead to an exciting romp in the land of startups? The world was ready for personalised travel recommendations and our secret weapon was an army of independent travel bloggers. From bicycle adventure to startup venture, we created a community of hundreds of travel writers who shared their knowledge and expertise with our customers.
But energy (like money) is finite and sometimes you have to stand back and question whether that much passion and drive would be better directed elsewhere. While I am parking the bicycle and shutting up shop on OutTrippin, please don't feel sad. Indiana June and OutTrippin are the most amazing stories I've ever been a part of but they're only the beginning.
I have a couple of side projects on the go right now. When I have my morning coffee I draw a picture and post it on instagram under the hashtag #coffeecharacter. Feel free to follow my Instagram feed for a daily dose of Indi-art.
From the streets of Dublin in 2011 to a blank canvas in 2015... Wishing you a happy holiday season, sweet-az travels and please, don't be a stranger :)