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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Noodle Making at the Legendary Noodle (photo by Nick Procaylo, The Vancouver Province)
When we got back from Whitehorse, we stopped off in Vancouver for a couple of days to visit relatives. We were dying for some Asian food (the Chinese restaurants in Whitehorse are not vegetarian-friendly, unfortunately), so we had lunch one day at the Legendary Noodle on Denman St. (Here's a map.)
It's a small, snug place (I read it described as a "hole in the wall"!), but nicely decorated. We sat where we could watch the noodle maker. He had the dough already made and covered on his countertop. When an order came in he would cut off a chunk of the dough and start stretching and folding, stretching and folding, until, about 30 seconds later, miraculously (or so it seemed) there would be thin noodles! They would be plunged into boiling water for another 30 seconds and then mixed by the chef with whatever vegetables, sauces, etc. make the dish. Talk about fast food!
Here's a short video showing the technique for making the dough:
Here's a short video in which you can see how the noodles are formed:
The prices are amazingly cheap, the portions generous, and the menu has quite a few vegetarian options. We started with a cold peanut-noodle salad with spinach, and some vegetarian steamed dumplings, chock full of greens and green onions with some smokey sesame oil. So delicious and fresh that I forgot to take a picture before we ate them all! Sorry! (They just list the pork dumplings for the big plateful on the menu, but we just asked them to substitute the vegetarian ones-- no problem.)
For the entree, My husband had noodles with peanut sauce, nicely spicey:
I had a stir-fry with lots of vegetables and thin slices of tofu (vegans, ask them to skip the scrambled egg). It was so tasty in a subtle, smokey way:
If you eat there (and they have a restaurant on Main St. and one in Richmond, too) try the Legendary Noodle house tea!
It comes in a big glass and it's green tea with an assortment of exotic dried fruits (goji berry, longan, etc.) and chrysanthemum flowers. It's fruity and fragrant and delicious!
9 comments:
- The Little Vegan said...
I bought two of your cookbooks at Boston Vegfest ;o). So far, everything I've made is delicious!
- Tue Oct 30, 06:17:00 PM PDT
- VeggieGirl said...
oh my goodness gracious, I absolutely LOVE noodle dishes - wow, noodle-making looks like so much fun!! and wow again, at those noodle dishes (especially the noodles with spicy peanut sauce - yum!)
- Wed Oct 31, 08:49:00 AM PDT
- Spice Island Vegan said...
YUM! Bryanna, I love noodles and grew up with noodles. I saw while I was in Beijing from the tour bus although I didn't go to a restaurant that served it. It would have been a phenomenon. Thanks for sharing. Very interesting indeed!
- Wed Oct 31, 02:16:00 PM PDT
- Kate said...
sweet vids!
- Sat Nov 03, 07:46:00 PM PDT
- Speedwell said...
Can't get fresh jalapenos? Oh noes... My apologies.
You might use dried red peppers, or try this instead... made from red jalapenos, it's natural and as far as we're concerned it's our kitchup replacement :) http://www.huyfong.com/no_frames/sriracha.htm They will ship a sample pack for just $7.00US.
I always forget how lucky we are around here, food-wise. Within ten minutes of me, we can shop at five grocery stores dedicated to different ethnicities; if we go fifteen minutes, we have three kinds of ethnic supermarkets. We have a local tofu factory, huge fresh daikon grown locally, and the incomparable sweetness of the Texas 1015 onions and the Texas Ruby Red grapefruits.
It's easy to think of Texas as unfriendly to vegetarians, but honestly I think we'd have trouble anywhere else.
Wish you were here. :)
- Sat Nov 03, 10:17:00 PM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
In the city it would be no problem, and they do have them in our nearest small city sometimes, but it's sketchy, and, as I said, I live on a little island. I don't order from the States if I can help it, even with our dollar so strong-- customs, etc..
I will try to get some next time I'm in Vancouver and freeze them, but we usually don't bring our car over, so we walk onto the ferry with our bags. We have to be choosey about what we bring back! Sometimes it's food, sometimes, music (CD's, etc.) and books.
Actually, it's pretty good around here for foodstuffs, but we have very few Latinos in our area, so it's harder to get Latin American ingredients than Asian or Middle Eastern. It's getting easier to find them in Vancouver, though.
But, even if they have them in Courtenay (our nearest shopping town), I have to think ahead, because we only go twice month. I have a crammed pantry and freezer, as you can imagine!
- Sun Nov 04, 09:21:00 AM PST
- Paula from Only Cookware said...
It was interesting seeing the noodle house tea. When I was in China this is how tea was served to us. It was always in a glass with lots of dried 'things' (can't think of a better word) floating around in it. I loved it.
- Mon Nov 19, 09:43:00 PM PST
- Mary From Cokware Help said...
I was very lucky yo visit China in 2007 and got t experience a noodle house tea. I had a freind living there at the time really enjoy the experience.
- Thu Mar 18, 03:58:00 PM PDT
- catherine said...
Great article. Thank you for posting.
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text: On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Joseph A Del corso wrote: > I know this may be way off base, but I figure I might as well > throw the idea out there. (Perhaps this already exsists and I'm > simply un-aware of it) > In light of what I just read, I'm curious if it wouldn't benefit > the open source community to form some kind of regulatory committee > to (and I shudder at the thought of what I'm about to say) control > the software being put out. I realize that open source is a wonderful > idea, but who takes the blame for the mis-use of software? > While I don't have any examples to prove the point, I think the idea > of "we just built the atom bomb, whatever people do with it is out > of our hands" is kind of bogus. A "hands off" approach to responsibility > for software produced is wrong. > My personal opinion, specifically for the open source community, is > to take responsibility for regulating itself. I realize this goes > against the "open source" concept... Sorry, this triggers a patented rgb autorant. Hit "d" now if you could care less about nuclear controls...;-) ...Still here? Great. Well. Let's see... The problem is that quite a lot of the software that can be used to build a bomb is, at heart, totally generic numerical code. Generic hydrodynamics codes, for example, have plenty of "peaceful uses". Are optimizers, ODE and PDE solvers, curve fitters, potentially weapons? Sure. Is the Gnu Scientific Library potentially a lethal tool in the wrong hands? Absolutely. In mine (or most of the better physicists I know), for instance, if we decided to become a Mad Scientists instead of just Slightly Crazed. Building (or more properly, designing or simulating) a bomb is just physics and engineering. The exact same basic numerical software that is used to all sorts of useful physics research can be combined into nuclear fission physics codes. The same CAD and engineering codes that enable a commercial jet airliner to be built can be adopted to bomb engineering. Finally, regulatory committee's, ESPECIALLY in the open source community (where a rougher and tougher crowd of rugged individualists would be hard to come by) tend to be jokes from the beginning. Like the government's computer export policy, which have in reality done little but protected US industry's infotechnological edge against all its "dangerous" competitors in developing countries so that they remained developing countries. Are we now to try to deny them access to numerical libraries and encryption libraries because our beloved government has its head up its butt with respect to what one can keep secret? We're talking (for the most part) about controlling one of two things: a) Real nuclear bomb design-specific codes developed at e.g. Los Alamos and protected by all sorts of laws from ANY sort of uncontrolled exposure (which makes them sort of irrelevant to the open source issue as they aren't and likely won't ever be -- they probably aren't even copyrighted at all in the usual sense of the world as NOBODY has a license but the government itself). b) Some amorphous, unspecified (and virtually unspecifiable) set of tools and ideas that are and have been in the literature for years but which can be combined into the codes used in a) by a creative team of physicists and computer guys just like the ones that built the ones in a) in the first place. This TOO is irrelevant to the open source community. We're talking >>algorithm<< here, not implementation, and seriously, solving physics problems of absolutely any degree of complexity is a matter of slowly connecting absolutely prosaic numerical tools to solve all the various integrals and solve the differential equations and sample all the stochastic processes that occur in its description. After all, what do the folks who WROTE the protected codes have that isn't readily available in the intellectual marketplace? I'll tell you what -- a job where they were being paid to write nuclear codes (and hence the motivation and support to do so). It's not like half the folks on this list couldn't go to work there and understand their codes in a few weeks study. If we wanted to prevent Iraq from building bombs, we'd be better off restricting their export of students into nuclear physics and computer science programs in modern universities. We didn't (and don't) do anything of the sort, and of course this probably wouldn't stop them anyway unless we prevented the export of books or information of any sort to the country. I'm sorry, but I'm of the firm opinion that information, however potentially deadly, is intrisically not controllable. This isn't "just" an opinion. In a quantitative expression it becomes the second law of thermodynamics in physics or Shannon's theorem in computer science or even Bayes theorem in statistics. Attempting to isolate information in a universe with many channels for its transmission is fruitless. Even WITH all the controls on the "top secret" information on the bomb, virtually all the important physics is developed, in detail, on the various Nuclear Weapons Frequently Asked Questions sites around the world, e.g. http://www.enviroweb.org/issues/nuketesting/hew/Nwfaq/Nfaq0.html Sure, this FAQ does not (as they make every effort to point out) contain actual engineering specs, but jeepers, given the physics, the engineering is basically easy. IN CONCLUSION, if the government wants to continue to be a low grade laughingstock in the computer community by trying to control the uncontrollable (remember those shirts that contained the RSA code on them in bar code form proudly bearing the logo "This Shirt is a Controlled Weapon" or something equally inane?) they have my blessing to proceed but I can't see any reason to emulate them. For their next act they can try damming a river with a fishnet or expectorating into the teeth of a force 10 gale. I just don't want them (or us, via our regulatory kommisars) poking into the GSL, into OpenSSH, into GPG, and so forth, even if it is absolutely correct that various open souce tools can be used by the dark and evil for designing nuclear bombs and guided missiles,or to hide drug dealers and kiddie porn scum from the questing eyes of Carnivore (or whatever their nextgen websnoop turns out to be). Where would this sort of attempt to control the means (because you fear or despise the ends) end? How many of our civil liberties would be trampled in the meantime? How much economic distortion would also accompany this? I can just see Microsquash arguing in court that computer software needs to be a government regulated monopoly because open source, unregulated (but dangerous) tools can otherwise fall into the wrong hands. After the historical realities of the Spanish Inquisition and the McCarthy trials, a person would have to be a fool to think that it couldn't happen... So, while considering potential weapons of mass destruction, are we going to restrict the human genome codes and data? I shudder to think of the potentialities of this information "in the wrong hands". They just about perfectly matches its potential (incalculable) benefits in the right ones. One day we might cure cancer, diabetes, heart disease, because of unrestricted research. On the other hand, we could also drive the human race to extinction yet another way. Overall, I'd probably rather become extinct from a genetically engineered bioweapon as this might give the lower primates a chance in another million years or so, which won't happen if we go out with a nuclear bang or from terminal pollution at the end of the approaching malthusian catastrophe. How about recombinant DNA technology? My wife was once upon a time working on finding an effective vaccine for gonorrhea (a toughie with a rapidly changing skin). One day this sort of work might succeed and tremendously benefit humanity. OTOH, what's to stop somebody (using the same damn tools) from grafting some creeping crud into the virus that causes the common cold? Or human E Coli? Or figure out how to transform HIV from a not-particularly contagious beastie into something that infects an entire crowd in a second or two of casual contact (as pneumonic plague once did). Or do some similarly bad things to rabies, or smallpox, or plague, or Jakob-Kruetsfeld (sp?) mad cow disease, or TB, or that same gonorrhea, or... Nothing, of course (to answer the rhetorical question) but coming up with the will to do so. We recently had playstation 2+'s as potential guidance systems discussed on the list. 'nuff said. There doesn't exist the plowshare that cannot be beaten into a sword. So why try to regulate plowshares? rgb -- Robert G. 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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Snow Event
33 comments:
- Betty Lou said...
A winter snowfall is so beautiful when looking out from a warm toasty house. Especially if you don't have to get out and drive to work. A good sew day.
- January 19, 2012 at 6:03 AM
- Linda said...
Stay warm!!! It's looking a lot like it does out my windows!!! :-)
- January 19, 2012 at 6:30 AM
- sunny said...
It's so pretty! we haven't had any snow yet, and i want some! Stay cozy.
- January 19, 2012 at 7:02 AM
- Mego said...
I'm in Seattle and it's STILL snowing...Haven't been out for two days and I think I'm getting cabin fever. All the schools and colleges are closed and all the kids (and their friends) are congregating at my house. I might have to hike out today. Stay warm!
- January 19, 2012 at 7:25 AM
- Kaaren said...
I like the snow better at your place than ours, Candace. Ours is all gone...again! Yesterday the temperature reached 48° here which is unheard of in January...even in hardiness zone 6b.
I know the snow shoe is about to drop any day now but it is sure nice to see the grass without any white stuff on it.
Are the parka people any relation to the raincoat people who stand out on street corners in hurricanes? Must be. *wink*
- January 19, 2012 at 8:14 AM
- Stephanie said...
Oh my goodness so that's where all the snow is that Ohio isn't getting. :o) That heavy stuff is really hard to shovel. I prefer the light, fluffy stuff. It's really beautiful when it's fresh and new. Enjoy your snow and let us know if you see any Parka People.
- January 19, 2012 at 8:31 AM
- Peggi said...
DON'T knock the snow off your tree. The snow is actually insulating the tree from the cold air. If you're really worried, call your local nursery and ask them for advice.
Pretty pictures! I'm just north of Portland and we had a couple of inches fall overnight, but by morning it was raining. And that's all it's done since - rain.
- January 19, 2012 at 8:33 AM
- Anne said...
We got about 5 inches of snow overnight and by midmorning the temps had gone into the high 30's turning the snow to rain and we had a huge mess! Still raining here and the snow is all gone! Weird winter!
Ha...my word verification is flyclas. Perfect for you!
- January 19, 2012 at 9:40 AM
- Chris said...
Plenty of snow here on the Palouse, with more falling as I type. Dan just plowed our driveway and our neighbor's again. I'm loving being snowbound today. Hope to get some fun sewing done!
Stay warm!
- January 19, 2012 at 12:59 PM
- In Awe of Applique said...
we ended up with 6-8" here in the Tri Cities and now the freezing rain has come with a vengence! The courthouse is shut down for the weekend (only the 2nd time that has happened in 10 yrs!) The snow makes me happy and it's beautiful, heck I don't even mind driving in it...but the freezing rain can go away!
- January 19, 2012 at 1:54 PM
- Mrs. Sew and Sew - Karen said...
I also live in the eastern and south part of Washington. Yep, my backyard looks like yours. We seldom get snow here in the valley but got about 8 inches yesterday! When I took the 3 mini dachshunds out yesterday to go potty....I almost lost them in the snow!!! LOL! Stay warm. :-)
- January 19, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Wow, I'm in south Fl and can't imagine that much snow. However, it looks very nice at the Squash House.
I have a friend from high school that lives in Anacortes and he has been posting lots of pictures on Facebook. It's all very beautiful.
I wonder what the Squash House gardens will produce this coming spring / summer. Hmmmm.
Stay warm!
- January 19, 2012 at 6:13 PM
- Ulla said...
Your snow looks nice, not too much of it. I would shake some of that snow off your little tree before it gets wet and heavy and breaks the branches. We must shake our hawthorn hedge before it starts beding over to one side under the snowload.
- January 19, 2012 at 10:35 PM
- Me and My Stitches said...
I love looking at the snow (as long as I can stay in my sewing room - and don't have to venture out!). We are supposed to get another inch or two of the white stuff today. Hope you are staying in where it's warm!
- January 20, 2012 at 6:37 AM
- Mary said...
I like what Me and My Stitches said. I love to look at snow from inside. But alas, that doesn't happen much in Oceanside. Happy Winter!
- January 20, 2012 at 8:37 AM
- Libby said...
What fun - it's so pretty and the plows haven't come through to make a mess of it *s*
Around here we get 'Storm Watch' whenever we are about to be pummeled by a heavy mist *lol* Rain in the forecast send them out into the streets to report. Makes us laugh every time.
- January 21, 2012 at 6:39 AM
- Louise said...
Plenty of that white stuff up our way as well. Tucked away in our little corner of the Pacific Northwest. Finally ventured out on Friday for much needed errands. Like replenishing the chocolate..just kidding on that one. Finally stopped in at my favorite quilt shop in Bellingham and now all is right with my world. Even without chocolate. Kevin and I do wonder though why oh why did we let our beautiful snow blower go with the house in Mammoth! Not smart...the sun on the snowy covered pasture is beautiful.
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text: > Judging by the remarks of Dr. Mark Hahn, I was not successful thanks for the honorary doctorate ;) > > it has nothing to do with "complete". this category of hardware is > > quite different from PCs, not just in price, but in reliability > > and design. > > This is one point in which we clearly have a difference of > opinion concerning the computer market in general. During several > years of asking for price quotes, it has been my impression that a > high-performance "server" from Compaq or HP (when they were separate > companies) had a price that was about twice what I would need to pay > to get an equivalent computer assembled locally, at the same level > of performance and sometimes with the same motherboard. hey, I prefer building my own machines too, but there are rational reasons that people pay the premium, for brand name boxes. for instance, for grant-related reasons, my desktop is a Compaq P4/1.7G. while I was pissed that someone choose this for me without asking, it is a very nice machine, which would not be doable as a whitebox PC. not exactly. for instance, it's quiet, and contains some interesting airflow engineering. the board is mundane, as are all the components. but I expect the PS and CPU fan will also last longer than a noname part from the corner computer store. and it comes with a three-year warranty, which some people consider to be critical. > commercial software that does not run efficiently on a cluster, so I > was wondering if a 4-CPU shared memory PC would be a cost-effective > choice for the group that ran this commercial software. The Dell depends on what the software is doing. for instance, if it's very dram intensive, it'll run PAINFULLY badly. if it's cache-friendly, it'll fly. > Poweredge 6600 has a cost of $10,288 for a two-processor version with > a 2-GHz Xeon CPU, one GigaByte of memory, and one 18 GB Ultra 160 > SCSI harddisk. But wouldn't I be able to get a two-processor PC with > this level of performance for about half the price? (Perhaps even > with two-way interleaved memory.) and a PE 2600 with 2x2.4/1G/18G would be $4k. people often don't realize how amazingly expensive chassis are. for a cluster I just ordered, we're paying something like 30% of the per-node price for the chassis! using rock-solid white-box parts, the aforementioned cluster will have 2x2.4G xeon nodes for about $1800 apiece. > My impression is that the price of a Dell server is at the low end > of the Xeon-based servers from various companies. I don't think so. Dell's pricing structure is more up-front than the traditional vendors like HP/Sun/IBM. if you wave a Dell quote at your HP rep, he'll probably come close to matching the price. > Overall, the question that I intended to put forward in my previous > email message was primarily based on the Itanium / Hammer level of CPU > performance. It was my impression that by this date Itanium was supposed > to arrive at the desktop. In fact it has, since one group here has > a slick-looking Itanium workstation on loan from HP. But at what cost? I don't believe Itanium is close to an appropriate price-performance point for anything except very unusual applications. current IT2 machines are not terribly impressive CPU-wise, but definitely deliver a lot of bandwidth (6.4 GB/s dram bandwdith as I recall, with extremely wide onchip buses.) if that floats your boat, great. they're too hot and expensive for me, and I fully expect Opteron systems (with 6.4 GB/s dram *PER*PROCESSOR*) to be a LOT cheaper. if I can get a dual-xeon e7500 board for <$400 today, I expect a much nicer dual-Opteron board to be <$800 in 6 months. I think everyone is still guessing about prices for Opteron chips themselves; the core is supposed to be approximately a thoroughbred, and the HT and dram interfaces are not terribly complex. if they ship with 1M cache, that'll definitely drive up the price, though not all that much. I guess Opteron will cost $600 or so shortly after intro, which isn't bad. > the Beowulf group if they knew with the AMD CPUs would have a price > and availability similar to Itanium 2 initially, for example, in the > first half of 2003. Would AMD be thinking, if Intel can sell their > Itanium 2 at the stratospheric price of a Power4, maybe we should try > starting at that price level? (???) they can't afford to, IMO. AMD needs to quickly start shipping lots of K8's. yes, they also need a higher ASP than current K7's, but that's a given, and not that hard. AMD has had a whole year to ramp up K8 production; if they don't ship, say, 4M K8's in 1h2003, the company is gone. > I wrote: > > Tyan and most of the motherboards on the Supermicro WWW pages. But on > > those pages I do not see any Itanium 2 mother boards. For low-cost > and Dr. Hahn replied: > > of course: only HP and Intel make It2 boards. > > I regret that my intended meaning was not clear. If Intel at 64-bit > is not competing at the level of having mother boards from various > manufactures, why would the situation be different for AMD? (Despite > the announcements.) afaikt, IT2 is big and hot and expensive to produce. that drastically limits both its appeal in the market, and its appeal to Intel as a way to use fab capacity. suppose (WAG) that Intel can churn out 4x as many P4/2.6's as they can It2's on the same wafer/fab/linewidth. do they have excess capacity to dedicate to It2's? are they worried about AMD once again taking market share in the bread-and-butter desktop market? I think of the It2 as a placeholder - not especially attractive to buy, not wonderful to produce, but since it does well on spec, it's useful for Intel marketing. the fact that hardly anyone buys them hasn't hurt Ferrari, has it? > This is very useful information. I have the impression that there > is substantial uncertainty with regard to the timing of the availability > of the AMD processors and motherboards. that's a VERY nice understatement. IMO, AMD has completely botched their job of evangelizing Hammer. Intel, at least, has managed to not completely lose ia64 credibility, in spite of being many years late. > Would anyone else on the > beowulf mailing list have similar information about how concrete > are the announcements? AMD seems to confuse teasing with marketing. afaik, there are no useful non-NDA facts available. AMD's official statements are not trustworthy, since they so blithely stretch their roadmap. regards, mark hahn.


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BRUNSTING of Beilen, Netherlands
I would like information on Lukas Brunsting 1809-1884 and Geertje Brunsting 1818-1891 from Hijken, a municipality of Beilen, Netherlands. Also any information on the family of Margje Timmerman from Hijken born 1856-1924 Iowa. Margje was the daughter of Roeloff Timmerman and Lutertje Kwint. I am also interested in Jan "John E" Gritters 1843-1923 and Deeltje Kuipers 1847-1941. At one time this family lived in Diever, Netherlands. They also lived in Hull, Iowa. Thanks Lori ([email protected])
CHAPELL, CHAPPEL,HOSKINS,BROWN in New York and Michigan
David Chapell born 1817-1818 in Claredon, New York was married to Amy Ann Hoskins born 1827 in Claredon, New York. David was the son of Elias M. Chappell of New London, Connecticut he died in 1891 in Byron, Genesee County, New York. Elias was married to Abiail Coy who was born in Paris, Oneida County, New York. They had 8 children. The family settled around Byron, Genesse County, New York. I am interested in this family and their decendants. Thanks Lori ([email protected])
NEFF and MUMA'S Canada to Michigan
Marilla Alice Neff was born November 8, 1856 in Canada and married Benjamin Muma May 7th, 1874 in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan. She was the daughter of Isaac Henry Neff born 1828, in Canada and Susannah B. Woodward born in England on July 28th, 1828. I believe Susannah's father's name was Henry. Isaac Henry Neff, was the son of Abraham Neff and Sarah Zavitz from Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada and Lobo Township, Middlesex County, Canada. I would be interested in any additional information on these families or their decendants. Thanks Lori ([email protected])
HINTZ in Prussia and Michigan
Johann Hintz born 1831,and Juliane Rehorck born 1833. In America Juliane became Julia Raco. They came here from Province Posen in 1861 on a sailing vessel and were becalmed in the ocean for 30 days, and as the folks had to wait 3 years before applying for their papers. They met a man in New York and decided to go with him. (They came before Ellis Island was established). They took a boat down the Grand River and settled in Eastmanville, Michigan near Coopersville. Children of this couple were Chris, Ferdinand, Amelia, Louise,Delia, Julia, Carrie, Jacob and John. Julia's sister Rose Raco/Rehorck also came to America and married William Klocksien or Klocksein. Lori ([email protected])
HORTON of Jefferson County, Lyme Township, New York
Henry R. Horton (Corporal) was born July 20, 1831 in Jefferson County, Lyme Township, New York. He died July 30, 1864 in Petersburg Virginia of wounds aquired in The Battle of the Crater, He was in Company B, First Sharpshooter. Henry's widow, SALLY BUSH went on to marry ELIJAH B. HARD and ANDREW STEVENS. I would like any information on the Bush family or their decendants. Thank you. Lori ([email protected])
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I am looking for information on Joseph Michael Rounds Jr. born July 23, 1842 in Jerusalem, Yates County, New York. He was married to Eliza Robinson who was born in 1848 in Grand Haven, Michigan. They divorced and she remarried Thomas Russell on April 12, 1877 in Sparta, Kent County, Michigan. They may have had a daughter named Edna Russell. I have read he remarried Frances L. Olmstead on October 21, 1889 in Charlotte, Eaton County, Michigan. He died November 1908. I am interested in any information about him and sons Lincoln Rounds and Alfred Rounds. Thanks Lori ([email protected])
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Given 100 boxes. Each contains arbitrary number of red, blue and green balls, i.e., 100 non-negative integer triples $(r_i,b_i,g_i)$.
Prove it's always possible to find 51 boxes so that the total number of balls of each color in these boxes is no less than the ones from the rest 49 boxes.
For n boxes, replace 51 with $\lfloor(n+3)/2\rfloor$, and prove that is the best lower bound.
This is a generalization of a high-school Olympiad question, which I was told to use pigeonhole principle. Could anyone shed light on how to apply it?
EDITED: Since this is not really related to the pigeon-hole principle, I have edited the title and the tag.
Besides the solution provided by domotorp, darij grinberg pointed to an elementary proof on mathlinks.
Also domotorp has found the origin of the problem (which was sort of buried in the comments).


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How to Read and Enter Your Eyeglass Prescription
How to Read and Enter Your Eyeglass Prescription
While you don't need to completely understand how to read your eyeglass prescription to place an order on Frame Boutique, you'll need to know the basics in order to select and order the right lenses for your eyes. We've provided assistance with how to read and enter your prescription in the information below. If you don't have a copy of your prescription, or are not sure how to read it, rest assured that as long as you have your doctor's information we can contact your doctor directly in order to obtain your correct prescription.
How do I read my eyeglass prescription?
Your prescription should look somewhat similar to the following:
Below are examples of how a prescription can look and how it would be entered into our website.
How do I know if my prescription is Single Vision or Bifocal?
Doctors write prescriptions in many different ways. Below is an explanation of how to tell if your prescription is for single vision or bifocal lenses.
Single Vision prescriptions are for patients who have trouble seeing either near or far (but not both). An example of a Single Vision prescription can be seen below. As you can see, the prescription has no value in the ADD column.
Bifocal prescriptions are for patients who have trouble seeing both near and far. An example of a Bifocal prescription can be seen below. As you can see, the prescription has a value in the ADD column. You will only have an ADD measurement if you wear bifocal/progressives lenses.
ADD corrections are almost always the same number for both eyes. If you happen to see the letters PAL next to one of the numbers, or written elsewhere on your prescription, this means your doctor indicated that you will need a different ADD correction for progressive bifocals versus lined bifocals. Since Frame Boutique only offers Progressive Bifocal lenses, you'll want to use the number with PAL next to it when entering your prescription on our site. That number will apply to both eyes so make sure you enter it on both eyes. Below is an example of a PAL prescription:
What if my prescription has a value in the Prism column?
Unfortunately, Frame Boutique is not currently able to create glasses with Prism corrections. An example of a prescription with a Prism correction can be found below:
I want to purchase eyeglasses through Frame Boutique, but this prescription stuff is confusing. Is there an easier way?
Absolutely! You can always leave the prescription fields blank when ordering, and then either send us a copy of your prescription, or give us your eye doctor's contact information and we will collect your prescription information directly; ensuring that your prescription is correct while you remain free of worry!
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OD - This is shorthand for oculus dextraous which means Right Eye.
OS - This is shorthand for oculus sinister which really means Left Eye.
OU - This is shorthand for oculus uterque which really means Both Eyes. If you see this, you'll want to enter the prescription the same on both eyes.
Sphere or Power - SPH or PWR - This is the main strength of your eyeglass prescription, and is written in 0.25 increments. If the field has 'SPH', 'PL', 'PLANO', or '00', this means your there is a 0.00 power as should be entered as so. Frame Boutique can create lenses for prescriptions with Sphere ranges between -20.00 and +20.00.
Plano - PL - This indicates there is no spherical correction in this eye. A plano lens would have no focusing power or correction to it.
Balance - This indicates there is no vision correction in this eye. It's a non-prescription lens and is used when only one of your eyes requires vision correction
Cylinder - CYL - This indicates the amount of astigmatism, and is written in 0.25 increments. Not all prescriptions have a cylinder correction, and some prescriptions have a cylinder correction in only one eye. If you don't have an astigmatism correction then your doctor may leave this field blank, or they may put 'SPH', 'DS', 'Plano', or '00' in this field. This means you do not have an astigmatism correction in one or both eyes. Frame Boutique can create lenses for prescriptions with Cylinder ranges between -5.00 and +5.00. Positive (+) Cylinder values will be converted into negative (-). See our FAQ page for an explanation of why.
Axis - AX or X - This is also part of the astigmatism correction, and is written in increments of 1 (one). If there is no cylinder, then there should be no axis. Since it's a degree/angle, it will be represented as a value between 1 and 180. If there is no cylinder, it's possible that the doctor might enter 0, but this would just indicate that there is no axis. Frame Boutique can create lenses for prescriptions with ADD ranges between +0.25 and +3.00.
ADD - This is a value that is commonly used for bifocal or progressive lenses, as well as reading glasses. It indicates how much power gets added to the distance Rx to create the reading-only Rx; or as it applies to the glasses you'll order from Frame Boutique, it determines the correction strength for the bottom half of your bifocals progressive lenses. It is written in increments of 0.25. Frame Boutique can create lenses for prescriptions with ADD ranges between +0.25 and +3.00.
Prism or Base or Base Curve - A prism is used when both eyes are not properly aligned and they need a prism to re-align them. The Base is the rotation of the prism. These fields are rarely used, and the correction type is not currently offered on Frame Boutique eyeglasses. There are two separate parts to a Prism correction. The first part is the diopter strength (e.g. 2.0) and the second is the direction (e.g. BU). There are four different directions. Base-Up (BU), Base-Down (BD), Base-In (BI), and Base-Out (BO).
Pupilary Distance - PD - This is the distance in millimeters between your right pupil and left pupil. A more detailed explanation of Pupillary Distance can be found in our What is Pupillary Distance (PD)? page.
Segment Height or Seg Height - SH - This is the vertical measurement in millimeters from the bottom of the lens to the beginning of the progressive addition on a progressive lens, or the top line of a lined bifocal. Segment height does not apply to Single Vision lenses. You will need the frame to be able to measure segment height because you can only measure it while the glasses are on your head.
Near Vision or Near Vision Only - NV or NVO - This is written when your doctor is recommending reading-only glasses. (This is also known as farsighted)
Distance Vision or Distance Vision Only - DV or DVO - This is written when your doctor is recommending distance-only glasses. (This is also known as nearsighted)
Astigmatism - An optical condition that can cause blurry vision. This is corrected by a Cylinder and Axis correction on a prescription.
Binocular - A term used to describe the simultaneous use of both eyes at the same time.
Monocular - Refers to only one eye.
Oculus Dexter (OD) - Latin for right eye
Oculus Sinister (OS) - Latin for left eye
Oculus Uterque (OU) - Latin for both eyes
Progressive Additive Lens - PAL - The ADD value specifically for progressive lenses.
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Bed bugs in hotel rooms are definitely bad for business, but bees on hotel rooftops can be good for the financial and environmental bottom line.
Beekeepers are moving millions of honeybees into apiaries at hotels in urban and rural areas, with harvested honey showing up in restaurant dishes, beer and cocktails, spa treatments and in lip balm, soap and other products sold or given to guests.
Honeybees are now hosted at 21 Fairmont Hotels & Resorts in North America, Asia, Africa, Bermuda and Mexico, including at the Fairmont Washington, D.C., Georgetown, where three hives with 105,000 Italian honeybees were installed in 2009 for set-up fee of about $1,200,
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Maintaining the Fairmont's DC hives is about $300 per year and the 300 gallons of honey harvested annually (plus honeycomb and beeswax) is used in the hotel's signature "BeeTini" ($14), in honey walnut bread ($4), in various desserts and sauces as well as in lip balm, honey tea and sunscreen given as amenities and gifts to guests.
"We believe that our honeybees are good for business," said Ian Bens, chief beekeeper and executive sous chef at the Fairmont Washington, D.C. "Our guests appreciate the fact that we are helping the bee population and the environment, and they enjoy the taste of local honey that is included in much of our culinary program."
The Waldorf Astoria New York has had from 250,000 to 350,000 bees in residence since 2012, when six beehives were installed on the 20th floor rooftop for a cost of about $4,000.
The hotel's honey is now an ingredient in dishes in every hotel restaurant and used as gifts by the hotel's sales team for VIP guests and potential customers. Hotel officials also report that Sunday brunch revenue has increased over 20 percent since the installation of the hives and, since the addition of a tour of the rooftop beehives and garden to the hotel's Historical Tours ($65 per person—inclusive of lunch, taxes and gratuity), demand has increased by 30 percent.
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when will the storekeeper update the quantities of the item (fresh supplies) in the stock register (stores) - When Goods Received Note is made by the storekeeper (OR) after the confirmation of the purchaser or accountant or both on the receipt of Goods Received note with the delivery note/invoice from the storekeeper?
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Dear Tenny,
Organizations have different procedures/proces of receiving material into the store but in any case base on my experience, this is how we do it;
When an order is placed, procurement will send the details to warehouse/store and when the goods arrived the warehouse, the store man will invite the user department, the security and auditor as the case may be. The user will inspect the quality to ensure that the goods meets their specification on the Purchase Order if yes, we accept if no, COM will be raised. Yes, the store man will go ahead to confirm the quantity, off load, unpack and count, if everything is ok, all the parties will update their records, if there is any material damaged a waybill out will be raised and the vendor will be asked to replace the material in some cases the will not truncate the process. The store man will raise GRN which must be signed by all the parties - GRN serves as a confirmation to finance that the goods are actually supplied in case of payment- the GRN,Delivery note and invoice very necessary for Account sighting for payment. After checking, the store man will UPDATE HIS RECORD IMMEDIATELY in SAP, PACER W etc. the users can on their desk view what materials they have in stock, then raise SR will must be approved - pick list - before materials are issued
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Baseball to Face Mississippi St. in SEC Tournament
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UPDATE: On Tuesday, Kentucky defeated Ole Miss, 2-0, and Mississippi State beat Arkansas, 9-1. Therefore, LSU will face the Bulldogs approximately 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
BATON ROUGE -- Second-ranked LSU (42-14), the 2012 SEC champion, opens play in the conference tournament at approximately 12:30 CT on Wednesday at Regions Park in Hoover, Ala. The Tigers, the tournament's No. 1 seed, will play seventh-seeded Mississippi State.
If the Tigers beat the Bulldogs on Wednesday, LSU will play a second-round game at approximately 12:30 p.m. Thursday against Kentucky. If the Tigers lose on Wednesday, LSU will play in an elimination game at 9:30 a.m. Thursday against the winner of Ole Miss and Arkansas.
The LSU games will be carried by the affiliates of the LSU Sports Radio Network, with Baton Rouge affiliate WDGL 98.1 FM serving as the flagship station. Live audio and stats of the games may be accessed in the Geaux Zone at www.LSUsports.net/live.
LSU's games on Wednesday and Thursday will be televised by Fox Sports Houston, Fox Sports Southwest and SportSouth. Live video is available at www.ESPN3.com, though blackouts may apply in SEC areas.
LSU claimed the 2012 SEC championship by winning two of three games at South Carolina last weekend. The conference crown was the second in the past four seasons under coach Paul Mainieri. LSU has won an SEC-best 15 overall conference championships in its history; Alabama is second with 13 SEC titles, Florida has 12 and Mississippi State has 10.
LSU also claimed the 2012 SEC Western Division title, the Tigers' third division crown in the past five seasons under Mainieri. LSU has won 16 Western Division titles in its history, including five in the past 10 seasons.
LSU has a league-best 63-35 (.643) all-time record in the SEC Tournament, and the Tigers own a conference-high nine tournament titles. Alabama is second behind LSU with seven tournament titles, and Mississippi State is third with six championships.
LSU has won three of the past four SEC Tournament crowns, claiming the title in 2008, 2009 and 2010 before falling short of a tournament bid in 2011. The Tigers are 13-1 in their past 14 SEC Tournament games; the only loss in that span came in LSU's 2009 tournament opener versus Vanderbilt.
"This time of the year, the postseason, is the most fun," Mainieri said. "Our players have worked extremely hard all year to get into this position, and now they have a chance to create a memorable season. The SEC Tournament is a tremendous event, one in which we've had great success in recent years. We're taking the approach that this is the third straight week we're playing for a championship - we clinched the division title two weeks ago and the SEC championship last week, now we have a chance at the tournament title."
LSU junior leftfielder Raph Rhymes, named 2012 SEC Player of the Year by SEBaseball.com, continues to lead the nation in batting average, hitting .469 (92-for-196) with 11 doubles, three homers and 49 RBI. Rhymes is hitting .594 (41-for-69) this season with runners in scoring position, and he's batting .458 in SEC games.
Junior rightfielder Mason Katz was named SEC Player of the Week Monday after leading LSU to three wins in four games last week, including a 2-1 series victory at No. 1 South Carolina that secured the 2012 SEC championship for the Tigers. Katz hit .368 (7-for-19) in four games with one double, two homers, seven RBI and five runs.
He collected two RBI in the SEC title-clinching win on Saturday, driving in what proved to be the deciding run in the top of the 10th inning in the 3-2 victory over the Gamecocks. Katz' two-out RBI single in the top of the 10th gave the Tigers a 3-1 lead and was the difference in the game after South Carolina scored one run in the bottom of the 10th. Katz also launched a solo homer against South Carolina ace Michael Roth in the series opener on Friday, helping the Tigers to a 5-2 win.
LSU's series victory at South Carolina was sparked by sophomore right-hander Kevin Gausman, who delivered a brilliant performance in defeating the Gamecocks on Friday. Gausman fired his second consecutive complete game, limiting the Gamecocks to two runs on five hits in nine innings with two walks and six strikeouts
Gausman, the SEC strikeouts leader with 118 Ks, is 9-1 this season with a 2.86 ERA in 100.2 innings.
Junior left-hander Chris Cotton was masterful in relief in the South Carolina series, making two appearances and limiting the Gamecocks to no runs on no hits in four innings with one walk and six strikeouts. Cotton was the winning pitcher in Saturday's 3-2 victory that clinched the SEC title - he worked three scoreless innings with no hits, one walk and four strikeouts.
Cotton is 6-0 on the year with a 1.34 ERA in 33.2 innings, and he's recorded five walks, 30 strikeouts and a .176 opponent batting average.
Senior third baseman Tyler Hanover has 265 career hits and needs four more to move into the Top 10 in LSU annals. Hanover became LSU's all-time leader in sacrifice bunts (34) last week when he executed two sacrifices against the Gamecocks.
Senior shortstop Austin Nola, named Monday to the 2012 SEC Community Service Team, has 48 career doubles and needs two more to move into the Top 10 of the LSU all-time doubles list.
#1 seed LSU Fighting Tigers (42-14, 19-11 SEC - 2012 SEC Champions)
2012 SEC Tournament
Wednesday, May 23 - 12:30 p.m. CT (time approximate) vs. #7 seed Mississippi State
Thursday, May 24 - 9:30 a.m. CT (if LSU loses on Wednesday) or 12:30 p.m. CT (if LSU wins on Wednesday; time approximate)
(remainder of schedule to be determined by LSU game results)
Regions Park in Hoover, Ala.
LSU - No. 2 by Collegiate Baseball; No. 2 by Baseball America; No. 5 by USA Today/ESPN
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Pregame show starts 15 minutes prior to first pitch
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(Remainder of TV Schedule to be Determined by LSU Game Results)
LSU has a league-best 63-35 (.643) all-time record in the SEC Tournament, and the Tigers own a conference-high nine tournament titles. Alabama is second behind LSU with seven tournament titles, and Mississippi State is third with six championships. LSU has won three of the past four SEC Tournament crowns, claiming the title in 2008, 2009 and 2010 before falling short of a tournament bid in 2011. The Tigers are 13-1 in their past 14 SEC Tournament games; the only loss in that span came in LSU's 2009 tournament opener versus Vanderbilt.


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Ok, so I'm s l o w l y returning to the blogging thing, post-holiday, and due to the fact that I kind of checked out last week, that means I have a load of holiday-related things to share with you (still)!
I know, Christmas is over. Move on.
But I can't let go — yet. I even thought I could justify it and say that I was still within the realm of the "Twelve Days of Christmas," even though I don't really acknowledge or celebrate that. (What am I talking about? Ask Wikipedia.)
However, Twelfth Night was January 5th, so now it's just getting tacky. Whatever. I decided to embrace the tacky, and go ahead and do a little show-and-tell of the other handmade gifts in my life, this time the ones that Josh and I received (you may remember the previous post where we talked about the gifts we gave).
First, let's start with the handmade gifts Josh and I gave each other:
Yeah, you're probably thinking "That's a lot of dogs." Let me explain: I gave Josh the framed black and white photo, and Josh gave me the two silhouettes, you know, of our dogs. Yeah, we basically gave each other the same thing. Creepy, right? And this was all done unbeknownst to the other (and by the way, we didn't tell any friends or family who may have spilled it to either of us). Creepier still, my first plan was to make silhouettes, too. I planned on using this photo, but we didn't have any black paper and I didn't have a lot of time — Christmas Eve gift making, how shameful — so I didn't follow through with my original plan (little did I know it would look just as good in white!). So, I spray painted this frame that Josh found at the street on trash day, made a matte out of lime green paper, and framed the photo.
Josh was feeling far more ambitious. He took two frames (he found these at the street on trash day, also), printed out the same photo on regular printer paper, cut it out, traced it (it ended up being the mirror image side) and then cut that out as well. He backed it with lime green paper (needless to say, we have an abundance of lime green paper).
When we opened them — which happened to be at the same time — we had a weird case of the Twilight-Zones, and then accused each other of somehow stealing each other's ideas, perhaps using a magic wand and a Pensieve when the other was sleeping.
Then we realized that was silly and decidedly attributed the coincidence to our compatibility. Aww….. :)
And our crazy obsession with our dogs.
And maybe the fact that we walk by the Courtney silhouette everyday (this was done when I was like 6).
See it there on the table next to the Eiffel Tower ornament?
Who knows? But we love them both and look forward to hanging them on our soon-to-be art wall (details in blog post form to follow).
Moving on to some of the handmade gifts we received from family…
My mother-in-law, knowing well of my loves for orange and green, recycling, and handmade gifty-ness, crocheted this reusable tote for me:
I love it!!! Things like this amaze me to no end, because I have ZERO crocheting/knitting/sewing/anything-domestic-other-than-cooking skills.
My sister-in-law (a loyal GPP subscriber) took part of this blog's paisley background image and made it into the lid of a magnetic box:
Recognize the pattern? Yeah, I literally squealed when I opened it. And even better, when I opened the (magnetic) lid, I found a pair of earring that she had made for me!
I asked her where she had the box made, and she said she wouldn't tell me (it's a secret she feels she must keep as she has so many gifts made through this company). However, she did say it was a website that I had mentioned on here before. Considering that I've linked up to hundreds of websites in the 63 posts I've written since starting this on September 12, 2011… yeah, I'm sort of scratching my head on this one.
Sigh. Maybe one day she'll reveal her mystical secrets…
Amanda, the aforementioned secretive sister-in-law, gave Josh a framed shadow box of the Triforce (from the Zelda games):
(Sorry for the overly-reflective picture. this was the best of a dozen attempts, believe me).
Now, I couldn't be less interested in video games possibly, but even this made me go "OOOHHH!" The picture doesn't do it any justice, but in person, it looks gooood (Scouts' honor). And little did Amanda know we were slowly accumulating things for our art wall! Perfectly timed.
The next gift is also one of those funny coincidences because it was something I had planned on blogging about, but hadn't gotten around to yet. As a fun way to give us some cash, my mother-in-law made origami with some dollar bills:
I think they turned out great! I especially love the men's shirt origami. She also made an origami star, but no matter how many different angles I tried, I could not take a picture of it where it actually looked like a star (but it does in person, I promise).
You can find the how-to's all over the internet; just do a Google search for dollar bill origami (and I recommend ironing your dollar bills on a low setting before starting — they're made of cotton, they can handle it).
Hope you enjoyed the highlights of some of our handmade gifts! From here on out, I will try my best to not mention the holidays… at least until… September?! (I've got to do another Twelve Weeks of Christmas series next year, too!)
You might also enjoy…
Handmade Gifts (Show-and-Tell Part 1)
This picture of my dog:
See the little nose poking out from under the cushion? Yeah she's pretty
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Watch: Harry Styles Celebrates Pride, Wants to 'Make America Gay Again'
Harry Styles has been vocal about his support for the LGBTQ community for some time and at a Friday concert in Philadelphia, the former One Direction member celebrated Pride in a fabulous way.
At his show, Styles held up a rainbow Pride flag that read "Make America Gay Again." The moment came when the singer was performing the 1D hit "What Makes You Beautiful." During the song, he grabbed the flag from an audience member and fan Karla Balcazar, who shared the moment on Twitter.
This isn't the first time the "Sign of the Times" singer has shown his love for his LGBTQ fans. Last year, during a show in Stockholm, Sweden, Styles told the crowd: "If you are black, if you are white, if you are gay, if you are straight, if you are transgender - whoever you are, whoever you want to be, I support you. I love every single one of you."
Before that, when he kicked off his 2017 tour, he took to the stage in San Francisco and Los Angeles by having a rainbow Pride flag draped around his microphone.
Watch Styles' latest declaration of LGBTQ love below.


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Edinburgh Rugby confirmed today that centre Nick De Luca will leave the club at the end of the season to join French side Biarritz.
De Luca rejoined the club from Border Reivers in the summer of 2007 and has gone on to make 125 appearances for the club and earn 41 caps for his country.
He made his Scotland debut during the 2008 RBS 6 Nations championship and was part of the Scotland team that recorded a series victory in Argentina in 2010, starting at outside centre in the first test victory in Tucuman.
Edinburgh Rugby head coach Alan Solomons, said: "There comes a time in a player's career sometimes, especially when you've been at a club for a long period, that you realise you could benefit from something fresh and new.
It will be reinvigorating for him, while it opens up opportunities for others in the club, for example young Scottish centres Michael Tait and Chris Dean, who we've already signed for next season.
"Nick [De Luca] has been a great servant of the club over the years and we wish him the very best."
Originally an apprentice at Edinburgh, De Luca cut his teeth at the Border Reivers under Steve Bates and made his debut for the team during the opening match of the 2006/07 league season.
A year later he returned to the Scottish capital and made his first appearance in the black and red as a full-back, away against Leinster in September 2007.
His opening try was in the home defeat against Dragons the following month and he subsequently found himself selected at centre, a position he has retained for the past six seasons.
De Luca said: "I would like to thank Edinburgh Rugby for the last eight years.
"I have sunk my heart and soul into the club and loved being a part of it. It's not only where I have learnt my rugby but where I have grown up, had a family and become the person I am today.
"I have been privileged to work with some fantastic coaches, to have rubbed shoulders with some of the world's elite players, and to call some truly inspiring men my friends.
I will always be proud of my time here and leave with no regrets. I respect the club in their decision to move in a different direction and I wish the young Scottish lads all the best coming through.
"My family and I are ecstatic to be joining a club with such great rugby pedigree and can't wait to get stuck in."


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(Jasper is out! It's time for a paddlin'! This post is in two sections. Recognizing the potential for it to drag on into lengthy details and scare readers away, I have chosen to put the main points up front and add a supplementary section at the end for those of you who are interested in some of the additional details of biology related to this post)
Dr. David Menton of Answers in Genesis has written the latest reaction to Tiktaalik roseae. Interestingly, the article makes almost no reference to the Tiktaalik fossils themselves, except where facts are made up.
In the article, Menton's only claims about the anatomy of Tiktaalik relate to the pelvic fins and girdles (i.e. the hips and legs) of Tiktaalik. There is no disucssion of the skull or shoulder girdle, and only tacit reference to the fin skeleton. Menton explains in relation to fishes and tetrapods that:
[t]he hind limbs [of tetrapods] in particular have a robust pelvic girdle securely attached to the vertebral column. This differs radically from that of any fish including Tiktaalik. Essentially all fish (including Tiktaalik) have small pelvic fins relative to their pectoral fins.Menton is a liar. He cannot possibly know anything about the pelvic fins of Tiktaalik. The two papers describing Tiktaalik offer absolutely no descriptions of the pelvic fin skeletons or girdle. I've seen the material first-hand and there are no such details of the pelvic fin.
I took the time to go one step further. I emailed Ted Daeschler (of Colbert Report fame) who is one of the authors of the papers to drive this point home. Here's his reply which I got this morning [emphasis added]:
Regarding Tiktaalik pelvic fins . . . no pelvic fin material has been reported. Less for him to misrepresent!I know this is like taking a whizz in the ocean, but chalk up another lie for AiG.
The article is replete with misinformation, and I will only take up a few of them here. There is a "supplement" below for those who are interested in the finer details of biology or the particularly vapid claims that Menton makes. The article has some subtle ways of using definitions as though they were arguments. For instance, Menton claims that "no fish (including Tiktaalik) has true finger or toe bones." This is a "truth by definition". Tetrapods, by definition, have digited limbs. In other words, only tetrapods have true finger or toe bones by definition. If it has fingers, it ain't a fish! Menton's claim isn't even an argument, but it sure is misleading.
Edited to add. It gets worse and I can't believe I forgot to add it. Nevermind the rhetoric, Menton (who is an anatomy professor! states: "Finally, no fish (including Tiktaalik) has true finger or toe bones. Instead, fish have slender bony fin rays, which even evolutionists concede are not homologous or related in any way to digits". Rays are not in the place of digits. Rays are dermal bone, they develop in the skin like scales and skull bones. Thus, they are in the skin and form a "sandwich" over the internal, or endochonrdral/cartilage, skeleton. Digits are part of this internal skeleton. You cannot have "rays instead of digits". You may have one and not the other, but neither takes the other's anatomical place. Coming from an anatomist, this statement demonstrates first-rate incompetence. Tiktaalik does have jointed radials, a feature which is typically only in lobe-finned fishes. These are endochondral bones. Whether or not they are homologous to digits is a question of ongoing investigation which will require more fossils and involves gene expression work in lungishes.End of edit
The real problem is not even whether or not Tiktaalik has a tetrapod-like pelvic girdle. It's that Menton's attempt to discredit the claims of the authors is based on listing the fish-like aspects of Tiktaalik and ignoring the tetrapod-like aspects. An animal that is a fish-tetrapod transitional would be expected to have some properties of a fish, no?
Menton's use of quotations is also appallingly dishonest. In a section titled "So Is Tiktaalik a Missing Link?", he quotes the News and Views article by Ahlberg and Clack and states that it concedes a point he is trying to make.
In their review article on Tiktaalik, Ahlberg and Clack (Nature 440(7085):747–749) tell us that "the concept of 'missing links' has a powerful grasp on the imagination: the rare transitional fossils that apparently capture the origins of major groups of organisms are uniquely evocative." The authors concede that the whole concept of "missing links" has been loaded with "unfounded notions of evolutionary 'progress' and with a mistaken emphasis on the single intermediate fossil as the key to understanding evolutionary transition."But the whole quote reveals that Menton's own choice of word's ("missing link") is a loaded question (a particularly dishonest rhetorical trick such as asking somebody "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?").
The concept of 'missing links' has a powerful grasp on the imagination: the rare transitional fossils that apparently capture the origins of major groups of organisms are uniquely evocative. But the concept has become freighted with unfounded notions of evolutionary 'progress' and with a mistaken emphasis on the single intermediate fossil as the key to understanding evolutionary transitions. Much of the importance of transitional fossils actually lies in how they resemble and differ from their nearest neighbours in the phylogenetic tree, and in the picture of change that emerges from this pattern.Ahlberg and Clack were saying nothing like Menton's implication.
What I don't understand is why this article had to be written by a professor of anatomy. There is no cogent discussion of anatomy that is relevant to the issue of Tiktaalik. There's a heck of a lot of really bad zoology (see the supplementary section), but not even a discussion of the anatomy of of Tiktaalik. Instead, the attack is a shameful distortion of definitions, quote mining, and outright lies. To give you an impression of what Ahlberg and Clack actually think about Tiktaalik here is the figure from their article. Compare especially the skull roofs along the left-hand side of the figure, an aspect which Menton completely ignores.
Figure caption: The lineage leading to modern tetrapods includes several fossil animals that form a morphological bridge between fishes and tetrapods. Five of the most completely known are the osteolepiform Eusthenopteron16; the transitional forms Panderichthys17 and Tiktaalik1; and the primitive tetrapods Acanthostega and Ichthyostega. The vertebral column of Panderichthys is poorly known and not shown. The skull roofs (left) show the loss of the gill cover (blue), reduction in size of the postparietal bones (green) and gradual reshaping of the skull. The transitional zone (red) bounded by Panderichthys and Tiktaalik can now be characterized in detail. These drawings are not to scale, but all animals are between 75 cm and 1.5 m in length. They are all Middle–Late Devonian in age, ranging from 385 million years (Panderichthys) to 365 million years (Acanthostega, Ichthyostega). The Devonian–Carboniferous boundary is dated to 359 million years ago18.
I suspect I know why this article was written and where these comments stem from. When Tiktaalik was first reported in Nature nearly a year prior to this writing, Answers in Genesis published a screed co-authored by Menton. In response, I called out the authors for botching Vertebrate Anatomy 101. They seem to be clarifying their mistake, but I already covered that base:
On the other hand, if they're talking about the pelvic limbs, then Menton and Looy are just blowing smoke, because there is no report on the pelvic girdle here.The problem that the creationists are facing here, and what Menton's reaction is symptomatic of, is that fossils like Tiktaalik are stunningly beautiful, articulated, their implications immediately obvious even at a glance, and information about them can be disseminated widely through the world wide web. Anybody with a computer can get high-res pictures of Tikaalik and see it for themselves. In response, big-money creationists like AiG have to go through extraordinary rhetorical acrobatics to keep fleecing the flock.
"Supplementary section"
Here I outline some detailed responses to claims in Menton's article but aren't necessarily related to Tiktaalik.
Part I: Fish breathing and circulation
Menton briefly discusses a number of teleost fishes that have specialized types of air breathing: mudskippers and climbing perch. Teleosts are ray-finned fishes and to put things in creationists terms: "Evolutionists" believe that all ray-finned fishes are more closely related to than they are to tetrapods. In other words, they form a clade. Conversely, there are lobe-finned or sarcopterygian fishes which "evolutionists" believe are closer to tetrapods than they are to any other fishes. Thus, they are said to form a clade with tetrapods. (Digression: It makes sense that Tikaalik is a bona fide lobe-finned fish. If it had been a teleost, that would have been a problem.) In discssing air-breathing teleosts, Menton concludes:
none of these curious fish are considered by evolutionists to be ancestors of tetrapods—they are simply interesting and specialized fish.Isn't there a glaring omission here? Has Menton not heard of lungfishes? Lungfishes are, indeed, sarcopterygian fishes. They breathe air (hence lungfishes). In fact, not only do they breath air, but their circulatory system is connected to their lung in the same way as it is in amphibians. A review of vertebrate circulatory systems can be found here, and a particular reference to the lungfishes can be found here.
Here's a little review. Vertebrates have two main types of circulation: single and double (or undivided and divided). Fishes have the single (undivided) system, and the heart is relatively simple: it's basically a muscular series of chambers. Blood is pumped through the gills where it is oxygenated and passed through the body, collected back to a major vein (common cardinal vein) and delivered back to the heart. Repeat. In tetrapods, it gets complicated where the system is double or divided. In reptiles, birds, and mammals, the blood is first sent to the lungs where it is oxygenated, then back to the heart where it goes out to the body and back. Repeat.
Amphibians and lungfishes have a system that is somewhere in between. A pulmonary artery is linked to the lung from the systemic (or gill) arches and leads to the lung where it is oxygenated. A pulmonary vein then carries blood from the lung to the heart and it is pumped back to the body. However, the heart remains largely a simple structure like in fishes. The key difference is that the atrium, the chamber that receives the blood, is partly divided to separate the flows of oxygenated blood from the lung and deoxygenated blood from the body coming back to the heart (i.e. there is some mixing, but this is also controlled a bit). This partly divided system is lacking the air-breathing fishes he talked about. It is only known in lungfishes and amphibians.
Why was this information not important enough to be included and discussed by Menton?
Part II: Air breathing "crossopterygians"?":
It gets even more deceptive where Menton notes:
Most evolutionists look to crossopterygian fish for the ancestors of tetrapods—even though unlike many living fish, none of these fish are known to be capable of either walking or breathing out of water. [Original emphasis]Very clever. "Crossopterygian" is a dated term showing that Menton has read nothing about the study of tetrapod origins or lobe-finned fish systematics from the past 20 years. Although I have a particular affection for the term, nobody uses "crossopterygian" anymore. It's Menton's convenient use of an outdated typological term that excludes lungfishes by it's definition that is particularly misleading. The term "crossopterygian" referes to a sub-group of lobe-finned fishes that included coelacanths and "osteolepiforms", the latter including the iconic Eusthenopteron frequently seen crawling out of the water in children's dinosaur books (though few scientists think it actually did this). The term is largely discarded today because it assumes that lungfishes and tetrapods are not simply modified "crossopterygians". By using this term, Menton can safely ignore lungfishes, even though most palaeontologists (and a significant number of molecular biologists) now think lungfishes are a closer living cousin than is the only living "crossopterygian", the coelacanth Latimeria. I hesitate to comment as to whether this was done on purpose by Menton, but it is rather convenient that he should choose to dig up such an old term that specifically excludes lungfishes whilst simultaneously neglecting them in a discussion of air-breathing fishes.
However, let's accept Menton's use of "crossopterygian" for the moment. Coelacanths are the only living crossopterygians. They do not have a lung, but rather an oily swim bladder. This swim bladder has a little trachea (the tube that connects the lung to the throat) and a very small version of a vein that corresponds to the pulmonary vein.
What's even more deceptive is Menton's comment that there are no crossopterygians known to breathe air when, in fact, most things that are called "crossopterygians" are extinct. While there is one living genus of coelacanth, hundreds of other genera of "crossopterygian" are extinct. Rhizodontids, "osteolepiforms", porolepiforms, onychodonts, are all "crossopterygians" and have very distinct from coelacanths and may have anywhere from half a dozen to hundreds of sub-taxa with different adaptations and, presumably, different modes of life. Of these, it is impossible to observe air-breathing. At best, some functional and/or bone histological studies might give clues to different respiratory physiology. But, at best, conclusions about air-breathing would be inferential, and thus excluded from phylogenetic analysis (i.e. interpretations of how organisms are related to each other). That said, it is yet another truism that Menton should claim that no crossopterygians are known to breathe air.
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The race to create new ways for fans to enjoy interacting with sports continues. It is evocative of the Oklahoma Land Rush, with innovators competing to create the next new niche that delivers an experience that is novel and fun.
The 800-pound gorilla in the field is the $1.5 billion fantasy sports market. The number of participating fans continues to explode exponentially. Reports of thousands of fans who participate from their computer at work are an indication of the burgeoning fantasy mania.
Years ago my former partner Jeff Moorad, technologist Mike Kearns and I talked about the concept, which they later developed, of a stock market speculating on the value of players.
An enterprising young company has a new twist on the sports speculation experience, which combines fantasy sports and finance and mobile gaming.
Sports Tradex, founded by Houston-based CEO Benjamin Lipson, is a virtual futures market or stock market for teams and players. Users on the site buy and sell players to predict sports outcomes or performance and compete for cash prizes.
What is novel is the ability of the users to be active in real time during games. As the action continues to develop, fans can trade their positions.
"This is a constantly fluctuating market that is different than picking a team or player or players to win," Lipson said. "Our users can be active during the game."
Users sign up for free and get 5,000 units of virtual currency. With this currency, users can enter contests, many of which are free. Some contests have a fee to sign up, usually between $5 and $25.
Depending on the contest, currency can be used to invest in different players to create a fantasy team or can be used to invest in an entire team the user anticipates to be the most profitable. Suppose a player were to break his arm during the contest, a user can trade their units in that player, but the value of the units will drop if everyone tries to sell them at once, emulating a stock exchange. In certain contests, the player who aggregates the most virtual units can win cash prizes.
The site also offers some unique content in the form of user generated probabilities. For example, the Sports Tradex market gives the 49ers a 65% of winning the Super Bowl and the Ravens a 35% chance.
The company likes to compare their predictions with other sources, like Accuscore and Vegas lines. As of this writing that prediction differs from the betting lines. The points on the 49ers continue to drop as fanatic Ravens believers are in a betting frenzy.
There will be stiff competition between fantasy sports sites. The derivations will continue to develop with numerous start-ups involved. There are websites like Star Street Inc. that allow users to play for just one day, buy and sell shares, and win cash prizes. This doesn't include employer user-generated market prices.
The trend for innovation and new start-ups is similar to the Internet craze of the 1990s. But unlike that period, where there was a difficulty in proving revenue flow and money came from IPO's and investor dollars, the advertising model is expanding.
Players in these competitions can play on their computers or tablets during games, and soon this will expand to mobile applications so users can trade easily on hand-held devices.
Sports Tradex currently has contests for Major League Baseball and the NFL, but certainly will roll out in all major sports.
As in the 1990s, the survivors in this start-up fight will be those companies with astute management, adequate financing and financial controls, and holistically imagined business models.
The land rush will continue and the best and brightest will quickly find the most profitable parcels. Those companies that are flawed in one of the prior categories may find themselves stuck at the starting line.
LEIGH STEINBERG is a renowned sports agent, author, advocate, speaker and humanitarian. His column appears weekly. Follow Leigh on Twitter @steinbergsports or blog.steinbergsports.com.