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Our pal Colin May will argue with anyone — even an astrophysicist. He writes:
You can push on a string. Freeze it…then push. Works every time.
Our pal Colin May will argue with anyone — even an astrophysicist. He writes:
You can push on a string. Freeze it…then push. Works every time.
In previous installments, we brought you video of the amazing levitating Slinky, and Peter Barss wondered how the Slinky had been calibrated to work exactly this way. I asked physicists to come forth, and they have—not just physicists, but an astrophysicist. (Who better to explain levitation?)
Saint Mary's grad Jonathan Dursi, now a senior research associate with the Canadian Centre for Astrophysics, furnished this detailed by elegant explanation:
Sometimes you hear that there's three things taught in first year Engineering (or Physics, or whatever); things fall down; F=Ma; and you can't push on a string.* It's exactly those three things at play here, and it's fun to see how they play out.
"How does this happen without calibrating the force exerted by the energy stored in the "spring" of the slinky to match the force of gravity?"
This calibration is done by the slinky itself, or in fact, any spring (or string, or…)
The spring stretches to the point that the tension in the spring — the force pulling the lowest link up — is exactly equal to the force gravity exerts on it to pull the link down. If those weren't in balance (say, gravity was pulling more), then the lower parts of the spring would stretch out, and the tension would grow, and they would balance. (Hooke's law, that the tension in the spring is directly proportional to how far it is stretched: F = k x, larger k means harder to stretch out the spring, is often a good approximation for these sorts of problems; but those are details. As long as the tension increased in any manner as you stretched out the spring, this would play out the same way). If it was the spring force which exceeded that of gravity, the spring would pull back, tension would reduce, and again things would end up calibrated.
This is F=ma; when you're holding the top of the slinky, the fact that the parts aren't accelerating upwards or downwards (a=0) means that at every point in the spring, the tension pulling upwards is the same as the gravitational force pulling downwards, so that the net force is zero (F=0, so m g = k x). If you went somewhere with a different gravitational acceleration (g), or placed a weight at the end of the spring, the spring would stretch out to achieve the same balance under the new force — the final length would be different, but the balance would again be met.
That much is true of really anything – an iron rod, or a slinky. But they all behave pretty differently when you hold them and drop them. If you hold up an iron rod vertically, it is also true that the bottom of the rod is being pulled upwards by a tension inside the rod and downwards by gravity, each perfectly balanced: but when you let go of it, the bottom does *not* stay in place until the top catches up!
This is where the "you can't push on a string" bit comes in. The iron rod has a lot of internal rigidity; just try and squish one. When the top starts falling, not being suspended from above by any tension, it can't catch up with what's below it; it pushes what's below it down with it, and the whole thing falls as a single rigid body.
But back to springs — the slinky *is* carefully built to _not_ be rigid. (It has to be able to flop over itself, after all, to climb down stars, alone or in pairs, and make a slinkity sound).
So imagine a three-link slinky, each link having a very small mass, and the whole thing is held up by the top, and there's no internal rigidity. Each link is feeling a force of gravity down (m g) and a tension from the spring above it (k x) where x is the distance between links. The spring constant of a slinky, k, is really small — you can pull a slinky apart without exerting a lot of force.
Now let go of the top link. It immediately starts accelerating downwards, under the force of gravity. (The acceleration is g = kx/m). This *doesn't* start _pushing_ on the bottom link — there's no way to push! — but it slowly starts reducing the upwards tension on the second link, because the distance between them is reducing.
*But*, because the spring force is so small, the distance between links is large, and we're accelerating from a full stop, this whole process takes a while. So it slowly starts falling, and as it falls, the tension pulling the second link upwards starts lessening — but only proportional to the amount of that distance the top link has fallen so far. Let's say it would take the top link 1 second to fall the whole distance to the second link. It will take 0.5 second for it to drop even 1/4 of that distance, lessening the upwards force on that second link by only 25%. It will take 0.7 seconds for it to drop 1/2 of that amount, lessening the upwards force by only 50%. It's only as the top link gets quite close to the second link that the second link looses most of its upwards support, and itself begins accelerating downwards in earnest, repeating this pattern to the lower link.
So, roughly speaking, the n'th link in the chain doesn't start moving much until the n-1'st link has caught up to it.
Now imagine a more tightly wound slinky, so that it's significantly harder to stretch it out. That means when you hold it up, it's much shorter (harder to stretch it) so there's a much smaller distance between links. There's still no internal rigidity (say), but this whole process happens much faster, because the distance between links is much faster; the bottom "levitates" still but for a much briefer period of time. Keep tightening your mental slinky, and it happens faster and faster and faster until there's no obvious moment of levitation at all.
This is what is meant by the "bulltwaddle" about information transfer and signals. The "We're falling now" signal is sent from one link to the next by removing the upwards tension force. That signal travels at the same speed as the wave of now-collapsed top links moving downwards.
Quite generally, a wave travels at a speed proportional to the square root of the force which generates the wave (here, the spring tension) divided by the density of the medium. This is what sets the speed of sound in water or air (the square root of pressure over density); the speed at which a guitar string vibrates when plucked (square root of string tension over string mass), ripples on a pond, etc. Here, the wave travels at a speed proportional to the square root of the tension (k x) over the density of the spring (m/x). Because the spring adjusts itself initially so that k x = m g, this means that the wave speed is proportional to g * sqrt( m / k ), and it takes a time x over velocity, or sqrt(m/k), for the signal to travel. The looser the spring (small k), the longer it takes this signal to travel downwards. In a tighter slinky (larger k) this signal speed will get faster and faster and there will be a briefer and briefer moment of "levitation."
(I will choose to overlook those cautious quotes Dr. Dursi placed around "levitation.")
A reader who styles himself "Krackalakin" offers both a shorter explanation…
Consider that by holding a suspended Slinky by one end, you are holding a spring in tension… The force of gravity is the tension, or what is forcing the spring to extend and is directly proportional to that of the force puling it down – gravty! So there is no collusion or "transfer of secrets" that happen.
…and a link to an MIT classroom video wherein Prof. Walter Lewin explains the underlying principle.
The spring stuff starts about 1:30 in, but if you watch the whole thing, you can imagine what it would be like to be an MIT student.
Much obliged to both readers.
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* I've heard this rule applied in a different context, but this is a family blog.
Yesterday, I posted a slo-mo video of a Slinkeys, which, when dropped while their springs were completely distended, appeared to levitate momentarily, until their springs had time to re-compress, whereupon they began their expected downward trajectory. My pal Peter Barss (who is descended from a real pirate, kids) has a question "for anyone who remembers their physics better than I do."
During most of the its fall, the bottom of the Slinky remains absolutely motionless, which, to my mind, means the gravitational force acting on the slinky pulling it down is exactly balanced by the force compressing the bottom of the slinky upwards. How does this happen without calibrating the force exerted by the energy stored in the "spring" of the slinky to match the force of gravity? It seems to me that the two forces would have to be precisely balanced for the bottom of the slinky to remain motionless while the top collapses.
I wondered the same thing. Is that precise balance an inherent quality of a Slinky—the same quality that enables it to walk down stairs? Some hints in this article at Phys.Org, a web-based science, research and technology news service, and in this paper by UBC physics prof Bill Unrah. Turns out the late, great Martin Gardner kicked off the discussion a dozen years ago. [Animated gif via KnowledgeForDummies.]
All the actions is in the first 140 seconds.The remaining four minutes of explanation, involving claims of "information transfer" and "signals," strike me as, frankly, bulltwaddle. Much more plausible is the explanation furnished by Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish, which in turn came from an even more thorough explanation on Rhett Allain's blog at Wired.com.
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If a slinky is hung by one end such that its own weight extends it, and that slinky is then released, the lower end of the slinky will not fall or rise, but will remain briefly suspended in air as though levitating.
[T]he best thing is to think of the slinky as a system. When it is let [go], the center of mass certainly accelerates downward (like any falling object). However, at the same time, the slinky (spring) is compressing to its relaxed length. This means that top and bottom are accelerating towards the center of mass of the slinky at the same time the center of mass is accelerating downward.

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The Exec was an adaptation of a comic book series, Inception is an original idea from Nolan that he's had since he was 16. quintushalls
Ironically, wife/career partner/producer Emma Thomas says that Inception is intended to be a more personal movie … it just happens to be enormous.
Christopher Nolan Says INCEPTION Is Even Bigger Than THE DARK KNIGHT – Collider.com
If Inception is a huge hit then he will definitely be a lasting voice in Hollywood.
Christopher Nolan On Board to Direct DARK KNIGHT Sequel and "Godfather" the SUPERMAN Franchise – Collider.com
Inception is the only big budget film released by WB in the next year that won't be in 3D.
Oddly enough, Chris Nolan seemed excited by DiCaprio having a little say for DiCaprio's role in 'Inception;' so I guess not everyone thinks DiCaprio's a brat.
I am afraid some a-hole is going to spoil it probably the same one who posted the end of Shutter Island so anytime I see the word Inception I just close the web tab.
In its debut, the glowingly reviewed "Inception" -- Christopher Nolan's mind-bending film starring Leonardo DiCaprio -- won the weekend by raking in $60.4 million.
BOX OFFICE: 'Despicable Me' still strong; 'Inception' wins weekend
Unless someone can drop into Anthony Kennedy's dreamspace and, "Inception"-style, either figure out what he thinks of the individual mandate or simply tell him what to think of the individual mandate, it's not worth spending much time speculating on the ultimate legal fate of the provision.
Health-care overhaul's individual mandate makes all the difference
If the top grossing movies of this year are any indication, what we want are films we can take our kids to see, or that are based on wildly popular books that revolve around wizards and vampires, or, occasionally, that force us to engage our intellect "Inception"-style.
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If you plan to start a small business growing plants, what qualities should the business have that make it more likely to be successful, profitable and make you happy to go to work each day? Here are nine that have been proven to work by thousands of successful small business owners.
1.The business can be home based. Operating a small business out of your home can be a real time and money saver. Without a commute, vehicle operating costs are reduced and commuting time is less than a minute to your home office or shop. In addition, there is no store, office or shop rent to pay, along with the extra cost of utilities and maintenance. Start up costs are reduced by working out of your home as well, allowing you to conserve funds for other business expenses.
2.The business is about something you enjoy. Almost all successful business owners love what they do. As Groucho Marx once said, "Find something you love to do so much, you'll do it for nothing. Then do it so well, people will pay you to do it." The old adage "Do what you love and the money will follow" really is true, so take a serious look at any new business idea to make sure it is work you will enjoy. If you do, you're almost sure to succeed, both in profits and personal satisfaction.
3.The business is different than the competition. What can you do to set your business apart from your other similar businesses in your area or field? Can you offer more choices that make your customers choose you? A flower grower, for example, can offer larger cut flower bouquets. Growers of almost any specialty crop can focus on hard-to-find varieties.
4.The business has multiple customers, not just a few. Whatever your choice of business products or services, aim for a broad customer base instead of just one or a few. That will protect you in case your largest customer dumps you unexpectedly. A friend whose specialty was writing grant proposals for a large school district lost two thirds of his income when they turned to another provider. Lesson learned: Many customers mean you are in charge, not the customer!
5.The business has several income streams, not just one. Your local car dealer is a good example, as they get a big chunk of their income from service and repair work, as well as car sales. Growers can provide a variety of plants, such as ornamental grasses, herbs and greenhouse tomatoes. Your imagination is the only limit here.
6.Customers pay for the products or services immediately. There is nothing quite like approaching the end of the month with business bills to pay and nothing but a stack of accounts receivable to offset them! Find a small business that offers immediate cash. Growers should always sell some of their plants to retail customers, who pay now, as opposed to wholesale buyers, who may take 60 days to pay that invoice for your plants.
If you sell a product, try to structure the business in such a way that you get paid when you deliver the product. Selling at a Saturday market is a good example of this. A friend who sells potted herbs at the Farmer's market takes only cash. Her herbs cost $6 or so, and a $2,000 cash-in-hand Saturday is commonplace. Her biggest complaint: Those customers who spend $6 and hand her a $100 dollar bill in payment.
7.The business has low start-up costs. Most of us don't qualify for a government grant or have a rich uncle. That's why it is important to make sure that any small business opportunity has affordable startup costs. Don't make the mistake of singing up for an expensive franchise and shackle yourself with high monthly payments you may have trouble repaying while you're growing the business. Starting a plant growing business can be scaled to the amount of money you have to get started, whether it's $500 or $5,000.
8.The business earns repeat income. Can your small business supply you with regular repeat income? Many businesses sell a product or service that the customer only needs once, like a sauna or roofing. After the sale, it's off to find the next customer. That can get expensive. A better business model focuses on repeat customers so the marketing costs are low. Plant sales are a good example, as customers keep coming back year after year if you treat them well.
9.The business does not depend too much on employees. Finding good employees and keeping them happy and productive is one of the biggest challenges facing small business owners. Instead, think about keeping your business small enough that you can handle it all yourself. The time you won't have to devote to managerial and administrative overhead will be yours to do with as you please, so enjoy those extra hours doing something you love.
A small business does not need to have all the listed qualities to succeed. The more desirable qualities a small business has, the more likely it is to be a satisfying, profitable and long-lasting business for you. In the book "The Millionaire Next Door", the authors point out that many of the millionaires they interviewed owned a small business that had many of these ten qualities. Add the ability to live "below your income" so you can save and invest the difference, and you too could be on your way to your first million.


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Can anyone please recommend a site (or book, e-book, etc) which explains partial differentiation in an easy manner? I just need to get the basic hang of it.
And the same for integrals such as:
What are such integrals called by the way? Double integrals?
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Americans eat approximately one-fifth less beef today than they did in 2005.
As a result, a number of plant-based "meat" startups have popped up in the last decade. They've created everything from burgers made of pea protein to shrimp made of algae.
A new Florida-based food startup called Parabel is also trying to fulfill consumer's hunger for plant-based protein — by growing water lentils in a massive aquafarm. Water lentils taste similar to normal lentils (they have a sweet and mild planty flavor), but grow in nutrient-rich water rather than soil.
Parabel produces a protein powder, called Lentein, from the water lentils it harvests. Lentein powder contains 45% protein, about the same amount as most soy-based protein powders. Parabel's powder, which the company will start selling later this year, can be mixed into smoothies, water, or be used to make homemade protein bars.
Production at the company's $10 million, 100-acre farm, which has a production capacity of 500 tons of water lentils per year, began in March. The startup is now starting construction on a new 600-acre aquafarm, which will be completed in late 2017.
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This is actually for x86 so I apologize for the cross post but I hate to go join that lists just to get this working. Anyway, I am trying to compile the module for the 3com 3c905 drivers that I pulled down from 3com to match my kernel. I am running 2.2.19. I compile the file fine but when I run "insmod 3c90x.o" I get an error saying that the module was compiled for 2.2.20 and the kernel is 2.2.19. The only kernel source I have installed is 2.2.19. Any ideas??
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Shikhar Dhawan delight at dashing debut century
Mohali: Shikhar Dhawan has described his record Test debut innings as a dream come true after smashing an unbeaten 185 as India raced to 283 for no loss in their first innings in the third Test against Australia at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) here on Saturday.
Dhawan, who replaced his statemate Virender Sehwag in the side, scored the fastest century by a Test match debutant, reaching three figures in just 85 balls as the tourists toiled. He hit 33 fours and two sixes in his 168-ball knock and is now just 15 short of becoming the first Indian to score a double century on debut.
Alongside him, Murali Vijay was quietly progressing towards his second consecutive Test hundred and was not out on 83 overnight. The 283-run unbeaten first-wicket stand between Dhawan and Vijay was the highest by an Indian pair against Australia.
Earlier, Australia were bowled out for 408 shortly before lunch after Mitchell Starc top-scored with 99 and Steve Smith struck 92.
After the day's play, Dhawan said: "It feels very good. It was a dream for me to score so well on my debut. I've been working hard since I was dropped after I played my last one-day international for India. I worked really hard and changed myself and became a more mature player.
"I was waiting for a chance. I did very well in the domestic circuit and was waiting for a chance to play in international cricket. I guess that went my way.
"I wasn't really playing in a hurry. The fours were going on their own after the ball hit the bat. But I guess I was in a good flow today. I felt my shot selection was good and I played according to how I'd assessed the wicket. I didn't feel that I rushed things.
"I still remember when I debuted for India in ODIs and got out on zero against Australia. And then [Mahendra Singh] Dhoni and [Suresh] Raina told me that the players who've got out on zero for India on debut, they went really big. This time I was nervous that it was again Australia on my Test debut, because I'd scored zero then. So I was a bit nervous. But everything went well and I was really happy that I grabbed this opportunity and scored a century."
Dhawan made the most of the generosity shown by the Australian team since he was technically run out even before the first ball was bowled. As Starc ran down for the opening delivery, the ball slipped from his grip and the hit the stumps and Dhawan was short of the crease. The Australians, however, preferred to have a laugh instead of appealing.
Dhawan was severe on Moises Henriques, Lyon and left-arm spinner Xavier Doherty, who leaked 18 runs in the 23rd over. Dhawan completed his century in just 85 balls with an almost suicidal single and got a standing ovation from the crowd.
Earlier, resuming at 273 for seven, the morning session was perhaps the best for Australia as they scored 135 runs for the last three wickets.
Overnight batsmen Smith and Starc added 97 runs for the eighth wicket and also achieved their best scores in Test cricket.
Mohali, March 16 (IANS) Scoreboard at stumps on the third day of the third cricket Test between India and Australia at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium here Saturday.
Australia 1st innings (Overnight 273/7)
Ed Cowan c Kohli b Ashwin 86
David Warner c Dhoni b Jadeja 71
Michael Clarke st Dhoni b Jadeja 0
Phil Hughes c Dhoni b Ojha 2
Steven Smith st Dhoni b Ojha 92
Brad Haddin b Sharma 21
Moises Henriques b Sharma 0
Peter Siddle lbw b Jadeja 0
Mitchell Starc c Dhoni b Sharma 99
Nathan Lyon not out 9
Xavier Doherty lbw Ashwin 5
Extras (b 8, lb 12, nb 3) 23
Total (all out in 141.5 overs) 408
Fall of wickets: 1-139 (Warner, 47.5 overs), 2-139 (Clarke, 47.6), 3-151 (Hughes, 59.3), 4-198 (Cowan, 77.6), 5-244 (Haddin, 93.1), 6-244 (Henriques, 93.3), 7-251 (Siddle, 98.1), 8-348 (Smith, 124.1), 9-399 (Starc, 138.5), 10-408 (Doherty, 141.5)
Bowling: Bhuvaneshwar Kumar 9-0-44-0, Ishant Sharma 30-8-72-3, Ravichandran Ashwin 43.5-9-97-2, Pragyan Ojha 28-5-98-2, Ravindra Jadeja 31-7-77-3
India 1st innings
Murali Vijay batting 83
Shikhar Dhawan batting 185
Extras (b 5, lb 9, nb 1) 15
Total (for no loss in 58 overs) 283
Bowling: Mitchell Starc 11-1-46-0, Peter Siddle 12-3-35-0, Moises Henriques 7-0-38-0, Nathan Lyon 15-3-69-0, Xavier Doherty 10-2-57-0, Steven Smith 3-0-24-0
Fastest centuries on Test debut
85 — S Dhawan (185*) Ind vs Aus (Mohali) 2013
93 — Dwayne Smith (105*) WI vs SA (Cape Town) 2004+
105 — Matt Prior (126*) Eng vs WI (Lord's) 2007
106 — Abul Hasan (113) Ban vs WI (Khulna) 2012
117 — Basil Williams (100) WI vs Aus (Georgetown) 1978
132 — Umar Akmal (129) Pak vs NZ (Dunedin) 2009
132 — Adrian Barath (104) WI vs Aus (Brisbane) 2009+
139 — Hamish Rutherford (171) NZ vs Eng (Dunedin) 2013
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Bruce Karpati, a former top Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer, is heading to private-equity giant KKR & Co. to become global chief compliance officer, said people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Karpati, most recently the chief compliance officer for Prudential Financial Inc.'s mutual fund business, is expected to start at KKR later this month, one of the people said.
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THE garda watchdog has criticised gardai for being "slow" in co-operating with an investigation which led to two gardai being convicted for assault and another for trying to pervert the course of justice.
The Garda Ombudsman Commission said documentation it sought during an inquiry into allegations that a member of the public had been assaulted by gardai in Waterford was obtained "at a very late stage" and other documentation was not received at all.
In a report published yesterday, the Ombudsman said it was "a cause of concern" that documentation it sought but didn't receive from the gardai was then produced during the course of a court trial by the defence for some of the accused.
Garda Daniel Hickey was jailed for 18 months after being found guilty of assaulting Anthony Holness (40) on the street in Waterford in January 2010.
Sgt Martha McEnery was found guilty of assault and was given a suspended four-month sentence. Garda John Burke was also jailed for a year for attempting to pervert the course of justice.
"An effect on the investigation was that some documentation sought by the Ombudsman from the gardai was procured at a very late stage in the investigation, some not received at all. This, while not ultimately fatal to the case for the prosecution, was, at the least, inconvenient," the report said.
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It really is amazing how some of you sit on your perches and think your Gods gift to the work force and that you are not overpaid and deserving of every penny you make at your jobs, while everybody else in the work force are overpaid bums.
Really how do some of you look at yourselves in the mirror with bullshit beliefs like that? My guess is you have no mirrors
Wall, some of these guys on here do nothing but bash other peoples wages non stop on , while they believe they are not over paid for the jobs they perform.
Look at the bashing of the chicago teachers thread as an example. Some in the that thread are saying they are all over paid wastes, they get to many days off, anybody can do their jobs etc etc etc.
I would have more respect, if one of them like bowlslit came out and said he is overpaid and doesnt deserve to be paid 75k plus a year with benefits, phony paid company vacations etc etc to sell damn insurance.
Goose, you are so right maybe he will have a differnt tone and respect for people who have lost jobs because of the dirtbag greedy corporations.
Also those greedy corporations are one day going to get a rude awakening, when they dont have anybody to sell to in our country, due to nobody having jobs. The dumbasses dont realize that if they employed more people, more people could buy their products. They will learn thou
Semantics. Though not directly stated, it's obviously inherently implied from Romney to pander to his base:
Jobs will only come back here 2 ways
1. our people lower their standard of living down to the standard of
living in other countries and be willing to work for very very very low
wages with no benefits and health insurance at all.
2.our govt steps in and does something to stop these corporations
from sending jobs overseas and exploiting people with slave wages
"Oh and while someone is talking "semantics" I must point out:For 2009, the most recent year available, here are taxes less transfers as a percentage of market income (income that households earned from their work and savings):Bottom quintile: -301 percentSecond quintile: -42 percentMiddle quintile: -5 percentFourth quintile: 10 percentHighest quintile: 22 percentTop one percent: 28 percentThe negative 301 percent means that a typical family in the bottom quintile receives about $3 in transfer payments for every dollar earned.I rather enjoy watching the Democrats fall into traps on issue which win elections for Republicans"
You cited a blog post by a Harvard economist, Dr. Mankiw, who is also a current economic adviser to Romney. Also, he is former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under G.W. Bush. Conveniently, you left this pertinent fact out. Not a hint of bias here. No way, right?
Sorry, a blog post based on CBO data is not an academic paper. It's simply his written blog, yet you present its conclusions as infallible. A peer reviewed study which has been scrutinized and accepted for publication, it is certainly not. I assume you have likely never published anything to understand this concept.
The CBO data is open to other interpretations.Dr. Mankiw's blog, was respectfully and artfully challenged by Dr. Folbre on several valid fronts.
First, she mentions the skewing of data in the bottom quintile due to the presence of retirees, the disabled or children. These groups, unsurprisingly, will usually have strong net negative transfers. Receiving Medicare and Medicaid will do that. What a revelation!
Second, joblessness is 35% in bottom quintile as opposed to 9% in the middle qunitile and 4% in the top one. Again, not really surprising that folks without jobs would have a net negative impact.
Third, the CBO estimates don't take into consideration state and local taxes paid, which even Dr. Mankiw corrected and addended to his original post. This would change the equation, especially for the middle quintile, from negative to positive.
But I wouldn't expect you to mention Mankiw's political allegiances or her eloquent and respectfully academic retort at all. After all, who cares about the 47%? They are riff-raff moochers to you and Mitt, right? Begone peasantry!
Mellow Wolf, thats all da road ever does is post right winger trash, written by right winger nutjobs, that he states as facts.
Not one post he ever writes, comes from his own mind.
A total walking right winger zombie
p.s. nice bust. am sure he thought he nobody would bother looking for where he got that trash. He should vanish for a few days now, to let the laughter die down


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Yes, even the right to name your baby Messiah
Updated 2:13 pm, Friday, August 16, 2013
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. And in the United States, one can name a baby just about anything.
Even Messiah.
That doesn't mean the kid will be appreciative. A boy named Sue was once told his name was meant to put the gravel in his gut and the spit in his eye, but ... really?
For some, his name conjures up images of an omnipotent deity, but a boy named Messiah might well face scenarios in which he'd be powerless in the face of taunts or prejudices. Preschoolers might shorten it to Messy. There could be mocking genuflection in the middle school cafeteria. And he might never know about the job applications that are marginalized or unceremoniously sent to the circular file but, by that time, he'd certainly be old enough to wonder.
That's why a Tennessee judge changed a baby's name from Messiah to Martin.
The child would no doubt face repercussions because of his first name, explained Child Support Magistrate LuAnn Ballew when asked by the media about her decision to change Messiah DeShawn Martin's name to Martin DeShawn McCullough. The word Messiah, she said, "is a title, and it's a title that has only been earned by one person, and that one person is Jesus Christ."
Well, now we know what she believes. Never mind the beliefs of young Messiah or his mother.
The boy's case, reports say, was initially about establishing paternity and the changing of his last name to McCullough. Ballew probably figured she'd split the difference: make Martin the first name, add the McCullough. In the process, she'd do away with the Messiah because, well, you know. Because she could.
The problem with this is that Americans will — and should — take issue with those who mess with our right to name our kids Messiah, Moon Pie or Smilex.
In this country, nobody but your pesky relatives get to tell you that the name you picked for your baby is nuts. Mom and Dad might be setting up Baby Filberts for a lifetime of tired one-liners, but that's their right.
We also get to make choices about our kids' religious beliefs. And child care. And lunches. And after-school activities. Parents do a lot of things that aren't in the best interest of their kids, and monikers don't even make the list's top 10.
Then there's the issue of jurists who insist on fixing the separation-of-church-and-state issue with hot glue and painter's tape. This was a shaky move; why go out on this particular limb?
A TV journalist asked the judge how this would apply to boys named Jesus, and Ballew said that didn't apply to Messiah's case. Messiah, the 387th most popular name in the United States, according to the Social Security Administration, is off-limits, but Jesus (the 101st) is OK?
Her answer hints that she probably didn't think this through.
A free society needs a nudge from time to time. This case is a reminder that Americans have the right to name their kids after Jesus, Mary or Joseph, Vin Diesel, George Washington or our dear great-grandmother on our mom's side.
It might result in a kid that kicks like a mule and bites like a crocodile, but that's up to the parent.
And only pesky relatives can weigh in.


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Author Notes: I just found lentils this past year and have had a lot of fun experimenting with them. The family loves dijon mustard and I found that when I added the portabella mushrooms this could go from a side dish to an entree as it is so hearty. —nweb
Serves 4 as entree; 6 as side
- 1 cup french green lentils
- 4 cups water
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 2 medium leeks (white and pale green parts only)
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 portabella mushrooms
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons chopped chives
- salt and pepper to taste
- Wash lentils and drain. Add lentils and salt to water, and bring to a boil. Reduce to simmer, uncovered for 20 to 25 minutes or until tender. Remove and rinse with cool water and drain.
- Slice leeks length-wise and then chop into 1/2 slices. Slice portabella mushrooms in large cubes.
- Melt butter and add olive oil, leeks and mushrooms. Saute for 10 minutes.
- Add lentils, chicken broth, mustard and vinegar. Raise temperature to medium-high and cook for 10 to 15 minutes until chicken broth is reduced. Add salt and pepper to taste and top with chives.
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Release Date: 2011 |
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Offthought i'd give this a quick right up, quite excited about this :]
this is a 3.75, the linearity of this album prevents me from giving it any higher but the enjoyability factor of this album really can't be ignored. if you love space black metal, you will adore this. [:
Digging: Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Offsleep well! [:
if you love space black metal
def. gonna check this out great review
Just finished listening, it was pretty good, probably like a 3-3.5, but it was a bit boring at times like you said.
Good review Noctus, might have to check this.
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
Album Rating: 4.0Good review I'll probably check this out :]
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Offi hope you guys like it! [:
Just heard two tracks off this and the elements are good but the compositions do nothing for me. Prolly like a 2.5 - 3
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off:[
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Offi think you guys are going to this expecting a little too much [: i did try to word my review in a way where you wouldn't expect much, just a really nice sounding album
I don't like space
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Offthen you're wasting your time with this album, which i clearly said in the review [:
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Offyes! :]
Album Rating: 4.0Rules hard so far.
Digging: The Ukiah Drag - Crypt Cruiser
Album Rating: 4.0This was awesome.
Album Rating: 4.0I completely forgot about this album, was nice randomly finding it again on YT lol
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A declassified secret cable in the UK national archives, reporting on a meeting between Sir Desmond Dreyer, admiral of the British navy's Far East Fleet, with King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit.
It appears that this cable has been ripped out at some point, and reattached with tape, rendering some parts of it illegible.
The cable describes Bhumibol as exceptionally earnest and serious. It reports that Bhumibol told his guests: "He was all for change and progress but the danger was that change might happen so quickly as to get out of hand. It must be controlled and that was quite a difficult thing. Students must be controlled: he did not mean screwing them down (and he made a gesture with his thumb) but kept in check… He thought student demonstrations were very wrong."
The cable also quotes Sirikit as saying "she was having trouble with Prince Vajiralongkorn who was a naughty and lazy little boy".


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Nothing says like you are getting old like getting the invitation to your 10 year high school reunion. Has it really been 10 years? Already? I would like to say that it felt like yesterday, but looking back to my high school self, I realized how much I had changed over the years. I am almost a completely different person now then I was 10 years ago. My core values haven't changed, but my perspective, my way of thinking and the way I see the world now… all that is different.
The one memory that sticks out the most to me at 18 was a conversation I had with my mother. I can't exactly remember what we were talking about – something along the lines of life decisions – and my mom said something that surprised me. She said, "You will change the most between the ages of 18 and 25." I remember thinking, no I won't. I will still be me, I will still want the same things and my plans will never change. I couldn't have been more wrong. It is funny to look back at the years and see yourself change. But I like the way I have changed. I haven't accomplish everything I thought I would, but the life I have now is better than I could had ever dreamed. 🙂
Before heading to the reunion, we did a quick photo shoot of just the two of us.
And yes, I planned our outfits to match because I am cheesy like that! We got Randy's shirt last year from Banana Republic. It is both of our favorites! 🙂 And it looks so good on him!
I got this dress online at Ruche. I love, love, love the colors! Of course, you all know how much I love mustard. The shoes were my birthday present this year from Modcloth, which are no longer available. But they have tons of different options!
I found the purse at an antique store in Hendersonville. I bought it for $12!
My favorite picture from the whole night! Thank you Randy!
And for my jewelry… the necklace is an antique and my gold bracelet was my high school graduation present from my parents. Seemed only fitting to wear it to my reunion. 🙂
Our 10 year reunion was at a new brewery in Boone, the Appalachian Mountain Brewery. Coming from the beer capital of America, I was pretty impressed with their beers. Good job Boone! For dinner, they had a local food truck called From Farm to Flame. They made wood-fire pizzas and they were out of this world amazing! I will be on the hunt for this truck every time I go to Boone now.
The night was a little awkward at first. It is hard to start up conversations with people who you haven't seen in 10 years. But an hour into the night (after everyone had some drinks) it got easier.
It was so nice catching up with old friends.
Especially with these two. We have all been friends since we were 4 years old!
First thought regarding reunions – Facebook can make it hard to have these, "I haven't seen you in 10 years. How are you doing?" conversations. Mostly because you already know where they are and what they are doing. But seeing people in the flesh, being able to hug them and talk to them – it is so much better than seeing pictures on Facebook.
At the end of the day, I have to conclude that our parents did a pretty awesome job with all of us. We are lawyers, doctors, judges, engineers and small business owners and living all over the country – not bad for a tiny town in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Just goes to show you it is not how you start, but how you finish.
Overall, I am glad that I went to my reunion. I had a great time catching up with old friends and making new connections with those who I didn't know as well in high school. Until next time WHS… see you in 10 years!


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Assured city: bright new world for Sydney Festival
The festival marks the city's emerging identity as it leaves Melbourne's cultural shadow and looks eastwards into the future, rather than over its shoulder at its colonial past
Amanda Palmer, a US entertainer who is billed as a punk but is not to be categorised at all
Festival director Lieven Bertels: 'The old world is still there but it's losing some of its shine'
An Aboriginal soldier who fought in the first World War, the subject of Black Diggers
Sydney Opera House, where many festival events take place
Sydney is sweltering in the heat of a summer like no other – but hotter still is the city's 2014 Theatre Festival. Down at the festival office, located in the lovely maritime buildings in The Rocks, festival director Lieven Bertels relaxes into a chair, glass of water to hand, showing no sign of stress despite the fact this is the opening week and some €12.5 million have been sunk into it. But then, why should he be stressed when this festival has all the signs of being a stunner?
Bertels comes from Flanders, where people need all the language skills they can get in order to survive, he tells me. This makes global networking simpler, and perhaps explains why he has brought into the festival acts from some 17 countries, including Niger, Mali, China and India.
What he found, when he came to Sydney in 2013 to direct the first of three festivals, was a city influenced by its closeness to Asia and the Pacific. "The old world is still there but it's losing some of its shine," he says. Nevertheless, he proceeded to surprise the city by offering Purcell's opera, Dido and Aeneas, as the festival's centrepiece. How old world is that?
Bertels smiles. "We're expecting people to come to this who would never ordinarily come to an opera," he says. "After all, they came last year when we had Vivienne Westwood do the costumes."
He's probably right. For the first 15 minutes of this year's opera, dancers from choreographer Sasha Waltz's troupe will perform underwater in a giant aquarium. Interestingly, the only storm in this aquatic love story is that the specially trained dancers, who come from all over Europe, have been unable to agree on a level of water temperature acceptable to everyone.
Opera criticism leaves Bertels untouched largely because, as a musicologist (he studied composition at Durham University in England), he exudes confidence in himself and his co-workers.
"The prologue was missing, so we decided to make our own," he says. Hence the 15 minutes of swimmer/dancers performing underwater. Simple as that.
For those festivalgoers who might be perturbed by opera, there are countless other events to compensate. They include a rapping Othello, three circuses, our own Pan Pan Theatre Company, a show of shadow puppets from China, an Aboriginal take on King Lear, more free events than ever before and – not to be missed – another world premiere from the choreographer, Sean Parker, whose Am I is an exploration of origin and identity.
Melbourne's shadow
In fact, this is a recurring theme in Bertels's work and, perhaps, a reflection of his idea that Sydney is emerging from Melbourne's cultural shad
ow. " Melbourne is great," he says "but it's still provincial." Oops – they're not going to like that down there.
Bertels merely smiles. Coming from a country with an area of 30,000sq km (Ireland is 84,000sq km), he is certain he is right. His country, after all, has given us the saxophone and the magical mirrored Spiegeltent – a 1920s Belgian travelling tent where you paid to do each dance, and boys and girls could mingle, for want of a better word, and where his grandfather met his grandmother.
It was in the Spiegeltent that I saw Amanda Palmer, a US entertainer who is billed as a punk but is, in fact, not to be categorised at all. Wearing a satin, skin-tight gown as a nod to the cabaret act she builds into her show, she offers one hour of entertainment – part Sally Bowles, part stand-up – that includes two of the most poignant songs about identity I have ever heard, with actors playing an integral role in both.
The Spiegeltent is in Hyde Park, Sydney's family-friendly festival village where, on a warm summer's evening and under a moonlit sky, the city meets to have fun, eat, hang out and play. In previous years the festival opened with a huge free multi-act party but those days have gone. "The free party was too expensive," says Bertels.
So, although his budget is smaller, he has increased the number of free events. How? "Reshuffle," he says simply.
Aboriginal heroes
While Bertels might be remembered mainly for his innovative opera, it is another world premiere, Black Diggers, that will be the closing of the circle – one of them – for Bertels.
Back home in Flanders, in the village next to his, is a first World War grave with an Aboriginal name on one of the stones. Rufus Rigney, a young Aborigine, enrolled in the Australian army at 16 and was dead with a year. Some 1,000 Aboriginal men joined up to fight in Gallipoli, Palestine and Flanders, but on their return to Australia, they were treated as before: not allowed to marry, own property or to travel.
Black Diggers has a cast of all-male indigenous actors, and it portrays men such as Rufus, who fought in an imperial war for a country that refused to recognise them as Australian citizens. Director Wesley Enoch mounted a huge programme of research and has based the play on a composite picture of the many people he interviewed. "Reconciliation is a people's movement," he has said, "not a political one." This is a view shared by Bertels. "If we don't have the history," he says, "how can we have the future?"
Which brings us back to the mainspring of this festival: Sydney's emerging identity as a city looking eastwards into the future, rather than over its shoulder at its colonial past. The Aboriginal people finally achieved recognition as citizens of Australia in a 1967 referendum. Black Diggers, which was premiered at Sydney Opera House, will take that recognition into new territory both historically and dramatically and will shine as a star in Australia's continuing story. Interesting that it took an outsider to make it happen.
Sydney Festival 2014 runs until January 26, sydneyfest.org.au


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THOMSON, Ga. - Mr. James Meva Bohler, 85, beloved husband of Mrs. Lodenia Bohler, of Cobbham Road, died Monday, November 27, 2006, in the V.A. Medical Center, Augusta. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, November 30, in the Thomson Second Baptist Church with Dr. Ron Drawdy officiating. Burial will be in Savannah Valley Memorial Gardens. Mr. Bohler was a native of Lincoln County, but had lived in McDuffie County for many years. He was a retired construction worker. He was a member of the Faith Baptist Church. He was an army veteran of W.W. II. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lodenia Bohler, Thomson; a daughter, Mrs. Janice Bohler McComb, Jasper; two sons, Gary Bohler and Jimmy Bohler, both of Thomson; a sister, Mrs. Eva Reed, Tignal; and 5 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Pallbearers will be Bryan Bohler, Duane Bohler, Russell Bohler, Michael Wilkerson, Timmy Padgett, and Timmy Bohler. Friends may call at the Curtis Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday night at the funeral home. You may sign the online guestbook at www.curtisfuneralhome.com . Curtis Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements Sign the guestbook at AugustaChronicle.com
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Moreover, the actress said it's the first time she hears this news and it is flattering to her. "It's really funny because I have just heard about this for the first time today," she said. "It's news to me. I'm flattered I suppose."
The actress also spoke about her new movie "Salt", the plot, her character Evelyn Salt and the echoes related to her movie and the 10 people arrested for suspicion on spying for Russia. "It was all very, very strange how close it was," Jolie said."Somebody thought it was good marketing but hopefully it won't affect our relationship with Russia."
She added: "I did a lot of the stunts myself. I got a gash, a little scar right on the bridge of my nose but that was something very silly I did rolling into a table."


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Lacy a Workhorse for Packers
by Mike Conklin
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November 26, 2013
There are over one million dairy cows in the state of Wisconsin.
Finally, there is a bell cow in Green Bay.
Bell cow. Workhorse. Strong as an ox. A bull in a china shop. Use whichever farm animal metaphor you'd like. Eddie Lacy fits the bill.
As the pass-happy NFL continues to evolve, players like Lacy seem to become rarer each year.
Ten years ago, offenses still ran through the running back. In 2003, no fewer than 13 running backs tallied 300 carries.
In 2011, only two reached that mark.
In Green Bay, the last time a running back carried the ball that many times was when the offense leaned heavily on Ryan Grant in 2008 during Aaron Rodgers' first year at the helm. The Packers haven't had a running back even close to that 300-carry benchmark since then. In fact, no Green Bay running back has even tallied 150 carries in either of the last two years.
Enter Eddie Lacy.
Having split time at Alabama, there were questions about whether Lacy would be able to carry a full load in the NFL. Many teams chose to steer clear of him due to durability concerns. To that end, the Packers even drafted another running back just two rounds after Lacy when they selected Johnathan Franklin.
It may still be early in his career, but Lacy is quickly answering many of those questions.
He has already carried the ball almost 200 times this season. He has also caught 22 passes, and is approaching some of the better receiving numbers Ryan Grant was able to accomplish in any season during his career.
Lacy has also scored six touchdowns, some of them as hard-earned as any you will see. To put that in perspective, that is more than twice as many as any Packers tailback has scored in any of the past three years.
Simply put, Eddie Lacy has become that bell cow back coaches covet.
He has the same number of games with 20-plus carries as Adrian Peterson this season.
He ranks fifth in the league in carries, which is even more impressive considering that he missed nearly two full games due to a concussion.
If he averages 21 rushing attempts per game the rest of the way, Lacy would finish the season with 300 carries. It is certainly within the realm of possibility, considering he already has six-game streak earlier this year during which he had more than that many every week.
If he accomplishes that feat and is able to continue his current production, Eddie Lacy will be called more than just a workhorse or a bell cow back. He may also be called Offensive Rookie of the Year.
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Phyllis Joan Mandigo,87, Sturgis, Mich., died Saturday, February 2, 2013 at Miller's Merry Manor of LaGrange.
She was born April 13, 1925, in Stroh, to Thad and Emily (Ernsberger) Hall.
Moving from Howe to Sturgis, Mich., in 1947, she was a 1943 graduate of Lima High School in Howe. She continued her education at the Ft. Wayne Lutheran School of Nursing, receiving a diploma as a registered nurse. She was a registered nurse and was employed at the Sturgis Hospital for 40 years, working in the O.B. department from 1969-1976 and retiring in 1986. She was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church in Sturgis, serving as a deacon and member of the choir. She was a charter member of the Southwest Michigan Perinatal Association Board and was instrumental in the establishment of the Sturgis Gateway Fitness Run. She was named Sturgis Citizen of the Year in 1981.
She was married August 24, 1947, in Howe, to Fred Mandigo Jr. He survives.
Also surviving are three daughters, Victoria (Robert) Braquet, Katy, Texas, Virginia (James) Keen, Eaton, Ohio, and Valerie (Emmett) Cosgrove, South Haven, Mich.; one son, Vaughn (Debbie) Mandigo, Sturgis, Mich.; seven grandchildren, Scott (Jessica) Braquet, Nicole (Daniel) Matson, Ed Braquet, Benjamin Keen, Michelle (David) Clouse, Marci (Clinton) Lehman, and Patrick Cosgrove; six great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother, Waldo Hall, and two sisters, Doris Briggs and Margaret Hall.
Visitation is 6-8 p.m. Friday, February 8, at Hackman Family Funeral Homes Hackman Chapel in Sturgis, Mich.
Memorial service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, February 9, at First Presbyterian Church in Sturgis, Mich., with Pastor Robert Keim officiating.
Burial will be in Oak Lawn Cemetery, Sturgis, Mich.
Memorials may be directed to the Sturgis Hospital Guild Nurses Scholarship Fund or Juvenile Diabetes Summer Camp.
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On Saturday, Duchess Kate and her husband Prince William attended her Marlborough College friends' wedding in the village of Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, England. Also in attendance: Kate's younger sister, Pippa Middleton, who has kept a low profile since getting involved in a fake gun scandal back in April.
But at the wedding, Will and Kate, who arrived separately from her sister, had their own low profiles to maintain. The Daily Mail reports that among the 300 guests were William's ex-love interests Olivia Hunt (whom he dated in 2000) and Rose Farquhar (whom he dated before Kate), plus Kate's previous boyfriends Henry Ropner (whom she was rumored to be dating when she and Will split in 2007) and Willem Marx (her first Marlborough love).
If there were any signs of awkwardness between the couple and their former flames, it didn't show. Kate, 30, was all smiles in a blossom print silk chiffon dress by Beulah teamed with her favorite L.K. Bennett nude heels and a white hat designed by Jane Corbett. William, 30, who generously held an umbrella over his wife of 14 months, wore grey striped pants, a long tail coat and a light blue vest.
Pippa, 28, looked stylish in an embroidered pale pink Alice Temperley shirtdress, black heels and a black hat.
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Pokemon Species: suicune
OT: JPN name
OT Gender: none
IDno: 61828
Shiny?: no
EV's: (if known) 200hp 58 speed, 252 spa
IV's: (if known) 31 iv spa, no other perfect IVs
Nature: quiet nature +spa -spe
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Ability:v pressure
previous: mist, aurora beam,gust, mirror coat
current scald, calm mind, hidden power and icebeam
Level Caught at: level 55 from GTS,
Current Level: lvl 56
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Pokeball Caught In: apricorn level bank ball
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Five hundred and ninety two
That's the number of shapes I've cut out by hand this week for Clue 2 in the Case of the Secret Garden Mystery Quilt. This mystery quilt uses Inklingo to print the shapes on the back of your fabric – no templates, no paper piecing. The printing went fine – only messed up bit and then the cutting began. I chose not to rotary cut as I'd already wasted a bit of fabric messing up my printing and I was afraid I'd whack up a bit more with the rotary cutter. So snip snip snip while I watched TV the last few nights.
I'm keeping them organized in envelopes with the fabric and shape size indicated.
As I worked, I kept thinking that the title Secret Garden really rang a bell. Maybe it was an old Nancy Drew mystery. So I finally googled it (of course) and remembered a children's book of my mother's called The Secret Garden (by Frances Hodgsen Burnett, 1911).
Now, I no longer have that book (although I do have many of her cherished children's books like original Wizard of Oz books) but I did find a copy in the local library. A quick read as soon as I finish up with The Case of the Secret Garden Clue 3 (we finally get to sew, and print and cut even more!).
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We are on week 25 in the Grandmother's Choice Block of the Week. The block this week is called The Carrie Nation Quilt and Barbara Brackman gives us a historical peak at Carrie Nation and her escapades. Here is my Carrie Nation Quilt block"
I finished block 11 of the Postcard Cuties For Winter quilt – only one more to go!
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Coppice Valley Community Primary School pupils came face-to-face with an owl to help with their study of the birds of prey.
The Year 1s and 2s were introduced to hybrid eagle owl 'Jaye' by expert Chris Bennett of Lightwater Valley Falconry.
A school spokesperson said: "Our main topic in Years 1 & 2 this term is owls.
"Over the Christmas holidays the children completed a research project to find out as much information about owls as they could.
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"The owl expert came into school with a collection of real owls to answer questions that the children have but have not been able to find the answer."
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Growing working relationships with other industry associations and regulatory bodies is to be one of the key objectives for The International Air Cargo Association's (TIACA) new chairman, Gary Bartek, during his two-year term of office.
"In recent years, TIACA has established itself as the expert voice of the air logistics industry with bodies such as the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the World Customs Organization, World Trade Organization, the United Nations' Council on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the World Bank and the European Civil Aviation Council. We have also worked more closely with government departments such as the US Department of Transportation and the European Commission. We must continue to deepen these relationships, seeking more and better ways to cooperate and get closer to other industry associations and regulators," said Bartek, Marketing Manager Cargo Development for Kansas City International Airport.
He intends to achieve this goal by encouraging TIACA's influential membership to take a more active role in the Association's campaign to protect and promote the industry. TIACA members represent all participants in air logistics and produce combined annual revenues of more than $200 billion and Bartek said, "There is a vast amount of talent in our membership that we have yet to effectively tap into. We need to find ways to engage all of our members because the more they put into the Association, the more they will get out of it."
This will be supported by a drive to continue the expansion of TIACA's membership. In the past 12 months, the Association's membership achieved record growth with 72 new members. Bartek is keen to build on this momentum and has set a target of a 50% boost in membership over the next two years.
"I am setting an aggressive membership recruitment goal because I am confident it is achievable. Membership satisfaction has never been higher thanks to the additional benefits TIACA now provides, such as Weekly Regulatory Updates, Annual Air Cargo Forecasts, the publication of major research papers and educational scholarships. Our members now recognize that TIACA gives them many more benefits that they can accomplish individually."
Underpinning all of Bartek's objectives will be the further development of TIACA's biennial Air Cargo Forum & Exposition in 2006 in Calgary and in 2008 at a venue in Asia yet to be confirmed. Some 3,000 senior industry executives from more than 60 countries participated in the last event in Spain that also sold an all-time high of 400 occupied exhibition spaces.
"For more than 40 years, the TIACA forums have been the one event that has brought our industry together from all four corners of the world. We are learning all the time about how to improve the event and we expect to offer even more benefits to exhibitors and visitors in 2006. We intend to increase the scope of participation in the event and use it to help 'grow the economic pie' for everyone in the industry. The Association must promote the competitive advantages of airfreight over other modes of transport. Promoting the industry and its contribution to the economic prosperity of the world is at the very heart of everything we do."
Assisting Bartek will be Jack Boisen, Vice President Cargo for Houston-based Continental Airlines, who was elected Vice Chairman of TIACA at its AGM in Istanbul last month. Boisen is a Director of TIACA and Chairman of the Air Cargo Council of the Air Transport Association.
A newly-elected Board of Directors will support Bartek and Boisen for the 2005-2006 term, consisting of Dora Kay, Larry Coyne, Ricardo Gonzalez, Steve Prince, Kenneth "Joe" Fralick, Tony Bauckham, Ulrich Ogiermann, Edwin "Ned" Laird, Martin Fraissignes, Richard Norris, Ali Al Jallaf, James Edgar and Issa Baluch.


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The Irish Nurse`s Organisation says they cannot give any guarantee that protest action won`t be taken if the HSE decides to hold back their three and a half per cent pay rise due next month. The union was speaking at the beginning of its three day conference taking place in Killarney today.Its warning that hospital services will be affected if the HSE fails to implement the increase. The Minister For Health Mary harney is due to attend the conference on Friday. Dave Hughes with the INO says he expects heated debate between the Minister and the union`s members.
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With courses covering the fields of American, comparative, and international politics as well as public policy and political philosophy, Political Science attracts students who major in the field, but also many who study it as a minor or as a field of emphasis within another major. Others take elective courses in political science because they're interested in the topics and ideas discussed. While our program is growing in popularity, its small size – about 40 majors taught by three energetic faculty members supplemented by visiting and adjunct professors – makes for a close-knit group of students. We also provide excellent opportunities to study in related fields like philosophy, history, criminal justice, and sociology, and we share department status with a lively program in economics.
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Eggnog French Toast with Eggnog Syrup
The other day I discovered a recipe for eggnog french toast. I immediately decided that I was making it that night for dinner. Then I decided to take the whole eggnog thing a bit further and try to create an eggnog syrup. I figured it was worth a try. I think it turned out fabulous!
I must admit, I was the only one in the family willing to give the syrup a try. I think it was yummy. I also think it would work great on regular french toast too. It just gives you a little taste of a classic holiday flavor. I didn't even try the french toast with maple syrup because I loved the eggnog syrup that much. I kept telling my family that they were missing out. No one believed me. Hopefully some of you will believe me.
The french toast itself was also tasty. I figured it's not too far fetched to make french toast with eggnog. I mean we're talking milk and eggs people. Why wouldn't it work?
I must say that I am very picky about not having the inside of my french toast mushy. So I am always very careful to not over dip my bread. I had to be very careful with the dipping. There was a piece I had that was leaning a little on the mush side, but not mushy enough I couldn't eat it.
I did however use fresh Texas toast from the store. So if you don't like your french toast mushy on the inside be careful with the dipping or use some good dry bread. Nobody had any problems eating the french toast here, even with it containing eggnog, but they so missed out on the syrup.
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup store-bought eggnog
- 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp pumpkin pie spice (or ¼ tsp. cinnamon + ¼ tsp. nutmeg)
- 12 slices bread
- butter
- In a shallow bowl, whisk together eggs, eggnog, vanilla and spices.
- Preheat griddle. Dip bread in egg mixture, allowing it to soak in slightly. Butter the hot griddle and place soaked bread on griddle.
- Cook on each side until golden brown. Serve with butter and powdered sugar and/or regular syrup or my favorite eggnog syrup. Serves 6.
- ½ cup Butter
- 1 cup Sugar
- ¾ cup store-bought eggnog
- Melt butter in a medium sized sauce pan over medium-low heat.
- Mix in sugar until well combined, then mix in the eggnog and bring heat up to medium-high heat.
- Whisk continually until mixture comes to a boil, remove from heat.
- Serve warm over french toast and ENJOY!
French Toast recipe adapted from Recipe Girl. Eggnog Syrup is an original Real Mom Kitchen recipe.
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18 comments on "Eggnog French Toast with Eggnog Syrup"
Very tasty looks, will make compulsory
Wow! This looks delicious!! Thanks for the recipe. I also featured it on my blog: https://vixenmade.blogspot.com/2011/12/festive-eggnog-recipe-roundup.html
Featured this in my Food Trends article today, looks delicious! https://www.mrfoodblog.com/food-trend-eggnog-eggnog-everywhere/
My hubby loves egg nog and I don't. I made this for him and we both loved it. Thanks. BTW- I thought the syrup was great too.
OMG! Yumm-o! I have had eggnog french toast before so this recipe wasnt anything different. What was different was the syrup!! I love eggnog and anything eggnog flavored but even I thought that this may contain too much eggnog. Boy was I wrong! Since the french toast only has a slight eggnog flavor, the syrup was a welcomed addition. I will never have french toast without it again. I love it! Two thumbs up!
this recipe was so yummy, especially the syrup! i was afraid doing the eggnog french toast with the eggnog syrup was going to be eggnog overload, but it wasn't. the french toast just had a slight eggnog taste to it, and the syrup was heavenly! ( i did use light eggnog) thanks for the recipe, it was delicious!
That looks delicious! I just bought some Eggnog from Trader Joes, but have yet to open it. I think this recipe could be a worthy occasion.
I was so excited to see this recipe! We made this for breakfast this weekend and LOVED IT!!! Even my 2 picky eaters ate it (with the eggnog syrup) We loved the syrup. I cut the recipe syrup in half. My husband thought the syrup really made it great. Thank You!!
Made these for breakfast Saturday and they were great. Even my toddler had two full pieces, that is alot for him. I was not brave enough to try the syrup though…


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Andre Ward has told Carl Froch's promoter Eddie Hearn to "pick up the phone" and make him an offer if he wants a rematch in 2013. Ward, the WBA and WBC super middleweight champion, plans to defend his titles again in February or March against Kelly Pavlik. Ward doubts that Froch, the IBF king, or WBA "regular" champ Mikkel Kessler are serious about fighting him.
"I would love it," Ward told Sky Sports about the possibility of facing Froch again. "I think Kessler and Froch are made for each other. But I don't think either one of them wants to fight me. I think they should stop misleading the fans and be honest.
"Neither Hearn or Sauerland (Kessler's promoters) have made us an offer to fight here in the States, or anywhere else in the world."
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