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After decades of quiet avoidance, I recently found the courage to enter a public steam room. Finally, I was prepared to overcome adolescent memories of a sauna experience gone badly.
Upon initial glance, the little room appeared inviting and harmless. I entered the moist fog and made my way to a tiered bench. I nervously took a seat and studied the room.
How did the architect know what types of materials to spec? Every surface of the 10 x 20-ft. room was soaking wet for 18 hours a day. With such incredible humidity, why weren't the tiles falling off the wall and ceiling?
"There is nothing to fear," I told myself.
I squirmed a bit wondered how they keep the room sanitized. Floor drains and a posted cleaning schedule gave me momentary relief.
"I won't catch any germs," I rationalized.
Suddenly a boiler kicked on, a valve opened and molten steam saturated the room. The temperature rose from "hot" to "volcano" in a matter of seconds.
"I can sur-survive this in-inferno," I stuttered.
With sweat oozing from my body like a squeezed sponge, adolescent memories of my first sauna experience were filling my brain.
The traumatic flashback transported me to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. My family traveled there in the 1960s and 1970s to visit relatives and experience the great outdoors, as much as a bunch of sheltered suburbanites can.
My dad had rented a cabin on a lake. Next to the dock was an odd little wood structure with a chimney. Inside, I was told, was a Finnish sauna. I didn't know what a Finnish sauna was, but I couldn't wait to try it out.
"Tomorrow night the men are coming and we'll use the sauna," my Dad told me.
As an 11-year old boy, I felt a sudden rush of manhood come over me. I was going to join "the men" for a guy's activity.
The next night our cabin was the site of a big cookout. My relatives and their friends were a hardy bunch of second-generation Italian and Finnish Americans. They loved their pastries, roasts and brook trout. We ate until we were stuffed.
Soon the men gathered. Their voices deepened, stories were shared, and bragging ensued. We headed for the sauna.
I gamely followed the burly crew. Most were seasoned ore miners who cut their own firewood and put many a meal on the table by hunting and fishing.
I was joining manly men in a manly activity. My heart pounded with pride.
We entered the sauna and my eyes locked on the wood-fired heater with rocks on top and a bucket and ladle nearby. The fire had been building for hours and already the room was hot.
I looked up and noticed the men sitting on the top bench. They wore sly smiles and asked me to pour water on the rocks.
As the youngest "man" in the group, I was honored and started dumping water on the rocks. Steam erupted and quickly filled the room. I tossed on more water and joined the men on the top bench.
And why not? I was one of them now.
Moments later, my skin started stinging. I looked around and the men were joking and didn't seem to notice the room was DRASTICALLY OVERHEATING.
I slipped down to the middle bench.
Someone asked for more water. While my brain knew this was a really bad idea, my newfound pride forced me to splash a half-ladle onto the rocks.
"Come on, dump the bucket on the rocks," another man challenged. "Let's get some real heat going."
I gulped and dumped the bucket. Steam exploded from the rocks. I winced and took a seat on the lowest level, alone.
"Getting a little hot for ya, Timmy?" one of the Yuppers roared.
"Yeah," I said sheepishly. "I feel like I'm burning up."
That made all the men laugh and one suggested I throw more water on the rocks.
A few seconds later I noticed my throat was searing hot. No, wait, it was on fire.
"I can't breathe," I shouted, and ran out of the sauna. A chorus of boisterous guffaws followed me out the door.
Suffice to say the Finish sauna turned out not to be my right of passage to manhood. I spent the rest of our vacation dodging trash talk from my uncles. I vowed to never again let a hot room get the best of me.
Fast forward forty years. Now, I sit in the steam room with something to prove. I am prepared to beat the heat and outlast the heartiest dudes.
I sit confidently on the top bench directly in front of the steam valve. As heat fills the room, I sit tall and soak it up. I look slyly to my left and right and make absolutely certain I am the last guy to leave.
Yes, my skin is burning and my throat is on fire. But it's OK. I'm finally one of "the men".
(Author's note: While fact checking this blog, I realized there is a small possibility my Finnish sauna experience took place after age 11, but definitely before age 18. I'm sticking with 11).


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Make : MACK | Model : RL | Year : 2009 |
Build Dates : 2008-03-18 - 2009-03-19 | ||
NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number : 18V041000 | ||
Date Owner's Notified: 2018-02-16 | Date Received by ODI: 2018-01-09 | Date Added to Database: 2018-01-16 |
Manufacturers Involved: Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) | ||
Manufacturer's Responsible for the Recall: | ||
Manufacturer Campaign Number: U0H, G0I | ||
Component: AIR BAGS:PASSENGER SIDE FRONTAL | ||
Potential Number Of Units Affected : 24945 | ||
Honda "American Honda Motor Co." is recalling certain 2010-2012 Acura RL, 2010 Honda Element, and 2010-2013 Honda Ridgeline vehicles ever registered in the states of Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands "Saipan", and the U.S. Virgin Islands or "Zone A." Additionally, Honda is recalling certain 2010 Acura RL, 2010-2011 Honda Element and Honda Ridgeline vehicles ever registered in the states of Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia or "Zone B." If not included in zones A or B above, Honda is recalling certain 2009 Acura RL, Honda Element, and Honda Ridgeline vehicles ever registered in the states of Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming or "Zone C." These vehicles are equipped with certain inflators assembled as part of the frontal air bag modules, and used as original equipment or replacement equipment "such as after a vehicle crash necessitating replacement of the original air bags", may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to higher absolute humidity, temperature and temperature cycling. |
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Our volunteers work hard and spend many hours supporting the efforts of the Prison Project.
What do we get from your support?
- We witness incredible journeys.
- We are privileged to see aspects of being human to which many of us are not typically exposed.
- We discuss FORGIVENESS with those incarcerated for doing someone great harm and experience its full power.
- We discuss EQUANIMITY and watch people, for the first time ever, try to walk a mile in the shoes of someone they consider a mortal enemy.
In each workshop, we provide books to each participant. Several prisons we visit weekly are over 100 miles away; being able to offer gas money to our volunteers would be awesome. At the end of each workshop, we celebrate the participants with cheesecake, soda, and juice. Our Kadampa pen pals often send dharma books to their imprisoned pen pal - many are voracious readers!
What do you get from your support?
- You can put that feeling of compassion you work so hard to generate into practical, concrete action.
- You can exercise generosity with the confidence that every penny you donate goes directly to prisoner support—there is no overhead, and every volunteer reimbursement is documented with a receipt before approval.
- You can help others living in very difficult, sometimes dire, circumstances realize calm minds and happiness.
- Your compassionate generosity will multiply as the Kadampa Center Prison Project participants graduate prison and return to our communities as safer neighbors and productive citizens.
- Your contributions are tax deductable!
If you are so moved, help us out!
- Books for a typical workshop of 10 - 25 individuals costs between $100 and $400 per session.
- One weekly round trip to Caledonia is over 180 miles - that's around $15 in gas money.
- An end-of-workshop party for 15 typically runs about $50.
- A book sent from a publisher to a pen pal can cost from $5 to $20 each.


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State officials say Vermont will be the first state to see health insurers announce proposed rates that will be offered under the health insurance exchange being set up to comply with the federal health overhaul.
State officials say rates to be offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield and MVP Health will be reviewed by the Department of Financial Regulation before a final approval by the Green Mountain Care Board.
Governor Peter Shumlin says Vermont is on track to have the exchange up and running by Oct. 1. Vermonters who work in places with 50 or fewer employees will be invited to sign up for insurance coverage effective Jan. 1.
Robin Lunge, Shumlin's director of health reform, calls the rate announcement — coming Monday — a big milestone.
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These so-called training courses run by the Joneses are promoted through spam and have a terrible reputation. One BBB report for a previous incarnation of this scheme sums up many of the complaints that I have seen:
Grant Funding USA advertised a 3-day grant writing workshop for non-profit professionals to be held November 12-14 at the Georgetown Law School campus in Washington DC. The course was described as an overview of the grant writing process and concluding with a certificate in professional grant writing. The cost was $495. My organization paid the fee, I received a confirmation email. I received a credit card authorization letter requesting authorization; we completed and submitted it. I spoke with an individual over the phone confirming my registration. I received a registration packet (about 15 pages) with suggestions for preparation and materials to bring to the course. On the first day, November 12, I arrived at Georgetown Law at 8 AM. The guard was unaware of our course and was working on figuring out where we needed to be (there were 7 other students). After about 45 minutes, we all received an email from the organization Grant Funding USA that said our instructor had fallen ill and they were working on securing a substitute instructor to start the class by the afternoon.At 1pm, we received an email from the same email address saying that they were unable to secure a substitute for Wednesday, but class would begin promptly at 8am on Thursday. I called the number for the organization multiple times and continually got their voicemail. On Thursday, November 13 at 8AM, I arrived at Georgetown again, and found the other students in the lobby upset and confused. The guard was unaware of the course and said he had no information for us. He directed me to the Georgetown Student Life office (who would have been responsible for securing the space). They informed me that Georgetown has never heard of Grant Funding USA nor has a relationship with them. There was no workshop scheduled to be held on their campus. Grant Funding USA has not answered my numerous calls or emails. Other participants fooled by this scam were from Smithsonian Institute and State Gov't of New Jersey.This story seems to be echoed over and over again. A venue is booked at a prestigious location, but changed at the last minute. The person taking the course very often seems to be ill and doesn't turn up. Sometimes an ill-prepared substitute teacher is found, but has difficulty being paid. Calls to the so-called institute are either not answered or met with hostility. Read the comments for more stories such as this.
On to this particular scheme called "Project Management International" which should not be confused with many reputable organisations of a similar name, using the domain projectmanagementinternational.org which just frames another site at ipmam862026.sitebuilder.name.com. The "ipma" part of the name is significant as I will mention later. The site is promoted through spam email such as the one found here:
Project Management Certification Course (July 28-31, 2015: University of Southern California)
The Project Management Certification Course will be offered July 28 - 31, 2015 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA . Project management professionals, business and technology professionals, students, and educators are invited to register at the Project Management International website here .
July 28 - 31, 2015
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
The PMCC is designed for those seeking professional project management certification. It serves as both a thorough professional education and recognized certification. Those seeking additional credentials such as the PMP®/PgMP®, PMI-SP®, and PMI-RMP® will benefit from this dynamic and interactive work session, while those currently holding credentials will find the certification to be an enhancement as well as the most up to date advanced professional development.
Project Management Masters Certification program provides 36 hours of project management education, meeting education requirements for both PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) ® and Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications. Additionally, the Master Certification provides 36 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for current holders of PMP®/PgMP®, PMI-SP®, and PMI-RMP® credentials.
The program meets the education requirement for all professional designations through the Project Management Institute and other professional agencies. Additionally, the program awards 3.6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) upon request.
Program Description
Our certificate program teaches technical and business professionals how to master the critical skills of project management techniques as part of their technical career development.
The skills developed in the Project Management Masters Certification program apply to large and small projects, product design and development efforts, construction projects, IT projects, software development, and any project with critical performance, time, and budget targets.
Our approach to project management education offers proven, results-focused learning.
Courses are developed and facilitated by professional subject experts with extensive industrial experience. Course emphasis is on providing practical skills and tools supported by relevant case examples.
Tuition for the four-day Project Management Certification Course is $995.00
Program Schedule and Content
1. Project Initiation, Costing, and Selection, Day 1
2. Project Organization and Leadership, Day 2
3. Detailed Project Planning, Day 2 and 3
4. Project Monitoring and Control, Day 3 and 4
5. Project Risk and Stakeholder Management, Day 4
· A Project Management International Certificate of Accomplishment is awarded upon completion of the four day program of five courses. Completion letters are given for each course.
· Our instructors have extensive industrial experience. They focus on providing you with practical skills and tools using relevant case examples.
· Each class is highly focused and promotes maximum interaction.
· You can network with other project management professionals from a variety of industries.
· Earn Professional Development Units (PDUs) for maintenance of certification under the PMI Continuing Certification Requirements Program.
· Applicants for PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® and Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications will have met all education requirements for eligibility.
Participants may reserve a seat online at the Project Management International website, by calling the Program Office toll-free at (800) 288-8387, or by sending their name and contact information via email to the Program Registrar .
Upon receiving your registration, a confirmation email is sent to registrants that include session site information, travel information, program description, and details on how to confirm attendance and make payment arrangements.
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, simply reply to this message and write EXCLUDE to be removed from future notices.
The site is generic looking but fairly smart:
It lists some upcoming courses:
August 25 - 28, 2015: University of Houston
September 22- 25, 2015: University of Miami
October 6-9, 2015: University of Southern California
The domain was registered on May 20th 2015 to an anonymous registrant. The site itself lists no contact details on the Contact page:
It appears to be using an email address of "firstname.lastname@example.com" for correspondence, but a look at the underlying HTML tells a different story:

 If you have any additional questions, simply email us directly at   firstname.lastname@example.com  and our coordinators will respond to you directly.
The underlying code references both firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com (the organisation mentioned in the BBB report I mentioned earlier) and which is the same site I warned about a year ago. The only other contact details on the site are a telephone number of 800-288-8387.
The "About Project Management page" features some generic text about Project Management:
The text is almost identical to the defunct website Institute of Program Management America (IPMA) that I mentioned last year. If you remember, this new website also uses "IPMA" in its underlying URL (ipmam862026.sitebuilder.name.com) which also links the two schemes. A RipOffReport for IPMA also shows the same pattern as before.
There is little doubt that this is the same scheme as mentioned in all my previous posts on the activities of Jones and Patchrint. My personal recommendation is that you give this "Project Management International" a very wide berth, and if you feel that you have been defrauded then you would be doing a lot of people a favour if your pursued them aggressively. Also, if you have any positive (or negative) experiences then sharing them in the Comments would be appreciated.


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- Grades: 1-9
- Number of Students: 1 student per robot recommended
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Build a motorized robot, race car, and countdown timer — all that run without any batteries or electrical power!
The secret behind these fascinating machines is a power source called a mainspring — a spiral-shaped spring that stores up energy when wound up by hand, and then converts that stored energy back into motion when it discharges. The mainspring inside the robot turns gears which enable it to march forward on two legs. The race car zooms across the floor as its mainspring uncoils and turns its wheels. The countdown timer uses a more complex system of springs, gears, ratchets, and linkages to slowly tick down the seconds as it discharges — for a countdown of up to six minutes. As you assemble these models one at a time from over 130 pieces, you will learn about the inner workings of spring-powered devices like wind-up toys and ticking mechanical clocks.
Discover the physics concepts of potential and kinetic energy as you experiment with your spring-powered machines. Easy, snap-together assembly requires no glue. The kit includes step-by-step illustrated instructions.
- 3-in-1 engineering kit: build three self-powered models, then wind them up and watch them go!
- Learn about potential and kinetic energy and how gears and springs function in different mechanical devices.
- Race car drives up to 45 feet.
- Robot walks on two legs, up to 20 inches.
- Timer counts down from up to 6 minutes.
- No batteries or electricity required
Standard Alignments:
- K-2-ETS1 Engineering Design
- 2-PS1-3 Matters & Interaction
- 3-5-ETS1 Engineering Design
- 3-PS-2 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
- MS-PS2-2 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
- MS-PS3-5 Energy
What's Included:
- (1) SpringBots: 3-in-1 Spring-Powered Machines Kit
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Can you mill grains at home to use in freshly baked bread and other baking? Why would you want to? Is home-milled flour better for you? In this post, we're discussing everything about using a home grain mill, plus why you'd want to make your own flour.
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- Vicky K. admitted… "Sorry — but I think I'm too lazy to mill my own flour!"
- And Teddy C. shared… "I buy organic flour, so why should I mill my own?"
I love these honest replies! 😉
Vicky and Teddy supplied just two of the nearly 200 replies I got via email and Facebook to this question: "What do you want to know about home grain milling?"
Not all of them made me laugh like Vicky's and Teddy's, though. I definitely got the message that, for most of you, home grain milling is both exciting and overwhelming… and you have lots of questions about it.
Yet, since I received way too many questions to answer in one episode of #AskWardee… I'm splitting them up into multiple episodes.
Starting today…
Table Of Contents
Home Grain Milling 101: The Basics
So, in Part 1 of Home Grain Milling 101 (The Basics) we're tackling the fundamentals of grain milling:
- Why one would grind their own grains into flour anyway
- How to store whole grains
- What kinds of mills are on the market
- How to use a grain mill
- Plus more important "getting started" topics
In future episodes, I'll discuss how to use and store your flour, how to make gluten-free flours, how to use freshly ground flour in place of store-bought flour, and the other creative (and fun!) uses for a home grain mill. It's going to be a jam-packed series and I hope you can make them all!
(Or at least read through them… all the transcripts will be provided, as usual.)
Check out the particulars — including a milling demonstration — in today's #AskWardee in print, podcast, or video below!
Also… watch the replay for the live masterclass all about the history and health of home grain milling.
Subscribe to #AskWardee on iTunes, Stitcher, YouTube, or the Podcasts app.
Why Should I Mill My Own Flour, Anyway?
Why would you want to grind your own flour, anyway? It does require more work, though how much is arguable. As you'll see, a home grain mill makes grinding easy.
So… here are eight reasons you might consider going to the trouble of grinding your own flour…
- It's healthier — the whole grain flour contains all of the nutrients, enzymes, bran, germ, oil… and they're not lost (many nutrients are lost through oxidation as soon as 24 hours after grinding).
- It's not rancid — after grinding and sitting in storage, the fat in the germ of whole-grain flours goes rancid. Grinding what you need and using it up within a few days ensures that you're not consuming rancid food.
- It's lighter — freshly ground flour is lighter than flour that's been sitting around and getting heavy, which means that your baked goods are lighter.
- It tastes better — again and again, our family has confirmed that our baked goods made with home-milled flour taste much better than the alternative! (Often, the bad taste is due to rancidity in store-bought flours that have been sitting on the shelf awhile.)
- It's more frugal — especially if you're purchasing organic or specialty whole grains/flours such as gluten-free or ancient varieties of wheat. If you grind your own, you'll see significant cost savings over purchasing.
- You get more control — over the fineness/coarseness of the grind and the amount you grind.
- It's easier to store — whole grains are easier to store than flour; they keep indefinitely while flours oxidize and become rancid more quickly.
- It's easier than you think! — mills like my favorite, the Mockmill, are so attractive sitting out on the countertop, and they're literally ready to make flour instantly! (This one's for you, Vicky!)
How Should I Store My Whole Grains & Milled Grains?
- Ed G. asked: "How do you store the whole grain?"
- Stacy S. asked: "How long will freshly milled flour last? What are good ways to store it to preserve its nutritional value?"
- Carrie G. said: "I would like info on proper storage of grains before they are milled and after. Also, info on milling sprouted grains, and the proper storage of them, both before and after they've been milled."
- Helen T. added: "Just how quickly do grains degrade once milled? Is it that bad to grind some ahead of time and store them in the freezer? If I'm making something in the morning and then in the evening, can I leave that flour out all day? I wonder just how quickly homemade flour goes bad. I keep leftovers (since it's sometimes hard to grind exactly how much you need!) in the freezer for things like a roux."
Ed, Stacy, Carrie, Helen, and anyone else having similar thoughts…
The main enemies of whole grains and flour are oxygen, temperature, moisture, light, and critters.
Here are the particulars of storing each:
- Whole grains — Bring home, then freeze for 10 days to kill any critters/eggs. You can keep grains in the freezer or transfer them to storage containers such as 5-gallon food-grade buckets. Mylar bags and oxygen absorbers inside the buckets help. Or, use other airtight containers such as glass jars. Store the grain in a dry, cool place. No heat or moisture source nearby. Not in a hot attic, damp basement, or humid garage. Not near a water heater or clothes dryer. If kept cool, dry, dark, and critter-free, your whole grains will last many, many years (and even still sprout)! Sprouted grains should be stored similarly.
- Milled grains (flour) — Use within three days of grinding (room temperature), or refrigerate for up to seven days, or freeze up to six months. Milled grains should not be stored at room temperature for more than three days because of the danger of rancidity. Sprouted flour should be used/stored similarly. Although it does last longer than unsprouted, I follow these guidelines to be on the safe side of rancidity. 🙂
On #AskWardee 118, I showed how many berries to grind to get just the right amount of flour for your recipes.
What Grains Can Be Milled Into Flour?
- Renee G. asked: "Which grains can be milled?"
- Kimberly T. asked: "Do some grains work better than others in mills?"
- Crystal S. asked: "One of my wishlist items is a grain mill. I have heard that some mills on the market don't take sprouted grains. I want to buy a very high-quality mill, but I will be devastated if I get it and then find out it doesn't take sprouted grains."
You'll find some differences between mills in what they can and cannot grind. Nearly all mills (unless you're using a blender) will have a hard time with "wet" or "oily" grains, nuts, seeds, or spices. All those foods can be ground; it just depends on the equipment.
Some foods are soft enough — like flax seeds, chia seeds, nuts, coconut, or oats — that small batches can be ground in a coffee grinder, blender, high-powered blenders such as the Vitamix, or food processor. The food processor produces the coarsest result.
As a general rule, I use our Mockmill grain mill for the hardest and driest of foods — ancient grains like spelt or einkorn, corn, rice, dry beans, and even completely dried sprouted grains. These all make great flours! (Here's more info on gluten-free milling.)
I usually pull out the Vitamix or coffee grinder for softer or oilier foods like oats, flax, chia, nuts, or coconut.
So, bottom line… as long as it's not wet or oily, most grain mills will grind everything. You should also check with the manufacturer to see if corn/popcorn can be ground, as it's very, very hard and can damage some mills.
Today, I am demonstrating the Mockmill home grain mill. All dry grains can be ground with the Mockmill, including:
- soft or hard wheat
- oat groats (dehulled oats)
- rice
- triticale
- kamut
- spelt
- einkorn
- buckwheat
- barley
- rye
- millet
- teff
- quinoa
- amaranth
- sorghum
- dent (field) corn
- fully dried sprouted grains
- also lentils, dry beans (pinto, red, garbanzo, kidney, and more), and dried, non-oily spices.
The Mockmill isn't suitable for herbs, oily seeds like flax or sesame, popcorn, or fibrous materials.
What Are The Types Of Grains Mills & Their Pros/Cons?
- Stephanie C. asked: "Hi, I have a Nutrimill. Are the stainless grinding blades doing damage to the nutrition of the grain? Should I have gotten a mill with stone wheels?"
- Louann L. asked: "I know nothing about milling grains so it will all be new information. I would like to know, to start, the best equipment to use."
- Ellen H. asked: "Can I do this with my Vitamix?"
- Bryan G. asked: "What is the best electric and manual equipment to mill grain?"
And there were many more questions regarding equipment, but I think those four are fairly representative. So let's get into it.
Here Are The "Types" Of Grain Mills
- Stone burr (such as the electric Mockmill or the non-electric Wondermill Junior Deluxe) — Grains are ground between stones. It's an age-old process. In fact, my father tells stories of his mother (and my namesake, Tata Wardeh) who would go to the village stone grain mill each day to grind flour for the family's daily bread.
With a stone mill, you can adjust from fine to coarse grinds or even cracked grains. The milling speed is on the slow side and the flour comes out cool to the touch (arguably more healthy).
If grains are higher in moisture or oil, or the stones overheat, the stones can become glazed. (This is easily fixed in the Mockmill by running dry grain through right after.) You can mill dry grains and legumes. Stone mills, like the Mockmill, will also grind nuts, seeds, and spices.
Do not grind oily foods such as sesame, flax, or poppy seeds. Can be on both electric and non-electric. The Mockmill stone grain mill offers a KitchenAid attachment! - Impact/micronizer (such as Nutrimill)— Impact mills have an internal milling chamber with concentric rings of stainless steel fins that never touch each other. These fins spin at tens of thousands of revolutions per minute and burst grain kernels into small pieces upon impact — thus the name "impact mill". They produce fine flour very quickly, but cannot crack grains.
Downsides? 1) Impact mills are very loud; 2) they emit flour dust which can aggravate respiratory conditions, and 3) you cannot crack grains. Mill dry grains and legumes only. Electric only. - Steel or cast iron burr (such as Wondermill Junior Deluxe or Family Grain Mill) – These are similar to the stone mills, except grains are ground between steel or cast iron burrs. They can grind dry grains and legumes and oily nuts and seeds. Generally, the results are coarser than with stone or impact mills.
I have a friend with the Family Grain Mill who runs her grain/flour through twice, and it is still not as fine as she'd like. Can be both electric and non-electric. - High powered-blender (such as Vitamix or BlendTec) — The Vitamix is an amazing machine and the dry blade container works well for grinding small amounts of flour, even though the grain can be somewhat coarse and you have to be careful not to overheat the motor. In addition to the usual dry grains and legumes, you can even mill oily grains, nuts, and seeds.
The BlendTec is similar, however, it doesn't always come with a tamper to help circulate the grains as the Vitamix does. (The tamper is very important for the consistency of grind!) - Other Options — Although I don't recommend these if you're milling often, milling in larger quantities, or desiring a great result, other mill options include the Champion juicer or KitchenAid attachment or a coffee grinder.
My Experience
For years, I used the Vitamix to mill our flour. I used the dry container and tamper and never ground more than 2 cups of grain at a time. Using the tamper, I ground at high speed for 2 minutes 15 seconds each batch. The flour came out quite warm (which I know now is not great) and as fine as it could be — but still not as fine as the mills I later used.
Then, we purchased a used Nutrimill, which was a huge improvement over the Vitamix. The flour comes out fine and makes beautiful bread, and also not so hot, so we experience less nutrient loss (though it was still warm). The Nutrimill is certainly loud, though!
And now, we use the Mockmill stone grain mill, which I absolutely love. The flour stays cool and comes out very fine. It's super adjustable to get just the grind you need. The fine flour makes wonderful, light bread — even with 100% whole grains! I love that I can also crack grains or produce more coarse flour. Of all the mills I've used, it produces the healthiest, finest flour while being the most versatile mill overall.
We also have a non-electric stone grain mill (the Wondermill Junior Deluxe) to use when the power goes out. The Wondermill Junior Deluxe actually comes with both stone and steel burrs.
How Does A Grain Mill Work?
- Heather asked: "I would love to know about all grains including sorghum, millet, teff, quinoa, oats, and the soaking/rinsing process. Some grains like quinoa, rice, and sorghum say to rinse before cooking, but what about before grinding? I assume they are dirty and need rinsing before grinding?"
How to grind grains depends on the particular mill and I described the mechanisms above. Although I haven't used all the mills out there, I have tried several (again, described above). They all involve a few steps, the first of which is following the manufacturer's directions for safe operation, setting coarseness, etc.!
Generally, you start with clean grain. There's no need to wet or rinse the grains, however, it's a good idea to inspect the grains and remove rocks or debris manually. Rocks, especially, can damage your mill.
Then, add the grain to the mill and turn it on. Along the way, adjust the fineness/coarseness. Finally, dump out the flour, unless it comes out a shoot as the Mockmill does. Be sure to put a bowl there!
Watch either video embedded in this post to see how the Mockmill works. 🙂
Where To Buy A Grain Mill?
As you can tell from our discussion today, my favorite mill and the one I recommend is the Mockmill!
The Mockmill is a home stone grain mill, and it's engineered and manufactured in Germany by Wolfgang Mock. He started making home grain mills back in the 1970s, so he's been doing it for over 40 years. There's an estimate that nearly 70% of the stone mills out there are by him.
This mill is super exciting because it contains the best features of Wolfgang Mock's milling career, yet it's much more affordable. The reason it's more affordable is that this mill comes in a durable recycled material housing (instead of expensive wood).
I love the flour it produces because it's super healthy and nutritious (being fresh ground), and it has a really fine texture. So, it makes wonderful, light bread, and it's cool to the touch instead of being warm as some mills will do.
This mill will grind all grains, even gluten-free. It can even crack grains for porridge, and it has many other uses (like spices, nuts, and seeds).
You can see how it works in this video:
All the details including the very affordable price and FREE SHIPPING are on this page. By the way, it also comes as a KitchenAid attachment — very exciting for those who don't want another appliance to take up any more room!
Also with your purchase of the Mockmill, you'll get two fantastic eBooks from the Mockmill team: The Mockmill Farm Directory & Grain Milling Guide and The Mockmill Recipe Guide. Both of these eBooks are fabulous!
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Where To Buy Whole Grains For Milling
Here are my favorite places to buy whole grains:
- Einkorn.com — use this link for their best prices on the oldest and healthiest varieties of ancient wheat. It's what we use exclusively in our no-knead sourdough einkorn bread and our other baked goods. Members, you'll find an even better price on the Member Area resources page.
- Amazon.com — use this link; it's a search for "organic bulk whole grains".
- Azure Standard — this is a natural food warehouse that may or may not deliver in your area.
- Local farms — refer to The Mockmill Farm Directory & Grain Milling Guide (it comes with the Mockmill) or search locally… you never know what you might turn up!
The handbook that comes with the Mockmill — The Mockmill Farm Directory & Grain Milling Guide — contains easy links to the websites and Amazon.com listings of small family farmers who will gratefully ship their grains direct to your door!
This easy-to-follow guide will introduce you to the abundance of clean grains you can buy straight from small family farms across America.
You can find and buy every traditional variety of wheat, plus, rarer, "ancient" identity-preserved grains, and even a wide selection of naturally gluten-free grains and legumes. All of which you can mix 'n' match in your baking, discovering new family favorites along the way.
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- FREE No-knead Sourdough Einkorn Bread Recipe
- Why I Love Einkorn — in case you want to know why we bake with the healthier 5,000-year-old wheat called einkorn!
- Free "Home Grain Milling 101" eBook — it's all 4 parts of this series combined into a single, FREE download from me!
- Milling Gluten-Free Grains Into Flour: Home Grain Milling 101, Part 2
- Baking with Fresh-Ground Flour: Home Grain Milling 101, Part 3
- More Fun Things Your Grain Mill Can Do!: Home Grain Milling 101, Part 4
- FREE Webclass: Baking With Fresh-Ground Flour
By the way, I want to give credit to Vickilynn Haycraft, my dear friend and "milling mentor", who introduced me to grain milling years ago and who contributed to some of these answers.
I also want to thank Wolfgang Mock, whose stone grain mill — the Mockmill — I am using for demonstrating various milling tasks in this series.
And finally, I want to thank Jade Koyle from Einkorn.com for his wonderful einkorn grain and help with using the Mockmill!
More Mockmill Related Articles from the #AskWardee Show:
- Unboxing The Mockmill (Affordable Home Stone Grain Mill)
- Differences Between Nutrimill And Mockmill #AskWardee 120
- How To Simply & Easily Clean Your Mockmill Grain Mill #AskWardee 119
- Where To Buy Whole Wheat Berries, Grains, and Flour #AskWardee 148
- Buckwheat Flour 101: Choosing, Milling Flour, Sprouting, Recipes & More! #AskWardee 141
- Milling Soft Wheat In A Grain Mill {Homemade Pastry Flour} #AskWardee 131
- Is The New Ultragrain White Whole Wheat Healthy? #AskWardee 112
If you mill your own grains (or want to!), why do you do it? What is your favorite grain mill? What is your favorite grain to mill?
This post was originally published and written by Wardee Harmon on 11/8/17. It was updated and republished on 3/3/21.
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Betty started working at the DATEXIS team as a Research Assistant in 2018.
She graduated with a Master's degree in Media Informatics from the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin in 2017. During and after her studies she used to work as a Software Engineer. One of her focuses and the research topic of her master's thesis was the development of chatbot applications.
At DATEXIS Betty worked on the project NOHATE, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The project aims included to develop solutions for the detection of Hatespeech in online discussions with the help of Deep Learning techniques.
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- Outcome Prediction from Clinical Notes at Admission Time - Future Medicine Science Pitch, Tagesspiegel
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- Betty van Aken, Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Marcel G. Naik, Georgios Eleftheriadis, Wolfgang Nejdl, Felix Alexander Gers and Alexander Loeser : This Patient Looks Like That Patient: Prototypical Networks for Interpretable Diagnosis Prediction from Clinical Text, AACL 2022 [PDF] [Code]
- Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Paul Grundmann, Betty van Aken, Athanasios Samaras Ilias Kyparissidis, George Giannakoulas, Felix Gers, Alexander Löser: Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer for Clinical Phenotyping, LREC 2022 [PDF] [Code]
- Betty van Aken, Sebastian Herrmann, Alexander Loeser. What Do You See in this Patient? Behavioral Testing of Clinical NLP Models. Proceedings of the Fourth Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop @ NAACL 2022 [PDF] [Code]
- Betty van Aken, Ivana Trajanovska, Amy Siu, Manuel Mayrdorfer, Klemens Budde, Alexander Loeser. Assertion Detection in Clinical Notes: Medical Language Models to the Rescue? Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Medical Conversations (NLPMC@NAACL'21) [PDF] [Code / Data]
- Betty van Aken, Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Manuel Mayrdorfer, Klemens Budde, Felix Gers, Alexander Löser. Clinical Outcome Prediction from Admission Notes using Self-Supervised Knowledge Integration. The 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'21) [PDF] [Code]
- Betty van Aken, Benjamin Winter, Felix A. Gers and Alexander Löser. VisBERT: Hidden-State Visualizations for Transformers. The Web Conference 2020 (WWW'20) Demo Track [PDF] [Code]
- Sebastian Arnold, Betty van Aken, Paul Grundmann, Felix A. Gers and Alexander Löser. Learning Contextualized Document Representations for Healthcare Answer Retrieval. The Web Conference 2020 (WWW'20) [PDF] [Code]
- Betty van Aken, Benjamin Winter, Felix A. Gers and Alexander Löser. How Does BERT Answer Questions? A Layer-Wise Analysis of Transformer Representations. The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'19) [PDF] [Code]
- Betty van Aken, Julian Risch, Ralf Krestel, Alexander Löser. Challenges for Toxic Comment Classification: An In-Depth Error Analysis 2nd Workshop on Abusive Language Online (ALW@EMNLP'18) [PDF]
Advised Bachelor- / Mastertheses
- Anjali Grover, Multi-task Learning with AdapterFusion, Master Thesis, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, 2021
- Ivana Trajanovska, Assertion Detection in Electronic Health Records, Master Thesis, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, 2020
- Sebastian Jäger, Compressing BERT - An Evaluation and Combination of Methods, Master Thesis, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, 2020
- Arndt Allhorn, Transfer Learning for Hate Speech Detection, Master Thesis, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, 2020
- Sebastian Herrmann, Generating Electronic Health Records: an Investigation on Gender-Medicine and Rare Diseases, Bachelor Thesis, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, 2020.
- TheWebConf 2023 Research Track
- TheWebConf 2022 Research Track
- TheWebConf 2021 Research Track
- TheWebConf 2020 Research Track
- NAACL 2019 Industry Track
- TheWebConf 2019 Research Track
- Workshop on Abusive Language Online @ ACL 2019
E-Mail: bvanaken (at) bht-berlin.de
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On October 14 we planted this year's potato crop (by which I mean the potatoes we'll eat next year). I gave an account of our potato planting process in this post and nothing significant has changed since I wrote this up. In the photo above, Tim is filling a couple of trays with water. We soak the newspapers so that they don't fly around while you lay them down onto the garden bed.
Last year's report included evidence of my children's assitance with potato planting but this year we did not have any children with us. They are old enough now to be left to their own pursuits at home. We are just back from our annual October bushwalk and they are both happy to be at home and do their homely (read electronic devices) connections. I can't tell you how grateful I am to have had a childhood that was pre-computer. I crave the outdoors away from desks and electronics. I love the dirt and the garden and the sky above me. I like listening to the birds and the wind whip across suburban Dunlop and rip across the vegie patches. I don't know what it will be like for this generation of children who went from womb to screen. What do their brains perceive when they are in nature? Is it the same as mine? I don't know. Can they be as connected to nature or are they always craving electronic connections?
Like last year, this year's seed potatoes have once again been purchased from New Gippsland. We have Pontiac, Desiree, Sebago, Coliban, & Nicola.
In the absence of having someone to jot down what order we planted the potatoes, I decided to photograph the bags laid out in the order that they would go on the newspaper (so at the top of the beds are the pontiacs, then the desiree, then the sebago, coliban and finishing with the Nicola). Tim then wanted to place the paper bags under the actual type of potato and photograph the effect - just as an extra piece of photographic documentation. So I distracted myself with gazing at my pea seedlings in the bed next door.
And lo and behold....husbands are funny creatures aren't they? Charming photo. I guess he thought it was amusing - I think it would be best posted out of context.
Moving right along.....to finish off, the bed was covered in straw then sprinklings of sheep manure, blood and bone and sulphate of potash were added to start the composting effect. The whole pile was watered well and then we walked away.
Previous posts
Potato bed - mid Summer (January 2012)
Potato bed - early summer (December 2011)
Potatoes are up (November 2011)
Planting seed potatoes (October 2011)
Buying seed potatoes (September 2011)
Leek and potato soup (May 2011)
More on the potato harvest (March 2011)
Potatoes and leeks (March 2011)
Potato bed - update late summer (February 2008)
Potato bed - early summer (December 2007)


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B.A., University of California, San Diego, 1992; M.A.R., Yale University Divinity School, 1994; M.A., philosophy, Catholic University of America, 1996; Ph.D., philosophy, Catholic University of America, 2000; Associate Professor of Philosophy, North American campus of the Pontifical University Regina Apostolorum, 1999-2010; Senior Fellow, Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person, 2000-; Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College, 2010-.
At the age of 34, having already earned a black belt in taekwondo and seeking a new outlet for physical exercise, Chris Oleson decided to take up Brazilian jujitsu. "It's a form of submission grappling, and it's the most intelligent martial art I've ever encountered," he says. "There are all sorts of sweeps, counters, and reversals. It's like living, fast-paced human chess."
Six years later, he would put that sort of agility to a new use as a tutor at Thomas Aquinas College. Indeed, a lifetime worth of grappling — with challenges both intellectual and spiritual — seem to have prepared him for just this undertaking.
Growing up, Dr. Oleson was "unchurched," as he puts it, until his senior year in high school when he embraced evangelical Christianity. With his conversion came a newfound love of the intellectual life. "All of a sudden, reality was much more mysterious and interesting than it had been before," he recalls. Inspired by a history course he had taken in his senior year in high school, he enrolled at the University of California, San Diego, as a classical studies major.
Studying ancient Greece naturally led him to another discipline for which he would soon develop a passion — philosophy, which he added as a second major during his sophomore year. And just as Chris' spiritual conversion deepened his intellectual life, his intellectual life would soon lead to a deepening of his spiritual conversion.
Through his involvement in a campus Christian group, Chris met his soon-to-be bride, Rachel. The couple married shortly after their graduation and moved to New Haven, Conn., where Chris would study for a master of arts in religion at the Yale Divinity School. There, attending an evangelical Episcopalian church, the Olesons came to appreciate sacramentality and liturgy, which — coupled with Chris' theological studies — helped nudge them toward the Catholic faith.
After Yale, Chris enrolled in The Catholic University of America to earn a doctorate in philosophy. During that time, he began to experience two competing pulls — one toward the Anglican ministry, the other toward the Catholic Church. With Rachel expecting the first of the couple's seven children, he was determined to resolve this conflict.
"I want our baby to be baptized in the church where I think I should be for life," he remembers thinking. With class out for the summer, Chris spent the next six weeks "doing nothing but reading encyclicals, conciliar documents, and books by Catholic apologists." He also discussed the matter at length with elders at his Episcopal parish. Within a few months, drawn by a love for the Eucharist, he and Rachel would come into full communion with the Catholic Church. Once again, his spiritual conversion would have profound intellectual implications.
Upon completing his doctoral studies, Dr. Oleson took a position as an associate professor of philosophy at the North American campus of the Pontifical University Regina Apostolorum, a Catholic seminary in Thornwood, N.Y. On his first day, he met a professor who was an alumnus of Thomas Aquinas College, Dr. Michael Augros ('92). The two quickly became friends and intellectual companions. Through Dr. Augros' influence, Dr. Oleson says, he began "a years-long pursuit and study of St. Thomas and the objective meaning of things in light of Thomistic philosophy."
Over the course of their 10 years together in New York, the Oleson and Augros families would form a close bond. So there was much sorrow, especially among all the children, when Dr. Augros left his seminary post in 2009 to become a tutor back at his alma mater. It was likewise with great joy when Dr. Oleson followed Dr. Augros' lead by joining the Thomas Aquinas College faculty in 2010. Coming to the College, he says, provided him and Rachel with an opportunity to return to Southern California and reconnect with family and old friends, while enabling him to teach in the sort of program for which all his grappling, both intellectual and spiritual, has well suited him.
"Looking back at my whole intellectual trajectory," he reflects — his early interest in the Western intellectual tradition, which begat a zeal for philosophy, theology, and the Catholic Church, culminating in a discipleship to St. Thomas Aquinas — "I see what a good fit the College is for me."
Dr. Oleson is happy to trade the lecturing he did at the seminary for the Discussion Method employed in the College's classrooms. "It is more demanding because when you're giving a lecture, you control it; but when you're leading a seminar, it has a life of its own," he says. "You have to constantly be attentive to what the students are articulating. You have to keep on top of the conversation and steer it in a profitable way" — kind of like living, fast-paced human chess. "It is much more mentally draining," the tutor smiles, "but it's also much more stimulating."
- "Rortian Irony and the Humility of Right Reason," Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought (forthcoming)
- "Dignitas Personae and the Question of Heterologous Embryo Transfer," The Linacre Quarterly (May 2009)
- "Our Last Marriage Taboo," Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity (Jan-Feb 2009, Vol. 76, No. 3)
- "Nature, Naturalism, and the Immorality of Contraception," National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (Winter 2006, Vol. 6, No. 4)
- "The Nuptial Womb: On the Moral Significance of Being 'With Child,'" in Human Embryo Adoption: Biotechnology, Marriage, and the Right to Life (Philadelphia: The National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2006)
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This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. Now we're going to remember the man who was known as the father of G.I. Joe. Donald Levine was a toy industry executive in the early 1960s, when the iconic action figure stormed playrooms across the country. Levine died of cancer late last week. He was 86. NPR's Elizabeth Blair does this appreciation.
ELIZABETH BLAIR, BYLINE: Donald Levine served in the Army during the Korean War. In an interview with video producer Chad Hembree, Levine said he made a vow to himself when he returned.
DONALD LEVINE: Someday, I'm going to do something to honor this military - these military people who fight in the wars. Nobody wins a war, but they fight in the wars. And my attitude was, someday I'm going to do it.
BLAIR: That day came when a man name Stanley Weston showed Levine his concept for a rugged-looking doll for boys. Levine and the founders of Hasbro were thrilled, especially since their rivals over at Mattel were winning the sales race with Barbie. Tom Engelhardt is the author of "The End Of Victory Culture."
TOM ENGELHARDT: That's why you ended up with that phrase - action figure. Nobody wanted to use the word doll - nobody wanted to admit that. But he was something that you kind of dressed up. You put your weapon on him, you put his helmet on him - you know, he had his little pup tent he could go in, so on and so forth.
BLAIR: Donald Levine said he got the idea for the name while watching the movie, "The Story Of G.I. Joe," about war correspondent Ernie Pyle. He said the name had been licensed to a candy bar and a comic book, but not a toy. In 1964, G.I. Joe reportedly made Hasbro $7 million - the next year? - $28 million.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe. Fighting man from head to toe. On the land, on the sea, in the air.
UNIDENTIFIED BOY: G.I. Joe, attack.
BLAIR: But then, the Vietnam War escalated.
ENGELHARDT: Vietnam - that antiwar movement wiped him and a lot of other war stuff out of that world. Mothers stopped buying war toys.
BLAIR: So Hasbro tried to make G.I. Joe seem less warlike by, for example, giving him a beard. But when sales didn't pick up, G.I. Joe was eventually furloughed in 1976. But then, six years later, he was re-launched to even greater success.
In 2012, G.I. Joe was voted number one in the top 20 toys that define childhood at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Donald Levine was extremely proud of his role bringing the plastic, movable fighting man into the world. In the early 2000s, he started auctioning off some of the early prototypes in his private collection. A museum in Baltimore bought one for $200,000. He was, after all, the toy that made it OK for boys to play with dolls. Elizabeth Blair, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Missouri Baptist author George Joslin of Springfield has produced what may be the first American Sign Language-only novel.
Titled A Deaf Man's Gospel, the novel is only available in American Sign Language (ASL) on DVD, rather than in print format. According to Joslin, his novel may be the first created just for the Deaf in ASL.
"Many stories have been recorded, but not a full-length novel like this," Joslin explained. "Many things have been translated into ASL from English, but this was created in ASL."
The biblical fiction starts with the story of the deaf man Jesus healed in Mark 7:31-35, and adding some incidents from the other gospels.
"The fiction is that the deaf man Jesus healed, named Benjamin, is added to the gospel stories. The book portrays the observations and experiences of this deaf man," he added.
"This is a book created by a deaf man — me, presented in ASL by a deaf man — Tim Bender — for deaf people. We have added voice to the DVD so hearing friends and family can enjoy this book along with the deaf," Joslin said.
The idea formed when Joslin began to ask himself questions as he read the biblical account: Who was this deaf man? Who brought him to Jesus? What was it like to be deaf at the time Jesus was on earth? What happened to this man after he was healed?
The Bible does not provide the man's name, his hometown or the names of those who brought him to Jesus. Because the work is fiction, Joslin chose to name him Benjamin and placed him in Capernaum, near the place where Jesus healed him. Joslin decided Nicodemus and his brother, Abner, Benjamin's father, could have led Benjamin to the Lord.
The author based his assumptions about Benjamin's life on what is common in the Deaf community today and what is known about the way of life in Jesus' time. In the book, Joslin suggests the man met many of the people portrayed in the New Testament, and that he became a follower of Jesus.
Binder serves as pastor of a church for the Deaf in Louisville, Ky. Buddy Burgess, a hearing man and pastor of a Virginia Baptist Deaf church in Richmond, Va., did the voiceover.
Other Baptists also were part of the project. Southern Baptist evangelist Howard Baldwin of Multi-Media Evangelism Inc. handled technical aspects. Let's Sign, owned by Edith Booth of Jackson, Miss., is the distributor.
Joslin is the author of two other novels, A Life After Deafness and A Terp on the Line, and numerous non-fiction books on teaching American Sign Language and interpreting for the Deaf. Individuals interested in the two-DVD A Deaf Man's Gospel may contact Joslin at email@example.com.


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'Ghostbusters 3′ to Film in Cleveland With Emma Stone and Jonah Hill?
'Ghostbusters 3' has remained alive in fans' hearts thanks to hopeful chatter from original star Dan Aykroyd, though all the on-and-off development issues have placed this in the category of "we'll believe it when we see it." However, new reports have emerged claiming that the sequel will finally begin filming next year, perhaps even with two new stars attached.
According to WKYC, an NBC affiliate, Sony is eyeing Cleveland, Ohio, to play host to 'Ghostbusters 3' production in spring 2014. The city recently welcomed the film 'Jenny's Wedding' with Katie Holmes.
In addition, Schmoes Know reported earlier this week that 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' star Emma Stone and '22 Jump Street'-er Jonah Hill have been offered the lead roles of Anna and Jeremy. Whether they accept the roles is another matter, not to mention Sony still needs to get the official green light.
While it's unlikely the original leads -- Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson -- will all return, especially Murray with his increasingly busy schedule, Aykroyd has been talking about 'Ghostbusters 3' for quite some time. His latest update offered the alleged plot description based around Higgs boson and current particle theory, and that four new ghostbusters are needed for the cast:
['Ghostbusters 3' is] based upon new research that's being done in particle physics by the young men and women at Columbia University. ... Basically there's research being done that…I can say that the world or our dimension that we live in, our four planes of existence, length, height, width and time, become threatened by some of the research that is being done. And Ghostbusters, new Ghostbusters have to come and solve the problem.
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The Civil War Did Not Take Place, William Pencak, Rethinking History Journal, 6:2 (2002), pp. 217-221.
Upon upon comparing and contrasting the media's accounts of the the 1991 Iraq War and eyewitness testimony of the war, Jean Baudrillard in in 1995 declared that the Gulf War did not take place. Pencak makes the same claim that the for the American Civil War is a verbal construction and hides testimony that American citizens would rather forget.
Pencak reviews the history of 'civil war' as a term that signifies the events of 1861-1865. Five stages gauge imperfectly how book titles used the term to describe the great conflict. He finds that the five stages correspond to the historical periods that marked the gradual reconciliation of the two regions. From 1865 to 1872, the term 'civil war' only appeared in the scholarly works of Benson Lossing (1866-1868), J. W. Draper (1867-1870) and Guernsey and Alden (1867). Otherwise, Northerners generally wrote of 'the rebellion' or 'the war for the Union' and Southerners wrote of 'the war for southern independence. At this time Reconstruction issues were at the fore.
During the 1870s, the moral picture became complicated by the continued presence of Federal troops in the South, and political corruption among the friends of U.S. Grant. Democratic Party leaders such as Samuel Tilden, Winfield Hancock, Grover Cleveland relied on Southerners turning out the vote. Pencak notes that from 1873 to 1889 the word/phrase 'rebellion' and 'war for the Union' stilled dominated in the North and 'War Between the States' became dominant in the South. He declares that state sovereignty had not been dismissed in the minds of Southerners and/or that the two regions were national states.
By the late 1880s, the intersecting issues of European immigration, Populism, and urban disorders became more dramatic that inter-sectional antagonisms. In 1887 President Grover Cleveland returned captured Confederate flags and the 25th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg was noted. Within 19 years the last Union veteran to be president, William McKinley, stated that North and South are not divided "upon the old lines, but upon principles and policies and the Spanish-American war saw the return of two Confederate generals to the ranks of the Federal army.
Memoirs began to pour forth and the term 'civil war' began to appear in the titles of the works in as many instances as the phrase 'the war of the rebellion' appeared.
For the first time the term 'civil war' was in the titles of books written by Confederate officers. From 1910 to 1920 the term 'civil war' was used in the majority of book titles. This trend continues to the present day. Pancak notes several popular culture references to the war; these anecdotes may indicate change away from the prevalence of the term 'civil war.'
Granny Clampett of the Beverly Hillbillies became outraged at the use of the term 'civil war' which she defined at a time when the North invaded the United States. Nostalgia for the Confederacy among Southerners and the membership increases in of The League of the South, a relative new organization, are advocating a return to post-war terms. Now 'heritage violations' are committed by Northerners who are unaware of the Declaration of Southern Cultural Independence and the state of Mississippi's attempt to establish the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library. Pencak notes that 'while refutation of historical error can never shake the true believer' it may encourage some to keep an open mind about labels and hidden agendas. Distortions of the past are avoided when historians pay attentions to the historicity of the 'Civil War' as a proper noun. 'The Civil War' is a compromise term.
Special attention should be given to the term during this era of neo-Confederate interpretations. Foremost, Southerners before 1861 insisted that the cause of the war was a fear that the Federal government would interfere with the expansion of slavery or infringe on slavery's current domain. After the war slavery in the Southern mind was diminished as a cause of the war and states' rights elevated as a prime cause. " . . . the only states' right the South really cared about was the right to" keep their slaves. Southerners contested other states' legislation to inhibit the return of runaways by the Federal authorities.
Pencak understands that the greatest myth regarding the war is the belief that the Confederacy laid down it arms and peacefully embraced reunion. Citing the 700 pages of Congressional testimony regarding incidents of violence committed before 1867, Pencak dismisses the notion that the South lost an essential tenet of the conflict.
From the 1865 to 1877, then from 1877 to the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, the South demonstrated a penchant for violence when ordering its race relations regarding land ownership, suffrage, labor contracts and social intercourse. Pencak's references his conclusions regarding the use of the terms 'civil war', 'rebellion' and others to a bibliography that is provided at the end of the article.
CWL feels that Pencak's essay is compatible with AP history courses and undergraduate students. His writing style is clear, concise and cogent. The essay is conducive to a classroom discussion on the nature of history and historical interpretations. The essay's length, with a list of bibliographic references, is five pages which is an amount that should not be intimidating to academic readers.
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nice blog
www.piyooh.com - 9:13 PM
I agree with his statements about the use of CW but the Title is awlful odd. Nothing like more books to either buy or look for at the library.
It is an interesting article and the Title is a unusual play on Words.
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New efforts to curb cellphone theft
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Disturbed by the nationwide epidemic of cellphone robberies and thefts, law enforcement officials across the country are looking to the wireless industry to help find a cure.
In San Francisco, where half the robberies were phone-related last year, District Attorney George Gascon is calling on major companies in nearby Silicon Valley to create new technology such as a "kill switch" to permanently and quickly disable stolen smart phones, making them worthless to thieves.
The prosecutor said he's recently had two discussions with Apple, maker of the popular iPhone, and has talked informally with Google, creator of the Android, the world's most popular operating smartphone platform. And, he also wants to meet with Samsung, the global smartphone market leader.
"We know that the technology can be developed to prevent this. This is more about social responsibility than economic gain," Gascon said.
The stakes are huge in the battle to combat cellphone theft. Nearly 175 million cellphones – mostly smartphones- have been sold in the US in the past year and account for US$69 billion in sales, according to IDC, a Massachusetts-based research firm.
And, now almost one out of three robberies nationwide involves the theft of a mobile phone, reports the Federal Communications Commission, which is coordinating formation this fall of a highly-anticipated national database system to track cellphones reported stolen.
The FCC is also working with officials in Mexico to crack down on the trafficking of stolen mobile phones that make it across the border.
San Francisco's district attorney is not the only high-ranking big-city law official seeking solutions.
In Washington DC, where than 40 percent of its robberies in 2012 involved cellphones, police Chief Cathy Lanier said new federal laws are necessary to require all wireless providers to participate in the national stolen phones database, which is now done by choice.
"This is a voluntary agreement and the decision makers, heads of these (wireless) companies may transition over time and may not be in the same position five years from now." Lanier said in an email. "Something needs to be put in place to protect consumers."
On the theory that an inoperable phone is as useless as a "brick," Lanier and Mayor Vincent Gray also have urged residents who have their phones stolen to call their carriers and ask that the device be "bricked," or disconnected remotely to prevent resale on the black market.
In New York City, police have created a smartphone squad and partnered with Apple to track down stolen iPhones using the device's tracking number. For example, when an iPhone is stolen, Apple can report to police where the phone is located, even if it's been switched to a different carrier.
Police said the city's overall crime rate last year increased three percent mostly due to the more than 15,000 thefts of Apple-related products – a majority of them iPhones – said Paul Browne, a police spokesman.
"We would've had a one percent decrease in overall crime if you subtracted the Apple thefts," said Browne, adding that police have coined the phenomenon, "Apple-picking."
"We're trying to protect the orchard, so to speak," Browne said.
He added that police often use officers as decoys using their own iPhones to catch would-be robbers and stings to catch those who sell them on the black market. About 75 per cent of the stolen devices stay within the city's five boroughs and some have been tracked down as far as the Dominican Republic.
In addition, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has been working with US Senator Charles Schumer, D-New York, the FCC and CTIA, a trade group for wireless providers, on the national stolen phone database, along with six of the largest wireless companies.
Computer security expert Darren Hayes said law enforcement agencies, major corporations and the wireless industry have responded slowly to the spike in mobile phone thefts, leaving individuals as well as businesses vulnerable.
"Smartphones have become such an extension of our lives with all of our personal information on them and criminals recognizing its mass appeal," said Hayes, a professor and computer information systems program chair at Pace University in New York.
"Professionally, there are some corporate network administrators who can control their company servers from their smartphone. While it's convenient, it could also put them at risk and could be the biggest source of data loss if they are stolen.
"We could see a potential nightmare emerging," Hayes said.
Jamie Hastings, a CTIA vice president, said the national stolen phone database is a step in the right direction and deserves a chance.
"To suggest that our members don't care about their consumers is completely inaccurate," Hastings said. "Our members are now focusing their energies on the database and achieving the start-up goal by November. The important thing at this stage is to allow our members to execute the plan that all of the stakeholders agreed upon."
The national database will be similar to a global database devised by GSMA, a wireless trade group based in the United Kingdom. Nearly 100 wireless companies across 43 countries participate in the overseas database for reported stolen mobile phones, said Claire Cranton, a GSMA spokeswoman in London.
But Gascon said a national network to track stolen phones comes up short and he is adamant that a kill switch is the best strategy to render a phone useless.
In March, he met with Apple's government liaison officer Michael Foulkes to talk about creating a kill switch technology. He described the encounter as "disappointing" but said a subsequent phone conversation with Apple's general counsel Bruce Sewell last month led to plans for talks that would include Apple's technical people.
Representatives of the tech giant did not respond to requests for comment.
"For me, a technical solution is probably better than just a criminal solution," Gascon said. "We can always create more laws, but look at how long it already takes to prosecute somebody at the expense of the taxpayers?
"If a phone can be inoperable at the flick of a switch, then a database will become moot."