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Copernicus Tells Us About Tomorrow's KNOWN UNIVERSE (Nat Geo Channel)!! Rocket Engines, Space Elevators, Sigrid With A Rover, And More!!
This week on KNOWN UNIVERSE we tackle how to get off of the Earth. This one is less of my area of expertise, and I was pretty busy when we were filming it, so I'm only in one segment. But that segment, watching a rocket engine test at NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, was a hell of a lot of fun to film. More on that later. First up: Mike Massimino, Steve "Jake" Jacobs, and David Kaplan test the efficiency of various rocket fuels.
To do this, Mike and Jake took a cannon (why do they always get to play pirate?) and loaded it with different fuels: gunpowder, flash powder, and gasoline. Then, they shot the cannon and had David mark the distance each cannonball flew. And just to be sure they did it correctly, they filmed it with a high speed camera against a background they could use to measure distances and calculate velocities.
Here's the result!
The one segment I'm in this week was a spectacular one – one of my favorite things I got to do on the show. I went to NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and watch a rocket engine test!
Stennis is only about an hour outside of New Orleans, and it is where NASA has been testing its engines since the early 60s. The site was chosen because it was a sparsely populated area, but to build it they actually relocated 5 small towns that existed on the land. Some remnants of those towns still exist there. It also had to have access to barges because the Saturn V engines they tested there had to get to Florida and were too big to be transported over land.
First I got to go into a huge facility where a bunch of engines are stored. Here I am hanging out with some engines.
The things on the left are RS-68 engines for the Delta IV rockets, and the thing in the middle is a Space Shuttle Main Engine! I saw lots of them there. The RS-68 and the SSMEs are very different. If the SSME is a Ferrari, then the RS-68 is a Chevy. That's partly because the SSMEs have to be reusable. As a result they are much more complicated. The nozzle of these engines can reach temperatures about half that of the surface of the Sun. As a result, the SSMEs must be cooled with liquid hydrogen to ensure they don't melt. But the nozzle of the RS-68 just oblates away as it launches – it essentially melts from the inside out.
That was the strangest workshop I've ever been in – everything was amazingly clean and organized. Every surface sparkled. Every tool had a spot it had to go into. That's because lives are on the line, and you can't afford to have dirt or lost tools gumming up your engines.
These engines weigh tons, but one fun thing I got to do was move one of them around on an air bearing. It is basically like an air hockey table – they have these huge machines that create a cushion of air under the rocket engine, allowing one person (actually you need a few for steering) to move the many-ton engine where you want it to go. That got cut from the show, but it was fun!
But the real fun started outside when I got to watch a Delta IV engine test live! I've been to a Space Shuttle launch before, but this was even better. The Shuttle launch was spectacular, but the downer is that you can only get a few miles away at the closest. For this test I was probably more like a thousand yards away. The other difference is that in a Shuttle launch you experience it for a few seconds and then it is gone. This rocket engine test keeps going for nearly three minutes because the engine is bolted into the test stand. There is a huge deafening roar, so powerful you can feel it all over your body and you can't even hear another person if they are standing next to you and screaming
Just check out the goofy look on my face when watching this thing:
The other crazy part is that it is liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen being combined to make water that causes such a violent reaction that you can ride it to space. It actually creates a cloud of steam in the process, which quickly condenses into rain. We got lucky with the wind and the steam blew just off to the right of us. A slightly different wind direction and we, and all of our camera and audio equipment, would have been drenched.
So much fun! I don't think I'll ever get another opportunity to see something like that again.
If you really want to make space travel more efficient chemical rockets are no good. You need a space elevator! Start with an anchor in geostationary orbit, and lower a tether down to Earth. Then, in theory, you can ride a platform up to orbit. But there are a couple of issues: material strength and power.
We need something super-strong to make something that can support its own weight going all the way to space. Years ago, such a material was the stuff of science fiction fantasy, but now we have it: carbon nanotubes. These are carbon molecules arranged in long shapes, giving them super-strength. David Kaplan went on a field trip and actually learned how to make some. I like this segment, because I never knew how they were made, and they are so strange that they seem like advanced super-tech. They are, but they are now a reality!
The second problem is powering the elevator. If you have to take the fuel with you, it becomes that much harder to lift the platform. One solution is to build a laser and beam the power to the moving platform. Sigrid Close got to go to a lab where she was able to witness a test of this concept in action.
Once you get out of the Earth's gravity, you'll probably want to go somewhere. You might even have to dock with a space station. Dave got have Mike teach him how to dock the Shuttle to the ISS. I'm jealous! I want to learn space-docking skills from an astronaut!
Landing on the surface of a planet can be just as tricky as getting off one. Take Mars – it has an atmosphere too thin to make parachutes very effective. The current Mars rovers had to use a wacky airbag landing system and bounce their way to a landing. But the next Mars rover, Curiosity, is too big for that. So it will use a four-part landing strategy: heat shield, parachute, thrusters, and a sky crane! After the parachute stage, thrusters will fire to slow the spacecraft's descent. Then it will hover and lower the rover down on ropes! Seriously!
To test whether a spacecraft can slow its descent using thrusters, David Kaplan visited the Marshal Space Flight Center. There they are dropping a prototype lander from hundreds of feet and slowing it with compressed air, before letting it fall into a net. Very impressive!
Speaking of rovers, NASA is testing other Mars rover concepts beyond Curiosity. One, the Axel Rover, can split off two wheels, which can then descend steep terrain to get to the bottom of otherwise-unreachable craters. To see it in action, Sigrid decided to race the rover to the bottom of a steep cliff.
Here's the video:
For real long-distance travel in space you want your engines to be as efficient as possible. The most efficient currently-viable engine for cruising in space is an ion engine. Sigrid got to see an advanced form of this in action: a VASIMIR rocket. That's a Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket. Basically you shoot ionized gas (a plasma) out of a rocket using a magnetic field to guide it. You wouldn't use this kind of engine to get off the Earth (because it doesn't have high thrust), but you would use it to provide efficient propulsion when you get there. That's TIE Fighter technology! (They stand for Twin Ion Engine, though really it is because they look like bow ties.)
That's it for Episode 7. For an "out of this world" kind of show, this one is pretty grounded. Most of this stuff isn't science fiction, it is happening either in a laboratory or in real space missions.
Next week: the last episode of the season, and it is an awesome astronomical one: THE END OF THE WORLD!
-Andy Howell aka Copernicus
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June 15, 2011, 10:27 a.m. CST
AICN isn't exactly rushing to get their GL reviews up.
by christonomist
Wonder if the reluctance has anything to do with the 29% over at Rotten Tomatoes...
June 15, 2011, 11:30 a.m. CST
BTW, Copernicus: you're welcome for giving you the idea for writing the science of Abrams' Trek article
by AssyMuffJizz
May 26, 2011 8:39:06 PM CDT I loved THOR by assymuffjizz How about you do an article on JAR JAR ABRAMS' BREWERY TREK. I'd *love* to see the results of that real science-massacre.
June 15, 2011, 11:32 a.m. CST
And the results were fine indeed...
by AssyMuffJizz
I expect my AICN paycheck to arrive shortly. Make it snappy.
June 15, 2011, 11:40 a.m. CST
VASIMIR engines
by Longtime Lurker
For those who are interested, Check out the work of Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz. He has been a moving force (heheheh) behind VASIMIR engines for many years now. He was also on this Nat Geo series and has a company called Ad Astra Rocket, which he started after having been at NASA for many years and gone on many shuttle flights. Trans-Mars Injection in 30 days? Could very well happen with one of these engines. :)
June 15, 2011, 1:44 p.m. CST
by BSB
Zoom Zoom.
June 15, 2011, 2:03 p.m. CST
by AssyMuffJizz
I think you're thinking about me--not Choppah. I'm the one who's gay.
June 15, 2011, 2:33 p.m. CST
" Once you get out of the Earth's gravity " ??? What? How can an astronomer say something like that?
by AsimovLives
The Earth's influence extends throughout the whole universe. Like any other object with mass. Gravity never stops effecting. It spreads to every direction to all over the universe. Earth, Sun, Jupiter, you and me, an orange, everything with mass. The only thing that makes Earth or any other object look like if has a neglegible influence at a distance has to do with how gravity loses strenght with distance. It's called the inverse-square law of universal gravitation. It means that the influence of gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from it's source. It's basic astronomy 101. Why would Copernicus, who's an astronomer, would say such a dumbed down thing like that? Isn't his goal to teach science to the laymen? So what the bloody hell, man!
June 15, 2011, 2:44 p.m. CST
Thje astronauts at the ISS, and the ISS itself ARE INFLUENCED by the Earth's gravity.
by AsimovLives
It might look like they are not, but for starters they are at orbit, which itself means they are at the grip of Earth's gravity. The so-called zero-gravity effect is actually not due to lack of gravity, but form something compeltly different: weigthlessness due to freefall. In fact, the ISS and the people and everything in it are falling. THe weightless is in fact the same efect one would feel if one was jumping from a building or a airplane toward the ground. The ISS and everything in it are falling toward Earth. The reason they don't crash into Earth has to do with the trajectory of their fall, which is concident to the curvature of teh Earth. They are falling in direction to the Earth's curvature, not toward it's center. This is why they are, in a sense, in a permanent state of fall. Yhat's why they call it freefall. That's the corect term. All that talk of zero gravity and whatnot is just nonsense. It's pure talk from ignorance, it's completly misunderstanding the phenomenum. But the influence of gravity is there at ISS. It's about 40% or what we feel here at the survace, if i'm not too mistaken. If, say, one would to teleport to the ISS, we would fall toward Earth like we do on Earth. The reason for the freefall effect has to do with the way we went upthere in the first place, through acceleration that won the acceleration of Earth's own gravitational pull, and then a fall back to Earth but on a trajectory that matches the Earth's curvature. Aint that awesome? There are no place in the universe at zero gravity. Gravity is everywhere. About gravity, everything is being influenced by the gravity of something else and vice-versa. So much so that if it wasn't for the influence of the dark energy, gravity alone would stop the expantion of the universe and maybe even create a reverse crunch effect.
June 15, 2011, 2:49 p.m. CST
That Axel Rover, it's like the Batpod from The Tumbler in Nolan's Batman movies.
by AsimovLives
Did the engineers from NASA saw TDK and said "we could use that idea"?
June 15, 2011, 2:52 p.m. CST
I wonder is the ban for use of anything nuclear in Space will stop the development of ion thrusters.
by AsimovLives
When it was discovered that a certain deep space probe that went to explore the futher planets of our solar system had a small nuclear cell to power it in addition to the solar panels, a huge contorvesy was created due to it's possible violation of the non-nuclear in space treaties.
June 15, 2011, 2:55 p.m. CST
assymuffjizz, you came out in a public forum? I respect you for it.
by AsimovLives
My respect to you, sir. That was badass.
June 15, 2011, 4:26 p.m. CST
A space elevator would get zapped to blazes by the Earth's enormous electric potential
by Bloodhound
A space elevator would be like riding up a hundred and sixty kilometres of fuse wire through a lightning storm. The electrical potential spanning the distance between the base and the orbital point would be staggering. One zap and it's Goodnight, Irene! And could you also imagine listening to The Girl from Ipanema for your whole ride?
June 15, 2011, 6:23 p.m. CST
by Longtime Lurker
Your post is brilliant. I must admit, however, that it is the thought of the Ulti-Muzak "Girl from Ipanema" that frightens me the most (as it would any sane person). :) Let's hope the Space Elevator is a fast ride :) BTW wasn't "The Girl from Ipanema" the tune the Jake and Elwood had to listen to on the elevator ride to Mr. Spielberg's office? Help me out here people, my Blues Brothers DVD is out of reach. :)
June 15, 2011, 9:06 p.m. CST
This topic = Battle Angel Alita
by The_Maxx
True, true
June 15, 2011, 10:45 p.m. CST
by AssyMuffJizz
You and I both know what's *really* gay (i.e., me and you).
June 16, 2011, 3:47 a.m. CST
william_faulkner, i rarely call people trolls, but you, sir, you are an exception.
by AsimovLives
June 16, 2011, 9:21 a.m. CST
Wee Willy Effer
by AssyMuffJizz
Come on, man. You're hot for me. Admit it. Believe me -- there's no shame in being queer and enjoying it.
June 16, 2011, 9:23 a.m. CST
Ahem -- on topic post...
by AssyMuffJizz
Anytime I imagine a space elevator, the closing moments of WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY comes to mind.
June 16, 2011, 12:02 p.m. CST
by Sigrid Close
Hey - would any of you, by chance, be the guys who are harassing me on my Stanford email? :) I feel like I'm getting some stalkers out there...
June 16, 2011, 2:11 p.m. CST
Yup, he's a troll alright.
by AsimovLives
June 16, 2011, 2:17 p.m. CST
Of space elevators
by AsimovLives
Inicially, when the idea was first conceived, it looked to be a very praticaly solution to the problem of rocket travel to orbit. The theoretical physics of it are quite simple, actually. The real problem is, of course, engineering. And it's not just the question of finding a perfect material with the proper tensil qualities. It's not just how we will hoist the elevator from Earth to orbit and back again. It's mroe then that. It's considering that for a good part, it's subjected to atmospheric conditions. That winds would bend and swing it. That it can create a wip effect that could cause untol dammages to both the part at orbit and the part attacked on the ground. And of the unimaginable dammage that it would create if it all fell to Earth. considering Earth's rotation,if a space elevator fell, it would fall along the Earth's curvature, meaning, a dammage area of at least 10,000 long, with the last par falling going as fast as a large heavy meteor. It's the stuff of nightmares. The idea is brillant. But would it ever be practical? Or desirable?
June 16, 2011, 2:29 p.m. CST
No stalker here, Sigrid...
by AssyMuffJizz
Now stalking Copernicus otoh.... Kidding. Kidding.
June 16, 2011, 6:45 p.m. CST
You are going to hate Green Lantern science
by Antz
Especially the finale... laws of gravity and all that. Mind you, Martin Campbell is not known for using paying much attention to the laws of physics in films like Vertical Limit
June 16, 2011, 9:09 p.m. CST
by Sigrid Close
Hi - I didn't think so but thought I'd ask (and you are not a jerk). :) I had to report it to Stanford HR today though (creeeeepy) Andy - you get the closing line every time!!! :)
June 17, 2011, 10:38 a.m. CST
I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $5
by Lbrown
June 17, 2011, 12:39 p.m. CST
Asi: Ion Thrusters, Nukes in Space
by Coordinate_System
Asi, ion thrusters do not require (direct) nuclear power sources. Advanced EHF (for the US Airforce) has four of them, and its powered by the sun (which is thermonuclear) http://www.lockheedmartin.com/products/AdvancedExtremelyHighFrequencyEHF/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Extremely_High_Frequency In fact, the first one up had a problem with its main thruster, so its ion thrusters are being used for orbit raising. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect_thruster As for Nukes, the US uses radioisotope thermoelectric generators for its deep space probes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator which depend on radioactive decay for power generation, not Fission (there have been several nuclear reactors in space, however). If you were referring to the controversy surrounding Cassini, the concern was about a possible mishap (during launch or flyby) would spread plutonium about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens#Plutonium_power_source I don't know to which treaty you refer, but if its the one about the prohibition of nuclear weapons in orbit, any concerns about RTGs are groundless.
June 17, 2011, 12:42 p.m. CST
by Coordinate_System
My company has a presence there, and I was there several years ago. In the day time, the surrounding area is quite beautiful. At night, however, it was quite spooky. Of course, I could say the same thing about Bourbon Street.
June 17, 2011, 3:56 p.m. CST
coordinate_system , thanks for the info, much appreciated
by AsimovLives
I'm an advocate of Nuclear fusion as the energy of the future (which will need to be, if the way of the future is for everything going electrical, liek cars). And if they ever crack out a workable nuclear fusion reactor, i wonder if they will allow it to power a spaceship. Solar wenergy is all nice and fine, but it really only works very well at the distances like the Earth from the Sun. Futher out the solar system, solar energy becames less and less useful. Nuclear fusion is the future, since it's like actually carring the sun with it. But as things have been going on, more and more i'm less optimistic and i get mroe fatalistic about the future. The immediate future, at least the one i will know while i'll still be alive. I'm so terribly disapointed as how the world turned out compared to the promises from my youth years.
June 17, 2011, 3:57 p.m. CST
Bourbon Street? In New Orleans?
by AsimovLives
June 17, 2011, 5:04 p.m. CST
Bourbon Street, Fusion, The State of the World
by Coordinate_System
Yeah. I stayed in New Orleans during my Stennis assignment. The Bourbon street area is quite nice in the day time, but a considerably different place at night. :-) Fusion is a great idea, but it seems perennially 20 years away. Hopefully, they'll get there at some point. As for the world, not to be depressing, but I expect that it will get (much) worse, before it gets better: War, hunger, Trek 12, and other assorted evils.
June 18, 2011, 1:47 a.m. CST
Hey Copernicus . . .
by DrMorbius
Will you be writing an article on the science of . . . Mr. Popper's Penguins?
June 18, 2011, 5:25 a.m. CST
by AsimovLives
Maybe we will be spared Abrams Trek 2. One less evil in this wretched world. Here's to hoping. Yes, 20 years researching Nuclear Fusion and it's still like they have just started yesterday. What's the deal? Lack of funding? Political embargo? What? It's the way of the future,and we are still in the past regarding it's research for practical use.
June 18, 2011, 5:27 a.m. CST
I'd love to see Cpernicus do a The Science Of Armageddon
by AsimovLives
His first line would be "Science? What science? There's no science in here!" Then he would write a Bible long description of what's wrong with that movie.
June 18, 2011, 5:28 a.m. CST
The ultimate The Science Of... is still Lawrence Krauss' THE PHYSISCS OF STAR TREK and it's sequel BEYOND STAR TREK.
by AsimovLives
Very informative and so damn funny. Yeah, a science book that's also hillarious to read. That's why scientists are so cool.
June 18, 2011, 12:31 p.m. CST
by Coordinate_System
...it has always been easier to destroy than to create.
June 18, 2011, 12:37 p.m. CST
Fusion II
by Coordinate_System
Apparently, quotation marks are now problematic... Building up atoms is harder than tearing them down (Fission). QUOTE: ...it has always been easier to destroy than to create. Although, I suspect that entrenched economic interests have interfered in the political process to the detriment of fusion research.
June 18, 2011, 1:23 p.m. CST
Fusion III
by Coordinate_System
I was bit hasty in my comments: Fusion, as an energy producing reaction, is harder than Fission, as an energy producing reaction. Energy consuming Fusion reactions are not that difficult: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
June 29, 2011, 3:36 p.m. CST
The two things that come to mind regarding space elevators. Birds. Planes.
by v3d
And didn't a late season episode of Star Trek Voyager feature a space elevator?
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On Tuesday, former Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA), and his wife, Maureen, were indicted on federal corruption charges. The 14-count indictment alleges that the couple accepted large amounts of money and expensive gifts from a Virginia businessman trying to gain an unfair edge for his company.
Last year, McDonnell admitted to accepting the gifts and loans from Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams, who among other things, paid the $15,000 bill for the governor's daughter's wedding.
The McDonnells reportedly returned all of the gifts and repaid Williams.
The Associated Press reported:
McDonnell's attorneys filed a strongly worded motion Tuesday evening seeking the instructions that were given to the grand jury and recordings of prosecutors' statements to the grand jury about the legal validity of the charges. The motion says the government's case is "built largely from immunized testimony purchased with under-the-table promises to a key witness who would otherwise face criminal liability and massive financial penalties."
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If convicted, the McDonnells could spend the rest of their lives in prison, as two of the charges are punishable by up to 30 years in prison, and the other twelve carry a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
It should be noted that there are no laws in Virginia regulating the dollar amount of gifts an elected state official can receive.
Confident in their innocence, Gov. McDonnell rejected a plea deal which would have dismissed all but one charge against him and spared his wife altogether.
While governor, McDonnell repeatedly challenged the Obama administration on matters such as illegal immigration and Obamacare. He was seriously considered as a running mate for Mitt Romney in 2012, and viewed as a probable Republican nominee in the near future.
Then, on Thursday, the Obama administration charged conservative filmmaker and author Dinesh D'Souza with violating federal campaign finance laws.
In a press release, the Department of Justice (DOJ) stated:
In 2012, the Election Act limited both primary and general election campaign contributions to $2,500 for a total of $5,000 from any individual to any one candidate. In August 2012, D'SOUZA directed other individuals with whom he was associated to make contributions to the campaign committee for a candidate for the United States Senate (the "Campaign Committee") that totaled $20,000. D'SOUZA then reimbursed those individuals for the contributions.
If convicted, D'Souza could face up to seven years in prison.
D'Souza directed the documentary "2016: Obama's America," which made an astonishing $50 million, and is currently working on the film "America," slated to be released on July 4.
Perhaps, rather prophetically, the website for "America," states:
Like it or not America is now the nation that Barack Obama Junior and Senior dreamed of creating. Americans are right to be terrified as they see the transformation of America take place before their very eyes. But it's at great moments of peril like this that we need to regroup and rediscover the first principles of what made America great."
Also on Thursday, the White House rejected a report from The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which found that the the National Security Agency's mass collection of Americans' emails and phone calls is illegal and should be terminated immediately.
The report stated:
The ... bulk telephone records program lacks a viable legal foundation," and raises "serious threats to privacy and civil liberties" and has "only limited value."
Additionally, the board suggested that all of the illegally obtained data should be "purged."
In response, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, said: "We simply disagree with the board's analysis on the legality of the program. The administration believes that the program is lawful."
So, there you have it...Obama is now punishing those who have opposed him by directing the Justice Department to indict them on trumped-up charges, and vows to continue his unconstitutional spying program on American citizens.
All Americans, regardless of political persuasion, should be outraged and frightened by this lawless, dictatorial administration which seems to believe itself above the law.
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She sent out for one of those short, plump little cakes called petites madeleines, which look as though they had been moulded in the fluted scallop of a pilgrim's shell. . . .
I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the warm liquid, and the crumbs with it, touched my palate than a shudder ran through my whole body, and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary changes that were taking place . . . at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory.
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active time: 30 min
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/3 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup Dutch process cocoa – sifted
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- pinch sea salt
- 2 extra large eggs – at room temperature
- 1/3 cup organic sugar
- 1 tablespoon Godiva chocolate liqueur or Cognac
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- powdered sugar – sifted, as garnish
- 1 non-stick madeleine pan
- Wax paper or Silpat
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF (180ºC).
- Step 1: Melt butter in a small pan and transfer to a small bowl to cool. Very lightly brush the Madeleine mold with the melted butter, making sure butter doesn't collect in the grooves, and dust with flour.
- Step 2: In a small bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt.
- Step 3: In a large bowl place the eggs. Whisk with an electric mixer at high speed until pale and thick (about 2 minutes). Slowly add the sugar, liqueur and vanilla and continue whisking at high speed until well incorporated.
- Step 4: Add half the flour mixture to the egg mixture. Fold it in carefully. Then add half the melted butter, folding carefully. Repeat again and fold until flour and butter have been just incorporated. Do not overmix.
- Step 5: Spoon the batter into the prepared mold. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes until risen and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from oven and carefully invert onto a cooling rack lined with wax paper or Silpat. The Madeleines should pop right out. Once the Madeleines have cooled to room temperature, sprinkle them with the powdered sugar and serve.
- Cook's note: The madeleines are best eaten the day they're made but will store up to 2 days in a sealed container at room temperature.
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You know what's so uncomfortable about this? It shows that perhaps one of the most evil men in history, was a human being. That, on occasion, he could be nice, even flirty. That's not all. You want to see evil people as evil, screaming horrible stuff over a desk with 20 microphones with 20, 000 people saluting them. The evil is clear and recognizable then. This shows a completely different image, it scares you because that means that evil isn't a stereotype, that evil is not recognizable, that evil could be anyone. It scares you because this shows that could be lurking inside anyone and you'll never ever know. Maybe in you?
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That comment is one of my favorite post commentaries, because it's completely right. People aren't inherently evil. Like good, it's a role they grow and live into. We have just as much potential to destroy as this man exhibited. And it's a very eye opening experience to realize that.
Does anyone even remember that one time Hitler attended that luncheon between world leaders (which included guests like China's socialist leader as well as Stalin). And then when they were ordering, everyone was gladly ordering impressive dishes one after the other, but Hitler placed an order for barley tea and a pheasant (considered a peasant's meal by standard). When he was questioned as to why he would order something like this in something as grand as a world leader's congress, he replied,
"I don't smoke when my people cannot smoke, and I cannot eat when my people are going hungry."
He wasn't evil for its own sake, let's try to remember that despite the countless murders, but for a moment, he did actually believe he was doing something for the good of his countrymen.
No, he's right. Hitler, though extremely wrong in his views, did everything for what he thought would better the lives of his people. It was wrong. It was disgustingly, horribly wrong. But he did not do it because it was evil and he was evil. He did it because he believed it would help Germany and those who needed a better life. Those who don't understand or even try to understand the human brain will always label men like him as 'evil' because it is easier to accept. But he wasn't 'evil.' He felt love and loyalty and responsibilities. He simply took these aspects and morphed them into a twisted, violent thing.
Tumblr is probably the only place we could have this conversation and not be lynched.
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The Villain is the hero from their point of view. There is always two sides of the story. and yes, what he did was horrible and wrong, but he was human.
And under different circumstances, the Name 'Hitler' could have been a that of a great Artist, rather than a man who brought about a world war and had countless innocent people slaughtered.
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Bottomless acts of charity in Nashua soup kitchen's Empty Bowls fundraiser
"It's a big deal," said Robin Perringer, an art teacher at Nashua High who has organized Empty Bowls since its inception in 1995. "A lot of times (the soup kitchen) prevents people from becoming homeless."
At Empty Bowls, attendees begin by picking a handmade bowl they will eat from and take home. They then choose from dozens of soup options and fresh bread before settling in for a community feast.
Perringer, the school district's visual arts coordinator who oversees the district's 28 art teachers, said that the soup kitchen often allows people to pay rent when they have to make the tough decision between that and buying food. She added that this time of year is difficult because people tend to donate around the holidays and not so much in between.
"This is really a time of year when (the soup kitchen) had no food for folks," she said.
The fundraiser has yielded around $10,000 for the soup kitchen in previous years. This year guests are asked to bring canned goods for the high school's Panther Pantry.
The event calls on some 40 local restaurants and businesses to donate goods and services to the effort. Participating restaurants run the gamut of the area's fare, from taverns and bakeries to some of the finest cuisine Main Street has to offer.
Restaurants include Crosby Bakery, the City Room, Alpine Grove, Villa Banca, Cooking Matters, Great Harvest Bread Company, Pine Street Eatery, North Star Café and Rustic Leaf.
Perringer said the Common Man in Merrimack has pledged to donate its lobster corn chowder, an item she qualified as one of her favorite soups. There will also be an Italian sausage soup, though most of the options won't be made public until the day of the event.
Empty Bowls began in Michigan and has since expanded across the country. According to the organization's website, the Empty Bowls Project is an international grassroots effort to raise both money and awareness in the fight to end hunger.
Beginning even before Empty Bowls takes place, Nashua art students work on the clay bowls in anticipation of the next year's event. The crafting of 600 bowls-one for each attendee-takes students the entire year.
The school's jazz band will also be on hand to provide a musical backdrop to the meal.
The event is scheduled for Feb. 20, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Nashua High School South cafeteria. Tickets are $13 and in limited supply. They are available at the soup kitchen or at the high school's main office.
Perringer stressed the importance of getting tickets in advance, as the event sells out every year. In case of bad weather, Empty Bowls will take place the following night at the same time.
Volunteers are never in short supply at the event, and attendees are so eager that they often show up hours before doors open.
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The A330-300 brings Airbus widebody efficiency to airline operations on longer-haul routes.
Range and comfort
The stretched-fuselage A330-300 matches twin-engine efficiency with increased passenger capacity – all while retaining the A330 Family's highly comfortable, low-noise cabin and operating commonality with the entire Airbus fly-by-wire product line. This jetliner has a range of up to 6,100 nautical miles (11,300 km.) while carrying 300 passengers in a typical two-cabin arrangement, seating 36 in first or business class, and 264 in economy.
Its designed-in flexibility allows airlines to integrate Airbus' innovative crew rest facilities without giving up revenue passenger seats. A secure flight crew location next to the cockpit accommodates one or two bunks, while a pallet-mounted rest area with up to seven bunks for cabin personnel is designed for loading under the main deck, with accessibility via a stair in the centre-left passenger cabin.
Family traits
As a member of the popular A330 Family, the A330-300 benefits from demonstrated reliability, performance and unbeatable operating costs of the product line, in service to more than 400 destinations each week, with over 100 operators.
Many also profit from Airbus commonality: some 20 A330 customers utilise both A330-300s and the shorter-fuselage A330-200; while pilots with approximately 30 carriers practice mixed-fleet flying by using A330-300/200 jetliners along with four-engine A340s, or A330s alongside single-aisle A320 Family aircraft.
The A330-300 incorporates Airbus' latest technology, which includes its digital fly-by-wire flight controls, a high-efficiency wing, and more than 10 tonnes of lightweight composite structures in its airframe. A lighter, brighter and more spacious cabin results from updated features that include smoother contours, new interior styling, state-of-the-art LED lighting and newly-designed air conditioning units. Also available is appealing mood lighting and a choice of overhead storage options with optimised bin designs.
Airbus' 222-inch fuselage cross-section provides unmatched comfort on the main deck, while also offering large underfloor holds that open up opportunities for extra revenue from cargo. These holds accept industry-standard LD3 containers in side-by-loading, facilitating cargo processing and interlining. In a typical arrangement, six 96-inch pallets or 18 LD3 containers can be accommodated in forward zone; while its aft cargo hold can handle such loads as 12 LD3 containers along with one 96-inch pallet, plus bulk cargo.
Continued improvement
Continuous innovation applied by Airbus to its jetliner product line results in lower costs and better operations for the A330-300. In the 2003 through 2013 timeframe, Airbus invested one euro to improve the programme for every euro originally spent developing the A330.
These upgrades range from weight reductions in the airframe, introduction of modern passenger cabin features, and system improvements to engine upgrades and advanced navigation systems in the cockpit. They also result in longer maintenance check intervals.
A further enhancement of the A330 comes with Airbus' launch of an increased maximum takeoff weight capability to 242 metric tonnes. With this improvement, the A330-300 will benefit from up to 500 nautical miles of extra range, to 6,100 nautical miles (11,300 km.) – with 300 passengers, and carry nearly five tonnes more payload than the previous 235-tonne aircraft. In operational terms, the increased takeoff weight A330-300 will be able to connect to the following new city pairs: London to Tokyo; Frankfurt to Cape Town; Beijing to Melbourne; Beijing to San Francisco; Kuala Lumpur to Paris; and Los Angeles to Dublin.
Airbus will apply the 242-tonne maximum takeoff weight capability first to the A330-300, with an entry in service targeted for mid-2015 (followed by the A330-200 and A330-200F). With these enhancements, Airbus will have added some 50 per cent more range to the A330-300 since its service entry, while reducing maintenance costs by 20 per cent.
As a further upgrade to the A330 Family, Airbus announced the A330-300 Regional variant in 2013. This aircraft is optimised for domestic operations on routes with large populations and high traffic flows. The A330 Regional jetliner is tailored to seat up to around 400 passengers with Airbus' standard 18-inch wide seat in economy, while offering significant cost savings through a reduced operational weight. Service entry is planned for early 2015.
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Caring for the environment, the A330 Family environmental footprint is better than the standards of today and tomorrow. With its low noise and emissions levels, A330s fly greener and quieter – supported by Airbus' long-term commitment to further enhancing the eco-efficiency of its jetliner product line.
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Luther's radio station KWLC will air "Luther Spotlight: News, Sports, Events, and More" on Sundays at 5:30PM beginning Sunday, September 15th. Produced by Luther juniors Carl Bates and Nick Rauch, each week "Luther Spotlight" will begin with a headline review of the past week's happenings before focusing on the topic of the day.
The program will alternate coverage of general college news and Luther sports. Bates says the weeks featuring general news coverage will focus on intriguing faculty research projects, student events and opportunities away from campus, current college issues and controversies, and new staff and faculty. Rauch says his sports shows will review games and meets of the past week as well as offer conversations with Luther coaches and players.


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Cyrus had written the heartfelt song "Hope Is Just Ahead" 15 years ago. But when legendary vocalist Dionne Warwick joined him for a recent recording of the song, as Cyrus explained, she took it to "a whole new place."
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Behind the Song: Tim McGraw's 'Highway Don't Care'
It's a moody anthem that serves as the closing song on his 2013 album' Two Lanes of Freedom.' McGraw was drawn to it's "timeless" quality.
Behind the Song: Kacey Musgraves' 'Merry Go 'Round'
"When we were about to pick the first single I really lobbied for 'Merry Go 'Round' because I'm out there every night and I can tell you, hands down this is the one people are connecting with. I'm really glad that was my first thing to say to the world."
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Visitors access Cambodia through this point are
required to have a entry visa for Cambodia in
advance, they can have a visa from Royal Cambodian
Embassy to their own country or at Cambodian consulate
in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Access from Thailand:
Recently there are 2 international border check
points between Cambodia and Thailand.
1. Poi Pet (Cambodia) and Aranyaprathet (Thailand)
This point it can be connect Bangkok or North-East
of Thailand to Phnom Penh via North-West part
of Cambodia including Angkor area. This point,
visitors can get entry visa for Cambodia on arrival
with cost of US$20. Taxi also available there,
especially for Siem Reap - Angkor, it cost around
US$15 per person on the National road No.6, road
is pure condition, so it take about 7 hours from
border to Siem Reap town.
2. Cham Yem (Cambodia) and Trad (Thailand)
Visitors can be reached this point by road from
Bangkok or South-East of Thailand, arrive Trad
Province of Thailand and than meet the international
border check point Cham Yem in Koh Kong Province
of Cambodia. Across this point visitors are required
to have an entry visa for Cambodia, they can have
it at Royal Cambodian Embassy to Thailand in Bangkok
or other places in advance. From Koh Kong, visitors
can continue their trip to Sihanoukville, the
seaside paradise of Cambodia, by fast boat around
3 hours and cost US$20 (one way), and then connect
to Phnom Penh City by National road No.4 (good
road) with 225km it takes about 3 hours by taxi
or air con-bus, cost around US$5.
Visitors can be reached Cambodia by waterway from
neighboring countries and the world. Cambodia
have the international seaport Sihanoukville and
the Mekong river port Phnom Penh. These are two
main gateways to Cambodia by waterway, which become
Cruise ship can be possible on the Mekong river
from Vietnam to Phnom Penh capital city, and connect
to upper Mekong closed to Laos or link it with
Tonle Sap river and Lake to Siem Reap Angkor,
the world wonder of Cambodia. By this route, visitors
can enjoy the Mekong's views and discovery the
new area of Cambodia with combine together nature,
culture and life stiles of the people.
Sihanoukville the international seaport gateway
have experiences for years to receive many cruise
ships from the world, such as Japanese cruise
ship named "Peace Boat" which hundreds
of visitors have visited.
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Paris Motor Show
Mini will show new 5-door hatchback at Paris show
Sept. 19, 2014 14:52 CETMini will unveil its first five-door hatchback in Paris as the BMW subsidiary seeks to attract new customers and those seeking something bigger than the current three-door Mini.... Read More »
SsangYong set to join expanding subcompact SUV segment
Sept. 18, 2014 11:46 CETSsangYong will preview two subcompact SUV concepts in Paris next month, ahead of the launch of a production model, the X100, next year. SsangYong is the latest automaker to join the fast-growing small SUV segment.... Read More »
Toyota concept previews new crossover
Sept. 18, 2014 06:01 CETToyota will unveil the C-HR concept at the Paris auto show. The concept previews a potential new entry in Europe's booming crossover segment.... Read More »
Honda reveals longer, sleeker, sportier Jazz
Sept. 17, 2014 12:44 CETHonda has released pictures of its near-production next-generation Jazz subcompact, which show a bigger, sportier-looking model than the current car. The Jazz is Honda's No. 3-selling model in Europe after the Civic and CR-V.... Read More »
Ford will debut new S-Max at Paris show
Sept. 15, 2014 17:28 CETFord will debut the new S-Max at the Paris auto show on Oct. 2 ahead of the minivan's sales launch in Europe next summer.... Read More »
Divine concept reflects Citroen DS's design direction
Sept. 14, 2014 06:01 CETCitroen's DS brand is hinting at its future styling with the Divine concept car that will debut at next month's Paris auto show.... Read More »
Honda revives the HR-V to attract younger buyers
Sept. 11, 2014 06:01 CETHonda is reviving the HR-V name for its new subcompact SUV as it seeks to attract new and younger buyers to the brand. The HR-V is the European version of the Vezel.... Read More »
Land Rover unveils Discovery Sport
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Land Rover sets base Discovery Sport price at $38,920
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Suzuki gives the Vitara SUV a sleeker look
Aug. 29, 2014 06:01 CETSuzuki is giving is new Vitara a more mainstream look to broaden the subcompact SUV's appeal. The five-door Vitara will go on sale in Europe early next year.... Read More »
Kia targets 270,000 sales of the new Sorento next year
Aug. 28, 2014 10:05 CETKia unveiled its redesigned Sorento, saying it aims to sell 270,000 units of the SUV globally next year as the automaker seeks to maintain its momentum in the U.S., Europe and other key markets.... Read More »
Volvo unveils new XC90 flagship SUV
Aug. 26, 2014 14:51 CETVolvo unveiled the new XC90, a key part of the automaker's plan to nearly double annual vehicle sales to 800,000 vehicles by 2020.... Read More »
Skoda releases images of the new Fabia
Aug. 21, 2014 15:21 CETSkoda has released images of its new Fabia subcompact, which will launch in Europe early next year after debuting at the Paris auto show in October.... Read More »
Kia Sorento to get bigger footprint for 2016
2:47 pm U.S. ET | Aug. 11, 2014The next-generation Kia Sorento crossover will be longer, lower and have more interior space than the outgoing version. Kia released the first images of the 2016 Sorento today ahead of an unveiling this month in South Korea.... Read More »
Hyundai gives the i20 a sleeker look
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Kia hints at next Sorento with design sketches
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Skoda bets on sporty design to boost Fabia sales
July 29, 2014 06:01 CETSkoda has given its Fabia subcompact a more dynamic, sharper and sportier design. The latest-generation Fabia will debut at the Paris auto show in October.... Read More »
Jaguar will debut XE sedan
12:01 am U.S. ET | July 28, 2014Jaguar will unveil its XE sedan at a Sept. 8 event here, rather than wait to launch the car in October at the Paris auto show.... Read More »
Daimler seeks boost for Smart from new 4-seat model
July 16, 2014 16:10 CETSmart took the wraps off a four-seat model that it hopes will give the small-car brand a more solid foundation. The new ForFour was unveiled alongside the latest version of the ForTwo two-seater, currently the brand's only model.... Read More »
Daimler to unveil new Smart 4- and 2-seat cars
July 16, 2014 12:02 CETThe new-generation Smart ForFour and ForTwo will be unveiled today. The arrival of the ForFour gives the Daimler subsidiary a second model in its European portfolio for the first time since 2006.... Read More »
Nissan Pulsar price undercuts VW Golf, Ford Focus
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Opel hopes fresh design will boost Corsa sales
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Jag gives a peek at 3-series fighter
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Octomom Nadya Suleman Says She Hates Babies
Octomom Nadya Suleman gave quite a candid interview about her children to In Touch magazine.
Suleman, mother of 2-year-old octuplets, told the magazine, "I hate babies, they disgust me. My older six are animals, getting more and more out of control, because I have no time to properly discipline them. Obviously, I love them -- but I absolutely wish I had not had them."
The single mom also described details of her rough days as a parent. CNN reports Suleman stays in the bathroom for long periods of time just so she can be alone and cry.
"Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the toilet floor. Some days I have thought about killing myself. I cannot cope."
Suleman is reportedly having financial woes as well. According to CNN, her bank account is overdrawn by $300. Although, she may be able to turn her financial situation around with her new role on the HDNet reality TV show "Celebridate."


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My first post, so please be kind.
OK, I'm a professional photographer new to the idea of creating a book. So new, I kinda know but not really what a bleed is, even though I've been published in magazines(the editors take care of all the mumb jumbo, I just submit the images at a specific resolution and format).
I've read all the tutorials (video and otherwise) and have been through about 50 threads in the Forum hoping to find the answer to my question, but have failed. So here I go. I know how to uprez and down rez in Photoshop at 300 ppi. When I place my image on the Book Smart page, I do not want to CROP my image.
So for example I'm looking at a specific "Picture Layout" page. By hovering my mouse over the image area I find that it is 2680×2713 pixels at 300 ppi. If the image is in vertical or portrait orientation, can I just resize the image on the vertical (longest dimension) to 2713, drag it into the image place holder, hit the center justify button, thereby leaving space in the image place holder on the left and right? Will this leave some sort of grey or border on the left or right? My intention is for my images to be simply centered on the page to the dimension that I have edited them to.
Thank you in advance for any constructive advice.
WP: If I've got you correctly: those grey areas "on the left or right" are just showing the image box. If you switch to your Preview mode you'll see those areas take up your Background colour so that just your photo shows. Try it.
And now in version 2 you can in any case adjust the image box sizes themselves in BookSmart.
(I did three books with old BookSmart:
No grey areas. )
Here's the new problem:
So the Book Smart Picture Layout page tells me the Image Fill Box is exactly 2680 (w) x 2713 (h) in pixels. I want to place a landscape oriented image that I have done all the resizing in Photoshop in the middle of the box. So I resize my image on the long side at 2680 pixels (the width of the image) at 300 ppi. I then drag and drop my image into the page. What I would like to see is my image in the middle with grey on the top and bottom. But no…..the Book Smart software says, "I need to fill the entire place holder with the image" and up samples it without asking me to fill the entire box. Now if I hit the center justify button there is the image centered in the box with grey on the top and bottom. What this tells me is that Book Smart has just resampled my image twice (when I don't want it to do it at all.). Once to fill the entire image place holder and the second time to center the image.
My plan was to make a photo book with the images on the right hand side and text on the left. I would use the same picture layout page with a dimension of 2680 (w) x 2713 (h). So I would take all my Landscape oriented images and size them on the long side (the width) at 2680. And take all my Portrait oriented images and resize them on their long side (height) at 2713, sharpen, soft proof, etc.
Is their a way to do this so that Blurb's software doesn't resize the images?
Believe it or not I have printed at least 30 images off my Epson 7900 printer to my exact size requirements with no problem this last week. I seem to have a disconnect with this book software.


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10 Uses for Plastic Plant Pots
Our readers have asked this question before: "How can we reuse those plastic pots that plants come in?" Here are 10 ideas for keeping them out of your trash bin ...
While it's more green to start your plants from seed or a clipping, it's understandable that some people don't have the time, patience or success with this method.
ThisOldHouse has put together a collection of 10 ideas on how to reuse those pots. Here are a few from their list that stood out. Some are better than others. If you think you can do better, let us know!
- Displace Dirt in a Larger Pot: When repotting a plant, turn a plastic pot upside down in the new, larger container and add soil around it to reduce the need for potting soil.
- Protect Saw Blades: Flip seedling trays upside down and use the crevices to store saws or workshop knives so that the blades don't get damaged in storage.
- Clean Fruits and Veggies: Use as a strainer to clean dirt off the fruits and veggies from your garden.
- Lift a Paint Project Off the Ground: Use four small pots to prop up a cabinet door or piece of trim so you can paint the sides.
- Organize Cables or Electric Cords: Bundle and stash cords in upside-down pots in a garage or workroom. When cords are in use, pull the needed length through the bottom hole, enlarging it as necessary.
- Organize Hardware: Sort and store nuts, bolts, nails, and odds and ends.
- Use as a Twine Dispenser: Insert twine, in a roll or ball, and thread through a hole in the bottom.
- Sorting Spare Change: For encouraging kids to save or for saving those quarters for laundry day.
- Store Christmas Ornaments: While they'll have to be small ornaments, a seeding tray would work to keep them from being crushed.
Via ThisOldHouse.com
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I'm hesitant to act on the first idea - use a plastic plant pot to displace dirt in a larger pot. If I were growing herbs, or small veggies, in that pot, I'd be concerned about chemicals in the plastic reaching into the soil, then the plant, then the edible parts.
I am all for re-using these pots, but FYI nowadays many of them are recyclable. I had about a million of them in my garage, more than I could ever possibly use. This spring I put most of them out for the recycling truck and away they went. Check for the symbol.
I like all of those ideas, except the first one. Re-planting a plant in a larger pot is to allow the plant to thrive and have more space for its roots to grow. If you're taking the old pot and putting it upside-down in with the new one... you're not actually giving the plant any new space to live in!! You're cramping its roots just in a different manner. It's not going to start feeling better this way, and efforts re-potting this way would be wasted, just to save a little potting mix.
Also, most terracotta pots have a drainage hole in the middle of the base of the pot. If you place a plant in a pot and cover its drainage hole with an upturned older plastic pot... it's definitely not going to help it feel any better, is it?
Ditto on the potting soil saving trick.
I see some problems with the idea of re-using these in general for something other than plant related.
They're dirty! In order to store your pristine screws and findings or pretty much anything else you are going to need to scrub these things. Lots of water wasted. Many areas of the country are in stage 4 drought.
I've found re-using, say, a screw top glass jar to hold nails nicer looking and longer lasting.
Many nurseries will take back the pots, just knock the loose dirt out. Re-using them for their original purpose is the most green of all.