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We never thought we'd do it, but we just added a fiberglass air filter to the site. These cheap fiberglass filters can lead to dirty coils or system damage. They can also lead to increased energy costs. Most importantly, a fiberglass filter will do practically nothing to protect your family from harmful contaminants recirculating throughout your home's air.
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Since some of our readers were skeptical about the claims in previous article on senior LTTE leaders being annihilated by the army, here are some photographic proof to back up those claims. More pictures will be released to the media once preliminary investigations by a special MI team are over.
LTTE Special Commander Theepan – Top right corner of the image shows Theepan with members of the SLMM (taken several years ago)
Commander of LTTE's Malathi brigade – Colonel Vidusha – Top left corner of the image shows Vidusha at an LTTE ceremony back in the good old days
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Saturday, November 25, 2006
Damn Good Dog!
I just love UGA, the University of Georgia mascot. I love him even more when we beat Georgia Tech in the annual rivalry game.
In case you aren't aware UGA is tussling with the mascot of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. He won!
Damn fine game!
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I love UGA too...but then again hubby and I are devoted Georgia fans (although neither of us went there, go figure). I loved the fact that they beat Georgia Tech, but I'm happiest when they beat Florida or the Vols...I'm so sick of orange.
I always wanted to get hubby an Uga for his birthday. The four felines voted me down.
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"Spring Breakers" is not the movie you probably think it is.
"Spring Breakers" is not the movie you probably think it is.
Audiences flocking to see it think they're going to see teen stars Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens in a film about four girlfriends who head to the beach to party it up with James Franco or another party movie like "Project X." They will get exactly what they asked for all right, but probably not in the way they expected. There is nothing fun about "Spring Breakers," and it's by design. Director Harmony Korine, the controversial writer of "Kids" and director of "Gummo," "Mister Lonely" and "Trash Humpers," has taken the hedonistic spring break culture and turned into a depraved, mesmerizing nightmare in neon.
There's an almost brilliant kind of sadism to the way that the film has lured in audiences with the promise of Disney approved stars and naked flesh, only to pull the rug out from under them by heading down a very dark and disturbing path. There is certainly plenty of nudity and alcohol for those who come in seeking cheap titillation, but Korine depicts it with a grim sense of irony.
He understands the expectations, and delivers on them, but like Maximus in "Gladiator," you can almost hear him bellowing to the crowd "are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?" Korine relentlessly rubs our face in the ugliness of a diseased culture, and the results are as horrifying as they are brilliantly realized.
Make no mistake; "Spring Breakers" is a great film. It's an uncomfortable film to watch, but great art will always challenge us in some way. In this case, we are confronted by four college girls who rob a restaurant in order to bankroll their trip to St. Petersburg, Fla., for spring break, where they fall under the spell of an enigmatic drug dealer named Alien (Franco). Alien leads them on an "Inferno"-like descent into hell, a shocking orgy of booze, drugs and sex, fueled by the desire for pleasure at any cost and set to a blazing dubstep sound track.
Along the way, each must confront their own identity in the face of complete degradation — for some it's their faith that leads them back home, for some it takes near death to wake up. But others will continue their descent, away from home, away from themselves and away from life as they once knew it.
"Spring Breakers" should not be mistaken for an empty exercise in excess; it is by no means a celebration of the lewdness it depicts. It is a sweeping condemnation of that very emptiness, of the soul-crushing effects of the "if it feels good, do it" lifestyle. Alien's eerie, oft-repeated voice-over mantra of "spring break … spring break forever" spoken over increasingly nasty provocations becomes its own kind of rebuke of a culture that has embraced extreme over indulgence and a chilling premonition of its lasting effects.
It may illicit uncomfortable laughter, but it's deadly serious. It's a bruising experience, but it is by no means a mere product of is subject. Korine purposely goes too far, leers over naked female bodies longer than it feels like he should. He wants you to squirm, and squirm you will. This isn't pretty, it's not sexy. It's horrifying.
The entire film is an unsettling mix of bizarre humor, over-the-top violence and intentionally gratuitous sex, and disarming pathos. In one of the film's best scenes, Alien serenades his girls on piano with a rendition of Britney Spears' ballad "Everytime." It's awkwardly funny at first, but as the scene continues, the violence begins — robberies, beatings, and soon it takes on a chilling new tone.
That one scene seems to encapsulate the theme of the entire film. Korine constantly assaults us with new sensations, through the feverish haze of Benoît Debie's striking cinematography and the trance-like effect of Cliff Martinez and Skrillex's pulsing score. It's a dizzyingly visceral experience that almost seems like the product of one of its character's drug-induced hallucinations.
But "Spring Breakers" finds transcendence in trash, wallowing in the basest instincts of human nature to create a mesmerizing and frightening portrait of a world gone mad and innocence destroyed. Korine holds a mirror up to society, and what we see should disturb us deeply. Sound unpleasant? It is. But it's also profound, a great and searing work of art of frightening power that absolutely demands to be experienced.
Matthew Lucas, a former Davidson County resident, studied theater and film studies at Appalachian State University. He now resides in Banner Elk and has a blog where he posts movie news, reviews and commentary at www.fromthefrontrow.net.


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LA JOLLA, Calif., Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Auspex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it has been granted U.S. Patent No. 8,299,084 covering the company's novel JAK kinase inhibitor SD-900, a deuterium-substituted analogue of tofacitinib.
"The issuance of a composition-of-matter patent for SD-900 is strong validation of Auspex's technological approach to the creation of important new drugs," said Lawrence C. Fritz, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Auspex. "We believe that SD-900 can emerge as an important drug in the JAK inhibitor space, combining the efficacy of tofacitinib with improved metabolic properties."
The JAK kinases have emerged as important targets for drugs to treat autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and psoriasis as well as for the treatment of certain types of cancer. The JAK inhibitor drug tofacitinib was recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and is also in clinical development for additional autoimmune diseases. Auspex believes that SD-900 will retain precisely the intrinsic pharmacological activity of tofacitinib but improve its pharmacokinetics. These properties may allow SD-900 to provide the efficacy of tofacitinib but at a reduced dose, and may also promote the development of a once-a-day JAK inhibitor for use in treating autoimmune diseases.
Auspex's lead compound, SD-809, also incorporates deuterium into its structure and is entering phase 3 clinical trials for the treatment of hyperkinetic movement disorders, specifically, the chorea associated with Huntington's disease.
About SD-900
SD-900 is a novel "JAK inhibitor", a small molecule inhibitor of the Janus Kinase enzyme family. It is a specific deuterium-substituted analogue of tofacitinib. Deuterium is a safe, naturally occurring, non-radioactive form of hydrogen. Because the substitution of deuterium for hydrogen does not change the shape of a molecule or its electronic structure, it does not change the binding properties of a drug. However, in certain cases these substitutions can have a beneficial effect on increasing the half-life of the drug. Because of these properties of deuterium, Auspex believes that SD-900 will have equivalent efficacy to tofacitinib but with the prospect of improved pharmaceutical properties.
About Auspex Pharmaceuticals
Auspex Pharmaceuticals is a privately held biopharmaceutical company located in La Jolla, California. The company is a pioneer in the use of deuterium in medicinal chemistry, and its most advanced program is focused on the treatment of hyperkinetic movement disorders including Huntington's disease, Tourette syndrome and tardive dyskinesia. Its lead compound, SD-809, is a novel inhibitor of the vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT-2). This drug offers the potential for significant advantages over existing therapies including improved safety, reduced drug-drug interactions, and less frequent dosing. SD-809 is expected to enter phase 3 clinical testing in 2013. Auspex is also exploiting its deuterium chemistry approach to optimize drugs in several additional therapeutic areas. Included in the Auspex portfolio are SD-900, a JAK kinase inhibitor for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, SD-560 for the treatment of fibrotic diseases, as well as other compounds. For more information on Auspex, please visit the company's web site at http://www.auspexpharma.com.
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Pols of a similar breed: Romney campaigns for Foley in Greenwich
GREENWICH -- Planting the seeds for perhaps another shot at the White House in 2012, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney stumped for fellow Republican venture capitalist Tom Foley for governor during a rally and a fundraising luncheon Thursday in Greenwich.
Romney heaped praise on Foley for his economic blueprint for the state, one that calls for $2 billion in spending cuts and that the former Massachusetts governor said offers a much brighter future for Connecticut than any plan put forth by Democrat Dannel Malloy.
"It's as impressive as anything you'll read about the way to get a state to create jobs to keep taxes down and allow the middle-class people of the state to have a brighter future. That's what Tom Foley represents," Romney told the predominantly Republican crowd of 100 people at the East Elm Street social hall of the Improved Order of Redmen.
Romney and Foley go way back, with Romney interviewing Foley for a position at Bain Capital in Boston when Foley was a student at Harvard Business School.
"The governor's been a longtime friend of mine, Mitt Romney," Foley said. "We were in the same business together for a number of years and we both have an abiding interest in politics. I'm a big supporter of Mitt running for president. I think we have a great opportunity. Republicans are back."
Romney, 63, who won several GOP caucuses and primaries in 2008 but ultimately lost the nomination to John McCain, sounded very much like an aspiring candidate.
"What's happening in Washington -- more and more spending, larger and larger deficits, raising taxes -- will not create jobs," Romney said.
Romney's appearance at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich for a $1,000-per-plate luncheon for Foley was expected to net $50,000 for the Republican's gubernatorial campaign, most of which has been self-funded.
Foley, 58, a prolific GOP fundraiser from Greenwich who served as U.S. ambassador to Ireland under President George W. Bush, went after Malloy's record as mayor of Stamford, an office he held from 1995 to 2009.
"I love this race because there is a such a difference between me and my opponent Dan Malloy," Foley said. "We're going to be talking about his record in Stamford, where they've lost over 13,000 jobs since 2000. We're going to be talking about his plan & about raising taxes in Connecticut, which is a big mistake."
Malloy senior adviser Roy Occhiogrosso disputed the accuracy of Foley's comments in a statement assailing the Republican nominee's corporate record.
"Dan spent 14 years bringing thousands of new jobs to Stamford, lowering crime, making government smaller and more effective, expanding access to education -- all while holding the line on taxes," Occhiogrosso said. "Dan ran Connecticut's most successful city. While he was doing that, Tom Foley was buying companies, driving them into bankruptcy, laying people off, and taking away their financial security -- all while paying himself tens of millions of dollars. We're looking forward to the first debate."
Romney, the Mormon son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney and the man who rescued the scandal-plagued Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002, is no stranger to Greenwich.
He visited here twice in 2007, first for a meet-and-greet at the Arch Street teen center and then for a $1,000 minimum per person fundraiser the Riverside home of fellow venture capitalist and future state Sen. L. Scott Frantz, R-36th District.
Drawing a comparison to a projected $3.4 billion deficit facing the next governor of Connecticut, Romney said that he inherited a $3 billion budget gap when he was governor of Massachusetts that he closed and turned into a $2 billion surplus for the state's rainy day fund.
Romney said that Foley has what it takes to do the same thing in Connecticut, which he said would go down a very different path with a Democratic governor.
"What kind of state do you want to be?" Romney said. "Do you want to be like the state of New York where taxes go higher and higher and higher and jobs go away and the deficit gets larger and larger? And there are a lot of states like that. Even look at California, states that are just about to hit the wall or go over the cliff. Or instead do you want to be like Virginia, like New Jersey under new leadership with Chris Christie or like Texas?"
Romney started his day in New York City and was scheduled to end it at a Boston fundraiser for Charlie Baker, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Massachusetts.
The dress code was business casual at Thursday's rally for Foley, which drew many of the usual suspects of the Republican political establishment, including state Rep. Livvy Floren, R-149th District, Romney's former host Frantz and First Selectman Peter Tesei.
Romney showed up in an Oxford shirt and slacks but no tie, prompting Foley to remove his tie, suit jacket and unbutton his cuff links with the presidential seal on them.
"I'm getting in with the dress code here," said Foley, his wife Leslie Fahrenkopf standing at his side.
Romney posed for photos with many of Foley's supporters and worked the room, where he indicted President Obama's administration.
"People are watching President Obama and they're saying, 'Gosh, we're getting a good view of what that kind of liberal agenda would do to a country and would do to a state,' and they're not happy with it," Romney said.
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I'll be swapping coasts mid-May. Our youngest daughter, who despite her accomplishments and chronological age, will forever be known to her dad and me as "Baby Girl", is scheduled for surgery, so, I'll be heading East to provide an extra pair of hands till she's back on her feet. There is a silver lining to all of this. Her boys are squeezably sweet, and these old bones, like those of Faust, fully understand the need to say to the passing moment, "Stay, thou art so fair." Some of those moment will be spent in the kitchen and I've been searching for recipes that are workable for the little guys. I've stumbled on a children's cookbook, compiled by General Mills/Gold Medal Flour, that's called, The Rainbow Bakery: A Full Color Adventure Children's Cookbook Today's feature recipe comes from the book and I think you'll find that it makes a mean muffin, even for those over six. The recipe is simple and it makes a barely sweet breakfast or tea treat. If you like your muffins a bit more on the sweet side, I suggest sprinkling the top of the batter with a smidgen of granulated or cinnamon sugar before the muffins are baked. In young hands, these muffins will be messy to prepare, so have aprons and paper towels at the ready. The smashing of the berries can result in a scene worthy of an axe murder, so some supervision will be necessary. This, by the way, is a wonderful recipe for camp or cottage kitchens. I do hope you'll give this recipe a try. Here's how the muffins are made.
Berry-Smashed Muffins...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of The Rainbow Bakery by General Mills/Gold Medal
1-2/3 cups fresh strawberries
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs
1-1/2 cups Gold Medal all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1) Heat oven to 425 F. Put a paper baking cup in each of 12 regular-size muffin cups, or grease just the bottoms of 12 muffin cups.
2) Slightly smash strawberries in large bowl, using fork. Stir in sugar, oil and eggs until mixed. Stir in other ingredients just until moistened.
3) Spoon batter into muffin cups. Bake 15 to 18 minutes or until light golden brown or toothpick poked in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes. Loosen sides of muffins from pan if needed, and take them out of the pan. Yield: 12 muffins.
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Earth from Space: Australian fires
This image of Australia's northern territory – the Outback setting for the blockbuster hits Crocodile Dundee and Crocodile Dundee II – was acquired on 20 June by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument and clearly highlights plumes of smoke from burning fires.
Australia has a history of bushfires, which have been responsible for many deaths and enormous economic losses. For instance, on 16 February 1983 over 100 bushfires started in Victoria and South Australia and burnt over one million hectares and resulted in 76 deaths. This devastating series of fires has come to be known as 'Ash Wednesday'.
The country's predominantly flat, dry and warm landscape makes it prone to fires year round, but the risks increase during its hottest months – November through March – which are accompanied by intense heat and low rainfall. In addition, Australia's native vegetation burns quickly and easily. Eucalyptus trees, for example, contain oil which makes them especially dangerous in a bushfire.
Although most bushfires on the continent begin naturally, some are set intentionally by Australian farmers and aboriginal tribes to reduce the risk of severe fires during the intense dry season. Fire-management authorities also regularly ignite prescribed burns to remove potential fuels. It is unclear whether the fires seen in this image are intentional burns.
These and surrounding fires were also detected on the same day by Envisat's Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) instrument and made available to users online through ESA's ATSR World Fire Atlas (WFA) within hours of acquisition. Red dots on the map indicate fire spots.
The AATSR radiometer sensor works like a thermometer in the sky, measuring thermal infrared radiation to take the temperature of Earth's land surfaces. Temperatures exceeding 312º K (38.85 ºC) are classed as burning fires by AATSR, which is capable of detecting fires as small as gas flares from industrial sites because of their high temperature.
More than 50 million hectares of forest are burnt annually worldwide, and these fires have a significant impact on global atmospheric pollution, with biomass burning contributing to the global budgets of greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, making the quantification of fire important for the ongoing study of climate change.
There are over 650 registered users accessing the WFA, an ESA Data User Programme (DUP) project. The data are being used in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa and Australia for research in atmospheric chemistry, land use change, global change ecology, fire prevention and management and meteorology.
This Envisat image was acquired by the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument while working in Full Resolution mode to provide a spatial resolution of 300 metres.


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Effects of food on mood – space solutions for earthly problems
ESA's Commercial Promotion Office and TNO Food and Nutrition are evaluating opportunities to use space research to support the development of healthy and functional food.
TNO Food and Nutrition is a part of TNO Quality of Life. The aim of TNO Quality of Life is to help safeguard and improve health and human performance through innovative, applied research and consulting. In an interview Dr Jan Pieter van der Lugt, Marketing and Sales Director of Food and Nutrition at TNO, explains the further benefits of nutrition research in space.
A sceptic might say "The space and the food industry don't go together". What would you answer?
Space and food have a great deal of common ground. Food is a key ingredient for the wellbeing of human beings. The new trend is not curing illnesses, but rather securing health - through balanced and healthy food. But high quality, balanced food can do much more than securing health: it can enhance the performance of a person.
Cognition and concentration for instance can be largely influenced by the kind of food you eat. Astronaut food is the ultimate challenge for nutrition - they have to give top performances every day in the most hostile environment in which a human being can survive. So the requirements of the food are extremely high: it has to be not only highly balanced, healthy and tasty, but also weigh as little as possible as the payload capacity in spaceflights are limited.
Not an easy task.
A challenging task, but absolutely doable. And forward-looking. Right now, we at TNO are talking about projects together with ESA to develop astronaut food that – additional to all other criteria – is as fresh as possible and storable at room temperature. The knowledge can easily be transferred to Earth applications: food systems for people who have to deal with extreme conditions in their day to day life like athletes or armed forces who require similar standards.
Where's the benefit for a nutrition company in developing space food?
The most striking asset is, of course, the exposure: by getting involved into space nutrition, a large food company can show that it is at the forefront of innovation and aims for nothing but the highest standards in its area. It is a great marketing tool and it is expected to trigger significant return on investment. But this is just the most obvious benefit. Space is the ultimate platform for nutritional innovations, in which astronauts are a unique "lead user" for product innovations.
What kind of innovations deriving from space activities in the food and nutrition area could you envisage?
As mentioned before, the key issues of food today are that it tastes good and has optimum ingredients. But what is just as important is that the food is digested in the right way. With the increase of knowledge about the human genome, the genetic information that each human being carries in every cell of its body, we are gaining more and more understanding of the metabolic processes.
We are working on 'metabolic typing'. As people digest different kinds of food in a different way, a nutrition profile can be created for foods that are appropriate for a person. Then, an individual diet can be developed that is tailored to the needs of one person.
We envisage that people will be grouped into five or six different 'metabolic' categories with compatibility with different foods. Diets will be developed on this basis and will ultimately be sold off the shelf.
This will be the future for nutrition – to move away from producing nutrition for the majority of people, but instead focussing on individual diet development. Of course, we are still far away from it, but it will surely come. And astronaut food will be the first landmark in its development.
Are nutritional Research and Development activities on the ISS important for the food industry?
Absolutely. The body reacts to food immediately: nutrition has effects on blood pressure, bone health, concentration and cognition, just to mention some. We already know quite a bit about the overall reaction of the body to food.
Researching this with astronauts in space, those effects are considerably increased and can be monitored and pinned down a lot better. Space is the perfect place to study the relationship between food and mood in more depth. The findings are not only important for the wellbeing of astronauts but for everybody.


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MUSKOGEE, OK — During a hearing last month, prosecution witnesses described undercover drug buys allegedly made during a five-month investigation of a Muskogee, OK, fitness club owner, the Muskogee Phoenix newspaper reported.
The owner, Scott Thomas Baker, was arrested Jan. 31 after law enforcers executed a search warrant at Healthplex Fitness Center. During the search, police allegedly discovered a variety of drugs, syringes and more than $6,000 cash in Baker's office, according to the newspaper.
Baker allegedly sold steroids to an undercover agent for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The agent said he began purchasing steroids from a Healthplex employee, Zachary Tincher, in mid-September. The agent testified that he would set up the buys with Tincher, who would go into Baker's office and return with the testosterone. Once Tincher agreed to cooperate with police, the agent said he began dealing directly with Baker, the newspaper reported.
After the Jan. 31 Healthplex raid, Baker was charged with six felony drug charges, and Tincher was charged with three. Assistant District Attorney Jeff Sheridan presented evidence on four of the charges last month. Evidence will be presented on the other two charges when Baker's preliminary hearing resumes July 12, according to the Muskogee Phoenix.
Special District Judge Robin Adair overruled a challenge by Baker's lawyer, Jay Cook, to the sufficiency of the evidence mounted regarding the first four charges presented.
Baker, who faces five counts of distributing a controlled substance and one count of possessing a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, is free on bond, the newspaper reported.


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Manor Area Code is 306 and Time Zone is Central (GMT -06:00).
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|Mar 27, 2006
Computer model maps strengths, weaknesses of nanotubes
|(Nanowerk News) In theory, carbon nanotubes are 100 times stronger than steel, but in practice, scientists have struggled make nanotubes that live up to those predictions, in part, because there are still many unanswered questions about how nanotubes break and under what conditions.
|Because nanotubes are single molecules - about 80,000 times smaller than a human hair - finding out what makes them break involves the study of molecular bonds, atomic dynamics and complex quantum phenomena. The fact that there are hundreds of different kinds of nanotubes, sometimes with radically different properties, adds to the complexity.
|A new computer modeling approach developed by materials scientists at Rice University and the University of Minnesota is allowing researchers to create a "strength map" that plots the likelihood or probability that a nanotube will break - and how it's likely to break - based on four key variables.
|"Nanotubes break in one of two ways: the bonds either snap in a brittle fashion or they stretch and deform," said Boris Yakobson, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and of chemistry. "We found that the underlying mechanisms that cause both types of breaks are each present at the same time. Even in a particular test, either type of break can occur, but we were able to map out a pattern - based on statistical probabilities - of what was likely to occur in a range of conditions for the whole catalog of nanotube species."
|Yakobson's results appear in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Adacemy of Sciences.
|Carbon nanotubes are single molecules of pure carbon. They are long, narrow, hollow cylinders with walls just one atom thick. Scientists estimate SWNTs are about 100 times stronger than steel at one-sixth the weight. By comparison, Kevlar® – the fiber used in most bulletproof body armor – is about five times stronger than an equal weight of steel.
|The precise diameter of a nanotube can vary from less than half of a nanometer – a billionth of a meter – to more than three nanometers. Nanotubes can also vary by the angle at which they are twisted. This is known as the chiral angle, and a useful analogy is a roll of gift-wrap paper. If the roll is rewound carefully, there is no overhang on either end. However, if the roll wound at an odd angle, excess paper hangs off at one end.
|The chiral angle of nanotubes can vary from 0 degrees (no paper hanging off the roll) to 30 degrees, and tubes with different chiralities and diameters can have very different physical properties. Some are metals for instance and others are not.
|In developing his computational model of nanotube breaking patterns, Yakobson consider four critical values: load level, load duration, temperature and chirality.
|"The breaking mechanism for a particular nanotube depends to a great extent on its intrinsic twist called chirality," said co-author Traian Dumitrica, a former Rice postdoctoral researcher who is now assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota." Yet, temperature still influences the outcome. We were able to summarize the intricate dependence on parameters in a map , which stands as a striking example for the predictive power of simulations in materials science research."
|Rice doctoral student Ming Hua also co-authored the paper. The research was funded by NASA, the Office of Naval Research and the Welch Foundation.
|Source: Rice University
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- Color: light enough to be seen in the city, but dark enough to resist bike grime
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- Storage: possessing a pocket at the lower back, accessed with an invisible zipper
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How satellite navigation works
Navigation beacons must be as visible as possible. So 20th century radio navigation towers guiding aircraft stood hundreds of metres tall, while the lighthouses warning mariners of treacherous waters reach dozens of metres in height or cling to high ground. In essence navigation satellites are the same, except they are built on the ultimate high ground of space, making them visible from anywhere on Earth.
Turning time into distance
The signal emitted from each satellite is a microwave radio wave containing the time it was transmitted and the satellite's current orbital position.
As signals travel at the speed of light then (if your time-keeping is accurate enough) by calculating the time difference between the satellite signal and your receiver, you can derive the precise distance the signal has travelled from the satellite to reach your receiver.
Ultra-precise satellite navigation relies on the same basic principle as counting the seconds after a lightning flash before the accompanying thunder is heard, in order to estimate a storm's remoteness: a time value is converted into a reckoning of distance.
Finding your place
Combine inputs from multiple satellite signals simultaneously – like viewing multiple lighthouses at once –and your location is pinpointed.
Locking on to more signals yields greater accuracy but a four is the absolute minimum required. Three are used to 'trilateralise' (the three-dimensional equivalent of triangulation) the user's longitude, latitude and altitude and a fourth to determine the time offset between the (precise) satellite clock and the (less precise) clock embedded within the receiver.
Space and ground segments
Design trade-offs have led to a medium-Earth orbit as the optimal altitude for navigation satellite constellations, commencing with the US GPS and Russian Glonass. There are solid practical reasons for this: medium-Earth orbits are relatively stable and the satellites move across the sky relatively slowly. Lower orbits would require more satellites to maintain the same coverage while higher orbits would reduce coverage extent.
In addition an extensive ground infrastructure distributed worldwide is required to uplink the navigation signals, keep the different clocks of the constellation synchronised and correct any onboard timing or positioning deviation.
User receivers
Satellite navigation receivers also do a great deal of work, containing 'ephemerides' or electronic almanacs recording the expected locations of the constellation, to reduce the time taken to acquire signal locks from minutes to a matter of seconds.
The satellite navigation signals are very faint, equivalent to car headlights shone from one end of Europe to another. The signals are based around pseudo-random number codes that identify each satellite in a constellation. The receiver has records of each of these complex codes, so a full-power replica can be generated within the receiver from the faint signal received and used for the calculations deriving the final navigational data displayed to the user.
Interference can be a problem: the ionosphere, the uppermost electrically-charged layers of Earth's atmosphere can cause signal delay equivalent to several metres in the worst case. Signals reflecting off local surroundings, known as 'multipath' can cause spurious signal locks and decrease the overall accuracy.
Larger dual-frequency receivers can remove most 'iono-interference' while smaller receivers of the type fitted into phones or car dashboards rely only on single frequency signals, but employ software models to remove up to half the error.


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"We crawl on our knees for you,
Under a sky no longer blue
We sweat all day long for you,
But we sow the seeds to see us through
'Cause sometimes dreams just don't come true,
Look now at what they've done to you."
– Rise Against: Re-Education (Through Labor) –
Before getting into the broader markets, I thought it was pertinent to share with readers that recently I have noticed a trend in alternative music, also known as modern rock. As a fan of music in general, I have noticed that more modern and mainstream music is starting to underscore the deterioration in social mood. Mainstream songs are having a resoundingly similar lyrical undertone which outlines the "us against them", "rich versus poor", and the political class versus everyone else.
While I am not a sociologist nor do I have any real training in the area, the underlying tone in a lot of artistic mediums highlights the current chasm between the haves and the have-nots. While some might argue that it does not matter, if you as a reader, trader, or investor believe in behavioral finance you might agree that social mood matters a great deal. After all, the entire premise of technical analysis is an attempt to quantify market participant behavior at specific price levels.
Social mood is but one catalyst that can have a dramatic impact in price discovery, and thus must at the very least be monitored. Current music trends are literally screaming loud and clear that the average American can relate to the undertones and messages of song lyrics with the same resounding tone as the Rise Against lyrics listed above. Believe me, it may not matter right now, but it will matter and when it does it will likely be too late for financial markets.
Now that I have my little rant out of the way, why don't we take a look at where the S&P 500 has been, where it is now, and where it might be going. Currently price action in the S&P 500 is sitting on the edge of a fence. We could be looking at an intermediate bottom or it could end up being a bull trap. As for me, my recent prediction for lower prices has indeed come to pass, but from hereon I have no real idea where price action is headed. Mr. Market is leaving a few clues behind which I will outline, but anything is possible. We have seen stocks climb a wall of worry for nearly two years now so there is precedent for a rally from this current point of indecision.
The daily chart of the S&P 500 listed below illustrates key technical levels on the daily chart, however readers will notice that we are currently caught between a ton of overhead resistance and a key support level. Until we see price move in either direction with volume confirmation, I will be sitting on the sidelines.
Another key chart to consider is the SPX weekly chart. A quick glance at the slow stochastic readings at the bottom of the chart reveal that the S&P 500 might have additional downside left before the market is able to form a solid bottom. If that is true, we could see the SPX test the 200 period moving average on the daily chart which would be around the 1186 price level. Additionally, the 50 & 200 period moving averages on the weekly chart correspond with the 1180 price level which is likely not coincidental. The level also corresponds with key resistance areas going back to the November 2010 lows. While a downward move that large seems a bit extreme to me at this point, anything is possible.
As can be seen from the chart above, price action is currently sitting above the 20 period moving average on the weekly SPX chart. Key support levels are around the 1225 and 1180 price levels. I would also point out that a Fibonacci retracement of the recent pivot high to the recent pivot low gives us a possible 1.618 retracement around the 1190 price level. Additionally, the slow stochastic on the chart above is eerily similar to levels that were seen on the weekly chart back in May of 2010. Will price action work lower? Will the weekly slow stochastic reading kiss the 20 level?
At this point, a few of you might think I'm outlining the case for lower prices in the equity market. I honestly have no idea where price is going from here, I'm just outlining some key aspects that I have found in my analysis to the downside. The upside is just as likely and we could see the SPX price bounce off of the 20 period moving average on the weekly chart and a challenge of the recent highs could play out. Should recent highs give way to breakout, the SPX would likely test the 1,400 price level at some point in the future.
If we look at the VIX for any clues, all that can be seen from that chart is a spike higher and a subsequent selloff as fear and uncertainty leave the marketplace. The VIX is currently arguing for higher prices in equities, however the financials represented by XLF are the fly in the proverbial ointment. The banks were unable to attract a bid on Monday's strong advance and they experienced additional selling pressure on Tuesday.
In fact, the XLF's daily chart shown below reveals a key test and subsequent failure.
A quick look at the XLF daily chart and it is rather obvious that price action in XLF has been weak in the past two sessions. Price moved higher off of the recent lows, tested the 20 period moving average and rolled over. Price is currently below key support levels, but we could witness a reversal on Wednesday. I am going to be watching the financials (XLF) quite closely in coming days as I believe the banks will provide traders with clues as to which direction Mr. Market is favoring. Right now it would appear that Mr. Market is favoring lower prices, but that would seem a bit too easy from these eyes.
We could consolidate at these price levels for a period of time. The volume on Monday and Tuesday was light and we have non-confirming signals showing up in a variety of underlying indices. I am unwilling to accept any directional risk at this point. I will let others do the heavy lifting while I sit safely in cash and watch the price action play out.
The price action will eventually give us a confirming signal as to which direction prices will be heading, but right now I believe the prudent thing to do is remain in cash and wait for Mr. Market to signal which direction he favors. We are either sitting at the beginning of a major move higher or we are at a precipice and prices are about to plunge. Either way, risk remains high and the risk / reward is simply not there to warrant an entry. As I have said many times, sometimes the best trade is no trade at all!
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Central Connecticut softball's Kat Malcolm and Evie Rentzel earned Northeast Conference accolades for their impressive performances this past week, the league announced Monday. The Blue Devils went 5-1 over the week, earning two wins at home against Yale and taking three of four games on the road at the Hampton Tournament in Hampton, VA.
Malcolm, who earned NEC Co-Player of the Week, was instrumental in the Blue Devils' successful week as she scored 10 of 39 runs for Central in six games. She posted a .565 batting average while slugging .820.
The sophomore was especially explosive behind the plate on Saturday, March 9 against Siena and Maryland-Eastern Shore.
She accumulated three hits and three runs in four at bats in the 9-4 win over Siena and racked up four hits in four at bats, including a three-run homer to give her a grand total of five RBI for the game. In her last three games, she has totaled four steals and over the week, she totaled 15 hits, six RBI and two home runs.
Rentzel, NEC Rookie of the Week, started all six games for Central this week and totaled six RBI with a .526 batting average and .789 slugging percentage. She belted two triples, one double and 10 of her 12 career hits. The freshman also posted four runs and a stolen base, and yielded a perfect fielding percentage.
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text: In occasion of the 50th VINITALY we present our "Grandi Vigne": an intimate and personal story of wines expressing territory that have captured and fascinated fans for many years: The product of what increasingly lends itself as a "continent" within an island. Continent, in fact, is the word that, more and more often, seeks to define and explain Sicilian wine.Continentewas also the typical expression used by Sicilians to identify the rest of Italy, a notion which not only recognizes their condition as islanders, but their peculiarities and presence in this part of the "World" that render the island so unique in several aspects. Sicilyin fact means 'diversity'. Of landscapes- coastal plains to vineyards of 1000 meters in altitude; of mesoclimates- from the young soils of Etna to the ancient rooted. All of these variables come together in the role of native grapes, which have been genetically developed in a way far removed from "continental" Italian varietals, creating an identity that can't be found anywhere else. Here, from this very territory, begins the story of "our"Grandi Vigne, with their unique characteristics, their own story. Vineyards everlastingly tied to the environment in which they are planted whose interaction with the earth is repeated over time. "Driven by the unique historic whose interaction with the earth is repeated over time. "Driven by the unique historical heritage of information in the possession of our family for generations- that has allowed us to create our own personal classification of vineyards and land in our custody- we decided to give life to a long, exciting, exploratory journey connecting the past to the future"– declares Alberto Tasca d'Almerita –"This will give us the opportunity to leave a trace, to be more transparent and explanatory with those who seek a deeper, more comprehensive understanding. Learning about the territories, the vineyards and the expressiveness of each wine is like making new friends: each with their own personality, with whom to share your time and affection. oday the culture of wine is much more widespread than it was in the past, from experts to wine lovers. I think that creating the tools to share -even with novices- the growing wisdom of those who work the land is the key to understanding the logic and immense work behind a wine.Sunday April 10th, at the Tasca d'Almerita stand (Pad. 2 Sicilia – stand B 22 / C 34) artist Gianluca Biscalchinwill provide live illustration, drawing in his unmistakable and witty of ways – our Grandi Vigne.


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2007 Lexus LS460 and LS460L
Seventeen years after Lexus introduced the first LS luxury sedan at the 1989 Detroit auto show, the company unveiled its fourth-generation flagship sedan, the LS460, in Motown. As successful as the LS400 and the LS430 have been, they have never quite measured up to the big, long-wheelbase offerings from Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, and Jaguar in terms of sheer size, street presence, and prestige, even if they often exceeded them in refinement, reliability, and quality. Now that Toyota is expanding the Lexus brand beyond North America to Japan, Europe, and other world markets, the automaker hopes to compete neck-to-neck with the S-class, the 7-series, the A8, and the XJ8 with the LS460L, which debuted in Detroit as the first-ever, long-wheelbase LS. Lexus also announced that the new LS will be equipped with the world's first eight-speed automatic transmission, a big poke in the eye to Mercedes, which introduced a seven-speed automatic only recently. "That's right," said Jim Press, president and COO of Toyota Motor Sales during the unveiling of the LS460. "Eight speeds. We're uppin' 'em one."
The new LS460 and LS460L, which go on sale this fall as 2007 models, will be powered by an all-new, 4.6-liter V-8 producing about 380 hp and 370 lb-ft of torque, figures that compare favorably with those of the new Mercedes 5.5-liter V-8. (Although Lexus clearly wants to beat Mercedes in the gear-count game, it has little desire to enter the ridiculous horsepower war currently being waged by the Germans.) Lexus promises that the combination of this engine and the eight-speed automatic will result in a 0-to-60-mph time of less than 5.5 seconds while delivering combined city/highway average fuel economy in the high 20s. The current LS430 has a 4.3-liter V-8 producing only 278 hp and 312 lb-ft, enough for a 0-to-60-mph time of 5.9 seconds.
With the LS, the Lexus sedan lineup has been completely revamped within the space of a year, with all three models--the IS, the GS, and the LS--adhering to the new corporate Lexus design theme, which goes by the meaningless name of L-Finesse. The three Lexus sedans now share a clear family resemblance highlighted by modern, broad-shouldered exterior styling. The LS460 has a much more substantial air about it than its predecessor and boasts quite sophisticated surface treatments in its sheetmetal. We wouldn't call it beautiful, but perhaps it could be considered handsome.
The LS460 gets a redesigned multilink suspension; new, variable-ratio, electronic power steering; and the latest version of what Lexus calls VDIM, for Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management, which controls all the electronic interfaces for brakes, steering, stability control, and other chassis systems.
The long-wheelbase LS460L measures 202.8 inches in length versus the LS460's 198.0 inches, with a 121.7-inch wheelbase versus the stock 116.9-inch wheelbase. Lexus claims that the long-wheelbase model will establish new levels of comfort and luxury in the premium-sedan class. The LS460L's extra length allowed Lexus to create an optional ottoman package wherein the right-side rear seat reclines 45 degrees and has power leg rests and a massage feature. There's also a fold-away, rear-seat work table; a nineteen-speaker Mark Levinson stereo; and power closers for the rear doors and the trunk. The rear-seat area is not as spacious as the one in the Maybach 62, but it's still pretty opulent. There are even sensors that measure both cabin temperature and passengers' body temperatures. "I've been afraid to ask where that sensor goes," deadpanned Press, "but I'm sure it does a good job.'
Press announced that Toyota will release further technical details on the LS460 during the Geneva Motor Show in early March and will unveil a hybrid V-8 version of the car at the New York Auto Show in April. "It's the ultimate Lexus," boasts Press. Toyota officials have been quoted claiming that the hybrid LS, which likely will be badged the LS600h, will offer performance rivaling twelve-cylinder German sedans. Them's fightin' words: Toyota might not be interested in one-upping the Germans in pure horsepower numbers, but it's clearly interested in ultimate performance.


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My 13 year old is going on a field trip this week to a museum in DC and because buying food at the museum is cost prohibitive, I'm packing his lunch.
This is new territory for me because under normal circumstances our kids don't bring a packed lunch – they buy lunch at school. I carry a little guilt about this since my mother usually packed my lunch when I was a kid. In a plastic lunch box or brown paper bag I could expect either a turkey, baloney or peanut butter sandwich, a Hi-C juice box, an apple and/or carrot sticks, some type of snack cake, and once in awhile, a note written on my napkin telling me how loved I am.
This lunch is different from what I pack for Carlos – arroz con albóndigas, tacos, escabeche, galletas María, semita de piña … I can't pack these things for my 13 year old, can I? Sure, he eats them here at home but – in public? Around gringos? … I think about a story I read on TikiTikiBlog.com about what it's like to bring "ethnic" food for lunch when your gringo classmates bring "normal" things.
The dreaded grade school lunch trade – when my ethnicity was undeniably made public, with the contents of my lunch making who, and what, I was unmistakable.
I wanted to blend in, to be one with the bologna and mayonnaise sandwich crowd, the chocolate chip cookies, the plastic bottles filled with Sunny-D.
But nothing screamed "Not One of Them" louder than my sliced white goat cheese and Goya guava jelly sandwiches, with a chunk of pineapple thrown on top for extra Latino measure.
Oh the squeals and screams of the other non-Latino children as they recoiled — as if watching a horror movie.
– Alexandra on TikiTikiBlog.com
This is what I don't want my son to go through – although popular and well-adjusted, he already deals with people asking him if he's Mexican and if he's related to George López. And so, while at the grocery store picking items for his lunch, I stood, feeling kind of torn, in the middle of the aisle – a bag of all-American Cracker Jack in one hand, and a bag of plantain chips in the other. He likes both equally. Do I strengthen his identity or allow him to blend in?
I decided I would buy both and let him choose, but I couldn't wait until I got home to find out which he would take in his lunch. I put the bags into the cart and texted him.
Field trip snack – Cracker jack or plantain chips?
Thirty seconds later, he texted back.
Plantain chips.
I found myself smiling – but does this mean anything? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe it means he's confident in who he is. Maybe it means I've done a good job of instilling Latino pride into my boy. Maybe it means he's not worried about trying to fit in and refuses to succumb to peer pressure… or maybe it means he's just in the mood for plantain chips.
I have to say though, he asked if he could pack a semita de piña as well and I won't pretend I'm not happy about it.
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THE last time you bit into a falafel sandwich you were probably thinking about nothing more than the warm spice and crunch of the chickpea fritters and the way they played against the soft bread, crisp vegetables and nutty tahini sauce.
Unless you're Palestinian, in which case you may have had weightier culinary issues on your mind.
Many Palestinians believe that Israelis have stolen falafel, a traditional Arab food, and passed it off as what postcards at tourist kiosks all over Israel call ''Israel's National Snack.''
''We always sort of look at each other and roll our eyeballs when we pass a restaurant that says 'Israeli falafel,' '' said Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian-American and a professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Chicago.
Some do more than roll eyeballs. Aziz Shihab, a Palestinian-American and the author of the cookbook ''A Taste of Palestine,'' once picked an argument with the owners of an Israeli restaurant in Dallas that served falafel. ''This is my mother's food,'' he said. ''This is my grandfather's food. What do you mean you're serving it as your food?''
It's nice to think that sharing a cherished food brings enemies together, easing tension and misunderstanding. But the world's rawest conflicts can include disagreements over common foodstuffs. Irish Catholics and Protestants have lightly bickered over whiskey. Turks and Greeks have feuded over coffee. And Jews and Arabs argue about falafel in a way that reflects the wider conflict, touching on debates over territory and history. ''Food always migrates according to immigration and commerce,'' said Yael Raviv, an Israeli student at New York University who wrote her Ph.D. thesis on Israeli nationalism and cuisine. ''But because of the political situation, falafel has taken on enormous significance.''
''Every Israeli tourist brochure has a shot of falafel,'' Ms. Raviv continued. ''And every Israeli cookbook has a falafel recipe.''
Jewish and Israeli attitudes toward the falafel debate range from defiance to ambivalence to outright shame -- just as they do toward the conflict at large. Some Jews point out that no single group can own a method for frying a mush of legumes; they say that falafel is generically Middle Eastern, having originated in Egypt and found its way as far as Morocco and Saudi Arabia.
''Have we stolen pasta from the Italians?'' asked Geoffrey Weill, who does public relations for Israel's Ministry of Tourism. ''What kind of nonsense is that?''
Hagay Nagar, the Israeli co-owner of Hoomoos Asli in New York, says that falafel is now ''an international food, like a hamburger.'' (Nevertheless, his restaurant has an Arabic name: ''Asli,'' a word adopted by Israeli slang, means ''original'' in Arabic.)
Some argue that there is some historical precedent. Joan Nathan, the author of ''The Foods of Israel Today,'' said: ''Falafel is a biblical food. The ingredients are as old as you're going to get. These are the foods of the land, and the land goes back to the Bible. There have been Jews and Arabs in the Middle East forever, and the idea that Jews stole it doesn't hold any water.''
Claudia Roden, born in Egypt and the author of ''The Book of Jewish Food,'' confirmed that while falafel was never specifically a Jewish dish, it was certainly eaten by Jews in Egypt and Syria.
Other Jews and Israelis are less comfortable with the Israelization of falafel. Take Orna Agmon, a co-owner of the Falafel Queens, a set of upscale falafel restaurants in Israel. Ms. Agmon and her business partner, Ella Shein, were so ambivalent about the issue, she said, that ''it took us many years to actually have the courage to open a falafel restaurant -- we were afraid this act would be misunderstood.''
Ms. Agmon and Ms. Shein polished their falafel-making skills under the tutelage of Palestinian women, she said, ''who make the best falafel you can imagine.'' And who volunteered their knowledge without asking for compensation. ''It was three years ago, it was a different period,'' Ms. Agmon said, referring to the relative calm that preceded the current violence. ''It is still something that's hard for us to think about now.''
As surprising as it may sound, given the bloodiness and acrimony of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Zionism has always been perfumed by a whiff of romance with Arab culture. The Eastern European Jews who flocked to Palestine in the late-19th and early-20th centuries rejected their Continental pasts in favor of a return to their ancient roots. ''The Jewish settlers were looking for new ways to connect with their biblical pasts,'' Ms. Raviv said, ''and Arabs were the perfect role models.''
Some Jewish settlers in Palestine referred to themselves as ''Hebrew Bedouins'' and donned kaffiyehs, or Arab headdresses. ''Politically, the Zionists ignored the Arabs, but culturally, they romanticized and tried to imitate them,'' said Yael Zerubavel, a scholar of Israeli culture at Rutgers. This imitation didn't seem like theft, Ms. Zerubavel said, ''but localization, a process of putting roots in soil.''
The newly arrived Jews needed a cuisine to suit their new identities and surroundings. ''Their native food was inappropriate for the weather and the produce,'' Ms. Roden said. Not surprisingly, they were enchanted by the smoky eggplant dips, rustic breads and aromatic spice mixtures of Palestinian cuisine. As Najwa al-Qattan, a Palestinian-American and a professor of Middle Eastern history at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, put it, ''If you were given the choice between falafel and gefilte fish, which would you choose?''
These Zionists, by and large socialists, loved humble street foods like falafel, Ms. Roden said. They showed little interest in the primary jewels of Palestinian cuisine, like musakhan, a sumptuous ovenful of chicken, onions, sumac and pine nuts layered with fresh bread. Still, it wasn't until hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab countries emigrated to Israel in the 1950's that falafel truly became an Israeli emblem.
''And We Have Falafel,'' a popular Israeli song written in 1958, included such lyrics as: ''It used to be when a Jew came to Israel he kissed the ground and gave thanks/Now as soon as he gets off the plane he has a falafel.'' It also has the line ''only we have falafel,'' adding ''because this is the national food of Israel.''
In particular, Jews from Yemen got into the falafel business, opening up concession stands. These immigrants, Ms. Zerubavel said, ''made it possible to incorporate elements like falafel without referring to them as Palestinian.'' Yael Raviv of N.Y.U. added that falafel's lack of history as a specifically Jewish food speeded its adoption in the Jewish state, whose diverse residents could unite around a local dish that would be, she said, ''valid to everyone.''
Orna Agmon of the Falafel Queens compared falafel's history to that of the sabra, the local prickly fruit that Palestinians ate for centuries before Israelis started using the word as a nickname for a native-born Israeli. Similarly, Ammiel Alcalay, a Jewish professor of Middle Eastern culture at Queens College, believes that ''it's total appropriation, and that it's linked to very concrete things like land and sustenance.'' Mr. Alcalay said that Israelis have claimed falafel in the same way that they have Jaffa oranges and the spice mixture zaatar. (Zaatar usually consists of some combination of wild oregano, thyme, sumac and sesame seeds.)
But with time, Israelis have become quicker to acknowledge falafel's provenance. Throughout the mid-1990's, during the shaky peace, Israeli tourists flocked to Jordan, and then to Palestinian villages inside Israel. Dan Almagor, who wrote the lyrics to ''And We Have Falafel,'' said he would write the same song today -- but with a line about the dish's Arab origins.
And the falafel itself keeps changing. The original Egyptian dish was made with fava beans; as falafel moved northward, cooks substituted chickpeas. Until recently, Israel's most notable contribution to its evolution has been to cram novel accompaniments, from shredded beets to French fries, into falafel sandwiches.
But the Falafel Queens have developed two new varieties: red falafel (flavored with jalapeños and served with roasted peppers, tomatoes and spicy yogurt sauce) and orange falafel (made with sweet potatoes and accompanied by cabbage, honey and ginger tahini). ''Israelis love to think that falafel is their own,'' Ms. Agmon said. ''But it's something we adopted. For me, falafel is an Arab food with a long history and amazing versatility, to which we tried to contribute a new variation.''
And perhaps Palestinians will grow more tolerant of Israeli enthusiasm for falafel. Aziz Shihab, who once quibbled with Jewish restaurateurs over it, claimed that his views have softened. ''It's a regional food, not a people food,'' he said. ''The more I think and the more I pray for peace, the more I think it's a silly argument.''
Adapted from ''The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook''
by Tess Mallos (Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1996)
Time: 1 hour 15 minutes, plus 24 hours for refrigerating chickpeas
1 1/4 cups (8 ounces) dried chickpeas
1/2 cup (3 ounces) bulgur wheat
2 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
4 scallions, roughly chopped
3 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Freshly ground black pepper
Vegetable oil, for deep frying.
1. Place chickpeas in a large bowl and cover with cold water. Refrigerate for 24 hours.
2. Rinse bulgur in a fine-meshed sieve, and transfer to a bowl. Cover and let stand for 20 minutes.
3. Drain chickpeas. In a food processor, combine chickpeas, bulgur, garlic, scallions and parsley. Add coriander, cumin, cayenne, lemon juice, salt and baking soda. Season with black pepper to taste. Process until ground to a coarse paste-like consistency. Cover and let stand for 30 minutes.
4. With moistened hands, shape rounded tablespoons of the mixture into meatball-size balls. Heat oil for deep frying to 375 degrees, or until a cube of bread turns golden in 1 minute. Deep-fry 6 or 7 falafel at a time, turning to brown evenly, about 5 minutes. (To check if falafel is cooked, cut one in half. The color should be even through to the middle. If not even, increase cooking time by 1 minute.) Drain on paper towels.
Yield: About 30 fritters.


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Chapters Indigo sent me an interesting email last week, something like this:
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From NinWiki
Not The Actual Events (with no halo number yet assigned) is the second proper EP from Nine Inch Nails. It will be released on December 23, 2016.
Track List
The album was first acknowledged by Trent Reznor on December 17, 2016 in a post on nin.com:
"It's an unfriendly, fairly impenetrable record that we needed to make. It's an EP because that ended up being the proper length to tell that story".
The album cover artwork harks back to that of And All That Could Have Been and Still. Currently, there are five different variants.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Creighton guard Josh Jones is returning to Omaha, Neb., for additional tests after fainting before a game.
Jones was taken to a Lincoln hospital after passing out before the Bluejays' game against Nebraska in Lincoln on Thursday night. Creighton sports information director Rob Anderson says Jones' condition has stabilized.
In a statement released by the school, Jones says he's in good spirits and doing well.
Coach Greg McDermott said after the game that Jones fainted during pregame warm-ups and was taken from the Devaney Center on a stretcher.
Jones was diagnosed with a bacterial infection during his senior year at Omaha Central High School and underwent surgery to replace a heart valve. He resumed playing basketball in December 2007.


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Live news: we're out of the forest! The trip wrapped up very successfully, thanks to all the great support we have had from local government staff and villagers. On the last evening in Roang, we had another "kepok" (sorry, chickens!), and left by truck for Labuan Bajo. After a trip to the very helpful KSDA (conservation) office in Ruteng to obtain permits to transport specimens, we sent the samples on to Java via a cargo transport company. Acun, Endro, and I have now left for our respective home bases. I'll back-fill a few stories now as we rest and begin to process the specimens.
While the birds of Flores are not quite as amazing as those of Papua, their song does provide a lovely backdrop to work in the forest. We were very lucky on this trip to have been accompanied by Feri Irawan, the Biodiversity Officer for the Mbeliling Program of the NGO, Burung Indonesia. Feri was interested in learning some forest inventory methods and in visiting this particular lowland forest, and in return left us with his bird checklist, the first we have had for one of our project sites. He visited first during our initial week, and constant rain seemed to have made many birds scarce; his list was worryingly poor. But his second trip, coinciding with warm and sunny weather, quickly made up for the first. While his 33 taxa are fewer than he would have seen in a similar period in the open savanna of Rinca or Komodo, they comprise many more interesting, restricted-distribution, and forest species. Feri felt that the list was longer than he would have obtained during a similar sampling period in the higher elevation forests on Mt. Mbeliling where he usually works. Overall, he was prepared to say this was the richest, most interesting site for forest birds that he has visited in Flores. Bird-watchers take note!
Here is Feri's list. The '*' indicates restricted-range species for Northern Nusa Tenggara:
[Metadata. Site: Wai Dongkong, Roang, Desa Golo Pongkor, Manggarai Barat, Flores, Indonesia (8.607224 S, 119.902451 E); forest type: primary, plus some secondary, plus riparian; elevation: 180-500 m ASL; dates: 18-22 February 2014 and 11-12 March 2014; sampling methods: visual and auditory]
- Accipitridae : Accipiter sp. (Goshawk)
- Alcedinidae : Alcedo atthis (Common Kingfisher, Rajaudang Erasia)
- Alcedinidae : Caridonax fulgidus (White-rumped Kingfisher, Cekakak Tunggir-putih) *
- Alcedinidae : Ceyx erithaca (Oriental Dwarf-kingfisher, Udang Api)
- Apodidae : Collocalia esculenta (Glossy Swiftlet, Walet Sapi)
- Campephagidae : Pericrocotus lansbergei (Flores Minivet, Sepah Kerdil) *
- Columbidae : Ducula aenea (Green Imperial-pigeon, Pergam Hijau)
- Columbidae : Ducula lacernulata (Dark-backed Imperial-pigeon, Pergam Punggung-hitam) *
- Columbidae : Ptilinopus cinctus (Black-backed Fruit-dove, Walik Putih)
- Columbidae : Ptilinopus melanospila (Black-naped Fruit-dove, Walik Kembang)
- Corvidae : Corvus florensis (Flores Crow, Gagak Flores) ENDANGERED *
- Cucilidae : Cacomantis sepulcralis (Rusty-breasted cuckoo)
- Dicaeidae : Dicaeum sp. (Flowerpecker)
- Dicruridae : Dicrurus densus (Wallacean Drongo, Srigunting Wallacea)
- Megapodiidae : Megapodius reinwardt (Orange-footed Scrubfowl, Gosong Kaki-merah)
- Meliphagidae : Philemon buceroides (Helmeted Friarbird, Cikukua Tanduk)
- Meropidae : Merops sp. (Bee-eater)
- Monarchidae : Hypothymis azurea (Black-naped Monarch, Kehicap Ranting)
- Monarchidae : Monarcha sacerdotum (Flores Monarch, Kehicap Flores) ENDANGERED *
- Monarchidae : Terpsiphone paradisi (Asian Paradise-flycatcher, Seriwang Asia)
- Oriolidae : Oriolus chinensis (Black-naped Oriole, Kepudang Kuduk-hitam)
- Pachycephalidae : Pachycephala nudigula (Bare-throated Whistler, Kancilan Flores) *
- Pachycephalidae : Pachycephala pectoralis (Golden Whistler, Kancilan Emas)
- Phasianidae : Gallus varius (Green Junglefowl, Ayamhutan Hijau)
- Picidae : Dendrocopos moluccensis (Brown-capped Woodpecker, Caladi Tilik)
- Pittidae : Pitta elegans (Elegant Pitta, Paok Laus)
- Rhipiduridae : Rhipidura diluta (Brown-capped Fantail, Kipasan Flores) *
- Strigidae : Otus silvicola (Wallace's Scops-owl, Celepuk Wallacea) *
- Sylviidae : Tesia everetti (Russet-capped Tesia, Tesia Timor) *
- Turdidae : Zoothera sp. (Thrush)
- Zosteropidae : Heleia crassirostris (Thick-billed White-eye, Opior Paruh-tebal) *
- Zosteropidae : Lophozosterops dohertyi (Crested White-eye, Opior Jambul) *
- Zosteropidae : Zosterops wallacei (Yellow-spectacled White-eye, Kacamata Wallacea) *
I find that in most forests I have visited, there is one particular bird call that sticks in my mind, adding a soundtrack to my memories. For example, the "screaming piha" (Lipaugus vociferans) of the Nouragues forest in French Guyana (CALL at xeno-canto.org). At Wai Dongkong it was the haunting call of the orange-footed scrubfowl (CALL at xeno-canto.org), especially when heard in the 3:00am quiet and darkness. But the richest, most musical call was that of the bare-throated whistler. On a trip up-river, we came across one male calling loudly and continuously as it flitted back and forth between perches in the understory, completely undisturbed by our nearby presence. I was able to make this recording. The bird is a mimic, and much of its song is probably a 'remix' of the songs of other bird species!