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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:05 am
Post subject: Snapping scapula anyone?
That's a technical term.
Shoulders sure take a beating in this sport.
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:41 am
Post subject: Re: Snapping scapula anyone?
beaglebuddy wrote:
That's a technical term.
Shoulders sure take a beating in this sport.
Not quite that but shoulder dislocation happening easily ones in a while when I fall. Over years learned how to pop it back by myself and then continue the session. It is yet very annoying. Both of us should see a doctor on that. THere are non-surgical and surgical (if the former fails) ways to fix that. Again, only a doctor can say what to do as each situation is personal.
Good luck.
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:52 am
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I've had 3 shoulder separations of the right shoulder, one of the left.
2 collarbone breaks each side.
1 dislocation of the right side.
For years (20-15 years ago, I could not brush my teeth without the elbow supported by the other arm....either arm).
Shoulder's have been popping and snapping with any kind of movement since 1997.
This is my 29th year of windsurfing, racing for 3, did the speed trials circuit, wave sailed for 2 and 3 years after that.
No biggie, just don't deathgrip with your whole hand. Use your fingers.
9 meter + sails can get hard to jibe.
Putting my boards back into the van is the most dangerous moment for my shoulders.
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All that's the primary reason I gave up dirt bikes. Pro football pads from neck to forearms to knees can do only so much at desert racing speeds.
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For me, it's the dreaded first turn in 250 motocross. Not bad in 125 classes, fine in 500/Open, but 250's get all the hyped farmer kids let out for the weekend adrenaline. I"m always a top 5 starter, so get crashed out from the back lots, then piled on. The pileling on seems to cause most of the injuries, as the initial impact is just lever bender stuff.
Once, did in a collarbone on my own, hitting a rectangular rock underneat the sand at Marysville's RiverFrontPark.
I'm the slowest learner ever, as it took me over 300 races to finally make 125 Expert.
Made VetExpert my first year in Vets.
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:29 pm
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For me, it's the dreaded first turn in 250 motocross
For me it was anything that put me over the bars, through the swingarm, inside the gas tank, into a 6' prickly pear, off a cliff, or face-first on slickrock at speeds from 15 to 90 mph. I came upon a bud hollering for help because his helmeted head was stuck (and being drawn in even further) between his Bultaco's rear fender and knobby tire, his full-face helmet's face guard pressed against the tire, with his engine at half throttle and the tranny in gear, watching the knobs eat through the helmet face bar towards his face.
[Somebody must have stopped to help, 'cause next time I saw him he still had all his teeth and lips. (But, Robert, ... it was a
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:48 pm
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Yeah, I drove the truck in support of DaveMorgan, a 250 Intermediate CrossCountry rider from District36 for 3 Barstow/Vegas's. I could never get around the idea of hitting a suckerbush at 85 mph, blind in the dust, thru a path you've never gone thru before, all the while hoping you don't get cross body blocked by the guys you're trying to pass and the guys trying to pass you.
How about those overpass/underpass combinations? Pure in the dust blind, approaching at 60+, and funnelling thru a tunnel 20' wide.
When I watched MalcomSmith in the desert, I knew that wasn't for me.
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:37 pm
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zirtaeb wrote:
all the while hoping you don't get cross body blocked by the guys you're trying to pass and the guys trying to pass you
I've done that only once, just off the line in first gear as he wheelied into my path. (But, Ed ... it's a
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Sorry about your topic, beaglebuddy. Guess I blew that to hell, but I think there's a valid and relevant point here, that short of traumatic injury, we should be able to keep our shoulders healthy enough for WSing for
decades. Surprisingly, however, frequent WSing may not do it if and when our rotator cuff/scapula stabilizers age and become lax enough to let the scapula wander from its prescribed position. It's literally the foundation for all our arm motions, and when it wanders, every exertion involving our arms goes to hell in a wide range of pains, weakness, injury, disability, etc. It's important, and fortunately easy and quick, to keep our scapula stabilizers strong. It's tougher to bring them back than to keep them strong in the first place. We should all Google, choose, and use some rotator cuff/scapula stabilizer exercises now for the long haul. There's no excuse not to, as they are very low-effort, quick, and simple. No sweat, gym clothes, huffing or puffing, or special equipment required.
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Like bending over doing little circles, progressively getting bigger as you get stronger.
Brushing teeth, combing hair, pulling up your pants, lifting 5/8" sheetrock, in 4x8' sheets over your head, mudding and sanding ceilings, pruning trees over your head, or hitting tennis serves as hard as you used to be able to....
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:57 pm
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It's a bursitis condition, in my case actually not related to windsurfing.
The bursa under the scapula between the subscapularis muscle and the back ribcage becomes inflamed and cause a snapping or clicking as the shoulder is moved and the muscle moves over the inflamed bursa or perhaps a bone spur on the scapula. It causes pain and stiffness radiating upward towards the neck.
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Lord McNair rose to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will support the proposal to incorporate a provision banning discrimination on the grounds of race and religion in the revised Treaty of European Union.
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If we look at the moves which are already afoot in the direction of the Question I have put, we find that the Irish presidency is putting forward a range of options to amend the treaty in 1997 to deal with racial and religious discrimination. I shall look first at race. Amendment is long overdue. There is no mention of racism in the original Treaty of Rome of 1957. Perhaps it was too soon after a war where racism had figured so largely, and it was inconceivable that it could become a problem in Europe.
The European Commission urged in its White Paper on social policy of July 1994 that there should be such an amendment. The European Parliament has approved the idea on many occasions since 1991. The opportunity has come with the present Inter-governmental Conferences and the certainty that a new treaty will be ready for signing sometime next year.
I turn to the context in which the matter rests. The main aims of the IGCs are to deal with the enlargement of the Community, to reform the Community's own institutions and those of the European Union, which, though that includes the same countries as the Community, is a distinct entity, and to find common measures for dealing with unemployment and poverty.
At the same time, however, the existing workings of the Community and the Union are coming under review. The arguments for a race amendment which are put forward by the CRE and which I endorse include the fact that the EU's commitment to human rights for citizens is incomplete without a commitment to outlaw racial discrimination, and that free movement in European territory is impeded when there is a different standard of protection against racial discrimination in each country. In that respect, we must acknowledge that we, the British, are the leaders in the field. Our legislation - the Race Relations Act 1976 - is far superior to anything that exists in the European Community. We can be very proud of that.
The next reason why the proposal is essential is that racial discrimination is economically inefficient because it wastes talent and increases spending on social welfare. Furthermore, racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism are socially divisive and are a threat to peace and security.
In addition, resident third country nationals - that is, nationals of a non-EU country who are resident in an EU country - deserve the same standards of protection against discrimination as citizens. Our Race Relations Act has shown the importance of such protection in Britain. Women who are third country nationals are protected against discrimination on the grounds of their gender but they are not protected against racial discrimination if that occurs.
Proposals for exactly what form the treaty modifications should take are many and I do not propose to go into them in detail tonight. EPIC, the European Parliamentary Intercultural Committee, of which I am an executive committee member, and which is chaired by my noble friend Lady Seear - we all wish her a full and rapid recovery - has put forward several amendments. Perhaps the best known of the suggestions is the Starting Point, which was put forward by the Starting Line Group. This is an informal committee which includes legal experts from different European countries. The purpose was to draft a text which would be a model for a European Community directive prohibiting racial and religious discrimination. The group was concerned to test possible objections from representatives from different national legal systems and constitutions. The agreed text, therefore, does not represent any one national or religious point of view and it requires a treaty amendment because the Community is unable to propose such a directive without specific authorisation in the Community treaty.
For reference, the model amendment is called the Starting Point. It proposes, first, to add to Article 3a a new article which seeks:
"the elimination of discrimination against persons or groups of persons, whether of the European Union or not, on the grounds of race, colour, religion, or national, social or ethnic origin and the promotion of harmonious relations between such persons or groups of persons".It also proposes a new Part 1a entitled Non-discrimination between the existing Part 1 and Part 2, but I do not expect the Minister to speak in detail about that. I mentioned it so that we know what we are talking about.
We should remember that current estimates of the ethnic minority population of the European Union as a whole suggest that approximately 16 million people would stand to gain from such a treaty amendment, considering only racial discrimination. That is more than the population of some of the smaller countries such as Belgium and Holland. It is a large number of people.
I turn to religious discrimination, as distinct from discrimination on the grounds of race. Those who are members of minority religions - I refer to traditional Christian denominations and others - are experiencing a growing sense of oppression. As the House will be aware, the noble Lord, Lord Hylton, and I went to Germany to investigate discrimination in that country. But it is not only in Germany that religious intolerance is becoming commonplace. It is fair to say that almost all the minority religious groups which were banned by the Nazis and which survived that era are now under threat not only from the German authorities but also from the French. The Jehovah's Witnesses in particular are having a rough time in France, but they are not alone. Last year the French Minister of the Interior, apparently in a bid for popular support, boasted that he would take measures against the sects and listed 172, including the Mormons, the Seventh Day Adventists and many other Christian denominations. The list also included a small Tibetan community in the south of France which is almost certainly Buddhist. He has described it as a dangerous sect. That is most puzzling.
The proposal has historical precedents. I think not only of the religious hysteria of the Crusades but, going back to European history of the 12th and 13th centuries, recall that the hysteria against those who were regarded as witches began in southern France. The European country which seemed to specialise in that was what is now western Germany. The problems which are being caused would be resolved if we had the kind of measure that I am asking the Government to endorse.
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Looking for some information on basic functionality at this point, even if it is experimental. I am building a RPi3 Jukebox with a Schiit Modi 2 Uber USB DAC. It worked great hosting the Madsonic Server itself on the RPi3, but I would likely prefer the RPi3 to just be a Node rather than the entire Madsonic Server itself.
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Suffolk County Police Officer James Ellis receives a Certificate of Appreciation from the Copiague Chamber of Commerce. In response to Chamber inquiries, Officer Jim came to report to the membership on his efforts regarding "quality of life" issues of specific concern to the area surrounding Great Neck Rd just north and south of the LIRR station in Copiague.
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A flood of headlines on the debt debate that is raging on Capitol Hill offset a round of relatively upbeat economic data, launching the blue chips into the red for the fifth straight day.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 62.4 points, or 0.51%, to 12,240, the S&P 500 dipped 4.2 points, or 0.32%, to 1,301 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.5 points, or 0.05%, to 2,766. The FOX 50 dropped 3.5 points to 926.
Headlines from Washington, D.C. have captivated Wall Street in recent days as lawmakers have struggled to come to an agreement on how to begin cutting the deficit while also raising the debt ceiling.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is expected to vote on Speaker John Boehner's bill late on Thursday after a key procedural vote easily passed earlier in the day. The plan was revised on Wednesday after a score by the Congressional Budget Office found it would provide less spending cuts than expected. The vote is expected to be tight, with most Democrats likely to vote against and deep divisions within the GOP.
Even if the measure passes the House, it is likely to face strong opposition in the Senate, where the Democratic Party has control. Indeed, the Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to vote down the bill.
"As soon as the House completes its vote tonight, the Senate will move to take up that bill. It will be defeated," said Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid.
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Last week saw an example of canny construction work down at Saatchi & Saatchi's famous Charlotte Street offices – soon to be part-demolished to make way for a new retail development. It was as though its ambitious chief executive, Magnus Djaba,
a master baker in his domestic kitchen, had substituted the icing funnel for a trowel to cement the bricks the agency is missing. Following December's Outside Line acquisition, which plugged a gaping interactive and social media hole, Saatchis has moved to bring the Publicis agency Masius into the agency, reviving the rather faded Team Saatchi brand with a new offer.
A potent mixture of build and buy, I would say, that should ready the agency for future challenges. A few metres away, Saatchis' Publicis stablemate Kitcatt Nohr Digitas is a creation of the "buy" approach – emanating from a deal two years ago that saw Publicis acquire Kitcatt Nohr Alexander Shaw to merge with its ailing Digitas UK outpost.
This strengthened UK DigitasLBi proposition is dependent on Kitcatt Nohr holding itself together
Last week's global merger of Digitas with the recent Publicis acquisition LBi prompted many to ask: what next for Kitcatt Nohr? Marc Nohr, the chief executive, says it will be "business as usual" and that the 140- headcount agency will remain separate from the 600-strong LBi Shoreditch operation.
This makes sense. It allows Kitcatt Nohr, whose management team is thought to be tied into a lengthy earn-out, to retain its direct marketing/CRM credentials and to work with LBi where necessary on international opportunities.
In the past, LBi has been a proponent of the "buy" and merge model. It has tended to stick with acquired agency brands for a few months before discarding them. This may have presented cultural challenges but helped to create the appearance of a cohesive single agency brand that was ready for sale.
DigitasLBi has a reputation for the heavy-lifting, digital infrastructure work. This should complement the solid CRM offer from Kitcatt Nohr. Creative highlights may be few and far between, but its Waitrose and Starbucks work has picked up direct response awards.
This strengthened UK DigitasLBi proposition is dependent, though, on Kitcatt Nohr girding its loins and holding itself together. Looming large in the "business as usual" cited by Nohr is an attempt to retain its John Lewis Partnership CRM accounts.
Should the agency lose business, and confidence, the long-term case for a full UK merger with the acquisitive and hungry DigitasLBi could become compelling. And that's not a word frequently used about Digitas outside its US centre of excellence.


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SoC2007 project Batch Processing
- 1 Foreword
- 2 Summary
- 3 Description and features
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Additional notes
Virtual reality together with panoramic images has gained popularity over the recent years with the development of supporting technologies. This novelty has rapidly grown and today it deeply affects our lives. Specially the World Wide Web is becoming increasingly interactive with the use of interactive panoramic images, interaction with mobile phones, flash movies,... On the other hand, the use of panoramic image in journalism, adveritising and marketing is gaining popularity.
Software industry has, in order to fulfill interactivity demands, responded with a number of open-source and commercial applications. One of them is also hugin, an open-source front end for panorama tools, and an application used for creating, stitching, and processing panoramic images.
In the past and present time, batch processing has been one of many ways to increase the speed of processing. Its common feature is grouping similar tasks together and then executing them. The main advantage of batch processing is the reduction of time needed to execute and organize a large amount of similar tasks.
In terms of panoramic images, batch processing can be applied to a common process of stitching together input images to an output panoramic image. This process can be repeated as long as there are input images and project files in the preselected directory.
Photographers like to take panoramas in series and the result would be a large set of images, that need to be grouped together. Firstly, the batch processor needs to determine heuristically which ones belong to the same panorama, then create the project file, apply the right template(according to exif information), optimize and output images in the selected format. What is more, the batch processor also needs to check whether existing projects are also located in that folder and also process them.
PTButcher is project that carries out this idea. It implements features for batch project building, batch stitching and overall project management of hugin projects(or any other related project files). It is a part of hugin, and also a standalone script that can be invoked from the command line.
PTButcher's aim is to provide a solid framework for professional photographers and advanced users of hugin that produce panoramas almost every day. They urge to have a fast and effective workflow and also something less time consuming than the existing hugin GUI that does not offer any batch processing.
I am proposing this project in order that Google funds its development through the Summer of Code 2007.
Description and features
Here is a brief description of all features and possible ways of implementation.
hugin project manager
In order to make hugin 'de facto' application for panoramic images, hugin needs a good project organization and management. This includes: a list of all available projects, the ability to open, close and delete projects, in addition to that, users can copy or move the projects into another location. Users can optimize or stitch all the selected projects with a simple click. When this features will be implemented hugin will become an IDE for panoramic images.
Batch processing
Here is a timeline of PTButcher's batch processing execution:
- read the files in a directory
- determine heuristically which ones belong to the same project
- set up a project file
- run CP generator
- determine based on the CP's if the files really belong together
- apply template
- optimize
- output in different formats (layerd equirect photoshop; layered rectilieaar of the zenith, for example)
The batch process is fully customizable with the use of script parameters and templates(see #Command line interface and parameters).
Ability to stitch panovideos: Given a template with the (n) of images involved and (n) folders, containing (m) png images extracted from the (n) streams to stitch together. Invoke itself the softwares, and cycles the batch to build (m) images in a new folder.
PTButcher will be implemented in c++ and python. The scripting language is intended to be the core part, which will then invoke the proper panorama tools. The c++(with Qt library) is intended to integrate PTButcher into hugin and provide a user friendly interface to access the scripting-language library.
More features
Code of PTButcher is divided into two parts:
- project manager in hugin(c++ and Qt)
- scripting library (perl or python)
Project manager:
- ability to translate projects between the various gui.
- to search projects in subfolders
- to keep history of all operations, with undos ability.
Scripting library:
- creates projects based on the subfolder of a main folders, creates CPs and optimizes.
- Default name schemes customizable for result images and projects. As well as project folder-locations
- Template application (selection in base of image number, or exif)
- Customizable CP finder and refinery
- Customizable optimizer
- report with result and-or creation of a little test image
- capable of hugin-ptgui-whatever panorama project format.
Support for HDR or ADR workflows: always template based. i.e. Given 3 set of 4 fisheye images and the corresponding template, it generates the main project, optimizes images together, and THEN, render 3images (a,b,c) involving images 0,3,6,9 (a) 1,4,7,10) (b) (2,5,8,11) (c)
One of many features PTButcher offers are also templates. Templates provide a common way of choosing the right settings(lens system, number of images, panorama type, output format) to a group of images or projects. Next to pre-defined templates, users can also create and save custom templates, based on the settings they applied to the project, The implementation plan of templates is to provide a xml file for each template.
Example of a template:
- spherical panorama
- 8 input pictures
- Canon 5D and 15mm Fisheye Lens
- output image format(jpeg)
Graphical user interface
All PTButcher's features will be available in graphical user interface written using Qt library. The visual layout of the interface has not been designed.
Command line interface and parameters
./ptbutcher [-d path/to/direcory] [-pf] [-t /path/to/template]
-d path to the root directory. By default current directory is used
-p this tells PTButcher to only process project files(.pto). If this is not present, PTButcher tries to create project files for all images
-f output format(defult is jpeg)
-t template to be used for stitching. If this is not present, PTButcher tries to match the images with the predefined templates, according to exif information
Additional notes
Luca Vascon
Yuval Levy
Zoran Mesec
Development process:
PTButcher will be hosted in a public CVS repository at [1]. Development progress and notes will be kept on the public wiki of panotools[2], where users can also post comments and suggestions. Development will take place fully in the open. Discussion about this project has already been set up on the panotools-devel mailing list. See the messages in the list archives [3].
The final package delivered at the end of the summer will include:
- PTButcher implementation in python, with all features described below
- PTButcher GUI implementation as part of hugin
- users manual
- documentation
My programming skills and experience in open source community makes me a suitable candidate to carry out this project. I am an undergraduate student of Computer and Information science and also a photographer. I have also worked and co-managed an open-source application for instant messaging. Additional information can be provided upon request. I have announced my draft on the panotools-devel mailing lists and received a positive feedback. Yuval Levy, a panoramic photographer and project coordinator, has agreed to mentor me on this project.


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The number of slashdot users selling solar is growing so this is an external link to list their sites so you can pick friends, foes or freaks to do business with. When you get to the sites, try the solar savings calculator at the bottom left to estimate how much money you'll save. When you click on "Reserve Your System" you'll lock in the offered 2005 rate which could start saving you money as soon as your system is installed. Any of us will be happy to help you understand the offer in more detail.
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The company we are selling for has been discussed on slashdot in response to an article in Wired Magazine. Slashdot readers are pretty tech savvy and have been following advances in solar power for years. To me, the three main things to remember as you read through these comments are net metering, net metering and net metering. Net metering is the reason solar power can work as a distributed power generation method today. It competes at retail prices.
There are other important aspects to the residential solar power business that also need to be considered to make that competition successful. Most of these have to do with reducing costs. On the manufacturing side, a larger fabrication plant reduces production costs by a large amount though it is risky to build a large plant without an assured market since the cost of sitting idle is proportionally larger. The flow of distribution of panels can also be less expensive when the specifics of the market are well known. With a wait list of customers, delivery of panels to installers can be better managed reducing logistical costs. An installer I know has lost a day on the roof because a parts supplier sent the wrong mounting equipment. With panels, mounts, inverters and interconnects all designed to work together these sorts of expensive delays can be more easily avoided. There is also a scaling effect in installation. When an installer is assured of may years of back-to-back jobs, investing in labor saving equipment becomes more attractive even when the initial cost is high. Getting workers and equipment to the roof with lifting equipment avoids the labor cost of erecting scaffolding and trips up and down a ladder. The use of automation to monitor system performance and to handle billing also represents a cost savings since much of customer service is anticipated and the requirements for a customer service staff are reduced. Most people have a monthly personal visit from their utility to read the meter. With automated billing, this cost is avoided (for the company, customers still pay to have their utility provided meter reading, that is the connect charge in your utility bill). Finally, since the sales force works on commission, the costs of attracting customers is controlled to a specific percentage of revenue. This aspect has come in for some criticism on slashdot, but it does lead to large sales at controlled costs. The sales force has already registered enough customers to account for half of the total capacity installed in 2006 in the US (both residential and commercial). This is important because the plant capacity has to be sold in advance to ensure that it produces continuously. Offering rental rates of $0.07/kWh and up ensures a large potential market while long term fixed rate contracts offer customers a chance to save money over time.
Skepticism seen on slashdot and in the industry is pretty understandable, but as one of the lobbyists for a company that does this business in the commercial sector acknowledged to me, someone is going to profit from this business model even it this company does not. In the commercial sector Morgan Stanley, for example, is behind some of Walmart's current solar expansion, though not, so far, part of this company's financing. The trick is to make it work with the smaller systems that are appropriate for homes as it already does for larger systems on commercial buildings. The vertical integration and economy-of-scale savings described here make me think that this business is not "too good to be true" but rather too good not to promote.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Slashdot users selling solar
The number of slashdot users selling solar is growing so this is an external link to list their sites so you can pick friends, foes or freaks to do business with. When you get to the sites, try the solar savings calculator at the bottom left to estimate how much money you'll save. When you click on "Reserve Your System" you'll lock in the offered 2005 rate which could start saving you money as soon as your system is installed. Any of us will be happy to help you understand the offer in more detail.
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- modemboy said...
Hey this is modemboy!
Thanks for the linking, looks like you are quite knowledgeable in this area, I look forward to bugging you with some questions sometime ;-)
- January 23, 2007 at 11:16 PM
Hey Chris--Olero here. Thanks for the link and I'm glad to be on the same team as you!
Maybe we'll meet at a national Citizenre conference in the future (I hope)!
PS--If you could change the link to http://www.qcimarketing.com it will send folks to the right place (it currently is pointing to the main site, which is cool and everything, but if someone likes my name best, I'd love to personally help 'em out! Thanks again!)
- February 24, 2007 at 2:18 AM
- Greg said...
Thanks for making the list.
I'm Keebler1175 on Slashdot. I've been selling since January 1.
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- February 24, 2007 at 2:00 PM
- Chris Dudley said...
Hi Greg,
Sorry I missed you. Found you're first post on Jan 8 with a search.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
I Promise This Post Is Not About Hobos*
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Any time a coin drops in the house, my preschooler asks if she can have it for her bank. Or she'll find a coin on the ground. And she'll take her money and buy toys with it. Works for me.
- September 13, 2011 at 3:56 PM
- Angela@BeggingTheAnswer said...
@Joshua - works for me too!
- September 13, 2011 at 4:09 PM
- Marianna Annadanna said...
Hey! Why wouldn't you feed all the hobos!? ;)
- September 13, 2011 at 8:53 PM
- Angela@BeggingTheAnswer said...
@Marianna - I thought you were taking care of that :)
- September 13, 2011 at 9:08 PM
- Stasha said...
I felt bad about not putting on world peace on mine too, but no magic can sort that out right?
I like your change by change list. And your concern for maids and their resumes!
- September 14, 2011 at 12:24 AM
- Angela@BeggingTheAnswer said...
@Stasha - I only put world peace on there in order to win the Mrs. America crown.
- September 14, 2011 at 7:29 AM
- jacqui said...
I had a pot bellied pig once named Emma. She was pretty fun to have around.
Also, you're always welcome to come steal some books from my house. There are certainly enough of them. (As you can probably imagine as a fellow book hoarder.)
- September 14, 2011 at 7:37 AM
- Angela@BeggingTheAnswer said...
@jacqui - I love that you had a pot-bellied pig AND a massive hoard of books. It's like you're my secret twin or something.
- September 14, 2011 at 7:46 AM
- Fox in the City said...
Ah, someone to clean my bathrooms . . . I had that once and it was magical. Then I had to go and get all fiscally responsible and admit that we just did not have enough change to have such a magical thing. Sigh.
- September 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM
- Angela@BeggingTheAnswer said...
@Fox in the City - darn that fiscal responsibility!
- September 14, 2011 at 11:33 AM
- mamamash said...
Cool twist on the theme! I always loved collecting change and being surprised at the amount I had when it was time to turn it in. For some reason, it counts as found money in my head and therefore must be spent on silly things.
- September 14, 2011 at 2:08 PM
- Angela@BeggingTheAnswer said...
@mamamash - I totally agree on the whole "found money" thing :)
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company is teaming up with six others to help bring Internet access to more than four billion people who still do not have it. Brian Fitzgerald joins the News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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I see that the wicked are mocking you for preaching that little demon-Americans are conceived during acts of anal sex. I may be able to help you refute their taunts by providing biblical support for your claim.
Few people know that a more complete, more ancient version of the Book of Luke was found in Egypt during the recent uprising there. Although it hasn't been fully translated yet, Chapter Eight is complete.
Luke 8 26-33 (the newly discovered "Lost Verses" verses are italicized):
26: And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
27: And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.Heterosexually yours,
27a: And Jesus asked Peter, "who is this man?"
27b: Peter spake in reply, "It is he who saw me and Thomas after we dranketh the seven goat bladders of wine thou transformed from the water you drew from the Samaritan's well.
27c: Peter's words angered Jesus. "Me damn it," shoutethed our Lord, you drank all seven of the goatbladders of water-wine. I was saving that for Mary Magdeline, so that she might heed my pleas to knoweth her in her secret parts in the manner of the warriors of Sparta.
27d: "But Lord," respondethed Peter, "Mary wouldst not drink that wine for it tasted like a Samaritan's secret parts."
27e: And Jesus asked Peter: "Why would devils take this man for simply seeing you and Thomas drink all my me-damned wine?"
27f: And Peter confessed unto the Lord: " Thomas and I got exceedingly drunketh and committed diverse acts in each others secret parts, yeah, even sinking our little camels deep inside the other's secret parts and thrusting our hips to and fro and in a circular fashion."
27g: And the santorum flowed with great force out of our secret parts and formed great pools upon the ground"
27h: And devils were birthed in the pools of santorum.
27i; And the devils rose out of the pools and splashed themselves over this man in a manner that tempted Thomas and me to send our little camels into each other's secret parts, again, making lakes, and yea, seas of santorum to birth all manner of devils.
27j "Verily," spake Jesus, "this man needeth my help and a thorough scrubbing. I shall approach him."
28: When the man saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
29: (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
30: And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
31: And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
32: And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
33: Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
33a: And Peter and Thomas looked upon the running swine's secret parts and were well pleased.
Gen. JC Christian, patriot


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Death Note Description:
Plot Summary: Yagami Light is an ace student with great aspects who's bored out of his mind. One day he finds the Death Note, a notebook held by a shinigami (Death God). With the Death Note in hand, Light decides to create a perfect world. A world without crime or criminals. However when criminals start dropping dead one by one, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer.
Genre: Drama/Mystery/Action
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The CMS Swimming and Diving Teams received recognition from the College Swimming Coaches Association for outstanding academic achievement during the Spring 2011 semester. The CMS Stags ranked 23rd among all NCAA D-III teams with a GPA of 3.24. The Athenas ranked 24th on the women's list with a 3.42 GPA.
Each semester the CSCAA ranks Scholar All-American teams based on the squad's GPA for the term. To be eligible for consideration, the team must exceed 3.0 for the overall GPA.
Individually, 11 CMS swimmers were named to the CSCAA Scholar All-American team. Student-athletes must achieve a 3.5 or better semester GPA. To qualify for the first team, the student-athlete must participate in the NCAA D-III Swimming and Diving Championships. To qualify for Honorable Mention Scholar All-American, the student-athlete must have achieved an NCAA "B" (provisional) cut during the season.
First Team CSCAA Scholar All-American
Katie Bilotti
Tessa Dover
Kristie Howard
Jordan Lieberman
Helen Liu
Jeff McNerney
Jenni Rinker
Honorable Mention CSCAA Scholar All-American
Carliann Brashier
Annika Jessen
Tara McIntyre
Heidi Wolfgruber
CMS swimming and diving earned several other post-season academic honors, beyond the CSCAA SAA nods.
Athenas: Juliet Archer, Carliann Brashier, Kelly Chang, Tessa Dover, Carmen Lundell, Tara McIntyre, Teija Mortvedt, Jenni Rinker, Amy Tresenrider, Heidi Wolfgruber
Stags: Christophe Bindert, Brendan Huss, Nathan Lenssen, Robert MacGregor, Jeff McNerney, Brad Perfect, Jake Roth, Elliot Smith
Six CMS swimmers etched spots on the CMS "Wall of Fame" for being individual first team All-SCIAC performers during their careers and graduating with a better than 3.0 GPA: Carliann Brashier, Tessa Dover, Nick Ostreim, Annie Perizzolo, Jenni Rinker, and Heidi Wolfgruber.
The academic honors cap an outstanding year for the CMS Stags and Athenas. Both squads earned SCIAC Championships with a combined 13-1 conference dual meet record and SCIAC championship meet titles. The wins helped CMS earn the 2010-11 SCIAC All-Sports trophy.
The Athenas placed seventh at the 2011 NCAA D-III Swimming and Diving Championships and the Stags placed 17th at the meet. Ten CMS swimmers earned All-American honors and six more earned Honorable Mention All-American citations. Varsity records were set 15 times in 11 events over the course of the season.
Several team members were tabbed for individual honors
SCIAC Swimming/Diving Athlete of the Year—Michele Kee
HMC Athlete of the Year—Vincent Pai
NCAA Elite 88 Award—Tessa Dover
Hank Krieger Award—Tessa Dover
At the CMS swimming and diving team's awards banquet, the following student-athletes were honored:
Outstanding Swimmer—Jordan Lieberman
Outstanding Diver—Andrew Fevery
Rookie of the Year—Bo Lee
Quantum Leap—Joey Klonowski
Schoenfeld (Most Inspirational)—Ian McGinnity
Outstanding Swimmer—Michele Kee
Outstanding Diver—Carmen Lundell
Rookie of the Year—Michele Kee
Quantum Leap—Ellie Smith
Critchell (Most Inspirational)—Heidi Wolfgruber


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WASHINGTON — After complaining for weeks that the movie "Zero Dark Thirty" erroneously implies that torture yielded key information in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, a trio of senior senators now want to know whether CIA personnel deliberately misled the filmmakers on that point.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, along with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), said Thursday that they had sent two letters to acting CIA chief Michael Morell. In the first, dated Dec. 19, they requested information about what the CIA told the filmmakers. In the second, dated Monday, they asked Morell to clarify a statement he issued on Dec. 21 about the movie and its portrayal of torture.
The senators believe the Sony Pictures film wrongly suggests coercive interrogation was instrumental in tracking down the Al Qaeda leader, and they believe the filmmakers got that misimpression from CIA officials.
DOCUMENTS: Senate response to 'Zero Dark Thirty' — First letter | Second Letter
"Given the CIA's cooperation with the filmmakers … and the narrative's consistency with past public misstatements by former senior CIA officials … the filmmakers could have been misled by information they were provided by CIA," the senators said in a statement Thursday. They requested "all information and documents provided to the filmmakers by CIA officials."


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President Barack Obama may be dropping – or at least softening – his administration's demand that Israel freeze settlement growth in the West Bank as a precondition to starting peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
That would mark a stark change for the administration, which had pressed Israel to declare a full freeze to all settlement growth in the West Bank to jumpstart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Mr. Obama met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday.
Officials from all three sides said after the meeting that Obama had abandoned the ultimatum he had given Israel, according to some news reports.
CNN reports that United States special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell said the US is "not identifying any issue as being a precondition or an impediment to negotiation."
Abandoning the terminology the US has been using in months of urging a halt to growth in the Israeli outposts on land claimed by Palestinians, Obama Tuesday referred to "restraining" settlement activity, rather than freezing it.
"Obama told Abbas that he couldn't get the settlement freeze and promised to keep trying, but that it shouldn't be a condition for talks and it was time to move on," one Palestinian aide to Abbas said.
Several U.S. officials said that Obama told Abbas that although the U.S. believe a settlement freeze would create a better atmosphere for talks to begin, the lack of one should not be used an as excuse not to talk.
"Let's not have the perfect be the enemy of the good," Obama told Abbas, according to the officials.
The Los Angeles Times reports that White House officials say Obama's position on settlements remains the same.
Administration officials insisted later that the U.S. position on Jewish settlements had not changed. But the shift in language was widely interpreted by Palestinians and Israelis as a sign the Obama administration was jettisoning a U.S. stance that had alienated many Israelis and their U.S. supporters.
About 300,000 Israeli settlers now live in 121 settlements in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since the 1967 war and where Palestinians hope to establish their future state. (Read the Christian Science Monitor's briefing on where, when, and why Israeli settlements are built.)
It is unclear where this move leaves the possible peace negotiations. Mr. Abbas has so far refused to begin negotiations with Israel until it declares a full halt to the growth of the outposts. According to the conservative Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu told Israeli reporters after the meeting that Abbas had dropped preconditions for the talks, and discussions were now focused on the framework of negotiations.
But Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said any move away from demanding a full freeze of settlements would impede the peace negotiations, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Obama had hoped to be able to announce a breakthrough in negotiations by now. Instead, he had to make do with the first meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in a year. Reuters reports that the US and Israel may be pushing for entering full-blown negotiations before resolving the settlement issue.
"They are trying to finesse settlements now," said [Daniel Kurtzer], a former U.S. ambassador to Israel. "Having been unable to reach an agreement to freeze settlements in a meaningful way, they are going to leave it out there as a disagreement between us but not as a road block or an impediment to negotiations."
After the meeting Tuesday, Obama expressed determination to move forward, saying, "It is absolutely critical that we get this issue resolved," the Monitor reported.
He ... directed top foreign policy aides, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and special Mideast envoy George Mitchell, to continue the intense contacts with Israeli and Palestinian officials the US has pursued since Obama took office.
Mr. Mitchell said he would meet with his counterparts from both parties again Thursday, while Secretary Clinton is to report back to the president by mid-October on where diplomatic efforts stand.


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To say that Malaysians are talented is not an overstatement as some of the best–and most impressive–food blogs are authored by Malaysians.
I am constantly amazed by the sheer talent of my fellow Malaysians, for example: Billy Law at A Table for Two.
A Table for Two chronicles Billy's eating adventures in Sydney as well as documents delectable recipes from his kitchen.
Graced with outstanding food photography plus a keen sense of humor and wicked writing style, I am ready to crown A Table for Two the best new food blog of 2009!
Please welcome Billy to Rasa Malaysia as he shares Ipoh Bean Sprout Chicken (芽菜鸡) recipe with us–a famed dish from the state of Ipoh in Malaysia.
I can confirm this – no matter where you are, the only one topic that can reunite all Malaysian expats around the world together has to be food.
I am sure you will all agree with me, Malaysian food especially. When Rasa Malaysia asked me to be a guest writer on her blog to feature a signature dish from my hometown, the answer is loud and clear – the most famous dish from Ipoh has to be Bean Sprout Chicken (芽菜鸡) with Sar Hor Fun (rice noodle).
This is a very simple dish to prepare, all you need is patience. The chicken is cooked using the same technique as Hainan Chicken. It is poached in a water bath then quickly dunk into cold water to stop the cooking process to retain its juicy smoothness texture.
As for the bean sprout, it will only need to be blanched no more than 10 seconds, then drizzle with sesame oil and soy sauce, and a smidge of white pepper for bit of kick.
Sounds simple? It sure is. You might be wondering how can poached chicken with blanched bean sprout and served with just rice noodle in soup can be a big hit in Ipoh? All thanks to its prime location.
Ipoh is famous for its food, due to the relatively mineral-rich water (high alkali content) owing to its location on top of a large karstic formation, makes the food especially tasty.
Tourists and locals are willing to travel interstate for hours just to have a taste of the delicious food this town has to offer.
Another characteristic of this dish is the rice noodle. Its slightly translucent look and superb slippery smooth texture swimming in a sweet broth that has been boiled overnight using chicken carcasses is what make this dish popular with the locals.
Sadly all I can get in supermarket here in Australia is some precooked fresh rice noodle in packets which all stick together, thick and crumbly.
I am in Australia for over 13 years now, the bean sprout may not be as stout and fat, the rice noodle may never taste the same as those in Ipoh, but at least making this dish will always bring me one step closer to home.
To make this dish, I would suggest you to go for the best produce as possibly can, especially the chicken. Free range or organic chickens are the best options which gives you a better flavour and texture.
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The Coupling Between Objects or CBO metric was originally defined by Chidamber & Kemerer in their IEEE paper "A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design" [1] . This software metric represents the number of other types a class or interface is coupled to. The CBO metric is calculated for classes and interfaces. It counts the unique number of reference types that occur through method calls, method parameters, return types, thrown exceptions and accessed fields. But there is an exception for types that are either a subtype or supertype of the given class, because these types are not included in the calculated CBO value.
Excessive coupled classes prevent reuse of existing components and they are damaging for a modular, encapsulated software design. To improve the modularity of a software the inter coupling between different classes should be kept to a minimum. Beside reusability a high coupling has a second drawback, a class that is coupled to other classes is sensitive to changes in that classes and as a result it becomes more difficult to maintain and gets more error-prone. Additionally it is harder to test a heavily coupled class in isolation and it is harder to understand such a class. Therefore you should keep the number of dependencies at a minimum.
Based on their research Sahraoui, Godin and Miceli [2] suggest a maximum CBO value of 14, because higher values have negative impacts on several quality aspects of a class, which includes the maintainability, stability and understandability.
Efferent Coupling: Efferent Coupling or CE is a different name for the same metric, that is frequently used in the literature.
Afferent Coupling: The Afferent Coupling or CA is a metric that calculates the reverse coupling of a class.


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My friends in college used to call me a Renaissance woman. I was always doing something crafty, creative, or utilitarian. I still am. My focus these days, instead of arts and crafts, has been farming as much of my urban quarter acre as humanly possible. With my husband, we run Dog Island Farm in the SF Bay Area. We raise chickens, goats, rabbits, dogs, cats, and a kid. We're always keeping busy. If I'm not out in the yard I'm in the kitchen making something from scratch. Homemade always tastes better!
This is our sixth year growing corn. Our first year we grew the standard sweet hybrid corn. It did pretty good. The second year we decided to go with heirloom "dual purpose" corn. When young, it could be eaten right off the cob and when it was mature it was a flour corn. We ended up waiting too long to eat most of it early on so we ended up with a bunch of flour corn. The variety was called Bloody Butcher and was a beautiful deep red. We've tried other varieties of heirloom corn but we always come back to this variety because it's the most successful for us. We use it for fall decorations and then later strip the kernels from the cobs. When we first grew it we ended up with a bucket full of dry corn and I had no idea what to do with it. The bag ended up getting put up in the cabinet and it was soon forgotten.
Two years later and with my desire to become more self sufficient I decided to do something with the corn. Here's my adventures in corn tortillas.
Growing Flour, Field and Dent Corn
Corn is a heavy feeder with shallow roots. It is not self-pollinating so it must have other corn plants near it. Wind is the primary pollinator. To get a larger crop it is important to plant it in a block rather than in a straight row. We plant ours in 12' x 10' blocks each planted about a foot apart with a pathway down the center.
We direct seed our corn rather than plant transplants. I find that this allows the plant uninterrupted growth because there is no transplant shock. Once the seedlings are up about 6" you can plant 2-3 pole bean seeds around each corn seedling. This is a great symbiotic relationship. The beans are nitrogen fixers, which helps feed the corn and the corn makes a great trellis for the beans to climb. We choose to do dry bean varieties so we don't have to worry about getting in an picking them until it's time to cut the corn stalks down. If you don't choose to plant beans with your corn, you can use a natural fertilizer, such as fish emulsion, once every two weeks. We also like to use rabbit manure throughout the season to fertilize.
Our biggest pest when growing corn was mealybugs that were being "farmed" by ants for their "honey dew." The ants protect them from predators. We found this to only be a problem with our flour corn because the corn stays on the stalks for so long. The best way to keep the ants off were with Tanglefoot smeared around the base of the stalks. The ants can't cross it without getting stuck and without the ants, the natural predators can kill the mealybugs. If you ever get Tanglefoot on your skin you can use some olive oil to help remove it and then dish soap to clean up the olive oil.
Late summer or early fall is harvest time. Gently pull the silk and the top of the husk down to check the kernels. When they are hard, it's time to pick.
Making Masa Flour
Corn Tortillas require Masa Harina Flour which is specially treated corn (Nixtamel or Hominy) using a dilute alkaline solution and that has been ground into a fine flour.
There are two ways to make it. This first time I used Pickling lime (Calcium hydroxide or "cal") to make the Nixtamel. Making it greatly increases the nutritional density of the corn by freeing up proteins and B vitamins.
What you will need:
2 lbs dry corn - dent or flour are recommended, but field corn is ok if you can't find the first two
3 quarts water
1/2 cup Pickling lime*
Large NON-REACTIVE pot (Stainless steel or copper - do NOT use aluminum)
Grain mill
Large mixing bowl
How to make it:
1. Rinse corn and remove any chaff and debris
2. In the large non-reactive pot add water and dissolve the Pickling
Lime. Once dissolved add corn and bring to a rolling boil. Allow to
boil, covered for 15-20 minutes and then remove from heat, let cool and
put in refrigerator for 8-10 hours or overnight. The corn should now be
plumped up and the skins should be falling off. Skim any loose skins off
of the top of the water.
3. Strain Nixtamel in colander and rinse. Roll kernels in hands to remove excess loose skins. Our corn came out of the alkaline solution almost black, and once the skins were removed they were a rainbow of colors.
4. Rinse Nixtamel at least 2 more times. If the corn isn't rinsed well enough it will be bitter.
The other method of making Nixtamel is by using wood ash. I've tried this once before with mixed results. It's important that the wood ash is from hardwood and that it's thoroughly burned resulting in nearly white ash.
1. Take 2 double handfuls of wood ash from hardwood and add to 3
quarts of water. Boil for 1 hour and then let sit overnight. This
creates lye water* (which you can also use to make soap). Strain the
precipatated ash out of the water.
2. Use this lye water the same as you would the water above with the pickling lime added. Follow the rest of the instructions above.
*A note about pickling lime and lye water:
Pickling lime and lye water is caustic and can cause irritation and/or burns if wet hands are exposed to it for too long. If it comes into contact with your skin rinse immediately. If any spills onto any surface wipe up immediately and rinse area. I found out the hard way that it will etch stainless steel (even though it's nonreactive) and granite counter tops if not cleaned up right away.
Once the corn is no longer wet you can run it through the mill. We
own an electric mill, but in our move we misplaced it so we went to buy a
hand crank one. We first bought a Shule Mill from a Kitchen Supply
Store. It was the only mill they had. An hour later and after only
producing 1/2 a cup of course flour I was done! It was incredibly
inefficient. That one will be returned this week. We then went and
purchased a Victoria Grain Mill. What a difference! In 30 minutes we had run 8 cups of flour through 3 times.
For every 2 cups of flour add about 1-1/3 cup water and 1 tsp salt. Allow to rest for 20 minutes.
Roll into balls about 1 1/2" in diameter. Slightly flatten and put in center of tortilla press between two sheets of wax paper.
Cook each tortilla on a hot griddle for about 30 seconds to 1 minute each side. Allow to cool and then freeze until needed.
These tortillas are really tasty. They came out this cool blue/purple color which makes them distinctive.
Rachel blogs regularly at the Dog Island Farm blog.