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JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon told investors on a conference call after the release of its third quarter earnings that the bank should be able to buy back "a substantial amount of stock" and still meet Basel III capital requirements in 2013. Shares continued to slump during the call despite JPM's earnings beat, and the stock was recently down about 1%.
Dimon also sees more improvement in the housing market — he expects that the $500 million or so that the bank now spends each quarter on excess mortgage servicing costs will eventually disappear completely. That said, servicing costs for things like foreclosures rose 23% year-over-year to $1.1 billion, and the bank expects them to "remain elevated."
And he expects the bank's tight residential loan standards — "verification standards are extreme" — to loosen in coming quarters, as regulations get finalized. Standards won't likely change, however, in credit card, student and auto loans.
JPM also said that the auto loan market is showing more strength, with loan originations rising 9% from the second quarter.
As for the fiscal cliff, Dimon said commercial banking won't likely see many changes if the government fails to come to a deal, but investment banking could be affected — he said he could make a case for why the cliff might actually stimulate investment banking activity. The bank is preparing to deal with the cliff, but more to gauge the impact "for our clients" than for the bank itself.
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The Organization of Life
DNMT3 is an enzyme which modifies DNA in order to regulate gene expression and activity.
Biological systems as information networks
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Rethinking Biology
All fields of science are constantly advancing and changing. This state is inherent to the scientific endeavor, but sometimes it leads scientists into uncomfortable places. Places where common sense doesn't quite seem enough, and you experience a constant nagging itch that you can't quite find. People can point to the study of physics in the early 20th century as an example. Newtonian physics were great; they were practical; they made sense, and then along came a guy named Einstein with his relativity and folks like Niels Bohr and his quantum mechanics. Suddenly, there were a lot of itchy, albeit excited, physicists. Sir Paul Nurse, head of the United Kingdom's Royal Society, thinks the time has come for biologists to get itchy. Find out more in his own words.
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- What does Sir Paul Nurse mean when he says that biology is a system which is managing information? What phenomena does he hope to address through this approach to biology?
- What three things did Francis Crick say you need to follow to understand biology? Does this pathway make sense to you? Why or why not? For what is Francis Crick well known?
- How are negative feedback loops different than positive feedback loops? Do you think one is more important than the other in biology? Why or why not?
- What point is Sir Nurse seeking to make when he compares airplane routes to cell communication networks? How can this idea inform future research?


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Accomplished athlete, coach and athletic administrator Kathy DeBoer will speak on "Gender and Competition: How Men and Women Approach Work and Play Differently" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, in 302 Frist Campus Center.
The author of a 2003 book by the same title, DeBoer coached volleyball and served as senior associate athletic director at the University of Kentucky . She also has written multiple articles and book chapters on competition, gender, coaching, intercollegiate athletics and sports medicine.
DeBoer played basketball at Michigan State University in the 1970s and competed professionally for two years in the Women's Basketball League, one of the first professional leagues for women in the United States . She was part of the coaching staff for the 1996 Olympics and has assisted with several other world sports events. She currently is the commissioner of general services for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County government in Kentucky.
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A century ago in London, stage magicians are afforded celebrity status. Good ones can reach the heights of modern-day pop stars. Robert Angier and Alfred Borden are just getting their start in the business, working with a magic "engineer" named Cutter in the service of a mediocre older magician. When a dangerous trick goes wrong onstage, resulting in the death of Angier's wife, it begins a deep and bitter feud between the two men that will last the length of their careers.
Angier is the superior showman, and he more easily becomes a heralded magician and box-office draw. Borden, often impoverished with his wife and young daughter, is a little wooden onstage, but he's far better at designing jaw-dropping illusions. As their acts of revenge against each other grow more malicious, Angier becomes obsessed with one of Borden's illusions, calling it the "greatest magic trick I have ever seen."
Intent on stealing both the secret and effective performance of the trick, Angier travels to America to track down the reclusive Nikola Tesla in Colorado Springs. He's convinced that Tesla helped design Borden's great trick through his experiments in the developing field of electricity. He offers to pay Tesla any amount of money to build the same apparatus for him.
Back in London, Angier's beautiful assistant Olivia has become a pawn to both men and the mistress of one. Each seeks to use her to get at the other and uncover his secrets. And when Angier unveils a mysterious new illusion (or is it?) he acquired in America, it becomes clear that each man will do absolutely anything to finally defeat the other.
Positive Elements
In a dark film where things are rarely what they seem, you must traverse the entire story before identifying what positive elements may exist. At the very least, The Prestige shows the destructive power of revenge, obsession and self-ambition. Those who can't let go of a need to win, a need to "know," a need to execute their own view of justice suffer ever-escalating consequences for their refusal to forgive and accept.
Spiritual Content
From stage, magicians make vague claims about supernatural power as part of their acts. And one never-explained "trick" with unfathomable implications to the human soul is implausibly attributed to "science." Offstage, a few characters briefly consider whether Angier or Borden may be exercising "real" magic and the audience is left to wonder the same. By and large, though, the focus is on the spiritual emptiness of these two competing illusionists, not their access to spiritual forces beyond this realm.
Sexual Content
Angier is shown shirtless in bed with his wife, as the couple begin kissing. For a while, Borden lives with a woman outside of wedlock. One of the magicians is seen making out with Olivia, who wears cleavage-revealing period outfits both onstage and in the bedroom. A nude painting is briefly seen.
Violent Content
Although the amount of actual blood shown is limited, the body count piles up, sometimes in extraordinarily mysterious ways. Several central characters are killed, some maliciously. Two are drowned, two are hanged (one is a suicide) and two are shot at close range in full view of the camera. Another is buried alive. The rivalry between the magicians leads to falls through trap doors and the intentional sabotage of tricks involving guns and mechanical apparatuses. The results are damaged legs, bloodied (and lost) fingers and a dead bird or two. Several corpses are shown, including one laid out in a morgue (still intact).
Interestingly, the relative restraint shown by the filmmakers while detailing this violence actually seems to give it more realistic weight. And it adds to the sense of dread as viewers anticipate the next attack.
Crude or Profane Language
Aside from five or so uses of the English profanity "bloody," harsh language includes using God's name for swearing two or three times, along with scattered uses of "d--n" and "bastard."
Drug and Alcohol Content
Drinks are downed in pubs and restaurants. One character, whom I shall intentionally leave unnamed here, is a drunkard whose alcoholism results in negative consequences for himself and others. Borden's wife (one can only assume they eventually got married, considering the timeframe) turns to drink as the weight of her husband's secrets wears her down. Borden is also shown drunk at least once.
Other Negative Elements
The entire story involves deception, double crosses, secrets and sabotage. (However, none of those things yield positive results.)
Working from a novel by Christopher Priest, Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan and his brother, Jonathan (who co-wrote this screenplay), build into their film a promise, of sorts. You'll be satisfied and amazed by the time we deliver "the prestige," they seem to be saying as they steadily set the stage and raise the stakes onscreen. (The prestige, they tell us, is the part of a trick where the magician performs the mind-boggling conclusion to his best illusion.)
The Nolans kept that promise for me, pulling off the whole tricky nonlinear-in-plain-sight sleight of camera thing without tipping me to some of the final dark-and-astounding secrets. So as a puzzle, the film succeeds wildly. As a story, however, the sense that you can never quite trust the motivations of these often-unsympathetic characters kept me from fully engaging emotionally in what happens to them.
Taking a very different cinematic approach than Neil Burger's blurry, historical magician tale The Illusionist (which arrived in theaters only a month or so before The Prestige), the Nolans' team creates realistic period set pieces for London and Colorado Springs but films them through clear-eyed camera lenses and with modern angles. The result is that the film feels authentic to its era, but with the nostalgic "period movie" barrier between screen and audience removed. That immediacy is both fresh and a little cold.
Perhaps the Nolans' greatest trick of all is to make us forget that we're watching Wolverine, Batman (and his butler!), Gollum and David Bowie. Instead, Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Andy Serkis and even Bowie slip convincingly into their dark Victorian personas. And they are dark. It gives nothing away to reveal that this is not a feel-good story. By the time the lights come up, the tone rings much closer to that of a horror movie than a period drama. In spite of a certain circumspection related to how the movie presents some of its sobering themes (the willingness to maim and kill for one's own selfish obsessions, chief among them), the Nolans unleash the monsters of the human soul right before our eyes, subjecting their characters to the harsh consequences of their own hubris, refusal to own up to wrong choices and vengeful spirits. Love, happiness, decency and restoration are all sacrificed for the sake of self-glory, deception and the defeat of rivals.
In a way, The Prestige challenges the very notion of a successful magician—at least of that era. As Angier describes it, the audience longs to believe, even for a moment, that there's something unexpected and unknowable beyond this cruel, mundane world. The magician delivers that by creating an elaborate deception. But what part of his own soul and identity must he sacrifice to become such a skillful liar? And can anyone ever truly love another, or even himself, for reaching the top of the illusionist's ladder by becoming the most secretive, the least honest, the furthest from the light of day? For these two masters of the craft, anyway, the film's answer is "absolutely not."
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quote:There really is no "unbeatable" team in the SEC this year... next year will be different.
I definitely think LSU can. They will need someone to go off though. Either Carmouche, Stringer, or Hickey (best bet is hickey) would need to really get the hot hand.
I love to see LSU in a press. However with limited depth, 40 minutes of full court press will cost us at the end of games. Working in a half-court press in the first half might offer defensive intensity with a reprieve from the exhaustion of a full court press.
Does Kentucky press, and has LSU really seen a pressing defense this year?
EPL in the a.m. then B-ball at 3.
A team that does not handle the press well and will not press back, but likes to be up tempo. Sounds like we should press a lot. I would expect CJJ to use all of his timeouts in the first half of this one to keep Kentucky from going on runs.
My main worry; JOB3 foul trouble.
quote:It's opened with Kentucky favored by 17.
Is there a line out yet?
"We need some guys to sit right now. There's some guys that should not be playing but about four or five minutes, they're playing thirty..."
There really is no "unbeatable" team in the SEC this year
quote:Yes. But we were really unprepared for their zone and I think even we would do better a 2nd time. Having said that, they are probably unbeatable for us.
Have you seen Florida play this yr?
O'Bryant has gone away from his fading shot and made some moves attacking the basket which have helped him with two consecutive double doubles.
quote:IMHO Hickey is shooting just a little bit too much. I've noticed the last two games he's made some good moves into the lane and drawn defenders. But where he almost always used to find the open man, he's now taking more of the tougher shots than he used to.
LSU will need a similar effort from Anthony Hickey to win in Rupp. Is it possible? Of course. Likely? Absolutely not.
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Sure, but the devil is in the details. WHERE do they park? Cabs must park somewhere visible where anyone can see them, a public space on public property, but these other "things", can be anywhere, in a private parking lot, or somewhere else equally privately owned.
How does that matter? The Uber driver could be (and has been a few times I have scheduled a pickup for a 3am flight from SFO) at home in bed. They are only providing a ride from point A to point B for customer X, after customer X contacts Uber to schedule the ride (ie: a Chartered trip). They are not soliciting rides directly, which is THE differentiator between Uber/Lyft/etc and a Taxi service. Once that charter is completed, they could go on to their next assignment or go home. Taxis circle hoping to get either a dispatch or someone flagging them down on the street.
Java SE 6 End of Public Updates
Oracle no longer posts updates of Java SE 6 to its public download sites. All Java 6 releases up to and including 6u45 have been moved to the Java Archive on the Oracle Technology Network, where they will remain available but not receive further updates. Oracle recommends that users migrate to Java 7 in order to continue receiving public updates and security enhancements.
Apple just pushed its update 16 which is Java6u51, likely to be one of their last Java6 updates.
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"dont kill the messenger" except when the messenger is going to kill you. Its printk sending notice that the leap second happened that deadlocks against the timer doing the leap second (both vying for xtime_lock). Call it a "feature" of the NTP code. Hence the "turn off NTPD" workaround, if NTP doesnt get notified it should implement the leap second from somewhere upstream, it wont notify about it to the kernel, and the printk shouldnt happen.
Its free, opensource (GNU), widely available as a standard package to most platforms, etc. You create a password file, encrypt with gpg, then sign it with each user's key that should have access to it (requires all users to have proper gpg keys setup). When someone leaves, you revoke their key from the file and they can no longer get to it, without having to do much else. If thats too complicated, just do a basic crypt (gpg -c) and share that password around. Then if someone leaves just decrypt and re-encrypt with a new password.
Then go to dealextreme.com, or I think they're also at dx.com now. There you can get cameras, and the video balun's to make it simple to use cat 5 to run your cameras. A camera is about $20 for a decent night vision one, and the balun set (8 baluns to run 4 cameras) were about $25.
You forgot the step where you wait a month or four for the dx cameras to ship from HongKong....
4th amendment "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Can some one point to the airport exclusion? Or where congress amended the constitution to allow this?
They simply changed the interpretation of "unreasonable". After all you may be a terrorist, citizen.
No, its simple congressional logic: that since you are flying on a commercial airliner, and terrorists have flown on and blownup/crashed commercial airliners, you must be a terrorist, therefore probable cause exists to search you with overpriced gadgets that serve to slow down the lines of passengers (unless you pay them more $$ to bypass them) and not detect any of the things the manufacturers promised they would, but find everything else that could make them run your bag through multiple times... while said manufacturer, and their share holders (coincidentally people that helped construct/pass the bills making this mess happen) is raking in taxpayer $$.........
The output of the 3d printers will be made of a completely different substance than the specialized car parts. The different substance will likely have different heat and pressure tolerances, different tensile strength, and so on. It probably won't work, and could cause damage.
Maybe, but they would make a great pattern to build a mold so that the part could be reproduced with the proper materials.
In the past 5 minutes there have been no additional signatures.
13,801 to go.
Apparently I'm not the only
Created one, but can't sign in cause the sign-in form rarely shows up (flash?). grrr
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In Decision Time, Editor Brian Lovett will share a scenario from his 20-plus years hunting turkeys. Each hinges on a critical decision. Post what choice you would have made, and then see how things actually turned out.
The Siren Song
If you've turkey hunted long enough, you've heard this: "That gobbler is here every day -- every day, I'm telling you."
Sure he is.
Still, that happens often enough that you can't discount such reports. You just have to see for yourself.
Several springs ago, friend Matt Egge and I had received that advice about a Wisconsin longbeard that was reportedly visiting a pasture every morning. The intelligence seemed solid, so Egge and I found a comfortable hay-bale setup the final day of the season and settled in. Then the rain started.
The first hour netted nothing.
The second hour was a repeat of the first.
At some point during the third hour, I heard a distant gobble.
"What do you think?" I asked Egge.
"The bird's here every day," he responded.
"Yeah, but that bird's over there right now," I said.
I knew he wanted to leave the pasture and chase the other turkey. However, neither of us would admit we were concerned about abandoning a supposedly sure thing.
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Current Research and Scholarly Interests Our lab studies how intricate control of gene expression and cell signaling is regulated on a minute-by-minute basis to give rise to the remarkable diversity of cell types and tissue morphology that form the living blueprints of developing organisms. This research aims to add a new dimension to our understanding of how cells "know" where to go, when to move and differentiate by employing novel technologies that probe these questions at a highly molecular and nanoscale level. Work in the Barna lab is presently split into two main research efforts. The first is investigating "specialized ribosomes" and mRNA translation in control of gene expression genome-wide in space and time during development. This research is opening a new field of study in which fundamental aspects of gene regulation are controlled by ribosomes harboring a unique activity that "select" for specific mRNAs to translate by virtue of unique RNA regulons embedded within 5'UTRs. The second research effort is centered on employing state-of-the-art live cell imaging to visualize cell signaling and cellular control of organogenesis. This research has led to the realization of a novel means of cell-cell communication dependent on a dense network of actin-based cellular extension within developing organs that interconnect and facilitate the precise transmission of molecular information between cells.
Ben Barres
Professor of Neurobiology, of Developmental Biology, of Neurology and, by courtesy, of Ophthalmology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Our lab is interested in the neuronal-glial interactions that underlie the development and function of the mammlian central nervous system.
Philip Beachy
The Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor of Developmental Biology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Function of Hedgehog proteins and other extracellular signals in morphogenesis (pattern formation), in injury repair and regeneration (pattern maintenance). We study how the distribution of such signals is regulated in tissues, how cells perceive and respond to distinct concentrations of signals, and how such signaling pathways arose in evolution. We also study the normal roles of such signals in stem-cell physiology and their abnormal roles in the formation and expansion of cancer stem cells.
Gill Bejerano
Associate Professor of Developmental Biology, of Computer Science and of Pediatrics (Genetics)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Dr. Bejerano, co-discoverer of ultraconserved elements, studies the Human Genome. His research focuses on genome sequence and function in both humans and related primate, mammalian and vertebrate species. He is deeply interested in mapping both coding and non-coding genome sequence variation to phenotype differences, and in extracting specific genetic insights from high throughput sequencing measurements, in the contexts of development and developmental abnormalities.
James K. Chen
Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Developmental Biology and, by courtesy, of Chemistry
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Our laboratory combines synthetic chemistry and developmental biology to investigate the molecular events that regulate embryonic patterning, tissue regeneration, and tumorigenesis. We are currently using genetic and small-molecule approaches to study the molecular mechanisms of Hedgehog signaling, and we are developing chemical technologies to perturb and observe the genetic programs that underlie vertebrate development.
Gerald Crabtree
Department of Pathology Professor in Experimental Pathology and Professor of Developmental Biology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Chromatin regulation and its roles in human cancer and the development of the nervous system. Engineering new methods for studying and controlling chromatin in living cells.
Margaret T. Fuller
Reed-Hodgson Professor in Human Biology and Professor of Genetics and of Obstetrics/Gynecology (Reproductive and Stem Cell Biology)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Regulation of stem cell division and self-renewal Cell type specific transcription machinery and regulation of cell differentiation Developmental regulation of cell cycle progression during male meiosis Molecular dissection of the mechanism of cytokinesis.
Daniel Jarosz
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Developmental Biology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests My laboratory studies conformational switches in evolution, disease, and development. We focus on how molecular chaperones, proteins that help other biomolecules to fold, affect the phenotypic output of genetic variation. To do so we combine classical biochemistry and genetics with systems-level approaches. Ultimately we seek to understand how homeostatic mechanisms influence the acquisition of biological novelty and identify means of manipulating them for therapeutic and biosynthetic benefit.


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The University will mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with a service of remembrance at 9 a.m. Thursday in the memorial garden between Chancellor Green and Nassau Hall.
The garden was created to honor the 13 Princeton alumni killed in the attacks. The service will include prayer, lighting of candles and ringing of the bell for the alumni who died. Candles and materials for reflection will be in the garden throughout the day for private contemplation.
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There is another way not mentioned on the GNU website, that you can help the free software movement. And that is to create a technology that helps make the benefits of free software easier to attain.
For example broadband facilitates the spread of free software as more people can download large source packages more quickly and so spend more time working on the source. Also p2p technology might in the future make it unnessescary to have large centralised servers for the ditribution of free software.
I'm looking at how to help the Freedom 1 of free software, the ability to adapt the software to your own needs.
However if we are to avoid having a huge unwieldy human speech to machine code program that needs to be udpated by coders, I think we will have to rethink how computers work.
What I am proposing, although it may not be the only way of to help freedom 1, is to try an evolutionary aproach. Some of you may have heard of Tierra, which was one of the first computer systems that had self-replicating computer code. The process of coding in that program was embodied in a random changes to code, to simulate cosmic rays and the like. Now as we coders know, that method of programming isn't the best :). So my proposal is to encode a method of programming into the programs themselves. And this method is then used to alter a copy of that program, hopefully to improve it. Then the programs complete a task, fetching information from the internet or similar and the user rewards the best ones. Those with the higher reward survive.
This means the method of programming can also be maintained and improved, as the previous generation can change the next generations method of programming. Also my memory has unix inspired permissions on all sections of the memory so that programs can protect themselves from overwriting and viruses in the system.
It also means programs can communicate with each other and I hope they will cooperate, fulfiling the Unix philosophy of lots of specialised programs.
I have started work on it already, but I am looking for help, which is not easy to find on a risky project that may not pay off very quickly, and also different views on how free software might go in the future.


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Yesterday I interviewed John Smart on Singularity 1 on 1.
Among many other things John is an advisor in Futures Studies and Forecasting for Singularity University where I met him last summer. He is also one of those rare people who are (literary) Smart since birth and totally justify the name. So it was no surprise that I learned a lot during our one-hour-long conversation and I hope you can learn from him too.
During our discussion with John we cover a wide variety of topics such as: the Foresight Education and Research Network (FERN); planning and creating your personal and professional future; the story of how John got interested in futurism and technology; his Acceleration Studies Foundation as well as the meaning of accelerating change; his totally fascinating idea of STEM compression; the Barrow scale vs the Kardashev scale; cosmology, black holes and different interpretations thereof; Moore's Law and the limits of Physics.


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Nancy Patton of Guilford, Connecticut, writes: "As a new subscriber to Bon Appétit, I was delighted to see the "R.S.V.P." section. I've been yearning for a recipe from a Memphis restaurant called McEwen's on Monroe. The food is excellent; the wine list is among the best in the city. But above all else, McEwen's offers the best banana cream pie I've ever tasted. I would love to have the recipe."
A bit of mashed banana gives a slightly chewy texture to the graham cracker crust. Make the pie at least eight hours ahead to allow the crust to soften slightly. Top the pie with whipped cream, if desired.
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This was an AMAZING pie!!!! The banana in the crust made it taste like candy!
Loved the banana in the crust. Would be delicious with a chocolate cream filling. The filling thickened fine but was way too sweet for our taste. Glad I didn't waste a vanilla bean on this, just used more extract.
I followed the recipe exactly; the pie was easy to make and the custard boiled and thickened right around the 6-minute mark as the recipe stated. The custard itself was very good, if subtly flavored. However, the assembled pie was bland and lacked texture--the overall taste and feel is of mushy banana. I think the banana puree in the crust is part of the problem--the pie would be much better with a plain graham cracker crust that stays crunchy/sandy and has its own flavor. This crust is soft and tastes of banana--just like the filling. I do love banana cream pies, just not this one.
far from a soup if you cook it long enough, im 23, and male with no prior cooking skills really and figured this out. crust could be lowered to 2, 1 3/4 gave you barely enough for the top crust area. custard before bananas tastes great, can't wait to make it again.
I was soooo excited to make this recipe and what a let down.. it was soup.
Recipe makes too much crust, it should be thinner and lighter, reduce the GC crumbs by 1/2 cup. Makes a pretty good pie, I like the banana pieces, better than a smooth "baby food" filling.
The custard was delicious. The guests cleaned their plates and I got lots of compliments. I did not have trouble with it setting up, but I did end up with small lumps in my custard (the guests didn't seem to notice, but I did). Next time I'll strain the thickened custard through a sieve before setting it aside to cool. I also confess to not using the recipe's crust. I used my own pecan shortbread crust. Have to say... it was a winner combination!
Easy as pie to make. Next time I will decrease the sugar to 1/3 cup. Also, I always make a cream pie by chilling custard in the pan, baking crust as close to serving time as possible, allowing it to cool for a bit and them assemble pie just before serving. Crust is much better if it never hits the fridge. Also, bananas will not darken.
This recipe is so easy and tastes so good!
I haven't made the pie yet, but am going to try for Christmas. I am commenting in case it is helpful to other cooks...if you let the custard set and then disrupt it (cool completely and then put in pie crust), it will get soupy every time (this si the same with all custard pies). The starches bind the custard together as it cools. Once cooled you cannot stir it, etc., otherwise it will disrupt the binder and get soupy. The trick is letting the filling cool from hot to warm and then filling the crust. Hope this helps.


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Reviewing The Hugo Nominees
A couple of months ago, I mentioned the Hugo award nominees. A post over at John Scalzi's blog reminded me that I'd been intending to write up something about each of the books nominated in the novel category. So here goes (everything here should be free from meaningful spoilers, I hope)...
The Novels
Rainbow's End (Vernor Vinge)
This was the only novel nominee that I had read prior to seeing the list. I picked this book up whilst travelling late last year and read it over the space of a couple of days. I can't say I really enjoyed this book a lot, but I've also thought about it a fair bit since reading it, so the themes must have been interesting to my subconscious.
Normally I like books set in the near future that extrapolate within reason from our current society. This time, though, the characters annoyed me a bit. It almost seemed a bit formulaic (guy trying to rediscover his memories, has hidden past, etc). The ending felt very unsatisfying and I've subsequently seen a couple of reviews that talked about confusing viewpoints in the writing and I guess that could be part of it. On the other hand, the universe that the story is set in (which is Earth in 2025, so not too fantastic) gives a lot of food for thought. I should probably get over my wish for less disturbing protagonists and admit that as an attempt to entertain as a story, I found it wanting, but as a comment on society and what could happen if we pull this thread over here a little more, it's nicely done.
His Majesty's Dragon / Temeraire (Naomi Novik)
In my original post, I somewhat flippantly quipped that I preferred the US (Tor publisher's) title for this book (His Majesty's Dragon). Having now read the book (and one of the sequels), I would like to revise my answer and say that Temeraire is a truly appropriate name for the books. Temeraire is the main dragon character in the novel (you learn this very early on; I'm not spoiling anything, trust me) and the name certainly conveys the noble nature of the animal.
I loved this book, but I'm not sure it should win the Hugo. It feels a bit lightweight in some areas and Novik certainly does better in the sequel (I'm yet to read the third book in the series, but I'm looking forward to it). I am not usually a big fantasy fan, so I approached this book with some hesitation. I was wrong (as usual); thoroughly enjoyed it.
The books universe is well thought out — what if dragons participated in the Napoleonic War between England and France as a type of air-force, with pilots and crews as well? And what if the dragons were intelligent, vocal animals? Some of the consequences of the assumptions are nicely done: a dragon pilot is devoted to their animal and, as such, practically withdraws from normal society. Women can be pilots in an age where a woman's role is much less liberated than today. The idea of women in the armed forces (and women in pants!) is addressed throughout, with intelligence and humour.
My main gripe is that the main human protagonist gets away with far too much. He starts out as a captain in the British Navy and seems to think nothing of punishing his crew for expressing displeasure in a meeting (a week of no grog), yet, later, in reversed circumstances, he is overtly impolite and seems to not care about finding out what expected standards and normal behaviour might be. No problems there — flawed characters drive a story but this guy never seems to have to suffer any real consequences for his actions.
Partly because of the lack of any real disasters happening to the main character, it's a fun story. I read this book in an evening and went out to buy the sequel (The Jade Dragon) the next day and read that fairly quickly, too. My criticisms, above, of the first book are certainly corrected in the sequel. The poor protag starts out behind the eight ball and it only goes downhill from there for a large part of the novel. The second book is a better novel, I think, but I would recommend reading the first one first (it's not bad, I just think it could be better in places).
Eifelheim (Michael Flynn)
I had forgotten that I had read any Michael Flynn novels before until I noticed he had written Firestar, which is a book I re-read every couple of years. Firestar runs on it characters, rather than the science fiction features and Eifelheim is not too different in that respect.
This is probably the book I would pick to win the Hugo for best novel at the moment, although it may be not be "science fictioney" enough for some people.
What would happen if space aliens crash landed outside a small village in Germany in the 14th century? What is that village contained a priest who, whilst being very devout, had an enquiring mind and was trying to reconcile the emerging scientific discoveries of the age with his religion? Throw in a bunch of other well thought-out characters and it's not a dull historical or religious novel. Don't let my previous paragraph mislead anybody into thinking this book is a religious debate or sermon in any respects. I found it to be a well-written examination of the conflict between belief systems through the eyes of a 14th century priest and some interstellar visitors (who also have a lot to learn about the alternate beliefs).
In parallel with this 14th century tale, there is a parallel 21st century story covering an historian trying to discover why the village has disappeared from the map and his girlfriend who is making a plausible-sounding breakthrough about variable light speed. At times, I found the 21st century storyline a bit of a drag, at other times it was a welcome break from life in the village. So I think the author has probably found a good mix. I am always a sucker for pseudo-scientific-sounding theories like the one Sharon (the physicist girlfriend) pieces together. Overall, though, my impression is that this is a 14th century story with some bits from the future, rather than the other way around.
Recommended as something to read and think about. I wasn't able to read this quickly for some reason (it's not the big words or anything; my brain just need to absorb things slowly), but I'm glad I persisted.
Blindsight (Peter Watts)
I haven't quite finished this (a few dozen pages to go), but it's another good book. It's probably the most overtly "Hard Science Fiction" book of the bunch (I guess Glasshouse is also close, but it felt less fantastical in some ways).
One thing I sometimes find hard about big Science Fiction plots (not thick books; big stories in big worlds) is that it's like the German sentence from Hell. You have to store up a lot of details as they go by, enjoying the scenery and then slowly piece together what you've scene when the necessary threads are all available halfway through the book. It's like finally reaching the verb(s) at the end of a German sentence: you can pop off all the subjects and qualifiers and work out who's talking about doing what). A lot of good novels of this form then give the reader a period of enjoying their hard work as they go for another ride along the narrative that is consistent with the model in their head. The last portion is good entertainment, rather than a puzzle.
Blindsight does it well. It's not necessarily an easy book to read, but the characters are varied enough and interesting enough to interact with each other through the book. The lack of knowledge we (the reader) have at the start does not hamper the storyline, but many things make more sense as you work out how the world works.
Probably not a good choice for My Very First SF Book, but recommended for fans of the genre.
Glasshouse (Charles Stross)
I'm sorry, I really am. I've tried hard to like this book. Charles Stross seems like an important author and I enjoyed Accelerando, one of his earlier novels. But I haven't been able to persist with Glasshouse through to the end and I've tried a few times.
The premise sounds sort of good, particularly the location choice: put people from the far future into an experiment that simulates late-20th century Earth life. I just haven't been able to like many of the characters and there's a lot of conflict from these fish out of water (in the 20th century environ), so the book doesn't fill me with happiness when I read it. The sort of detective-novel style of plot, with somebody or more than one somebody keep trying to kill the main character and he/she — sexual choice can change in this future — has their work cut out a bit trying to get through the experiment without it all ending very prematurely, adds some suspense to the story. Unfortunately, that doesn't outweigh my emotional reaction to the fine details of the story.
Maybe one day I'll be in the right mood to enjoy Glasshouse. Maybe it truly is a great novel. Right now, for me... not so much.
Except for my current dislike of Glasshouse and initial dislike of Rainbow's End, these are all good books. On an entertainment level, I easily enjoyed Temeraire the most. If I had to rank them in order of worthiness for a major Science Fiction/Fantasy prize, I guess Blindsight, then Eifelheim, then Temeraire, although the second two are pretty neck-and-neck.
One comment about buying all these: Australian book shops should be ashamed! I checked out a couple of large book shops in my local area and in Sydney City proper and none of them had all of these books in their not-insignificant SF/Fantasy sections. Thankfully, Galaxy came through (again) and I was able to walk in, spend an hour or so happily browsing the shelves and pick up all the Hugo nominees in one hit (along with Scalzi's Last Colony and three Scott Westerfeld books I want to try out, since Risen Empire was excellent when I read it recently).


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Friday, October 21, 2011
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Paper and light square wood frame: Adornit.com
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Poster Friday: Clash of the Titans, Iron Man 2 & More!
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Happy Friday everyone!
Last week we had our biggest Poster Friday collection ever (separated into two parts), but this week we're back to our standard format and have again gathered the latest posters to come out for this week's poster round-up.
Screen Rant's wall this week now includes new one-sheets for Season of the Witch, The Wolfman, Avatar, The Lovely Bones, The Book of Eli, Sex and the City 2, Clash of the Titans, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Sherlock Holmes, Tron Legacy, Death at a Funeral, Edge of Darkness and Iron Man 2.
We also have a little bonus for fans of Star Wars and/or Zombies…
Let's get to it.
To start, here's a Season of the Witch starring the very busy Nicolas Cage:
Source: STYD
Another poster for the Rated-R Wolfman, this one being the final French one-sheet:
The Wolfman is directed by Joe Johnston and starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving.
Source: FilmsACTU [via Bloody-Disgusting]
Next up, the final one-sheet for the eagerly anticipated Avatar by James Cameron. This one-sheet is based on the artwork we put up in last week's Poster Friday feature but with the film coming out a week today, it needs to be displayed again. The reviews are coming in quick from yesterday's press screening and it's looking good (see Screen Rant's review of Avatar).
Avatar stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana.
Source: IMPA
Empire has the exclusive new look at the latest poster for Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones. There's not much new here but the film is opening in limited release form today.
Three new posters for The Book of Eli surfaced this week, one for its star Denzel Washington and the others for Mila Kunis and Gary Oldman.
Head to IGN for the High-Res version.
Moviefone premiered the first poster for Sex and the City 2 featuring Sarah Jessica Parker front and center.
Yahoo put up two awesome official posters for Clash of the Titans this week. One features Sam Worthington flying Pegasus into battle and the other shows him about to eat Medusa… err… I mean holding her head.
Check out the Clash of the Titans trailer if you've not seen it yet. The film opens March 26, 2010.
Here's the new German poster for Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
Source: Teaser-Trailer.com
Here are the four new tall posters for Sherlock Holmes featuring its four stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams and Mark Strong.
Source: Zap2it
You may have already seen this on Screen Rant this week: the official poster for Tron Legacy.
Tron Legacy opens December 17, 2010.
Source: HeyUGuys
Here's the poster for the Chris Rock remake of Death at a Funeral. The trailer came out earlier this week so check that out too.
Source: IMPA
Empire has the exclusive new banner poster for Mel Gibson's Edge of Darkness:
Another cool poster for Iron Man 2 debuted this week, this one featuring the villain: Mickey Rourke's whiplash.
At first, I didn't think too much of this as we've already seen the character in costume with his whips but don't be fooled. Those news clippets on the wall behind him are the start of an Iron Man 2 viral marketing campaign – Stay tuned for more on this from Screen Rant soon.
Iron Man 2 opens May 7, 2010.
Source: Paramount via Apple & Latino Review
That's it for this week but we can't leave you without a bonus. What would Poster Friday be without something special to finish it off?
Do you like Zombies? How about Star Wars? Let's try both combined:
The Original Trilogy:
Source: Geekologie (via Collider)
As I mentioned at the beginning, last week's Poster Friday feature was split into two parts. If you missed it, Part One included Star Trek, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, Cash, Main St., The Electric Slide, The Devil's Double, The Horseman, Nine, A Single Man, District 13: Ultimatum, The Road, The Lovely Bones, The Wolfman, Avatar, Greenberg and 44 Inch Chest. Part Two included Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Exam, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Solomon Kane, Kick-Ass, Iron Man 2, [REC2], Tenderness, Warlords, From Paris With Love and Buried.
What's your favorite of this week's first batch of one-sheets? My callout is for the Pegasus Clash of the Titans one-sheet which I think is epic.
Come back next week for more posters from Screen Rant!
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If the box lists "Windows 98 SE" will it run on Windows 98?
If the box lists "Windows 98 SE" will it run on Windows 98?
I am about to drop the artisan trade as well. I master engineering, but I apparantly have to master tailoring now to be able to make the next type of armor. Really I just wanted to do smuggler, but now I think I am just going bounty hunter instead.
"Roger Nasty Butler!"
I think it will run on Windows 98 just fine but I can't say for certain. Had a bad day today, accidentally wiped my character and now must start anew. (Reminds me of beta kinda) I've only really seen LIMP around but hoping we can get some more people together at least a small group anyway. For now,which is hopefully just tonight, I'm shut out of Chilastra.
Chilastra is one of the more crowded servers (I think it takes second anyway), maybe a move to somewhere else is better for the future. Now I'm partly saying that because I don't have a character anymore but also because Full servers might stay full. Now I'm not sure LIMP would want to move somewhere else, heh.
I'm suggesting Wanderhome, next to Flurry it seems to be the least populated. Of course it doesn't really matter if we don't have alot of people playing together, but ya never know. A new start might be good, I know I don't have a choice whatever server I play on.
I've been incommunicado for a few days b/c I've been playing so much!
I created an entertainer on Radiant. she's a Twi'Lek named Dan'Cor. I started her off at Mos Eisley but the system lag was terrible b/c of so many people in the Cantina (60 - 120 seconds between keying a command and it actually happening). I'm presuming that was the problem, it went away after I left ME.
I think that it's a little too easy to achieve teh next level if you can have another PC teach it though. I had reached the 3rd level Healing Ent and completed 1st level on both dancing and musicianship before moving on. BTW, the TwiLek females are CUTE! Anyway, it was fun watching all the entertainers perform all their flourishes. I love the dancers that can generate light- they're like Marvel's Dazzler!
What do you think of a seperate thread w/ a list of character names and servers?
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Well, I'm going to continue my one on Chilastra since shes got 2nd level 1-handed and 2nd level carbine. Shes quite valuable to me.
Otherwise I have a character created on Lowca. A male artisan that I was using for testing so I could understand the process of crafting. If you guys want to use another server, I will gladly create a character on another server. But I have to say that my Chilastra character takes priority.
I think we should pick a medium population server. Light population will have less people and will tend to have people who don't care much for starwars traditions and makes it harder to find people who will train you. Medium kinda fits best since you get the people who didn't get into the full servers, but still care about SW traditions and means there are more people who can train you. Lemme know what you guys think. Infact Lowca is medium population I believe. Lets have a vote.
I'll pretty much go whereever you guys choose. I still want to create an SSG city.
Well, I have put a lot into my Chilastra character as well, so I would hate to lose that time. But if people want to go to another server, that's fine, I'll make a character there as well.
"Roger Nasty Butler!"
I think we'll just stay on Chilastra (even though I brought up the whole switching topic) hopefully the people who have the game now and read the boards will start making characters on Chilastra as their mains. I was just worried about the Full aspect of the server but I read something from a developer that put my mind at ease. For sake of doing it I'll post my character info again.
Name: Udem
Race: Human
Server: Chilastra
Location: Mos Eisley, Tatooine
I'll re-post my information as well.
Name: Mando Calrossian
Server: Chilastra
Race: Human
Location: Tatooine; Mos Eisley
I am currently working on my scouting and marksmanship to be a bounty hunter. A little over halfway there.
"Roger Nasty Butler!"
Yeah, I was thinking about switching servers but it seems like its taken me forever to get where I am now and I STILL haven't even mastered a single profession. (it's kind of discouraging) So I don't think I could switch now. There's still so much to explore. I haven't even been off of Tatooine yet!
I've been having a blast though. It just took me a loooong time to really figure out how to play because I hardly ever do RPGs. I'm still not sure what I want to be (other than trying to become a Jedi someday) so that's kind of halting my progress.
I've had fun hooking up with Mando online though and hoefully I'll see all you guys at some point!
avatar: Jos Tavin
Species: Human
Usual Location: Bestine
Wha'choo talkin 'bout Hasselhoff?
And here's my character info again:
Name: Alura Tuvari
Server: Chilastra
Race: Twi'Lek
Gender: Female
Location: Mos Eisley
Profession: Marksmen, Brawler, Medic


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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to discuss pre-Sept. 11 counterterrorism efforts, April 23
Posted April 19, 2002; 10:25 a.m.
Barton Gellman, one of the eight journalists on The Washington Post's national reporting team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Sept. 11 and the subsequent war on terrorism, will speak on campus Tuesday, April 23.
Gellman, a 1982 Princeton graduate who is a Ferris Professor of Journalism in the Council of the Humanities , will speak on "The War on Terror Before Sept. 11: What Were Clinton and Bush Doing?" at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
A special projects reporter in the New York bureau of the Post, Gellman recently completed a series of articles on the efforts of the government in the war against terrorism prior to Sept. 11. He previously served at the Post as a diplomatic correspondent, Jerusalem bureau chief, Pentagon correspondent and local courthouse reporter. He has received numerous professional awards, including twice being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1998 for beat reporting and again in 2000 for public service.
Gellman is the author of "Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power" (Praeger, 1984). He graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs , which is sponsoring the talk, and earned a master's degree in politics at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
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Started following Winston Cup when Gordon was a rookie...Still a 24 fan. Can't stand the Bush boys.
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Started following Winston Cup when Gordon was a rookie...Still a 24 fan. Can't stand the Bush boys.
Thanks guys for proving my point on another thread.
Back to NASCAR.
I'm not a huge fan but when we lived just outside of Richmond I enjoyed going to the race for the tailgating! WE went to both races every year and by the time the race started I was ready to go home although it was kinda cool to watch Tony Stewart get his first win.
Hubby is much more into than me.
I only like going to small tracks. Martinsville is fun but Charlotte is the pits.
Daytona, we went once for the 50th. It really sucked compared to the smaller tracks. Worst race to actually got to.
I don't knock those who enjoy it, but I never got much from watching NASCAR. Watching cars go around in a circle and turn left for 500 miles just isn't that interesting to me. Athough, I'm sure it's much more interesting if you're doing the driving!
As a hunter I am first and foremost a fan of the #1 Bass Pro Chevrolet.
I HATE Rick Hendrick (teams #5, #24, #48, #88). He was on the verge of being indicted on mail fraud so donated $100,000 to the Bill Clinton Library, and Clinton pardoned him on his last day in office. Surprise, surprise.
Hendrick fired Shrub (Kyle Busch) so he could keep Casey Mears (Ha, Ha!). So now I also root for Shrub. Every win is a poke in Rick Hendrick's eye. Hendrick said last year that not resigning Shrub was probably the biggest mistake he ever made. I love it! Go #18!!!


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GREEN Whitehouse.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has taken a lead role in one of Washington's most important — and intractable — public policy fights: reining in climate change.
He makes weekly speeches on the threat. He recently joined with Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-California) and Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) to pen a letter to President Obama, laying out actions the executive branch could take on its own to address the problem.
And lately, he's formed a bicameral climate change task force with Waxman that aims to pressure a recalcitrant capital into action. The Phoenix caught up with Whitehouse for a Q&A, via telephone.
Our conversation came a couple of weeks after President Obama talked of confronting climate change in his inaugural address. And it came a couple of days before the president fleshed out his ideas in the State of the Union speech: endorsing long-stalled cap-and-trade legislation and suggesting the administration would take separate, unspecified executive action on global warming.
The interview is edited and condensed.
YOU'VE ACKNOWLEDGED THERE'S LITTLE CHANCE REPUBLICANS, WHO CONTROL THE HOUSE, WILL SUPPORT CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION. SO WHAT, IN THAT CONTEXT, CAN YOUR TASK FORCE DO? One thing we can do is to help build [an] environment in which [Republicans] have to engage with us on climate change.
[That requires] public engagement. [This is] yet another issue where the Republican extremist wing dragged its party away from the regular American people and their point of view. In the same way the Republican Party has been wrong and they're trying to recover on gay rights, they've been wrong and trying to recover on immigration, they need to someday realize that they are wrong and need to recover on climate change and that the American people will assess a penalty for not paying attention.
The second piece is that we want to press the administration to take strong executive action, because when the big polluters are looking at strong, executive action, hopefully they may find that moving over to the legislature and trying to find something that can be done a little more harmoniously will be in their interest.
Left alone, they will stonewall.
So those are two of the pieces: urge executive action, try to find a way to engage public participation. And then, ultimately, work on legislation that can be a product of that engagement.
YOU HAVE SPOKEN BEFORE OF WHAT YOU CALL A "JERICHO STRATEGY," INVOKING JOSHUA'S SEVEN-DAY MARCH AROUND THE CITY OF JERICHO BEFORE HE DESTROYED IT. YOU'VE TALKED OF BRINGING LEGISLATION UP OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND APPLYING HEAVY PUBLIC PRESSURE TO EMBARRASS REPUBLICANS INTO ACTION. IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SOME VERSION OF THAT HERE. BUT YOU HAVEN'T HAD THE BEST OF LUCK WITH THE JERICHO STRATEGY ON TWO OTHER PRIORITIES: THE "BUFFETT RULE" THAT WOULD RAISE TAXES ON THE WEALTHY AND A CAMPAIGN FINANCE MEASURE KNOWN AS THE DISCLOSE ACT. CAN IT WORK HERE? I think it could work in any area where the Republican opposition is way out of step with the American people. The question is, can we get enough trips around Jericho to make it actually work? Once around isn't enough and so far I only got once around on DISCLOSE. I think we'll get another round on the Buffett Rule in the [run up to automatic cuts known as the "sequester"].
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Thread: Surprise Twin Home Birth
1st December 2013 06:33 AM #1
Surprise Twin Home Birth
Hi everyone,
I watched this video yesterday showing a surprise twin home birth and I just wanted to share it here as it's pretty mind-blowing. The lady on the video had just delivered her baby and thought she was starting to deliver the placenta when the midwife she was supporting her tells her 'I think you've got another baby in there'. Can you imagine?! I also wanted to comment on the communication of the midwife which I personally felt was excellent. She stayed calm and focused in a very unexpected situation and continued to help the mother to have the type of birth she wanted.
See what you think,
1st December 2013 04:28 PM #2
I enjoyed the Surprise Twin Homebirth video very much. Really shows how wonderful and safe homebirth is. Those babies had a wonderful entrance into this world.
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2nd December 2013 10:02 AM #3
Wow! I keep having dreams where this happens to me, lol. Pretty sure there's only one...R, mama to M (8), Z (5.5), and bellybabe due Jan 2014
3rd December 2013 06:49 AM #4
3rd December 2013 03:23 PM #5
Made me think of this birth story, which really freaked me out cos the woman had scans and the twins were never picked up! I was a bit O.o
I can see how it could happen if you didn't have any scans, but before reading that it had never occurred to me that an additional baby might not be noticed on a scan!R, mama to M (8), Z (5.5), and bellybabe due Jan 2014
4th December 2013 06:22 AM #6
Oh my goodness! I've just read that birth story you shared Asrathiel (thank you) - that's incredible.
Have you written up/ shared your own birth stories anywhere? I was really pleased to have done this with my second boy - this is Josh's birth story and it still gives me happy goosepimples reading it
4th December 2013 11:42 AM #7
Yup, have written both mine and shared elsewhere, may as well post them here too! Haven't read through them in ages....R, mama to M (8), Z (5.5), and bellybabe due Jan 2014
5th December 2013 07:18 AM #8
Oooh fabulous - thank you, I will read them now And you will have another birth story to share fairly soon!
11th December 2013 02:55 PM #9
I think it was interesting that this mum thought she was carrying two babies. She must have been feeling a LOT of movement, all over the place...


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Animal Care Services receives many calls regarding public safety. While we know that there is great concern about wildlife attacking people, the risk is very low. Most of the wildlife with which we share our cities is very adaptable – as is the coyote. They are one of the most adaptable species on the planet. Because they eat a variety of foods which are abundant in cities, and are opportunistic, they find more than enough food in urban neighborhoods. Often, coyotes living in the Coastal Bend area are actually building dens in the sand dunes; coming out throughout the day to seek food.
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As our urban areas grow, animals lose their homes. Looking for a place to raise their families, industrious raccoons, squirrels, and other small creatures gnaw and claw their way into roofs, attics, vent pipes, and under homes.
These wild urban residents are resourceful. They have managed to adapt to a changing world and find the next best thing to natural habitat: manmade structures that provide all the insulation and protection they need to raise growing families. In many cases, urban areas are much easier places to live for these creatures. There is plenty of sustenance available in our trash and in our pets' food bowls.
While many people are content to live alongside our little wild friends, there are solutions available when they become a nuisance instead of a neighbor.
Solution 1. Eliminate the attraction – Don't leave pet food outside, as it attracts wildlife. Never put out your trash the night before trash pickup day. Seal the holes and small entryways into your home. Some animals can squeeze through a hole the size of a quarter.
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In April 2014, a question arose about the legality of residents transporting opossums, considered nuisance fur-bearing mammals, to Animal Care Services for relocation, and whether the practice complied with Texas Parks and Wildlife (TP&W) guidelines. The City received authorization to continue the current City practice from TP&W.
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A private trap owner is welcome to bring a trapped animal to Animal Care Services during normal business hours. There is no fee to drop off a trapped animal. Traps may be purchased at most hardware stores or feed stores. Animal Care Services will accept any trapped animal captured within the city limits at our facility located at 2626 Holly Rd, between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. We do not take traps on weekends.
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:21 PM GMT on May 27, 2012
The beach-going weather this Memorial Day weekend will deteriorate rapidly this afternoon along the Southeast U.S. coast near the Florida/Georgia border, where Subtropical Storm Beryl is steadily closing in. A hurricane hunter aircraft found top surface winds near 60 mph in heavy thunderstorms to the northeast of Beryl's center at 9:15 am EDT this morning; top winds in the region to the southwest of the center were a little weaker, near 55 mph. This region is now approaching the coast of northern Florida. Winds at the Buoy 41012, 46 miles ENE of St. Augustine and to the southeast of Beryl's center, hit 38 mph gusting to 49 mph, at 11 am EDT this morning. Wave heights at the buoy were 12 feet, and Beryl is driving heavy surf that is generating dangerous rip currents along a large section of the Southeast U.S. coast. On Saturday, at least 32 people were rescued by lifeguards at Tybee Island, Georgia due to strong rip currents generated by Beryl's crashing surf.
Figure 1. True-color MODIS satellite image of Beryl taken at 12:20 pm EDT May 26, 2012 by NASA's Aqua satellite. At the time, Beryl was a subtropical storm with winds of 45 mph.
Figure 2. Morning radar image from the long-range radar out of Jacksonville, FL.
Forecast for Beryl
Beryl is still a subtropical storm, as evidenced by its large, cloud-free center, but the storm is steadily building a large amount of heavy thunderstorms near the center this morning, as the storm traverses the core of the Gulf Stream. The warm 27 - 28°C (81 - 83°F) waters of the Gulf Stream are helping warm and moisten the atmosphere near Beryl's core, and it is possible that Beryl will become a tropical storm before landfall late Sunday night. As I explain in my Subtropical Storm Tutorial, the fact that the storm has not been able to generate a tight inner core with heavy thunderstorms near the center will limit its intensification potential, and we need not be concerned about rapid intensification of Beryl while it is still subtropical.The clockwise flow of air around an extremely intense ridge of high pressure that is bringing record heat to the Midwest this weekend is currently driving Beryl to the west. As Beryl approaches the coast tonight, the storm will move off of the warmest Gulf Stream waters into waters that are cooler (25°, 77°F), and with lower total heat content. A portion of the storm's circulation will also be over land, and these two factors will limit the storm's potential to strengthen. Beryl is also struggling against a large amount of dry that surrounds the storm, due to the presence of an upper-level trough of low pressure. The 11 am Sunday wind probability advisory from NHC gave Beryl just an 6% chance of becoming a hurricane before landfall. Flooding due to heavy rains is probably not a huge concern with this storm, particularly since the Southeast U.S. coast is under moderate to extreme drought. The 3 - 6 inches of rain expected from Beryl will not be enough to bust the drought, since the Southeast U.S. is generally suffering a rainfall deficit of 9 - 12 inches (Figure 4.) Heavy rains from Beryl will begin affecting coastal Georgia and Northern Florida near 3 pm Sunday.
Figure 3. Predicted rainfall from Beryl, as taken from the 06 UTC May 27, 2012 run of the HWRF model. A large area of 4 - 8 inches of rain (dark green colors) is predicted for the drought-stricken areas of Northern Florida and Southern Georgia. Image credit: Morris Bender, NOAA/GFDL.
Figure 4. Much of the Southeast U.S. needs 9 - 12 inches of rain (red colors) to bust the current drought. A drought is defined as "busted" when the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) goes higher than -0.5. As seen from the HWRF precipitation forecast in Figure 3, most of the drought relief from Beryl will occur near the coast, and the most needy areas (purple colors in Figure 3) are expected to get little rainfall. Image credit: NOAA.
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Scorching May heat wave hits much of the U.S.; severe weather expected in the Midwest
An exceptionally strong high pressure system anchored over the central U.S. is bringing record-smashing May heat to much of the country this Memorial Day weekend. Dozens of daily high temperature records fell on Saturday, including several all-time records for the month of May. Vichy-Rolla, Missouri hit 98°F, beating its all-time May heat record of 95° set on May 15, 1899. Columbus, Georgia hit 97°F, tying the record hottest May day on record. Saturday's high of 100°F in Tallahassee was the second highest May temperature since record keeping began in 1892. Pensacola's 98°F on Saturday was its second highest May temperature since record keeping began in 1879 (the record May temperature in both cities is 102°F, set on May 27, 1953.) Nashville, Tennessee hit 95°F on Saturday, just 1° shy of their all-time May heat record. That record could fall today, and numerous all-time May heat records will be threatened in the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Tennessee Valley. As is often the case when one portion of the country is experiencing record heat, the other half is seeing unusually cool conditions, due to a large kink in the jet stream. Billings, Montana received 1.3" of snow Saturday, and Great Falls had received 2.3" as of 6 am this morning. The dividing line between the warm conditions in the Eastern U.S. and cool conditions to the west lies over Nebraska and Kansas today, and NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has placed portions of these states in their "Moderate Risk" area for severe weather--the second highest level of alert.
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There are only a small number of recognizable characters left to be produced in the modern line that don't already have figures, and only a few more that really need upgrades from previous versions. So what are they, what are those figures that you are still looking forward to seeing Hasbro do?
- Vader ESB/ROTJ - the latest ANH Vader is pretty good, except for the helmet really being not accurate to Ep 4, but it also highlights how crummy the previous Vaders have been - often too much focus on wild softgoods that can't be tamed and light blasts right through them as if they're chiffon.
- Luke Farmboy - yeah, I know we just got one, but it has proportion issues. It's close, but not quite there.
- LEIA LEIA LEIA DAMNIT LEIA ANH! - um, yeah, so in my book we don't have one of these at all, there isn't a single representation that is worth a crap in the modern line.
- Han ANH - just regular ol' Han Solo, and I don't think there's a single one that fits the bill in the modern line.
- Lt. Pello Scrambas - yeah, the old guy from the beginning of ANH, he won't sell well.
- Lando ESB - what an odd thing to not really have a good figure of, he's a main guy in the film and the best we have is kinda simplistic and short.
- Stormtrooper - hear me out, we have good stormtroopers, but not only are they a little difficult to pose thanks to hard hands and limited hips, their helmets don't look right for some films thanks to sculpt and paint issues. I don't expect this to ever happen, nor a Sandtrooper that uses the movie-accurate design changes.
- Snowtrooper commander - ok, sure I didn't notice this guy was different until a few years ago, and yes Hasbro did a figure, but it's not very modern quality.
- Admiral Piett - in modern quality, not stereoid-abusing.
- The Emperor (ROTJ) - one without poorly-sewn tight hoods or giant plastic caves as hoods or any weirdness, just get it right.
I can't think of anything from the prequels I'd buy at this point. They could try to do a better ROTS Anakin head or TPM Obi-Wan head but I doubt I'd buy them anymore, just too many times to the well.
So, what's on your list?


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Biotech stocks are hot. Real hot. Smoking.
General stock-market weakness may weigh on the sector, however, which means investors should seek out the relative safety of large-cap biotechs, according to UBS.
Analysts Matthew Roden and Matthew Harrison explain:
Yesterday, the UBS Global Equity Strategy team downgraded the US to Neutral relative to Europe (which was upgraded to Overweight), highlighting near term headline risks that included potential fiscal drag into 2014 (secondary to budget and debt ceiling debates), potential changes to monetary policy, and geopolitical risks. However, our strategy team maintains a bullish view on equities in general. Under these conditions, we favor large cap biotech over smid biotechs, considering positioning in the S&P500 (still only 2%), a premium to the market that is on the lower bound of normal, and a solid catalyst path and growth outlook. In our view, potential market headline risks suggest the smid biotech group may see somewhat greater risk to performance (especially given relative outperformance YTD), although the solid fundamental markets outlook suggests this may be a buying opportunity looking into 2014…
We are prioritizing stocks under coverage that have [1] value-creating catalysts in 2013e, [2] upside to 2014-15 consensus estimates, and attractive valuations.
While we lean positive on the large cap names across the board, including Neutral-rated names [Biogen (BIIB)] and [Celgene (CELG)], we single out [Gilead Sciences (GILD)] as our favourite into YE13e and into 2014. Among mid caps, we favor…[Medivation (MDVN).]
Gilead has gained 0.5% to $60.58 today, while Celgene has risen 1.5% to $142.13 and Biogen has advanced 3.8% to $221.1. Medivation is up 1.9% to $57.60. Biogen and Regeneron (REGN), which has gained 6% to $256.71, are two of the three-best performers in the S&P 500 today.


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