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[Mathieu] was interested in using more solar cells for his everday electronics. He looked around but couldn't find much information about using pholovoltaic for small indoor devices. We remember hearing some of the same things from [Dave Jones] in one of his EEVblog installments from a few years ago which looked at solar calculators; the only indoor solar gadget we can think of.
The quest for knowledge was on and [Mathieu] decided to build this indoor solar cell test platform. It's a stable piece of hardware that allows him to run reliable tests in many different conditions. It's designed to compare two identical cells. One is charging the Lithium cell, the other is driving a load directly. A second battery powers the platform separately from the solar circuits so that it can be used as a data logger. He collects, dumps, and graphs info from his test runs, then discusses his findings. We won't spoil it, but the results are not great. Mostly you need sunlight to get real results as it's just so much more powerful than artificial lighting.


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RTT's Erin Olson Teams Up With Minnesota Compass
This past month, RealTime Talent research strategist Erin Olson had the opportunity to collaborate with Minnesota Compass' research scientist Justin Hollis to author an article focusing on Minnesota's workforce shortage. The article highlights the early warning signs found in high job vacancies around 2016 as well as the potential ways our state could chip away at this shortage. This article, along with other great content from Minnesota Compass can be found HERE.
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Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert Perform 'Sure Be Cool if You Did' Together
Fans lucky enough to attend the Dayton, Ohio stop of the Miranda Lambert/Dierks Bentley Locked and Reloaded tour last night (Feb. 15) got a real treat. That's because Blake Shelton showed up to perform his brand new single 'Sure Be Cool if You Did' with his wife Lambert.
When Shelton made his way to the stage, the audience erupted into defeaning cheers. With his acoustic guitar in hand, Shelton took a seat next to his beautiful, leather jacket-clad wife and they performed his brand new song as thought it were meant to be a duet.
Lambert was gazing lovingly at her husband as she added a beautiful layer of harmony to the new song. She rocked back and forth as she sang with him. They exchanged plenty of glowing glances at each other while performing. It was truly a crowd pleasing moment, one that made the show extra special for attendees.
Shelton and Lambert are easily one of the cutest country couples ever. They work and play with equal fervor!
Shelton revealed earlier this week that he will release 'Based on a True Story…' on March 26, which is the day after Season 4 of 'The Voice' premieres so he has a busy couple of months coming up. It was wonderful to see him get some live time in with his wife. It's moments like this that remind us why they are so perfect for one another.


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Am I alone in thinking the first day of this year's NFL Scouting Combine in Indy was uncharacteristically short on the unsubstantiated rumors we all crave? To be honest, I am kind of disappointed.
Still, I found some items for you guys (and gals) to chew on this morning:
- Click here to read Paul Allen's humorous encounters with Matt Kalil and Darrell Bevell at the Combine. Further down, you get to the real interesting stuff, where Allen claims everyone in Indy is talking and acting like the Rams trading out of the number two spot is already a done deal. Both St. Louis and Minnesota have publically admitted they are open to trading backwards for the right deal. Spielman wants to be "very active" in trading to "accumulate picks" on Draft Day (which scares the Tarvaris Jackson out of me).
- At 6' 4" and 240 pounds, UCLA's Cory Harkey was the biggest blocking tight end to weigh in on Thursday. For those of you that would love to see the Vikings find a suitable replacement for Jim Kleinsasser via a late round pick, keep an on this guy.
- When the NFC North Champions re-signed tight end Jermichael Finley to a two year deal this week, it opened up the possibility of them franchising (and then trading) backup quarterback Matt Flynn to the highest bidder. The Cleveland Browns, who are thought to be a prime Draft Day trade partner with the Vikings or Rams, are now rumored to have interest in making a play for Flynn instead of trading up to draft Robert Griffin III.
- I don't have a link to provide here, but it seems possible that the free agent wide receiver market could dry up pretty quick if the current abundance of "smoke" is any indications. The Eagles like Desean Jackson. The Chargers like Vincent Jackson. The Steelers want Mike Wallace to be spend his whole career with them. The Chiefs want "somewhere over Dwayne Bowe" back. The Cowboys can't re-sign Laurent Robinson until after free agency starts because of a technicality, but they want him to remain on the roster. The Colts are really talking up Reggie Wayne. Don't believe everything you hear, folks, but I'm willing to bet a number of these guys don't make it to free agency. But, hey, there's always Stevie Johnson. Yay?
That's about it for now. Hopefully there will be some more items of interest produced on Friday. Leslie Frazier will speak to the press on Friday, and Matt Kalil will be officially interviewed by the Vikings on Friday, so I'm sure we'll have some interesting things to pass along.


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As one of the fund managers, Robb M. Blihnd, explained: "The need for hedges to separate adjoining properties in densely packed urban and suburban landscapes is critical to public safety. People are getting testy and going after their neighbors over little things like barking dogs, smoke from barbecue cookouts and children straying into adjacent properties. We need the money for planting hedges to clearly identify property boundaries and provide a natural barrier against intrusions. The demand for hedge fund financing is clearly more critical in metro areas than out in the country where the population is more dispersed. That and our executive bonuses, of course."
The dearth of funding has sparked renewed interest in an alternative technology well suited to rural communications. With minimal construction costs and low bandwidth requirements, telegraphy may the answer to doing "something" for the long ignored rural constituency without Congress having to come up with additional funding. Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph was America's first telecommunication technology and designed to work in the frontier environment of the 19th century. Sometimes referred to as the "The Victorian Internet", there are eerie parallels to today's messaging technology. Users known as "telegraphers" networked across the country to exchange messages at will. Simple battery power energized both transmission and reception, much the way cell phones use batteries today.
Jon Dehre is owner of the first TSP or Telegraph Service Provider to apply for federal funding under the massively scaled down Rural Telegraphy Initiative. According to Jon: "Wiring for a telegraph system is easy out in the country. Most farms have barbed wire fencing that works great as a conductor to carry the signal for miles. Of course, you have to watch out for those electrified fences. We zapped a few operators before we learned to test for high voltage by throwing a wet tarp on the wires. We go through tarps pretty fast, but there seems to be plenty of tarp financing available."
The resuscitated telegraph technology should have a special appeal to younger users who are addicted to texting. Only a single finger is needed to tap out the dots and dashes of the Morse Code using a standard telegraph key. Power users can upgrade to a semi-automatic keyer, also known as a "bug." These require the use of two fingers, but leave one hand completely free to act as an unpowered "green" printer for writing down incoming messages.
Telegraphy solutions may also be appropriate for some businesses with little technology need and even lower expectations. For those that require a true broadband solution, it should be noted that T1 lines are available at reasonable rates through Sheep For T1, a website designed to support businesses located beyond metropolitan areas. In addition, satellite broadband is available for residential users in nearly all USA locations. No fooling.


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Lactic Acid
The Role of Lactic Acid in Wine and the Winemaking Process
Maintaining the acid content in wine is critical to establish a well balanced wine. If a wine doesn't have enough acid, it will taste dull or flat. If a wine has too much acid, it will taste sour or tart. Luckily for winemakers, it is not hard to control wine acidity.
The principle acids found in wine are tartaric acid and malic acid. Their relative amounts are dependent on a multitude of factors, including varietals, climate, soil, nutrient availability etc.
Malic acid is one of the principle components of acid that can be controlled by the winemaker. Largely, it is the Malic acid that contributes to the sour, tart taste of wines that have too much acid. This is where Lactic Acid comes into play in the form of Malo-Lactic Fermentation.
Lactic Acid in Wine
Lactic Acid is an organic acid that contributes to the overall acidity of wine. The reason why it is so attractive to winemakers is because its much softer on the palate than malic acid, the principle acid component in wine. For this reason, many wine will undergo Malo-Lactic Fermentation.
The primary source of lactic acid in wine is from the metabolic activity of bacteria. Many know this process as malo-lactic fermentation, where malic acid is decarboxylated into lactic acid. However, as small amount of lactic acid is produced during fermentation.
Lactic acid is the predominant acid in milk, and is much "softer" than malic acid. For this reason, it is a highly desirable component in some wines. This process happens naturally in most red wines, but is encouraged in some whites to achieve a certain taste and feel.
There are two stereoisomers of lactic acid; L-lactic acid and D-lactic acid. The distinction between the two lies in the special arrangement of their substituents. Although this seems trivial, they are different and can be used to determine if a wine has gone through malo-lactic fermentation.
L-lactic acid is the isomer produced through malo-lactic fermentation. The other isomer is not produced. However, during fermentation, both L and D isomers are produced in equal quantities.
Malo-Lactic Fermentation (MLF)
Malo-Lactic Fermentation is the process by which Malic Acid is converted to Lactic Acid and Carbon Dioxide. Usually, white wines will be sent into MLF, while red wine undergoes this process naturally. On the palate, wines that have undergone MLF are round and fuller-bodied.
While MLF is a beneficial process, there are downsides. An increase in Lactic Acid concentration in a wine will make it suseptable to Lactic Acid Bacteria, These bacteria use the Lactic Acid as energy and can create a problem for winemakers if not carefully monitored.
Many winemakers take sterilization measures to ensure that these bacteria are not introduced into the winery. Once they have been used in a winery, they will induce malolactic fermentation the next year as well unless stringent sterilization measures are taken.
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5232.0.55.001 - Assets and Liabilities of Australian Securitisers, Jun 2009
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Assets of Securitisers At the end of the June quarter 2009, total assets of Australian securitisers were $194.3b, down $13.5b (6.5%) on the March quarter 2009 total. This is the eighth consecutive fall for the assets of Australian securitisers. Mortgage assets, which accounted for 74.3% of total assets, were $144.4b at 30 June 2009, a decrease of $9.6b (6.3%) during the quarter. During the June quarter 2009 the decrease in total assets was due primarily to decreases in residential mortgages (down $9.0b, 6.1%), the holdings of other assets (down $2.7b, 26.1%) and the holdings of other loans (down $1.4b, 8.5%). Liabilities of Securitisers The decrease of $13.5b in total liabilities during the June quarter 2009 was due to decreases in asset backed securities issued overseas (down $6.7b, 10.3%), long term asset backed securities issued in Australia (down $3.1b, 3.1%), and loans and placements (down $2.4b, 27.6%). The contraction of debt markets following the global financial crisis has continued to limit the ability of securitisers to issue debt securities during the June quarter 2009. Asset backed securities issued overseas as a proportion of total liabilities decreased to 29.9% in the June quarter 2009, down 1.3 percentage points on the March quarter 2009 total. Asset backed securities issued domestically as a proportion of total liabilities increased to 64.1% in the June quarter 2009, up 2.2 percentage points on the March quarter 2009 total. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window. |


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Breaking the Waves (1996)
Directed by Lars von Trier
Genres - Drama, Romance |
Sub-Genres - Psychological Drama, Melodrama, Romantic Drama, Erotic Drama |
Release Date - Nov 13, 1996 (USA - Limited) |
Run Time - 153 min. |
Countries - Denmark, France, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Don Kaye
With Breaking The Waves, director Lars von Trier fashions an often disturbing tale of the singular power of love. Bess (the Oscar-nominated Emily Watson) is a naïve, borderline simple young woman who lives in a Scottish coastal town ruled by the religious doctrine of its council of elders. Recovering from a mental breakdown caused by the death of her brother, Bess marries a rough yet compassionate and attentive oil rig worker named Jan (Stellan Skarsgård). For a brief time, the couple enjoys peaceful wedded bliss, with the worldly Jan introducing Bess to the mysteries of sex. Jan must soon return to his job on the rig, however, where he is paralyzed from the neck down in a freak accident. Bess' emotional trauma over Jan's injury turns into obsession as she prays to God for his recovery and offers to do anything to have her husband back whole. Jan, constantly medicated and profoundly depressed, asks Bess to have sex with other men and tell him about it, thinking this will allow her to return to a normal life. Bess, on the other hand, sees it as an expression of her devotion to Jan that even God won't be able to ignore. Bess's resultant downward spiral leads to a finale of both tragedy and spirituality. Breaking the Waves is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive European movies of the 1990s, marking von Trier's movement toward his influential Dogma 95 school of filmmaking, which emphasizes realistic situations of contemporary life, filmed without background music and with a hand-held, restlessly moving camera.
accident, craziness, fidelity, handicap, marriage, naivete, oil-rig, quadriplegic, religion, sex, injury, sin
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In the early days of the Cold War, the Soviet Union's May Day parade gave American spies an intelligence bonanza. As the latest Soviet fighter planes streaked overhead, U.S. diplomatic staff, scattered among the crowd, furiously snapped photos of the planes from miles below. With the advent of satellite technology, they no longer had to wait for the Soviet army's world premiere, as they could snap photos of secret military sites from space. The pictures astounded Lyndon Johnson, who learned that previous estimates of Soviet missile counts were hugely inflated. "We were building things that we didn't need to build," Johnson said at the time. "We were harboring fears that we didn't need to have."
Imagine, then, what his response might have been to the latest upheaval in intelligence gathering, whereby high-definition pictures of secret military installation turn up online, on obscure corners of the Web, for anyone to see. "The grainy photos that they were getting from those spy satellites were nothing compared to what you can get from Google Earth," says Peter Singer, director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution. Singer and his co-researcher, Jeffrey Lin, recently wrote an analysis of China's latest covert project, its first homemade aircraft carrier, based on nothing but photos pulled from blogs. With a little Googling, anyone can find them.
Their analysis, published in Defense One, examines the ship's layout in startling detail. With a digital tape measure they sized up different parts of the ship, and with each measurement they reveal a new layer of meaning about its potential capabilities. An opening in the carrier's hangar, for example, measures from 6 m to 7 m in height, a tight squeeze for a J-15 fighter jet, but too narrow for bombers with heavier payloads. The slide show, below, offers a condensed display of their findings.
If the analysis is correct, and they go to great lengths to list the unknowns as well as the knowns, then it provides a preview of how China could swing around its weight on the high seas. "It's not a match for U.S. force," Singer says of the carrier, "but it provides them with a signaling capability vs. their neighbors." China has recently engaged in naval jousting matches over tiny, disputed islands in the Pacific. Its neighbors might not defend their turf so vigorously if China one day parked a hulking aircraft carrier in disputed waters. "It's big deal for China vis-à-vis Vietnam, vis-à-vis Japan," Singer says.
The carrier pics are just a sampling of the intelligence that regularly turns up on the Internet. Singer ticked off a few recent examples: "New U.S. spy planes, unmanned systems — a.k.a drones — that weren't pushed under their hangars in time. Iranian missile sites. North Korean nuclear research plants. Strange patterns in China's hinterlands that people believe were used for a missile test site." The list goes on. These pictures can confound just about anyone's plans to keep things under wraps. And the intelligence cuts both ways for America's defense establishment. Singer says al-Qaeda militants used pictures of a helicopter off-loading materials at a military base in Afghanistan, along with coordinates from Google Earth, to plan an attack. The soldiers who uploaded the pictures had no idea they were providing the enemy with intelligence. They just thought it was a cool picture.
But perhaps the most fascinating point in this worldwide information dump is how it gets noticed in the first place. Jeffrey Lin is a 26-year-old graduate student of international science-and-technology policy at George Washington University. He developed an interest in military technology at the age of 14, when he commanded tanks and jets in the computer game, People's General. Tired of waging fantasy battles across 20 different countries in Asia, he took to the Internet to learn about the reality of tanks, planes and modern weaponry. He became engrossed in two online discussion forums, China Defence Forum and SinoDefence.com, which linked up a community of military techies from all walks of life. Some identified themselves as retired vets and defense contractors, others, plain old enthusiasts. Lin would join these users in lengthy discussions of pictures that had surfaced from defense trade shows, official broadcasts or citizen journalists. The last group, in particular, has become an increasingly valuable resource, as China's smartphone penetration and broadband access have made it possible for just about anyone to snap a photo of strange pieces of defense equipment that pass within shutter range. Smartphone pictures of a fighter jet, wrapped under a tarp, strapped to a back of a truck barreling down the highway, now crop up on the forum.
At the same time, Lin developed an ability to parse the pictures for accuracy and meaning. He became a sort of digital-age Pocahontas, who could lead old-school intelligence experts through the unfamiliar terrain of crowdsourced pictures — fending off photoshopped pics, drawing hidden meanings out of seemingly insignificant details. He can look at the time stamp and the foliage of trees and conclude, "That's not in Shanghai or Xi'an simply because there's no snow on the ground." Gradually he narrows in on the location by process of elimination.
It was Lin who brought the pictures of China's aircraft carrier to Singer's attention. He spotted them in a post on China Defence Forum's blog. The fact that he may have been looking at the first images of China's first indigenous aircraft carrier didn't even surprise him. "Well, it's about time," he says. "We've been hearing on-and-off discussion about it for years."
Lin is just at the beginning of his career, but in a sign of how far these skills can take him, Singer points to one of the heavyweight champs of the open-source community. "Certainly one of the most important thinkers on U.S. Navy issues, is a guy who goes by the name Galrahn," Singer says. Galrahn is the user name of a man who has no connection to the Navy, and simply created a blog, Information Dissemination, which became the hub for arguing back and forth on Navy strategy. "Pull any Navy officer," Singer says, "and ask, 'Who are the top thinkers out there right now?' He would be listed in it."
No wonder, then, that the CIA set up a center for open-source intelligence in 2005, to distill the facts of online chatter from the rumors and drip-feed them into daily memos. This crowdsourced intelligence could never replace existing threat assessments, but it can strengthen them with supporting or opposing evidence. The Internet has redirected the flow of information from a few spies to a widening number of online users, and it's amazing how far this information can travel. Singer says he's seen it flow from the most obscure corners of the Internet, through niche media, to the mainstream media, before it at last reaches the desks of defense officials. "You'll see conversations that will start in one of these clusters and then end up in what's called the Early Bird," he says, referring to a memo of need-to-know news for top Pentagon officials.
Anyone reading this article right now may be a part of that information flow. The pictures of China's aircraft carrier have already been spotted by a bright, 26-year-old intern, who passed it on to a prominent think-tank expert, who wrote up an analysis in Defense One, which caught the attention of a curious journalist at TIME, who is now relaying the news to you, the reader, and who knows — it might even land in the inboxes of the military's top brass tomorrow morning, in the form of an Early Bird memo that's not so early after all.


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As in previous years, five films are nominated for an Academy Award in the "Visual Effects" category and they each offer a nice look at the amazing tricks filmmakers and their effects teams can pull off on the big screen. In recognition of these five films and one of our favorite Oscar categories, we're putting the spotlight on one "Visual Effects" nominee each day leading up to Sunday's broadcast.Previously, we looked at The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Avengers, Snow White and the Huntsman, and Life Of Pi. Our final installment in the series looks at Ridley Scott's Prometheus, the prequel to his 1979 sci-fi horror classic Alien.
To say that anticipation was high for Ridley Scott's return to the Alien universe in last year's Prometheus is an understatement of cosmic proportions. Ever since Scott announced his plans to revisit the franchise he spawned with his 1979 film about a terrifying alien creature that kills off the crew of the mining ship Nostromo, there was no shortage of interest – and secrecy from the Prometheus team – regarding the project.
When Prometheus finally premiered in theaters, the amount of debate it generated rivaled the pre-release buzz surrounding it. Among other heated topics, critics, fans, and casual audience members alike argued about its greater meaning, whether it lived up to the hype, and how it fit into the over-arching Alien universe. And while this could be considered one sign of success for Scott and the Prometheus team, this year's Academy Awards also honored the film with a nomination in the same "Visual Effects" category won by Alien more than two decades ago.
Set almost 30 years before the events of Alien, Prometheus presented an interesting challenge for Scott and the visual-effects team that worked on the film: creating future technology that would seem advanced for our time, but would still seem like an ancestor to the tech that filled the 1979 film.
A purist who prefers practical effects over computer-generated imagery, Scott eventually hired Moving Picture Company to handle the bulk of the film's digital-effects shots, with other studios such as Weta Digital assisting with certain effects-driven sequences. (The opening scene with the disintegrating "Engineer" was produced by Weta). In the end, approximately 1,300 shots were created from digital effects, with Scott charging production designer Arthur Max with the task of deconstructing the visual elements of Alien and "reverse-engineering" them for Prometheus while retaining the dark, eerie blend of sci-fi and horror that gave the first film such a unique tone.
"[CGI] has been added, but you don't smell it, the way you do on other films," Max told Wired UK. "There's enough traditional filmmaking to seduce the audience, so they feel it's a real place and it's really happening."
Scott's affinity for practical effects resulted in the production moving to the massive Pinewood Studios complex in the U.K., where Prometheus sets filled out all 5,480 square-meters of the Albert R. Broccoli 007 stage (the largest in Europe) and eventually spilled out of the studio for another 45 square-meters of detailed set pieces. Precise calculations of where the practical sets needed to end and their digital counterparts should begin were needed at various stages of production, with the team even collecting samples of local rocks and terrain at each of the external sets to find a proper match in the digital realm.
"Ridley has said to me, on every film we've done, 'These sets are great, but they're really not big enough,'" Max said. "They are never big enough! We build fragments – huge fragments – so the actors are interacting with physical space, and then the beyond-ness is extended digitally."
The decision to film in 3D added another wrinkle to production, as traditional 3D shooting tends to require bright lighting. Anyone familiar with the Alien franchise will tell you that "bright" isn't exactly a theme in the series, so digital effects were used to darken scenes to a level more in line with the rest of the franchise.
The creatures of Prometheus also benefited from a mix of digital and practical effects, with Scott revisiting some of the techniques he used for Alien when applicable, supplementing these shots with computer-generated material. For example, the snake-like "Hammerpede" creatures the crew encounters in their early visit to the planet were animated using wires and animatronic controls and then manipulated digitally to add certain effects (such as a new head regrowing from the decapitated creature).
And though some have criticized how bright and modern some of the technology used in Prometheus seemed in comparison to the grimy, dirty environments of Alien (which was supposed to occur 29 years later in continuity), Scott and others have cited the difference in purposes served by that technology in the two films. While the Prometheus crew was commissioned as a private expeditionary team fully funded by a corporation and tasked with finding and analyzing new technology and sciences, the Nostromo ship and its crew from Alien were a simple mining team called off their normal routine to investigate a mysterious planet.
As one might expect, this explanation hasn't appeased all the film's critics when it comes to this issue, but one element that does seem to evolve within the continuity of the franchise is the humanoid androids that play a role in the Alien films. While the Prometheus' resident android David (Michael Fassbender) is stated to be one of thousands of identical androids and serves as the ships all-around maintenance agent and crew's assistant, subsequent androids – from Ash (Ian Holm) to Bishop (Lance Henriksen) to Call (Winona Ryder) – each take on a higher level of autonomy in the worlds they inhabit. By the time Alien: Resurrection rolls around, it becomes uncertain whether particular characters are human or android.
Still, Scott's demand for a high level of practical effects supporting the movie stands in stark contrast to many of the film's peers in the "Visual Effects" category, which has become dominated by projects that skew toward CGI over real-world sets and practical set pieces.
"You can pretty much do anything you want with digital technology, and [veteran effects supervisor] Doug Trumbull once said to me, 'If you can do it live, do it live,'" Scott said during the Prometheus presentation at San Diego Comic-Con International in 2011. "That was 29 years ago. Even though we have remarkable digital capabilities, I still say do it live."
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Whew. We are finally done with the snow and the crazy cooking of the past few weeks has slowed down. I am not cooking for my clients this week and so some of the pressure has lessened. I feel I can cook what I want, what sounds good to me, without worrying about the wow factor.
I made this pasta salad last night for our dear friends Anna and Debbie who just welcomed twins into their lives. I know that when I had both my boys, anyone who brought us food was a total hero. Not having to worry about a trip to the grocery store, let alone cooking, and still being nourished was one of the best gifts someone with a newborn can receive. We decided to eat with Anna and Debbie but I made sure to make enough so that they would have some leftovers. I also brought along a roasted tomato soup, incredible (and incredibly easy) olive bread, and these brownies. I'm telling you, brownies are a must for a nursing mother.
So, this pasta salad. It is one I have made again and again and never tire of. You allow some raw zucchini, tomato, olives, garlic, feta cheese, olive oil, and dill to marinate together in a nice big bowl. This allows the zucchini to "cook" a bit so it has a nice texture and flavor, but without that chalky rawness or that overcooked slimy-ness. You can just let this bowl sit while you bring the water to a boil and cook the pasta. I just scoop the pasta out and directly into the bowl where the veggies are marinating so I don't have to wash a colander. Plus a little starchy water from the pasta eliminates the need for too much olive oil.
I once read somewhere that pasta salads are best served room temperature. I couldn't agree more. If they are too cold, the pasta seems to get extra starchy and that is all you taste. There is a lot of wonderful savory flavor here so please don't kill it in the fridge! It can be made a day in advance, refrigerated, then brought to room temperature for an hour or so.
Penne with Greek-Style Vegetable Marinade
Adapted from Main Course Vegetarian Pleasures
Serves 6-8
1/3 cup olive oil
3 garlic cloves, minced or pressed
1 medium zucchini, halved lengthwise and very thinly sliced
2 tomatoes, seeded and finely diced
12 Kalamata olives, pitted and chopped
6 scallions, very thinly sliced
2 tbsp. finely chopped fresh dill
1 cup finely diced feta cheese
Salt and pepper
1 lb. penne or rotini
1. Combine all the ingredients except the pasta and the salt in a large bowl. Toss and let sit for at least 30 minutes, or up to 4 hours.
2. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Salt the water and add the pasta and cook until al dente, about 10 minutes. Carefully scoop the pasta out and add to the bowl with the veggies. Add salt and pepper to taste and serve warm or at room temperature.


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... Targeting Journalists; What Google Knows About You; Warrantless Cellphone Tracking Upheld
Today I offer a quartet of news stories on the NSA, widespread targeting of Journalists even by New Zealand, broad cellphone tracking, and a synopsis of what Google knows about you.
Let's kick off with the Guardian XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'.
• XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data
• NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches
• Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing historyA top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet.
XKeyscore, the documents boast, is the NSA's "widest reaching" system developing intelligence from computer networks - what the agency calls Digital Network Intelligence (DNI). One presentation claims the program covers "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet", including the content of emails, websites visited and searches, as well as their metadata.
The purpose of XKeyscore is to allow analysts to search the metadata as well as the content of emails and other internet activity, such as browser history, even when there is no known email account (a "selector" in NSA parlance) associated with the individual being targeted.
Analysts can also search by name, telephone number, IP address, keywords, the language in which the internet activity was conducted or the type of browser used.
William Binney, a former NSA mathematician, said last year that the agency had "assembled on the order of 20 trillion transactions about US citizens with other US citizens", an estimate, he said, that "only was involving phone calls and emails". A 2010 Washington Post article reported that "every day, collection systems at the [NSA] intercept and store 1.7 billion emails, phone calls and other type of communications."
Targeting of Investigative Journalists
Pater Tenebrarum on the Acting Man blog writes about the Targeting of Investigative Journalists and those opposed to the War in Afghanistan.
There are seemingly constantly new revelations about extremely questionable practices employed by the security apparatus. The latest comes from 'five eyes' partner New Zealand, which not too long ago had to admit that its spooks illegally spied on Kim Dotcom to help the FBI make an example of the man in the context of copyright enforcement (we have previously discussed the case of Dotcom, who is accused of breaking laws that apparently don't even exist).
New Zealand's reaction to this embarrassment was, as you may have guessed, to introduce new legislation that will henceforth legalize domestic spying. In the meantime, its security apparatus seems not really deterred by the embarrassment caused to it by the Dotcom case and continues to engage in highly dubious surveillance activities, actively aided and abetted by US intelligence services. The target in the latest case was an investigative journalist working for McClatchy. Here is an excerpt from an article on the matter by the CPJ, [the Committee to Protect Journalists]. We want to direct your attention especially to the final paragraph below, which is quite chilling:
"Concern over government surveillance of journalists has washed up on the faraway shores of New Zealand, with a report in the country's Sunday Star this week asserting that the military there, with help from U.S. intelligence, spied on an investigative journalist who had been critical of its activities in Afghanistan.
Compounding concerns about the New Zealand military's targeting of journalists, the Sunday Star reported that a confidential military training manual drafted in 2003 lists investigative journalists as one of the top threats to state security-up there with terrorists and hostile foreign intelligence groups. A military official in New Zealand acknowledged the existence of the manual on Monday, referring to it as "inappropriate and heavy-handed," and ordered a revision to remove any references to journalists, news reports said."
Whether or not they remove the references to journalists from their training manual, the mindset is clear - this is what they actually believe: "Investigative journalists are one of the top threats to state security-up there with terrorists and hostile foreign intelligence groups."
We have to admit that this is actually true - in a dictatorship. In allegedly free countries, investigative journalists are usually deemed to be among the people who help seeing to it that they remain free.
Search for Pressure Cooker Leads to Knock on Door From Terrorism Police
Via reference from ZeroHedge, please consider pressure cookers, backpacks and quinoa, oh my!
It was a confluence of magnificent proportions that led six agents from the joint terrorism task force to knock on my door Wednesday morning. Little did we know our seemingly innocent, if curious to a fault, Googling of certain things was creating a perfect storm of terrorism profiling. Because somewhere out there, someone was watching. Someone whose job it is to piece together the things people do on the internet raised the red flag when they saw our search history.
Most of it was innocent enough. I had researched pressure cookers. My husband was looking for a backpack. And maybe in another time those two things together would have seemed innocuous, but we are in "these times" now.
I was at work when it happened. My husband called me as soon as it was over, almost laughing about it but I wasn't joining in the laughter. His call left me shaken and anxious.
What happened was this: At about 9:00 am, my husband, who happened to be home yesterday, was sitting in the living room with our two dogs when he heard a couple of cars pull up outside. He looked out the window and saw three black SUVs in front of our house; two at the curb in front and one pulled up behind my husband's Jeep in the driveway, as if to block him from leaving.
Six gentleman in casual clothes emerged from the vehicles and spread out as they walked toward the house, two toward the backyard on one side, two on the other side, two toward the front door.
They walked around the living room, studied the books on the shelf (nope, no bomb making books, no Anarchist Cookbook), looked at all our pictures, glanced into our bedroom, pet our dogs. They asked if they could go in my son's bedroom but when my husband said my son was sleeping in there, they let it be.
They asked about me, where was I, where do I work, where do my parents live. Do you have any bombs, they asked. Do you own a pressure cooker? My husband said no, but we have a rice cooker. Can you make a bomb with that? My husband said no, my wife uses it to make quinoa. What the hell is quinoa, they asked.
Have you ever looked up how to make a pressure cooker bomb? My husband, ever the oppositional kind, asked them if they themselves weren't curious as to how a pressure cooker bomb works, if they ever looked it up. Two of them admitted they did.
45 minutes later, they shook my husband's hand and left. That's when he called me and relayed the story. That's when I felt a sense of creeping dread take over. What else had I looked up? What kind of searches did I do that alone seemed innocent enough but put together could make someone suspicious?
They mentioned that they do this about 100 times a week.
Mostly I felt a great sense of anxiety. This is where we are at. Where you have no expectation of privacy. Where trying to learn how to cook some lentils could possibly land you on a watch list. Where you have to watch every little thing you do because someone else is watching every little thing you do.
All I know is if I'm going to buy a pressure cooker in the near future, I'm not doing it online.
I'm scared. And not of the right things.
We found out through the Suffolk Police Department that the searches involved also things my husband looked up at his old job. We were not made aware of this at the time of questioning and were led to believe it was solely from searches from within our house.
Warrantless Cellphone Tracking Upheld
The New York Times reports Warrantless Cellphone Tracking Is Upheld
In a significant victory for law enforcement, a federal appeals court on Tuesday said that government authorities could extract historical location data directly from telecommunications carriers without a search warrant.
The closely watched case, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, is the first ruling that squarely addresses the constitutionality of warrantless searches of historical location data stored by cellphone service providers. Ruling 2 to 1, the court said a warrantless search was "not per se unconstitutional" because location data was "clearly a business record" and therefore not protected by the Fourth Amendment.
For now, the ruling sets an important precedent: It allows law enforcement officials in the Fifth Circuit to chronicle the whereabouts of an American with a court order that falls short of a search warrant based on probable cause.
"This decision is a big deal," said Catherine Crump, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union. "It's a big deal and a big blow to Americans' privacy rights."
Cellphone privacy measures have been proposed in the Senate and House that would require law enforcement agents to obtain search warrants before prying open location records. Montana recently became the first state to require a warrant for location data. Maine soon followed. California passed a similar measure last year but Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, vetoed it, saying it did not strike what he called the right balance between the demands of civil libertarians and the police.
What Google Knows About You
Tyler Durden at Zerohedge has an interesting post What Google Knows About You.
It's safe to assume everything you have ever searched for, every address you looked up on Google, every email you sent, every chat message, every YouTube video you watched. It's also safe to assume every entry is time-stamped, so it's clear exactly, down to the minute, when all of this was done, and where you were at when you did it.
The data can and will be used against you, in many imaginable ways, and in some ways you may not have remotely conceived, such as how searching for pressure cookers may get you an unexpected call from the terrorist police.
My friend Pater Tenebrarum commented via email "The alleged 'separation of powers' is increasingly revealed as a sham - in the end, you have the government 'controlling' and 'limiting' itself."


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by Anthony Sizemore, Student Sportswriter
In their last three games, Alice Lloyd played Hiwassee College, the University of Pikeville, and Cincinnati Christian. Here is a recap of each of those games.
Hiwassee 2
On Tuesday, September 24th, the Lady Eagles picked up win number two on the season against Hiwassee College. The set scores were 25-22, 22-25, 12-25, 25-14, and 15-5.
Katie McFarland had 8 kills while Sarrah Huber and Jessie Carter had 7. Delaney Pritchard had 14 digs.
The game was played in Madisonville, Tennessee.
UPike 3
On Wednesday, September 25th, Alice Lloyd squared off against the UPike Lady Bears on the road. The set scores in this one were:14-25, 8-25 and 12-25.
Katie McFarland had 4 digs while Delaney Pritchard had 3. McFarland also recorded 3 kills.
On Saturday, September 28th, the Lady Eagles faced a talented squad from Cincinatti Christian at home. Despite putting up a tough fight, ALC fell to CCU by the scores of 16-25, 10-25, and 11-25.
Delaney Pritchard recorded a staggering 16 kills while Katie McFarland and Merissa Bowman had 3 kills each.


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This building housed the Arms Manufacturing Company in South Deerfield, Massachusetts. It replaced an earlier building that burned in 1889. The Arms family owned two factories (the other was located in Malden, Massachusetts) and were one of the largest producers of wallets, pocketbooks, and calling card cases. Leather wallet and pocketbooks were designed for and intended for use by men. Both men and women carried calling card cases that held the small cards people often presented when they went to pay visits, or "call" on someone. Dennis Arms began the business in 1845. Finished goods traveled by ox-cart and by boat from his workshop to Hartford, and from there to Boston and New York City. The business continued to expand under several generations of Arms owners until the factory closed in the early 20th century.
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Let us give thanks
George Washington's proclamation still rings true in 2023
Sometimes in America, it seems as if we actually enjoy advertising our trials and difficulties. And, yes, we have had plenty of them this year.
There were really trying times in the early days of our nation also. That is why America's first formal Thanksgiving observance had far more significance to our people than today's often perfunctory observance.
With all our troubles, we Americans are among the very few people in the world who feel it necessary to officially observe a day of thanksgiving.
The words of George Washington, our first president, recognized that need. His Oct. 3, 1789, proclamation established a day of public prayer and thanksgiving.
That historic document recognized that despite our young country's everyday trials and tribulations, the nation had received many blessings. The most important of these was the opportunity afforded the far-seeing people of Washington's day to establish this country as a self-governing republic in which every citizen is guaranteed the right to pursue life, liberty and happiness.
It was thankfulness for that freedom that prompted these words of Washington in 1789, words that retain great meaning for us in 2023:
"Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and humbly to implore his protection and favor; and,
"Whereas, both Houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public Thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness;
"Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be, that we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks for his kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation.
"For the signal and manifold mercies and favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and confusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
"And also that we may then be united in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the Great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us all whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually, to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a government of wise, just and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed, to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us) and to bless them with good government, peace and concord.
"To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us, and generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as life alone knows to be best.
"Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the Year of Our Lord 1789.
"G. Washington."
It could have been written for this year. Thanks expressed for our "tranquility, union and plenty," for "the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed" and for all the "great and various" favors that have been afforded us is as appropriate today as then.
And so, let us give thanks.


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OK, in my quest to blog more often, I realized I have the perfect thing to blog about today… stuff I did that I haven't yet told you about. :) :)
At TechEd US, Paul and I were on a panel created to debunk some of the more common questions/concerns when setting up High Availability. It's an interesting panel and I think there are some particularly interesting moments based on the strange turns the discussions take… but, overall, it's expecially good for people seeking a 100-200 level overview of HA (Clustering, Database Mirroring, Replication, Log Shipping) with a few other related topics (Database Snapshots and Backup/Restore). Here's the direct link to the recording: http://mfile.akamai.com/14853/wmv/microsofttec.download.akamai.com/14853/TechEdOnline/Videos/08_NA_ITP_TEOPanel_57_low.asx. And, here's a general link to everything TechNet so that you can check out TechNet Radio, TechTalks, etc. there's some really great stuff out there: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx. Have fun!
Also at TechEd US, I hung out for a bit in the bloggers lounge…when it was just about to end, it turned out there was a "Women in Tech" panel starting – in which I was then asked to join in. I have to admit that I'm sometimes reluctant to get involved in these because my general (and this is *very* general) opinion is that it doesn't matter if you're a woman or a man (wait – wait – let me explain!!). What I mean by this is that the key to ANY job is that you have to enjoy it. You need to find something in it that's exciting. If you can do that – then you'll be good at your job… plain and simple. If you don't like it (regardless of whether you're a man or a woman) then it's never going to be satisfying and/or you're never going to get ahead. Having said all of this, I do have to admit that I find it especially exciting when I do find other women that can geek out and really enjoy doing this whole IT thing (like MLB, Kate Gregory, Stacia Misner, Julia Lerman, Kalen Delaney, Eileen Brown). So, I don't really intend on actively trying to get more women into technology but the fun part about this panel was the fact that a lot of us talked about how children these days are already way more into IT – without realizing it (our girls asked what film was recently because we were scanning a lot of negatives… and, can you imagine any of our lives without cell phones??). And, my hope, is that if people find ways of getting more into IT (and computers/digital stuff – in general) at an earlier and earlier age… then maybe more kids (girls as well) will find a passion in IT. Here's a link to the panel from TechEd: http://mfile.akamai.com/14853/wmv/microsofttec.download.akamai.com/14853/TechEdOnline/Videos/08_NA_ITP_TEOPanel_67_low.asx.
And, here are a few resources regarding Women In Technology:
- WITI – Women In Technology International: http://www.witi.com/
- Women in Technology Organization: http://www.womenintechnology.org/
- Womin in Technology (a government funded project): http://www.womenintech.com/
- Girl Geek Bloggers: http://www.geekgirlblogs.com/Home.aspx (which has a lot of links to other orgs – including the City-based "Girl Geek Dinners" like London Girl Geek Dinners, etc.)
And, I think that's it for now…
Thanks for reading,


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Premier League: Kevin De Bruyne Eyes Golden Era For Champions Manchester City
Kevine De Bruyne has been one of the standout players in Manchester City's record-breaking campaign, but he knows Pep Guardiola was the mastermind behind their triumph.
- Agence France-Presse
- Updated: April 17, 2018 09:03 AM IST
- Kevin De Bruyne eyes more glory with Manchester City
- De Bruyne called Guardiola as one of the best coaches in the world
- Manchester City were confirmed as English champions on Sunday
Kevin De Bruyne says Manchester City are ready to reign supreme in the Premier League for years to come under the astute leadership of Pep Guardiola. City were confirmed as English champions on Sunday with a record-equalling five games to spare after Manchester United crashed to a shock 0-1 defeat against struggling West Bromwich Albion. Belgium midfielder De Bruyne has been one of the standout players in Manchester City's record-breaking campaign, but he knows Guardiola was the mastermind behind their triumph.
City's top priority in the close-season will be securing the services of former Bayern Munich and Barcelona chief Guardiola, who also led his team to League Cup glory in February, for longer than the one year remaining on his contract.
"Everyone knows he's one of the best coaches in the world. To achieve what he has achieved in the game is special and to be part of a group of players led by him can only help us to keep developing," De Bruyne said.
"He came in two years ago and changed the way we play. That obviously takes time to adapt to but we've developed together and this season is a reward for all that work.
"What we want to do now is continue playing the way we have this season and become even stronger. He's a big part of that and hopefully these can be his first trophies of many here at City."
Backed by City's Abu Dhabi-based owners, Guardiola has spent big money to bolster his squad and more reinforcements are likely to arrive before next season.
But De Bruyne believes the current City squad is already well placed to build on this season's achievements.
"It's no coincidence that the type of players brought in over the last year or two have all been of a similar age and we will look to build as a group together. The feeling amongst the squad is great," he said.
"We have enjoyed the season a lot but there is work to do if we want to achieve more in future. That can be the trickiest thing in football, to not only win but keep winning. Having such a young squad will hopefully help us to achieve that."
City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan also believes the foundations are in place for sustained success.
The Germany international, who had been back in his homeland watching former club Borussia Dortmund play Schalke when he learned he was a Premier League winner, said: "Although some of our players have won it before, it's our first title as a group of players under the new manager.
"We have developed together and there is a lot of potential. What we all have to do now is to work hard and believe in our ability to keep succeeding."


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Pillsbury Dough Boy
The Pillsbury Doughboy (© 1965.5 of Pillsbury, all rights reserved-September 26th, 2007) or "Poppin' Fresh" as he was originally known, was created in 1965, thus becoming the only thing of any interest to happen in 1965nd speaking to him. After seeing this, Perz was struck with the idea of what would eventually become The Pillsbury Doughboy, a walking, talking mass of uncooked dough. Being as Perz had no human contact other than his own wrinkled mother, he decided to model Fresh in his own likeness, giving him dialated pupils, albino skin, and his ever-present baker's hat and scarf.
Birth Of A Monster[edit]
One very drunken, S. After 6 and a half hours of extreme masturbating (which was not limited to Al's neck in Elmo's redwoods), the three cuddly monsters merged into one, Voltron-esque creature. The beast was 40 stories tall if it was a foot. It looked down to Stay Puft Tickle Me Roker shrunk down to 11 inches. His new height didn't bother him as much as the fact that his head was very very cold. He found a passed out whino in a gutter who just so happened to be Chef Boyardee. The 11 inch monster beat Boyardee to a bloody pulp, cruelly ignoring his inhuman screams of "Bork Bork Bork!" When he was good and dead, the tiny freak of nature stole Chef Boyardee's frumpy/gay chef hat and placed it on his own head. "Now," he said to himself, "It's time to get my dance on!" He then proceeded to the local discotech and danced California Hustle circles around playas, playa haters, and John Travolta.
Contrary to popular belief the Dough Boy is not a dildo in fact gods chosen bringer ave said he would halt the end of the world if "you all
Pillsbury Dough Boy is a wee bit over-obsessed with baking. In 1956, he served his first dish, a croissant roll, to Swedish astronaut, Vladimir Putin. At first, Putin was confused, a little taken aback, and even deathly afraid of the strange, oval, golden bread roll that seemed to intertwine with itself an infinite number of times. But after just one nibble, the two-time space cowboy kicked up his heels shouting "Zowie! That's a spicy a meatball!" Putin then could not resist the uncontrollable urge to poke Pillsbury Dough Boy lightly in the belly. When he did so, PDB emitted a noxious gas from his backside. Not the least bit embarrased, he giggled like the pansy boy that he was, and spoke what would one day be, his coup de grâce: "Hee hee!"
Early Life and Escape[edit]
Perz was not only dependent on his creation, but very protective as well. Not only did he expect Fresh to spend his more intimate times with Per, but he also demanded a certain amount of ass-fuckery from the dough. Fresh was to laugh at everything Perz ever said, constantly smile, and maintain an incredibly shrill voice throughout (a task which became ever more difficult as Fresh hit puberty). The constant laughing and smiling took its toll on Fresh, and Perz would often have to prod the doughman's belly to remind him of his duties. The effects of this treatment can still be seen today, as even the slightest contact with Fresh's frontside will provoke a fearful giggle. For many months Perz and Fresh lived together in a cabin in the outskirts of West Virginia. However, the lack of contact from the outside world, and the constant sexual abuse from Perz made it hard for Fresh to stay stable. It was soon apparent that Fresh was unable to handle the emotional responsibility of Perz's dependency, and the .
Fresh's depression continued to grow, and by March of 1966 it his sadness began to turn into rage. He reached his final straw on March 16. That morning, instead of waking Perz with orange juice and gin as he normally would, he grabbed his shotgun and charged into Perz's room screaming what were probably meant to be obscenities, but were slurred and inaudible and aimed the gun at Perz. After several attempts to shoot the man he hated, Fresh gave up and decided to just club him to death with a nearby phone.
Hollywood and Rise to Fame[edit]
After a year of isolation, meditation, and rehabilitation, Fresh was finally ready to "get out there and do something with his life." His drug and alcohol addiction being almost completely cleared up, it was, in his opinion, time to go to Hollywood and try his hand at fame. Met with high high living expenses, and an ever-growing self-consciousness, Fresh survived like most others, emorable incident involved Fresh, the Trix Rabbit and several bottles of KY. Trix never forgot this random act of kindness, and it was he who got Fresh his first audition.
His doughy appearance and heart-felt laugh earned Fresh the part of "lovable bakin' buddy." Fresh's first commercials were shot in June and released later that same year. Not only were television audiences were immediately taken by Fresh's youthful looks and inherent charm, but other aspects of the commercial became instantly recognizable as well. The slogan "My heart to yours" was an instant hit, earning instant "catch-phrase" status, and eventually a role in Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential bid. The Pillsbury Dough boy (as he was now known) became a household figure, and was soon granted celebrity status, walking the red carpet and showing up at several movie premiers. Fresh was now living the life he'd always wanted, but high stress levels would soon bring back his earlier addictions.
Marriage, Family Life, and Eventual Downfall[edit]
In the early 1970's the Fresh met Poppie, and a classic Hollywood love story was born. With Poppy's persuasion, Fresh eventually overcame his addictions for a second time, and the couple decided it was time to wed. So, in 1972 Poppie and Fresh were exchanged vows inside Weingart Stadium in front of 20,000 people. Several months later Poppy would give birth to their first son, Popper. Another three years passed and the couple's second child, Bun Bun, was born. To amuse the children while the couple were in the sack, the acquired two pets, a dog, Flapjack; and a cat, Doughface. The family was now complete, and Fresh's career was taking off, Poppy even appeared in a few commercials to promote the couple's "Family Togetherness", all was going well, for now at least.
In 1977, Fresh's alcohol problem resurfaced. Both his family and the public tried to ignore his problems, trying to avoid running such a perfect life. However, by the time 1980 rolled around, Fresh was no longer the lovable drunk who would give you a twenty and a hug for walking past him, he was now the raging alcoholic that he had already been once before. Soon, Fresh began to lash out at his family, during one rampage he reportedly shoved Popper into the oven, baking him - and leaving the kitchen smelling of fresh treats. When asked what caused this sudden streak of aggression, Fresh replied, "..was getting on my nerves, and It think he was trying to steal my wife". When informed that Popper was his son, he denied it commenting "Innocent until proven incest by attorney at law... SVU."
In 1982 Poppie, who was fed-up with Fresh's constant abuse toward herself and her remaining child, filed for divorce. Fresh was devastated, but apparently forgot about the incident until it came time for Poppy to leave the house, this only made the situation worse. Neighbors reported several gunshots, and it is believed that Fresh held a gun up to the family's cat and forced it to shoot the dog.
Upon hearing about Fresh's divorce the Pillsbury company terminated Fresh's contract, stating that Fresh no longer held the proper public image needed for continued commercial success. Upon hearing the news, Fresh drove into the Pillsbury building, yelling at the top of his voice "Nobody fucks with Fresh, nobody...". While stuck in his car, situated between a desk and a water cooler, it is reported that Fresh made several death threats to employees, and a handful of attempts to throw peanuts at them. Fresh was escorted from the building and has not been seen there since.
Later that year, Fresh met a sailor named Captain Crunch. The relationship escalated, and soon they found themselves in the middle of a homosexual love affair.
Finding Himself, and Iowa[edit]
Fresh, being completely out of work, had a lot of free time on his hands. He spent most of his nights out with Trix, and his days sleeping off a full night of drinking and partying. Fresh became increasingly reliant on Trix, not only financially, but mentally as well. It wasn't long before the couples relationship began to deteriorate. In May of 1985 Fresh attempted to bake himself a new family, using Trix and several hookers as dough, and screaming "Bake! Ya bitches, bake!!" Fortunately, they only received minor burns, and abrasions - nothing that a couple quickies wouldn't fix. Nevertheless, Trix decided that Fresh had become dangerous, and kicked him out of the duo's apartment.
Fresh spent the next decade of his life "finding himself." In reality, Fresh was now a bum, living in boxes that were produced by the company that once employed him. He was forced to awake each morning staring at the company's new spokesperson, "Michelin Tire... thing." Ironically, the new spokesman's cheery face, and white skin color, convinced Fresh that he needed to get away from the city, and the life he once lived. He spent the next six years traveling to the most desolate, lonely, corn-covered place he could imagine: Iowa.
Upon reaching Iowa, he was approached by a hate group targeted toward former company spokespeople who were now bums coming to live in Iowa. The group's members spent an entire afternoon terrorizes and abusing the lifeless doughy figure, painting, burning, trampling, and even forcing Pepsi down Fresh's throat. Fortunately for Fresh, a member of the group took pity on him and convinced the others to let him off with a warning.
Fresh resided in rural Noweresville, Iowa, in a large, brick ranch home and went by the name of Mr. Pillsbury. Sometimes, on quiet nights you could see him poking himself and laughing, possibly as a form of sexual arousal, or maybe he's was reliving memories of his old days of glory.
Affilliations with the Irish Mob[edit]
A power struggle between two factions for control of the Irish Mob lasted from 1966 until 1977. The Dough Boy's position as boss of Hell's Kitchen was challenged by James Coonan, an up and coming gangster. There was a long history between the Dough boy and Coonan involving an affair between the Dough boy's and Coonan's mother. It is said that Coonan started the war by shooting up an apartment with the Dough boy in it. Coonan then started kidnapping the Dough Boy's associates, having sex with them all, holding them for ransom and executing the fat ones.
As a result, Coonan made and operated a Pills-city Doughboy to hunt down the Pillsbury Dough boy. Made out of a complete copper and almuminum oxide, it fired atomic explosive sodium pellets at the dough boy, purposly missing and hitting pools of water and exploding on contact. Somehow, the Dough boy escaped.
In the 1970s, with Dough Boy's organization already weakened by years of warfare with Coonan, a war started to brew between him and the Genovese crime family over control of a gay sex site in Hell's Kitchen. The Genovese family moved quickly, murdering Dough Boy's top three lieutenants in 1976. This prompted Coonan to attempt a complete takeover of the his organization by forming an alliance with Roy DeMeo of the Gambino crime family. The Genovese family decided that the mob was too violent and well led to go to war with and thus mediated a truce via the Gambinos. The mob was left in control of Hell's Kitchen (paying 10% of their profits as potatoes to the Gambinos), and the Genovese family were left in control of the construction site they wanted, paying part of the profits to the mob. Later on, the dough boy disapeared along with the Irish Mob, and rumors have aroused.
Links to Al Qaeda[edit]
The Pillsbury Dough Boy and al-Qaeda were alleged by some U.S. Government officials to have established a highly secretive relationship between 1992 and 2003, specifically through a series of meetings reportedly involving the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS).[1] In the lead up to the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush alleged that Iraqi President Poppin Fresh and militant group al-Qaeda might conspire to launch terrorist attacks on the United States,[2] basing the administration's rationale for war, in part, on this allegation and others. The consensus of intelligence experts has been that these contacts never led to an operational relationship, and that consensus is backed up by reports from the independent 9/11 Commission, declassified Defense Department reports[3] as well as by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, whose 2006 report of Phase II of its investigation into prewar intelligence reports concluded that there was no evidence of ties between the Dough Boy and al-Qaeda.[4] Critics of the Bush Administration have said Bush was intentionally building a case for war with Iraq without regard to factual evidence. On April 29, 2007, former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet said on 60 Minutes, "We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al-Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America, period."[5]
The Dough Boy continued to loom large in American consciousness[dubious – discuss] as a major threat to Western allies such as Saudi Arabia and Israel, to Western oil supplies from the Gulf states, and to Middle East stability generally.[citation needed] Bush's successor, U.S. President Bill Clinton (1993-2001), maintained sanctions and made occasional air strikes in the "Iraqi no-fly zones" or other restrictions, in the hope that Saddam would be overthrown by his many political enemies.
The domestic political equation changed in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks, which bolstered the influence of the neoconservative faction in the presidential administration and throughout Washington. In his January 2002 state-of-the-union message to Congress, George W. Bush (the son of George H.W. Bush) spoke of an "axis of evil" comprising Iran, North Korea, and Iraq. Moreover, Bush announced that he would possibly take action to topple the Iraqi government, because of the 'threat' of its "weapons of mass destruction." Bush claimed, "The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade." "Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror," said Bush.[41][42]
As the war was looming on February 24, 2003, the Dough Boy talked with CBS News reporter Dan Rather for more than three hours—his first interview with a U.S. reporter in over a decade.[43] CBS aired the taped interview later that week.
The Iraqi government and military collapsed within three weeks of the beginning of the U.S.-led 2003 invasion of Iraq on March 20. The United States made at least two attempts to kill the Dough Boy with targeted air strikes, but both narrowly failed to hit their target. By the beginning of April, U.S.-led forces occupied much of Iraq. The resistance of the much-weakened Iraqi Army either crumbled or shifted to guerrilla tactics, and it appeared that the Dough Boy had lost control of Iraq. He was last seen in a video which purported to show him in the Baghdad suburbs surrounded by supporters. When Baghdad fell to U.S-led forces on April 9, the Dough Boy was nowhere to be found.
n April 2003, the Dough Boy's whereabouts remained in question during the weeks following the fall of Baghdad and the conclusion of the major fighting of the war. Various sightings of the Dough Boy were reported in the weeks following the war but none was authenticated. At various times the Dough Boy released audio tapes promoting popular resistance to the U.S.-led occupation.
The Dough Boy was placed at the top of the U.S. list of "most-wanted Iraqis." In July 2003, his sons Uday and Qusay and 14-year-old grandson Mustapha were killed in a three-hour [13] gunfight with U.S. forces.
On December 14, 2003, U.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer announced that the Dough Boy had been captured at a farmhouse in ad-Dawr near Tikrit. [14] Bremer presented video footage of the Dough Boy in custody.
The Dough Boy was shown with a full beard and hair longer than his familiar appearance. He was described by U.S. officials as being in good health. Bremer reported plans to put the Dough Boy on trial, but claimed that the details of such a trial had not yet been determined. Iraqis and Americans who spoke with the Dough Boy after his capture generally reported that he remained self-assured, describing himself as a 'firm but just leader.'
According to U.S. military sources, following his capture by U.S. forces on December 13, the Dough Boy was trasported to a U.S. base near Tikrit, and later taken to the U.S. base near Baghdad. The day after his capture he was reportedly visited by longtime opponents such as Ahmed Chalabi. It is believed he remained there in high security during most of the time of his detention. Details of his interrogations remain unclear.
After he was found to be associated with Al-Qaida, Fresh was placed on $999,999,999,999,999,999,999 bond, and returned to his peaceful life in Hollywood CA. The Trix Rabbit, his then-lover, called him up repeated times, and got no answer. He then drove to Fresh's home at appoximatly 9:30 AM the next day. He knocked on the door. After 15 minutes, he decided to peer in the garage, to make sure he was home, and his red BMW760Li was still in the garage. Rabbit went to the back door and discovered it was unlocked. He let himself into the mansion, and discovered Fresh's body and started giving him CPR. He called 911 and paramedics came and The Doughboy died from Parkinsons, Colon Cancer, a yeast infection, complications from repeated pokes in the belly, and a heart attack at The Scrappy Doo Medical Center Of Hollywood at age 42, 3 days later. Doughboy was buried 2 days later in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects at The Hollywood Bowl, including The Doughboy's family, The Rabbit and his family, Mrs. Butterworth, Mr. Hungry Jack and Mrs. Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, Snap-Crackle and Pop, Cap'n Crunch and Jean Lafoote, Disco Jesus, Captain Jesus, Scrappy Doo, Aunt Jemima, Skippy, Tony the Tiger, Peter Pan, Tigger, Piglet, Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin, Rabbit, Owl, Black Jesus, and many others. The grave site was piled high with Pillsbury's flours, and Cheez Jesus. Long-time friend, Aunt Jemima, delivered the service, describing Doughboy as a man who knew how much he was kneaded.
Memorable Moments[edit]
Acting as honorary Peace Marshal for the New World Order, Popin Fresh calls off all functions of the Republican Convention in St. Paul. This canceling of the convention was to due to successful protests outside which delayed vip arrivals. Popin felt pressured toe to toe the party line that it was out of concern for hurricane Gustav, but "it was the protests", Mr. Fresh admitted.


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"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
When he said those words at the 2005 Stanford commencement ceremony, Steve Jobs thought he had been cured. "I'm fine now," he said. Describing his diagnosis and surgery the year before, and his great good fortune that his was the rare form of pancreatic cancer that didn't leave you with only months to live, he said he hoped "it's the closest I get for a few more decades."
He was wrong about that. But he was right about the rest.
On the radio on the way home, all the commentators were talking about Steve Jobs' legacy — from icons to iPads, from Macs to iPhones. It is a long list. Genius, they said over and over. Visionary. All true.
I don't have an iPhone. I don't use a Mac. Until recently, I stuck with my Kindle. Even now, my iPad sits mostly by my bed.
For me, at least, it's not about the products.
Life isn't fair. Fifty-six is too young. Leaving a wife and four young children to grow up on their own is all wrong. When my father died at 53, I felt horribly cheated. I would look around at men decades older than him, men who lacked my father's character and compassion, men who were smug and selfish and all the things he wasn't, and I would feel angry — yes, angry — that they were walking down the street and my father was buried in a cemetery plot. What kind of God does that? I spent years feeling cheated. It did not bring my father back.
When my friend Kath got sick last year with a rare form of cancer, she was amazed. She didn't expect it. Don't you worry every day about being diagnosed with some terrible disease, another friend asked her. She didn't. By that point, she had lost her father, her mother and her sister. "I'm not afraid of dying," she told me one night as I sat with her in the hospital. "I'm afraid of not being able to really live." She died a few weeks later.
We all struggle to find the balance between life and death.
My mother lived to be 80, but for most of her life, battered by depression, the glass was always half-empty. None of the things she worried most about happened until she reached the end of a long life. What did happen was that her constant worry robbed her of so many of the joys she might have found in life.
Knowing that we all face death and that it is unpredictable, unknowable and, yes, so often unfair can rob life of meaning — or make each day more meaningful. In the end, like so many things, what we can control is not the ending, but how we get there; not how we die, but how we live.
Steve Jobs' legacy, for me at least, is all about courage and perseverance, about dignity and determination, about the joyous pursuit of passion. It is about facing death and choosing life.
I inherited my mother's genes. Some mornings I wake up overcome by anxiety and fear. And then I get out of bed. I am fine with pain. It is fear that can paralyze me — if I let it. No one's glass is really full: whether it is half-full or half-empty depends on how you see it.
"Death," Jobs told Stanford's graduates, "is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."
May he rest in peace.


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Even in a cooler Aussie summer, such as we have been having, amid the floods and cyclones there are bushfires. Despite all our recent rain, we have had plenty of days when the washing dries quickly on the line, there is little call for jumpers and cardigans, and it is warm enough to eat outside in the evening.
On the day that I made this samosa pie, it was cool enough to bake the pie in the oven but warm enough that Sylvia didn't want to come inside. So E took her highchair outside while I prepared dinner inside. She insisted her baby doll sit in the highchair and she climb onto an outdoor chair. Most of her plate of food was ignored. She was more interested in coaxing Zinc to drink from one of her toy frypans. Sometimes (often!) there are more interesting things than a full belly.
This was an easy pie to make. No rubbing butter in, no chilling pastry and no blind baking. It is like a pot pie, with just a layer of pastry covering the filling. My main problem with the pastry was that my dear little green rolling pin snapped while I was rolling out. It was just the right size and I will miss it.
In keeping with the weather, this is a lighter dish. We both loved it. It has enough stodge and spice for E - potato, pastry, curry - and enough protein and vegies for me. E gave it 10 out of 10. He wanted more but I wanted it to last us two nights. Even so I found him just neatening up the leftover piece of pie. I found it quite spicy and served it with yoghurt. But it was very good and I have promised E that I will make it again soon.
Previously on Green Gourmet Giraffe:
This time last year: NCR Bann's Parsnip Soup with Walnut Ravioli
This time two years ago: Jam-Making Reflections by a Novice
This time three years ago: Potato Scones for Brunch
Samosa Pie
adapted from Vegetarian Times
Serves 4
- 1/2 cup plain white flour
- 1/2 cup plain wholemeal flour
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 2 Tbs. vegetable oil
- 3 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
- 1/2 cauliflower, roughly chopped
- 1 1/2 medium carrots, diced
- 1 Tbsp black mustard seeds
- 1 tsp curry powder
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- 1/8 tsp. ground chillis, optional
- 1 1/2 tsp vegetable oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 large cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1 tsp grated fresh ginger
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1 cup cooked brown lentils (mine were from a tin)
- 1 cup vegetable stock
- 2 tsp agave syrup
- 1 Tbsp milk
Cook potatoes in salted water for about 15-20 minutes until just soft. Add carrots and cauliflower to the mixture in the last 5-10 minutes of cooking.
While vegetables are cooking, mix dry spices in a small bowl. Fry onion in oil (I did this in the same large saucepan as I had cooked the potatoes) until starting to brown and add garlic and ginger and stir for about a minute. Push onion mixture to the side and add dry spices. Cook for about 30 minutes and then add peas, lentils, agave syrup and stock. Stir for a minutes or so and add cooked potatoes, carrots and cauliflower.
Tip vegetable mixture into a 22 cm or 9 inch pie dish - no need to grease it.
Roll out the pastry into a large circle to fit on your pie dish. Arrange pastry over pie filling, making sure there are no air bubbles. Crimping the pastry at the edges is optional. I was too distracted. Brush with a little milk and use a sharp knife to make a cross in the middle to allow air to escape.
Bake pie at 190 C for about 40-50 minutes. Mine took 40 minutes but I am a little unsure what temperature I had my oven at. When pastry is golden brown remove pie from oven and sit for 5-10 minutes before serving.
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Amanda Palmer performs the hits of Radiohead on her Magic Ukelele - Amanda Palmer


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The robodoctor will see you now
Robots in the form of linen-carrying droids and prosthetics are starting to slowly open the path for robotics in health care. Can in-home robots help care for elderly people, too?
Baby boomers -- and their children caretakers -- may need to warm up to robots as they get older.
In the years ahead, robots could operate in homes to care for elderly people, helping with tasks such as dispensing meds or running virtual doctor's visits. Already, other forms of robots, such as droid-like machines in hospitals or prosthetics, are starting to make a mark in health care.
Many robotics companies are gravitating toward health care which they see as a potential high-volume consumer market for robots. The primary hurdle is finding solid business plans for getting robots in the door, say experts.
"Extending independent living at home (for the elderly) will ultimately turn out to be the killer app for robots," said Colin Angle, the CEO of iRobot, at an event organized by the MIT Enterprise Forum this week. "The challenge is that robotics is so exciting, you have massive companies investing millions of dollars building cool as opposed to building value."
iRobot is best known for its Roomba vacuum cleaner and makes the bulk of its money from defense agencies with an array of robots used to neutralize bombs.
It's one of many companies betting that health care is an industry ready for robots. iRobot invested $6 million in inTouch Health, which makes a mobile robot used for telemedicine, and its latest robot, Ava, is targeted at health care professionals.
Both inTouch Health's PR6 robot and Ava stand vertically and move around on wheels. On top of each of the pedestal-shaped machines is a screen that allows for videoconferencing or a touch-screen interface for operating the machine.
A network of hospitals in Michigan operates as a hub and spoke where the PR6 robots at local hospitals allow a stroke specialist in a central location to navigate a hospital and start a videoconference to diagnose the type of stroke a person may have. It's also been tested to allow doctors to do the rounds at a hospital from a remote location.
This type of robot enables other telemedicine applications, such as translating for patients in a remote location. Equipped with an array of sensors, Ava can also create a map of a hospital and autonomously navigate busy hospital hallways to fetch and deliver goods.
"What we're seeing today is the beginnings of robots in telemedicine that are not experiments, but venture capital businesses, which is what you need to make it viable and scalable," Angle said.
In-home care is a pressing social problem and when it comes to helping an aging person at home, the list of items a robot could do is long, he notes. It could include cleaning the house, stocking the kitchen with food, paying bills, medical reminders, and monitoring people to reduce the risk of falling.
Delivery droids
The technology to deploy robots to fetch medicines for nurses, aid in surgery, or do telediagnosis is already available or in use. But the cost of these machines is far too high for mass adoption. Another concern is liability: worries that a robotic wheelchair, for example, might cause someone to fall down the stairs has kept that technology from progressing outside research work, said Holly Yanco, professor and the associate chair of computing at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.
Now, advances in technology and smarter entrepreneurs are leading to robotic systems which will be less expensive than the few products now on the market, said Steve Kelly, the president of Myomo, which makes a robotic brace to help stroke victims regain motion in their arms.
For one thing, engineers have many more tools at their disposal. Sensors, including the sensor on Microsoft's Kinect game controller, are getting cheaper and other basic communications technologies from the mobile world, such as voice recognition and videoconferencing, open up more possibilities.
"There's a whole wave of new products coming out in the next few years that changes the cost curve from very expensive equipment where you maybe have one in a hospital to where you might have five community hospitals," Kelly said.
New business models make a difference, too. Children's Hospital, in the largest pilot program of its kind in the U.S., has purchased five wheeled Vgo robots to monitor children after treatment, a model where individuals essentially rent an in-home robot. The remotely controlled device allows doctors to do video consultations, saving parents from bringing children back in for every checkup.
Pittsburgh-based Aethon leased 20 droid-like robots to a hospitals in California to carry hospital gear around, a model which avoids the full upfront cost. The hospital purchased the machines when it moved to a larger hospital which would have required hiring staff just to move equipment around, according to a Wall Street Journal article (subscription required).
It's still not clear which applications will allow robotics to get a deeper foothold in the industry. Other big unknowns are the time to get FDA approval, which will be reimbursed by insurance companies, and privacy issues. But the ones that do get adopted may not end up being called "robots," much the way an MRI imaging machine isn't called a computer, said Kelly.
"This is something that runs along a 20-year adoption curve not unlike a computer," he said. "Some will be outright robots but others will be embedded like they are in prosthetics."


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