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Filed under: Argentina, Augmented Reality, Connections, Discover, General Musings, Humor, movies, Science, Science Fiction, Space | Tags: Argentina, augmented reality, blogging, dinosaur, Dreadnoughtus schrani, humor, jim downey, paleontology, Patagonia, Predator, science, Science Fiction, space
No doubt by now you've heard of the discovery of Dreadnoughtus schrani, the massive dinosaur found in the Patagonia region of Argentina (been there!), which in addition to being notable for its size is also notable for how much of it was found:
Lacovara says those other estimates are based on a mere smattering of bones, or on analyses that haven't yet been subjected to peer review. In contrast, the estimate of Dreadnoughtus' size and weight was based on measurements of more than 100 separate elements, including most of the tail vertebrae, a yard-long (meter-long) neck vertebra, numerous ribs and nearly all the bones from the forelimbs and hindlimbs.
Researchers unearthed about 45 percent of the skeleton's full complement of bones, representing 70 percent of the bone types found below the skull (for example, a left rib without the mirror-image right rib).
Very impressive to find so much of it. Too bad they didn't find the skull, as well.
Wait, no skull?
Hmm …
Yeah, I'm sure that it's just a coincidence …
Jim Downey
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Good news! This morning the bidding opened on the auction I mentioned the other day, and I understand that there's already something of a bidding war on some of the "become immortal" options I offered:
Be Famous! Have your name (or the name of a loved one, pet, etc) included in my next novel! Can be a character, a named place (manor/restaurant/pub), a book title/author, et cetera. Any sort of name you wish.
You have three choices:
Passing mention. Five available.
Name and some description. Three available.
Tertiary character, who will have some dialog & interaction with other characters. One available.
Yay! Thanks for the vote of confidence, and for helping out my friend!
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I've seen several preliminary news items on this, and it's … intriguing.
Nasa validates 'impossible' space drive
Nasa is a major player in space science, so when a team from the agency this week presents evidence that "impossible" microwave thrusters seem to work, something strange is definitely going on. Either the results are completely wrong, or Nasa has confirmed a major breakthrough in space propulsion.
Very intriguing. Basically, this is the third test conducted on a theoretical reactionless drive, with NASA (British publications consider it stylistically appropriate to just capitalize the first letter) doing the independent testing of previous claims. It'll be interesting to see what comes out of this.
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From three months back:
…but the other is far enough along that I'll share: there's a literary agent who is potentially interested in representing me, something which I have been thinking about for a while.
I'll keep you posted as to any concrete developments.
Well, I just got a very nice note back from said agent, who complimented me in several ways but said that he wasn't going to represent me after all.
Rejection is part of the game, and any writer or artist has to come to terms with that, or you might as well just give up. As I told a friend earlier:
He's gotta do what he thinks makes business sense – when I ran the gallery, I had to turn down hundreds of artists who wanted us to represent them. And as I told them, just because I wasn't going to rep them didn't in any way mean that their work wasn't quality. So I understand the equation from both sides of the = sign …
Still … I think I might take the rest of the afternoon off.
Do something nice for my friend. Go place a bid on something which interests you.
Jim Downey
Filed under: Astronomy, Brave New World, Connections, General Musings, NPR, Predictions, Science, Science Fiction, SETI, Space, tech, Titan | Tags: Arecibo, astronomy, blogging, Communion of Dreams, Duncan Lorimer, jim downey, Joe Palca, NPR, Parkes Observatory, predictions, radio astronomy, Robert Gish, Science Fiction, SETI, space, Titan
Interesting news item on NPR this morning:
Close Encounters Of The Radio Kind? Mystery Bursts Baffle Astronomers
Astronomers have a mystery on their hands. Two large radio telescopes, on opposite sides of the planet, have detected very brief, very powerful bursts of radio waves.
Right now, astronomers have no idea what's causing these bursts or where they're coming from. And nothing has been ruled out at the moment — not even the kind of outrageous claims you'd expect to see in tabloid headlines.
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As you would imagine, there's been lots of speculation about what's behind these mysterious bursts. Some astronomers think they're caused by blitzars, pulses of energy from a supermassive star collapsing into a black hole. Others think they may be caused by power solar flares coming from stars nearer by.
And Lorimer says he has to mention it: "There's even been discussions in the literature about signatures from extraterrestrial civilizations."
From Chapter 1 of Communion of Dreams when news of the discovery of an evidently alien artifact on Titan is being discussed:
The man sitting next to him got up, stepped up to the holo of the artifact still rotating there in the center. Robert Gish was a little unkempt, his beard untrimmed, his dark hair matted. He was out of shape, almost flabby in appearance. His scientific reputation was as unconventional as his looks. More so. He had been responsible for the radical change in long-range sensing which led to the development of the Advanced Survey Array. Nobel Prize stuff. A true genius, not just brilliant but able and willing to make leaps that took others years to understand. Which was why Bradsen had him here: Gish had been saying for decades that there was other intelligent life among the stars. Saying it so loud and so often that he was considered a crank, since he had no proof and couldn't even really explain why he believed it to be so, at least in a way that others could accept.
Reaching out as though he was going to touch the object, he said quietly "We know what it is. It is a crack in our shell."
Interesting news, indeed.
Jim Downey
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Just think — all the folks who are prepping to deal with some global emergency almost got a chance to see how well their theories work in practice. My friends who are into Steampunk and the SCA would have reigned supreme!
Earth survived near-miss from 2012 solar storm: NASA
Back in 2012, the Sun erupted with a powerful solar storm that just missed the Earth but was big enough to "knock modern civilization back to the 18th century," NASA said.
The extreme space weather that tore through Earth's orbit on July 23, 2012, was the most powerful in 150 years, according to a statement posted on the US space agency website Wednesday.
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"If the eruption had occurred only one week earlier, Earth would have been in the line of fire," said Daniel Baker, professor of atmospheric and space physics at the University of Colorado.
Ah well. Better luck next time!
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Man, Chris Hadfield is such a treasure:
And you can pee upside down, which I did, just for fun. Wouldn't you?
Great little list about the reality of spaceflight at this point in time. Perfect perspective for this weekend, since he manages to capture and convey the wonder and excitement so many of us felt from the Apollo era. It's so easy to lose your vision, your enthusiasm, in the grim plodding of day-to-day life.
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Thanks to all who helped make the recent anniversary promotion of Her Final Year a success! Worldwide there were about 150 downloads – not a huge number, but it is progress. I hope the book can help those who downloaded it.
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Progress continues on St Cybi's Well. Hope to wrap up Chapter 9 in the next couple of days.
Jim Downey
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As something of a follow up to my last post, there's a great little item about the development of the Drake equation over on National Geographic. Here's a good passage:
It's this kind of guesswork that tends to inflame the Drake equation's critics, those who complain that the equation isn't predictive, is too open-ended, and doesn't provide any answers. But "predictive" isn't really what Drake ever intended.
"It's a way to frame the problem," says MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager, about the equation. "In science, you always need an equation—but this isn't one you're going to solve. It just helps you dissect everything."
Definitely worth reading, as well as thinking about.
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The Vegas World Market Show was big, bold and… soft? Seems like the hard edge of this recession has made us long for some comforting shapes. There was a plethora of circles, wheels, soft edges and round shapes. Rustic is still big, sustainable is getting bigger, and re-usable is finding a true foothold in the design world. Some things that stood out:
Textural room dividers that not only are made from sustainable products, but look like you may have bought them from a small village and hauled them home yourself
Re-purposed vines are the source for these whimsical and earthy chandeliers.
This sexy shelf will make your cat the hippest on the block. Install it under a window for "A Perch With a View" The company also offers fantastic feeders and dwellings for both felines and canines. Major Bonus: The shipping box becomes a cardboard playground with simple instructions. You will be loved.
Oh how we bought up those river rocks in bags from The Barn to fill the bottom of glass vases. Now on steroids, these smooth and sensual tables are a great antidote to the simple square.
These Tim Burtonesque pieces are striking but are they comfortable? I indeed sat down and was enveloped by the soft textiles. I did start to have strange visions…but it was a long show so who knows.
The rustic wheel trend is finessed and given a very cool wabi sabi feel.
This inviting sofa is actually made of army tent fabric. A great look for lofts.
Both the industrial look and the barn board / farmhouse look is still hot. Environment offers a great line of buffets and dressers that merge both styles.
We have seen clusters, but here it is done in a more striking way, using chocolate cones on the inside to give the installation more depth.
Stay tuned for more from Vegas. What at times seems like a cultural wasteland, the city shows off its design savvy in many ways.

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NBA Lockout trading cards
NBA Lockout trading cards
I'm not really concerned with who first started humoring the voice of the fan, or why. We all started as fans; presumably, most of us working somewhere in the business still are. However, it has absolutely no place in this lockout. The knee-jerk reaction to cancelations, of which there will be more today, is "I want my NBA!" or "Come on, let's save the NBA!"
The problem is that this kind of selfishness plays right into the hands of owners, providing leverage and creating an imbalance in talks that really, have nothing to do with basketball, or how much we love it. Everybody involved in the talks is very rich, and in regular person terms, there's little difference between millions and billions. But the owners, whose businesses make up the National Basketball Association, are employers, and the players work for them. We fall into this equivocation all the time; we say we're NBA fans, when what we really means is that we like watching these players compete with the necessary infrastructure in place. We selfishly talk about improving our product as "solving the league's problems", and in these grave days, beg for our league back—which, in labor terms, translates into wanting owners to have the opportunity to do business. Fixing the NBA? That means helping the owners, who depend on revenue to stay above water.
What's lost here is that, no matter how much we may want the NBA back, the players who work for it have a right to negotiate as they see fit. That there are fans whose opinion can be swayed is an unfortunate distraction; we have no say in this, or at least we shouldn't. People who work for other people are in a vulnerable position, and all that protects them from abuses of power is collective bargaining. Sure, LeBron James doesn't need our pity. In a way, that's just as condescending as calling him a spoiled brat. At the same time, the other part of the NBA—besides the owners running businesses that we support—is its workers not being pushed around. It sucks that arena employees (not to mention writers) are losing out on pay. But if millionaires don't have labor rights, then really, who the fuck does?
I will always be partial to Stern, at least superficially, because of his unmistakably Jewish persona. Let's get that out of the way. I will also never cease to trumpet his staunch Democratic credentials, when it comes to everything except for—well, doing his job. He started out a union-buster, was the NBA's choice for its last stand against free agency, and has always made a point of going at labor ruthlessly, almost competitively, as if it were his form of bloodsport. These days, it's hard to reconcile anti-labor bravura with any kind of left-ish leanings.
Here's where we would do well to remember something about sports commissioners: They are not installed to rule over players and owners alike. Kenesaw Mountain Landis was a prehistoric being, not a precedent; even the most transformative figures, like Roger Goodell or Stern during the Jordan Era, served at the pleasure of the league's owners. Larry O'Brien, Tommy Craggs's great champion (our first in-person meeting was a three-hour long argument about Stern), was very nearly an activist, lecturing the owners about what was fair and right in this world. He was as structurally unlikely as Landis. The rest of these guys are just doing a job. David Stern is a character, at once endearing and a total prick. But just as the league's best days allow him to assume the guise (and stereotype) of big-hearted showbiz tycoon, so the lean, or bitter, ones demand he scorch the earth. We know something of Stern's personality, and his politics. The internal contradictions that cling so readily to him are a function of his ironbound sense of duty. The man isn't a chameleon. Above all else, David Stern is the most ruthless kind of professional.
Earlier today, Ray Ratto pointed out to me that Stern, as much as he may secretly resent it, has no choice but to protect the interests of mediocre owners. The smart ones are in the minority and they're probably balanced out by the utter morons, anyway. This is not meant as a defense of David Stern, but an explanation for his seemingly revolting behavior here: He's an employee. As usual, it's the guys at the top who ruin everything. Granted, he's closer, and more culpable, than the players ever could be. But at the end of the day, even David Stern works for someone.
I don't doubt that David Stern has real feelings. Despair, or at least the hyperbolic idea of it, might be among them, somewhere. However, the exact structure of them, and the way they resolve way down in his gut and up high behind those glasses, is probably a mystery to everyone, save his analyst. Whoever that great and lucky man is.
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Alpha-H - Ultra Protector Daily Moisturiser with SPF 30+
Ultra Protector Daily Moisturiser with SPF 30+
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A daily hydrating cream formulated with a broad spectrum UVA/UVB with SPF30+. Suitable for all skin types, particularly dry, dehydrated and sensitive. This sunscreen moisturiser is non-comedogenic, non-whitening and an ideal choice when spending time outdoors.
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Rating: Jun 18, 2014 8:13pm
Great protection
This is a great daily moisturiser for your face and neck. The SPF 30 plus is so high it will protect you no matter what you are doing. The cream is moisturising and feels very nice on the skin too. I use this and I never burn.
Read the full review of Ultra Protector Daily Moisturiser with SPF 30+ by Shop A Everyday.
Rating: Jan 8, 2014 5:32pm
Great for Dry and Sensitive Skin
This is certainly a very rich and hydrating cream. It feels really nice on the skin and really softens skin straight away. It doesn't cause any irritation either and is unscented (has a very mild sunscreen scent). I can hardly believe it has a high SPF 30 in it as usually these can be drying and ''ghosting'' but this is much more like a moisturiser than a sunscreen. This is really an excellent product especially for dry and sensitive skin and a great one for summer. I'm impressed!
Read the full review of Ultra Protector Daily Moisturiser with SPF 30+ by Princess Perfume.
Rating: Feb 20, 2012 5:18pm
rich and heavy moisturising cream
This is great if you want a face sunscreen for the beach and outdoor activities. As someone with sensitive skin, I found it was very effective and my skin felt very protected from the sun when outdoors.
Read the full review of Ultra Protector Daily Moisturiser with SPF 30+ by Luci321.
Rating: Oct 7, 2011 1:07am
A little does not go a long way
You really have to use a lot of this to get full coverage. I don't think it's worth it for the money. It also feels a little greasy.
Read the full review of Ultra Protector Daily Moisturiser with SPF 30+ by Lucinda27.
Rating: Jul 24, 2010 4:29pm
Too oily for my combination skin
I got a sample of this from my beautician. It has a distinctive and obvious smell to it, but I quite liked it. Unfortunately, I found it a little bit too rich for my combination skin and took a bit of rubbing in. Because of that I ended up just using it as 'body' sunscreen rather than for my face.
Read the full review of Ultra Protector Daily Moisturiser with SPF 30+ by Lovelylily.
Rating: Jun 4, 2010 11:43pm
A rich moisturising suncreen
This sunscreen is very rich and for that fact I'm still ambivalent about it. The texture is very rich and moisturizing but it seems to cause me to oil up a lot quicker during the day. I had to blot my face within 2 hours, after having it on, which was disappointing for me.
I have been using it on my neck and arms instead at the moment and those body parts have benefited from the extra moisturisation. Perhaps on colder weather days, I'll give it another go on the face. .
This sunscreen may be more suited to those with very dehydrated or dry skin. It doesn't seem to work as well for my oily/combination skin type.
Read the full review of Ultra Protector Daily Moisturiser with SPF 30+ by Lilypilly.
Rating: Jan 27, 2010 1:42pm
pretty good
At first I wasn't too impressed with this. it smelled and had the texture of a normal sunscreen. it's only after a week of using it that i have to say it's worth so much more than that. It moisturises beautifully - unlike sunscreen which dries the skin out. a little goes a long way, and I noticed my skin looked radiant all day long. it didn't make my skin go oily either. I rated it 4 stars only because I still don't like the smell and sunscreen feel of it.
Read the full review of Ultra Protector Daily Moisturiser with SPF 30+ by 25wordsorless.
Rating: Feb 11, 2008 5:02pm
Alpha-H 30+ Great for Fair/Dry Skin!
When I first started using the Alpha-h Ultra Protector I thought it might be too oily due to the rich thick texture of the product. However I was pleasantly surprised and found that although the cream was super-rich it managed to blend in fast, which is a big plus when one is rushing to get the make-up done in the morning!
The cream has no real scent and would be ideal for guys/girls with allergies. I used the Alpha-h cream for about 8 days and found it to be great on my skin and it always left me feeling really moisturized and nourished. Another plus to the product is the 30+ SPF, which is vital for anyone who had fair skin like myself. I also noticed after the trial period I had less dry areas which I have put down the additional SPF as most products only contain 15+.
At $54.95 it's not the cheapest product on the market but neither is it the most expensive. For 50ml it's not a bad deal especially seeing a lot seems to go a long way as it's thick cream and you don't need very much. To wrap things up I would totally recommend this moisturizer to anyone who wants a product that will help with dry problem areas and also offer sun protection.
Read the full review of Ultra Protector Daily Moisturiser with SPF 30+ by Zadora.
Rating: Dec 22, 2007 2:11am
This is another favorite due to what it does for my boys. Its so easy for them to use after cleansing and not have to worry about sunblock with the built in spf and a high one at that.Even though they are males they will also age gracefully.I.m glad I got them started on the best products.
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Adore soft and scenic Santa Ynez Valley? Yeah, it's a total thing. Get a pass good for deals over the 2012 Mother's Day Weekend.
MOM'S DAY WEEKEND: We're in that special and sometimes stressful moment when we're firming up our special plans for Mother's Day Weekend. Maybe we made our brunch reservation weeks ago or maybe we've been hemming and hawing along the way, trying to think up the perfect and creative experience for our discerning mother. ("Discerning" is of course a compliment; it is good to have a mom who knows what she likes.) A lot of grown-up kids'll be taking their moms wine tasting or out for a stroll around spots like Santa Barbara and Solvang, we imagine, which is why our eye fell on this interesting deal. It's the Santa Ynez Valley Weekend Pass and it is good for Mother's Day Weekend 2012. That includes the Friday before and the Monday after, in fact, so good stuff.
NOW, ABOUT THOSE DEALS... There are a number of solid choices. A two-for-one tasting at Lucas & Llewelyn in Solvang as well as Mosby Winery in Buellton. Actually, there's a bevy of two-for-ones on the list, so see if your favorite local label is represented. And, hello, an olive oil tasting in Los Olivos -- that's kind of perfect and we don't know a mom, or, let's be honest, any foodie who wouldn't be on board. Regardless of whether you make it up over the holiday weekend or not, Santa Ynez Valley'll be up there, all soft hills and olive shops and wine tastings. That comforts our big city heart.


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Human sexuality is a strange and immensely compelling beast, which is why a site like Femme Fight exists. An all-female site predominantly for straight guys who like to watch women kick the crap out of each other, tugging at and tearing off their opponents outfit in the process, Femme Fight brings the bitch battle to your laptop or desktop screen. Having been whooping ass online since 2005, Femme Fight has amassed quite a substantial collection of exclusive softcore movies and galleries that, unlike most softcore content, is not soft in anything but name. Wanna see some hair-pulling, arm-biting, neck-stratching, chest-poking, face-slapping beat-downs that reveal much more than what color panties Fighter #1 is wearing? Femme Fight is your own personal battle arena.
When you're an aging lesbian, you don't always cut your hair short, listen to Patti Smith records, and hold hands with your similarly aged "partner". Sometimes, as Old and Young Lesbians proves, you grab the nearest, prettiest young rug-muncher and fuck her brains out! Filled with hardcore twosomes, threesomes, foursomes, and more, Old and Young Lesbians is one of the more intriguing all-female sites this reviewer has ever encountered. Does it deliver on its lofty promises? Can these old broads keep up? Do we really want to see wrinkled labia and grey-hair snatches dusted off for one last tongue lashing? All these questions and more will be answered right here in Mr. Pink's inaugural investigation of Old and Young Lesbians.
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When you're looking for an adult website whose performers are amateur, pretty, and both ready and willing to explore their own sexualities on camera, you've got a huge range of choices. Why then should you stop to check out Real Teen Stars? Well, with a small but daily growing collection of exclusive masturbation scenes rendered in glorious High Definition video formats and starring some extremely enticing fresh-faced European women, Real Teen Stars has all the ingredients necessary for success and after a detailed examination by yours truly, Mr. Pink, you'll know every in and every out of this fledgling teen Europorn paradise.
Angelina Valentine is as divisive as pornstars come. Seemingly down to fuck anything with a pulse (including trans-performers) and often whatever absurd inanimate object is placed before her tattooed pelvis, Angelina is an aggressive, ravenous performer who makes her mark on the 'net here on here self-titled official website. While not the most polished of pornstar sites, Angelina Valentine's is nonetheless a fitting showcase for one of porn's true wild ones.
What possesses someone to call their brand new adult website something as bland as Amateur Model Site? Is it a complete lack of creativity or a desire to be brutally honest, even blunt with prospective members? Whatever the case, Amateur Model Site is an exceedingly simple site that virtually pimps homegrown hotties (and quite a few notties) for your viewing pleasure. They chat, they strip, they pose, they moan about not getting paid enough. If you're into genuinely everyday women (and everything that entails), Amateur Model Site is, at the very least, worth a look.
Collecting the solo sites of fifteen comely British girls as well as Brat Sluts, Cunt Munchers, and Teen Ambitions, Girlies Pass offers interested parties a cavalcade of sizzling softcore teasing and girl-on-girl hardcore content that's sure to have you wishing you could hit up one of these gorgeous Londoners, Mancunians, Liverpudlians, Essexons, Blackpudlians, and Lancastrians yourself. Since you're likely stuck elsewhere on the planet, Girlies Pass could be your best chance of enjoying the attentions of some of the UK's most desirable young lasses.
Creampie porn is always running the risk of appealing largely to those with impregnation fetishes and fantasies, and as far as fantasies go, fucking a tight Southeast Asian babe is very common. Creampie Thais offers viewers the chance to live vicariously through a guy who has made it his mission to blow loads inside the pussies of as many Thai girls as possible. And blow he does! With some unfortunately disappointing HD videos only recently arriving here and updates in an uncertain, but not at all promising state, Creampie Thais sits on the verge of success, teetering on collapse. Will it pull through or will you be left to go traveling for yourself?
Racquel Devonshire might sound like the name of a Spanish-British woman of distinguished class and social stature, but in reality, Ms. Devonshire it your classic North American MILF. She loves showing off her fit, curvaceous body on camera and shows nothing but enthusiasm for the stripping, sucking, dildoing, and fucking that is required of all amateur pornstars. Her husband and producer, TJ, is along for the ride, ample jizz loads at the ready, so why not fasten your seatbelt and take a long drive through suburban America with Racquel Devonshire.


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This cut of meat is actually from the top blade steak and is named for its triangular shape that's similar to an iron. A simple smoky, hot spice rub and a quick run on the grill cooks this cut into a flavorful, tender entrée. To maintain the simple theme, serve with a salad of cilantro leaves and thinly sliced radishes.
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1. Preheat grill to medium-high heat.
2. Combine first 5 ingredients in a small bowl. Rub sugar mixture evenly over steak; let stand 10 minutes. Place steak on a grill rack coated with cooking spray; cook 4 minutes on each side or until desired degree of doneness. Let stand 10 minutes; cut diagonally across grain into thin slices. Serve with lime wedges and tortillas. Garnish each serving with cilantro leaves, if desired.
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Both Maryland and Miami lost close games at home to ranked teams Saturday, but their respective coaches reacted differently to the defeats as the teams prepared to play each other Wednesday night in College Park.
Mark Turgeon, whose Terps lost 83-79 to No. 20 Pittsburgh, thought his team played better against the Panthers than they did in losing at North Carolina State on Monday. In that game, Maryland led by nine at haltime and by 11 points early in the second half.
Turgeon was pleased by the offensive progress he thought his team had made against one of the league's better defensive teams, shooting 48 percent from the field, scoring 20 more points than it had in a loss at Pittsburgh on Jan. 6, going to the free throw line 30 times.
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"Our guys were really hurting in the locker room the other night, so that was a good sign," Turgeon said on Monday's ACC coaches teleconference. "I think there were a lot of positives on the offensive end.
"We got points in the paint. We didn't shoot the ball particuarly well. Our shot selection was better, we got better looks. Execution was better. We'll build on that. We have to figure out a way to guard better. We have to guard better. Hopefully we will as the season continues."
Turgeon has been known to be hypercritical of his team's shortcomings throughout his first three seasons in College Park, and he has worked at trying to stay more upbeat this season no matter how exasperated he can get watching players make the same mistakes.
Conversely, Jim Larranaga seems to be taking a different approach down at Miami. Larranaga doesn't seem to care that the Hurricanes stayed with No. 2 Syracuse for most of their game Saturday, even leading by a point with seven minutes left before losing 64-52.
Despite completely rebuilding after dominating the ACC last season – the Hurricanes were the only team not to return a single starter – Larranaga is holding his current team to the same high standard as he did the past couple of years.
"Very, very good teams play very close games and win," Larranaga said Monday. "Teams that are struggling still often play close games but lose. It's not playing close, it's being able to close the deal is what you're trying to accomplish.
"The teams that win those close games buid up confidence, the teams that lose it creates a lot of doubt in their mind so the next time that circumstance occurs they've got to overcome those doubts and still play with confidence down the stretch."
Wednesday's game is critical for Maryland (11-9, 3-4 AC) and Miami (10-9, 2-5) because each is trying to hang onto whatever shred of hope that remains for a postseason (read NIT) bid. Given that it's in College Park, the pressure is clearly on the Terps.


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OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — The body of a Fort Campbell soldier slain in Afghanistan returned to his hometown of Owensboro Thursday to a crowd of hundreds waving flags and waiting to give him a hero's send off.
Sgt. Michael Christopher Cable died March 27 in eastern Afghanistan after a teenager stabbed him from behind. The 26-year-old native of Philpot was due to return home from combat in June.
The Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer reported (http://bit.ly/ZceRDL ) that 137 bikers from at least five organizations followed police and military personnel from the airport to the funeral home.
Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Burial will follow in Rosehill Cemetery.
Cable was assigned to First Battalion, 327th Infantry, 1st Brigade Combat Team in the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell.
City and county officials joined military personnel and family members waiting on the tarmac beside the hangars at MidAmerica Jet on Thursday. A six-man honor guard from Fort Campbell marched to the plane, lifted the flag-draped casket and carried it slowly to the hearse. And, on Friday, Gov. Steve Beshear ordered flags at all state offices lowered to half-staff on Saturday in honor of Cable.
The family had asked people to wear green and hundreds of them did. Green was Cable's favorite color — the color of his beloved Green Bay Packers football team and the Army, where he was a career soldier.
Among those at the airport was Mollie Stephen, wearing a bright yellow Cheesehead hat, a signature of the Packers Nation.
"We've been loyal Packers fans for a lifetime," she said. "I wanted to wear it today for him."
A large American flag was suspended over the street in front of Owensboro Municipal Utilities.
"It was awesome. We expected a lot of people, but it was overpowering. It was so much easier to deal with the pain with all this support," said Cable's older brother, Raymond Johnston. "You felt like you were in a parade, not a funeral. It was fabulous. We talked about it all day long. We'd cry a little and then somebody would mention something about the parade."
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- Jennifer Ball
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Females mammals are the underpinning of written language. Sex & sexism exists in every literate culture, so why wouldn't it be in language?
姦 (three females) has meant "adultery, wicked" for 4,000 years in China. What else has this kind of track record? But China isn't the only sexist culture. The characters "B" and "V" swap sounds in seven different languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Russian, and English), most likely because females produce milk and offspring after being impregnated. Using a Darwinian lens to look at all scripts, one sees a pattern of female mammals being at the root of written language. Keith Chen examines language for its ability to predict economic behavior. He also wrote a paper on monkeys paying for sex after having the concept of money introduced to them. Prostitution is an ancient concept. If there is sex everywhere, why wouldn't it be in language? The fact that we live in euphemism is evident in the insistence that the name of Hooter's "breastaurants" is a reference to owls' eyes, not big-breasted women. When one examines all scripts, a pattern based on fertility, dominance, and sex appears. If this topic pisses you off, keep in mind that psychiatrists tell us that the thing that rankles us the most is typically the thing that is the most accurate, and this is why it gets under our skin. We like to believe we are above animals. We like to believe that Chinese is pictures and the alphabet is not. We alphabet-users are elitist. The alphabet has just simplified faster. Humans have the same drivers. Consider that Noah's Ark is the world's first sex education (the animals went two by two) and was first recorded 5,500 years ago in Sumerian cuneiform in "Gilgamesh," the world's first story. Early Christians plagiarized this tale, not knowing we would eventually be able to decode Sumerian. I have read over 100 books, I have had 30,000 readers on my website, and I am now in China teaching English at Soochow University to 102 nanotechnology students. I have studied Mandarin for three years, and I just gave a talk at Roche Pharmaceuticals Shanghai. OriginofAlphabet.com
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It is not my intention to offend with my assertion that the images of female mammals are visible in all written languages. I suspect that the strong feelings shown here are indicative of why we don't know more about the roots of language. I was hoping for an enlightened discussion on the TED site, and I am saddened that so many comments degenerated into character attacks. The fact this idea could provoke so much vehemence tells me I'm on the right track, but it is a lonely pursuit. I'm reminded of why I moved to China because here the role of females in language is recognized. The woman radical is all over Hanzi, so it is an undeniable fact that females are key to Chinese script. The elitism of Western culture makes many say, "Well, Chinese is pictures, but the alphabet is not." However, the alphabet is pictures too. (For example, "G" is recognized as a throwing stick.) Comparing all early scripts for their similarities seems like an obvious idea, but I have not yet found a university where this is possible. The Linguistics department is usually quite far from the East Asian Languages on most campuses. If anyone knows where I can pursue this research, please inform me. I would love to talk to well-educated, open-minded individuals. Where are the kind intellectuals who love unique ideas rather than hackneyed pablum? I would love to meet you. Please feel free to contact me through this site or my website, www.OriginofAlphabet.com. I have had a total of 35,000 readers on my site (which includes my two Scribd accounts). I am searchable on Scribd, Facebook, Quora, Linked In, Researchgate, and YouTube. As I am data driven, I welcome any coherent suggestions that would enable me to find others who really want to know how language evolved by using structural analyses coupled with dictionaries and lexicons. Thank you TED talks for fostering an environment where these ideas can even be discussed.
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Apr 7 2013: Very interesting. I agree that letters are simplified pictorgrams. E.g., russian letter "Ж" is pronounced "zh" a sound used to imitate the buzzing of a bug. The letter, of course, looks like an insect, and "жук" means "beetle". The word "buzz" has 3 of these letters "жужжать".
The point that sex and procreation are dominant ideas in most cultures is also quite obvious. Most of the rules regarding sex in the Bible seem to encourage sex during the most "dangerous" (as we call them now) days and discourage intercourse when a woman is not likely to conceive. Ejaculations outside a female are strongly frowned upon, to say the least.
But what's your message about sexism? Should we avoid it in our culture? To what degree? For example, should we chastise Obama in the media for the recent compliment to Kamala Harris? Would it be sexist to say that most women enjoy and seek positive attention from men? Should we distort our language inserting "s/he" in our writings? After all, isn't it just a statement of fact that men and women are not exactly the same biologically and psychologically?
I'm all for treating women with respect and treating them as equal to men. But how far shall we go in our zeal? Especially considering how deep these things are engraved in our culture as you pointed out.
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What is DATEM?
Is an acryonmy for Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters of Mono-diglycerides, it is an emulsifyer that is derived from , soy, palm, or conala oil.
Where does DATEM come from?
A chemical processes involving vegtable oils (soy, palm, or conala), alcohol and or other chemicals.
How is DATEM made?
DATEM is composed of mixed esters of glycerin in which one or more of the hydroxyl groups of glycerin has been esterified by diacetyl tartaric acid and by fatty acids. The ingredient is prepared by the reaction of diacetyl tartaric anhydride with mono- and diglycerides that are derived from edible sources. The major components are a glycerol molecule with a stearic acid residue, a diacetyltartaric acid residue and a free secondary hydroxyl group.
- Lisa Widner
The primary consideration would be vegan - the next would be \"is the soy oil organic?\", because if not, the vegan part is mute. Non-organic soy products are deathly...
- Ida Muhammad
To be very specific( if the information provided above is correct) is (1) What is the source (animal or plant) of the mono- and diglycerides that reacts with the diacetyl tartaric anhydride and (2) What is the source of the glycerin (animal, plant or synthetic) and (3) What is the origin (animal or plant) of the stearic acid residue associated with the glycerol molecule. All these questions need to be answered to determine if the ingredient is suitable for use in vegan, kosher, and halaal foods.
- John
According to Wikipedia, datem is often derived from GM, that is genetically modified, soy. In other words.. stay far away. GM foods are beginning to show frightening results in lab tests on animals. Dr. John Michael Christian www.johnmichaelchristian.com
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Use shorter words
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That may be true but webkipedia is not always true
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Don\'t eat gmo\'s if you can avoid them. In faggotville America they don\'t have to tell you if you\'re getting mutant veggies or because Monsanto hired a bunch of fda folks and gave them lots of money. Btw I\'m proud to be a fagotville American. Just not proud of what my leadership has done. God bless you, America... You truly need it. Monsanto made agent orange. Yummy.
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WHat is the skeletal Formula for DATEM?
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- ken
you can beat around the bush if you choose that is the way information is availiable on the net. no one wants to commit,datem is a form of free glutamic acid regardless of any other name you peg it with !
- Kathryn
Well, you better stop eating any food that is grown as ALL the food we eat has been genetically modified at one time or the other that\'s what plant breeding is all about moving genes from one plant to another.
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Re: Kathryn\'s comment. Not true. Hybridization or cross-breeding is NOT the same as GM.
Heide, where is your biogenetics degree from? Please don\'t comment if you haven\'t studied in the field, else your comment is worthless.
Heide, where is your biogenetics degree from? Please don\'t comment if you haven\'t studied in the field, else your comment is worthless.
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Trams fats are also made from edible sources and we all know what they can do to us. What makes anyone think that any man made chemical emulsifier is ok for us to ingest? Stay with a whole foods unprocessed organic diet for the best health. But thank you for letting me know what DATEM is!
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Heide is correct. Crop production and genetics class and plant breeding class taught me a great deal about plant selection. This was accomplished in the field not a lab, as has been the case for thousands of years, Barrett. Perhaps you should get out into a crop field and talk to a farmer. Not all our food is contaminated with genetically engineered crops, or what is the point of eating organic foods, buying organic cotton, etc.? Personally, as an agronomist, I believe you have a good deal to learn.
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My questions are: Why are food manufacturers NOW adding this to our foods? What has it replaced and why? Why is DATEM needed at all? How long has this lab created food been studied before adding it to our foods?


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PR student Charlie Foster represents Baylor at NAB Conference in Las VegasMay 2, 2013
Baylor interns at NAB. PR major Charlie Foster is on the far right.
Also pictured are Michael Fuller, Colleen Decker, and Cameron Bohls.
(Photo by Michael Fuller)
By Adam Harris, journalism student
Baylor public relations student Charlie Foster had the experience of a lifetime when he was selected to serve as an intern at the National Association of Broadcasters annual conference from April 6-11 in Las Vegas, Nev.
The conference showcases the newest technology in the digital media world with more than 90,000 attendees from 151 countries. This year Foster, junior public relations major from Carrollton, Texas, jumped at the opportunity to join both Dr. Corey Carbonara and Dr. Daniel Shafer of the Film and Digital Media division at the show.
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Dr. Carbonara, former product manager of high-definition systems at Sony, was instrumental in Foster's networking experiences during the trip.
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Senior Film and Digital Media major Colleen Decker was among the students on the trip with Foster.
"NAB show is a one stop shop of all the most cutting edge, must-see technology and genius people you will ever meet. This trip was by far one of, if not the best, experiences I was able to be a part of at Baylor," Decker said.
Foster also had the opportunity to give a tour to Congressman Greg Walden of Oregon.
"He's big on technology and education," Foster said. "The conference gave him an opportunity to see what he's advocating for in Congress.
Cameron Bohls and Michael Fuller, both FDM juniors, were the other two members of the team with Foster and Decker.
Foster has plans to participate in the Baylor in New York program in spring of 2014. He currently interns with Baylor Career and Professional Development.
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In this text, Michael Green sets out to present the concepts and challenges of a neurocognitive understanding of schizophrenia, drawn from the traditional schools of clinical neuropsychology and experimental psychology, to a wide scientific audience.
The nine chapters in the text review the methods for studying the neurodevelopmental model (epidemiological, neurohistological, archival-observational, and through markers of abnormal neurodevelopment); the historical understanding of attentional dysfunction in schizophrenia and, later, of specific neuropsychological and experimental psychology models; and specific types of neucognitive deficits and attempts to integrate this information. Also covered are neurocognitive indicators of vulnerability to schizophrenia in patients and relatives; the relationship between neurocognition and symtomatology; the effects of antipsychotic and anticholinergic medication on neurocognition; neurocognition and structural and functional neuroimaging; the correlation of neurocognition and outcome; and interventions for neurocognitive deficits.
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Yoga Retreat
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 09:46 PM
Has anyone attended the retreat at Krapula in Stockbridge, Ma? It is in conjunction with the Parkinson's Foundation. I am not sure how this helps? I can see that stress is aweful for my PD, but not sure how this immersion will help.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Posted 07 August 2013 - 08:35 AM
My husband has PD. He has not attended the Yoga Retreat in MA but has participated in week-long exercise programs for people with PD. The benefits were many! A chance to get in-depth guidance from professionals and time to immerse yourself in exercise that, for my husband, really makes a difference in his symptoms was a very beneficial experience. Here's a link to the program he attended, you can search for clinicians in other parts of the country on the webpage.
If you go to the Yoga Retreat, keep us posted on your experience!
If you go to the Yoga Retreat, keep us posted on your experience!
Posted 10 August 2013 - 11:01 AM
Sorry, here's the link: http://www.pwr4life.org/
Posted 19 August 2013 - 09:19 PM
i"m in Ohio and would like to learn more about somewhere that might hold yoga for pwp. I am central Ohio if anyone knows.
Posted 10 September 2013 - 12:12 AM
this retreat is in Stockbridge Ma. The location is Kripalu. They work in conjunction with the Parkinson's foundation providing a week long program called healthy living. Check out their website and the program. Good luck.
Posted 16 July 2014 - 08:00 PM
I had the great pleasure of attending the PD Yoga retreat at Kirpallu. It was fantastic - everyone with PD should attend this. They had seminars with neurologists, nurses and pharmaceutical companies. And the YOGA was wonderful!
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Is it possible to create an exe installation wizard for a php script that will automatically upload all files to the ftp server, chmod directories, create a mysql database on cPanel and maybe even configure cronjobs on cpanel?
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Is it possible to create an exe installation wizard for a php script that will automatically upload all files to the ftp server, chmod directories, create a mysql database on cPanel and maybe even configure cronjobs on cpanel?
Thank you.
Well sure, if you know C# or something of the sort...
Assuming you don't, why not make a PHP script to do all that?
Sury, use NSIS: http://nsis.sourceforge.net
I use it to install a complete Webserver and a PHP app on the clients PC, works like a charm but is hard work until you see first really good looking results.
It's not a click'n'run solution - you'll have to code everything by yourself but there are many classes/extensions that help you.
ionCube has a product - Package Foundry - that does exactly what you want. I have yet to try it but have used software that uses it's installer and it works great.
Thanks Triexa for the mention of IPF. Looking at the list of requirements from the poster, one feature that isn't in IPF is creation and setup of databases, because this really belongs in the application itself. The rationale for this in IPF, and it would apply to a home-brew solution too, was that first off it's not uncommon for security reasons not to allow remote connections to a database, and if the only way to create the database schemas was remotely then you'd be stuffed if you hit a host that wouldn't allow this. Another reason to consider is that sometime into the use of the installed application, the user may want to roll back for some reason and setup the database again; even though IPF installers remember that an upload was successful and skip the upload stages when rerun, having to go back to the installer to setup the DB again would still be annoying. A further consideration is that whilst installers are great for many users, some users might want to download and install software directly onto their web server, e.g. with wget for a tar.gz. Not only that, they may not even own a Windows machine to be able to run an installer in the first place. So once again, if the only way to setup the database was via the installer, the end user would be stuffed.
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Evergrande: Strong Sales Performance and High Growth
BEIJING, May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 8, Evergrande stock had a high opening price, and the price rose by 5.3% to HKD 3.38 at one time. By closing that afternoon, Evergrande's stock price rose by HKD 0.16,and the closing price was HKD 3.37 per share, with an increase of 4.98%; the turnover was 158 million shares, and the volume of trading was up to HKD 524 million, ranking No. 1 among the real estate enterprises of Hong Kong stocks. An original report from Sina Leju follows.
According to the April sales performance report released by Evergrande, Evergrande achieved a month-on-month increase in both the sales volume and the sales price in the adverse market. In April, Evergrande achieved sales of 7.26 billion RMB, with a month-on-month increase of 15.8%, and the sales area of 1.097 million square meters, with a month-on-month increase of 10.9%. From January through April, Evergrande had 188 projects on sale in total, and in addition, it achieved sales of 24.98 billion RMB cumulatively, with a year-on-year increase of 51.9%, and the sales area of 3.936 million square meters, with a year-on-year increase of 46.9%. The average selling price in April was 6,620 RMB per square meter, with an increase of 4.4% monthly.
According to the latest investigation report from China Merchants Securities, in the first quarter, the increase in the sales amount of real estate enterprises was due to the early released demand. Along with the introduction of the detailed "new rules" in various regions, it will be inevitable for the real estate market to lower the pace of sales.
Data showed that in April, HOPSON DEV HOLD achieved the sales amount of 860 million RMB, with a month-on-month decrease of more than 20%, and BJ CAPITAL LAND achieved the sales amount of 910 million RMB, with a month-on-month decrease of nearly 20%. It is worth noting that in April, the leading real estate enterprise Vanke achieved the sales area of 1.107 million square meters and the sales amount of 12.38 billion RMB, with a month-on-month decrease of 12.97% and 18.55% respectively.
In the short term, the turnover of the real estate market is faced with the month-on-month decrease, but this is only the indication that the market is returning to the normal status. Evergrande have been adhering to the concept of properties for the people's livelihood, and will continue developing in the second- and third-tier cities with rigid demand, with high cost-effective products to conform to the market and the policy, small profits and quick returns, meeting the rigid demand, further consolidating the market share.
According to the research report from Guotai Junan Securities Co. Ltd., even if the new macro-control policy will affect the sale of real estate, the leading large-scale enterprises in the industry will be benefited by real estate market integration and strong demand.
Wu Jianxiong, Real Estate Analyst of Central China Securities Co. Ltd., said, it would be less likely to have a significant policy introduced in the next one or two months, the policy environment of the market would be relatively stable, and it was expected that the key indicators such as industry investment, construction area and capital source could still maintain the growth in the next one or two months.
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