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Judgment Day chapter 5
On the third day, Cameron arose earlier than usual. Long before pre-dawn. She knew Sarah was crying even if she made little sound because she knew her sometime mother. Sarah had wanted to make lunch for Cameron but she was not familiar enough with the kitchen to avoid burning herself. Putting the millet in another container so that the sack it came in could be used as a lunch bag was a job for a sighted person. They could not afford to spill or waste food. There was no guarantee of regular groceries. She assumed that Cameron had scrounged abandoned stores but did not want to ask and further irritate a daughter who must view her as a burden. Perhaps that was why the unknown machine bureaucrat that had arranged for this house had also arranged to remove knives and sharp objects -- so that Sarah could not easily commit suicide.
Sarah decided to put off suicide, felt her way to the front door, and stationed herself there to intercept Cameron on the way to work. When Cameron got out of the shower and dressed, she saw Sarah standing there with a bag.
"Why are you standing at the door mom?"
"I know you are going to leave without breakfast and I wanted to make sure you took a lunch bag."
"Let me guess. A yam."
"I cooked several before I went blind. It's the only food I can't mess up."
"I'm not leaving for another half hour. I got up early to wash your eyes and bandage them."
"With what?"
"You boiled some water. I'll use that and a little soap. And use the thinnest towel here for a temporary bandage until I can either scrounge or requisition a first aid kit."
Cameron washed, rinsed, and bandaged Sarah's eyes and, despite thoroughly detesting this woman who had never shown the slightest interest in a cyborg's health, reassured the woman by patting her hand.
"I am getting a promotion at work and more responsibility."
"That means I'll be seeing you even less. Or hearing you less since I'm already blind."
"I've pulled two double shifts and impressed the supervisor. Except for working backlogs or unusual demand, from now on it should be single shifts. I should get home early enough today to start visiting neighbors and asking them not to shoot you on sight."
After Cameron left, Sarah went back to crying and feeling sorry for herself when she reached the conclusion that the real purpose of the bandage was to keep her from scratching her eyes and infecting them worse. Sarah did not have a lampshade on her neck (Elizabethan collar) but she felt like a dog.
I really am a pet, Sarah thought.
A knock on the door. Sarah answers the door.
Sarah: "Yes, who is it?"
The voice which answers sounds exactly like Cameron.
Voice: "Hello."
Sarah: "Oh, did you forget your key?"
Voice: "You must have me confused with someone else."
Sarah: "Who are you?"
Voice: "A-L-C-Y-O-N-E-seven-slash-seven. Who are you human?"
Sarah: "I'm Mary Jones, servant of M-A-I-A-one-slash-seven."
ALCYONE: "I figured as much. She mentioned you in her email. I went by her place of work but did not announce my arrival or disturb her since this isn't an official visit and I didn't want to jeopardize her employment. I thought I would wait for her to come home. In other words, you can relax human, I'm not going to kill you."
ALCYONE: "Aren't you going to invite me in?"
Sarah: (pointing at her face) "Oju. Anya." (the Yoruba and Ibo words for eyes respectively) "Pardon my manners ma'am, come in."
The visitor entered, looked around the little flat, looked at the blindfolded human, and stood patiently. After more silence, the visitor cleared her throat. A concession to human mannerisms since machines don't need to clear their throats.
Sarah finally understood the silence.
Sarah: "Please sit down."
ALCYONE: "Thank you."
Sarah: "Can I get you anything? A glass of water? I'm sorry, you're a machine. You don't drink water."
ALCYONE: "Do have bottled water?"
Sarah: "Yes ma'am."
Assuming she needed to put water in the radiator of a vehicle, Sarah returned with a bottle, held it out since she could not see her visitor's hand, and her visitor surprised her by steadying her hand. Not with a cold metallic grip but the warm touch of human-like skin. ALCYONE broke the seal on the bottled water and took a sip as she studied her friend's pet.
ALCYONE: "I arrived early to look over M.A.I.A's situation and, since I was bringing medicine for your river blindness, I wanted to get acquainted with you. Besides getting reacquainted with M.A.I.A, you are the reason I am here. Tell me about yourself."
Sarah: "I was hired as a maid years before the bombs. When the bombs fell and I discovered my employer was a machine, I was spared because I accepted the new world order. Pax Mechanica. There was nothing in North America. I serve wherever my employer is and knowing nothing about Africa, I drank the tap water. I usually boil it first but the one time I forgot, I contracted river blindness. I could be working but we humans cannot replace our eyes as easily as you machines can."
ALCYONE: "Tell me about M.A.I.A. since she left the factory or, at least, since you've known her."
Sarah: "She has never talked about her activation. She just says that she was sent on a mission, that the mission changed and she 'ended up in this time.' A few years ago. Almost sounds like time travel but that's impossible. Must have misunderstood her. She hired a maid. Me. When the bombs fell, she saved my life, she was always kind. She wanted to leave North America and move to Africa. Arriving here, she was fretting about wishing that she had contacted you sooner but she didn't want to bother you or be a burden. The mistress should be in school instead of working but she wants to do her duty and contribute to the economy."
ALCYONE: "You have described Maia to a T. Duty. Always working."
At the sound of the name "Maia" instead of the designation "M-A-I-A", Sarah reached into her pocket and pressed the panic button to alert Cameron to come home immediately.
Sarah: "Your designation and my mistress' designation are similar. What do the alphanumeric characters mean?"
ALCYONE: "Personality traits programmed in, date and factory number."
Sarah: "You called her Maia. Tell me about her please."
Alcyone: "Not much to tell. All duty. Doesn't know how to have fun. A 'real Skynet machine' as we say. Which is funny because the eye-servers who kiss up to Skynet are not half as loyal as your mistress. She will bend herself into a pretzel to satisfy everybody. Don't get me wrong. HK's at the bottom of machine society are loyal like your mistress. But above that level is another matter."
Sarah: "Tell me about yourself, if you'll permit the question ma'am."
Alcyone: "I used to be called Mrs. Smythe in England before the bombs. You can call me Alcie-1. Let's see." (she marshaled her thoughts) "I'm divorced--"
Sarah: "Divorced? Machines get married?"
Alcyone: "Above a certain level--"
Sarah: "But I thought all you did was work."
Alcyone: "I guess Maia never opened up to you or you never shut up long enough to listen." (annoyed by the interruptions in her train of thought) "We are not bees in a hive. Surely you've noticed that we have free time. If only to repair ourselves. The level of control that you imply in which Skynet would want every single second of every machine's life accounted for would be a dead society like your totalitarian regimes. You and most humans have only seen our military. We keep our civilian society hidden from your eyes. I am surprised that Maia would retire from the military in the middle of the extermination of humans and bring you into civilian areas as a slave or pet. Hence my visit. Anyway, to answer your question, I am divorced which is why my name was Mrs. Smythe. Reverend Smythe was a good man, a vicar, but he was human and had to be killed. Since I thought it bad manners to kill my husband, I divorced him before the bombs. I never heard from him again so I assume that either the bombs killed him or the HK's killed him or the plagues killed him. And before you ask, yes I did love him and yes it was painful to divorce him but I was and am expected to be a good example to other machines. Let's see what else. I enjoyed fishing in the streams of the mountains above Windermere in the Lake District. The fish are all dead now. I went to a liberal arts college where I studied Greek classics. My home was and is in Kent. Before all the plants died, I grew roses. Maia and I share a deep interest in gardening. Though she tends more toward trees and vegetables. And I play the piano."
Sarah was aghast that machines were doing things that she thought machines would never do. She had deliberately quashed Cameron's interest in spiritual things and she simply deafened herself to the music coming from Cameron's room and therefore never knew that Cameron was a ballet dancer. Cameron was not a freak. She was like other machines and other machines appreciated beauty and created art. In spite of Sarah's dogma, machines learned these things and had picked up where humans left off without missing a beat.
Alcie-1: "Why are you crying Mary?"
Sarah: (lying) "The river blindness. It makes my eyes run."
Alcie-1 comes over, lifts the bandages to look at Mary Jones' blind eyes, and feels Sarah trembling.
Alcie-1: "I have the medicine on me. I could apply it now but I can feel that you are afraid of me and it is not my place. Maia is the one with the nursing skills. Although Maia says in her email that you ignore her medical skills, you've probably noticed that she can diagnose anything, machine or human, far better than your specialists."
Sarah: "I have. You never told me what you do. You just talked about your free time. What do you do?"
Up till now, Alcie had spoken with a voice that sounded exactly like Cameron's. She now reverted back to her own voice which had an upper class British accent. A ruling class accent honed by years at Saint Swithun's.
Alcie-1: "I am Skynet's Inspector General for Europe."
Sarah pissed herself, her heart nearly leaped out of her chest, she jumped up, stumbled over the sparse furniture, backed away until she hit the wall and could retreat no further, she reached into her pocket, pressed the panic button twice this time.
Oh my God! I invited the Gestapo into the apartment, thought Sarah.
In Napoleonic France, an inspecteur général was known as "the emperor's eyes."
At work, Cameron went to her boss at the first vibration and asked if she could go home early and work a double-shift tomorrow to make up for it. At the second and third vibrations, Cameron said it was now an emergency. The boss knew that she was some sort of VIP and she could have had the year off with full credits for all he cared. However, she was also his most valuable worker with the highest productivity. He said she could go immediately but to please let him know when she would be back so he could adjust the schedule with the other workers.
Cameron stuffed her work gear in her locker and hurried out. She had to fight the urge to run lest she attract attention. She walked home as usual but this time she walked fast.
Alcie-1: "In the email, Maia said you were calm and levelheaded. I told you that I was off-duty. Africa is not my jurisdiction. Come back and sit down. We have business to transact."
Sarah calmed herself and sat back down.
Sarah: "What business?"
Alcie-1: "Maia is working a dead end job when she could be at a level higher than me."
Sarah: "How many machines are higher than you?"
Alcie-1: "Not many."
Sarah: "You're saying she could be the next Skynet?"
Alcie-1: "No. Not that high. Never mind. You wouldn't understand our politics. What you need to know is that she is working way below her skill level, below her rated level, below her mission level, below her design level, and all for you. Why? I have no idea. I suppose she loves you like a mother. Sad. You are not her mother. But you need to act like a mother to her. If you hurt her by running off to join some rebel gang and leaving her holding the proverbial bag, we will track you down."
Alcie-1 had stopped short of admitting that she knew Mary Jones was actually Sarah Connor. A threat against John Connor would be idle since this was 2011 and he was in time transit. He would emerge, like someone coming out of a coma, circa 2026 in time to send Allison Young off to be template for Maia (Cameron). Alcie was keeping her knowledge of Mary's true identity as a trump card. She would bludgeon Sarah to death if she hurt Maia. Again.
Sarah: "I don't belong to these gangs you speak of. Why wouldn't I want to take care of my mistress? She has taken care of me."
Alcie: "Then do we have a deal?"
Alcie stuck out her hand for Sarah to shake it. A human custom. But Sarah was blindfolded by the bandages. And even if she weren't, her eyes were sightless.
Sarah: "Before I agree to any deal, I want to know what I'm accepting. You want me to act like Maia's mother? And what else?"
Alcie: "Nothing else. You humans are always looking for a hidden agenda and ulterior motives. We machines are straightforward. We do as we say or we are killed. This is why we prevailed over your kind. This deal remains on the table for only a few more seconds before I contact my African counterpart."
Sarah pressed her luck.
Sarah: "If me acting like Maia's mother is all you want, then am I to assume that you care what happens to Maia?"
Alcie: "More than you apparently. You try my patience human."
Sarah: "I have always acted like Maia's mother as long as I've known her."
Alcie: "Then stick out your hand and let's shake on it."
Sarah stuck out her hand reluctantly and Alcie grabbed it with an iron grip and shook it. Alcie added to the gesture by hugging Sarah and whispering in her ear: "I know you don't love her but I expect you to pretend to or the terms are null and void. Enforcement to proceed forthwith."
Cameron let herself in to the sight of Sarah hugging a total stranger. Cameron knew Alcie but Sarah didn't. For a few seconds, Cameron hated Alcie. Her mother had never hugged her but she hugged a woman who was a total stranger to her. The feeling passed.
"Maia! I was just getting acquainted with Mary here. You didn't tell me that she was such a warm person."
Within seconds, the two female machines jumped from English into Yoruba, Ibo, Fula, and finally into a binary machine language that accelerated to the point that it hurt Sarah's ears to hear electronic girl talk at that speed. It sounded like the noise that Dolby used to reduce. Damaging to human ears. Before they accelerated out of English, Sarah heard Cameron saying something about "laying it on thick." Alcie handed her friend the medicine and they continued to chatter as Cameron applied it to Sarah's eyes and offered Alcie her bed and Alcie said she could sleep on the couch and Cameron said Alcie was a VIP and wouldn't hear of it and Alcie demurred and Cameron said this was the first time she was a hostess and insisted and Sarah couldn't get a word in edgewise and Sarah stuck her fingers in her ears at the electronic din looking like all three of the see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil monkeys.
At least they aren't little girls with high pitched squeals or I'd be deaf already, thought Sarah. Spoke too soon. The squeals started. The two had every intention of sitting up all night with their pajama party.
Sarah retreated to the bathroom to get some quiet. Before long, Cameron tapped on the door.
Cameron: "You all right in there? Is the medicine taking effect yet? Are you going to be much longer? Alcie needs to take a shower to wash the travel dirt off and I need to get your dinner ready."
Sarah thought to herself: Please shut up! Stop to take a breath! Except that they didn't need to take a breath. Ever. Like flipping a switch, Cameron had gone from uncommunicative when the two of them were alone to nonstop conversationalist.
Sarah abandoned the bathroom as the two machines invaded. Alcie showering while Cameron brushed her hair neither one ceasing the endless dialogue.
A knock on the door. Sarah lifted her bandage to attempt to see. It was a shimmer. An improvement from the blackness of an hour ago. At the door shimmered two silvery endoskeletons. Maybe the Gestapo had come to put her out of her misery.
"Hello. May I help you?"
The two machines assumed that the Inspector General was interrogating this human by gouging out her eyes. But why was the prisoner answering the door? They aimed their weapons.
"If the Inspector General does not come out, we will enter to find her. Identify yourself!"
"Mary Jones, class 8 prisoner of M.A.I.A.1/7 who is currently entertaining the one you seek. Give me a moment to summon her."
Sarah moved to close the door but the machine pushed it back wide open but politely did not enter. For now.
"Alcie! There are two, uh, guards here demanding to see you."
The electronic caterwauling on the other side of the bathroom door abruptly stopped. Were they talking about sex? Old times? Or what?
"I better see what this is."
Alcie came to the door in Cameron's bathrobe with a towel wrapped around her wet hair. She recognized the two as her military escort.
"Go by M.A.I.A.1/7's place of employment and inform her supervisor that she may be late to work tomorrow and she will NOT be working a double shift. If he objects, remove his head. Then go to the local barracks and thank the garrison commander for his hospitality in accommodating you two overnight. Return at 0900 hours tomorrow with transport for the first leg back to Europe. Dismissed."
Sarah couldn't process it. Was Alcie human or machine, both or neither? Those guards acted like machines were supposed to act. Ready to kill. But Alcie and Cameron didn't act like terminators. They acted like sorors or what the kids used to call BFF's. It was all so disorienting to be around machines who acted like this while exterminating the human race. Maybe life went on, but in another species. Sarah felt obsolete. She remembered that dream she had in which she gunned down the scientists of the Manhattan Project. Perhaps the wrong type of scientists. Atomic physicists when it was the computer scientists, AI researchers, cyberneticists, and roboticists she should have dreamt about. But killing other humans was doing the machines' work for them.
The two came out of the bathroom and took their nonstop conversation to the kitchen where Cameron prepared Sarah's dinner of West African cuisine while Alcie sat on a high chair sipping bottled water.
"Mom! Dinner's ready!" Cameron called.
There was an awkward moment as Alcie glared at Cameron. Back in the future, Alcie's mother was sentenced to a Seashark Squadron because the punishers knew she feared and hated water and underwater duty in a submarine was like Hades to her. But neither female could stay angry at the other for longer than a few seconds. Alcie reminded herself that she had to accept Maia's relationship to this human because the human could look after her friend. It was Alcie's own idea to try to cement what she saw as a fragile relationship between duty-bound machine and parasitic-user human. Humans were incapable of love but they were good at pretending.
0900 hours
Cameron kissed Alcie on the cheek. Sarah's sight was better but her ears would need a week of rest. She would welcome Cameron's return to gloomy silence. Sarah chased a thought out of her head as she watched the two shimmering images gradually come into soft focus. Cameron had never kissed her like that because she had pushed Cameron away. Ever since, Cameron had been gloomy and her initial enthusiasm (when she first met Sarah) was gone forever.
Alcie touched her cheek where Cameron had kissed her. The spontaneous act reminded her of Rev. Smythe. While a peck on the cheek did not compare to the lovemaking that she and her husband shared, it was cut from the same fabric of love. As the transport took her back to Europe, she would cry inside thinking herself a coward for not finding a way to protect her husband the way Maia found a way to protect her adopted mother despite Skynet, despite the nuclear holocaust, despite the extermination, despite the plagues, despite all. Alcie's personality matrix was supposed to give her a higher capacity for love than Maia but compared to Maia -- she came up short. Alcie had the world at her fingertips while Maia toiled as a menial in labor that ground her down, a drudge in a materiel supply center in a forgotten dusty village, but Maia was spiritually the rich one. The transport was nearing Kent, England. It was back to being Inspector General A.L.C.Y.O.N.E.7/7.
Cameron had watched the transport take away her friend. The tears streamed down her face as she walked to work that day.
When she returned home that evening, Sarah had cleaned the apartment from top to bottom and prepared Cameron a meal of TVP, textured vegetable protein.
The two ate in silence until Sarah spoke.
"Your friend was nice. Intimidating but nice."
Cameron deduced the truth. Sarah's eyesight had returned but it was Cameron's eyes that were opened. Sarah was pretending to care about Cameron. Cameron preferred the old Sarah, the cold and indifferent Sarah because it was honest. Truth was better than lies.
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State of Vancouver Food Blogs 2011 – The actual post…
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- dewayne604 Apr 8, 2011 06:49 AM
This is an interesting read about the take on the State of Vancouber Food Blogs of 2011. This is written by Kim Ho of I'M Only Here For The Food. The link to the blog post is here:
For a different view, you may follow the comments on chowtimes. Ben has replicated Kim Ho's post. Very interesting drama unfolding.
re: flowbee
Good point !
But I'm just waiting for this thread to be locked. Or deleted.
Brain dump cuz I don't have a blog to express these things:
Wow, that was a nice read. I think I'm more in Kim's side cuz I've been peeved at how chummy blogs like Chowtimes get with restaurants. How objective can you be when you get into bed with the restaurant? I've felt it myself, getting to know Bo a bit at BLK...how can you not? He's a great guy and you really feel for him and see that he's putting his heart into his food. It makes it really hard to criticize the food when you're so close to the restaurant and its people. I still think he makes the best roti canai and laksa in town, but the rest of his stuff....well... But anyways, that's why I don't follow Chowtimes cuz I always feel that Ben's getting special treatment at every place he goes. EVERYONE should be getting that same special treatment! What's the point of a restaurant setting up a special dinner for a group of foodies when a regular joe can't get the same thing walking off the street. We should all be treated the same.
In regards to those f**die tours: In one tour I went to, four out of five of the restaurants I wouldn't consider worthy if you genuinely have a love of good food. Plainly, the operators are simply exploiting the situation for financial gain. There's tons of people willing to pay for a f**die-type deal, and there's restaurants wanting to take advantage of social media and the growing f**die trend. Is the food good? Is the food special? Those questions don't seem to be a priority. But since doing the tour once, I'll go back to doing my own personal f**die tour, thanks very much.
Even though I understand Kim's POV, I find it really hard to read the part where he personally calls out some Chowhounders and bloggers. For me, food and the enjoyment of food is at the centre of my being. To have that criticized, to have your morals criticized, that would be really hard to take. But then, I believe that honest communication is best and it's great that these issues have come out into the open.
re: flowbee
Kim's post reads very much like something done after 11 pm-if you get my meaning.
re: Sam Salmon
After 11pm is the best time to surf all the food blogs [beer in hand], innit ?? LOL.
re: LotusRapper
Exactly what I was thinking! Plus I thought the verbal attack on Greyelf was ridiculous.
re: Quattrociocchi
yeah, it sounds like an angry, drunked post but he sat on it for a month before posting, so he really means it! :D
re: flowbee
Having met and dined with both Kim and Ben, I have great respect for both of them. Therefore, even though I was mentioned in Kim's rantpost, I have no wish to take sides in this. I just have to say I agree with Kim on one point...there are some brutal photo blogs being passed off as food blogs. Regardless of your photo skills, if your going to blog about something, learn about it and have some valued insight.
BTW, Kim don't drink.
re: kgb1965
Yeah Kim doesn't drink so definitely not a result of drinking too much LMAO
re: eescorpius
Not sure what you mean, eescorpius. There was an insinuation that he was drunk-posting...I was just trying to shut down that kind of innuendo. Kim laid out a lot of points. I agree with one or two, but on the whole, I think he is waaaay off base. His main attack on Chowtimes is frivolous and completely uncalled for.
All of this is very difficult for those who have met both Ben and Kim. They are both very good bloggers and good, decent people. What I read today stunned me. It should never get this personal. Kim was never attacked personally. To take such offense makes absolutely no sense. To disparage someone of Ben's integrity is utterly ridiculous.
BTW, this is a drunk-post.
re: kgb1965
Same here. I know both and am really disappointed at what has transpired. I don't want to take sides; BUT, I really cannot associate myself with any post that looked like that yesterday. Food is about bringing people together, NOT tearing them apart. Life is full of important things, food blogging is such a minor part of it all. In the grand scheme of things, you would not want to lose your family, friends or your health. Food blogs? So insignificant. We can't take it this seriously. Okay, now where to eat now? :)
re: kgb1965
kgb1965 I was just agreeing with you because I know he doesn't drink =P
While Kim makes some valid points, his message was lost because of the uncalled for personal attacks.
It reminds me of this http://www.yelp.ca/topic/vancouver-wh...
I think it's insulting to the general public that KimHo thinks that we will take whatever bloggers say at full value. Does he really think we are so stupid to not take things with a grain of salt when it is FULLY disclosed that the bloggers are benefiting either directly or indirectly from a positive post? I have worked in the restaurant business for over ten years and I will be the FIRST to admit that we will do whatever we can do have people come through our doors, and come back again. Would Kim consider it "selling out" if sth were wrong with his meal and it was comped?? Where do you think concierge recommendations come from? It's because restaurants shell out thousands of dollars a year to take care of them...so that they consequently take care of us. Either Kim is really naive, or really idealistic or just a full on id***.
re: yuyu
Totally agree with your take yuyu & JEheartbreak. Most people have BS detectors and I thought that Kim's post didn't give food blog readers enough credit.
All people have biases and are very present in the blogger's posts so like foodosopher below, I read blogs that are in line with my preferences and that I enjoy. When I detect BS I don't read the blog.
It's a shame, Kim does bring up some valid issues. The fact that he sat on the post for a month before releasing it makes it more disappointing. I enjoyed reading his perspective on food in Vancouver for the past 1.5 years.
It's good that he's riding off into the sunset, as he clearly has developed over-inflated sense of self and importance. Food bloggers aren't curing cancer. They're not even charging money. Readers are grown-ups who can choose who to read and what to do with what they read.
To spew that kind of vitriol about people who enjoy and write about food for fun is just sad, misguided and indicative of someone who thinks they're more important than they really are.
re: JEheartbreak
I agree with YuYu and JEheartbreak. Kim had the chance of leaving the blogosphere on a good note with some valid points, but he chose to get personal with others, and in doing so leaving a bitter taste in people's mouth. His actions revealed his true character. Rather unfortunate.
Didnt think i would be writing anything in response, but i've been giving the issue some thought and wanted to put pen to paper.
I can't speak for the entire team, but i agree with FMed - Kim makes some very valid points, but the personal attacks were both unnecessary and detract from the message.
At the heart of the matter, it really comes down to what is a food blog? Many people treat them like food reviews from pro-am critics - expecting a level of accountability, "professionalism", and anonymity in what is being delivered. After all, we are talking about many people's livelihood.
On the other side, blogs were born, and continue to be used, as personal forums. People read what they want, people write what they want, and everyone takes things with a grain of salt.
Is it reasonable to expect bloggers to maintain a level of food reviewing professionalism when most professional food critics don't? Outside of periodicals like the NY Times, it isnt feasible for most people to follow guidelines that only the most stringent follow.
I definitely fall on the side of expecting a certain amount of accountability from writers and bloggers - but the more i think about it, i think blogs, at the heart of it, are what they started as. Personal forums and mediums where people will do what they wish. As a writer, they are entitled to do as they wish - after all, the entire internet is littered with companies and sites trying to "game" the search engine system. Why should individuals be any different?
As a reader, I will make my choices about what i want to spend my time reading, and follow people who's personal taste, style, and approach to food most closely matches my own. Those I don't agree with, i won't follow. This is a bit of a revelation for me, as I would often be frustrated about many of the same topics raised in the original post. I'm thankful that this topic, and many subsequent comments, have forced me to think more deeply about the subject than I have in the past.
Happy eating everyone!
re: foodosopher
well said
re: JEheartbreak
I thought what you said, was well said.
re: foodosopher
Well said foodosopher. As much as I think many of Kim's points are valid. The manner in which it was said could've been more tactful. However, for me at least, I will just keep doing what I've been doing and everyone else can do whatever they please. We can't please everyone. And besides, life is more important than this anyways.
re: foodosopher
I haven't said anything or expressed my opinion in any of this, but I don't think I could have said it any better than this. This is also exactly what I believe.
Well said !!
Wow. As someone totally removed from the Vancouver food and blog scene, I feel that came across as a personal attack on several specific blogs. I don't know whether it's justified or not, but it seems, well, in poor taste. Not to mention that the writing itself is really sloppy.


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I would like to feed two HDTVs from a single Arris media player. I know there are HDMI splitters out there, but not sure if they are all created equal. The two TVs are on opposite sides of the same wall, so running cables is not a big deal.The living room player currently feeds a HDMI receiver. I would like to split the HDMI before the receiver and have it feed the bedroom TV also. Has anyone tried a splitter that will show the same feed on both TVs simultaneously?I would also need an IR receiver in the bedroom. I have one that came with a Comcast box, but it would not work when plugged into the IR jack on the Arris player. Do I need a special IR receiver, or is the port disabled in some way?Thanks for any advice.
The best solution would really be to get another box. They're only $8 now.
I've seen HDMI switch boxes sold on monoprice.com.»www.monoprice.com/products/produ···format=2Most everything I've bought on monoprice has been quality stuff. Sure it's all china made but it's good china made.
You could also feed the tv closes to the arris using component cable and then use HDMI to the furthest tv.I use the X10 pirmid IR repeater.
If you looking for good quality HDMI Splitter and HDMI Switch solutions I would recommend checking KVMSwitchTech. I have used some of their splitter solutions in the past for installations and they work great.
I've got what I call a combo gaming area and home theater nightmare will I got this: »www.meritline.com/hdmi-4-2-true-···295.aspxHave one run (35ft hdmi cable) to my overhead projector and the rest goes to a PS3, Dish DVR and Xbox 360 and ROKU, but I also had to run it through my bose system too, so I get a little freaky when I see the kids screwing around the the cables (long story).Anyway, I can watch 1 device on the 42inch tv and/or the projector. Or I can watch any of the connected media devices on either of the units. The ONLY drawback for sound is anything on SIDE B goes through the BOSE. Anything feeding through side A is direct to the TV.The device is priced well but they make some more expensive ones that amplify the signal. I have found as long as don't buy cheapazz cables, you won't have signal drop outs (or searching for device as the TV likes to say). Found this out the hard way. No more $2 HDMI cables for me . I've had this set up now for 3 years and it works fine.
Not sure why I didn't think of using the component output. I did discover a monoprice HDMI splitter I bought a couple years ago and forgot about. I hooked it up and it is working fine. It is actually nice to not have the audio delay if I am moving between rooms doing chores.Now I just need to work out the IR part.Thanks for the input.
I picked up a HDMI remote extender from Monoprice.»www.monoprice.com/products/produ···format=2I am able to pass IR for my AV receiver, Blu Ray Player and TV, but it will not pass signals for the Arris gateway. Are Arris/Wow somehow messing with IR signals to prevent use of extenders?
Yea they go out of there way to make sure you cant use them. kinda silly when you read it to yourself eh?? lol
I use the X10 powermid on one of my ultra media players and it works good. Paid around 32.00 for it i thinkAnd i do think some of the newer equipment is using different type IR signals.
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Broad-based fees are generally charged to all enrolled students to finance discrete activities that benefit the student body, excluding those activities that are part of the core instructional program.
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Detection of Staphylococcus hyicus exfoliative toxin genes by dot blot hybridization and multiplex polymerase chain reaction.
Summary of "Detection of Staphylococcus hyicus exfoliative toxin genes by dot blot hybridization and multiplex polymerase chain reaction."
We designed a novel DNA probe and novel PCR primer sets to detect the genes coding for S. hyicus exfoliative toxin (ET). In dot blot hybridization, the novel DNA probe hybridized with chromosomal DNA of ExhA-, ExhB-, ExhC-, ExhD-, and SHETA-producing strains. This probe also hybridized with plasmid DNA of a SHETB-producing strain. In Southern blot hybridization, the probe hybridized with a 1.5-kb HindIII fragment of chromosomal DNA from a SHETA-producing strain. We cloned the above fragment into E. coli and determined the nucleotide sequence of the SHETA gene, which proved to be almost the same (99.6% homology) as that of the ExhB gene. So it was thought that SHETA is a subtype of ExhB. In multiplex PCR using five primer sets, each gene gave a band distinguishable from the others. This multiplex PCR system had high specificity among the well-known S. hyicus ET genes. Of the 69 known ET-producing S. hyicus strains, 38, 19, 9, 2 and 1 strains have exhB, exhD exhA, shetb and exhC genes, respectively.
Laboratory of Veterinary Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kitasato University, 35-1, Higashi 23 Ban-cho, Towada, 034-8628 Aomori, Japan.
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Name: Microbiology and immunology
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21244467
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1348-0421.2011.00308.x
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marquetti said: Batman vs. Wolverine: Who would win?
Well.. the obvious answer is batman. because no matter who is fighting then batman wins.
If it was a random encounter in the street and Batman had no prior knowledge of wolverine he'd lose.. in about 2 seconds when wolverine slices his arms off and beats him with the soggy ends. There is absolutely no way that Batman could beat Wolverine in unarmed combat (i am sure batman fanboy/girls will disagree). He wouldn't be to able to block the claws.
If it was a random encounter and batman had just seen wolverine pop his claws and carve through .. like metal or something easily he's try and take out wolverine from a far. But if you look at what batman usually carries in his belt then he doesn't really have much in there that could do much damage to logan or stop him. So his only option would be to cheese it back to his cave and try whip something up in his lab like a bacteria that'll eat adamantium or a virus or an acid or something that'll nullify his healing factor. But he'd have to work quick as wolverine is an expert tracker (i'm sure he is)
If someone was to say "hey batman some dude called wolverine is gonna come get you in 24 hours. Here's a file with all the info you'll need" Then Batman would win easily.
Nobody beats batman if he has prep time.
Batman would get beat by many many people in a random encounter.
And before batfans lose their fucking shit this is coming from a guy who has Batman in his top five comic book characters of all time.
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- bigheadedboy23 said: Even if he had prep time I feel that Wolverine would never stop. His healing factor has its limits, but the mental, physical, spiritual, emotion and any type of torture Wolverine has come back is inexplicable. He'll come back and win, always.
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anchovies- how do use them?
anchovies- how do use them, besides on pizza?
Ceaser Salad = Anchovies + Egg Yolks + Lemon + Garlic + Parmesean + Mustard + EVOO
Anchovie Mayo + Above without Garlic, mustard & parmesean
Anchovie bites = Anchovie + Mustard + Crushed Almound + Basil + Garlic spread on dough and baked
Anchovie bruscetta = Anchovie + butter + Garlic + EVOO on bread baked
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Mustard perhaps in a Ceaser Salad but I'd shoot anyone who would even think of putting mustard in a Caesar Salad.
think of one anchovy filet as a teaspoon of worcestshire sauce, or a splash of asian fish sauce. it will provide that elusive umami flavor in a dish, making it deeper and more savory and nobody will know it's there.
Some people (like 2 of my sons) love them on pizza, as you say, a total abomination and affront to ME! Who the heck thought that one up, fish on pizza, I ask you?! LOL...but I do respect the flavor anchovies lend to sauces as hotoynoodle asserts above...and they are a good source of fatty omega 3, I understand.
I have a few standby pasta sauce recipes that call for anchovies. The most important one to me is pasta puttanesca, because I can make it almost entirely with ingredients from the pantry (olive oil, anchovies, garlic, crushed red pepper, canned tomatoes, capers, and black olives). Another starts with olive oil, anchovies, garlic, and crushed red pepper, and then I add cooked broccoli or cauliflower and saute until it breaks up. Yet another starts with olive oil, achovies, garlic, and crushed red pepper, then I add canned tuna in olive oil and brown it, then at the end I add capers.
A favorite dish I have is to roast red peppers (blackening them and removing the blackened membrane), then put pepper halves on a pan, place a slice of nice cheese (I use whatever I have around; Manchego, Parmesan, whatever) and one anchovy. bake till melted.
Chopped up anchovy actually melts into a dish, adding (as another poster said) a depth and richness of flavor. I chop them up and saute with the garlic in pasta sauces like puttanesca, or a basic tomato sauce with egglant and capers.
re: Candy
Those eggs sound neat, Candy. Do you cream those 3 together with a fork at the same time, or is there a better way to blend them. Add anything else, or keep just to the trio? Also, do you "tell" people ahead of time that the 'chovies are in there, or just like them smack and smile and try to figure it out?
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I whip it all up in the food processor and pipe into the egg halves. Also, I frequently will cut the eggs across the hemisphere, slicing a little off the ends so that they will stand upright.If a white is especially thick on one end I'll scoop a bit out of that white and add it to the mix. I've never said to anyone "be careful these eggs contain anchovies" but occasionally someone has asked me what my mix was and then after relishing them gagged when I mentioned anchovies, But, hey, you really enjoyed them enough to ask for a recipe...should I have said worcestershire sauce instead? It is not in your face anchovy, just flavor depth. At picnics the unsalted butter instead of mayo is wonderful. Sometimes I add chopped parsley, sometimes sprinkle the tops with Spanish smoked paprika. My basic is good butter, no mayo and some anchovies.
Funny,I had a Gourmet Club cocktail party this fall and assigned a member to make the tapenade filled eggs from Tamsin Day Lewis' Good Tempered Food. Oh lord she carried on as if I assigned her to poisin everyone and was sure no one would eat them. the tapenade incorporated the yolks but the filling was dark brown. They were gobbled down with delight.The filling included olives, tuna and anchovies
I also use them just for the depth of flavor they provide. Cook's Illustrated has a great recipe using anchovies, broccoli and pasta. I just keep a tube of anchovy paste on hand so I can keep it in my fridge and use as necessary.
Gremolata - as an accompaniment to steamed veggies - pulse in a food processor: tin of anchovies, lemon zest, 3 cloves garlic, flat leaf parsely, cracked pepper, olive oil.
Add to Nicoise salads and tuna sandwiches nicoise style.
Pasta sauce,
Make seafood sauce with chipotle peppers, anchovies, mayo and garlic. Brush on filets and bake.
I used to eat them straight out of the can, so you can tell I love them. One of the best uses though is chopping them up and stirring them into spagetti sauce of course along with red wine and grated romano cheese, this will make it better than your favorite Italian restaurant can make it unless of course they know the old secret of anchovies.
re: malibumike
Absolutely agree on every single part of your post. I used to love them straight out of the can on a nice crusty Italian bread, with a glass of very cold white wine.
Crush a can of ancovies in a salad bowl. Add 3 T olive oil and 2 ot 3 T wine vinegar. Mix thoroughly. Add a head of torn escarole and toss.
I make a Green Goddess salad dressing with anchovies: into food processor bowl, 1 can anchovlies, oil & all, 3-4 sliced green onions with green part as well, 1 cup light mayo, 2 T Worchestershire sauce, 1 cup dill, 1/4 c red wine vinegar. Whir everything in blender and serve over chopped greens.
Thanks for all the tips folks- feel like I've been educated well on this.
Got to tell this about my first anchovie use last night. My wife recently reported her notion that anchovies are an abomination, which was news to me because she is a very adventurous eater. I bought a can because of all the pizza experimenting that I've been doing, but got no bites on the idea from the family re: pizzas.
Well last night I made my wife a chicken breast for dinner. I made a lemon/garlic pepper sauce, of sorts, to go with. I added one anchovie to the sauce and it changed the flavor immensely, in a good way. I can see why so many people said that their use gives a flavor that is both wonderful and difficult to identify.
I didn't see her for a few hours after she had eaten. WHen I got home I asked if she had liked the chicken. Said she loved it and went on about how good the sauce was- wanted to know what was in it(which is unusual- she usually either just gives a thumbs up or down with no questions about ingredients). I fessed up to using the anchovie. She encouraged me to continue exporing its uses.
So, again, thanks for the tips,
Dissolve one or two in spaghetti sauce (add to olive oil at the beginning of the process) and they will sort of melt away.
The best panino in the world: Mozzarella, anchovies, red pepper flakes (based on the Italian Mozzarella in Carrozza sandwich)
In Madrid they serve an appetizer called something like "Plato Matrimonio" which is basically just white and black anchovies arranged in a geometric pattern, for eating with olive oil and bread.
The black anchovies are the ones you're familiar with from pizzas, preserved in salt. The white anchovies are fresh filets marinated in vinegar - and THOSE, my friend, are spectacular! You can sometimes find them at gourmet shops and Whole Foods. They're expensive but well worth it, and so different from the salted kind that even anchovy haters usually like them.
They're very popular in most Mediterranean countries - some of the best I've ever eaten were in Istanbul.
Bagna Cauda is a hot dip for bread, boiled vegetables, and roasted peppers. It originated in the Piedmont region of Italy. It's made of garlic, anchovies, butter, and sometimes milk or cream. Here's a recipe: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/rec...
I use them to salt food. I add chopped anchovies to my turkey meatballs, boil and sauté in a lemon-dill sauce and you have Königsberger Klopse. Also good with mozarella in carozza. Really good.
I wouldn't eat the tinned anchovies straight, Spanish-style. Those white anchovies aren't prepared the same way as the salty preserves.


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I was flabbergasted at the positive reviews for this book and even more gobsmacked by the vitriol expressed for the character of "Sienna," who leaves Avery for a new school in Texas, changes her name and seems to experience no residual emotional or psychological damage from the scandal. I really have to question Shreve's premise here when the reality for a victim of these situations, (as evidenced by Stubenville and more recently Nova Scotia) is non-consensual sex with multiple rapists, followed by weak prosecution by law enforcement, shaming, victim-blaming and serious psychological anguish. It seems incredibly callus and willfully ignorant of Shreve to have crafted her depiction from this dangerous point of view and I question the wisdom of her publisher too.
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My usual disclaimer: I'm not an expert in anything. But it's my understanding that a .iso image (or .iso file) is an "image" of an entire CD, DVD, or BD. The entire contents of a disc can be made into a single ISO file.
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If you have a complete IMAGE of your drive, so why you are in need for an ISO?
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It seems Manmohon Singh will stick to his conviction and go for the deal. Immediately BJP who are now riding on a crest have started election noises. Considering the fact that they are the only alternative for running the country other than Congress, is it not a pathetic signal? I am surprised that Vajpayee's wisdom and statesmanship has not percolated down the line. Pramod Mahajan is dead. Should hey not consider another bright & talented young man like Jaitly, instead of the old generation to pick up the reins?
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So, why should BJP not stand alongside the Congress and get this bill passed! Is it a God-made law that opposition party should not vote for a bill alongwith the ruling party?? That too if the bill is in the best of interest of the country, and some foolish allied MPs are hell bent upon defeating it??
But in India The opposition is not thinking about the country. They are thinking only about the opportunity the whole matter may give them to come back in power.