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Ankle Joint Replacement Surgeon in Rexburg Idaho
Severe end-stage arthritis that has not responded to non-surgical treatments is usually treated with a surgical procedure called ankle joint replacement. The procedure can relieve your pain and increase the mobility of the ankle joint. Upper Valley Orthopedics provides expert diagnosis and individualized non-operative and operative treatments for the ankle including ankle joint replacement in Rexburg Idaho. Upper Valley Orthopedics also provides highly specialized care during and after surgery. Contact Upper Valley Orthopedics's team for an appointment today!
What is Ankle Joint Replacement Surgery?
Ankle joint replacement, also known as total ankle arthroplasty, is a surgical procedure performed to relieve pain and immobility due to severe end-stage arthritis that has not responded to non-surgical treatments. The goal of ankle joint replacement surgery is to eliminate your pain and increase the mobility of your ankle joint.
Ankle joint replacement is also recommended for the elderly with a severe fracture from osteoporosis, or presence of a tumor in the ankle joint.
What is Ankle Arthritis?
The ankle joint connects the leg with the foot and provides free movement to the foot. It is formed by connecting the bones of the lower leg, tibia, and fibula, with the talus, or ankle bone.
The surfaces of the ankle bones are covered with articular cartilage. Damage to this leads to a condition called arthritis, which results in pain and impaired movement of the ankle.
Infection, bone fracture, connective tissue disorder, excessive stress, and certain disease conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis can cause ankle arthritis.
How is Ankle Arthritis Diagnosed?
Ankle arthritis is diagnosed by your physician after reviewing your history and performing an examination of the symptomatic ankle. Imaging studies such as X-ray and MRI may be ordered to confirm the diagnosis.
What are the Treatment Options for Ankle Arthritis?
Conservative treatment of ankle arthritis involves oral medications and joint injections. However, if you are unresponsive to these treatments, ankle joint replacement surgery is recommended.
How is an Ankle Joint Replacement Performed?
Ankle joint replacement surgery is performed under general anesthesia. Your surgeon makes an incision over the front of the ankle. The muscles are retracted, and tendons and ligaments moved away to expose the ankle joint. The damaged regions of the tibia, fibula and talus bone are then removed using special instruments, and the remaining healthy bones are reshaped to fit an artificial joint or prosthesis. A bone graft is inserted between the tibia and fibula to create a fusion of the two bones and prevent loosening of the prosthesis. The prosthetics are kept in position with special bone cement and instrumentation such as screws to support the artificial ankle. At the end of the surgery, tendons and other structures are positioned back to cover the new joint. The wound is sutured closed and covered with a sterile dressing.
What is the Postoperative Care for an Ankle Joint Replacement?
Following ankle joint replacement, you may need to stay in the hospital for 2-3 days and will be advised on certain precautionary measures to be followed for a successful recovery.
Swelling and discomfort can be managed with prescription pain medicines, applying ice packs, and by elevating your ankle above heart level while resting.
The treated ankle will be immobilized with the help of splints and a bulky dressing. You are advised not to bear weight on the ankle for at least 6 weeks and use crutches for walking. Usually, a drain tube is inserted into the joint during surgery to drain blood from the incision, which is removed within 1-2 days after the surgery. Sutures are removed after 10-15 days and you should take care that the incision is kept clean and dry.
You will be referred to physical therapy soon after surgery to regain range of motion of the new ankle.
You should avoid smoking, alcohol consumption, and should eat a healthy diet for the best outcome.
What are the Risks and Complications of Ankle Joint Replacement?
As with any major surgery, there are potential risks involved. The possible complications associated with ankle joint replacement include infection, fracture of the tibia or fibula, dislocation of the ankle, damage to nerves or blood vessels, blood clots (DVT or deep venous thrombosis), loosening of artificial components, failure to relieve pain, instability, and stiffness.
If you would like to have additional information on the treatment of ankle arthritis or would like to learn more about ankle joint replacement, please contact Upper Valley Orthopedics, serving the communities of Rexburg Idaho.


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I am finishing my college degree in programming soon and I'm exploring the next steps to take to further my career. One option I've been considering is getting a certification or a series of certifications in the area of development I want to work in.
Are these certifications worth the time and money? Do employers place a lot of value in them?


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A hemorrhoid is a swollen vein or group of veins near the rectum that can often be successfully treated at home using over-the-counter creams, fiber supplements, stool softeners or prescription medications. If dietary changes and other home remedies are unsuccessful, your primary care doctor may refer you to a gastroenterologist for additional treatment options.
In the Sutter Health network, we offer a variety of treatments for hemorrhoids. Chronic internal and external hemorrhoids can be treated with a hemorrhoidectomy, in which the hemorrhoids are surgically removed using a knife or scalpel. Another option is placing small rubber bands around small or medium-sized hemorrhoids to block blood flow, causing them to shrink and fall off. Infrared photocoagulation therapy can also be used to treat internal hemorrhoids. Heat from the infrared light creates scar tissue, cutting off the hemorrhoid's blood supply and causing it to fall off.
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The Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette
So far as I can gather from internet searches, this newspaper started life in 1800 as The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser, changingn its name in June 1826 to The Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette. (see: South African History Online, and National Library of South Africa. Richard Ball.
Alta Griffiths has scanned sections from those issues available in the Stellenbosch University Library and Brenda Gassner and Richard Ball are working at transcribing extracts for this section of the web site.
Where a reading is doubtful or illegible, it is enclosed in square brackets.
Additionally, Liz Eshmade has contributed her transcripts of Colin Graham Botha's extracts from from earlier issues of this periodical, Baptisms of English persons, 1810-1821, and marriages of English persons, 1806-1821, and these have been added to the BDMs database section of the web site.


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Garam Masala is referred to a combination of different spices. It also refers to what the entire world calls the "curry powder".
Garam = Hot/Heat; Masala= Spice Mix. The spices in India are usually used whole or ground into to a powder. If its used whole, they are usually added in the beginning of the recipe as way to temper a dish, and if used in the powder form, it is generally sprinkled on the dish after it is almost done cooking.
The term "curry powder" is non existent in an Indian kitchen. There are several spices used in every day cooking and they are combined in hundreds of ways in different parts of the country. There is no one curry powder. What is sold in the stores as "curry powder" is usually a combination of different spices blended together. Knowing that, the Garam Masala can be referred to as a kind of curry powder. As you can imagine, different combination of spice blends will make spiced powders/curry powders of different flavors and aroma.
This recipe is based on one that I had got from my friend's mom. (Thanks Anuja! If you ever read this, you will know that I have not forgotten and will never forgot that wonderful aroma from your lunch box!) They belong to the state of Punjab. I had never asked the exact proportions of the spices, except the coriander has to twice the amount of the cumin, and of course the specific kind of spices that are used. Different regions in India, and also different households have their won way to make the Garam Masala. The Punjabi Garam Masala is typically not dry roasted and the Black Cardamom loses the sweet aroma on dry roasting it, but then again it is a personal choice.
Garam Masala is used to enhance the flavor in a dish and is used in very little quantity. I usually use about only 1/2 tablespoon of garam masala in a recipe for a serving of 4-5.
The hot/heat in Garam Masala is not the same kind of hot as in hot green peppers. It actually are the kind of spices that is used here which raises the body temperature. It is intense, warm, aromatic, lively and evocative.
The following is the recipe for Punjabi Garam Masala – the combination of spices being used in the northern regions of India. For this particular recipe, I do not roast the spices.
Lightly roasting the spices before grinding is another option and the spice mix is a little differently fragrant than this one here. If you are roasting the spices, do them in a dry thick bottomed skillet. Roast each spice individually until just fragrant. Cool before grinding. Do not roast the black cardamom.
Garam Masala
- 1/2 cup whole coriander seeds
- 1/4 cup cumin seeds
- 2 tablespoons small green cardamoms
- 6-8 black cardamoms
- 2 tablespoons cloves
- 1 tablespoon peppercorns
- 4 sticks of cinnamon, approx. 2″ each
- 3 bay leaves (Indian Tej patta)
- 3 red dry chili pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
Note: For a roasted version, which has different flavors, dry roast whole spices separately until just fragrant.
Preparation:If you are roasting the spices, do them in a dry thick bottomed skillet. Roast each spice individually until just fragrant. They do burn very quick; watch them while roasting and take them off the heat the moment they get fragrant. Cool before grinding.
Grind all ingredients dry in a spice or coffee grinder.
May be stored in air tight containers for many months.


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I hope everyone's enjoying Pride Weekend out there in the sun. Don't forget to drink water. Seriously. We've all got to do our part in this awful drought, but drink a lot of water.
The Matrix filmmakers, The Wachowski Siblings, were back in our neighborhood shooting for their upcoming Netflix series yesterday. The series includes a diverse cast from all over the world, including a transgender blogger, which may be the connection to Pride. Though from what we see here it looks like they're highlighting two cisgender women, so maybe not? I'd hope and assume the Wachowski's would give a trans role to a trans person. (Correction: Jamie Clayton is trans, thanks, Andy. Did some searching and somehow didn't find that.) They certainly seem to be willing to work with the communities that in which they're shooting, Mission Local has an article about production collaborating with CAMP to shoot in Clarion Alley.
Cristiano Valli caught some good shots of them at work during Dykes on Bikes.
Andy Wachowski on set.
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The recent canonization of Edith Stein as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross by the Roman Catholic Church poses a number of very serious challenges to living Jews, we who are still members of the people to whom Edith Stein believed she also belonged, even at her death in Auschwitz.
Theologically speaking, Edith Stein was arguably the most significant Jewish convert to Christianity of this century. In general, Jewish tradition regards such persons as apostates who have removed themselves from the normative Jewish community in a radical way, even if they still consider themselves part of the body of the Jewish people, as Stein did. Judaism in fact also regards such persons as part of the body of the Jewish people. "A Jew who has sinned is still a Jew" is an important talmudic principle. Nevertheless, an apostate is an apostate, even when a person of extraordinary intellectual and moral virtues. Our reactions in such cases, however great or small the person before us is, range from anger to sorrow. We cannot very well be indifferent.
In the case of Edith Stein, though, it seems we Jews must be more precise in giving reasons why we cannot celebrate with Catholics the life and death of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. We need to give theologically cogent reasons for why we would have had to distance ourselves from her in life (as her pious Jewish mother did), and why we would have joined that segment of her family who chose not to attend her beatification by Pope John Paul II in Cologne in 1987. Stein's case is not an easy one for us. Jews have been able to dismiss most modern Jewish converts to Christianity as people motivated by social or professional ambition, self-hatred, ignorance, or mental imbalance. But anyone who knew Edith Stein or who knows anything about her life would have to admit that none of these categories applies to her. Indeed, Edith Stein comes across as sui generis. She might be the most uniquely problematic Jew for us since Saul of Tarsus.
The easiest way to deal with the problem is to accept the liberal assumption that one's religious convictions are a matter of individual choice and that everyone must respect the choice of everyone else to believe whatever they want and practice any religion or no religion, as they choose. On this view, Edith Stein had a right to become a Catholic and change her name to Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, just as the Catholic priest Father Kenneth Cox had a right to become a Jew and change his name to Abraham Carmel. At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom. Some see it as a necessary part of the social contract that enables us to participate in civil society. Others see it as being in the best interest of faith itself, which cannot legitimately be coerced. Pragmatically, we realize that our religious communities are probably better off without people who have found a spiritual home elsewhere and do not want to be with us anymore. All this is how we talk and have to talk in the public square. But while that talk is not disingenuous, it is secondary to the primary commitments of both Jews and Christians.
The most fruitful dialogue between Jews and Catholics (and other Christians as well) has been about our relations in the public realm, where we have discovered significant common ground on such issues as public morality and religious liberty. Nevertheless, the discovery of such commonality, beneficial as it is, does not change the fact that at the deepest level of our existence Jews and Christians are making not only different communal claims, but rival communal claims. The best way to God, the one that ought not be exchanged for something less, is either by the Torah and the Jewish tradition or by Christ and the Church. The choice is unavoidable. One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church. Early in our common history, indeed almost simultaneously, Jewish authorities ruled against the practice of Christianity by Jews and the Church ruled against the practice of Judaism by Christians ("judaization")—even by Christians born as Jews. Our acceptance of the liberal order of civil society has for the most part enabled us to make these rival communal claims civilly, and without fear of political repercussions. But that accommodation should not make us slide into the superficiality of civil religion or the disorientation of religious syncretism. Sometimes Jews and Christians have to speak to each other without the mediation of the secular public realm, as we must when speaking about Edith Stein.
Because Judaism and Christianity are both covenantal religions, the relationship of the individual Jew or Christian to God is always within covenanted community. Stein, even when physically alone in her nun's cell, was still existentially part of the community. The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says. There is no universal revelation until the end of history, which is why election is the doctrine of identity for both Christians and Jews. God chooses us; we do not choose God, at least originally. That election is either by natural birth or by the rebirth of conversion, which is very much like adoption. We only can accept or reject the community into which, as one former Christian philosopher put it, we have "been thrown."
Based on these covenantal assumptions, it follows that both Judaism and Christianity assert what liberals can only regard as an unfair asymmetry: One can check into the covenant, but one cannot check out of it. A convert is "born again," which also means that from God's perspective he or she has retroactively always been in the community. An apostate, conversely, does not quit the community existentially; he or she is only absent without leave. Excommunication bars a sinful Catholic from receiving the sacraments, not from the Church herself, just as herem, the ban of ostracism, does not mean that a Jew is no longer a Jew. So Jews regard Edith Stein as a Jewish apostate, but always a Jew nonetheless. And she agreed with us about her Jewish identity; it is about her apostasy that she obviously had a different opinion. We cannot avoid the question of apostasy because it brings us face to face with the rival truth claims our two communities make to ourselves, to each other, and to the world.
Judaism and Christianity alike present themselves as the fullest truth of God's relationship with the world, but both can recognize more limited forms of truth elsewhere. Confirmation in one's covenant does not imply having a monopoly on God. As the prophet Amos (9:7) put it to the overly proud people of Israel, "Are you not for Me like the Ethiopians?" This view enables us to live with other people in good faith and to have genuine respect for them and their traditions.
This approach, common in form but different in substance for us, might be summarized in the talmudic principle that "one is to rise, not descend, in holiness." To illustrate, let me set up four possible situations and suggest the Jewish answer to each of them. (A Christian answer would be substantively different in two of the scenarios, but I think the Christian logic would have to be the same as Jewish logic in all of them.) The four situations are: 1) a pagan wanting to convert to Christianity instead of Judaism; 2) a pagan wanting to convert to Judaism instead of Christianity; 3) a Christian wanting to convert to Judaism; 4) a Jew wanting to convert to Christianity. By "pagan," I mean someone who neither by birth nor by the rebirth of conversion has ever been a Jew or a Christian.
The Jew would regard the pagan's conversion to Christianity as a good choice inasmuch as Christianity is a valid gentile relationship with the Lord God, maker of heaven and earth, elector of Israel, giver of the Torah, and redeemer of the world. Of course, he would regard the pagan's conversion to Judaism as the best choice possible. A Christian wanting to convert to Judaism has not only made the best choice but is well prepared for it by having been a Christian and therefore knowing, however partially, the Lord God of Israel. The final option, the Jew wanting to convert to Christianity, is of course the option of Edith Stein.
Edith Stein accepted what Christians have always had to say to Jews, namely, that Christianity solves the problems of Judaism better than Judaism does because Christianity provides the savior to whom Jews have always looked. She therefore did not consider herself a runaway from Judaism (however rudimentary her own Judaism was) but rather a Jew whose Judaism brought her into the Church. Her logic was clearly supersessionist. How could it have been otherwise? Indeed, had it been otherwise, Edith Stein would have had to have said what Franz Rosenzweig said when he rejected Christian super-sessionist claims: "I therefore remain a Jew!" (Rosenzweig, a Jewish philosopher and contemporary of Stein, whom many consider the greatest Jewish theologian of this century, himself almost converted to Christianity.)
Supersessionism is the subject of deep theological debate today. Many Jews have seen it as the core of Christian anti-Judaism. Many Christians are embarrassed by it, seeing it as part of the anti-Judaism that was so easily appropriated by modern anti-Semitism. Yet, Christian supersessionism need not denigrate Judaism. It can look to the Jewish origins of Christianity happily and still learn of those origins from living Jews, whom Pope John Paul II likes to call "elder brothers." Christian supersessionism can still affirm that God has not annulled his everlasting covenant with the Jewish people, neither past nor present nor future. Jews can expect no more than that from Christians, and Christians probably cannot concede any more to Judaism. For if Christianity does not regard itself as going beyond Judaism, why should Christians not become Jews? And, conversely, any Jew who believes Christianity supersedes Judaism can only in good faith become a Christian—as Edith Stein did.
Fruitful conversations of late between Jews and Christians have largely bracketed this critical issue for good reasons. It is, nevertheless, the crucial question that leaves the two communities at an impasse. All attempts to get beyond it—be they political, exegetical, or philosophical—have been failures. After all, it is the question of truth, and truth is what we are both all about. To bracket this question is quite different from either suppressing it altogether or reducing all discussion to it.
Edith Stein represents our impasse. She cannot be a bridge between Jews and Catholics because in this world one cannot be simultaneously both a faithful Jew and a faithful Catholic. Since the Jewish and Catholic communities are mutually exclusive, and both Jews and Catholics derive their identities from God's covenant with their communities, no member of one community can also be a member in good standing of the other. Moreover, one cannot expect the approval of the covenanted community one has left. As with Abraham our father, the answer to God's call always involves leaving some earlier household in one way or another, and that household does not and cannot provide one with a warm farewell.
In this world Jews and Christians do have much to say to each other and much to do together. But our more important task of waiting for God we must do separately. The agenda of dialogue must be kept distant from the agenda of conversion. Dialogue is more about this world; conversion is more about the world-to-come. Until the end time, it is not for us to judge matters of identity, except in the most mundane cases involving communal rights and penalties. Because of that, while we Jews can empathize with Catholics who have found yet another saint, another exemplary holy life, it is not something we can feel with (the original meaning of "sympathy") Catholics any more than we could celebrate the Eucharist with them. At this deepest level we are still strangers to each other. So it seems that we shall remain until the end, when we hope to be the lasting friends of God, and thus of each other.
David Novak holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. These remarks are based on a lecture he delivered in April 1999 to a symposium on Edith Stein sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago and Loyola University.
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Illinois Wesleyan's 85 acre campus is just blocks from downtown Bloomington and Uptown Normal, two of America's best college towns.
Illinois Wesleyan University, an independent, residential, liberal arts university founded in 1850, strives to attain the ideal of a liberal education while providing unique opportunities with distinctive curricula and programs. A liberal education at Illinois Wesleyan fosters creativity, critical thinking, effective communication, strength of character and a spirit of inquiry. Our curriculum deepens the specialized knowledge of a discipline with a comprehensive world view. The Illinois Wesleyan experience affords the greatest possibilities for realizing individual potential while preparing students for democratic citizenship and life in a global society. As the University pursues this ideal for all of our students, we help students to follow a wide range of career and life paths, offering diverse curricula in liberal arts, fine arts and professional programs as well as opportunities for interdisciplinary study and off-campus learning. The University through our policies, programs and practices is committed to diversity, social justice and environmental sustainability. A tightly knit, supportive university community, together with a variety of opportunities for close interaction with excellent faculty, both challenges and supports students in their personal and intellectual development


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BERLIN- Under the helm of a new head coach, Worcester Prep's girls' varsity basketball team is expected to make great strides this year, and if a 42-8 shellacking of visiting Wye River Upper School in the season opener last week is any indication, the Mallards are hitting their stride already.
Page Watts, an assistant under former coach Sharon Repass, takes over for Worcester this winter after running the Mallards' junior varsity program last year. Watts is hoping to build on the success of the program under Repass while adding a few wrinkles of her own along the way.
Last week, the Mallards routed Wye River, 42-8, in the season opener and appeared to have things clicking on both ends of the floor, but the competition will spike up in the coming weeks as the team gets into the meat of its Eastern Shore Independent Athletic Conference (ESIAC) schedule. Worcester will feature a handful of veteran players from last season's 6-10 team, along with quite a few new faces.
Senior Devon Zorn, who is returning from a season-ending injury last year, and junior Ellie Brown, will serve as team captains. The only other senior on the roster is Anna Pavlos. The other juniors on the roster are Olivia Wilgus and Kayla Baier. Otherwise, Worcester will lean on a flock of underclassmen going forward in the 2010-2011 campaign including sophomores Claire Brown, Alex Bruder, Molly Marshall and Meredith Smith and freshmen Lilly DiNardo, Alison Greer and Kristen Schriver.
Worcester's next game is a home date with ESIAC rival Salisbury School next Wednesday followed by an away game at Greenwood Mennonite on December 3 and a pair of home games against Salisbury Christian and Saints Peter and Paul before breaking for the Christmas holidays.


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On board the C919
COMAC selected Liebherr-Aerospace as supplier of the landing gear system and the integrated air management systems for its prestigious regional jet.
The COMAC C919 is a 156 to 168 seat, short to medium range commercial aircraft built by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) and successfully completed its first flight on May 5th, 2017.
State-of-the-art air management system
The integrated air management system of the C919 is developed, supplied and serviced by Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS, Toulouse (France). The system includes the bleed air system, the air conditioning system, the air distribution system, the cabin pressure control system, the wing anti-ice system and the avionics ventilation system.
Liebherr-Aerospace supplies an air management system with state-of-the-art technology. The focus is to develop a very high level of integration of all functions. There are only two centralized controllers which manage all air-related functionalities, for example.
Learn more about Liebherr air management systemsFuture-oriented landing gear system
The landing gear system is developed, supplied and serviced by Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH, Lindenberg (Germany). It includes the main landing gear and nose landing gear, extension and retraction system, nose wheel steering system as well as the position and warning system.
For the development and production of the landing gears, Liebherr-Aerospace has entered into a joint venture with Chinese AVIC member Landing-gear Advanced Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (LAMC) in Changsha, Province of Hunan.
Learn more about Liebherr landing gear systemsCo-operation with Nanjing Engineering Institute of Aircraft Systems
Liebherr-Aerospace has set up a co-operation with Nanjing Engineering Institute of Aircraft Systems (NEIAS) for the development and manufacturing of some of the air management system's components. Liebherr-Aerospace and NEIAS agreed on a work share based on each partner's best capabilities. The goal of this cooperation is to deepen the relationship with NEIAS. The Institute has been selected by Liebherr as a key partner, in order to set up a work share model that is suitable for future programs.


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The Lagan Aviation & Infrastructure team at RAF Northolt met with a number of local resident associations when commencing works on site. During these visits they received a request from South Ruislip Residence Association to sponsor some flower pots.
The South Ruislip Residence Association have been working hard to improve the image of their area for the past 5 years and the planters is part of the improvements to beautify the area.
The RAF Northolt team were delighted to sponsor the planters and the maintenance of them for a year.
Lagan Aviation & Infrastructure Project Manager, Will Hornby, commented: "We believe that the construction industry can leave a positive impact. Wherever we go in the world, we try to leave something positive behind for the local communities, no matter how small. So much work has gone into improving the area and we are delighted to be able to support the South Ruislip ward with the provision of 7 planters."
Photo Caption L-R: Sarah Low and Will Hornby from Lagan Aviation & Infrastructure with Sid Jackson from the South Ruislip Residence Association.


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Digital X-rays
X-rays are a primary tool for early identification of dental problems. Detecting issues with x-rays before they become problematic can save you money in the long run. Early detection can help prevent the need for more extensive, expensive procedures or surgeries. X-rays are primarily used to detect:
Internal tooth decay
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At Alameda Dental, we use digital x-rays, which have several advantages over traditional film based x-rays. Digital x-rays allow us to take x-rays with 1/5 of the radiation that you would receive from traditional dental x-rays. The worry of exposure to excess radiation is eliminated.
Large on-screen x-rays make patient communication more effective. The immediate observation of the images on the screen allows us to discuss your dental health quickly and accurately.
Digital radiography has greatly enhanced the practice of dentistry. It allows the patient and the doctor to see images of the teeth in higher resolution on a large format for easier detection of problems, all while decreasing the radiation exposure to the patient. The process we use further defines the radiograph, resulting in clinically meaningful images that are sharp, detailed and rich in contrast.
Images are available instantly after exposure, eliminating the wait and effort spent developing and mounting x-rays. If an image needs to be retaken, it can be done immediately. Digital format also allows us to send and receive your images electronically, allowing for a faster consultation with your dentist.
Intra-Oral Camera
X-rays give us a clear view of what we can't see such as decay between the teeth. An intraoral camera gives the patient a view of what the dentist sees. An intraoral camera is a device that is about the size of a toothbrush. Broken fillings, fractured teeth, decay or any other dental problem can be viewed so that we can discuss with you any treatment needed. With a clear understanding of your dental needs we can decide together what the best treatment is for you.
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We use ultrasonic scalers for most adult dental cleanings. These devices use ultrasonic vibrations to help break down the plaque and calculus on the teeth that cause gingivitis and periodontal disease. The ultrasonic cleaners create microscopic bubbles that implode on the surface of the tooth, killing microbes and removing plaque and tartar in the process. Our instruments use a thin tip to better navigate in the periodontal pockets to help maintain optimal gingival health.
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At the moment I am reading a crime fiction novel by Michael Robotham called Bombproof. It is a fast paced thriller about one very unlucky man on the run from authorities. I picked it up to read after finally finishing Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale, which, by the way, I finished just in time to see the movie on opening day. Whew. I needed a more quick read to balance out the slower one.
I am not sure what I will read next. I am eager to read A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby, another book recently translated to film. The movie comes out in early March. I also want to read Divergent by Veronica Roth, but I admit I am feeling a little gun shy of young adult fantasy type novels at the moment. Still, with the movie deadline approaching next month, I am hoping to fit it in soon. Since I seem to be doing less re-discovery of old favorite authors and more book to movie reads so far this year, maybe I should change my reading goal for the year. On second thought, it is still early in the year.
What are you reading at the moment? Is it something you would recommend?
Bombproof by Michael Robotham is proving to be quite a roller coaster ride. Here's a look at the opening of the novel:
Some days are diamonds. Some days are stones. John Denver used to sing that before he crashed his plane into Monterey Bay. It wasn't a diamond day for him.
Sami Macbeth's day has been nothing but stones. Emerging from Oxford Circus Underground, he blinks into the sunlight and coughs so hard it feels as if he sphincter is coming up through his lungs looking for clean air. His clothes are torn and bloody. His face is streaked with sweat. his skin is coated in dust.
Would you continue reading?
Three days ago he walked out of prison and swore he'd never go back. Thirty-six hours ago he was shagging Kate Tierney, the woman of his wet dreams, in a suite at the Savoy thinking life was looking up. Now he's carrying a rucksack that could send him to prison for the rest of his life through the West End of London and he's turned himself into the most wanted man in Britain.
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About Monague Native Crafts:
The Monague Native Craft business began as a mobile retail unit traveling from Pow-Wow to Pow-Wow throughout North America in the family van. During slow times the family sold to stores. When the demand from stores increased, it persuaded the family to set-up an office location in British Columbia. The needs of the retailers grew and a new direction was taken by the family in order to satisfy this demand – thus Monague Native Crafts was established as a wholesale business in 1982.
Without any formal business training, the owner, Sandi Monague Roy, developed the company while raising five daughters, two who have grown up in the company and are now an integral part of the business. The family is a member of the Beausoleil First Nations of Ontario (Ojibway).
The Governor General awarded Sandi Monague Roy with the "Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada." Extensive traveling has given the family exposure to many different groups and cultures around the world, which has resulted in a keen family interest to share experiences and knowledge with other Developing Peoples and with our youth, our future leaders.
Monague Native Crafts' dedicated team has developed the company to become the leading supplier of Canadian Native souvenirs and giftware items, offering the highest quality and superior customer service. All products are crafted by hand. The company gives hiring priority to First Nations People and Women in Development.


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Louis-Philippe, the affable, ovate monarch of France's bourgeoisie from 1830 until the revolutionary year of 1848, was a popular guy for radicals to take a shot at.
By one expansive reckoning, there were no fewer than 19 assassination attempts against the Pear King, and five executions of intended regicides.
This date in 1841 saw the beheading of one Ennemond Marius Darmès for attempting to gun down the French king the previous October.
There was no mystery as to the shooter's identity; the enthusiastic regicide had overstuffed his weapon with powder, and when he took his potshot it simply blew up in his hands. "I had him!" Darmes fumed as he was being arrested. "I was sure of my aim!" The only guy he had actually injured was himself. (Source)
Though it didn't harm the king, the alarming incident did help precipitate the fall of a precarious and self-dealing government led by Adolphe Thiers, whose most illustrious appearance in these executioners' annals was yet thirty years away.
With Thiers out of the way and a foe more doctrinaire animating the government, the ensuing months' investigation were dedicated to tracing a connection between Darmes and alleged co-conspirators among revolutionary Parisians … a lot increasingly disaffected by the July Monarchy's extreme oligarchical outlook.
And in a performance familiar in our own day, the terroristic extremity provided convenient pretext upon which to shush the much wider portion of the populace dissatisfied with the state. You're either with us or you're against us!
These desperate assailants of the King's life are goaded on by the more cautious and even more unprincipled party who assail his character [Louis-Philippe himself made this same claim -ed.] … It is impossible, indeed, to foresee what the secret arts of calumny and the secret daring of their bloodthirsty illuminati may not effect; but we may say, with hearty English respect, when we look out upon these dangers, "God save the King!" (London Times editorial, May 31, 1841)
Out of solidarity or pride of ownership, Darmes denied those connections all the way to the shadow of the blade: two men who went on trial for their lives with him were acquitted.
According to a report filed by the London Times' Paris correspondent (printed June 2, 1841),
At half-past 5 o'clock this morning he was called down from his cell to the greffe, where the fatal toilette was to be performed previous to the execution. He quietly submitted to the operation, and when it was over, he mounted with his confessor into a vehicle, commonly called ponier a salade, which is used for the conveyance of prisoners. This carriage, escorted by municipal guards, cuirassiers, and chasseurs, proceeded up the Rue de l'Ouest, Rue d'Enfer and the adjoining Boulevard, down to the Barriere St. Jacques, where the scaffold had been erected during the night. Few spectators were in attendance. At 5 o'clock all the avenues leading to the Barriere had been occupied by the military, all traffic interrupted, and the people, who had congregated near the scaffold, were driven back a considerable distance. After he had alighted from the carriage his sentence was again read to him. The clergyman then took leave of him, and he ascended the steps of the ladder with a steady pace, followed by the executioner's aids. It was only when he reached the platform that he came within view of the people; his head was still covered with a black veil, and a white shirt enveloped his whole body down to the feet, which were bare. The executioner having placed him with his back to the guillotine, a dialogue appeared to pass between them; and, from the negative shake of the head which Darmes occasionally gave, it was supposed that the executioner had held out to him a hope of salvation if he would make revelations. The conversation occupied between three and four minutes; the aids then seized him, and having placed him with his face towards the knife removed the black veil from his eyes, and took off his shirt. The sight of the instrument of execution appeared to strike him with awe; he started, and, feeling rather unsteady of his legs, he made a stride in order to maintain his equilibrium, and then looked on with calmness, surrendered himself into the hands of the executioner, and an instant before the knife dropped he was heard to exclaim — Vive la France. The body and head were then placed in a basket, and conveyed to the cemetery of Mont-Parnasse, where they were interred in the enclosure exclusively reserved for regicides.
Our favorite part of that is that the cemetery had a special VIP section set aside for regicides. Only in France.
Francophones can enjoy this French-language report on the investigation.
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- 1928: Frederick Browne and Pat Kennedy, hanged by a microscope
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- 21 April 2020
Why we all need a joint European fiscal response
Contribution by Fabio Panetta, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank, published by Politico on 21 April 2020
The case for common European economic action in response to the coronavirus crisis has often been presented as a call for solidarity. As noble as that motivation may be, it's not the only reason for governments to act together. A strong, symmetric fiscal response that offsets the economic damage from the pandemic is in the economic interest of all countries in the eurozone.
The disadvantages of an asymmetric response are self-evident.
In the realm of public health, if countries are forced to lift necessary public health measures (e.g. lockdowns) prematurely because the economic costs of containment are too high, the virus will inevitably begin to spread again and will further damage the economy.
When it comes to the European economy, there's a similar risk of contagion. The economies of the eurozone are tightly interlinked through supply chains, financial connections and trade relationships. As a result, a slump in a large part of the eurozone will depress growth and employment across the entire region.
These dynamics were on display a decade ago during the sovereign debt crisis, but today's crisis exacerbates them in two ways.
First, because of the global nature of the shock, European countries cannot redirect their production to satisfy demand from the U.S. or China, as they did a decade ago. This makes member countries dependent on trade within the eurozone, which represents 45 percent of the currency area's GDP.
Second, the amplification of the shock across supply chains will be greater this time. Eurozone firms are strongly integrated into global value chains, with participation rates 60 percent higher than for U.S. or Chinese firms. This integration is today three times tighter within the region than with the rest of the world.
Analysis by the European Central Bank has found that these supply chain interlinkages will multiply the economic damage of the coronavirus lockdowns. As an illustration, we estimate that an initial GDP decline of 5 percent in major eurozone economies would turn into a 7 percent fall in output for the whole area. A GDP decline of 15 percent would provoke a 20 percent loss across the eurozone. And this only considers the recessionary phase, not the subsequent phase of weak trade if the euro area economy remains depressed.
Only if all economies act with the necessary force to contain the recession will the loss in output for the entire eurozone be minimized.
Then there's the risk of political spillovers if responses are asymmetric. Any perception that common action is absent in times of desperate crisis would dilute public support for the European Union — an effect that is already visible in countries on the frontline of the health crisis. Unchecked, these perceptions will weaken centripetal forces in the union and strengthen centrifugal ones. Ultimately, they could erode trust in the euro.
So it's clear why a forceful, symmetric European response is needed. Failure to act now will not insulate taxpayers from the costs of this crisis. Quite the opposite: it will amplify those costs when they finally come due. It will also weaken the policy responses already being undertaken. For example, without visibility on future sovereign funding costs and rollover risks, government guarantees on bank loans will either be priced differently across countries — or fewer such loans will be extended. Either way, the result will be fragmentation and a more persistent loss of economic potential.
A European fiscal response must be based around three principles. First, the size of the fiscal reaction should be proportionate to the magnitude of the shock. Second, it should not aggravate fragmentation stemming from differences in initial fiscal positions. Third, it should not skew the playing field within the European single market. Viable firms should be able to withstand this crisis no matter where in the eurozone they are located.
The fiscal response of European countries has thus far been inconsistent with these principles. The countries least affected by the pandemic have enacted the largest fiscal responses, while the worst-affected countries have taken the smallest steps. This appears to be, in part, because the latter fear being unable to shoulder the debt burden that an optimal response would entail.
The threat to the single market is clear: uneven fiscal support implies that a firm's location, rather than its business model, will be the decisive factor in determining whether it survives this crisis.
Rather than transfers between member states or a mutualisation of existing debts, what is needed now is for countries to use their collective strength to ensure that the European response is commensurate with the size of the shock and that all countries can benefit from low funding costs and zero rollover risk.
As policymakers debate the proper response, various possible funding models are being considered. These include making serious use of the eurozone's ability to borrow and spend, using the financing capacity of the European Stability Mechanism to scale up European interventions or creating a new facility to finance the reconstruction.
Whichever path is taken, the goal of fiscal policy must be to push the financing costs of this crisis far — very far — into the future. Debt that is issued at very long maturities becomes more sustainable over time as growth rates outstrip interest rates. And European issuance today will create the additional fiscal policy space needed to secure those higher growth rates in the future. An adequate European response would also facilitate the implementation of the ECB's securities purchase programmes, increasing the effectiveness of monetary policy.
Once the immediate emergency recedes, countries will have to deal with concerns of competitiveness and long-term sustainability, in the context of prevailing growth and interest rates. That's an important and necessary battle, but not for today. In fact, the faster the current emergency is addressed, the faster countries will be in a position to remedy these concerns and the faster the single market will return to its normal functioning.
Acting now to create the conditions for a symmetric fiscal response will help all member countries to shorten the duration of the crisis period, protect the economic base on which their future production structures and exports rely, and — perhaps most importantly — uphold the promise of a shared and indivisible European destiny.
Eurozone countries should shoulder the cost of financing this crisis together, because they all stand to benefit by doing so.
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Just a quick note for anyone who has the same problem.
I was trying to install WordPress locally (on top of EasyPHP) and it just would not work.
I set up the database, modified the wp-config.php file with the database details – and went to http://localhost/wordpress/ and it would sit there spinning and doing nothing.
And http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/ didn't do anything either.
Did some hunting around and found out that localhost is no longer defined as 127.0.0.1 on Windows 7!
Had to edit the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file and uncomment the localhost line.
(BTW Had to run cmd as administrator and then run notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts).
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I've learned a few things recently about cross-compilation for embedded devices. I think this will become more and more a hot topic because of the Internet of Things (IoT) is boosting through the charts and many people are jumping into that. Here are some of the lessons learned (not all). Let me know if you have more insights into this exciting topic.
The Qt IDE is a great open source tool for software development. What if it would also become a great tool for cross software development? This makes perfect sense because Qt has the only IDE that works on all platforms. This was the question that triggered my pursuit in making the Qt IDE work to cross compile software for ARM devices running linux. Here are some of the lessons learned (as of Aug 2014):
- The best I could do so far is to use the Qt IDE on Ubuntu (working as either on a virtual machine or a real boot) to cross compile the code for the ARM and automatically deploy it on the ARM device. I've used a standard Qt project and also Cmake, both work great. With Cmake there might be a few tweaks if you want to deploy only one program instead of the whole project. More on this latter. Use the toolchain from linaro.
- Use gdbserver to debug, on the Qt IDE you must use a gdb with python enabled. It's not to hard to compile gdb with the python extension (most cross compiler toolkits available don't have gdb with python enabled, let me know if you find one)
- Don't try the Qt IDE on Windows to cross compile. It's possible but there is a lot of pain involved. This Qt bug report gives you a interesting perspective of what's going on. Just accept the fact that it's best to cross compile from linux (x32,x64) to linux (arm) – for the moment, I think this will change soon. I will post some instructions on this latter. But if you really, really want to spear head this start by downloading the toolchain for windows from Linaro or the Sourcery CodeBench toolchain and use Cmake instead of a Qt project.
Eclipse seems to be more appropriate to use for the development of embedded applications (in either Windows and Linux) but Qt creator will also get there soon I think. But if you just want something working you are better off with Eclipse at this time.
Here are some links to help you set up
Qt Creator
- Beaglebone: Qt Creator for C++ ARM Embedded Linux Development
- Cross Compile for Raspbian using Qt Creator
- QtCreator on Windows to Cross Compile for Linux ARM with CodeSourcery Toolchain
- QT Configurator for Windows cross-toolchains
- Eclipse on Gumstix for new users
- CMake:Eclipse UNIX Tutorial
- Cross Platform Development on the Beaglebone Black with Eclipse
- Beaglebone: C/C++ Programming Introduction for ARM Embedded Linux Development using Eclipse CDT
- Video: Creating and Debugging Linux Applications Using Sourcery CodeBench for ARM GNU/Linux
- Development Environment for the Raspberry Pi using a Cross Compiling Toolchain and Eclipse
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In a Catholic parish in Hobbs, New Mexico, a statue of the Virgin Mary has been "weeping."
Onlookers have gathered out of curiosity, and also for prayer and healing. The liquid on the statue has been found to be olive oil and balsam – the same mixture that is used for certain Catholic rituals after being blessed by a bishop.
Claims about supernatural phenomena, including weeping statues, have historically been common in Catholicism. A well-known example is the Madonna of Syracuse, Sicily, a plaster statue that has shed tears since 1953. Last year, in fact, weeping statues were reported in Hungary, Argentina and Macedonia, just to name a few.
To understand why a weeping statue would be religiously meaningful, it's first important to appreciate the connection between miracles and the Virgin Mary.
Miracles and Mary
Catholics believe Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ and, therefore, the mother of God.
Throughout Catholic history, supernatural events have been attributed to Mary's power. When France's Chartres cathedral burned, only Mary's relic – called "The Veil of the Virgin"– survived after being safeguarded by three priests who were miraculously preserved from the heat and flames.
Mary's intercession is also believed to have ensured victory at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, when an Ottoman fleet was repulsed by the forces of Genoa, Venice and the papacy.
Mary's tears have special significance for Catholics: She cries not only over the sins of the world, but also over the pain she endured in her earthly life, referred to as "the seven sorrows of Mary." These sorrows, which include the crucifixion and death of Jesus, are depicted by seven swords piercing Mary's flaming heart.
Even the flowery scent of olive oil and balsam evokes Mary since she is called "the rose without thorns."
It's not surprising for a weeping statue of Mary to become an object of prayer and devotion.
And when this happens, the local bishop sometimes steps in to investigate.
The possibility of trickery
In examining claims of the supernatural, bishops are guided by standards set by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which oversees Catholic doctrine. These standards primarily concern reports of "apparitions" of the Virgin Mary. But the framework also applies to other supernatural occurences, including weeping statues. Perhaps because they address controversial issues, the standards were only made public in 2012 – nearly 35 years after they were first implemented.
The bishop, or a committee appointed by him, evaluates the supernatural phenonmenon's impact on the community. Positive aspects can be healings and conversions, or even a more general deepening of faith among Catholics. Negative aspects would include sinful acts such as selling oil from a weeping statue or making claims contrary to Catholic doctrine.
One of the primary questions is whether the event has been staged. For example, in two cases of statues that wept blood – one in Canada in 1986 and another in Italy in 2006 – the blood turned out be that of the statue's owner.
Liquids can be injected into the porous material of statues and later seep out as "tears." Oil that is mixed with fat can be applied to a statue's eyes, which will "weep" when ambient temperatures rise in the chapel.
In the case of the bronze statue of Mary in Hobbs, New Mexico, the investigation has uncovered no such trickery. But the fact that no cause has yet been found does not mean that a miracle has taken place.
The Catholic Church rarely endorses weeping statues and similar phenomena. Usually, a bishop or the Vatican will only go as far as saying that faith and devotion are more important than tales of supernatural happenings.
Searching for meaning
While understanding the phenomenon, it's also important to appreciate the stories and individual motivations that people bring when they pray or worship in the presence of a statue that seems to weep.
In my hometown of Worcester, Massachusetts, for example, statues and pictures have wept oil and blood at the home of the late Audrey Santo, who died in 2007 at the age of 23. As a child, "Little Audrey," as she is still called, was left mute and paralyzed after a swimming pool accident. In spite of her physical condition, she was believed to pray for those who made pilgrimages to see her. After her death, a foundation was established to promote her cause for sainthood. The statues and pictures weeping in her home were seen as signs that God had specially blessed Little Audrey's life of suffering.
In my writings about the case of Audrey Santo, I was tempted to focus on the stories of supernatural wonders. And the claims surrounding Little Audrey are still hotly debated. In the end, I thought it would be more interesting to study how people find meaning in phenomena like weeping statues.
At the Santo home, the people I talked to shared moving personal stories of pain and sadness, hope and healing. The sense of togetherness in and through suffering was far more important than talk of miracles.
In Worcester – as well as in Hobbs, New Mexico – I expect what is going on is much more than superstition.
An updated version of this article was published on April 21, 2023. Read it here.


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Photos: Grumman planes get some TLC from volunteers in Calverton
Restoration of the F-14 and A-6E fighter jets on loan from the U.S. Navy and on display at Grumman Memorial Park in Calverton got under way Friday.
Six volunteers — many of them Grumman retirees — from Nassau County's Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City donated their time Friday morning to perform "spot repairs," by power-washing and scraping away and chipping paint from the airplanes.
Friday's maintenance efforts focused on winterizing the planes, Cradle of Aviation Museum executive director Andrew Parton said.
The planes will be painted for the first time since 2007 next spring, he said.
"It feels good to preserve this part of Long Island's history," Mr. Parton said. "We're happy to do it."
The town teamed up with the museum to make the proper repairs after Calverton civic members and a News-Review article in May highlighted the planes' deteriorating condition.
Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter said Friday's clean up was just the start of the restoration, saying there would be a long-term partnership with the museum to ensure the planes remained the best possible condition.
He said the town is working out the details of the maintenance plan and would continue to supply the paint and other materials, such as ladders, a power washer and a bucket truck as needed.
"The fact that they're doing this for the town is tremendous," Mr. Walter said. "We are looking forward to a long partnership with the Cradle of Aviation Museum."


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Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz Applauds Selection of Rafael Piñero to
Highest Rank in NYPD History
Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz, Chairman of the New York State Senate Puerto Rican and Latino Caucus, commended Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly on the selection of Chief of Personnel Rafael Piñero as his First Deputy Commissioner. "Pinero's selection is historical. We have never had a Hispanic at such a top level in the administration of the New York Police Department. Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly chose the best candidate and I congratulate them both!," stated Díaz.
Piñero is a career officer that has worked his way up the ranks of the NYPD. "Piñero knows the department, the officers know him, and he is the consummate professional," he further stated. Latinos are already the largest minority group in the City of New York, and their numbers are growing exponentially because of their young age.
"Commissioner Piñero's presence at that high ranking level will provide the NYPD with a knowledgeable individual that will be sensitive to this growing community in need of access and understanding. This was a job well done by all!," concluded Senator Díaz.
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text: _ _ _____ _ __ <*the* weekly high-tech sarcastic update for the uk> | \ | |_ _| |/ / _ __ __2001-08-03_ o join! mail an empty message to | \| | | | | ' / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / / o firstname.lastname@example.com | |\ | | | | . \ | | | | (_) \ v v / o website (+ archive) lives at: |_| \_| |_| |_|\_\|_| |_|\___/ \_/\_/ o http://www.ntk.net/ "Ron Dick, head of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre, says too many computer users regard their systems as dumb appliances, not recognising that a computer needs 'to be constantly monitored and maintained. It functions like a living organism'." http://www.ananova.co.uk/news/story/sm_363549.html - indeed my British counterpart at the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit informs me that they are practically "electronic brains" >> HARD NEWS << actually, no news Despite fears of the usual authority-distrusting programmers milling around in "what do we do now?" disarray, we're pleased to report that, at time of writing, the UK's highest-profile FREE SKLYAROV protest went without a hitch outside the US embassy in London this lunchtime. Baffled onlookers and a van full of riot police had Sklyarov's unjustifiable incarceration [see previous NTKs] explained to them by means of leaflets, placards, chanting, "street theatre" reconstructions of his arrest, and impromptu filk versions of "YMCA" but with the lyrics changed to be about the "DMCA" instead. Attendance was estimated at "between 30 and 40" by organiser Dan Aykroyd, who doesn't look like he does on the telly at all, and "refused to be drawn" on why the other cast members of Sneakers couldn't make it. Assuming no other railway stations blow up between now and then, the whole thing should be on Newsnight at 10.30pm tonight, though we bet they just show the bit where we're wandering round Hyde Park trying to work out where the embassy is, with some smart-arse "geeks couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery" commentary from Paxman. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t281-s2092269,00.html - many from as far away as Cambridge and Underground Zone 4 http://www.xenoclast.org/freesklyarov/ - and a good time was had by all http://www.google.com/search?q=dmca+ymca - also thought this tune would go well with "My-S-Q-L" Of course, this sort of decentralised direct action is all very well in the short term, but as we all know, when you absolutely must get the trains running on time, leadership is vital. Or at least that was the muttering after July's Open Source Convention; commentators like Dan Gillmor spoke of how dignified Microsoft's Mundie was, compared to the fractious, fractured free software zealots. And Webmonkey's Jay Greenspan harkened back to a time when you could tell who was *really* in charge by reading the name at the bottom of the press release. Jay suggested that what was really killing Free Software was that people was just doing what they wanted without someone telling them what everyone should do. He's right: and to get us in the mood for having a boss again, here's a nice video of the Microsoft President and CEO speaking to the troops. Think statesmanlike. http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/dancemonkeyboy.mpg - Think WWF http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/dancemonkeyboy.avi - Think Monty Python's Gumby We're sure we can't be the only ones to be horrified by the hysterical overreaction to last week's BRASS EYE. Wherever you look, you're faced with petitions, word-by-word denunciations, and angry polemics by single-minded editors with a track record of deceiving their audience, pandering COOKDANDBOMBD's coverage, hey. Here's the other links you sent in. http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/~jstacey/cgi-bin/getarticle.cgi?art=01-07-30 - just when we thought the sick disease of satirism was under control http://www.brasseye.co.uk/testimonials1.htm - just another unfortunate namespace clash http://www.football365.com/content/fun/picturegags/fw_picturega_571100.htm - this isn't going to go away is it? http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/ - hope they're not offended or anything http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_364207.html - sidekick Richard Barry unfortunately out of the country >> ANTI-NEWS << berating the obvious "Ealing bomb believed to be terrorism", speculates ANANOVA, wildly: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_366308.html ... another busy day at "The WAP Store" (Eastleigh, Hampshire): http://squid.smellsofpee.co.uk/photos/wapstore.jpg ... "the contents of this document are confidential" fondly imagines: http://home.intekom.com/google/Google%20results-protocols.htm - bloody search engines... so they give you UKP2 to turn up?: http://www.edfringe.com/cgi-bin/user/edfringe/detailshow.fcgi?id=EDINI ... AMAZON decide that "Web Caching" is mere "kid's stuff": http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/156592536X/ ... "Welcome To Your Future" - and what looks like our past?: http://www.itemus.com/ ... self-confessed astrologer "genius": http://community-2.webtv.net/Archure/Genius/ provides handy comparative review of "Idiots Guide"/"For Dummies" books: http://community-2.webtv.net/Archure/Books/ ... "Updated Every Minute Of Every Day" boasts http://news.bbc.co.uk - ie, they've got a clock?... "Do you know where your property is? We do": http://www.slysearch.com/services.html ... census- takers now questioning everything about damn job (bottom of): http://www.statistics.gov.uk/themes/population/surveys/survey_of_cqs.asp ... "Enjoy the sun" advises weather report - from Mercury: http://www.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/UK/0,2478,1078874,00.html >> EVENT QUEUE << goto's considered non-harmful The exasperatingly enigmatic TWENTYTHREE organisation had to cancel their planned live event last week, and Tim O'Reilly will unfortunately no longer be speaking at the UK UNIX USER GROUP next Thu (though apparently VA Linux's Ted T'so might well do a talk instead). But not even the death of star guest Delia Derbyshire can halt the wailing of FORGOTTEN MUSICAL TECHNOLOGIES, this month's presentation by Fortean funsters Strange Attractor (7.30pm, Tue 2001-08-07, The Horse Hospital, London WC1, UKP6). The primarily Theremin-based programme features a screening of that "Theremin - An Electronic Odyssey" documentary plus a number of live performances, including live performances from Bruce "Buggles" Woolley, and - of course - the theme from "Star Trek: The Original Series". http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/ - wow, an analogue synth with no resonance, cutoff, polyphony http://www.ukuug.org/events/TOR_20010809.shtml - s/ Tim O'Reilly / http://thunk.org/tytso/ /g http://www.artscatalyst.org/htm/saforum3.htm - they put one arts project into space; why can't they send them all there? >> TRACKING << sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering There's so many new features in the straight-outta-alpha VIM 6 BETA, a weaker, more partisan correspondent might be tempted to gargle "bloat!", and return to nvi. But after a while, I swear, it all makes such *sense*. So you can split windows vertically, which sounds like the most shocking Emacs frippery - until you see vimdiff, a beautiful line-by-line realtime diff visualiser. Or the much-talked-of folding: on first glance, one can only imagine using it to create an outliner in Vim macros. But, oh my, when you see you first Perl program with irrelevant subroutines squirrelled away -as though you'd already deleted them! And then there's the client/server system, which, just to irritate the Emacs readers reading this far, sends commands and files to a vim session, like emacsclient. How cool might you be with that? Unicode, decent user manual: there's even a single-mode GUI "easyvim" for spoony pico-lovers. As ever with Vim, it's fun drunkenly stumbling around the updated Vim help files, or maybe pressing buttons at random to see what happens. If you upgrade one program this year, make it Vim 6. Unless its emacs 21. Certainly can't imagine you'd want to upgrade *both*. http://vim.sf.net/ - discussions of a Ugandan nature http://www.troubleshooters.com/projects/vimoutliner/ - not that there's anything wrong with vim macro outliners >> MEMEPOOL << hasta la altavista calling ITV-DIGITAL hotline and saying you want to buy a monkey - every 100th caller gets a free box? Riiight ... shaming the SIRCAMmers: http://www.hartnup.net/pubcam/pubcam ... MILKY BAR KID was strong and tough - but only THE LORD is good enough: http://www.despatch.cth.com.au/DFL/dflAug022000.htm ... *your* essential fluids could help prolong a celebrity's useless existence!: http://www.blood.co.uk/flashAdvert1.htm ... life imitates Kate Bush's "Babooshka" (or maybe Rupert Holmes' "Escape"): http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_354103.html ... weather - with attitude! (see under "Quirky Story 1-3"): http://www.metcheck.com/ ... CRINGELY + GIBSON = conspiracy!: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802.html ... time for all those old "TOLKIEN may be Hobbit-forming" gags: www.skysports.com/skynews/storytemplate/storytoppic/0,,30200-1024895,00.html ... "plastic bags can be cut into good raincoat for children" recommends newly tourist-conscious Chinese government site: http://www.bjta.gov.cn/English/lvxing_zhishi/lvyou_baojian/1999.09.06.05.htm ... "Lord Of The Dance" reclaims title from Michael Flatley: http://www.dancedanceresurrection.i12.com ... cheer up MARIAH: http://pub28.bravenet.com/guestbook/show.php?usernum=2365914404 ... all too-detailed recreation of the golden age of steam: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010730/ts/life_explosion_dc_5.html ... hang on - isn't this what my HOTMAIL accounts are for?: http://www.mailexpire.com/ ... it's the armed AMIHOTORNOT: http://www.b3ta.com/kill/g.php?k=996488442 ... build your own: http://chaos.greeny.org/~halluc/railgun/intro.html ... >> GEEK MEDIA << the less rude www.tvgohome.com TV>> C4 picks up Fox's grippingly game-theory-influenced reality horror TEMPTATION ISLAND (11.10pm, Fri, C4)... E4 interrupts its wall-to-wall Brass Eye repeats for the third series of brutal prison drama OZ (11pm, Fri, E4), and for anyone who gets E4 but mysteriously doesn't get MTV, a run of surprisingly endearing self-injury fest JACKASS (10.35pm, Tue & Wed, E4)... while TOMORROW'S WORLD (7pm, Wed, BBC1) flags down the reality bandwagon as 75 passengers attempt to escape from a burning Jumbo - live on TV!... building up to the final episode (8pm, Mon), Sky are showing 8 hours of random (best of?) STAR TREK: VOYAGER (from 1pm, Sat & Sun, Sky1)... the curse of doing something hugely popular early in your career then constantly trying to live up to it is doubly explored in DOUGLAS ADAMS: OMNIBUS SPECIAL (8.10pm, Sat, BBC2) and Steve Coogan on THE SOUTH BANK SHOW (11pm, Sun, ITV)... BEST OF BANZAI (9.30pm, Sat, C4) is followed by The Clip Show Eating Itself in the clumsily titled TV TO DIE FOR: THE BEST MUSIC SHOW IN THE WORLD (10pm, Sat, C4), featuring highlights from all last year's "Worst Music Moments From Hell" programmes... but then you've a choice of star-studded sci-fi B-movies in the form of flawed Gibson adaptation JOHNNY MNEMONIC (10.15pm, Sat, BBC1) or Marg "CSI" Helgenberger making ingenious use of an empath to advance the plot in space-sex nonsense SPECIES (10.45pm, Sat, ITV)... Richard Dean Anderson fans can always pretend that MACGYVER: LOST TREASURE OF ATLANTIS (3.55pm, Sun, BBC1) is a feature-length STARGATE SG-1 (12.45pm, Sun, C4) if the latter is cancelled due to cricket... "email isn't secure" reveals the unintentionally hilarious THE FUTURE JUST HAPPENED (7.45pm, Sun, BBC2): http://www.bbc.co.uk/future - click "Prog 2" on the left menu... take a drink every time Simon "Privacy International" Davies pops up in THE HISTORY OF SURVEIILANCE (8pm, Sun, C4)... there's another chance to see ape-make-up docu-soap NEANDERTHAL (8pm, Mon, C4), described by Charlie Brooker as "When Gallaghers Ruled The Earth"... Harrison Ford's well-documented problems with air travel continue in Anne Heche rom-com SIX DAYS SEVEN NIGHTS (9pm, Mon, C5) and Tom Clancy fancy-shmancy CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER (9pm, Tue, BBC1)... look forward to the "Southerners have their own rules" ad placement during harrowing Nam-allegory SOUTHERN COMFORT (9pm, Thu, C5)... and, hopefully heeding Mark Leyner's dictum that "all competition - active or potential - must be neutralised", Carol Vorderman uses extensive testing to locate and identify BRITAIN'S BRAINIEST KID (8.30pm, Thu, ITV)... FILM>> "even better than the original" is the promising word of mouth on Zhang "Crouching Tiger" Ziyi and Don "Swordfish" Cheadle joining Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in action-comedy RUSH HOUR 2 (imdb: china / martial-arts / partner / police / sequel / hong-kong)... otherwise Jeff "The Fly" Goldblum and Elizabeth "Big" Perkins encounter further unnatural phenomena in animatronic/CGI pet-fighting kiddie-chortle CATS AND DOGS (http://www.capalert.com/capreports/catsanddogs.htm : dog flatulence and urination; suggestion of inappropriate touch by proximity; never has God placed the animals above or equal to man)... *very* limited release previews of joke-free "Shrek" remake FIGHTING FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN (imdb: computer- animation / based-on-video-game)... or, in Bristol this weekend, then around the country later in the month, it's the return of STELLA SCREEN ON LOCATION: CINEMA UNDER THE STARS http://www.stellascreen.co.uk/stellascreen/ - a "unique blend of the great outdoors and the hypnotic magic of film", though it must be a bit distracting if the screen really is suspended tug-of-war-style between two horses, like in the TV ads... BONERS, CORRECTIONS, CLARIFICATIONS, AND "INCORRECTLY REGARDED AS GOOFS">> going back a while, reader ANDREW HARTON boldly accused us of mixing up the works of Neal Stephenson in NTK 2001-07-13, alleging "Perhaps you meant 'The Diamond Age', which did indeed contain converted supertankers acting as floating orphanages, rather than 'Snow Crash', which didn't". No, we definitely meant "The Raft" in "Snow Crash" (and we haven't read "The Diamond Age" anyway - is it any good?)... someone calling themselves "PERICLES" believed our use of the phrase "the hoi-polloi" [last week's NTK] was a "sly way of resuscitating the career of 'The The'", because "hoi" means "the" in Greek or something. The enthrallingly over-detailed http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-usage-english-faq/ begs to differ, however, noting that the "first 5 citations in the OED, and the most famous use of this phrase in English (in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Iolanthe')" all put "the" in front of it; plus, the other way round sounds stupid... also last week, MARK WHITAKER astutely observed that our link to the thesis "Bod: Sexuality and Surrealism", by one Peter Fenelon of the "Heslington Institute for the Harmlessly Daft" was "clearly a piss-take", though to his credit, he did include a link to the (apparently for real) http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/stenger.htm for comparison purposes... oh and SIMON JOBSON - "a solicitor in the commercial propery department of a large city law firm" - uncovered that "the Guardian aren't getting any money out of [ http://22.214.171.124/auctions/lot.asp?PropertyID=215 ] - since it's the freehold of their leased office which is for sale", though conceded that it's a "nice idea"... regarding genuine omissions of fact or judgement: KI SUK rightly queried our 2001-03-16 claim that "'Defcon 1' means all-out war when, in reality, 'Defcon 5' does", citing such compelling evidence as http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/defcon.htm - but apparently the audio commentary on the "WarGames" DVD still maintains otherwise... WILLIAM KNOWLES was mightily reassured by Google's attempts to correct the spelling of MTV UK's apparently universal standard "non-frames" browser warning: http://www.google.com/search?q=somefing+has+gone+totally+tits+up&filter=0 "Did you mean: *something* has gone totally tits up?"... and finally, some early editions of NTK 2001-07-13 playfully confused scripting.com US web celeb "Dave Winer" with where- is-he-now UK net evangelist "Dave[y] Winder" - NTK apologies unreservedly for any offence caused to either of them... >> SMALL PRINT << Need to Know is a useful and interesting UK digest of things that happened last week or might happen next week. You can read it on Friday afternoon or print it out then take it home if you have nothing better to do. It is compiled by NTK from stuff they get sent. Registered at the Post Office as http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.51.html#subj11 "not certain as to anything's authenticity" NEED TO KNOW THEY STOLE OUR REVOLUTION. 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Francisco Carrau shows Tannat's characteristic broad leaves |
But in Uruguay, where it is the best grape variety, Marichal blends it with Pinot Noir, which grows alongside it. Alto de la Ballena blends it with Viognier. Pisano blends it with Syrah and Viognier.
And each of these is among the best wines at those excellent small family wineries.
As with most red grapes, Tannat's character is in the hands of the winemaker. There are potent 16% alcohol versions and racy, savory versions. There's unoaked, very oaked, moderately oaked. There's Tannat that's tannic like tarbrush and fresh like cherry juice. Even though Uruguay as a nation makes half as much wine as a single winery (Concha y Toro) in nearby Chile, the styles of single-variety Uruguayan Tannat vary like the styles of Syrah in France.
What Tannat wants to be in Uruguay is revealed by what it plays well with.
They say when the macachines flowers bloom, the Tannat is ripe |
With Viognier to lift its aromatics, the Alto de la Ballena blend is all about freshness and liveliness. The Syrah in the Pisano blend adds savory notes to Uruguayan Tannat's characteristic current of palate-refreshing, just-ripe red plum fruit. And 30% Tannat added to Marichal's Pinot Noir doesn't overwhelm it: How many potent grapes can you say that about?
Uruguay and Tannat really is the perfect mix of terroir -- windy, humid, oceanic, cool for South America -- and grape.
In neighboring Argentina, they tell us that about Malbec. But Malbec's greatest characteristic is that it's a clean, full-bodied red wine for a good price. It doesn't have, by itself, a distinctive flavor note. The way to identify Malbec blind is to first figure out that it's a Bordeaux grape by the structure, and then eliminate the others.
Uruguayan Tannat, in its purest form, is not a point chaser's wine, though some are doing that to it. It's a food lover's wine, a sommelier's wine, a wine lover's wine.
It used to be tannic, but good winemakers have figured out how to deal with that. Now it consistently comes in with ripe tannins and fruit flavors and a satisfying body at alcohol levels about 13.5%. And the main thing is the freshness. Your palate won't get fatigued drinking a Uruguayan Tannat.
It bothers me that some of the companies exporting Tannat to the US define the grape differently. Here's a wine where you can look at the alcohol level and see what they're up to. Anything over about 14.2% (that's the highest fresh one in my notes) and the Tannat-ness withered on the vine. Some of the slickest companies at exporting to the US make bulky Tannats. If that's what you want, you might as well buy Argentine Malbec. Argentina's economy sucks and is getting worse; Uruguay's economy is booming and its peso is strong. There's no reason to pay a premium for a Uruguay wine unless you're tasting that premium in the glass.
When you do taste premium Uruguayan Tannat, it's a beautiful thing: intense without weight, elegant, long-lasting, memorable.