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Sounds a little on the spiceyside, is it?
Sounds a little on the spiceyside, is it?
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the vinegar in the pepperoncinis is what tenderizes and takes the game flavor out of the meat...And I know some elk does need help in that dept, depending on when it was harvested...
Seemed like this would be a good time to bump this one up!
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If you are frying your turkey in peanut oil, have this ready to drop in after you take out the bird. Venison backstrap, seasoned with the injectable seasoning of your choice, rolled in coarse, fresh cracked black pepper. I cut backstrap into pieces about 10-12 inches in length so it's easier to handle. Don't overcook, it should be quite pink inside. I can't promise you'll like it as much as I did, But I can promise I'll do this every year for my family!
Black Pepper Maple Cream Pie
Do not leave out the pepper; it is crucial to the flavor. Serve this in small wedges, as it is very rich.
Use a real piecrust made with lard for best result.
1 ½ cup Heavy Cream
1/3 cup flour
1 ½ cup Vermont Maple Syrup. (Dark if you can get it)
2 Tablespoons butter
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
1 9 inch unbaked pie shell
1 c. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/3 c. lard
2 tbsp. water
In a heavy saucepan whisk together all ingredients in order listed, cream and flour first until smooth and then the rest. Cook over medium heat for about 10 minutes or until it starts to thicken. Try not to let it come to a boil. Pour into 9 inch pie shell and bake 30 minutes or until bubbling and edge and crust start to show color.
Cool on rack and then refrigerate until COLD before serving.
Use the best freshest lard you can buy. Use it COLD. Be gentle with your piecrust. You are not tossing a pizza crust. Work it as little as possible, use cold water. Dice your cold lard into pea size pieces. And if you have a stone rolling pin pop it into the freezer an hour before you use it. If you do not have a stone rolling pin that is what you need to buy before the holidays.
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Stuffed Shrooms
1 pkg baby bellas
1 6 oz.pkg pink skinless boneless salmon
2 cloves garlic
1 small onion
1/3 cup bread crumbs
2 tbsp butter
Pull out the stems , chop fine , also chop garlic and onion, mix all ingredients until salmon is throughout the batch.Stuff the caps ,melt butter and pour over the stuffed caps .You can spice this up with some Old Bay , Cayenne pepper , and so on .
Any left over filling can just be sprinkled throughout the dish .
bake at 350 for about 30 minutes
The Best Potato Casserole in the Whole World.
2 large packages of frozen hash browns
One cup butter
2 pints sour cream
One and one quarter cup diced onions
two cans cream of mushroom soup
2 1/2 cups grated sharp cheddar cheese
2 cups or more crushed potato chips
Head butter, soup, sour cream, onions and cheese in large frying pan. Salt and Pepper and stir in potatoes and cook 10-15 minutes to get everything melted. Pour into a very large casserole dish and crush potato chips and put on top. Drizzle melted butter on top of chips.
Cook at 350 for 40-45 minutes.
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This is what I found in the rules. It says break open shot guns are "recommended" and 20 ga and 12 ga "should" be used. What do you guys think/know about this? I have heard of a club that went to using wingeers with primers but some people in our club want to be sure it is legal incase we decide to do this.
Section 8. Gunning. Shooting, whether live or blank ammunition is used, shall be done only by official Guns approved and designated by the Hunting Test Committee.
Handlers while running their dogs, and Judges while
acting in their official capacities judging dogs, shall not fire guns with live or blank ammunition.
It is recommended that all gunning be accomplished
with breaking type shotguns, and that the guns be broken
(or cased) when not in use. Host clubs must be aware of
government regulations on the type of shot allowed at the
test location. It is recommended that gunners wear ear and
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Only 20 gauge to 12 gauge shotguns should be used.
Gunners firing live ammunition must be 21 years of age or
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About Jeff Masters
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 , 2:37 PM GMT on February 17, 2010
Earth's lower atmosphere recorded its warmest January on record last month, according to data from both the University of Alabama, Hunstville (UAH) and Remote Sensing Systems (Figure 1). The satellite measurements used to take the global temperature of the lower atmosphere began in December 1978, using the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) on polar-orbiting satellites. The January 2010 temperature anomaly was an impressive 0.72°C above the 1979 - 1998 average, easily beating the previous record of 0.59°C set in January 2007. Last month's anomaly was the 3rd warmest anomaly for any month, falling just 0.04°C cooler than the record warmest anomalies of 0.76°C from February and April 1998. The January 2010 satellite-measured temperatures continued a trend of very warm conditions we've seen in the lower atmosphere since the current El Niño event began in June 2009. Record high temperatures occurred in November 2009, and were the second highest on record in both July and September 2009, according to UAH. The record-breaking temperatures in the lower atmosphere are due to the heating of the atmosphere by the strong El Niño event that has been heating the waters of the Central and Eastern Pacific since June 2009, combined with the global warming trend of the past few decades. Since we are currently at the lowest level of solar output in decades, the Earth is currently about 0.1°C cooler than if we were near the maximum of the 11-year sunspot cycle. Had we been near solar maximum, we would have set an all-time warmest lower atmosphere temperature anomaly record last month.(Note, though, that there is about a 2-year time lag between solar maximum and when Earth's global temperature responds). It will be interesting to see if the current El Niño event, which is quite a bit weaker than the record-strongest El Niño of 1998, is capable of making 2010 beat 1998 for honors as the warmest year on record in the lower atmosphere.
Figure 1. Temperature of the lowest 8km of the atmosphere measured by satellite via the MSU instrument flown on polar-orbiting satellites between 1979 - 2010. Image credit: Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama, Hunstville.
Real-time display of atmospheric temperatures measured by satellite
The University of Alabama, Huntsville has a handy interactive plotting page that lets one plot up the historical and near-real-time satellite measurements of Earth's global average temperature at various levels of the atmosphere. These temperatures are measured by the MSU instrument on the polar-orbiting NOAA-15 satellite. Note that this is a different instrument than the AQUA satellite's MSU instrument used by UAH to formulate their official monthly global temperature anomaly data set. The two satellites give similar results, although NOAA-15 requires an additional correction to account for drift of the satellite.
Figure 2. Temperature of the global atmosphere at 14,000 feet (4.4 km) as measured by the MSU instrument on the polar-orbiting NOAA-15 satellite. This instrument has been flying since August 1998. The 20-year average (yellow line) and 20-year record highs (pink line) are for the period 1979 - 1998, using versions of the MSU instrument that flew on older satellites. The most recent data (green line), as of February 15, 2010, are marked by a white square, and have now fallen below the record for the date set in 1998. Note that during July 2009, November 2009, and January 2010, record high temperatures were measured at 14,000 feet altitude. A full description of the data is available from the University of Alabama, Hunstville.
Error sources in global atmospheric temperatures measured by satellite
Satellite-measured temperatures of Earth's atmosphere, in my judgment, are inferior to using the surface based system of ground stations and ocean buoys for measuring global temperature changes. I have two reasons for saying this:
1) The satellite temperatures show large global increases when there is an El Niño event. While the surface also experiences an upward spike in temperatures during an El Niño, it is much less pronounced than the atmospheric heating that occurs. Since we live at the surface, those temperatures are more relevant.
2) According to a description of the MSU data available on the Remote Sensing Systems web site where the data is archived,
"The instruments in the MSU series were intended for day to day operational use in weather forecasting and thus are not calibrated to the precision needed for climate studies. A climate quality dataset can be extracted from their measurements only by careful inter-calibration of the eleven distinct MSU instruments."
In other words, it's very tricky to make an accurate measurement of Earth's temperature going back to 1979, when satellite measurements began. You have to merge data from eleven separate satellites, whose instruments were never designed to make the kind of precise long-term climate measurements that are being asked of them. While surface stations also have error sources, I believe that the uncertainty in the satellite-based global temperature measurements are higher.
Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, made a series of efforts to perform the careful inter-calibration needed beginning in the 1990s, and for over a decade successfully defended his conclusion that the MSU instruments were showing a much lower level of tropospheric warming than what climate models predicted. Christy was probably the most quoted scientist by the "greenhouse skeptics" during that period, and testified numerous times before Congress about his findings. This discrepancy was a prime argument Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) used in his famed 2003 speech when he referred to the threat of catastrophic global warming as the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." Greenhouse contrarian Dr. S. Fred Singer, who has probably more Congressional testimony about global warming under his belt than any other scientist, headlined his SEPP website for many years with the quote, "Computer models forecast rapidly rising global temperatures, but data from weather satellites and balloon instruments show no warming whatsoever. Nevertheless, these same unreliable computer models underpin the Global Climate Treaty." Michael Crichton also used the tropospheric warming discrepancy to give climate models a bad rap in his State of Fear novel. However, a series of papers published in 2004 and 2005 showed that the satellite inter-calibration methods used by Christy were incorrect. Christy conceded that his analysis had been in error, and participated in writing a statement put out by NOAA's Climate Change Science Program that detailed the error.
Climate change contrarians continue to prefer using the UAH satellite data to look at global temperature trends, since that data set shows less warming than the regular surface station data sets, and rates 1998 as the warmest year on record. The UAH data shows that in the 31-year period from 1979 - 2009, Earth's lower atmospheric temperature warmed by 0.13°C per decade. A separate analysis of the satellite data by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) puts this number at 0.15°C per decade. For comparison, NASA's GISS and the UK HadCRUT surface data sets (which don't use satellite data) show warming of 0.16°C and 0.15°C per decade, respectively. You can generate these numbers yourself, using the excellent woodfortrees.org plotting tools. The amount of global warming predicted in the 2007 IPCC report for the period 2010 - 2030 was 0.20°C per decade, so we are running about 25% below this predicted level of warming, when averaging over the past 31 years.
For further reading: I have a 2006 blog post on this, and realclimate.org has a technical discussion.
Portlight continues relief efforts in Haiti
The Portlight.org disaster-relief effort continues in Haiti, with another container of specifically-requested medical supplies being shipped today. At the request of Portlight's on-site coordinator, Richard Lumarque, Portlight is committed to sending another container with 500 tents plus food and water. The cost of each shipment is $4300, so your donations are greatly appreciated! Please visit the Portlight.org blog to learn more and to donate. Floodman's blog has the latest info on Portlight's plan for Haitian relief.
Figure 3. Richard Lumarque, Portlight's on-site coordinator in Haiti, poses with double-amputee Darline Exidor, who received a wheelchair from Portlight. Portlight's team of ten relief workers has been laboring full-time the past two weeks to deliver donated supplies and assess the needs of the earthquake survivors.
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Video: Student work: U-Bikes and Cyclab
Posted September 20, 2010; 12:00 p.m.
Three students profile Princeton's U-Bikes program and the Cyclab, which support sustainable transportation on campus. Read more.
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Did you know that on campus you can rent a bike for just 15 bucks a semester?
It's thanks to a program called U-Bikes, working together with the Cyclab. They can be found in a building
behind the WaWa that you've seen and probably not cared about before.
Mars Jullian:
There are a lot of bikes on campus that are left here by students who pay $100 for a Walmart
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bike and then realize it costs $200 to ship it home. So, Public Safety will collect all
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these bikes, and then we'll take them, and we'll add new parts on them, and we'll send
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them back out as part of our rental program, so that these bikes aren't just left to waste
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on campus, so that they can be reused and re-ridden.
U-Bikes also rents out over 100 of these beautiful orange bikes. Plus, they'll give you a stylish
helmet and a bike lock for free!
Anthony Cross:
This is the Cyclab. It's Princeton's community bike co-op. It's a do-it-yourself space --
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we have tools, we have volunteer mechanics like myself to help out, and it's basically
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just a space where the Princeton community, the university, can come in and learn how
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the bike community at Princeton can come and hang out and work on bikes.
Anthony Cross:
(We're) just kind of creating a bike culture here so people can really ride their bikes around.
Anthony Cross:
I just volunteered to help out, and I've been doing it ever since.
Tessa Maurer:
Damn, I did a number on this bike.
Tessa Maurer:
So, I basically just got my bike revamped for seven whole dollars.
Here's a fun fact: Riding a bike instead of driving improves cardiovascular health and
reduces your emissions by 100 percent.
So, stop by U-Bikes, and help build a sustainable transportation model. Others will follow.


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Say cheese! This pie with its delicious blend of cottage, mozzarella and Cheddar cheeses will delight the cheese lover in you.
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Saturday, September 8, 2012
Bee in my Bonnet Row 1
Have you seen Lori Holt's new Bee in My Bonnet Row Along? It sounded like a fun event and we thought we would hop right in! You can find all of the details on this event on Lori's Bee in My Bonnet blog.
I have been inspired by Lori's blog for quite a long time. She is so talented and I would love to sew everything she sews since I love everything she makes! I am still regretting not joining her Farmer's Wife QAL so I decided not to let this Row Along pass me by!
I chose to sew with Pam Kitty Morning's collection and here is my row:
Debbie chose to sew with 1930's prints from her stash and here is her row:
Cheryl chose to sew with a combination of Aneela Hoey's Sew Stitchy, Sweetwater fabrics and Lakehouse fabrics.
We will be back in two weeks to show you our Row #2s, after Lori posts the next row tutorial.
Come join the fun and sew along with us! You can post your pictures on Lori's Flickr group. We can't wait to see what you decide to sew with!
Posted by Fat Quarter Shop at 9:00 AM
Labels: Fat Quarter Shop Fun, FQS Team
5 comments:
- CBH said...
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in Creative Busy Bee Craft Inspirations, under the Page 2 post on Sep. 08, 2012. Thanks again.
- September 8, 2012 at 9:07 AM
- Jamie Lee said...
I already did my first row too. I used some Lori Holt fabric and assorted Flea Market Fancy and others.
- September 8, 2012 at 11:19 AM
- Lori Holt said...
Oh WOW!!!
It makes me sew happy to see 3 rows!!!
That's awesome.
All of your fabric choices are so cute too!
I'm looking forward to seeing all three quilts come together as we row along!
- September 8, 2012 at 12:18 PM
- Carrie P. said...
I got my first row done. great fabric choice.
- September 8, 2012 at 2:12 PM
- KaHolly said...
Thanks for the heads up! I've always wanted to do a row quilt. Guess I'll be busy today!! ~karen
- September 9, 2012 at 4:29 AM
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"Bonus content" sounds like DVDs in the season set the more I hear it. Not thrilled about the Clovis arc either.They didn't really touch on how Disney's animation team figures into this, but the way Dave describes it was like any other TV show coming to an end - when it's done, the crew is disbanded. The gist that I got was that Lucasfilm Animation is still an entity, just currently a significantly smaller one (as it was when The Clone Wars was just in the planning stages) that he hopes will grow as the new project goes forward. But there were no specifics on any of this other than to say that he will remain and so will some of the other people at the company, particularly since George put them in place originally and trained them for the last eight years to be able to tell Star Wars stories. He mentioned Joel Aron and Kilian Plunkett by name, but didn't say anything about their future there, though I would assume that they're safe given their call-outs.
He didn't give particulars on when and how the bonus content would be released, or how much or what it would contain, though the Clovis arc will be released (it was originally bumped when things were moved around this season - it would have resulted in too many episodes, from what he said in another interview). The team is "making sure these stories count" and making sure they're well-produced, and while the episodes don't wrap up everything in a bow, they will answer a few big questions satisfyingly, according to him. Order 66 and how the clones' autonomy plays into that will be addressed, as seen in the preview clip (he also confirmed that the two new Jedi there were based on unused Sith witch concept art). He said the information on the bonus content will be released at the right time, when it will have maximum effectiveness. Maybe this means a convention appearance or something? It was unclear, so I hope he does it at Celebration Europe.
They also discussed the last two arcs of the season. One of the most interesting parts was how he addressed the Satine/Bo-Katan relationship, saying he developed a backstory for them that became one of his favorites. He didn't go into too many particulars, but likened it to Game of Thrones. Basically, Bo-Katan didn't agree with Satine's pacifism, but as Satine rose to power she didn't want it to be public knowledge that she had a sister who had joined Death Watch as that would look bad for her politically, so Bo-Katan wasn't in Satine's life for a time, which is why Obi-Wan didn't know of her.
The Bo-Katan thing really came through for me, that's almost exactly what I thought it'd be when they revealed it. Good job on their part.
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Celebrities are notorious for giving their offspring super-weird names: Moses and Apple, anyone? But for some reason the name Henry seems to have hit the sweet spot for celebrity parents.
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Sending My Thoughts Your Way
from R.C. Sproul Jr. Mar 04, 2011 Category: ArticlesI seek to be a professional persuader. Though I am much less pushy in my more private life, my profession is to profess my confession. Sometimes I am given a classroom of students. Sometimes I am given a sanctuary of sheep. I seek to persuade readers of books, or magazines, and of the internet. My desire, of course, is to help. My prayer is that my confession matches one for one with the fullness of the Word of God. His wisdom, not my own folly is what we all need. And so here I am sending my thoughts your way. Keep Reading
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from Karisa Schlehr Mar 04, 2011 Category: Ministry NewsIt's $5 Friday again! Check out today's specials now. Special thanks to P&R Publishing for partnering with us this week. Sale starts at 8 a.m. Friday and ends 8 a.m. Saturday EST. Keep Reading
Our Liberating God
from Tim Challies Mar 03, 2011 Category: Tabletalk MagazineWhy would anyone love the law of God? Why would we love that which constantly tells us what miserable wretches we are, daily points out all our shortcomings, relentlessly reminds us of all our death-deserving sins, and keeps knocking us down to our knees, leaving us crying out for help? Keep Reading
A Primer on Inerrancy (pt. 2)
from John Gerstner Mar 03, 2011 Category: ArticlesIn this excerpt from John Gerstner's Primitive Theology, Dr. Gerstner looks at the issue of inerrancy and seeks briefly and non-technically to present a case for Bible Inerrancy that a serious-minded layman can follow and evaluate. Though by no means an exhaustive treatment, it is one that is sound and faithful to the Scriptures. This is the second part of this series and here Dr. Gerstner picks up his discussion on unsound bases for sound doctrine. Keep Reading
Get Dr. Sproul's Series on Basic Doctrines for a Donation of Any Amount
from Karisa Schlehr Mar 02, 2011 Category: Ligonier ResourcesAll Christians must be well grounded in the basics of the Christian faith in order for them to grow into maturity. In Basic Training, R.C. Sproul gives a concise explanation of the fundamental doctrines of Christianity in the Apostles' Creed. It is especially useful for those who have little to no Christian background and need to learn the basic doctrines of Christianity. This week you can get this CD series for a donation of any amount. Keep Reading
Not Lords, Stewards
from Burk Parsons Mar 02, 2011 Category: ArticlesThe apostle Paul was neither afflicted with false modesty nor with any sort of apostolic pomposity. He understood his role and his office in the household of God. At times we find him needing to assert his apostolic office to the end that his readers would heed him as they would the Lord. On other occasions we find him passionately putting himself in place. He strove valiantly with the Corinthians to maintain their firm grasp of his apostolicity that they might obey his charge to regard him rightly as a man, a servant, and a steward, and most certainly not a king, a deity, or a little messiah. Keep Reading
Deep Truths of the Bible for Children
from Karisa Schlehr Mar 01, 2011 Category: Ligonier ResourcesYoung children learn about God through stories tailored especially for them. Weaving tales from real life situations that children can easily relate to, great-grandfather and theologian R.C. Sproul opens important biblical truths to children. (Parents might even learn a thing or two.) Keep Reading
Columns from Tabletalk Magazine, March 2011
from Tim Challies Mar 01, 2011 Category: Tabletalk MagazineThe March edition of Tabletalk is out. This month's issue explores the hard questions revolving around God's law in the lives of Christians today. Contributors include R.C. Sproul, John Piper, David Hall, Carl Trueman, Mark Bates, Chad Van Dixhoorn and R.C. Sproul Jr. Keep Reading


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Boston has its own homegrown Balinese-style gamelan orchestra: MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika. Founded in 1993 by both American and Balinese-born musicians, Galak Tika (the name means "intense togetherness") has some 25 members and is led by composer Evan Ziporyn. When I spoke with Ziporyn on the phone as he was navigating the complexities of Logan Airport, he explained that what makes Balinese gamelan unique is not its serpentine rhythms or its sparkling tonal qualities but its fundamental organizational dynamic. "The Balinese will never do something alone if they can do it in a group, and they've figured out a very sophisticated musical system to make that necessary. The instruments on a literal level don't sound right if they're played alone, because of the way they're designed, and the rhythms aren't meant to be played in isolation — they're all composite, interlocking rhythms, every part is dependent on every other part. The music is like this big, beautiful Swiss clock. It makes sense only if all the parts are working together."
This Sunday, Galak Tika will kick off its 15th season with an afternoon of traditional Balinese music and dance. It's a somewhat unusual program for the ensemble, which often as not uses gamelan as a basis for experimentation, combining classical Balinese forms with avant-garde composition and mixing gamelan with Western instruments. Ziporyn refers to this concert as a return to Galak Tika's roots. What's more, it'll feature I Made Bandem, who's one of Bali's most celebrated dancers, as well as one of the foremost experts on the history of Balinese music and dance. Bandem will perform the Baris, which is a warrior's dance, the Oleg Tamulilingan, which is a sensual, mid-20th-century dance that depicts the courtship behavior of a pair of bumblebees, and the Legong Kraton, which is perhaps the most famous of Bali's classical female dances. Although male dancers are all trained in Legong (and in the past some of the most famous Legong performers were men), it is unusual to see a male dancer perform it now, simply because it requires such a variety of refined, delicate movements.
"It's a basic dance for women," Bandem explains over the phone from the very un-Bali-like Worcester, where he's a visiting professor at Holy Cross. "When girls first learn Balinese dancing, they do this Legong dance, because it has the complete vocabulary of movements: standing movements, walking movements, and very energetic, expressive eye and hand movements, which are very elegant and beautiful, and the choreography in this case will be very intricate."
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I am not too worried about bacon nor these Levitical Laws -> and I work on Sundays too -> so I have broken my fair share of laws
What folks who have not studied the Old and New Testaments faiil to mention re: Jesus and the Levitical Laws or Laws of Moses or Mocaic Laws
Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets; I came not to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished Mt. 5:17-18.
Jesus did not destroy the Levitical Laws but he did not say we had to honour everyone of them either - the word destroy. It translates the Greek term kataluo, literally meaning to loose down. The term can carry the extended meaning of to overthrow, i.e., to render vain, deprive of success. In classical Greek, it was used in connection with institutions, laws, etc., to convey the idea of to deprive of force or to invalidate.
The law and the prophets are synonymous terms for "all the Scriptures" (Luke 24:27).
God told Saint Peter that foods that were once unclean are now clean -> the very foods that Peter thought were unsanctified, God said were sanctified.
Acts 10:9-15
About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. Then a voice told him, Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.
Surely not, Lord! Peter replied. I have never eaten anything impure or unclean. The voice spoke to him a second time, Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.
I could go on for pages explaining the differnce between Civil, Ceremonial and Moral Laws. Suffice it to say that... we have to understand that God's people Israel missed the "spirit" of why God gave them the Laws of Moses -> they lived a life of check marks on checklists. this is not freedom and this is not liberty.
Yet Yet Yet the moral demands of Moses' law are no more or less stringent than, and in no way fundamentally different from, the New Testament ethic of love. Jesus simply amplifies the moral content of the OT law, but it does not abrogate or change any of it.
The sermon on the mount is a good example Matt 5 of what God wants us to focus our attention on.
Again I will stress that God cares more about our relationship with him, than eatiing bacon or working on Sunday. When it comes to morals, , morals still take a back seat to "knowing God" which in part is one's faith put in action.


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The New Century, a quartet of related short plays by Paul Rudnick, takes its name from the discount department store Century 21, the Lower Manhattan incarnation of which the playwright perceived still shining in the smoke and grit generated by the 2001 fall of its neighbor the World Trade Center. There is something cut-rate, too, about Rudnick's attempt to marry flamboyant gay cliché to hope for a post-9/11 world in this new theater piece, which debuted at Lincoln Center last spring and is now in its area premiere from SpeakEasy Stage Company (at the Calderwood Pavilion through February 14). That does not change the fact that, as a purveyor of one-liners, Rudnick is more Neiman Marcus than Century 21. And before it starts straining toward a saccharine profundity in its final, title vignette, The New Century fields what amounts to a trio of comic monologues featuring likable eccentrics — all of whom have been grazed by if not immersed in gay culture — that will leave you feeling like the happy victim of an assault by Jackie Mason, Dame Edna, and Oscar Wilde.
And that triumvirate has nothing on Rudnick's three bearers-up: Helene Nadler, self-proclaimed most tolerant mother of all time; flaming Mr. Charles, cast from Manhattan into the wilderness of Palm Beach for being "too gay"; and Decatur housewife Barbara Ellen Diggs, a dedicated craftsperson drowning her maternal sorrows in bric-a-brac and cake decoration. In what is not quite a play, these survivors address us from various public forums: for Helene a meeting of the Massapequa chapter of Parents of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, the Transgendered, the Questioning, the Curious, the Creatively Concerned, and Others; for Mr. Charles the middle-of-the-night cable-access TV show whose spotlight he shares with a beefcake companion named Shane; and for Barbara Ellen, who's surrounded by her cockamamie creations, the Junior Chamber of Commerce she is turning on to "the critical importance of crafts in our culture." How these three wind up warming the cockles of one another's hearts in the maternity ward of a Manhattan hospital in the final vignette would strain both lumbago and credibility to chart.
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I really appreciate all the advice and help everyone. I have a good training group and local help but I was getting suggestions to go backwards and look for holes since the dog looked confused when he was playing dumb.
After reading these replies, talking to Bridget and reflecting on this situation a little, I think I have a few shortcomings to focus on.
This dog is the most eager to please and fastest of the three I have trained. He was also so bonkers about retrieving when he was younger (backflips, barking, etc.) that I completely stopped doing marks and much fun stuff for awhile. He continued to have a bark problem on marks with any extra excitement at the line so I actually did everything possible to make marks a mundane task. I continued through the program without many marks.
When we got to FTP it was hard to actually force him to the pile other than from front sit since he was going so fast. FTP actually made him slow down a bit and I am not sure he understands the complete concept. I now wait patiently for any inkling of an opportunity (slow down/hesitation) to establish force to the pile but it may only happen once a session.
Indirect pressure is tough to time correctly due to his speed and eagerness to please. He will watch my hands, facial expressions and general body language to try and anticipate what is going to happen next. He anticipates so quickly that if I slack in the slightest, I am behind him in the correction.
He also got twice as much obedience work as I would normally do due to me trying to tame some of his craziness and the extra long winter. His line manners are now test worthy but to the detriment of his boredom.
I have lightened up on drills and added lots more enthusiasm to his successes. I heel-nick-heeled him almost all the way to the pile yesterday and have not had a no go since. I have already seen an improvement in his attitude but he still will not focus on a line. When I lined him up he may look at the line but will quickly look away to one side or another. I sent him anyway and he went like a bat out of hell each time and did the task at his typical 110% each way.
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faced problem trying to run Realplayer 9 on Fedora? check this link out : Personal Fedora Core 1 Installation Guide. Shall try this when i have time, but my brother said it is working...
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Solo in Sao Paulo
Trip Start Jul 06, 2005
31Trip End Mar 10, 2006
Insanity. Abolute, unbridled madness. For 5-7 days, depends who you ask and where you were, this city just lost its mind and threw the biggest no holds barred fiesta on the face of the planet; people in crazy costumes everywhere, water guns, spray foam, everything decorated, EVERYBODY drinking, performances and street art all over the place. We were front and centre and I can assure you are still not recovered several days later!
Rockin� the Bloco - Olodum
Salvador Carnaval is split into several routes
We ended up joining the Olodum bloco, which meant for about $70 US we got to get inside the ropes and follow their band/drummers as they paraded around the city. It�s impossible to describe, but there are seriously over 2 million people in the streets and its damn near impossible, and occasionally dangerous to try to follow a group from outside their ropes. They provide security, a mobile bathroom and drinks truck, and a big ol' party.
To add to the fun, if you pay to get in you get a t-shirt identifying you as with the "in" crowd - or in our case a whole crazy-ass outfit. Massive shorts, big shirt, a hat, and a sash - all in white decorated with the red, green, and yellow colours of African pride
So called because if you don�t join a bloco you just bash around in the crowd trying to follow, or just watch them pass, from the outside. This can be fun too, if you have the energy - we did it on our off days from the bloco (only went 2 of 5 nights with Olodum). It involves a constant barrage of hands in your pockets as we each got pickpocketed about 50 times a night (most had SOMETHING stolen, but we were smart enough not to carry much we didn�t have to). It also involves keeping your head up for the inevitable fights in the crowd or just random assaults.
These kids fake fight/dance through the crowd constantly, mostly along the ropes, and eventually someone just lets go and they�re off. I got punched in the jaw once, and everyone else in our crew was hit at least once if not more on different nights
And then it was over
The rest of the week was a blur of our own little side parties, very late nights, and WAY too much fun. Rounded up our time there with a great party on our street for ANOTHER local holiday the day after Carnaval. Danced our arses off until the wee hours with the locals and everyone just had a wicked time. Perfect end to an amazing time, and essentially the end to our groups time together.
I have to tell you, I was not prepared at all for how HARD it was going to be to say goodbye to these kids.
Mark was first off in the morning, and neither of us slept after the party before I sent him off at the station at 6:30 AM. Strange, I�ve spent EVERY DAY for 8 months with the kid, and thats it...gone until London. It was unreal amigo, couldn't have had a better companion and would do it all over again in a heartbeat.
Roya was next off, and this time with Simon and Tyler in tow we took her off to the airport. So sad, again, to see one of my new very favourite people on the planet head off back to London. I know you touched all of our hearts and I�m sure we come out of it as better people for the experience
So yeah, by hear I was getting pretty down... The rest of the crew however, had my back. As I prepared to leave to find my 36 hour bus to Sao Paulo, pretty down and out, it seemed that EVERYONE was going to come with me! How cool is that, and how very much in the character of this incredible group.
Simon, we go way back to the beginnings of this trip and can�t tell you how lucky I feel that things worked out to have you with us for the end. Tore it up in the beginning and tore it down in style to finish off.
Alan my friend, you are one of a kind...not that I think the world could handle another. When I think back to fond memories of the trip our times in Patagonia are right at the top of the list, wish we�d had you longer in Salvador but sure as hell wouldn�t have been the same without you. See you in Vancouver - to our new prince of mint!
Tyler - So now what do you think about changing your plans to stick with this nutty bunch?! Wicked to have you along and a perfect complement to the group. So awesome to meet someone on the trip you know you�ll keep as a good friend at home
Danielle and Becky, SO glad we managed to catch up again in Salvador. Great to see you again - Danielle, thanks so much for coming to the terminal and happy belated bday, really sorry I missed it. Becky, hope you feel better and look forward to seeing BOTH of you when you get home! Scott and Husseni, as newbies to the group it was well beyond the call of duty to come down as well. Great to meet you both, and Scott we WILL see you in London.
Saving grace is I get to see Simon, Roya and Mark along with some other crazy kids from the trip again once I�m London side. For now, deal with the present I guess.
Homeward bound
Ok, not yet exactly, but feels like it. 36 hours on a bus later and Sao Paulo is a nice enough city. Lots going on, tons of restaurants and clubs, theatre and all that jazz I can�t afford right now! Its HUGE, and makes not so bad a place to just wander around by yourself and reflect on great friends and an amazing trip, and...well lets just say I have a lot to reflect on for the next little while ;-)
Just hitting a couple museums, grabbing a couple souvenirs and a lot of sleep...might try to catch the beach in the next few days...we�ll see. Well, miss you all lots, but those on the homeward side, not for long! No pics this time as the computer leaves a lot to be desired, but will get some up sooner or later. Take care all,


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Type 1 diabetes is a lifelong (chronic) disease in which there is a high level of sugar (glucose) in the blood.
Insulin-dependent diabetes; Juvenile onset diabetes; Diabetes - type 1
Type 1 diabetes can occur at any age. It is most often diagnosed in children, adolescents, or young adults.
Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas by special cells, called beta cells. The pancreas is behind the stomach. Insulin is needed to move blood sugar (glucose) into cells. There, it is stored and later used for energy. In type 1 diabetes, beta cells produce little or no insulin.
Without enough insulin, glucose builds up in the bloodstream instead of going into the cells. The body is unable to use this glucose for energy. This leads to the symptoms of type 1 diabetes.
The exact cause of type 1 diabetes is unknown. Most likely it is an autoimmune disorder. This is a condition that occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue. With type 1 diabetes, an infection or another trigger causes the body to mistakenly attack the cells in the pancreas that make insulin. Type 1 diabetes can be passed down through families.
High Blood Sugar
These symptoms may be the first signs of type 1 diabetes, or they may occur when blood sugar is high:
For other people, these serious warning symptoms may be the first signs of type 1 diabetes, or they may happen when blood sugar is very high (diabetic ketoacidosis):
Low Blood Sugar
Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) can develop quickly in people with diabetes who are taking insulin. Symptoms usually appear when blood sugar level falls below 70 mg/dL. Watch for:
Diabetes is diagnosed with the following blood tests:
Ketone testing is also sometimes used. The ketone test is done using a
The following tests or exams will help you and your doctor monitor your diabetes and prevent problems caused by diabetes:
Because type 1 diabetes can start quickly and the symptoms can be severe, people who have just been diagnosed may need to stay in the hospital.
If you have just been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, you may need to have a checkup each week until you have good control over your blood sugar. Your health care provider will review the results of your home blood sugar monitoring and urine testing. Your provider will also look at your diary of meals, snacks, and insulin injections. It may take a few weeks to match the insulin doses to your meal and activity schedule.
As the disease gets more stable, you will have fewer follow-up visits. Visiting your health care provider is very important so you can monitor any long-term problems from diabetes.
You are the most important person in managing your diabetes. You should know the basic steps to diabetes management:
Insulin lowers blood sugar by allowing it to leave the bloodstream and enter cells. Everyone with type 1 diabetes must take insulin every day.
Insulin must be injected under the skin using a syringe, insulin pen or pump. It cannot be taken by mouth because the acid in the stomach destroys insulin.
Insulin types differ in how fast they start to work and how long they last. The health care provider will choose the best type of insulin for you and will tell you at what time of day to use it. Some types of insulin may be mixed together in an injection to get the best blood glucose control. Other types of insulin should never be mixed. You may need insulin shots from one to four times a day.
Your health care provider or diabetes nurse educator will teach you how to give insulin injections. At first, a child's injections may be given by a parent or other adult. By age 14, most children can give their own injections.
People with diabetes need to know how to adjust the amount of insulin they are taking:
By testing their blood sugar level, people with type 1 diabetes learn which foods and activities raise or lower their sugar level most. This helps them adjust their insulin doses to specific meals or activities to prevent blood sugar from becoming too high or low.
The American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetic Association have information for planning healthy, balanced meals. It can help to talk with a registered dietitian or nutrition counselor.
Regular exercise helps control the amount of sugar in the blood. It also helps burn extra calories and fat to reach a healthy weight.
Talk to your health care provider before starting any exercise program. People with type 1 diabetes must take special steps before, during, and after physical activity or exercise.
Checking your blood sugar level yourself and writing down the results tells you how well you are managing your diabetes. Talk to your doctor and diabetes educator about how often to check.
To check your blood sugar level, you use a device called a glucose meter. Usually, you prick your finger with a small needle called a lancet to get a tiny drop of blood. You place the blood on a test strip and put the strip into the meter. The meter gives you a reading that tells you the level of your blood sugar.
Keep a record of your blood sugar for yourself and your doctor or nurse. The numbers will help if you have problems managing your diabetes. You and your doctor should set a target goal for your blood sugar level at different times during the day. You should also plan what to do when your blood sugar is too low or high.
Low blood sugar is called hypoglycemia. Blood sugar levels below 70 mg/dL are too low and can harm you.
People with diabetes are more likely than those without diabetes to have foot problems. Diabetes damages the nerves. This can make you less able to feel pressure on the foot. You may not notice a foot injury until you get a severe infection.
Diabetes can also damage blood vessels. Small sores or breaks in the skin may become deeper skin sores (ulcers). The affected limb may need to be amputated if these skin ulcers do not heal or become larger, deeper, or infected.
To prevent problems with your feet:
Your doctor may prescribe medicines or other treatments to reduce your chance of developing eye disease, kidney disease, and other conditions that are common in people with diabetes. These conditions are called complications of diabetes.
There are many diabetes resources that can help you understand more about type 1 diabetes. You can also learn ways to manage your condition so that you can live well with diabetes.
Diabetes is a lifelong disease and there is no cure.
Tight control of blood glucose can prevent or delay diabetes complications. But these problems can occur, even in people with good diabetes control.
After many years, diabetes can lead to other serious problems:
Call 911 if you have:
Call your health care provider or go to the emergency room if you have symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis.
Also call your doctor if you have:
You can treat early signs of hypoglycemia at home by eating sugar or candy, or by taking glucose tablets. If signs of hypoglycemia continue or your blood glucose level stays below 60 mg/dL, go to the hospital emergency room.
Type 1 diabetes cannot be prevented. There is no screening test for type 1 diabetes in people who have no symptoms.
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|Lawn mowing, snow removal, and alfalfa harvesting are all surface-covering tasks; that is, members of a class of tasks which require a vehicle to be guided over a surface while processing the surface in some way. The planning community has recognized for some time that surface covering tasks can be usefully addressed as a general category. We believe that this viewpoint is useful for perception as well; in particular, we claim that surface covering tasks share both a common set of perception needs and some common domain knowledge that can be exploited to meet those needs.
To substantiate this claim, we have developed methods for addressingthree different surface covering perception tasks: boundary sensing, end-of-row detection, and obstacle detection. The boundary sensing problem is explored in some depth, using three different original algorithms: a simple model-fitting method, a curvature postulation method derived from the road-following system RALPH, and a method based on Bayesian statistics. Using exam-ples from the Demeter automated harvester project, we demonstrate the advantages of adaptive algorithms over static ones and discuss several methods for implementing an adaptive capability. As a sideline, a partial solution is offered for detecting and compensating for shadows which would otherwise disrupt the algorithms.
This work is demonstrated on images from several surface-covering domains: alfalfa harvesting by color segmentation, snow removal, by brightness discrimination, and trash com-paction by texture segmentation. The most significant contribution, however, is the development of a commercially viable guidance system for the Demeter harvester; as of this writing, over 80 acres of alfalfa have been harvested autonomously from fields in Kan-sas, California, and Pennsylvania. New Holland has plans to offer the vision system as part of a commercially available product for sale in the year 2000.
Associated Center(s) / Consortia:
National Robotics Engineering Center
Associated Project(s): Demeter and Row Crop Harvesting
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|Mark Ollis, "Perception Algorithms for a Harvesting Robot," doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-97-43, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1997
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Album Reviews:
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Uncut (magazine) (p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Phil Collins closes proceedings with a reserved and tender 'Tearing and Breaking'."
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Tributee: John Martyn.
Tributee: John Martyn.
Personnel: Chris Nickson (vocals).
Liner Note Author: Chris Blackwell.
Recording information: Artisan Recording, Birmingham, UK; Beechpark Studios; Big Ocean Studios, UK; Bigbox Walworth, London; Butcher Boy, Chicago, IL; CRC, Chicago, IL; Doon; Farriers Cottage, Scotland; Forth Street, Edinburgh; Grouse Lodge; Microcosm, UK; OceanWay; Pasley Park; Phil's Place; Sarm Studis, London; Strongroom Studios, London; Studio De La Gnome, UK; The Cellar; The Church Crouch End, England; The Peak, UK; Woolengrange.
Animation: Mark Rizzo.
Director: Lou Hinkhouse.
Editor: Lou Hinkhouse.
Illustrators: Lou Hinkhouse; Michael Page.
Photographers: Tim Dickeson; Lawrence Watson.
It's a forgone conclusion that tribute albums are virtually always a mixed bag. From the jump it's worth saying that Johnny Boy Would Love This: A Tribute to John Martyn fits that bill as well. That said, there are reasons that this recording is quite special, and not necessarily for the array of artists who participate. First, kudos should go to producer Jim Tullio, who guided this project to fruition, beginning right after the songwriter's death; he was a friend and collaborator who he helped Martyn complete his final studio album, Heaven and Earth. It seems that in respect to Martyn's memory, virtually every artist on this deluxe, beautifully presented, 30-track double-CD and DVD package adhered to the thing that Martyn did himself: letting the song dictate its presentation and get out of the way. The songs presented here cover from the entire range of Martyn's career, and the number of stand-out tracks is surprising. Disc one includes Beck's faithful yet futuristic reading of "Stormbringer," Clarence Fountain and Sam Butler of the Blind Boys of Alabama's foreboding read of "Glorious Fool," Robert Smith's deeply emotive "Small Hours," Ted Barnes' whimsical "Over the Hill," and Lisa Hannigan's stripped-to-the-bone take of "Couldn't Love You More," accompanied by a harmonium and Tullio's guitar. Morcheeba's Skye Edwards bravely took on Martyn's signature tune, "Solid Air," and acquits herself beautifully by keeping it sparse and retaining its jazz phrasing and haunted atmosphere. The Swell Season does a fine "I Don't Want to Know," backed by Martyn's road band. Cheryl Wilson's "You Can Discover" actually features Martyn playing guitar with Steve Rodby on bass from an unreleased album session of hers. Disc two offers Beth Orton's languid "Go Down Easy," and the late South African poet and songwriter (and Martyn contemporary) Syd Kitchen doing a gorgeous, inventive "Fine Lines," a true highlight. Vashti Bunyan, who was first mesmerized by Martyn in the late '60s, offers a lithe, plainspoken "Head and Heart"; Judie Tzuke, whom Martyn admired, offers a faithful "Hurt in Your Heart." Tullio's version of "Road to Ruin," is rough, ready, and dead on; it was to have been sung by Levon Helm (who had a long personal and professional relationship with the songwriter), but he was unable to contribute because of vocal problems. Closing it out is "Tearing and Breaking" by Phil Collins; he played with Martyn on several crucial albums (including the classic Grace & Danger), and was a close personal friend to the end. His obviously deep affection is evident in every note of this breathtaking performance. Despite some weak entries, this is one tribute recording well worth obtaining for its many treasures. It may be a vain hope that a project like this will spread Martyn's reputation and he'll get in death what he richly deserved in life, but it's a hope nonetheless. [The DVD contains numerous anecdotes, stories, and tributes from many different artists influenced by Martyn including Tullio, Edwards, Glen Hansard, Wilson, Butler, and others. The real treats, however, are the interspersed clips of Martyn playing, and his unaccompanied acoustic performance of "Cocaine Lil" which closes it out.] ~ Thom Jurek


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More than 18 million people across the region do not have enough to eat. The food and nutrition crisis has been exacerbated by the conflict in northern Mali and recent floods which have affected some 3 million people. About 320,000 people have fled the fighting in Mali to neighbouring countries including Niger and Burkina Faso.
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Some things I have learnt about optimising Python
I've been enjoying writing my research code in Python over the past couple of years. I haven't had to put much effort into optimising it, so I never bothered, but just recently I've been working on a graph-search algorithm which can get quite heavy - there was one script I ran which took about a week.
So I've been learning how to optimise my Python code. I've got it running roughly 10 or 20 times faster than it was doing, which is definitely worth it. Here are some things I've learnt:
The golden rule is to profile your code before optimising it; don't waste your effort. The cProfile module is surprisingly easy to use, and it shows you where your code is using the most CPU. Here's an example of what I do on the commandline:
# run your heavy code for a good while, with the cProfile module logging it ('streammodels.py' is the script I'm profiling): python -m cProfile -o scriptprof streammodels.py # then to analyse it: python import pstats p = pstats.Stats('scriptprof') p.strip_dirs().sort_stats('cumulative').print_stats(30) p.strip_dirs().sort_stats('time').print_stats(30)
There are some lovely features in Python which are nice ways to code, but once you want your code to go fast you need to avoid them :( - boo hoo. It's a bit of a shame that you can't tell Python to act as an "optimising compiler" and automatically do this stuff for you. But here are two key things to avoid:
- list-comprehensions are nice and pythonic but they're BAD for fast code because they create an array even if you don't need it. Instead, use things like map() or filter() which process data without constructing a new array. (Also use "xrange" rather than "range" if you just want to iterate a range rather than keeping the resulting list.)
- lambdas and locally-defined functions (by which I mean something like "def myfunc():" as a local thing inside a function or method) are lovely for flexible programming, but when your code is ready to run fast and solid, you will often need to replace these with more "ordinary" functions. The reason is that you don't want these functions constructed afresh every time you use them; you want them constructed once and then just used.
Shock for scientists and other ex-matlabbers: using numpy isn't necessarily a good idea. For example, I lazily used numpy's "exp" and "log" when I could have used the math module and avoided dragging in the heavy array-processing facilities that I didn't need. After I changed my code to not actually use numpy (I didn't need it - I wasn't really using array/matrix maths for this particular code), I went much faster.
Cython is easy to use and speeds up your python code by turning it into C and compiling it for you - who could refuse? you can also add static typing things to speed it up even more but that makes it not pure python code so ignore that until you need it.
Name-lookups are apparently expensive in python (though I don't think the profiler really shows the effect this, so I can't tell if it's important). there's no harm in storing something in a local variable -- even a function, e.g. "detfunc = scipy.linalg.det".
So now I know these things my Python runs much faster. I'm sure there are many more tricks of the trade. For me as a researcher, I need to balance the time saved by optimising against the flexibility to change the code on a whim and sto be able to hack around with it, so I don't want to go too far down the optimisation rabbit-hole. The benefit of Python is its readability and hackability. It's particularly handy, for example, that Cython can speed up my code without me having to make any weird changes to it.
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Quite in contrast with the otherwise thrifty spirit of the moment, all of a sudden it's in fashion among baseball clubs to eat money. Detroit cut loose Gary Sheffield with the understanding that they'll still have to pay him $14 million. The Phillies topped that by dropping Geoff Jenkins and Adam Eaton, for a grand total of $17.15 million in free money for those two. The Nationals, as in so many things, do what other teams do, only cheaper: they have cut ties with outfield William Moore "Wily Mo" Pena, kissing goodbye to $2 million smackers.
If nothing else, Pena's Nationals tenure is a testament to the fact that evaluating ballplayers is hard. I, for one, thought he'd be great after Washington got him from the Red Sox. Maybe Boston's return in that trade (a player to be named later) should have tipped me off. But I was overwhelmed with his awesome power and alleged ability to play center field.
He demonstrated the first of those abilities in his 37 games with the Nats in 2007. 8 homers and a .504 slugging percentage portended mad crazy dingers going forward. Or so I thought.
Injuries, bad coaching, and defensive ineptitude made Pena a less than desirable guy to have on the roster. Washington's glut of outfielders – there are five in camp who are clearly better – sealed the deal, and now he's just like anyone looking for a job. Well, anyone else who knows he's got a couple mil coming his way regardless.
My not very bold prediction: Pena will catch with someone. That team's bloggers will get kind of excited (excited for dingers!) and will then, a year or so later, say to themselves, "Oh, yeah – Wily Mo. What happened to that guy?"
The Stephen Strasburg saga has a chance to be one of those very rare stories that involves the Nationals but interests non-Nats fans. Seriously, it doesn't happen often. Can you imagine if the Smiley Gonzalez thing had happened to a team with a national profile? Anyway, the place to go for Strasburgia is the Nationals Farm Authority [1], which has that beat on lock. In particular, check out this analysis [2] of the much talked about $50 million dollar contract and its likelihood.
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Dear Mr. Dad: School just started this week and already, our 10-year old son's backpack is so heavy he can hardly lift it. I see a lot of other kids with wheely packs—should we get one for him?
A: Overloaded backpacks are responsible for an increasing amount of pain, injuries, and emergency room visits. National School Backpack Awareness Day is the third Wednesday in September. But I think the American Occupational Therapy Association (which created it) should move it a month earlier so parents can be aware of their kids' backpacks before the school year starts.
The easiest solution to the problem is to try to get two copies of all textbooks, especially the really heavy ones—one to keep at school, the other at home. If the school won't allow that, check into digital copies. Many publishers are making their books available for iPads and other tablets.
Let's start with wheely backpacks. They may seem like a good solution to the problem, but before buying one, consider this:
- A recent study compared the posture of kids with wheeled packs against those with regular ones. The wheely kids were actually more asymmetrical (meaning they were leaning to one side) and were putting more stress on their spine (by twisting) than kids with traditional packs.
- They still have to be lifted to get them in and out of cars and up and down stairs. And because of the wheels, it's tempting for kids to put even more stuff in them than they would with a regular pack.
- Some schools have banned them. They scuff floors, chip concrete, and ding up walls. They also cause traffic jams in hallways and because they're below eye level, are major tripping hazards.
Wheely or not, here are a few important guidelines:
- The pack should not weigh any more than 10 percent of your child's bodyweight. The recommendations used to be 10-15 percent, but a recent study found that even 10 percent compressed the discs in the back and caused the spine to curve unnaturally.
- If the backpack makes your child lean forward to carry it, it's too heavy, no matter how much it weighs. It's also too heavy if your child struggles when putting it on or taking it off.
- The pack itself should be made of a sturdy, lightweight material and have two thick straps. Thin straps can cut into the shoulder and cause pain or even pinch a nerve.
- Load heavier objects so they'll be closer to your child's back. And leave personal items at home or in a school locker (assuming it has an actual lock on it).
- Lift properly. That means bending the knees, being right in front of the pack when picking it up, and using both hands. Yanking a heavy object with one hand or from the side puts too much pressure on the spine.
- Wear it properly. Wearing a pack over one shoulder may look cool, but it can cause short- and long-term neck and back problems. If the pack has chest or waist straps, use them. They help distribute the weight of the pack more evenly. The pack should also be worn so it sits between the shoulder blades and not on the low back.
- Stow it properly. Some backpack-related injuries are the result of kids tripping over them.
Finally if your son complains of tingling, numbness, or pain before, during, or after wearing the pack, have him stop wearing the pack completely until his pediatrician can examine him.


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Moon Doings
updated: Jan 21, 2013, 10:20 AM
By Chuck McPartlin
On Monday evening, the Moon will be very close to the planet Jupiter,
so go out and take a look!
The Moon was bright on Sunday night, so I took some shots of craters
and Tranquillity Base. The large dark areas on the Moon were thought
to be oceans and seas in ancient times, but are now known to be large
frozen pools of basaltic lava that oozed up and filled in very large
impact craters from the Moon's younger days, when it had a molten core.
At a diameter of only about 2160 miles, the Moon is much smaller than
Earth. You could put about 50 Moons into a hollow Earth. With its smaller
mass, the Moon also has less gravity at its surface - only about a sixth
of what you feel at home. That lesser gravity means you can dig really
deep holes before the rock slumps, which is why some of the following
crater depths sound pretty impressive.
The first image is of the area where the first manned lunar landing
occurred in July of 1969. There is a feature just left of the center of
the Apollo 11 image that looks like a fish jumping up to grab a small
cookie. The cookie is the crater named Moltke, about 4 miles across
and 4265 feet deep. Apollo 11 landed just up and left from Moltke.
The large darker area is Mare Tranquillitatis, the Sea of Tranquillity.
In the second image, the largest crater along the terminator, at
lower left, is Clavius, about 140 miles across and 11483 feet deep.
The prominent crater with the mountain in the middle above Clavius
is Tycho, about 54 miles across and 15748 feet deep. The central peak
is just under a mile high. It's a young crater, and is the one with the
spray of bright debris that looks like a navel at Full Moon.
The crater on the terminator in the third image is Copernicus,
another young crater about 58 miles across and 12467 feet deep.
Above and right from it is Eratosthenes, at the end of the Apennine
Mountain chain. Eratosthenes is about 36 miles across and 11811 feet
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