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Great lunch suggestion with mango desert. Stir fried beef can go with literally every thing. The trick is mastering the time each ingredient takes to cook
Great lunch suggestion with mango desert. Stir fried beef can go with literally every thing. The trick is mastering the time each ingredient takes to cook
It's almost summer, but isn't there yet, chill is up in the air. So I decided a warm hearty soup is the best for this season. It's made of pork ribs, carrots, potatoes and spring onion. Pork stock existence made a potentially thriving discussion on http://www.seriouseats.com/talk/2008/03/why-isnt-there-pork-stock.html (God, how can you live your life now?). I'm not trying to be racist, but, I am set out to defend the right of pork in the stocking/ saucing/ broth list with this dish.
This is how a proper pork stock is made:
Boil pork ribs with cold water. This has to be cold water, the bone will be easier to separate from the meat and the meat heat up gradually. Don't skip! I repeat, DON'T!
Immediately when the water made bubbles and cream foams, drain and wash the ribs in tap water. This step is to eliminate all the strong ordour of the pork without letting all the juice out. Washing the ribs is for the stock to be clear. (Now, if you want to make the stock only, you can put in cold water, spoon of salt, and boil again. I like to add onion roots if the ribs are still smelly, but let's hope yours won't. )
If you want to make my dish (serve with rice):
Instead of boiling the meat immediately, you season the meat with salt, pinch of pepper and tiny amount of garlic powder (if you don't have garlic powder forget it). Set aside.
Now bring the carrot to a boil (cold water, remember?), then add the potatoes. Add salt. Wait for 2 minutes then add the meat. Take out all creamy foams as it develops, then lower the heat to simmering.
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@konsolkongen: I've also had a set of the official Sega IR controllers. They feel very nice, although they're significantly thicker and the battery lids tend to open in the the heat of the battle There probably won't be special version for those controllers. But if you really want to apply the mod on them then I suggest you remove all electrical components on the PCB (IC, resistors, caps, etc.). Then you can rebuild the circuit of the official wired Sega controller by using 2x 74HC153 ICs (see: http://www.gamesx.com/controldata/saturn.htm). After that you should be able to do the normal Saturn wireless mod on them, but without the voltage regulator inside the pad (no need for that).I guess it's not really worth the effort...
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what's your process for reclaiming clay? how long are you aging for?
when clay dries out, it loses pretty much all of the plasticity and has to start over once reconstituted - so if you're using reclaim that's been dried out and didn't have time to sit in a slop barrel/slake down for a decent amount of time to allow bacterial growth, this could be why. if you're making fresh clay from dry-bagged material, same thing, it needs to "age" and get funky from the bacteria that make it more plastic (due to acetic acid excrement); also there's the issue of the clay particulates not being fully saturated yet if using dry material, which adds to shortness since the particulates lose much of the meniscus of water surrounding them once they soak up this water when it equalizes -- usually mixing a wetter batch of clay will help this a tad.
as for plasticizers, you can add other things besides beer to make it more plastic (beer provide more bacteria/food source). simply adding more clay with organic content (like ball clays) can also help. industry typically uses bentonites/hectorites, VeeGum T, or cellulose/vegetable gums to help modify the body and be more plastic. immediate plasticizers to try are vinegars or epsom salts, both of which I believe change the chemistry making the particles negatively charged/more acidic, essentially flocculating the clay body. -
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All my Skutt stands are 8" tall. A 1227 kiln sits around 30" to the top of the 3rd ring (under the lid). I believe this is standard size across many brands.
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I know some artists getting older who struggle reaching the bottom of their kiln, so when I was helping them research the replacement kiln I suggested looking at a front-loading electric (like the new Skutt, Hercules, L&L, Paragon, etc. -- or even one with a "Bell-Lift" system (like those fancy raku kilns where the walls lift up with the cantilever system) -
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Are you positive he used plaster of paris and not investment plaster?
I'm not 100% positive since he always had it in a tilt-bin in his lab, not in the original container -- but once I saw him refill and the bag definitely said plaster of paris on the label. Whether or not it had a secondary labeling designating it as investment plaster I cannot say. This was like 20yrs ago and the red label that's on Plaster of Paris was definitely different than today's markings. IIRC, he did pre-heat the plaster mold slightly before casting. Unfortunately He's no longer with us, otherwise I'd just call him up and ask. -
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i would also guess those are sprigged details. make a simple positive from clay with a good amount of relief, then slap some plaster over the top of it for a quick sprigging mold/stamp. you could even do this by carving into a piece of clay and bique it. this will be the best method for results you can easily duplicate. next method would be to hand-form the details with either fresh clay or a thick slip to trail on the surface. i'm sure you can find some videos on youtube these days that will get you in the general area you're looking for.
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So, this will be a mini-update, and after the new year, I think I will write a comprehensive overview of what I've gone through the past month or so- perhaps a series of updates on each topic. *Remind me to write a post on how being in a wheelchair does not make me any different from most anyone else. I've just gone through a hell of a lot more- most likely. So please don't feel sorry for me.*
Anyways, so my dear family friend Bob came to my rescue at the hospital. A few days later in the hospital, my parents returned from vacation. Lots of doctors came in and out, and I had several scans, MRI's etc. No one could figure out what was wrong. It seemed disappointing that because the doctors could not find anything at that time, they almost seemed to discount me. However, I (<–very capital 'I') was still the one in very much pain, and had no use of my entire right leg. It went on like this for the entire week I was hospitalized.
Honestly, the only positive that came out of the stay was how much I could see everyone cares about me. In addition to the well wishes from my friends and family online and via telephone. I had lots of visitors. All at once! It was a giant coincidence, but one of the days, I had a room FULL of visitors. Within about thirty minutes, in addition to my parents, my ex-boyfriend's parents (whom I am still close with and honored to have them in my life) showed up expectedly, then one of my best friends (Stephanie) and her mom came to visit, and then my hairdresser of almost a decade all came in at once. It was overwhelming and wonderful.
Other than that, I'm sorry that I can't give you a diagnostic update. One possible diagnosis, is 'Conversion' syndrome. I'm not a fan of the diagnosis… being psychiatric. Essentially it is like PTSD. Another possibility is RSD, a neurological nerve disease. Neither are great options for me, but nothing really is at this point. I will try to give updates as they come, as each doctor's visit occurs, etc. So far, I've seen a neurologist, who I will see twice more in January, a Psychiatrist, and am attending regular Physical Therapy- with a Neurology specializing Physical Therapist. I have an appointment scheduled in February with the Pain Management Clinic.
For now, my leg is still painful, I am on way too much medication, and am restricted to a wheelchair. Hopefully we will figure something out.
Thats the key right now- the hardest part for me is HOPE. Having gone through this last year, I feel like everything I am going through is just reliving it. It's like watching a horrible movie over and over again. You don't like it, you don't want to see it, but you are forced to see each and every scene. It's hard to explain, but that in and of itself is making this time around a lot harder. So… I am trying to keep my chin up.
Other than that, I will definitely keep you updated. One update- I have finally received the gift from lupus of joint pain. Some days, every one of my joints from my knees to the knuckles in my pinky fingers, it just hurts- bad. Surprisingly Aleve is pretty helpful.
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The Man Without a Face
The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world.
Handpicked as a successor by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like a perfect choice for the oligarchy to shape according to its own designs. Suddenly the boy who had stood in the shadows, dreaming of ruling the world, was a public figure, and his popularity soared. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see the progressive leader of their dreams, even as he seized control of media, sent political rivals and critics into exile or to the grave, and smashed the country's fragile electoral system, concentrating power in the hands of his cronies.
As a journalist living in Moscow, Masha Gessen experienced this history firsthand, and for The Man Without a Face she has drawn on information and sources no other writer has tapped. Her account of how a "faceless" man maneuvered his way into absolute-and absolutely corrupt-power has the makings of a classic of narrative nonfiction.
His early life has the ring of legend about it—the legend of a postwar thug. It starts in Leningrad in 1952, just eight years after the end of the Siege of Leningrad. His parents, Maria and Vladimir Putin, had survived the siege in the city. The elder Vladimir Putin had joined the Army in the early days of the Soviet-German war and had been wounded seriously in battle. These were the future president's parents: a disabled man and a woman who had come very close to dying from starvation and who had lost her children (a second son died in infancy several years before the war). But by the measure of the postwar Soviet Union, the Putins were lucky: they had each other. To have lived not only through the war but through the siege, and to still have your spouse—and your home—was, essentially, a miracle.
Because Vladimir Putin was catapulted to power from obscurity, and because he spent his entire adult life within the confines of a secret and secretive institution, he has been able to exercise greater control over what is known about him than almost any other modern politician—certainly more than any modern Western politician. He has created his own -mythology of a child of post-siege Leningrad, a mean, hungry, impoverished place that bred mean, hungry, ferocious children.
One enters the building in which Putin grew up through the courtyard. Chunks of the handrail were missing, and the rest of the construction wobbled wildly. The Putins lived on the top floor of the five-story building, and the journey up the dark stairs could be risky. Three families shared a single gas stove and a sink stationed in the narrow hallway. The Putins had the largest room in the shared apartment: around 20 square meters, or roughly 12 feet by 15 feet. By the standards of the time, this was an almost palatial abode. More incredibly, the Putins also had a television set, a telephone, and a dacha (a small house outside the city). The elder Vladimir Putin worked as a skilled laborer at a train-car factory; Maria took backbreaking unskilled jobs (night watchman, cleaning woman, loader) that allowed her to spend time with her son. Against the fine shades of postwar Soviet poverty, the Putins emerge as practically rich.
Education was not part of the younger Putin's idea of success; he has placed a great emphasis on portraying himself as a thug, and in this he has had the cooperation of his childhood friends. By far the largest amount of authorized biographical information available about him concerns the many fistfights of his childhood and youth.
Putin, younger than the thugs he encountered and slight of build, apparently tried to hold his own with them. "If anyone ever insulted him in any way," a friend recalled, "Volodya would immediately jump on the guy, scratch him, bite him, rip his hair out by the clump—do anything at all never to allow anyone to humiliate him in any way." Putin's friends recount a series of fighting stories, the same plot repeating itself year after year. "We were in eighth grade when we were standing at a tram stop, waiting," recounted another friend. "A tram pulled up, but it was not going where we needed to go. Two huge drunken men got off and started trying to pick a fight with somebody. They were cursing and pushing people around. Vovka calmly handed his bag over to me, and then I saw that he had just sent one of the men flying into a snowbank, face first. The second one turned around and started at Volodya, screaming, 'What was that?' A couple of seconds later he knew exactly what it was, because he was lying there next to his buddy. That was just when our tram pulled up. If there is anything I can say about Vovka, it's that he never let bastards and rascals who insult people and bug them get away with it."
At the age of 10 or 11, Putin went looking for a place where he could learn skills to supplement his sheer will to fight. Boxing proved too painful: he had his nose broken during one of his first training sessions. Then he found Sambo. Sambo, an acronym for a Russian phrase that translates as "self-defense without weapons," is a Soviet martial art, a hodgepodge of judo, karate, and folk wrestling moves. With its discipline, Sambo became part of Putin's transformation from a grade-school thug into a goal-directed and hardworking adolescent. It was also linked to what had become an overriding ambition: Putin had apparently heard that the KGB expected new recruits to be skilled in hand-to-hand combat.
"Imagine a boy who dreams of being a KGB officer when everyone else wants to be a cosmonaut," the journalist Natalia Gevorkyan said to me, trying to explain how odd Putin's passion seemed to her. I did not find it quite so farfetched: in the 1960s, Soviet cultural authorities invested heavily in creating a romantic, even glamorous image of the secret police. When Putin was 12, a novel called The Shield and the Sword became a bestseller. Its protagonist was a Soviet intelligence officer working in Germany. When Putin was 15, the novel was made into a wildly popular miniseries. Forty-three years later, as prime minister, he would meet with 11 Russian spies deported from the United States—and together, in a show of camaraderie and nostalgia, they would sing the theme song from the miniseries.
"When I was in ninth grade, I was influenced by films and books, and I developed a desire to work for the KGB," Putin told a biographer. "There is nothing special about that." The protestation raises the question: is there another explanation for Putin's single-minded passion? It seems there is, and Putin has hidden it in plain sight, as the best spies do.
We all want our children to grow up to be more successful versions of ourselves. Vladimir Putin was born to be a Soviet spy. During World War II, the elder Putin had been assigned to troops who worked with the NKVD, as the Soviet secret police was then called. The legend of his father's daring escape from behind German lines with which the younger Putin grew up is as likely to have been true as any other tale of miraculous survival and spontaneous heroism.
It is not clear whether the elder Putin had worked for the secret police before the war or continued to work for the NKVD afterward. It seems likely that he remained part of the so-called active reserve, a giant group of secret-police officers who held regular jobs while also informing for—and drawing a salary from—the KGB. This may explain why the Putins lived so comparatively well: the dacha, the television set, and the telephone—especially the telephone.
At the suggestion of a KGB recruiter, Putin went to university, where he seems to have chiefly kept to himself. He kept his grades up and spent his free time training in judo (his coach and teammates had traded in Sambo for an Olympic martial art) and driving around in his car. Putin was, more than likely, the only student at Leningrad University who owned his own car. In the early 1970s a car in the Soviet Union was a rarity: it cost roughly as much as a dacha. The Putins won the car, a late-model two-door with a motorcycle engine, in a lottery, and rather than take the money—which would have been enough to get them out of the communal apartment and into a separate flat in a newly constructed building—gave the car to their son. That they gave the younger Putin this lavish gift, and that he accepted it, are further examples of the Putins' extraordinarily doting relationship with their son, and perhaps of their incongruous riches. Whatever the reason, Putin's relationship to money—extravagant and strikingly selfish for his social-context—-appears to have taken shape during his university years.
Soon after university Putin achieved his dream of entering the KGB, and he seems to have made no secret of his work for it. He told the cellist Sergei Roldugin, who would become his best friend, almost as soon as the two met. Roldugin, who had traveled abroad with his orchestra and had seen KGB handlers at work, says he was apprehensive and curious at once. "Once, I tried to get him to talk about some operation that had gone down, and I failed," he told Putin's official biographers. "Another time I said to him, 'I am a cellist, and that means I play the cello. I'll never be a surgeon. What's your job? I mean, I know you are an intelligence officer. But what does that mean? Who are you? What can you do?' And he said, 'I am an expert in human relations.' That was the end of the conversation. He really thought he knew something about people ..."
Putin's own descriptions of his romances paint him as a strikingly inept communicator. He had one significant relationship with a woman before meeting his future wife; he left her at the altar. "That's how it happened," he told his biographers, explaining nothing. "It was really hard." He was no more articulate on the subject of the woman he actually married—nor, it seems, was he successful at communicating his feelings to her during their courtship. They dated for more than three years—an extraordinarily long time by Soviet or Russian standards, and at a very advanced age: Putin was almost 31 when they married. Mrs. Putin has gone on record saying it was by no means love at first sight, for at first sight Putin seemed unremarkable and poorly dressed; he has never said anything publicly about his love for her. Her description of the day he finally proposed paints a picture of a profound failure to communicate.
"One evening we were sitting in his apartment, and he says, 'Little friend, by now you know what I'm like. I am basically not a very convenient person.' And then he went on to describe himself: not a talker, can be pretty harsh, can hurt your feelings, and so on. Not a good person to spend your life with. And he goes on. 'Over the course of three and a half years you've probably made up your mind.' I realized we were probably breaking up. So I said, 'Well, yes, I've made up my mind.' And he said, with doubt in his voice, 'Really?' That's when I knew we were definitely breaking up. 'In that case,' he said, 'I love you and I propose we get married on such and such a day.' And that was completely unexpected." They were married three months later. Ludmila moved to Leningrad to live with Putin in the two rooms he shared with his parents.
In the middle to late 1970s, when Putin joined the KGB, it, like all Soviet institutions, was undergoing a phase of extreme bloating. Its growing number of directorates and departments were producing mountains of information that had no clear purpose, application, or meaning. An entire army of men and a few women spent their lives com-piling newspaper clippings, transcripts of tapped telephone conversations, reports of people followed and trivia learned.
The internal ideology of the KGB, as of any police organization, rested on a clear concept of the enemy. But Putin entered the service not only in the post-Stalin era but also during one of the few brief periods of peace in Soviet history. The only active enemies were the dissidents, a handful of brave souls who drew a disproportionate amount of KGB force. Putin claims not to have taken part in anti-dissident work but has shown in interviews that he was thoroughly familiar with the way it was organized, probably because he was part of the group fighting the dissidents, as a former comrade's memoir claimed.
His break came in 1984, when he was sent to spy school in Moscow. Barring an unexpected disaster, Putin knew that afterward he would be assigned to work in Germany, but he was disappointed that it was to Dresden. At the age of 33, Putin, with Ludmila—who was pregnant—and their 1-year-old daughter, Maria, traveled to his backwater assignment. This was the job for which he had worked and waited for 20 years, and he would not even be undercover.
The Putins, like five other Russian families, were given an apartment in a large apartment block in a little Stasi world: secret-police staff lived here, worked in a building a five-minute walk away, and sent their children to nursery school in the same compound. Their job was to collect information about "the enemy," which was the West, meaning West Germany and, especially, United States military bases in West Germany, which were hardly more accessible from Dresden than they would have been from Leningrad. Putin and his colleagues were reduced mainly to collecting press clippings, thus contributing to the growing mountains of useless information produced by the KGB.
The Putins had a second daughter and named her Ekaterina. Putin drank beer and got fat. He stopped training, or exercising at all, and he gained more than 20 pounds—a disastrous addition to his short and fairly narrow frame. From all appearances, he was seriously depressed. His wife, who has described their early years together as harmonious and joyful, has pointedly refrained from saying anything about their family life after spy school. She has said only that her husband never talked to her about work.
Not that there was much to tell. The job Putin had once coveted, working to draft future undercover agents, turned out to be not only tedious but fruitless. He and his two colleagues from the illegal-intelligence unit tracked down foreign students enrolled at the Dresden University of Technology and spent months gaining their confidence, often only to find that they did not have enough money to entice the young people to work for them.
Still, it was in the West—so close and so unreachable for someone like Putin (some other Soviet citizens posted in Germany had the right to go to West Berlin)—that people had the things he really coveted. He made his wishes known to the very few Westerners with whom he came in contact—members of the radical group Red Army Faction, who took some of their orders from the KGB and occasionally came to Dresden for training sessions. "He always wanted to have things," a former RAF member told me of Putin. "He mentioned to several people wishes that he wanted from the West." This source claims to have personally presented Putin with a Grundig Satellit, a state-of-the-art shortwave radio, and a Blaupunkt stereo for his car; he bought the former and pilfered the latter from one of the many cars the RAF had stolen for its purposes.
Just as the Putins left the Soviet Union, that country began to change drastically and irrevocably. Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in March 1985. Two years later, he had released all Soviet dissidents from prison and was beginning to loosen the reins on Soviet-bloc countries. Over the next few years, a chasm would open up between the party and the KGB, culminating with the failed coup in August 1991.
Watching the changes from afar, surrounded by other secret-police officers—and no one else—Putin must have felt a hopeless, helpless fury. In East Germany, as in the Soviet Union, people were beginning to come out into the streets to protest, and the unthinkable was quickly beginning to look probable: the two Germanys might be reunited—the land Putin had been sent here to guard would just be handed over to the enemy. Everything he had worked for was now in doubt; everything he had believed was being mocked. This is the sort of insult that would have prompted the agile young man that Putin had been to pound the offender until his fury had subsided. Middle-aged, out-of-shape Putin sat silent and helpless as his dreams and hopes for the future were destroyed.
On Oct. 7, 1989, Vladimir Putin's 37th birthday, East Germany celebrated its 40th anniversary, and riots broke out in Berlin. A month later the Berlin Wall fell, but demonstrations in East Germany continued until the first free-elections in March. Even before the protesters had chased the Stasi out of its buildings, East Germany began the grueling and painful process of purging the Stasi from its society. All of the Putins' neighbors not only lost their jobs but also were banned from working in law enforcement, the government, or teaching.
The Putins returned to Leningrad. They carried a 20-year-old washing machine given to them by their former neighbors and a sum of money in U.S. dollars, sufficient to buy the best Soviet-made car available. This was all they had to show for four and a half years of living abroad—and for Vladimir Putin's unconsummated spy career. The four of them would be returning to the smaller of the two rooms in the elder Putins' apartment.
In the years that followed, Putin did all he could to bring back the life he had loved: the closed world of the Soviet Union and, even more important, the KGB. Not only did he become head of the Russian state a mere dozen years after returning from Germany, but he also succeeded in transforming the country, turning back democratic reforms and ultimately establishing a thoroughly corrupt and inefficient authoritarian regime in the image of the U.S.S.R.
While his political inspiration has come from the KGB, his personal style goes back to the St. Petersburg courtyards, where he picked up the wit and social-graces of a street thug. He scored his first major surge in popularity in 1999, when he vowed to hunt down Chechen terrorists. Since then he has continued to employ a rhetoric based on homegrown vulgarisms even when many Russians seem to have had enough of his ways. What used to look like macho decisiveness and directness now looks unenlightened. Putin's thug myth may ultimately contribute more to his demise than it did to his rise to power.
From The Man Without a Face by Masha Gessen. Reprinted by arrangement with Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Granta Books (UK). © 2012 by Masha Gessen.
"[An] absorbing portrait… Gessen is most illuminating when she details the historical accidents that allowed an unexceptional bureaucrat to rule Russia." –The New Yorker
"Part psychological profile, part conspiracy study… As a Moscow native who has written perceptively for both Russian and Western publications, Gessen knows the cultures and pathologies of Russia… [and has] a delicious command of the English language… A fiercely independent journalist… Gessen's armchair psychoanalysis of Putin is speculative. But it is a clever and sometimes convincing speculation, based on a close reading of Putin's own inadvertently revealing accounts of his life, and on interviews with people who knew Putin before he mattered." –The New York Times Book Review
"In a country where journalists critical of the government have a way of meeting untimely deaths, Ms. Gessen has shown remarkable courage in researching and writing this unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia… Although written before the recent protests erupted, the book helps to explain the anger and outrage driving that movement." –The Wall Street Journal
"Thanks to her fearless reporting and acute psychological insights, Masha Gessen has done the impossible in writing a highly readable, compelling life of Russia's mysterious president-for-life." –Tina Brown, The Daily Beast
"Engrossing and insightful." –Bloomberg
"Gessen shines a piercing light into every dark corner of Putin's story… Fascinating, hard-hitting reading." –Foreign Affairs
"[An] incisive bildingsroman of Putin and his regime… Alongside an acute apprehension of the post-Soviet dynamics that facilitated Putin's rise, Gessen balances narratives of Putin-as-bureaucrat and Putin-as-kleptocrat with a wider indictment of the "Mafia clan" that retains him solely as its Godfather." –The Daily
"Illuminating… Gessen sprinkles telltale signs of the Putin who would eventually emerge and rule Russia with an iron fist…It is with these explosive revelations that Gessen truly excels… [She] presents her case calmly, picking holes in Putin's character, his policies, and his rule without stooping to hysterical condemnation… an electrifying read from what can only be described as an incredibly brave writer." –Columbia Journalism Review
"A chilling and brave work of nonfiction… Gessen has succeeded in convincingly portraying the forces that made Putin who he is today." –Bookpage
"Although Gessen is enough of an outsider to write beautifully clear and eloquent English, she is enough of an insider to convey, accurately, the wild swings of emotions, the atmosphere of mad speculation, the paranoia, and, yes, the hysteria that pervade all political discussion and debate in Moscow today." –The New York Review of Books
"What Gessen sees in Putin is a troubled childhood brawler who became a paper-pushing KGB man and, by improbable twists and turns, rose to the top in Russia… [She] does not attempt to weigh up Putin's record but rather examines his biography, mind-set and methods… as a thug loyal to the KGB and the empire it served who never had a clue about the Earth-shattering events that blew the Soviet Union apart." –The Washington Post
"An eye opening story with all the drama and intrigue of a novel." –Popmatters
"Powerful and gracefully written… Gessen's book flows on multiple tracks, tracing Putin's life back to boyhood, the story of his hometown of St. Petersburg, and finally the last quarter-century of Russian history… For all of the ghoulish detail, Gessen's account of Putin's Russia is not overwrought… [she] displays impressive control of her prose and her story, painting a portrait of a vile Putin without sounding polemical." –San Francisco Chronicle
"Written in English but with Russian heart, Gessen focuses on the places and institutions that bred the nation's most resolute leader since Stalin… Some might say that Gessen's interpretation is political. Of course it is… but more importantly, it is thorough. She has seen fellow journalists killed, has been harassed herself, and yet continues to write from Russia… Her urgency is felt on nearly every page." –Bookforum
"[A] luminous study of Russia's forever leader… a dogged researcher, [Gessen] has written a brave book, demolishing the numerous myths and legends that have accumulated around her subject… fascinating." –The Guardian
"Gessen has clearly put in the hours and the miles finding people to tell her about Putin's days in the KGB, in the St Petersburg City Administration, and in the Kremlin. She paints a portrait of a man who dislikes democratic movements, who is committed to the ideals of the KGB, who is happy siphoning money from the state for his friends, and who would rather fight than negotiate." –Sunday Telegraph


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By: Lane Stone
Updated: September 15, 2010
Thinking about adding yoga to your already busy schedule? It may be worth the extra time. Yoga offers big benefits such as firmer muscles, more energy, and a relaxed mind. The ancient art doesn't just help the healthy, but also the sick.
A recent study shows cancer survivors who practice yoga sleep better, have more energy and have a better quality of life. This is good news for the many who experience side effects years after treatment ends.
According to Deborah Matza, Registered Nurse at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, "it also helps to facilitate circulation and helps digestion."
Beth Israel Medical Center teamed up with New York Zen Center to bring yoga to it's patients. The "yoga in the hospitals" trend is catching on in other places.
Elaine Meszaros, Registered Nurse CNS at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York says, "it helps people get through treatment, it helps people find hope and to fight."
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1. The logo on bumblebee seems to be blacked out? I heard a story of GM not spending much money on the film, would this be why?
2. When all the decepticons come down, there is a shot of them all walking, with a truck in the middle. It looks very much like bone crusher, but he was killed, right?
3. Half way through the end battle, where does Scorponok come from?
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For permits applied for on or after January 1, 2008, all new buildings including commercial, one and two family dwellings, and detached ancillary buildings must comply with the new 2010 CRC Section R327 and 2010 CBC, Chapter 7A. New requirements are covered in this handout and must be included in the design of the proposed structure.
v Under certain conditions commercial and industrial buildings may be exempted from these provisions by the local fire authority having jurisdiction.
v Detached ancillary buildings, other than permitted qualified agricultural buildings, that exceed 500 sq. ft. or less than 50 ft. from the applicable building shall be made to meet the provisions of CRC, Section R327.1.3 or CBC, Chapter 7A and the requirements for the first 30 ft. of defensible space per CPRC 4291.
v Rebuilding or remodeling existing buildings when the scope of work includes replacement of the roof covering, exterior siding, windows, and doors shall be considered "new buildings" and be required to comply with the provisions of CRC, Section R327 or CBC, Chapter 7A.
v Decks requiring permits, regardless of whether the deck is associated with a building built under these provisions or not, shall meet the construction requirements of CRC, Section R327 or CBC, Chapter 7A and will be required to meet the defensible space provisions.
• Go to the Cal-Fire web page at (http://www.fire.ca.gov/fire_prevention/fire_prevention_wildland_zones_maps.php)
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• Roof Valleys: When provided, valley flashings shall be not less than 0.019-inch (No. 26 galvanized sheet gage) corrosion-resistant metal installed over a minimum 36" wide underlayment consisting of one layer of No. 72 ASTM cap sheet running the full length of the valley.
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• Exterior glazing and window walls: Exterior windows, window walls, glazed doors, and glazed openings within exterior doors shall be insulating-glass units with a minimum of one tempered pane, or glass block units, or have a fire-resistive rating of not less than 20 minutes, when tested according to ASTM E 2010.
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• Underside of appendages and floor projections: The underside of cantilevered and overhanging appendages and floor projections shall maintain the ignition-resistant integrity of exterior walls, or the projection shall be enclosed to the grade.
• Unenclosed under floor protection: buildings shall have all under floor areas enclosed to the grade the same as exterior wall requirements. (Exception) The complete enclosure of under floor areas may be omitted where the underside of all exposed floors, exposed structural columns, beams and supporting walls are protected as required with exterior ignition-resistant material construction or be heavy timber.
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[Solved] Designing without divs, spans, IDs nor classes
Okay, call me crazy, but I'd really like to know if there's any serious work being done with html5 using clever alternatives to divs and spans and targeting selectors without resorting to IDs and classes, all while complying to the latest web standards.
Maybe it's just an obsession with minimalistic coding.
OK...you're crazy.
If you aren't using any elements / css you get a white page with black text on it.
However, my guess is that you haven't explained yourself properly.
You mean ONLY newer HTML5 elements such as HEADER, SECTION, FOOTER, ASIDE, and so on, and not using any actual DIVs or SPAN elements, and not use any classes or IDs at all?
It's theoretically possible but I can't think of a single reason why you'd want that. It's like building a house of cardboard -- it CAN be done but you're much better off using the classic bricks and wood.
It literally depends on your design.
Would be silly to do, I think, but using only HTML5 elements you could get a pretty simple design.
Please understand that HTML5 is meant to be an extension of what we already have, not a replacement.
Let's not forget that div, span etc ARE HTML5 elements and have their place.
Exactly, @Paulie_D!
To avoid using classes and IDs, you could rely on
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So I found myself REALLY enjoying Gabriel Solis games ... so much I thought of another we could play hehe.
It is like NAME THAT SONG... or FINISH THAT LINE
*okay so pick a lyric line of an incubus song
*then post just that line
*Next see who can NAME THAT SONG and FINISH THAT LINE hehehe
* then pick the next lyric line from a new incubus song of your choice and post for someone else to play and finish the line!
Enjoy... lets pick some tricky ones (not that it is tricky for any of us HQ lovies to sing along)
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You think everything's been augmented that you have been left so far behind ..._______
A: quality of our lives should be prioritized : VERSION <3
>> It's a fountain of youth ___"
" and a patriot's weapon of choice." Pistola
"I've been smiling..."
"... with anchors on my shoulders" OIL AND WATER <3
"Man, you got the time? ___"
There's never enough and it always goes too slow. ZEE DEVEEEL
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"to ROGUES and evolution!" - Rogues :)
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waking up i smell......the scent of coffee on the brew MEDIUM
next: Remember when we were just.....
".... flesh and bone, you sir" AGORAPHOBIA
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"and sends my mind aflight, I think I was dreaming of some thoughts that were seemingly possible, with youuuu"
Thanks for that one Gabriel!
"But your pockets, they are empty___"
and mines are time two." GLASS
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next; you were born free.....
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In a $150 2013 year-end order, these pants were only 1 of 3 items out of a total ten (10!) pieces which I will not be returning. surprizingly, fit (32WP) and fabric were just right: decent colors, (gray & teal) stretchy, not thin, with good hand.Not confident syretchy sweats these last more than 1 year or keep shape after 20-30 washings ....The main issue (and reason I will not order more nor recommend) is the already too long hem. When coupled with the very (overly?) stretchy fabric, it results in the hem to enlarge even further, by, 3-4 inches after wearing for a few hours or after one night.Putting my hands in the (non-existent) pockets would likely strectch even more. Probably good foresight then TO NOT include side or back pockets
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I am going to do a run in the next month or so of Glow plastic, the lip well be the only part that glows like a ring! I was wanting to know how many plays Night golf? Do you think that the outer lip glowing would be enough? The outer lip is over 60% of the plastic.
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Might not be enough, if buried in the rough or something.
We play glow here! Wednesday night it was windchill of 8 F or so, with snow on the ground (but clean tee pads thanks to me) and we had..11 players for glow league. All year round regardless of weather!
Yeah I have been working on the Glow disc's, though I still am not sure if I want to light up the ring or light up the centers, I was thinking about trying a run with of each and seeing what the players like! And please every one let me knwo what you think you would like better?
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
On Friday night, an extraordinary lineup of actors, musicians, athletes and journalists will be Standing Up to Cancer during a commercial-free telecast. The event was created to raise funds that will accelerate innovative cancer research. The live, one-hour fundraising event will be simulcast on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Bio, Current TV, Discovery Health, E!, G4, HBO, HBO Latino, MLB Network, mun2, Showtime, Smithsonian Channel, The Style Network, TV One and VH1 and hosted by network news anchors Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer and Brian Williams.
Celebrities confirmed to appear include: Elizabeth Banks, Kathy Bates, Sir Richard Branson, Michael Chiklis, George Clooney, Baron Davis, Emily Deschanel, Bill Hader, Dorothy Hamill, Anne Heche, Cheryl Hines, Randy Jackson, George Karl, Dr. Jon Lapook, Rob Lowe, Jane Lynch, Marlee Matlin, Shareen Mitchell, Olivia Munn, Lisa Niemi, Kelly Osbourne, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Passmore, Will Smith, Sam Trammell, Denzel Washington, Aaron Yoo and Renée Zellweger.
The evening includes performances by musical guests including: Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Neil Diamond, The Edge, Delta Goodrem, Herbie Hancock, Kris Kristofferson, Lady Antebellum, Leona Lewis, Orianthi and Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson of Heart, Natasha Bedingfield, Martina McBride, Aaron Neville, Dave Stewart and Stevie Wonder.
September 10, at 8 PM EST & PST / 7PM CT
For more information visit www.standup2cancer.org