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Soooo....I was totally planning to update this thing, but then I got distracted by the Hunger Games series! I borrowed the first book from a friend (I had to see what all the hype was about!) and immediately bought the other two after I finished. I don't think it's as flawless as my friends describe, but it's pretty compulsive reading. I think I might be hooked.
I know I'm kind of late to the whole thing, but I'm determined to catch up! Probably no more arts until I finish the series. Here are some book-related sketches, though:
I haven't been doing enough non-work drawings...I am majorly rusty :(


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The body claims findings from its International Communications Market Report, based on research across 17 major countries, prove the UK is becoming "one of the first all-digital" nations.
UK consumers are the most likely, globally, to access TV content over the internet, with almost a quarter (23%) of UK web users claiming to do this every week with catch-up services including BBC iPlayer, Sky Go and 4OD driving the trend.
The US ranked second with 17% and Spain was in third with 16%.
People in the UK watch more than four hours (242 minutes) of TV every day on average, with only the US (293 minutes) and Italy (253 minutes) watching more.
Smart TVs are now owned by 15% of UK consumers, while the UK's obsession with technology also means the country has one of the highest penetrations of smartphones at 57%.
Meanwhile, just under one in five (19%) of the population now owns a tablet computer.
The high take-up of mobile devices has resulted in UK consumers downloading more data on their mobiles and tablets than any other nation surveyed.
In December 2011, the popularity of social networking, streaming videos, web browsing and downloading music in the UK led to the average mobile connection using 424MB of data across the month.
The UK came top in terms of data usage, ahead of Japan in second place with 392MB of data and the US in sixth with 319MB, according to independent data.
An Ofcom spokesman revealed that independent data was used for this metric because Ofcom's own data would not be comparable across different markets.
The research found one sixth (16%) of all website traffic in the UK was now via a mobile device, which is the highest in Europe.
The boom in mobile traffic, which has resulted in over a fifth (23.1%) of UK consumers using their devices to visit retail sites, has helped the UK become the heaviest ecommerce spenders per head, with average spend now £1,083, up 14% from £950 in 2010.
James Thickett, director of research at Ofcom, said: "Our research reveals that the UK leads the way in using the internet on the move. Increasingly, it's mobile devices like smartphones and tablets that are driving this growing demand for data – and in the UK it seems to be social networking sites that are behind this in particular."
This is the seventh time Ofcom has carried out its International Communications Market Report, which examines take-up, availability, price and use of broadband, landlines, mobiles, TV and radio.


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This has been a crazy week in Mox-topia, so I wasn't able to dig through my personal retro-cookbook collection, but I did scour the Internet for even more fabulously horrid things you shouldn't feed your family.
First up (because I'm still having Jell-O issues):
Jellied Bouillon with Frankfurters
(originally posted by slash food from "500 Snacks: Bright Ideas for Entertaining (1941), Culinary Arts Institute"
What's most horrifying about this is the fact that my daughter LOVES hot dogs almost as much as her mother. She, however, prefers them cold, right out of the package. I'm guessing my picky eater would eat this. And that truly frightens me. Someone needs to explain to me WHY you should put hard-boiled eggs in Jell-O. I just don't get it.And I'm sorry, I don't want hot dogs with glamour. It's precocious.
Hot & Sour Shake
(from wildrecipes.com)
1. You need hot peppers (what kind doesn't matter), half a dozen cups of lemon juice, 1/2 a cup of hot sauce, a scoop of vanilla ice cream, and a cup of milk.
2. Chop hot peppers before putting in blender.
3. Put ingredients in blender until smooth.
Should a milkshake really be spicy? I don't think so. Peppers and ice cream DON'T mix.
Sardine Eggs Recipe
Sardine Eggs Recipe with Boiled Eggs, Tin Sardines, Mayonnaise, Parsley & Anchovies.
6 Hard Boiled Eggs
1 Small Tin Sardines
2 tablespoons Mayonnaise
Parsley & Anchovies to garnish
Cut the Eggs in half and remove the Egg Yolks. Put the Egg Yolks through a fine sieve into a large bowl. Mash the Sardines well, and mix into the Egg Yolks with the Mayonnaise. Season to taste. Put the mixture into a piping bag with a rose nozzle. Pipe he mixture into the Egg Whites. Garnish each with a sprig of Parsley and Anchovy. Serves 6.
(Based on the Sardine Eggs recipe in: Simple Recipes by Joanna Percival (Albany Books / Debenhams Books 1978).
Sardines and Anchovies? No thank you. I only made the mistake of ordering a Caesar Salad once without specifying no dead fish on top. It was a horrifying experience and I haven't quite recovered.
Ketchup Macaroons
This is a recipe you simply have to see ALL the visuals on, but come right back.
Done? Ok. I know, right? UGH!
Cornichons(pickles, I googled it) and Ketchup do NOT belong in cookie form. This is not a true Retro-Recipe, but it's still pretty horrifying. The brightness of the red is most appalling.
I'm pretty sure this cookie was created simply because Europeans (I'm looking at you, FRANCE) sneer at our adorable American preference for putting ketchup on everything. Being from Kansas City, I've often wondered how Gates sauce would taste on chocolate cake, but that doesn't really matter does it? I was pregnant and that doesn't count.
So, anyway, I've ruined your appetite for the rest of the day. I'm sorry. Next week I'll really dig deep and bring you something fabulously horrid!
Friday, February 27, 2009
Retro Gag: Hot N Sour Shake Anyone?
This has been a crazy week in Mox-topia, so I wasn't able to dig through my personal retro-cookbook collection, but I did scour the Internet for even more fabulously horrid things you shouldn't feed your family.
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 11:23 AM 6 comments
Thursday, February 26, 2009
A Completely Modest Proposal
I survived a rape when I was 19 years old, and I know how horrible that trauma is to overcome and live with.
If someone ever dared to do that to my 13 yr old daughter and then gloat about it in front of me, I'd have NO problem setting the son of a bitch on fire.
I don't really see a problem here, which is probably why my dad still doesn't know who my rapist is even though it was 13 years ago. I'm just saying...
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 2:37 PM 7 comments
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Fat Tuesday Pancakes?
Today is Fat Tuesday (day before Ash Wednesday, start of Lent). Apparently you eat pancakes as a tradition on Fat Tuesday.
I'm a cradle Catholic and I've never heard of this.
Is it a regional thing? How have I missed this until now?
Growing up, we had a traditional feast of pizza, chocolate, chips and soda (the usual things we'd give up for the next 40 days and nights).
Oh well, who cares...it's a great excuse to make something super easy for dinner, and who doesn't love pancakes?
Here's a great link to a link filled with fabulous pancake recipes in case you're inspired to take the easy way out tonight, too.
I think I'll make chocolate chip and apple cinnamon ones...no fancy recipe, I'm sure you can figure it out with a box of Hungry Jack if you use your imagination.
Since it's the day before Lent starts, I guess I should figure out what I'm giving up/doing extra for the next 40 days. Thanks for the reminder, Logtar!
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 11:17 AM 7 comments
I guess I suck as an Obama Mama
I know Darling's only 4, but I took this Parenting Quiz: How do you stack up against Michelle and Barack?
Now I long for the carefree days of the "At least my daughter isn't getting wasted at frat parties" Bush era parenting.
Sure, Darling feeds/waters BullyKat, but I'm not sure she's ready for the litter box.
I can barely get her vegetable choices to stray outside of broccoli, califlower, french fries and lettuce, let alone organic carrots.
Considering the fact that Darling is a night owl like her Daddy, and we usually have to scrape her out of bed in the mornings, I'm not sure she'll be ready for an alarm clock in Kindergarten or falling asleep by 8 pm. But 8:30 is close, right?
I do read to her every night. She isn't ready for Harry Potter yet, but we read, damn it, there is HOPE !
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 10:01 AM 2 comments
Monday, February 23, 2009
Dollhouse? Anybody?
I've been a huge fan of Joss Whedon for years. Especially Buffy The Vampire Slayer (the show, not the crappy movie). I was REALLY looking forward to his new show Dollhouse.
Not only am I a huge Joss fan, I also LOVE Eliza Dushku.
This show, in theory, should rock my world...
There have been 2 episodes so far and I don't know what to think. I really want to like it, but it really hasn't caught me up yet. Maybe I just can't get into the idea of brainwashing a woman in order to make her be anything you want her to be. Plus, her handler isn't Anthony Stewart Head (Giles). Maybe I just need to keep watching in order for it to make sense.
Anyone else watching? Any thoughts?
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 7:48 PM 6 comments
Friday, February 20, 2009
New Weekly Feature: Retro Gag!
That's right, Constant Reader! Each week I'll scour the Internet and the 1970's cookbooks that I generously inherited from my grandmothers and other well-meaning little old ladies for the most gag-tastic recipes I can find.
As the mother of a picky eater, I'm constantly scouring recipes. I'm a recipe addict. I admit it. I love trying new recipes and Darling's tastes are a constantly moving target. I also have a fascination with Mad Men era advertising (The Golden Age of Advertising, if you will)
This week, as an homage to my lost Kool-Aid Gels, I bring you:
Things You Should NEVER mix with Jell-O....
I have never understood the 1950's and '60's housewife's fascination with Jello molds. I'm not talking mixing in a little Fruit Cocktail with your Jell-O, I'm talking about the all out everything and the kitchen sink approach to Jell-O.
Once my mother in law mixed shredded carrots and cabbage in orange Jell-O. I thought it was just par for the hideous course of her usual cooking.
Then I found these little gems. As a general rule, just because it CAN be suspended in Jell-O does NOT mean it SHOULD be suspended in Jell-O.
Olive's Technicolor Yak...
That's right. This lovely little snack has olives, onion, pepper, celery and VELVEETA suspended in light, refreshing lime flavored Jell-O. Serve that one to your kids and see what Wally and the Beaver have to say...
Garden Salad Ring
MMMM...Lemon Jell-O, eggs, cabbage, chives and radishes. I can't wait for seconds, Mom! This recipe is really keen!
"Because It's So Hard To Get Them to Eat Their Lima Beans and This Will Do the Trick" Mold
I'd personally throw this back at my mother. I have no words. Worcestershire and lima beans. Shudder.
Summer Picnic Food Poisoning De-Lite
I love potato salad in all of it's glorious forms, but this is one toke over the line for me. Cucumber, pepper, pimento and our friend Lemon Jell-O? No way in hell.
So there you have it. Do you like Retro Gag? Should I never do it again?
All of these little gems were scragged from the VERY awesome retro advertising site: Do What Now? Jim Dunn is a commentary genius and shares my nerd-tastic love of all arcane ads and reference to pop culture gone by.
Stay tuned (if your stomach can handle it.) Next week I'm either going to take on Betty Crocker circa 1970 (you saucy minx) or share some recipes from a cookbook circa 1850. We'll just have to see.
I would like to place my caveat here at the end that if you should dare try one of these recipes, you cannot hold me liable. Cook at your own risk. If you need great recipes, check out Dana, The Homesteading Housewife. Her recipes are always Moxie approved.
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 9:30 AM 8 comments
Sign of the times, my friends
Sadly, there is probably a market for these. Sigh. Check out the rest of Advergirl's cards here.
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 9:27 AM 0 comments
Thursday, February 19, 2009
No Pudding For YOU!
Guess there's no room for Kool-Aid Gels or Handi-Snacks Pudding in Kraft's culinary line up.
Those little pudding cups stopped many a Darling meltdown. We're a very busy family and no, I don't do a June Cleaver dinner every night when I come home from work. Sometimes I just need something quick so I can relax for an hour or so.
These snacks also fit nicely into my purse when we're rushing off somewhere and while they may not be the healthiest, they are very useful bribery as dessert. Darling especially liked the Strawberry Gels with a few grapes and the chocolate pudding.
Hell, I like them!
I guess now I have to switch brands, which I hate doing because I am a brand loyalist when it comes to certain things. Maybe I'm just resistant to change.
I guess I should really curse the economy.
Damn you, Economy, for taking away our delicious pudding cups!
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 9:41 AM 4 comments
I saw something completely different....
This started as a really long response to Meesha's post about the chimp picture and then I decided what the heck, I'll make it my own post.
I cannot see the racist implications, sorry Al Sharpton.
I agree with Meesha that the cartoonist put two news stories together to make commentary. (Sorry, but crazy chimpanzees gone wild always makes for a good lead story on the news).
I personally think George W. Bush looks more like a monkey than Obama. There is no way I would have put 2 and 2 together like that for it to equal racism.
My first reaction was to be worried for Emaw's safety...Hope you're ok, buddy!
My second reaction was that it actually reminded me of the one-act play "Words, Words, Words" by David Ives.
This play is based on the Infinite Monkey Theorem, which is, given enough time, monkeys caged in a room with typewriters will eventually come up with "Hamlet".
It's a crazy theory, but "Words..." is an awesome play. I saw it about 10 years ago and I still remember Milton, Swift and Kafka (the monkeys, not the writers, but I remember them too, I guess.)
When I saw the cartoon, I thought of Congress being the symbolic monkey typing away at something a lot of people see as gibberish, not our president. Congress wrote the bill, not Obama, so....? I don't get it.
What disturbs me most about this story is the fact that there was an automatic jump in some people's minds to Obama. Can we please move past racism in my lifetime? Just because we elected an African American president doesn't mean there aren't racists among us, but seriously, let's look for it and attack it where it really exists, not in this ridiculous cartoon.
Just for a second, let's just assume that it was about Obama.
First, assassination isn't funny. It just isn't. Knock it off, m'kay?
Secondly, let's say it was just a cartoon that painted Obama in a negative light. He's our president. A public figure. He's going to get criticized right or wrong. God Bless America for the freedom to criticize our public figures without worrying about being shot.
Every time he's criticized in the next 4-8 years, is there going to be someone crying "Racism!"? Because that's going to get old, really quick. It will end up hurting and not helping the cause of racial equality, so be a little more choosy about the battles you pick, Al.
(hopping off my soapbox....)
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 8:47 AM 3 comments
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
This is why I drink Diet Coke...
I'm a huge fan of Advertising is Good For You. They have great commentary on a lot of campaigns. Then I saw this today.
I just about spit out my Diet Coke laughing.
Check out Lawrence Yang's site. I love it when artists see different things than the intended. That being said, I'm sure tons of research went into Pepsi's new design and hours of laborious focus groups, etc. Along comes some guy and he hilariously defaces it. I hope people don't do this to me. I'm sure they do.
Yang's art is awesome. Check it out. It makes me wish I had the money to buy beautiful, real art...
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 8:29 AM 5 comments
Monday, February 16, 2009
Hot Dogs vs. God
Guess what I just found out?
Opening Day for the Royals is on Good Friday this year.
You probably don't care if:
1. You don't like baseball and/or the Royals
2. You're not Catholic and don't understand the implications of this horror
3. You don't know what this has to do with hot dogs
I'll spell it out for you...
I'm a relatively somewhat practicing Catholic. One of the small things I can do as a sacrifice for Jesus' sacrifice is not eat meat for 6 Fridays of the year. I'm good at this. I can do it.
I'm also a rabid baseball fan. I don't care how much the Royals suck, Opening Day is a High Holy Day of Awesomeness in my family. My dad used to let us play hooky every year for Opening Day. My grandfather built a baseball field in the middle of his cornfield in the 1950's (Whatever, Kevin Costner!). I played for my college softball team. We sort of take baseball seriously.
Going to a baseball game = eating at least one or more hot dogs. I can't watch MLB without eating a hot dog. I simply can not do this. I have an unhealthy obsession with hot dogs from stadiums/vendor carts. I can't say no.
So, what am I going to do?! I know I'm going to the game (Thank you generous advertising outlets for giving me tickets since I spend so much money with you.)
Do I sin and have one anyway? It is my God-given, American right to enjoy hot dogs at a baseball game...
Do I call Bishop Finn and beg for a dispensation (Dude, he should already be all over this! If the Irish get it for St. Pat's, Royals fans should get it for Opening Day.)?
I can't eat meat on Good Friday of all days. That's the one day of the year (the day Jesus died on the cross for my atheist/Jewish/other non-Christian/heathen readers)Catholics simply cannot screw up on. I'd probably get struck by a bolt of lightning or something if I tried it.
Will it be a sin if I cheer for Mustard, Ketchup or Relish in the Hot Dog Race?
Do I duck if Slugger shoots a hot dog towards me?
How could the Royals screw up the one enjoyable day of fanhood (the only day they have a real chance of being above .500)?
The only good news?
God never said anything about beer.
The promise of overpriced beer and nachos help ease this pain...
God bless beer and fake cheese.
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 9:23 PM 9 comments
Out of the Blue Because I Love You Days
Handsome and I have a long standing rule about Valentine's Day:
DON'T you dare buy anything more than a card!
Handsome didn't take me seriously the first time I said this and that year I got flowers, dinner, a sparkly bracelet and a card.
I got him nothing but a card and a dirty look. He learned his lesson.
It's not that I hate Valentine's Day (Ok, I kind of do), it's just that giving gifts on "expected days" is dumb. I'd much rather receive flowers on a random Tuesday afternoon in a non-holiday/anniversary month. Surprise me, don't make me expect it.
Handsome's gotten very good at this. I usually get flowers twice-ish a year on random, out of the blue because I love you days.
In the spring I usually get tulips, daffodils and roses. In the fall, a bouquet similar to my wedding flowers (sunflowers, roses, chrysanthemums, wheat). He even always orders them from the florist who did our wedding. He's a romantic (much more than I am.) and he can't help himself.
He's a card-aholic and if he needs to be forgiven for something, or is feeling especially loving, he can find the perfect card that says exactly what he means. I think he has a secret "in" at Hallmark, I really do. As someone who grew up in a non-card giving family, it was a bit overwhelming at first to get cards all the time.
I do the same for him. He gets love notes taped to his steering wheel so he sees it first thing in the morning, or if I'm at the store and see something that I know he'd like, I'll get it for him as a surprise. I sneak "Break A Leg" cards into his bag on opening nights of his shows sometimes.
Unexpected gestures of love are awesome. Expecting things on Hallmark Holidays is not.
That's why I was particularly irritated to wake up this morning to my radio. There were women calling in complaining about how they hardly got anything for Valentine's Day. They always started: "We said we weren't going to do anything really big, but..."
Stop complaining. If you want something for Valentine's Day, specify. Otherwise, take your chances and get what you get.
If there is an overall lack of romance in the relationship, that's a much bigger problem than forgetting/underperforming on V-Day. Solve that and stop bitching.
I think there supposed to be a point to this post, but I'm pretty sure I've forgotten it.
For V-day this year, Darling, Handsome and I went shopping. The most exciting part of it was that it was Free Sample Day at Costco, which is always a big hit for Darling.
We spent the day as a family, cuddled on the couch, watching movies and eating homemade pizza (a family project since Darling is WAY into helping in the kitchen now). I think I lost the romantic nuances of "The Little Mermaid" after seeing it for the 925th time, but it's still a love story, right?
For me it was a fabulous day. For a change, I didn't have to work, Handsome wasn't running off to rehearsal and the three of us just spent family time. My 2 best lovies all weekend. It was wonderful.
Hope you had a great day too!
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 12:11 PM 3 comments
Friday, February 13, 2009
Who Doesn't Love a Clever Parody?
Sorry for not posting much this week, but it's been a bitch with a capital B.
I gave into my perfectionist, "I'm going to do all the things my mom never did" BS and actually made 30 homemade Valentines for Darling's class (NEVER, NEVER AGAIN, Psycho Moxie! JUST SAY NO TO CRAFTS!!!!)
Not only that, my adorable, fuel efficient, Ford Focus wagon (that won't be paid off until next year) was rear ended by a fucktard driving his sister-from-California's Navigator. You do the math on that one while I cry my eyes out, m'kay?
Then the corporate office geniuses that I work for screwed my paycheck up by almost $300. Just a mistake? It's the 5th time they made a mistake in the last year. I'm getting severely irritated.
The one shining ray of Happy, Happy this week is that my daughter got into the Big Girl School of Her Parents' Choice after some tense nail biting. My baby will be a Kindergartener next year. (pause for a weepy Mama bittersweet sob)
So yeah, there's lots of other stuff seasoned in with all this stuff, but I'll spare you.
I've been low on laughs this week until I found this parody of "American Pie" (the song, not the stupid movie) over at Of Cabbages and Kings. It made me happy. Go check it out. Pretty funny blogger...
Here's the genius...
The Day the PC Died
Just late last week or so
I can still remember how the Web, it used to make me smile
And I knew if I could log-on
I'd have readers saying, "blog on!"
And maybe they would Follow for a while
But I pushed the button, and I shivered
The silence, how it made me quiver
Virus, maybe malware?
The screen, it gave a blank stare
I can't remember if I cried
When I powered up and it just sighed
The loss, I felt it deep inside
The day the PC died
So, bye-bye Tweets from good Stephen Fry
Took my PC to the GeekSquad and they said they would try
While great new toys for Wii were waving goodbye, saying,
Chin up, dude, you're starting to cry
Chin up, dude, there's no need to cry
Do you hold PCs aloft?
And do you have faith in Microsoft
Because Bill Gates has told you so?
Do you believe in service fees
Can virus scans save our PCs?
And can you teach the clever tricks you know?
Well, I see that you charge by the hour
I found the rates there at the counter
It's so much cash to lose
But withdrawal makes me sing the blues
I am a lonely, Tweeting, blogging Stumbler
With my sleek workstation I made my fumble
Then I saw my Web world crumble
The day the PC died
I started singin'
Bye-bye Tweets from good Stephen Fry
Took my PC to the GeekSquad and they said they would try
While great new toys for Wii were waving goodbye, saying,
Chin up, dude, you're starting cry...
Chin up, dude, there's no need to cry...
Now for four days I've been on my own
I have a laptop, it's on loan
But it's just not the same to me
When I log-on, the apps don't know my name
And the forums they don't look the same
And my fingers tend to hit wrong keys
And while I waited for that phone call
To say it's fixed and here's the last bill
Trouble's new direction
Zapped my whole connection
Yes, seems some jerk in a Corvette Shark
Hit a power line outside our office park
We sang dirges in the dark
The day the PCs died
We were singin'
Bye-bye Tweets from good Stephen Fry
Took our PCs to the GeekSquad and they said they would try
While great new toys for Wii were waving goodbye, saying,
Chin up, dudes, you're starting to cry
Chin up, dudes, there's no need to cry
My computer is the last thing to explode this week....not that I'm asking for trouble on Friday the 13th or anything...
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 11:47 AM 3 comments
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Happy 142nd Birthday, Laura!
It's the 142nd anniversay of Laura Ingalls Wilder's birth today! (I can always remember this because my aunt's birthday is the same day.)
Her books taught me how to read and she's still one of my favorite authors. I plan on taking Darling on the 6 site tour of all her homes when she's old enough to start reading the books. (History comes alive!)
You might remember me blogging about one of the Laura sites being sued. This still makes me angry.
Check out the website: Laura Ingalls Wilder: Frontier Girl. It's pretty cool!
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 8:38 AM 2 comments
Friday, February 6, 2009
No, Moxie! That's MY pot pie!
My daughter's cat, BullyKat, is an evil demon, but we keep him around because he's as sweet as sugar to Darling. He literally waits at the door for her to come in at night, he sleeps with her with a protective paw over her and never, ever scratches her no matter how she picks him up.
He's the devil to the rest of us ~ Handsome, FraidyKat and I. He scratches, chases and ignores us when we tell him to stop climbing the bookshelves (Little F'er broke one of my favorite vases I put up there to protect it from him.)
It's so bad that we've had to start feeding Fraidy in different locations because BullyKat would literally bitch slap him and bite him whenever he came near the food dish. Fraidy was losing weight and it wasn't good. BullyKat, meanwhile is only a year old and roughly the size of a barn (I exaggerate, more like an aluminum lawn mower shed, but whatever.)
So, we were at Hy-Vee last night to pick up a few things (Handsome's finally broken down and accepts that he has a hell of a cold that needs to be medicated). I wasn't particularly in the mood to cook, so I perused the frozen food meals aisle and lo and behold, what do I find but a dear, old friend of mine....
Nostalgia caused an impulse buy. I know they are horrible, so please don't lecture me on that...I haven't eaten a pot pie in probably 10 yrs but I loved them when I was a kid (and a poor, starving college kid).
I bought a few beef pot pies (They are only $2 for 3 at your local Kansas City area Hy-Vee!), took them home and threw them in the freezer (They are microwavable now! No more tinfoil pans! Times have changed! I wonder though if the cardboard pot pie dishes are still effective for making mud pies, which is what I used to use the old ones for. Do they bake in the sun as well? I don't know.)
Since I live about 3 minutes from my job, I go home for lunch today. I thought it would be lovely to enjoy my nostalgic pot pie at the picnic table in the backyard in this lovely 60+ weather.
I toss my pot pie in the microwave for 6 minutes, check my email, take the pot pie out of the microwave and leave it on the counter to cool while I answer the call of nature (and who really enjoys the roof of their mouth being burned?)
It's about a minute and a half kitchen/bathroom round trip, I'm efficient.
Upon reentering the kitchen, BullyKat is on the counter (I HATE THIS! I HATE THIS!!! AND SOMEDAY HE'LL BE STUPID ENOUGH TO DO IT WHEN I'M CLOSER TO THE KNIFE BLOCK!!!).
What's he doing?
Licking the top crust of my f'ing pot pie, THAT'S what!
He takes one look at me and darts for the laundry room and hides behind the washer where the little f'er knows I can't reach him.
After cursing him like the saltiest of sailors, I'm left with a dilemma.
I've got 2 back up pot pies in the freezer but I've already got one ready (though cat licked) on the counter.
I was quickly running out of lunchtime...so I decide on a crust-ectomy, since most of it was safe in the microwavable (!) dish. (Shut up! I'm a mother and once you have kids, your gross-out factor depletes by multiple digits. 4 years of snot, puke, poop and pee will do that to you.)
Ever tried to cut the crust off a pot pie?
Not as simple as you think, but I managed it.
So, even though it was a lovely day, and I did indeed enjoy my topless pot pie outside, my sunny disposition has been ruined for the day.
Would you like to know what's for dinner tonight?
(Not my actual cat, this is someone else's photo, sorry, whoever you may be. The coloring is right, but remember, he's the size of the backyard shed. I'd need a bigger pot than that or maybe a broiler.)
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 12:49 PM 5 comments
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
I would walk 1,200 miles...for chocolate?
I was never a really big chocolate person (choco-holic?) until I had my daughter. I could take it or leave it, but being pregnant must have tripped something in my circuits. These days, I'm a bigger fan, but not in that "I'm going to kill someone if they don't give me chocolate NOW!!!" kind of way. (Those people scare me almost as much as crack addicts).
Americans apparently have a very long love affair with chocolate. Recently discovered artifacts conclude that ancient Americans in the New Mexico region were known to walk up to 1,200 miles to get chocolate (or cacoa) from Central America as early as 1000 BCE.
Wow. Would you walk that far for a Hershey Bar?
As one archeologist put it: "That's a long way to go for something that you don't need for survival, [something] that's more of a delicacy."
I have no idea why I find this fascinating, I just do. Maybe I'm craving Valentine's candy or chocolate Easter Bunnies early this year.
Posted by MoxieMamaKC at 12:28 PM 7 comments
Monday, February 2, 2009
SO disappointing
I don't like football all that much, but I do watch the Superbowl simply for the commercials. It's like the Oscars of Advertising (Clios aside)
I was horribly disappointed...
At least Bruce Springsteen rocked.
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Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech admits he will be interested to see how Liverpool cope with the intense pressure of chasing Barclays Premier League title glory in their final four games.
One of those fixtures is against Chelsea at Anfield on April 27, with the clubs currently separated by just two points in first and second places, respectively, while Manchester City are a further five points behind Cech and company with two games in hand.
While Chelsea are chasing a fourth league title in the last 10 seasons, Liverpool have not been crowned champions since 1990.
"No-one expected anything from Liverpool and they are in contention and that is why they play without pressure so far, but let's see how they are going to cope when it comes to the last hurdle," Cech said.
"They will have to jump over it and they have been doing remarkably well. We have things in our hands. We need to wait for one slip-up from Manchester City, but if we win our games we have a chance.
"At the start, everyone has 38 games to have the most points and I don't think at the end of 38 games it is a question of luck. The one who gets the most points obviously deserves to win the title, so we will see who it will be.
"It is great to put ourselves in a situation where we know we have a chance. So we will go for it. If we win all of our games, right at the end we will be in contention."
Chelsea's title run-in will be punctuated by two legs of a Champions League semi-final against Atletico Madrid, with the second game scheduled for three days after they face Liverpool.
"We have two huge games in the Champions League and there will be a little bit of congestion, and that is the way that it is," Cech added.
"It is always good to be in a position where you play for everything during April and May. It is why it is so exciting."
Cech, meanwhile, has backed Swansea to preserve their top-flight status after Demba Ba's second-half strike gave Chelsea a 1-0 win at the Liberty Stadium on Sunday.
"They have enough experience to stay up," he said. "They enjoyed the last two years and this was a kind of strange season for them."
Swansea midfielder Leon Britton, who played a key role in his team's battling display against Chelsea following Chico Flores' 17th-minute sending-off, believes Liverpool will be crowned champions.
"I would say Liverpool (to win the title)," he said. "They are so good going forward.
"Chelsea are a very good team, very strong and hard to break down.
"But the attacking players Liverpool have got and the way they score goals, you just fancy them to score a goal because they've got the players to do that."
Swansea go into next Saturday's clash at Newcastle just three points above the relegation zone, having collected only nine league points from a possible 30 since Michael Laudrup was dismissed as manager in early February.
"We need to stay positive because confidence is a massive, massive thing in football," Britton added. "We will stay upbeat in the changing room.
"When you go down to 10 men against Chelsea, we could have ended up losing the game 3-0 or 4-0. To lose 1-0, we're disappointed, but we showed a good work ethic out there and we didn't fall away.
"We need to try and pick ourselves up for Newcastle.
"St James' Park is a tough place to go regardless of what form they are in. It's difficult to know whether it's a good time to play them.
"The last two years have been good for us (at Newcastle). We drew under Brendan (Rodgers) and won 2-1 under Michael Laudrup. The record up there has been good, so hopefully we can carry that on."


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Every setting has its luck, but I find sequential escalating has ALOT of luck. It seems to me 80% of the games I played were decided by a misplay &/or bad luck, which occasionally threw it to me or to whoever's turn was next. Freestyle escalating I imagine would mitigate that problem, but again, there is still the problem for those of us who can't be online all the time.
I prefer 6-8 player no spoils/chained or flat rate/chained, on random map. I tend to go with chained because it forces you to plan ahead with your deployments and fortification. You can't just place 3 armies all over the place and then fort em all up in one turn. Not that I find that a cheap strategy, but I do find it an easy, common sense one that anyone can stumble on. No spoils/flat rate decreases the luck factor associated with having spoils and increases the diplomacy factor. There is STILL luck involved in this kind of setting but I believe it is way less than any of the other styles mentioned.
This is a very sound strategy.KIRON: Usually in stalemate games, I tend to not want to be the strongest. Usually I like to attack both players (to appear fair) to wittle down my troops count (i know it sounds bizarre) until the two other players appear about equal strength. This way you will seem the weakest and the other two will not attack you but be more concerned about the other. When they beat the snot out of each other, the game becomes chaotic again and hopefully u can find some opportunity to win again.


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Oman Air has joined forces with Audi to provide a fleet of chauffeur-driven Audi A8s that will whisk passengers from the national carrier's new First Class airport lounge to their aircraft in comfort and style.
"Oman Air's First Class service offers unprecedented levels of luxury and the addition of our lounge-to-aircraft limousine service will provide even greater comfort and convenience," said Abdulrazaq Al Raisi, Oman Air's chief commercial officer.
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The new service follows Oman Air's introduction of First Class cabins to its fleet in October 2009. Each cabin offers just six seats, a lounge area and dedicated flight attendants. The seats are wide, provide direct aisle access and convert to extra-long fully lie-flat beds. Inflight mobile phone and wi-fi connectivity – which is available throughout the aircraft - dovetails with the latest audio and video on demand in-flight entertainment system via USN ports, iPod sockets and a huge 23-inch seatback monitor. A la carte dining and award-winning refreshments add to the exclusivity of the service.
In addition, Oman Air unveiled brand new First Class and Business Class lounges at Muscat International Airport earlier this year. First Class customers can now relax and enjoy fine dining, complimentary massages and the very best of Omani hospitality, before being driven to their waiting aircraft.
James Oliver, Audi's general manager, Oman, added: "This is a significant milestone in our continued strengthening of the Audi Brand in Oman. The Audi A8 is the epitome of a first class experience where it blends modern technology, with timeless quality and craftsmanship. Just like the state of the art first class cabins on Oman Air's fleet, this vehicle will collect and deliver its passengers in unbridled levels of comfort and style. Wattayah Motors is delighted to have been selected by Oman Air as their official Vehicle Partner and we are looking forward to a mutually rewarding partnership."


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A study showing that South Korean- and Indian-born women in Canada have an unusually high proportion of boys born as second babies is shining a spotlight on the issue of sex selection through abortion.
The study, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, looked at all non-multiple births in Ontario between the years 2002 and 2007, which totalled 766,688.
It found the ratio of boys to girls was generally about 1.05 to one for mothers of all ethnic backgrounds on their first births.
This ratio stayed fairly consistent in subsequent births for mothers of most origins.
However, significant variations were found among mothers born in India and South Korea on their second children.
Indian-born mothers were found to have more boys to girls at a ratio of 1.11, and it was 1.2 for South Korean-born mothers.
That ratio fell back into a normal range for South Korean mothers after their second children. However, for Indian-born mothers, it rose to 1.36 on third babies and was at 1.25 for births beyond that.
"Our findings raise the possibility that couples originating from India may be more likely than Canadian-born couples to use prenatal sex determination and terminate a second or subsequent pregnancy if the fetus is female," says the study, which was led by Dr. Joel Ray, a physician at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
Ray said it is hard to interpret why the South Korean numbers did not retain significance when assessing births after a mother's second child. He noted that mothers of Korean descent represented just 0.48 per cent of births in the study and lacked "statistical power."
The study raises more questions about a controversial subject — one the same journal approached in January when it published an editorial arguing that parents should not be informed of the sex of their fetuses until after 30 weeks of pregnancy.
This was because of what the editorial described as a tendency among immigrants from various countries in Asia — including India and China — to abort female fetuses due to the importance placed on having male offspring in their cultures.
Despite the conclusions that, he knows, many will draw from this latest study, Ray isn't drawing them himself.
"I want to be a guy who's sort of open-minded about possibilities," Ray said. "We don't have the termination rates, nor has anyone else documented those among the different immigrant groups."
Ray said he plans to study abortion practices specifically among different cultural groups to get a better idea of what is happening.
"What if Indian women, for example, had biological tendencies to lose their third pregnancy naturally . . . and, through some biological mechanism, lose females as fetuses more than males."
However, Mahvish Parvez, project co-ordinator for the Edmonton-based Indo-Canadian Women's Association, said sex-selection through abortion is something that regularly happens among people of Indian decent in Canada, though she did not have any specific numbers.
Indian culture places significant importance on male offspring for a number of reasons, Parvez said. This includes the fact men can carry on the family name, are most likely to take care of parents when they're old, and that having female children can be expensive because dowries — money paid by a bride's family to the groom's family — are still common, even for those living in Canada, she said.
"Even though they know (sex-selective abortions are) not right, they would go ahead and do it because of all these other reasons," said Parvez, whose organization discourages such practices among Indian immigrants.


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My sister summed up our (by ours: I mean my siblings) feelings about the melding of political and personal history so beautifully:
Dear Mom & Dad:
This week in our country is definitely historic. And while the word of the last several months has been CHANGE - and moving this country forward. Let us take a moment to recognize the change that has been quietly taking place for the last 45 years. There has been a lot of talk this week about those conversations that happen around the kitchen table - and believe you me - I am all too familiar with those conversations. But there were conversations that happened around that table when we were kids that culminated into the historical moments of the last week. To you, Mom and Dad, and the other parents of our generation, thank you for putting your history aside and making sure to raise us with openness and equality you are the true unsung heroes of this historical moment. Your efforts changed the world and you are my heroes!
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Radio fights off static from rival technologies
- AM/FM stations are threatened with being pushed off the dial by new technologies
- Drivers can now get thousands of station choices thanks to the Internet
- Yet traditional radio has yet to see a ratings drop-off
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Radio broadcasters face being squeezed off the dial as stereo makers offer an array of new apps with thousands of new listening options in new cars.
A far cry from local AM/FM sets of the past, the latest units not only offer satellite or HD radio, but apps that bundle signals from Internet radio broadcasters across the country. The result is that conventional broadcasters are being forced to adapt by emphasizing quality local or targeted content, working different distribution channels or maybe becoming part of a bundle themselves.
The competitive path will only get tougher as the newest stereo units arrive either through new car purchases or the aftermarket.
"AM/FM broadcast, as a technology, will be much more under the gun," says Thilo Koslowski, a Gartner vice president who tracks digital technology in cars. "Content is king. Having a transmitter does not guarantee you're successful."
The avalanche of listening choices is hastened by the arrival of Internet-based radio that allows shoestring upstarts to compete against big-money broadcasters, much as magazines and newspapers are under assault on the Web by bloggers and other content creators.
So far, though, radio broadcasters haven't see a ratings drop-off, even among younger listeners, Arbitron reports. Nearly six of 10 adults listen to AM/FM radio either all or most of the time they are in the car, the ratings agency reports, far ahead of listening to CDs at 15%, portable digital players at 11% or satellite radio at 10%.
Young listeners are driving a resurgence of country-music stations in urban markets, says Arbitron spokeswoman Kim Myers. Radio reaches 23 million teenagers a week.
Automakers have taken notice and have no plans to yank radios from cars. "We see a bright future for radio," says General Motors spokesman Scott Fosgard, although he grouses his 22-year-old son will listen to a broadcast station "if there's a game on."
While AM/FM is not at "peril," Ford Motor spokesman Alan Hall says "you're going to see more options" for in-car entertainment amid "fierce" competition.
Car stereo makers are picking up on the trend by jamming more apps into their systems. Pioneer Electronics, a large maker of units both for automakers and the aftermarket, lists 35 app choices on its AppRadio site.
On music, a single app paired through a smartphone can have hundreds of listening choices -- from personalized music providers such as Pandora or Aupeo, to bundled radio stations such as iHeartRadio or Livio.
As Internet-based technologies gradually take over, AM/FM station owners will have to adapt. Those that specialize or embrace specialized programs that set them apart will do fine, says Dave Garland, a media broker in Houston. "They are trying to figure out how to do it," he says.


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Ernest Hemingway once said: "It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." I just finished up a week of riding in Cozumel, Mexico, and that quote rang true, somehow, in a multitude of languages. Racer X Illustrated Manager Editor Andrew Fredrickson, The Racing Paper's Jordan Roberts and myself (Content Manager for this site) were 48 hours into our "assignment", yet I felt like I'd yet to leave the comfort of home. We were wrapped in a multitude of unique and diverse cultures, yet the feeling of camaraderie was at an all-time high.
Although Cozumel has seen a boom in tourism and development, the majority of the 34 mile long island still features a vast amount of untouched jungle and shoreline. Tucked away on the northern end of the island, sits Motopark Cozumel--a sandy motocross track built on the foundation of an existing rock quarry.
Motopark Cozumel sits on the nothern end of Cozumel.
Andrew Fredrickson photo
Jarda Dana Kovky Kovar (aka Kovky), a native of the Czech Republic, and Chris Wright, a Michigan native, would serve as our tour guides for the week. Kovky owns Motopark Cozumel and Wright owns Cozumel Extreme, and this tour and track combo would show us everything Mexico's largest inhabited island had to offer. But this was day two, and, battered and bruised from our first full day of riding, beers were flowing faster than a Rocky Mountain stream, thus making the distinct language and cultural barriers seem nonexistent. Kovky, whose thick old-Russia accent bleeds through his massive 6'3 frame, churned out vivid stories of his racing travels, while Carlos, a Mexico native, whose vibrant personality is more contagious than the flu, laughed with his friends in the background—about what, I'm not sure, because they rattled off stories in Spanish.
As I threw back my third Tecate, I shared stories with Victor. His journey from his childhood in Mexico, to his time spent in America, and then back, would have made the manliest of men excuse themselves with, "That's just dust in my eye—I'm not tearing up." Victor has been in Cozumel almost a year and helps with track maintenance—which includes everything from watering the track constantly in hopes of keeping it moist under the extreme Mexican heat, to chopping through the thick jungle with his machete to complete the track's first major overhaul.
Victor (pictured above) is in charge of track maintenance.
Andrew Fredrickson photo
The following day had us on an all-day snorkeling/drinking excursion with a guy named Tiger, which made me never want to hear the word Tequila again. We managed to wake from our slumber and then dragged ourselves onto the track for another day of riding the following day—stopping in almost every corner, trying to keep the previous night's festivities in our stomachs. Then I met Gener. Although his limited English matched my pretty much nonexistent Spanish, we quickly bonded over a pair of tinted 100% goggles I lent him after watching him toss on a pair of shades under his goggles to keep the bright sun from striking his eyes! Gener was an off-road specialist that spent most of his time riding the miles of trails that surround the small island (and we'd eventually go out there with him, which turned out to be just as crazy as you'd expect).
If you ever visit Cozumel, make sure to take a trip with Tiger (pictured above).
Andrew Fredrickson photo
Over the course of another round of post-moto beers (forget stereotypical things like Mexican jumping beans or Pinatas—the post-day brew seemed like the most common feature of life down there from my perspective) Gener and I talked about everything from tattoos, to work, to motocross. We could barely find enough words to speak, but quickly formed a lasting friendship.
The stories and friendships I formed from a week in Mexico could fill up a bottomless pit—but we'll try to throw in as much stuff as we can when Jordan Roberts pens a story in an up-coming issue of Racer X Illustrated. You'll find out why, in fact, the Mexican Army even had to get involved in our trail ride.
After moto brews is a must in Mexico.
But you see, this isn't a story about the wild partying we did or our crazy trail ride through the Mexican jungle or our exhilarating scuba diving trip with a guy named Monkey. It's about the journey, and the newfound friendships that come with it. Because the passion for motocross remains the same—no matter the language or culture.
Getting ready for our scuba diving trip with Monkey.
Chris Wright photo
A special thanks to Kovky, Chris, Carlos, Victor, Gener, Tiger, Monkey and everyone else who made our visit to Cozumel one that I will never forget. Make sure to visit www.cozumelextreme.com to learn more about Cozumel Extreme and visit MotoPark Cozumel's Facebook Page and plan your own motocross adventure in paradise. Also, check out Andrew Fredrickson's gallery for photos from our adventures.
From left to right: Vladimir, Gener, Jordan, Chris, Victor, Andrew, Chase, Carlos, Kov.ky
Make sure to read about our time on the Mexican trails (pictured above) in an up-coming issue of Racer X Illustrated.
Chris Wright photo


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Slide 45
the people 80 members
19 institutions
4 countries arXiv : 1509.08702
Slide 45
the people 80 members
19 institutions
4 countries arXiv : 1509.08702
Slide 47 Neutrino Alley
physical layout of the experimental Hall
Liquid Argon....NaI......Germanium.....Cesium Iodide Neutron Interference detectors.....
Slide 51 COHERENT DATA taking graph from Nov 2013
first data summer of 2015
SLIDE 53 The Standard Model predicts about 173 events @ 68% confidence level
THEY SEE: 134 + or - 22 NO CEvNS rejected at 6.7 sigma...consistent with the SM at 1 sigma
Now I will make my point. If instead of a horizontal Neutrino Alley at the Spallation Neutron Source. I were to construct a vertical accelerator of protons, impinging on a mercury target, creating pions which promptly decay releasing PROMPT neutrinos of ~ 30 Mev, and then the muon-delayed neutrinos 2.2 microseconds later, they supply little kicks still at 6.7 sigma.
.................and that change in the ambient neutrino flux over that short time period would cause a large mass of CsI...(or aluminum bar)..on a balance to have an apparent change of mass.....or on a spring scale, to have an apparent change of weight...during that time interval. As I said in the Gravity research paper, a change in the ambient neutrino flux would be felt as a change in the local gravitational field.
6.7 sigma for the mass and 6.7 sigma for the weight.
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Last but not least, the energy of the the Supernova neutrinos from Supernova 1987A were identically in the sweet spot range of COHERENT
Kamiokande 11 events 8-36 Mev
IMB 8 events 18-38 Mev
Baksan 5 events 12-24 Mev
since the scattering can be as much as six orders of magnitude above forward scattering, it is contributing to the bar g-wave sensitivity. I believe G. Pizzella was correct at Neutrino 88.
The rest of your points are largely irrelevant to your initial claims and misrepresentations of the papers.
On to your follow ups:
Please present the paper where this experiment was done and the observations that lead to this high sigma value claim for the result. Seems like another baseless claim from you otherwise.Now I will make my point. If instead of a horizontal Neutrino Alley at the Spallation Neutron Source. I were to construct a vertical accelerator of protons, impinging on a mercury target, creating pions which promptly decay releasing PROMPT neutrinos of ~ 30 Mev, and then the muon-delayed neutrinos 2.2 microseconds later, they supply little kicks still at 6.7 sigma.
.................and that change in the ambient neutrino flux over that short time period would cause a large mass of CsI...(or aluminum bar)..on a balance to have an apparent change of mass.....or on a spring scale, to have an apparent change of weight...during that time interval. As I said in the Gravity research paper, a change in the ambient neutrino flux would be felt as a change in the local gravitational field.
6.7 sigma for the mass and 6.7 sigma for the weight.
And then you try to back up Pizella's paper again. I've already covered this - he was the person using the bizarre data correlation method.
So you have put together a lot of words. Mostly irrelevant. And just repeated your claims.
Direct questions then.
Explain the discrepancy between the required spin of 2 for a tensor field such as gravity and the spin 1 of a Z boson.
Explain the huge mass discrepancy between the neutrino mass bounds and Z.
Explain why the decay modes of the Z boson are not compatible with the calculated annihilation modes for neutrino/antineutrinos
You have not presented a coherent line of evidence for your ideas anywhere here. And I have had to wade through a LOT of irrelevant links and papers to check up on your claims. I'm hoping that you will shortly present some answers to these questions and, ideally, restate your claims in clear, precise language and with relevant, published and reviewed papers that back up your claims. So far the papers that support your claims are unpublished and the published papers do not say anything like what you are claiming they do.
6.7 sigma.....neutrinos deliver impulses
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I'm struggling here trinitree88, and am hoping you help me.
Both the Akimov and the Scholberg paper (both "et al.s") seem to report results consistent with the Standard Model ... or am I missing something?
If "consistent with the Standard Model", how can they (also?) be consistent with your ATM idea?
You have not answered my questions. You have not presented your theory here. You have not addressed any of the deeply misleading and systemic flaws with the way you have presented your claims. Instead you have, yet again, misrepresented a scientific paper and given a detail free response claiming your ideas are right.
The 6.7 sigma has nothing at all to do with your claims. It does not cover your 'experiment'. It is simply the likelihood that they observed coherent elastic neutrino scattering.
At that time, although they were aware of the predictions of larger cross-sections for coherent scattering from the nucleus as a whole, nobody had measured them. Now, they have. From K. Scholberg's talk, the coherent scattering is ~ 6 orders of magnitude larger than the other neutrino cross-sections. In addition, the recent work of Vadim a. Bednyakov, and Dmitry V. Naumov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Physics, Dubna, Russia, indicate that there are really 4 considerations here. Coherent and incoherent, elastic and inelastic scattering occur. The contribution from the incoherent scattering is about 15-20 % of the coherent scattering over the same energy range in Mev, and the relative % of each can be determined by measuring coincidental gamma photons emitted during the same Beam On- Beam Off time frames. Summing the four contributions should give most of the scattering seen, and it is ~ 6 orders of magnitude greater than forward scattering known in 1987, during SN1987A.
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Jean Tate. That means that those wiggles on the two aluminum bar gravitational wave detectors were not imagined but real, because the cross sections, although much lower than a factor of a million like the Cesium Iodide doped with Sodium in AKIMOV et al...COHERENT, were 30-40 times bigger than they expected at the time. Pizzella was right.
Pizella also now has theoretical basis for the early signals seen some hours before SN1987a went off.
SEE: SIGNALS BEFORE STAR BLOWS UP..... SEE:https://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthr...nals+neutrinos
Timmes, F. X. is a load in the world of Astrophysics and helped write the White Paper on Nuclear Astrophysics in 2015...SEE:https://arxiv.org/search/?query=Timm...&source=header
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Shaula. And last but not least, the spin of the Z. Yep it's 1 and many gravitational theories call for 2. And Yes we have gone over this before. I acknowledged before that yep... some theories call for 2, and have yet to see any of them make a testable prediction. I too, have read a great deal on a variety of opinions on the import of this. If it works for 1 @ 6.7 sigma, I'm sticking to my guns. Predicted those g-waves, along with neutrino bursts...a change in the ambient neutrino flux, just like what happens to the neutrino sea's relative isotropy, when you pitch a baseball. As you accelerate a baseball with your pitching arm, you blueshift the neutrinos coming from near the plate, and redshift those behind you, and no experiment you have done, or I have done, or anybody has ever been done,..... without neutrinos flowing through it.
TIMME paper is # 18 in the arxiv search bin.
The COHERENT Experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source and even a wiki. Posts describing many of the slides in a slide show are not as useful.
My take is that "Yes we have them" and Yes at 6 orders of magnitude larger, and less....and that just as one can see them by screening backgrounds at SNS, similar scattering could have occurred at Maryland, Rome in the aluminum bars.
Shaula has stated that it is irrelevant to any supernova neutrino bursts, even though I provided the energy resolution of the neutrinos in graphical form from the IMB, Kamiokande, and Baksan detectors showing the event counts and energy resolution in Mev. What happens in Rome happens in Maryland with the neutrino Flux largely passing through the Earth, and also happened in Kamiokande, Japan, Baksan, Russia, and the IMB, Lake Erie.
otherwise Nuclei in these 5 different places are not composed of protons and neutrons like the cesium iodide, germanium, sodium, atoms at Oak Ridge.
1. Gravitation is different from the other forces.
2. Standard particle physics.
3. A "simplistic unified field theory, incorporating the Z as a graviton" fantasy? A graviton is not a Z boson. With more standard physics.
4. Supernova 1987A producing neutrinos as expected for supernova.
5. A dubious Pizzella et al pre-print about detecting gravitational waves with 1987 detectors and a correlation with neutrino detections.
Their "Maryland" detection is Weber bar "in particular his claim to have detected gravitational waves from SN1987A in 1987, were widely discredited".
Their "Rome" detection is not clearly identified. It looks like the "Rome Room Temperature Gravitational Wave Antenna", maybe another bar type detector.
6. A sound part of the Pizzella et al pre-print (pre-nova neutrino events) gets a theoretical basis.
7. COHERENT experiment and the trivia that it may detect supernova neutrinos.
7A. Irrelevant confirmation of incoherent scattering of neutrinos.
7B. An error of confirming Pizzella et al because COHERNT does not detect gravitational waves.
7C. A "that a burst of neutrinos is coincident with a gravitational wave and a change in the ambient neutrino sea" story. No evidence of "a burst of neutrinos is coincident with a gravitational wave" has been presented.
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Reality Check. Fair enough. In the morning. I am about to join friends for the Bruins run @ the Stanley cup. I will show it with a jet powered lounge chair in the Bootes void.
The prompt burst from the supernova is not irrelevant to my idea.
But there is no credible evidence of gravitational waves from any supernova so the expected neutrino burst cannot be "prompt". The assertions of Pizzella et al are not evidence that there were gravitational waves from SN1987A. The consensus is that it is impossible for apparatus in 1987 to detect gravitational waves because they were not sensitive enough. I have seen arguments that special conditions for SN1987A might make the waves more intense and maybe detectable but no support that those condition exist.
Reassessment of the reported correlations between gravitational waves and neutrinos associated with SN 1987A
...After inspecting the evidence, we also conclude that there are no physically significant correlations of the Mt. Blanc-type between the gravitational wave detectors and the Kamiokande and/or IMB particles. This makes it very likely that the Mt. Blanc correlations are due, not to any physical effect, but simply to chance.
A Unified Theory of Elementary Particles and Forces by Howard Georgi
The Z boson mediates the weak force between quarks. So no positron or "electron-type anti-neutrino" coupling.Georgi proposed an SU(5) GUT model with softly broken supersymmetry with Savas Dimopoulos in 1981. This paper is one of the foundational works for the supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM).
A small typo - The electron anti-neutrino is very different from an electron (no charge, vary small mass) so is not an electron-type.
And again. Correlations are only present if you massage the data in a very specific way that is not a standard approach.
"Some theories call for spin 2"? All quantum field theories where gravity is a tensor field do. It is fundamental.
Then you repeat the 6.8 sigma number like it has anything to do with your idea. 6.8 sigma is the observation of coherent scattering in line with the Standard Model. It has nothing to do with your claims.
Finally you say that at least the Z is a boson. Yes. It is a boson that has completely the wrong properties and no plausible physical mechanism that would lead to a force like gravity emerging from it.
Z: Massive, spin 1 boson leading to very short ranged vector field.
Graviton: Massless, spin 2 boson leading to infinite range tensor field.
There is literally nothing they have in common.
I don't see much point continuing. You are not presenting much in the way of theoretical detail. You are misrepresenting sources. You are misrepresenting experimental results. You are dashing off short replies to posts questioning you that don't really address the issues and using strawman arguments to support your case rhetorically rather than scientifically.
Re-read your point 7 in the original post for context. You said:
"Enter COHERENT, the experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source Center, Oak Ridge, TN.
Principal Investigator Kate Scholberg found coherent scattering of neutrinos occurs at cross-sections 6 orders of magnitude above standard forward scattering, confirming the predictions of :
C..that a burst of neutrinos is coincident with a gravitational wave and a change in the ambient neutrino sea, respectively @ 7.2 sigma…"
What I have pointed out all along is that this prediction is NOT part of the COHERENT results and your claim that the 7.2 sigma figure from the Scholberg paper is related to that is completely false and a misrepresentation of the paper and the experimental result.
So I thought I'd start with the astronomy, which I am more familiar with than the rest.
Galeotti&Pizzella (2016), "New analysis for the correlation between gravitational wave and neutrino detectors during SN1987A", is cited just five times, per ADS, and one of those cites is Galeotti&Pizzella (2017), "Galileo versus Aristotle: the case of supernova 1987A". Two others are by Virginia Trimble, Trimble (2017) "Wired by Weber. The story of the first searcher and searches for gravitational waves" and Trimble (2018) "What are the wild waves saying? Yet another meditation on the predictions, searches for, and detections of gravitational waves". I haven't checked the remaining cite yet.
Trimble notes that almost no one seems to accept Galeotti&Pizzella's findings, in part because the gravitational wave detectors signals seem to coincide with the five neutrino Mt. Blanc detection, not the Kamoika, IMB, and Baksan ones. And more generally, that there seem to have been no widely accepted gravitational wave detections by any Weber-type or inspired devices until LIGO. (Side note: I did not know - or had long since forgotten - that Weber and Trimble were husband and wife).
So, first direct question: what makes you confident that the Galeotti&Pizzella findings are robust? I'm as interested in what you think of their analysis as why you think gravitational wave detectors of the "Weber-type" have apparently failed to make any robust GWR detections.
Relity Check. Shaula is not correct. A burst of neutrinos from a supernova changes the Spectral Energy Distribution of the neutrinos coming from that particular direction. Typically, for a type 2 , such as supernova 1987A, the core collapses, rebounds and the shock moves out through the star, in a time scale of about 10-20 seconds. When SN1987a went off, most of the detectors were on Universal time, so the arrivals enabled sort of triangulation to determine the directionality of the source. Cherenkov light cones from neutrino electron scattering also indicated origination from the Large Magellanic Cloud. Ian Shelton gave the first report visually, although Oscar Duhalde had seen it earlier.
There is no question that the energy resolution of the Baksan, Kamiokande, and IMB neutrino detectors indicated neutrinos arriving with energies between 8 and 40 Mev. ..not so big as to disrupt nuclei causing nuclear photodisintegration (Deep Inelastic Scattering), and not so small as not to be detectable through coherent and incoherent elastic and inelastic scattering. (DUBNA papers by Vadim Bednyakov , and Dmitry Naumov) and the Akimov paper with Scholberg.
There is also no question that Kate Scholberg claimed six orders of magnitude increase in cross-sections @ 6.7 sigma at her Colloquiem talk at MIT ask anybody who was there. I'll speak with a few physicists this week there.
Now for Reality check's show "that a g-wave is coincident with the change in the neutrino sea"....consider the following:
So, Can the Neutrino Sea indicate Gravitational Waves, by fluctuating as those waves arrive?
1. Taylor and Hulse received the 1993 Nobel Prize for their work on the binary pulsar PSR1913 +16 SEE: http://hosting.astro.cornell.edu/aca...01/psr1913.htm
Where they realized from timing oddities that the data indicated the pulsar was in a binary with highly elliptical orbits, and from Einsteins General Relativity, realized that the close radius, several solar radii,that the orbital period would decay predictably. Over time it did exactly that resulting in their trip to meet the King and Queen of Sweden for dinner.
2. Similar detectors, LIGO at Hanford, Washington state, and LIGO Livingston , LA, simultaneously detected gravitational waves on Sept 14, 2015 @ 5.51 AM Eastern Standard Time, with the press release being handled from Cal Tech in February 11, 2015, confirming again Einsteins General Theory of Relativity
SEE: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160211
So, it stands without question , that gravitational waves exist, and it was tricky and expensive to measure and confirm them. (its only money).
3. Now for the question at hand, where does the neutrino sea fit in on this? We borrow an Einsteinian trick, the thought experiment. I transport you via Captain Picards Starship Enterprise out to the Bootes void for an experiment. We fit you out with a spacesuit dressed as Santa Claus, a rocket sleigh with 500 Christmas boxes, hydrazine/LOX tanks, and 8 Svalbard reindeer, also with suits, a rigid titanium harness, and synchronized boosters to the sled (be nice to animals). Picard leaves for a bit.
4. Captain Picard sets up a g-wave LIGO detector about a mile away, and in parallel to a 14 kg Cesium Iodide doped with Na SNS COHERENT detector. COHERENT detector only, .no SNS source of known neutrino energy range and intensity from stopped pions, like Oak Ridge.
5. Theres a kicker, the 500 boxes in the sled all contain 14 kg masses of Cesium Iodide doped with Na. They have higher cross-sections /kg for COHERENT scattering than Santa or the reindeer, as shown by the graph (slide). That means, where the g-wave LIGO sits, and the other CsI detector sits, theres a slight anisotropy in the neutrino sea coming from that direction .the sled
6. I pick the Bootes void because there are very few interfering masses contributing background effects, and I like Svalbard reindeer for their diminutive stature, and interesting horn structure. SEE: https://dissolve.com/stock-photo/Sva...2-D1267-10-017
7. Now ,we posit in the experimental area, a perfectly isotropic flux of neutrinos impinging from the~ million galaxies per square degree of sky found in the Hubble Deep Ultra Field, each with ~ 200 billion stars, all of them emitting neutrinos, none of which our eyes can see, over ~ 14,000 square degrees of sky. Some of them are seen, and interacted with by the Christmas boxes with the CsI blocks in them.
8. We give Santa a 10 count to blast off 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, FIRE IN THE HOLE!
9. At the moment he hits the rocket button, the contraption accelerates a large mass generating in GR, a small gravitational wave .hey its not a binary pulsar but the idea is there .mass accelerates g-wave appears that much is mainstream.
A. The LIGO detector picks it up after it travels a mile. 1/186,000 seconds later.
B. The acceleration redshifts the neutrinos coming from behind the sled, dropping them to energies incapable of causing COHERENT scattering on the sled. They mostly shoot through the boxes, reindeer and Santa , forward to the single CsI detector ahead, and increase the probability of scattering there. They also travel at c (Particle Data Group considers neutrinos traveling at c ).,causing.a change in the probability of scattering there because of a change in the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) of the neutrino sea coming from the direction of the sled.
10. We have a gravitational wave detected simultaneously with a change of the SED of the ambient neutrino flux.i.e. a change in the neutrino sea. Said so in 1982, published it at the Gravity Research Foundation after SN1987A.
11. The COHERENT scattering is as much as a million times larger than the forward scattering, and both coherent and incoherent elastic and inelastic contribute to the entire cross-section. (Naumov and Bednyakov papers, Dubna, Russia.).
12. No experiment you have done or I have done or anyone has ever done was done without the neutrino sea flowing through it. 6.7 sigma. pete
Reality Check. Here is your evidence of a burst of neuutrinos from mainstream physics, a peer reviwed article on Neutrinos From Supernovae by Janka (2017). He gives the current view and shows a six step analysis of core collapse, neutrino burst (his words), neutron star accretion , and protoneutron star cooling, over a timescale of about 9.0 seconds. For the novices, a type 2 core collapse, typically gives of in the vicinity of 1053 erg of energy. The graph has the energy in multiples of such in FIGURE 7.
In Figure 1 page 3 he shows that the energies of those neutrinos detected from SN1987A are 8-40 Mev .....perfect.
6.7 sigma pete
Reality Check. Janka page 19 During the first 0.02 seconds the "electron-type neutrino burst" reaches ~ 38 times 1052 ergs /second. Typical supernovae of this type give their nascent neutron stars ~ a transverse velocity of 200/km/sec. Remember they have close to a solar mass, which is roughly a million Earth masses, and they pick up that kinetic energy in ~ 10 seconds. Thats more than the litlle bumps at COHERENT. The scattering is different during the explosion as the nuclei are heated to excited states not seen in bar aluminum g-wave detectors, which are actually more favorable near room temperature (Naumov, DUBNA)
IF01: Start with a sea of neutrinos and show that it can produce gravitational waves.
Otherwise all you have is what you imagine. N.B. Gravitational waves are not waves in any sea which you should know. They are specific waves in spacetime.
Shaula: Coherent neutrino scattering was a prediction of the standard model.
Shaula: The claim that the 7 sigma result supports this unified field theory is from the vixra paper (not the COHERENT paper as you wrote) - a paper on vixra is almost by definition wrong!
You give a paper that validates the Standard Model. You cite an irrevant slideshow and describe irrelevant slides.
Shaula: My comment supernovae is that the COHERENT results have nothing to do with your claims of correlation between gravity waves and neutrino events as you seem to be claiming.
Shaula: This has nothing at all to do with your experiment. Nothing to do with SN1987a. Nothing to do with your purported unified field theory
Your posts confirm that Shaula is correct.
You are still depending on a dubious paper about a correlation between SN1987A neutrinos and gravitational waves that were close to impossible to detect in 1987. The scientific consensus is that they were not detected. So a formal question:
IF02: Cite the papers that show that gravitational waves were detected in 1987 and have not been debunked by later papers.
As in this post, mainstream physics and stories based on them do not support your ATM idea. We know gravitational waves exist. We know neutrinos exist. Your Santa Claus story on gravitational waves and neutrinos is not a thought experiment (they need physics to be applied). Repeating fantasies about the COHERENT results does not support you ATM idea - the "6.7 sigma" scattering is predicted by the mainstream. I will emphasize this with a formal question:
IF03: Give the numbers from your ATM idea for the COHERENT results, include your working.
An answer can be that you have no numbers and thus the COHERENT results are irrelevant.
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Hi there everyone, what is your favorite urban legends or folklore characters? Let's make this one interesting..Shall we?
Hi there everyone, what is your favorite urban legends or folklore characters? Let's make this one interesting..Shall we?
Have you heard about "Pontianak"? In Malaysia, and the Philippines. The creature "Pontianak" is believed to exist in real by certain individual and it is considered a legend by some. The origination of the word "Pontianak" is unknown. In Malay "anak" means child but the word "ponti" is unknown.
The legend says "a Pregnant Woman died from giving birth to a child, for some reason she hated men. As she was dying with her child, she cast a curse in the air swearing she would kill anyone especially Men.
Normally she is seen at the road side or under a tree. She has long hair. Sometimes she appears young and beautiful to attract male victims. After the victim falls in her trap, she will turn ugly and old with sharp teeth. Attacks would be based on claws, and defense probably on leaping or footwork. She is believed to feed on intestines and blood. "Pontianak" is believed to be attracted by child birth when there is a plenty of blood flowing out from human body. In the olden days, measures are taken by the people to prevent the vampire from coming during child birth. She is believed to be scared of thorns.
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How about Bloody Mary, i remember when we were kids every Halloween, saying Bloody Mary in front of Mirrors are the creepiest dare.
True, Bloody Mary would be one of the scariest urban legend characters i could remember. The dare about doing bloody mary in front of the mirror is something i would not ever ever do in y life.
Hey i have read about Pontianak too, it is a creepy story. It says it hunts MALES only. It'll approach you like a sound of a CAT or a BABY's cry which will invite you to come find it and then BAM! they say it'll EAT OUT YOUR BALLS! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
HUWhaaatt! A vampire that eats your balls? eat like for breakfast? Oh...cant she just suck them instead? LMAO!
That's one sexist vampire bitch. What about the Boogieman?....woooooooooooooo.....
Hey HallowQueen, aren't you that old witch from the movie Drag Me to Hell? Yeah its you!
Its her people, its her..Beware of her, do not scream when you see her coz she would throw up in your mouth.
I have always been fascinated by the Headless Horseman. I think its a very scary creature that lurks in the darkness. You may have seen it in the movie "The Sleepy Hollow" which starred Johnny Depp. A very good movie.


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Roaring stomachs may not be able to satisfy their hunger with lion meat as a proposed bill plans to make the sale of meat from the king of the jungle illegal in Illinois.
The bill, filed in February and sponsored by state Rep. Luis Arroyo, was assigned to Illinois' Agriculture & Conservation Committee Thursday and would make Illinois the first U.S. state to place a ban on lion meat.
The bill would make it illegal "for any person to slaughter a lion or for any person to possess, breed, import or export from this State, buy, or sell lions for the purpose of slaughter." It also declares commercializing lion meat unlawful.
Violators of this law could face up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $2,500.
The sale of lion meat caused a controversy in 2010 for an Arizona restaurant, which bought 10 pounds of frozen meat from Czimer's Game & Sea Foods in Illinois.
No law currently prohibits the sale of this animal meat, as lions are not currently protected as an endangered cat in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
A petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, however, began a study to determine if the animal should be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
African lion populations have seen "a substantial decline" over the past two decades and are estimated to be around 32,000, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which monitors species numbers globally.
The threats include not only trophy hunters, but loss of habitat, humans eating lion meat, and commercial sale of their body parts, said Adam Roberts, executive vice president of Born Free USA.


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The senior Pennsylvania Republican officials who huddled in the cold here awaiting Romney's arrival could best be described as cautiously optimistic, more than than they ever have been. Even those who had long been skeptical of Romney's prospects here insist there's a bubbling excitement on the ground that hasn't registered in polls showing Obama holding a modest but steady lead.
"There's a feeling here, a mood across Pennsylvania that I've never seen before," said Republican National Committeewoman Christine Toretti, who along with powerful committeeman Bob Asher and state party chairman Rob Gleason had been lobbying Romney's campaign to make a bigger play here.
Warming up the crowd, Gov. Tom Corbett declared: "Pennsylvania is in play!" But even Republicans hopeful for an Election Day surprise in Pennsylvania acknowledge the narrow path for Romney to prevail. He needs to hope that Obama's winning margin in the Democratic stronghold of Philadelphia is held far below its 2008 level, while fighting to something close to a draw in the population-rich Philadelphia suburbs, which have trended increasingly Democratic over the last decade…
"If the whole things collapses to a turnout model like 2004 or 2010, then it's collapsing everywhere else," Oxman said. "If [Obama] loses Pennsylvania, he's like Jimmy Carter losing every state."


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As investigators search for clues to unravel the mystery of where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went, there were several key developments over the weekend.
But major questions still remain.
Here's a cheat sheet to help you get up to speed on the latest developments:
Report: Plane flew low to avoid radar
Whoever was flying the airplane may have flown below 5,000 feet and used mountainous terrain as cover to avoid being detected by radar, the New Straits Times newspaper in Malaysia reported Monday, citing unnamed sources.
The technique is called terrain masking and is used by military pilots to fly to their targets stealthily, using the topography to mask their approach from prying microwaves.
CNN could not immediately confirm the newspaper's account, which is just one of several as-yet unproven theories about what happened to the jetliner after its last contact with flight controllers.
Where are investigators searching now?
The search has expanded to cover large swaths of land and sea, including 11 countries and deep oceans. Where the plane went is anybody's guess. As 26 nations help try to find the missing plane, there's also a process of elimination in which investigators try to piece together where the aircraft isn't. Pakistan said Sunday that the plane never showed up on its civilian radars and would have been treated as a threat if it had. The Times of India reported that India's military also said there was no way the plane could have flown over India without being picked up on radar.
What's one main focus of the investigation?
Malaysia's Prime Minister has said that somebody deliberately steered the plane off course. That means the pilots have become one obvious focus for investigators. On Sunday, Malaysian police said they were still investigating a flight simulator seized from pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah's home. Peter Chong, a friend of the 53-year-old pilot's, said it's unfair to imply that Zaharie had anything to do with what happened to the plane. He said he'd been to Zaharie's house and tried out the flight simulator. "It's a reflection of his love for people," Chong said, "because he wants to share the joy of flying with his friends."
A 29-year-old Malaysian civil aviation engineer, Mohammed Khairul Amri Selamat, who works for a private jet charter company, was on the flight. Police are investigating all passengers and crew, but he is likely to be of particular interest because of his aviation knowledge. "I am confident that he is not involved," his father said. "They're welcome to investigate me and my family."
What do we know about key moments on the flight?
For days, we've been talking about the last transponder signal the plane sent. And now it appears another system that sends data about the plane, the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, was shut off, too. Authorities say the last transmission from that system came early in the flight, at 1:07 a.m. But they say they don't know exactly when the system was shut down, as the next transmission wasn't due until 1:37 a.m. Someone inside the cockpit, believed to be the co-pilot, made the plane's last verbal communication with air traffic controllers at 1:19 a.m., saying, "All right, good night." The transponder was then switched off at 1:21 a.m., authorities say, and all civilian radar lost contact with the plane altogether about 1:30 a.m. Military radar last detected the plane at 2:15 a.m. off Malaysia's west coast, hundreds of miles off course. And at 8:11 a.m., more than seven hours after takeoff, a satellite made the last electronic connection, known as a "handshake," with the plane.
Though some details have come into focus, major questions remain unanswered:
Where's the plane?
Satellite and radar data have given authorities some clues but not enough to pinpoint the plane. Right now, investigators are focusing on two corridors where the plane might have either crashed or landed: a northern arc that stretches from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan in central Asia to northern Thailand, and a southern arc that spans from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean. Because the northern parts of the traffic corridor include some tightly guarded airspace over India, Pakistan and even some U.S. installations in Afghanistan, U.S. authorities believe it's more likely the aircraft crashed into waters outside of the reach of radar south of India, a U.S. official told CNN. If it had flown farther north, it's likely it would have been detected by radar.
Who would deliberately divert it?
In addition to the pilots, other passengers and crew members on board the plane, as well as any ground staff who came into contact with it, are under investigation. The bottom line, investigators say, is that whoever flew the plane off course for hours appeared to know what they were doing. Investigators are looking into the backgrounds of the passengers to see whether any of them were trained pilots. "There are still a few countries who have yet to respond to our request for a background check," said Khalid Abu Bakar, inspector general of the Royal Malaysian Police Force. "But there are a few … foreign intelligence agencies who have cleared all the(ir) passengers."
Why would they do it, and how?
Finding a motive behind the plane's disappearance is a key problem investigators must solve. They haven't released any concrete details. Speculation has surged about the possibility of terrorism or hijacking, but that hasn't been confirmed.
Is there any chance the passengers and crew survived?
It's possible the plane's last satellite contact could have been made from the ground, as long as the airplane still had electrical power, Malaysia's civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said Sunday. For the families and loved ones of those aboard Flight 370, some find comfort that there's no evidence the plane crashed. The father of one passenger, who watched updates from Malaysia in a Beijing hotel, said he hoped the plane was hijacked because that gave him reason to think his son had survived. "I hope they are alive," he said, "no matter how small the chance is."
Does the possibility that the plane is on land change anything about the investigation?
Yes, analysts said. It means it's even more pressing that authorities find the plane. "Time is even more of the essence. If this airplane has been taken to be used as a weapon, then the time that has been taken to prepare the aircraft for whatever deed is the plan — obviously, to thwart that, it's all about time," said Shawn Pruchnicki, who teaches aviation safety and accident investigation at Ohio State University. CNN aviation analyst Jim Tilmon, a former American Airlines pilot, said that whoever deliberately steered the plane off course probably did it with help. But what's next is anyone's guess, he said. "We have been behind them all along," he said. "So now, if they had a plan, and if that plan included being able to set down someplace and refuel a little bit, we are looking at something that we may never see the end of."


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Portland Winterhawks lose GM-coach, bantam draft picks, fined for WHL 'player benefit' violations
Portland Winterhawks head coach Mike Johnston.
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VANCOUVER — Portland Winterhawks general manager-head coach Mike Johnston, a former Vancouver Canuck assistant, has been suspended by the Western Hockey League for the remainder of the season plus playoffs for what the league calls "multiple player benefit violations."
In addition to Johnston's suspension, the league also fined the Winterhawks $200,000 and stripped them of nine bantam draft picks, including five first-round selections from 2013-2017. The other picks forfeited were rounds 2-5 in the 2013 draft.
"Our independent investigation in this case revealed there were multiple violations over an extended period for player benefits that are not permitted under WHL regulations and were not disclosed to the WHL," commissioner Ron Robison said Wednesday in a statement. "All WHL clubs understand they are required to fully comply and respect our league regulations or they will face significant consequences."
The Winterhhawks quickly issued a statement of their own indicating the violations involved flights for families to see their sons' play, paying for one-week summer training programs and providing a cell phone to the team captain.
"After fully cooperating with the league's investigation, we were extremely surprised at the excessive nature of the sanctions and we don't feel they are in line with the scope of the violations we were found to have committed," said Johnston, who will be replaced by former NHL player Travis Green on an interim basis.
"We believe that apart from recruiting trips and parents' weekend, there is no prohibition in the rules governing flights for players' parents, which were the majority of the infractions. We are currently exploring our options on how we will proceed. Despite our objections, the league has made its decision and our players will continue to pursue the goal of winning a WHL championship."
Johnston took over the Winterhawks early in the 2008-09 season, turning them into a league powerhouse within two years. They reached the WHL final in each of the last two seasons and are currently 20-4-1-0.


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Trayvon Martin: A Tragedy but Not a Crime (with Editor's Note and Response)
by: Ralph Seliger on July 17th, 2013 | 28 Comments »
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So when several members of our staff found that Seliger's article reflected racism and conflicted with Tikkun Daily's goals of furthering dialogue about healing the world, we decided to momentarily postpone it until we could publish it with a response. In the meantime, Seliger reflected and decided to revise his blog somewhat. The editorial staff still felt that it needed a response, and asked Anna Stitt to go through Seliger's article and explain some of our primary objections to both the original and the revised versions of the blog. We urge you to read the blog and then our corresponding response, below.
Trayvon Martin: A Tragedy But Not a Crime, by Ralph Seliger
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