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Samsung's 'Easy Phone Sync' helps users switch from iOS to Galaxy
The software allows users to transfer music, videos, podcasts, pictures, contacts and text messages from an iPhone to a Samsung device, like its new flagship Galaxy S III. The application was announced on Friday by Samsung Mobile U.K.
"We're really proud to announce the launch of this new application and can't wait to hear what our new and existing customers think of it," said Simon Stanford, vice president of Telecommunications and Networks at Samsung U.K. "We know that traditionally iPhone users have been reluctant to switch to an Android device because they couldn't use iTunes to manage their content. Easy Phone Sync means people can now enjoy their iTunes content on a Samsung Galaxy phone. What's more is that it's really easy for them to do, and literally takes five minutes to set up."
Samsung's use of a third-party application to transfer data is different from the approach that was taken by now-defunct Palm, which in 2009 made its webOS operating system trick iTunes into thinking a Palm smartphone was actually an iPod. That sparked a back-and-forth battle in which Apple kept blocking webOS from tricking iTunes, and Palm kept issuing webOS updates to re-enable iTunes sync.
However, Samsung's free "Easy Phone Sync" application does allow users to continue using iTunes software on their PC to manage music, videos and podcasts. That means while iTunes won't handle the syncing, the Samsung application will stay up-to-date with iTunes content.
The new application is another sign of the escalating rivalry between Apple and Samsung. The two companies are involved in a bitter patent dispute that now spans across the world with lawsuits in 10 countries.
The Easy Phone Sync application for Android is available on Google Play and is developed by Media Mushroom. Accompanying applications that work with the Android app are available for both Mac OS X and Windows PCs.

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»Michael Cummings, Geology faculty, was awarded the 2013 Neil Miner Award by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) in honor of his exceptional contributions to the stimulation of interest in the Earth sciences. The award will be presented
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Sudbury Performance Group presents an updated Godspell
In the mid 1990s, Mark Mannisto took part in a production of Godspell, a major musical theatre production, and it left a lasting impact.
Now, as the president of the Sudbury Performance Group, Mannisto is helping bring Godspell back to life and to the Nickel City.
"When I was in the production, I didn't know much about it," Mannisto said. "For me at the time, it was something to do. It was only my second production ever being a part of. I've got to tell you, the production, even though it was in the mid-90s, it stayed with me.
"I met so many great friends from the production, so many lasting memories from the production, and some of the other cast members and production team have done the shows before, in years past, and they've all felt the same – it's something that carries through with them, and I want to give this opportunity to people who are doing this production for the first time."
Godspell was the first major musical-theatre offering from three-time Grammy and Academy Award winner, Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, Children of Eden), and it took the world by storm. Led by the international hit, Day by Day, Godspell features a parade of beloved songs, including Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord, Learn Your Lessons Well, All for the Best, All Good Gifts, Turn Back, O Man, and By My Side.
In the show, a small group of people helps Jesus Christ tell different parables by using a wide variety of games, storytelling techniques and hefty doses of comic timing. An eclectic blend of songs, ranging in style from pop to vaudeville, is employed as the story of Jesus' life dances across the stage.
Dissolving hauntingly into the Last Supper and the Crucifixion, Jesus' messages of kindness, tolerance and love come vibrantly to life.
Boasting a score with chart-topping songs, a book by a visionary playwright (John-Michael Tebelak), and a feature film, Godspell is a sensation that continues to touch audiences.
Mannisto said Godspell is not your ordinary production, as it has been completely adapted to fit in the world in 2019.
"Godspell has been around for ages," Mannisto said. "It was almost like the prequel to Jesus Christ Superstar. What we've done with this production is, it's a totally revamped production. It is more for contemporary audiences. The theme of the story is all the same, but it's staged in such a way that it's the 2019 version. It's not dated whatsoever. It breathes new life into the production.
"The story, at the end of the day, is the heart and soul of the show. The story hasn't changed. People can still expect the teaching and the moving story that comes with Godspell. This was originally composed in the 70s and we're in a whole new world now.
"Sometimes, when you do productions that were written in a certain time frame, for when it was written it was cutting edge, state of the art, but as we progress sometimes things lose their appeal and so I'm glad that this production has been revamped and updated to make it more relatable and enjoyable to our newer audiences. And when I say newer audiences, I mean the younger audiences that might be seeing Godspell for the first time."
Twitter: @keith_dempsey
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What you need to know
What: Godspell: The Rock Musical
When: Jan. 17-26 at College Boreal
Where: 21 Lasalle Blvd.
Tickets: tickets range from $23-$33. Seating will be done on a first come, first serve basis, and can be purchased at sudburyperformance.ca, Jett Landry Music, or Grove's Your Independent Grocer. Credit card reservations can also be phoned in to 705-662-8518
For more information, visit The Sudbury Performance Group's website at www.sudburyperformance.ca, or call 705-662-8518


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How dangerous is it to ask the government for psychological help? Atheist see the government as a place that is presently over run with religious dogma and having lack of real evidence based thinkers. At least if there is any they seem to be in the minority. The debate over guns in America begs the question, "What will Americas position be on help for the people who are in need for psychological help"? Will there be enough knowledge about psychology to trickle out of the corners of…Continue
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NBC and David Gregory debate what will reduce the carnage in America and violates a D.C. law prohibiting the possession of a high capacity magazine. The athorities decided it was not in the best interest of the public to prosecute NBC or David Gregory on this violation. The public is left with the baggage of psychological questions on social freedoms.
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Are you in support of legal marijuana in the state of Washington. It sounds like Washington D.C. will challenge the legitimacy of the new state law to legalize it. Do you think the new state law will prevail or will the prudish religion of the right wing smash it?
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In your oppinion what was your best experience in meeting new atheist?
I'd say mostly indifferent. A large part of the population is de facto atheist, but doesn't give it enough thought to really be called that, and are still members of the church. They were made members at birth, and it comes with some benefits (church weddings, ability to be godparent, etc), and people just don't give it enough thought to bother leaving, it's just tradition. Some are actually religious, of course, but people's faith is not very visible in society.
I love your brief comments (the fact that they are brief). You hit the nail on the head regarding my post on reading newspapers.
Hangin in there like a leaf on a tree. Hope you are contemplating the big move.
Re: Memes - My definition is very straightforward. A "meme" is simply some information which is shared by any number of people. Something as basic as a song that you are hearing in your head is a meme. Books, articles, speeches, and even these sentences are memes. A descriptive term for a meme is cultural information.
Religions, including cults, or any type of ideology, are spread memetically, i.e. information passed from person to person via some medium.
I think a lot of confusion about memes comes from the fact that people tend to read a lot more into it than necessary. The analogy made by Richard Dawkins between memes and genes is inexact but useful. It is clear that languages, religions, and culture in general do in fact evolve, so I think the idea of memes is accurate.
I appreciate your reading and commenting on my post. Now I'm going back to sleep!
You're way overdue for a JW visit! I say give them a taste of their own medicine.
Thanks for your comment to my blog. I don't think a nutritionist would give me any more information I don't already know--and charge me a lot of money!
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As you will hopefully recall from my previous blog, when I purchased a 1953 International pickup truck, I decided to add a digital speedometer. I elected to use Nixie tubes because they have an appropriate vintage feel and bring a warm, fuzzy feeling to the party. Furthermore, I decided to use a GPS unit that would let me determine my speed without hacking into my speed cable or cobble Hall effect sensors and the like together.
My version of the project ended up using the parts shown below. You can substitute other parts as you wish, but I ended up with these either out of convenience or because I happened to have them lying around in my treasure chest.
- One high-voltage DC 115-235V Nixie tube driver ($18 on eBay)
- Two K155ID1 Nixie tube drivers ($2 each on eBay)
- Two Nixie tubes ($10 each on eBay)
- One PmodGPS GPS receiver ($45)
- One Basys2 Spartan-3E FPGA board ($50)
As I noted before, you can find cheaper GPS receiver modules and make your own DC-DC converter, but if you already have something at hand, you might as well use it. This project works with high voltages, so please be careful.
Decoding the GPS
The Pmod GPS plugs right into the BASYS2 connector. This module was not easy to integrate, and the documentation is lacking. All I needed was the speed-over-ground message. Before I get too far, the physical interface is 3.3V signaling, 9600baud, start bit, stop bit. The GPS blinks a LED once a second until it locks on the satellites. However, I discovered that serial data was always flowing from the module, even without a lock.
Five ASCII messages come out of the module every second, each one commencing with a $ character. To obtain the speed value, I needed to decode a data stream that looks like this.
In this example, the speed is 0.06 kilometers per hour. This example is not as helpful as it could be. What about when the speed is 10 or 100kph? By trial and error, I discovered that the message is variable. For 10 and 100kph, it will look something like this (it would have been nice if someone had told me):
The trick to finding the speed from the five messages is to look for the sequence $GPVTN,SPEED. To help me debug the data stream, I inserted a 4k FIFO that stores the GPS data and is displayed every second or so to the rightmost pair of seven-segment LED digits on my FPGA board. This was very helpful. Remember that the message is in ASCII; we have to subtract hexadecimal 30 from each numerical digit to obtain the decimal equivalent. Also, look for that decimal point delimiter, because the speed could have one, two, or three digits. This snippet of VHDL shows some of the decoding.
KPH to MPH
After the speed is located and decoded from the GPS message, the next step is to convert it from kilometers to miles per hour. I decided to use a lookup table, as illustrated below.
I also have a smaller version of this design that fits into a CPLD — I'm too cheap to stuff this FPGA board into my truck. For the purposes of this exercise, though, I used a lookup table. This output is by nature in BCD format, so it mates up nicely with the K155ID1 Nixie tube drivers. It's simple and fast. Since I wish to display my speed only in miles per hour, and since my truck will never go faster than 99mph, two Nixie tube digits will suffice. If you wish to display your speed in kilometers per hour, you will need three Nixie tubes. The accuracy of the speedo is about +/- 1mph, and the update rate is one second. GPS is sensitive to drift, bridges, etc., but this setup works well as an overall speedometer.
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which pass for public opinion in a land where no such thing exists can be found only in Seoul - Isabella Bird Bishop, 1898
Friday, December 04, 2009
Modern girls and boys
In my post on Sweet Dream, I mentioned the concept of the 'modern girl' of the 1930s and compared it to the concept of the 'doenjang nyeo' of this decade. I found another photo of the modern girl which makes quite clear the issues that the cartoonist had with them:
What I found interesting was this cartoon about the 'modern boy':
It would appear the 'metrosexual' trend in Korea is not a particularly new one, if this cartoon is to be believed.
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- Helen said...
There was a TV drama '최승희'.
채시라 played her.
I can remember it vaguely.
Anyway her acting was impressive.
I was surprised when I knew that there were also some girls who prostituted for diamond rings or watches, kiss girls who sold kisses,besides stick girls, street girls, hand girls..variety named girls around in 1930 in Korea.
- Fri Dec 04, 10:54:00 PM
- matt said...
Sounds like an interesting drama. Are the different kinds of prostitution based on fact? It wouldn't surprise me at all, but it's always worth checking.
- Sat Dec 05, 12:50:00 AM
- K said...
I remember hearing metrosexual thrown around as a real compliment by Korean girls regarding guys they were into back in about 2003. Maybe they were just waiting for a term to define the Ggot mi nam. Those are some risgue outfits. Seems like the Japanese occupation didn't keep some people from having a good time. Did they make the trains run on time?
- Sat Dec 05, 04:31:00 AM
- Helen said...
Many things still surprise me.
This series seem interesting to see the past life style but couldn't fine them at any bookstores.
- Sat Dec 05, 09:41:00 AM
- Helen said...
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- Sat Dec 05, 09:42:00 AM
- Helen said...
just found them searching each title.^^
- Sat Dec 05, 09:50:00 AM
- The Sanity Inspector said...
Those 'toons are great finds!
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Your smartphone camera can be a practical tool
This post first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News
Everywhere I go I see people using their cellphones to take pictures of themselves, people around them or interesting things that they encounter. But your phone's camera can also be a practical tool. I use my smartphone camera for all sorts of things that no one would ever consider a "Kodak moment."
For example, I have a tendency to lose receipts — especially for small items like a tax deductible or reimbursable taxi ride or a meal. Now instead of stuffing a receipt into my wallet, I take a picture of it with my phone and email it to myself as a reminder to submit it later for reimbursement or copy into my tax records. There are apps for photographing, sorting and tracking receipts like OneReceipt, Shoeboxed and SmartReceipt, but I just stick to emailing them to myself.
I also photograph my airline boarding passes, which I've occasionally had to submit to get frequent flier credit. Just snap a picture of the boarding pass before takeoff and you're all set in case you need to email it to the airline.
I also do this with claim checks for luggage or parking. Rather than take a chance of not finding them, I snap a picture and leave it in my phone for later retrieval.
And I use my phone sometimes to record where I park by taking a picture of street signs at a nearby intersection. When I rent a car, I take a picture of its license plate or maybe the car itself, so I can find it later, lest I forget what I'm driving that day.
A couple of years ago I visited Moscow, where everything, including the names of subway stations, is written in Cyrillic script, making it hard for foreigners like me to distinguish one sign from another. As I boarded the train near my hotel, I was afraid I'd have no idea what station to return to. So I snapped a picture of the sign and, sure enough, had to show it to a helpful local, who was kind enough to tell me how to get back there from Red Square.
The other day I helped my wife pick out a pair of eyeglasses. She's nearly blind without them so when trying out frames with no prescription lenses, she had no way to see how she looked in them. So I snapped her picture with her phone and showed her how she looked. After a few minutes, she narrowed her choice down to a few pairs, but still couldn't decide, so she emailed the finalists to friends and family members, who helped her make the final decision. A few years ago, I let my Facebook friends vote on which eyeglasses to buy and wound up with some good advice.
I also use the phone to help with home improvement projects. I once took a picture of my kitchen to send to a contractor so he could put some thought into a remodeling project before he got here. We're thinking about replacing our driveway with pavers and when we see a driveway we like, we snap a picture.
A phone can also help when it comes to health care. A few years ago my wife developed an odd looking rash as we were traveling in Europe. I snapped a picture of it and sent it to a physician friend in San Francisco, who diagnosed it and recommended an over-the-counter cream that took care if it. Just last month, my son complained about a strange looking mark on his hand and sent me a picture. As it happened I had a dermatologist appointment that day and got a twofer. After she took care of my problem, I showed the doctor the picture of my son's hand and she correctly told me that it was nothing to worry about. Not all doctors, by the way, would be willing to give medical advice based on pictures due to their own hesitations, licensing issues and rules established by the clinics and hospitals they are affiliated with.
A phone can even help you avoid legal trouble. When I was in New Orleans, I was approached by a person who claimed I backed into his car and demanded payment for damages to his front grill. I knew he was lying, so I got out my camera phone and took pictures of his car and the back of my rental car, which had no blemishes at all, making it obvious that I couldn't have backed into him. He walked away and never followed up with a claim.
My phone also came in handy after a real, but thankfully, minor car accident. I used it to take a picture of the other person's driver's license and insurance card and to document the damage to both cars. I also emailed him a picture of my driver's license. The pictures didn't get the dents out of the cars, but they did help take the wrinkles out of setting our insurance claims.


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US backs new Syrian opposition ahead of conference
December 12, 2012
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — A Syrian opposition spokesman called for "real support" and not just recognition on Wednesday, hours after the U.S. declared that the new Syrian opposition coalition was the "legitimate representative" of its country's people.
Speaking as the fourth meeting of the "Friends of the Syrian People" opened in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, Walid al-Bunni called on the more than a hundred delegates from Europe and the Gulf countries to provide something concrete to help in their battle against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.
"Recognition is nice, but we need real support," said Walid al-Bunni, a spokesman for the newly formed Syrian National Coalition as the conference began. "I will be happy after the conference if we have something for the Syrian people."
The U.S. move, announced by President Barack Obama late Tuesday, follows that of France and the U.K. The Syrian National Coalition, formed in November during a conference in Doha, Qatar, has been calling for increased international support, including military material for opposition forces battling the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria for nearly two years.
The U.S. and its British allies are not, however, expected to approve military aid, in part over fears of al-Qaida linked rebel units operating in the country. There are also no representatives of the Syrian rebel forces at the conference.
John Wilks, the British special representative to the Syrian opposition, explained that Wednesday's event was neither a donor conference nor a military aid event but rather an effort to set up opposition institutions so that they could effectively use future aid in a credible manner to administer the areas they control.
"The key point is that they are setting up institutions and money is coming, so it's a better situation than three months ago — they are happy, we are happy," he said before the conference began. He said so far Britain had earmarked 50 million pounds ($80 million) of humanitarian aid and 7 million pounds ($11.2 million) non-humanitarian including communications equipment, training and office supplies — but no plans for now for military aid.
"There are big issues concerning legality — intervening in a civil war to overthrow a government is a difficult proposition, to put it mildly," he said. Obama's announcement follows his administration's blacklisting of a militant Syrian rebel group with links to al-Qaida. That step is aimed at blunting the influence of extremists amid fears that the regime may use or lose control of its stockpile of chemical weapons.
The U.S. had been leading international efforts to prod the fractured Syrian opposition into coalescing around a leadership that would represent all of the country's factions and religions. Yet it had held back from granting recognition to the group until it demonstrated that it could organize itself in credible fashion.
In particular, Washington had wanted to see the group set up smaller committees that could deal with specific immediate and short-term issues, such as governing parts of Syria under their control and putting in place institutions to address the needs of people once Assad is ousted. Some of those committees could form the basis of a transitional government.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was expected to attend the conference, but cancelled following an illness and will be represented by Deputy Secretary of State for the Middle East, William Burns.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday the recognition contradicted earlier international agreements that foresee the "commencement of an all-Syria dialogue" that would include all sides of the conflict, in which more than 40,000 people have died so far.


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Carl's Jr. and Hardee's Organize May Campaign to Fight Breast Cancer
May 2, 2007
'Pink Star' Restaurant Donation Program Expands to Both Brands to Raise Breast Cancer Awareness - and Funds - Across the Country
CARPINTERIA, Calif. – May 2, 2007 – Carl's Jr.® and Hardee's® restaurants across the United States are rallying customers and employees to join them in a three-week, in-store fundraiser benefiting breast cancer awareness this May. Guests are encouraged to visit their local Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurant location to donate toward this worthwhile cause, with funds benefiting the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF). The "Pink Star" campaign begins May 2 and concludes May 23.
While the program is entering its third year at Carl's Jr., it has expanded each year, from a program initiated in 2005 by the Carl's Jr. franchise body, the Star Franchise Association; to a system wide Carl's Jr. promotion with company-operated restaurant support in 2006; to a nationwide program in 2007, with nearly 3,000 Carl's Jr. and Hardee's franchise -- and company-operated restaurants across the country offering guests the chance to donate in support of breast cancer awareness through educational outreach, and mammograms for underinsured women.
For each $1 donation, restaurant guests will receive a personalized commemorative pink Happy Star(TM) cutout to place on a restaurant lobby display. Happy Star is an icon for both the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurant chains, and pink represents breast cancer awareness. Guests who make donations will also receive a coupon redeemable for a free beverage on a future visit. Carl's Jr. and Hardee's supplier Imaging Technologies of Atlanta, Ga. has donated the cost of all printed materials related to the Pink Star program as a show of support as the program expands nationwide.
"We are proud to support the National Breast Cancer Foundation during the month of May by mobilizing Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurant locations -- nearly 3,000 across the U.S. -- as 'Pink Star' sites for guests to donate to this worthy cause," said Andrew F. Puzder, president and chief executive officer. "Each dollar donated, and each Happy Star added to our walls, shows those women and families affected by breast cancer how much we care, and how proud we are to support awareness on their behalf. We encourage everyone to support this worthy cause."
The 2006 Pink Star program, supported by the Carl's Jr. Star Franchise Association and Carl's Jr. company-operated restaurants, raised more than $300,000 for the NBCF, whose mission is to save lives by increasing awareness of breast cancer through education and providing mammograms to those in need. This year, Hardee's franchise and company-operated restaurants throw their store presence behind the event, which is a thrilling development for NBCF president Janelle Hail: "Support from CKE Restaurants, Inc. and their Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurant locations means so much to the National Breast Cancer Foundation and the women whose lives will be saved as a result of their involvement. With their ever-increasing support, we are able to expand our outreach to educate women about the importance of early detection and to provide free mammography programs for women who cannot afford them. We thank CKE, Carl's Jr., and Hardee's for their valiant efforts to save women's lives."
According to the NBCF, more than 211,000 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year -- and 43,300 will die. One woman in eight either has or will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. In addition, 1,600 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and 400 will die. If detected early, the five-year survival rate exceeds 95 percent. Mammograms are among the best early-detection methods, yet 13 million U.S. women 40 years of age or older have never had a mammogram. For more information about the NBCF or to donate directly, visit http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org.
As of the fourth fiscal quarter ended Jan. 29, 2007, CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR), through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,105 franchised or company-operated restaurants in 43 states and in 13 countries, including 1,087 Carl's Jr. restaurants, 1,906 Hardee's restaurants and 96 La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill® restaurants. For more information, or to find a Carl's Jr. or Hardee's near you, go to http://www.ckr.com, http://www.carlsjr.com or http://www.hardees.com.


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Specialty Devices and Safe Food Handling
Several consumer products can be used to thaw food without electricity, cook it with sunlight, determine its doneness, and warm it at a picnic. As with other kitchen devices and cooking equipment, food must be handled safely when using them to avoid foodborne illness. For example, food must not linger in the "Danger Zone" between 40 °F to 140 °F for more than two hours, and food must reach a minimum internal temperature to be safe.
- Thawing Tray
- Solar Box Cooking
- Disposable Temperature Indicators
- Thermoelectric Cooler/Warmer
- Table Top Ovens
- Deep Fat Turkey Fryers
- The Big Easy Oil-less Turkey Fryer
- The Big Green Egg
Thawing Tray
The thawing tray is made of superconductive metal alloys that allow frozen food to defrost speedily at room temperature. It uses no energy or chemicals and doesn't warm the food.
Food must be handled properly when defrosting food on this tray. It is important that the surface of the food lays flat against the tray's surface, and to account for the food's size, shape and thickness. To remain safe, raw meats and poultry should be at room temperature no longer than two hours, and if temperature is above 90 °F, only one hour.
The thawed food may be cooked immediately or it may be refrigerated one or two days. After cooking, the food must be refrigerated within 2 hours.
Also very important: after use, the thawing tray must be washed with hot soapy water to prevent cross contamination of bacteria to other foods.
Solar Box Cooking
The solar box cooks food using sunlight. The box has a top window which allows the sunlight through. A dark covered pot is placed in the bottom of the box; it absorbs the sunlight which converts to heat.
Solar cooking has been touted as a way to conserve fuel. It is possibly an alternative to conventional methods for cooking meat and poultry.
However, USDA microbiologists question the adequacy of cooking temperatures inside the solar cooker. They question how long the food will be in "the Danger Zone" (temperatures between 40 and 140 °F). They are concerned about how long it takes for the food to start cooking, and how hot the cooking temperature ever becomes.
If the box temperature rises too slowly, there may be temperature abuse before the food starts cooking. The box temperature as well as the food temperature would need to be measured during the cooking process to ensure safety.
Even if solar box cooking proves to be reliable in the summertime in some parts of the U.S., there is still some question about its use in the winter or on cloudy days. Consumers attempting to use the Solar Box should proceed with caution and use a thermometer to ensure safe cooking temperatures are reached.
Disposable Temperature Indicators
The manufacturer recommends that these single-use, cardboard thermometers be used to verify that hamburger patties are cooked to 160 °F, the temperature at which E. coli O157:H7 should be destroyed. It can also be used to check eggs and other foods requiring cooking to 160 °F.
The cardboard strip has a white material inside its plastic coated tip. When inserted into food which has reached 160 °F, the white material changes to clear and the tip changes to black. Each strip is intended for one-time use.
This product was originally intended for food service but has begun to be sold in retail packages. It could be useful for the home cook, especially for people "at risk" for foodborne illness; on a picnic; or whenever a regular thermometer is not available.
One of these cardboard thermometers can easily be carried in the pocket or purse for use when ordering take-out meals or at family gatherings where the food handling practices of other cooks are questionable!
Consumers must use the product properly. If the consumer inserts the indicator and finds the hamburger undercooked another indicator must be used to check the hamburger a second time. It's possible for bacteria from the undercooked pattie to cross contaminate the safely done pattie if only one were used.
Consumers should insert the cardboard in the thickest part of the food. Hamburgers must reach 160 °F throughout in order to ensure they are safe to eat.
Thermoelectric Cooler/Warmer
These devices that plug into a car's cigarette lighter are meant to replace the ice-filled insulated cooler as well as keep foods warm. Cooler/warmers are advertised to store food 45 degrees below the outside air temperature. Some manufacturers even suggest food can be reheated in it, but the maximum heating temperature advertised for these devices is 125 °F.
There is a question as to whether they keep foods at a safe temperature.
Microbiologists and food science experts at USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service have voiced great concerns about temperatures at which these cooler/warmers claim to store or heat foods.
This is their concern: pathogens can grow and multiply at temperatures between 40 and 140 °F. Summer temperatures often exceed 90 °F and the interior of a car can reach 160 °F in a matter of minutes in the summertime, even with the windows partially open. The food would then be in the "Danger Zone" at a temperature where foodborne bacteria multiply rapidly.
Likewise, the maximum heating temperature of 125 °F is unsafe. In fact, cooked warm food may become dangerous after two hours at this temperature. It's impossible to reheat cold food to steamy hot in these devices.
As advertised, the thermoelectric cooler/warmer may not keep food safe, either cold or hot. Continue to keep cold food cold in an insulated picnic cooler with plenty of ice or frozen gel packs.
Table Top Ovens
These ovens are small enough to be used on kitchen counters or tables. Several different brands are on the market that can use convection, conduction, or infrared cooking power. Some ovens use all three powers at the same time. Their smaller size uses less energy than larger ovens and cook 50% faster according to manufacturer's claims.
Deep Fat Turkey Fryers
A whole turkey can be successfully cooked outdoors by the deep fat frying method provided the turkey is not stuffed and has been completely thawed. The turkey should be 12 pounds or less in size.
There are safety concerns when working with such a large amount of oil. Select a cooking vessel large enough to completely submerge the turkey in oil without it spilling over. The oil should cover the turkey by 1 to 2 inches. To determine the amount of oil needed, do a preliminary test using water. Place the turkey in the cooking vessel and add water to cover. Then remove the turkey and measure the amount of water. This is the amount of oil needed.
Select a safe location outdoors for deep fat frying a turkey. Heat the cooking oil to 350 °F. Slowly and carefully lower the turkey into the hot oil. Monitor the temperature of the oil with a thermometer constantly during cooking. Never leave the hot oil unattended. Allow approximately 3 to 5 minutes per pound cooking time. Remove turkey from the oil and drain oil from the cavity. Check the temperature of turkey with a food thermometer. The turkey is safely cooked when the food thermometer reaches a minimum internal temperature of 165 °F in the innermost part of the thigh and wing and the thickest part of the breast.
If the turkey is not done, immediately return the turkey to the hot oil for additional cooking. When the turkey is done, remove it from the oil and place it on a sturdy tray lined with paper towels. The skin can be golden to dark brown to almost black. Let it rest about 20 minutes before carving.
Allow the used oil to cool before pouring it into containers for refrigerator storage. The oil can be reused if it is strained, covered, and used within a month.
The Big Easy Oil-less Turkey Fryer
This outdoor "fryer" uses no oil but requires a 20-pound LP (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) cylinder for fuel. The infrared heating elements circle the stainless-steel cooker so heat penetrates the meat evenly. The result is moist inside and crispy outside. A turkey up to 16 lbs. or a chicken cooks in about 8 to 12 minutes a pound. Besides turkey, this appliance cooks chicken, roasts, ribs and most other large cuts of meat. Always use a food thermometer to verify that the meat or poultry has reached a safe internal temperature. This appliance includes a cooking basket, meat thermometer and grease tray. See the website for recommended cooking times. www.charbroil.com/newproducts/big-easy-fryer.html
The Big Green Egg
This egg-shaped Japanese outdoor ceramic smoker and grill was derived from an ancient clay cooker called a "kamado." Cooking times are shorter than metal smokers. There is no drip pan used in this cooker. For long, slow smoking, alternate layers of charcoal with water-soaked wood chips until the firebox is filled to give sufficient smoke flavor throughout the cooking time. The fuel lights in about 10 minutes with lighter fluid. When cooking is finished, leftover coals can be reused. Start cooking when the temperature has stabilized at 250 °F. Food never needs turning except when a charbroiled effect is desired. Use a thermometer inside the smoker to maintain a safe temperature of 200 to 250 °F inside the cooker. www.biggreenegg.com
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For all the right reasons, your company has been thinking about deploying SIEM…to create an alert system when those with less than good intentions come knocking; to remediate potential network threats; to comply with federal, state or industry regulations; and identify the risks and vulnerabilities throughout the enterprise IT infrastructure and architecture. If you maintain even a modest (SMB -> Fortune 1000) organization that has any online identity, SIEM should be the cornerstone of your asset protection strategy.
First and foremost, SIEM (and to a certain extent log management) is about visibility. Who is doing what and when on your network. It is as much about understanding the holistic landscape of your infrastructure as it is protecting proprietary assets. Without it, it's akin to coaching the Big Game without any idea who is the opponent; or for that matter if you even have a starting left guard.
But fun metaphors aside, SIEM is a critical enterprise tool. And just like any enterprise solution, it requires forethought, vigilance and most importantly, a good game plan. And when deployed properly it can change your IT department from infrastructure-based, to information-centric. And as such you get to make better decisions, faster.
And with every technology there are best practices and pitfalls. In past articles I have spoken at length regarding the advantages of deploying and managing SIEM in the cloud. Many of these surround the affordability, manageability, control and capability of the solution. For many, security from the cloud is still an emerging concept. But for those who've already made the leap, they are reaping the significant benefits. But I want to move beyond the arguments of "going cloud" when deciding on security solutions. Today I want to focus on what happens next. How do you start collecting that ROI once a cloud-based security-as-a-service has been chosen?
The reason most enterprise deployments fail (on premise or cloud) can be typically traced to two causes: (1.) Lack of buy-in from the executive level or employee resistance to change, but more often the culprit is (2.) lack of vision or process. Too many companies jump in and apply a solution because they heard it was important or were sold a Porsche when all they needed was a family SUV. Of course one of the benefits of cloud-based security is the ability to "buy" the SUV and instantly scale up to that Porsche, if and when, the business need requires it (without touching CapEx budgets!)! But with that here are 8 best practices you should implement when moving forward with your cloud-based security initiative:
Best Practice #1: Identify your goals and match your scope to them. There are five questions you need to ask before moving forward with any deployment. 1. WHY do you need SIEM (compliance? user and/or partner expansion? BYOD? Breach detection?) HOW will SIEM be deployed to properly address these issues (what processes, functionality and capabilities are needed; which needs to be outsourced/replaced/improved) WHAT needs to be collected, analyzed and reported? HOW BIG does the deployment need to scale to accurately and cost effectively meet your specific business need? And WHERE is the information situated that should/must be monitored?
Best practice #2: Incremental usage. The quickest route to success is taking baby steps. The idea is to prove the concept and then expand the scope. To some this might be to start with Log Management and add SIEM once you understand the requirements, commitment and volume. Now because security-as-a-service is so flexible and can ramp up or down instantly, an easy entry point might be to start with only those elements that fulfill compliance. The project might be overwhelming, but if you take it in bite-sized phases, you will find the victories come easier and the ROI is justified. When dealing with a cloud security deployment, it is easy to turn on the fire hose when only a garden hose is needed. But the beauty of a cloud deployment is the ease and flexibility of scaling. Again, another example of incremental usage would be either to apply SIEM against specific use case scenarios or possibly just migrate a division or a department or a function (as opposed to the entire enterprise).
Best Practice #3: Determine what IS and ISN'T a threat to your network. Returning to the fire hose metaphor, when deploying a SIEM initiative, it is very easy to get lost in a sea of data. It can be like trying to drink from that proverbial fire hose. The trick is to recognize what constitutes a true risk and eliminate false positives. And this requires some internal analysis to create a series of rules that sift out the white noise and differentiate "normal" traffic from suspicious activity. For instance, if there is an attempted access to your partner portal from Russia—is that normal? Do you even have a partner in Minsk? But even a simple filter isn't quite enough. Risk is three dimensional and it can hide in plain sight. That's why you continue to filter based on time of day, IP address, server, attempts, network availability and a myriad of other forensic qualifiers before the alert is grave enough to require immediate attention.
Best practice #4: Map response plans. Now that an incident gets your attention, what do you do? Do you launch an account investigation, suspend the user, deactivate a password, apply a denial-of-service against the IP or a number of remediations based on the severity, vulnerability and identity of the transgressor. This goes back to workflow and process. Who is going to what to whom and how? SIEM is a process-reliant technology. You simply can't flip a switch and say you've put up a magic forcefield around your network. Your response plan is your blueprint to closing the vulnerability gaps and ensuring compliance.
Best practice #5 Correlate data from multiple sources. The practice of situational awareness is what adds the muscle into a SIEM initiative. Like #4, it isn't enough to plug in a solution and press "go." Situational awareness takes into account a multitude of different endpoints, servers, data streams, assets and inventories, events and flows, from across the enterprise and puts information into context. Context is the most important portion of risk assessment. For example, a shark is a threat. However if that shark is 10 miles away, it is not a direct or immediate threat. Doesn't mean you're not vulnerable if that shark gets hungry. Having an engine that not only creates accurate perspective, but analyzes, understands and acts upon behaviors is key. And to do that a centralized SIEM engine needs the data from more than just a single source or single server.
Best Practice #6: Requires Real time monitoring 7/24/365. For many companies this is a challenge, but hackers don't sleep. And although a great deal of SIEM and Log Management is automated, it still requires the vigilance of 24 hour monitoring. Trees might be falling in the forest, but if there is no one to see them, breaches occur, networks are compromised. I've witnessed plenty of IT departments that don't have the resources. Again, this is a considerable advantage that security-as-s-service provides and allows you to sleep just a little better at night. Knowing that this one crucial element of your security is professionally addressed without additional staff or budget makes the cloud that much more valuable.
Best Practice #7 Remain calm! One thing we've noticed is that soon after the deployment of a SIEM/Log Management it seems there are alerts and issues you never dreamed about. Things are bound to look worse before they get better and it can seem overwhelming; kind of opening a Pandora's Box of malware and botnets. For the most part it is because you now know what you didn't know before. In some respect it is like looking at your hotel room comforter under black light and a microscope. But once you realize what you're looking at and that much or the remediation can be automated, soon, (with a bit of fine tuning and normalizing correlation feeds) you will be measure that the anomalous events lessen and the alert prioritizations allow you to make timely and intelligent decisions.
Best practice #8: Evolution. Security is a moving target. You need to revisit you processes and workflows every few months to make sure you are up to date with compliance requirements, new users/access points and expanded or redefined workflows. This is more than recognizing the latest virus threats. New users access your network with regularity. New layers of regulations are added. There are new applications requiring monitoring. All in all, by giving your cloud-based SIEM and log management solutions the new and necessary data, your enterprise will be more secure than it was yesterday.
Kevin Nikkhoo
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Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (jōvän´nē), 1313–75, Italian poet and storyteller, author of the Decameron. Born in Paris, the illegitimate son of a Tuscan merchant and a French woman, he was educated at Certaldo and Naples by his father, who wanted him to take up commerce and law. In Naples he met (1336) the woman (dubiously identified as Maria d'Aquino, illegitimate daughter of King Robert) whom he was to immortalize in prose and verse as Fiammetta. She is reputed to have introduced him at court and to have urged him to write (c.1340) his early Filocolo, a long vernacular prose romance. Other early works include the poem Filostrato, which infused the legendary story of Troilus and Cressida with the atmosphere of Neapolitan court life; the Teseide, a poem in the style of the Aeneid; the psychological romance La Fiammetta (written c.1344); the pastoral Ninfale d'Ameto; and the allegorical Amorosa visione, imitative of Dante.
Boccaccio was recalled to Florence in 1341, and there he met (1350) the great poet Petrarch, who became a lifelong friend. Emulating Petrarch, he became a Latin and Greek scholar and worked vigorously to reintroduce Greek works. In his middle years Boccaccio wrote (1348–53) his great secular classic, the Decameron, a collection of 100 witty and occasionally licentious tales set against the somber background of the Black Death. The tales treat a wide variety of characters and events and brilliantly reveal humanity as sensual, tender, cruel, weak, self-seeking, and ludicrous. With the Decameron the courtly themes of medieval literature, while still much in evidence, began to give way to the voice and mores of early modern society. Writing in Italian rather than Latin and in prose rather than poetry, Boccaccio achieved stylistic mastery in the Decameron, which became a model for later efforts toward a distinctively Italian literary style. After completing the tales, Boccaccio experienced a severe emotional crisis, during which he wrote the satire Corbaccio, a savage attack on women.
In the next years there followed several works in Latin, the language of high culture. These included Bucolicum carmen [pastoral songs], the huge De casibus virorem illustrium and De mulieribus claris (the first biographies of famous men, the second of famous women), the mythological treatise De genealogiis, and the geographical dictionary De montibus. Boccaccio's old age was troubled by poverty and ill health, but his activity continued. He was commissioned (1371) by the commune of Certaldo to read daily from his beloved Dante, and in 1373 in Florence he began the lectures which became his famous Commento on the Inferno. There are several translations of the Decameron and also many anthologies and collections of particular stories in translation.
See biography by T. C. Chubb (1969); studies by V. Branca (1976), T. G. Bergin (1981), and J. Sauli (1982).


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Prayers, taunts and weary resignation in Jerusalem
By Robert Fisk, 24 September 2011
So there I was, on the Via Dolorosa of course, chatting to a middle-aged guy in a red T-shirt and just a wisp of a beard with a prayer rug under his left arm.
And I asked him, of course, what he thought about Barack Obama's speech. He grinned at me like he knew I had already guessed what he was going to say. "What did you expect?" he asked. Correct guess. After all, Haaretz had already referred this week to "President Barack Netanyahu" while the racist Israeli foreign minister said he would sign the speech with both hands. Maybe, I reflected in Jerusalem yesterday, Obama really is seeking election – to the Israeli Knesset.
But what was so striking about the streets of Jerusalem yesterday was the sense of resignation, of weary acceptance. The Israeli papers had warned of mass violence, but the crowds who turned up for morning prayers at Al-Aqsa simply laid out their prayer rugs on the highway outside the Damascus Gate or in the laneways behind the mosque and showed scarcely any interest in talking about Obama. Maybe America's UN veto will rouse them to passion, but I have my doubts.
It's a bit like the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib torture pictures, when the Americans restricted the number of photos to be released because they feared the pictures would enrage Iraqis. But I was in Baghdad that day and no one expressed any particular rage. What did I expect? After all, the Iraqis knew all about Abu Ghraib already – they were the ones who had been tortured there. So, too, Jerusalem yesterday. The Palestinians have watched America's uncritical acceptance of Israeli occupation – the longest in the world – for 44 years. They knew all about it. It is only we Westerners who are horrified by torture pictures and by Obama's hypocrisy.
The Palestinians even accepted the Israeli rule on morning prayers. No one under the age of 50 would be allowed to worship on the Al-Aqsa esplanade. Which is why those who could not enter simply spread their rugs on the tarmac and flagstones outside – in effect enlarging the forbidden holy esplanade over the traffic islands and pavements. Even the Israeli border guards and cops treated the thing as routine. There was, shall we say, a normality about it, a bit of shouting from a young man at the barricade on the main highway, a lot of shrugging by the Israelis. There were even some nicely groomed police horses which watched the proceedings with big, tired eyes.
On the iron barrier, the police captain didn't even bother to ask for my press pass; he just flicked his head and pulled the barrier aside. The television crews dutifully filmed the Israelis holding their assault rifles and truncheons. And – since I am a believer in the Department of Home Truths – I have to add that in other Middle East nations right now, I doubt if armed policemen would be quite so indifferent to the cameras. Needless to say, the more aggressive of Israel's colonisers in the West Bank are not so keen to be filmed. Hence the scarves over their faces when they attack Palestinians. And daubing "Mohamed is a pig" in Hebrew on the wall of the mosque at Qusra, 30 miles from Nablus, wasn't going to improve Arab-Israeli relations. The Palestinians have painted out "is a pig", but naturally left the name of the Prophet untouched. You can see the same stuff on the walls of the Jewish colony at Hebron.
But again, it's acquired its own normality, like the massive Israeli wall that scrapes across the landscape above Jerusalem, a terrible, hateful scar on the politics of this place which should blight the eye of every Palestinian or Israeli who sees it. Oddly, we Westerners seem to have stopped talking about it; maybe that's why we like calling it a "security barrier" rather than a wall, something that is a problem to be solved – to quote Obama – "by the parties themselves." And there was one little incident yesterday which illustrated this rather well.
Prayers had ended at the Al-Aqsa mosque and the police were ready to go home and the shopkeepers were reopening their stalls when an old Palestinian woman in black came hobbling down some steps with two large, empty cardboard boxes. They were the "legs" to a table upon which she started arranging a set of tawdry children's clothes and plastic shoes decorated with stars.
But a soldier told her to move the boxes three feet further down the street. There was no reason to – he was bored, I suppose, and in the mood for a bit of fun – but the old lady started shouting in Arabic that "It's all over". I think she meant that it was "all over" for the Palestinians – or maybe for the Israelis. But the soldier laughed and repeated her words in Arabic. "Yes, it's all over," he said, and maybe he was talking about the morning prayers.
And as he went on taunting the old woman and kicking the cardboard boxes, a trail of tourists came winding their way up the laneway from the Via Dolorosa. The woman was shrieking away and the tourists, light-coloured hair, blue eyes, speaking German, were all too aware of what was happening.
Their eyes flicked to the side of the road where the woman was shouting and the soldier was still kicking the boxes, but their heads didn't move. They still faced forward, as if the whole wretched scene was a normal part of Jerusalem life. They wouldn't directly look at the woman or the soldier. They certainly wouldn't intervene. And so they passed by on the other side.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-prayers-taunts-and-weary-resignation-in-jerusalem-2360131.html or http://ind.pn/qo4JUu or http://tinyurl.com/3nnhtaz
Photograph by Bodour Ab-Kuwaik. http://livefromgaza.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/photos-of-al-aqsa-and-the-dome-of-the-rock/ or http://bit.ly/2NDyGE or http://tinyurl.com/3zpytgb


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How does your knowledge of the Olympics rate – gold, silver, bronze, or not even qualified to compete? As Michael Jordan said, "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." So, team up with the ipl2 and review The Link to discover when the games began (776 BCE), Olympic trivia, and the five sports in every Summer Olympics since 1896.
New resources that will be added to the ipl2 are noted NEW! All other resources can already be found in the ipl2 collection.
Olympic Glory: Ancient
As with any competitive sport, you must first learn the fundamentals and there is no better place to start than with Ancient Greece. Travel from Olympia to Nemea to Athens. Read a first person account of competing in the Ancient Greek Olympics. Root for a team from Sparta, Athens, Corinth, Argos or Megara.
The Ancient Olympics (find it on the ipl2)
This site uses information from the Perseus Project, a digital library on Ancient Greece to exhibit information about the Ancient Olympics. It includes comparisons between ancient and modern sports, ancient artwork with themes relevant to the games and FAQ questions about the Ancient Olympics. The site is run by the classics department of Tufts University.
Olympics Through Time (find it on the ipl2)
This site gives a detailed description of the Olympics from Ancient Olympia to Athens of 1896. It also gives detailed lists of Olympic winners. It offers games, 3D renderings of Ancient sites, a first person account of the Olympics, and a bibliography.
Archaeology's Ancient Olympics Guide (find it on the ipl2)
Run by the Archaeological Institute of America this site covers the ancient games at Olympia and Nemea. Interesting facts such as why the Greeks competed, what signals were used to start footraces, and a dispelling of myths about Olympic traditions can be found on this site. This site is geared to adults.
NEW! FOR KIDS–Ancient Greek Olympics
A fun site geared towards kids. It talks about the different city-states involved in the original Olympic Games. It has links to the British Museum, the BBC, and Tufts University's Perseus Project. There are also links to learn about Ancient Greece.
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Tod Augusburger Receives Prestigious Fellowship
Lexington Medical Center Chief Operating Officer Tod Augsburger has become a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). ACHE is the nation's leading professional society for health care leaders.
Status as a Fellow represents achieving the highest standard of professional development. Candidates must pass a comprehensive examination, meet academic and experiential criteria, earn continuing education credits and demonstrate professional and community involvement. Only 7,500 health care executives in the nation hold the distinction. Fellows are also committed to ongoing professional development and undergo recertification every three years.
"By becoming an ACHE Fellow, health care leaders can show that they are committed to providing high-quality service to their patients and community," said Thomas C. Dolan, PhD, FACHE, CAE, president and chief executive officer of ACHE.
Tod Augsburger has served as Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Lexington Medical Center since November, 1999. Prior to joining LMC, Tod was an executive with the Ohio Health Systems in Columbus, Ohio for ten years.
Augsburger received a master's degree in Health Services Administration from The University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Michigan State University.
He was named the "South Carolina Healthcare Executive of the Year" for 2003 by the South Carolina Hospital Association and the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Augsburger lives in Lexington with his wife and two daughters.


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"I discovered I went to elementary school with Phillip [sic] Rivers (he's 2 years older)," wrote commenter Gottliebs Cards. "If anyone is interested I'll scan some pics." Interested? You bet your ass we're mildly kind of halfway interested.
Rivers attended Gordon-Bibb Elementary School in Decatur, Ala., and as you can see from the photos below, he was still years away from perfecting the various facial contortions that have made him the NFL's most photoshoppable quarterback. Click to enlarge.
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Also: In fourth grade, Rivers and his classmates drew adorable little panels depicting what they'd like to be when they grow up.
Even at that tender age, Rivers knew — he wanted to play football for the C. Bears on their dangerously lopsided field.
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Two facts you might have picked up on: I don't regularly post book reviews, and I don't talk about modern history much.
The reason for the first is simply that a lot of the books on my reading list have been out for a while. A lot of fine work got published either before I was born or before I wanted to study history, while other books that I intended to read as soon as they were published just fell through the cracks. Occasionally a book gets published that is so important to me that everything else has to take a number, and I read it as soon as it's available. I usually try to put up a review of these recent books here. For the most part, though, I figure most of you don't sit around waiting for my detailed analysis of some fifteen- or twenty-year-old monograph, so I keep my reactions to these titles to myself.
The reason for the second fact is that modern history just doesn't interest me. After the nineteenth century, it starts to look more and more like contemporary human activity, and contemporary human activity is something of which I often disapprove.
Right now, though, I'm going to make a rare exception to both of these generalizations by endorsing a somewhat older book on a recent topic. Not long ago, I realized that I needed to beef up my lectures a little by filling some gaps in my knowledge about the thirties and forties. For that reason I bought a copy of David Kennedy's Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, part of the Oxford History of the United States. I expected reading this nine-hundred-page behemoth to be a chore, but I was happily quite mistaken.
Even to someone as averse to modern political and economic history as myself, this book is thoroughly enjoyable. I won't post a "review" here, partly because the book came out in 2001, partly because it covers so much territory that I couldn't do it justice, and partly because I haven't finished it yet. Instead, let me just offer a hearty recommendation. Like all the volumes in the Oxford series, it's extremely readable, and Kennedy has managed to deftly orchestrate a lot of different themes and topics in such a manner that it seems effortless. He's also remarkably balanced in his appraisals of the leading figures of the era and the measures they undertook. If you're as leery about dipping into twentieth-century American history as I generally am, then this might be the best place to start.