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Q. Karen, in a professional setting how do you feel about these wild shades of fingernail polish, such as blue or green?
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I keep having this fantasy - to be fucked really hard and long by a guy with an enormous, monster big cock. I have been banged hard, of course, but never this exact same way I dream of. I literally want it to last for hours and to be as rough as possible. I can take it.
The mystery man will be very muscular, with a rough look on his face. It'd be an early night, around 10 p.m. and we'll be getting back to his place from our second or third date. We'd have a few more drinks and discuss our sexual desires. After sharing what I want, he'd say nothing but pull me towards him and kiss me roughly. Then he'd order me to undress and get on all fours and he'd disappear in the other room.
When he gets back, I'm already on my hands and knees. He'd just smile approvingly at my naked body, come to me and spill some heating massage oil all over my back and ass. Then he'd start massaging my body slowly approaching my pussy. It wouldn't take him long to get me wet even before he sticks two fingers in my slit and starts massaging my clit with his thumb.
Then he'd get in front of me and take his boxers off. It'd be the longest, thickest and hardest dick I've ever seen. Before I can even get scared, he'd shove it in my mouth and there'd be nothing left for me to do but lick and suck it. He wouldn't let me stop for a whole hour. Every time I slow the sucking down, he'd press my head and start moving in backwards and forwards. When I can't breathe anymore and he's aching to fuck me, he'd finally take his wet cock out of my mouth, get behind me, grabs my hips and shove his cock deep inside my dripping cunt. At first he'd thrust moderately until my pussy relaxes and takes the monster dick but soon he'd be ramming me harder and harder, making me scream.
- Ohhhh.... mmmmm.... ahhhhh....yeah....uhhh.... uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh............
Without stopping, he'd lean forward and whisper:
- Oh, you like it like this, baby? You like getting railed by a big cock? Ohh, I'm gonna fuck your brains out.... Ohh, I love that tight pussy of yours...
He fucks me like this for a very long time all the while pulling my hair and spanking my ass until it gets dark red. Despite the pain, it feels amazing to be abused by that hard rod. My dripping pussy is burning, getting more and more swollen. My hands can't hold me anymore but when he senses that, he grabs my hair and pulls my head backwards, making my back arch. Every time his cock rams my cunt, I whine in pain. I start begging him to stop but he grabs my hands and fucks me twice as hard. The more I moan, the harder he pounds me. Later he makes me lie down on my side, lies behind me, pulls my leg up and starts fucking me like this. But most of the time he pounds me doggy, slapping my butt cheeks hard and loudly. I cry every time he spanks my ass although I secretly enjoy it.
Just when I feel I'm gonna pass out, he stops, takes his cock out of my burning slit, lies down and orders me to suck his giant dick in the meantime. I kneel next to him and obediently start sucking. I suck it for 15-20 min, while he's moaning and spanking my ass further. Then he orders me to stop, gets up and makes me stand on my knees.
- You're a bad girl, right baby? A bad girl who enjoys being banged hard... And bad girls…- he says, taking out a pair of handcuffs - get punished.
He takes my hands by the wrists and locks them to the bed. Then he opens a drawer and takes out a small short whip. I look over my shoulder in panic while he unrolls it.
- Mmm, that sweet ass of yours is sooo nice, so rosy... - he says, touching my burning butt cheeks. - It needs some good hard spanking.
I make a crying sound but have no choice but let him whip my butt loudly. At first the whipping is not very hard but soon I'm screaming in pain begging him to stop.
- No need to scream, baby... I'm gonna destroy your sweet ass anyway. So just shut up and take it. It's gonna be a loooong spanking...
Having grunted that, he takes out a ball gag and puts it around my head so that I can't make a sound.
I cry while he whips my burning ass. Like he promised, it is long and hard. When he gets tired, the man stops and unlocks the handcuffs. However, he leaves the mouth gag around my head so I anticipate he'll make me wanna scream more. So, I obediently stay on all fours, waiting to see what follows. My ass cheeks are all bruised and burning but my pussy is wetter than ever and I realize I crave him to fuck me more. And in a second my wish comes true. He gets behind me and slides his hand down my dripping pussy.
- Wet, huh? Oh, you dirty little slut… You want me to fuck you more, right?! – He pulls back my hair and yells: RIGHT?!?!
I try to utter something but only an indistinguishable noise comes out.
- Ohh, yeah…. I'm gonna ram you, baby, take this - he roughly shoves his cock into me, grabs my boobs starts pounding me as hard as he can. (Tip: click on the image below) In, out, in, out, in, out..... in out in out in out in out in out... in out in out in out in out in out in out in out... I hear his balls loudly smacking against my thighs and my ass cheeks bouncing up and down. He's squeezing my boobs hard and I wanna cry but because of the ball only a moaning sign comes out. He takes it as a sign to fuck even harder and much much longer. He bangs me in every possible position until I can't even breathe.
When he finally stops fucking my swollen throbbing pussy, the man takes his cock out and orders me to spread my legs so that he can fuck me anally. Rubbing and slapping his dick against my pussy and asshole, he makes me spread my ass cheeks as far as possible and starts shoving his giant dick it up in my ass. I'm crying in pain but he doesn't care. I can take only about one third of his huge cock up in my butt. He irritatedly takes it out, leans forward and orders me in a calm, low voice:
- Relax your ass so that you can take it completely in... It'd be better for you... I'm gonna ram you anally either way. - He leans further more and almost gently whispers: And since you're such a dirty little whore, you'll take it without lube.
I try to whine while he's softly caressing my neck, whispering: Noo, no, no, baby, no lube, understood? I'm gonna shove my ten-inch cock up your beautiful tight ass. I'm gonna rail it real hard and long, until my cock starts sliding in and out on its own... yes, baby, yes, on its own, understood? - he suddenly pulls my head by the hair.
I nod crying and try to relax my ass as much as possible, while he once again slowly begins inserting his dick in my rear. This time it gets half way inside before it can't penetrate any further. He thrusts it a couple of times while I rock in pain. Trying as hard as I can to relax my asshole a little more, I soon feel more of the dick slowly and roughly piercing its way through my anal.
- Ook, theeere we go, baby..
He grabs my hips, takes a firm position, pulls me a little more towards himself and starts thrusting rhythmically. It's extremely painful and burns like hell without the lube. The thrusts get faster and harder and soon turn into hard banging. While pounding my asshole, he's also working my butt cheeks which are all bruised and red from the spanking and whipping, shivering in pain while he's kneading and slapping them.
I am crying and moaning, wishing to scream as his dick keeps viciously stretching my ass.
- Mmmh, that slutty ass of yours is amazing... Ohh, I know you like it, baby, you love huge cock up your beautiful butt.
He fucks me like this for over an hour, switching between hard pounding and rhythmic sliding his cock in and out of me. Just like he promised, it gets easier and easier. One second the whole giant thing is inside my butt then he slowly takes it out before making it disappear in my sore hole once again. In and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out... From time to time he stops moving and starts banging me against his hock.
The pain is unbearable and I feel I'm about to pass out when he reaches down my wet pussy and starts rubbing it intensively. He senses that I can cum and starts pounding me twice as hard. I feel he's pressing me firmly against himself so that he can feel every spasm my body produces. In-out-in-out-in-out-in-out-in-out-in-out-in-out...I feel the orgasm ready to explode in me. At this moment he suddenly takes the ball out of my mouth and makes final mighty thrusts into my throbbing butt. In the next moment I scream with pleasure, the orgasm and pain rocking my whole body together with the mighty spasms of his body as he plunges deep into my anus and starts filling my butt with his warm semen.
As I keep shivering and moaning, he slowly slides his wet cock out of my sore, dripping and thankful ass.
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Ralph A. Gasbarre, 78, of 112 Cushing Ave., Johnsonburg, died Wednesday night, Dec. 18, 2013 at Elk Haven Nursing Home in St. Marys following a lengthy illness.
He was born May 20, 1935 in Johnsonburg, son of the late Sabatino and Elizabeth Mangine Gasbarre.
On July 2, 1960 in Holy Rosary Church, Johnsonburg, he married Mary Bliss and she survives.
A lifelong Johnsonburg resident, he attended Johnsonburg public schools, and was a member of Holy Rosary Church in Johnsonburg.
He was an Army veteran having served as a PFC with Company A 2nd Medium Tank Battalion, 37th Armored Division at Fort Hood, Texas. He served overseas in Germany from Oct. 1, 1958 to March 2, 1960 with Elvis Presley as a member of the 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 32nd Armored Division.
He was employed by Keystone Carbon Co. for 42 years before retiring in 1995.
He loved spending time with his grandchildren and bowling.
In addition to his wife at home, he is survived by two sons, Donald W. Gasbarre and his wife Paula, and Dennis W. Gasbarre and his wife Lori C., all of Johnsonburg; one daughter, Lori Ann Gasbarre of Johnsonburg; two grandchildren, Joshua and Merisa Gasbarre; three sisters, Ann Marie Gasbarre of Ridgway, and Rose Marie Gasbarre and Veronica Burrs, both of Johnsonburg.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by four brothers, Samuel, John, Bill and Richard Gasbarre; and three sisters, Pauline Austin, Carolyn Gasbarre, and Columba Caiazzo.
A Mass of Christian Burial for Ralph A. Gasbarre will be conducted at Holy Rosary Church, Johnsonburg on Saturday, Dec. 21 at 10 a.m. Officiating will be Rev. David J. Wilson, Pastor. Interment will be in Parklawn Memorial Gardens, Ridgway.
Friends will be received at the Anthony F. Ferragine Funeral Home, 401 Chestnut St., Johnsonburg on Friday evening from 6-8 p.m.
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The ability of clamp meters to measure large ac currents is based on simple transformer action. AC current constantly changes potential from positive to negative and back again, generally at the rate of 50 Hz or 60 Hz. The expanding and collapsing magnetic field induces current in the windings. This is the principle that governs all transformers. When you clamp the instrument's "jaws" around a conductor carrying ac current, that current is coupled through the jaws, similar to the iron core of a power transformer, and into a secondary winding which is connected across the shunt of the meter's input. A much smaller current is delivered to the meter's input due to the ratio of the number of secondary windings vs. the number of primary windings wrapped around the core.
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The Fall semester begins next week, so I thought I'd share a few things that are going on here.
First, we're going to try and assess our instruction efforts this semester. We've never done this before, and after considering various options, we're going with a bare bones half-sheet of paper containing four or five questions for students to answer. We thought about using SurveyMonkey, but ultimately I think this will be simpler and we'll get better participation. It's a start, at least. Next semester we may tackle the tricky business of peer evaluation.
Over the summer, we deactivated our twitter account and created a coherent plan for our Facebook presence. There was no unique content coming from the twitter account recently, and I noticed we were predominantly being followed by people and entities that had very little to do with our college population. I still think twitter has great potential as a communication tool, but it just wasn't doing much for our library. I'm glad we tried it; we can always try it again differently in the future. Meanwhile we have a schedule for who will be adding content to our Facebook page, and we wrote up some guidelines.
A few weeks ago we debuted a new website. I use the word 'we,' but the credit really goes to one particular librarian who did most of the work. It's making me revisit my thinking about how to best provide services. I'm not trying to be a jerk when I say we serve a population of students who do not always know what they want. They might think they know what they want, but often that's because they don't know what we have. The challenge for the library web site is to teach them what's out there in a relatively intuitive, unmediated way.
Simultaneous to the new web site, we're debuting a discovery service, from EBSCO. (It's labeled EasySearch on the web site, and it's also commonly abbreviated as EDS.) I think it will particularly help the students we don't see in person -- those who don't look for personal assistance and who don't get specialized library instruction. One thing I'm worried about is that some of our collections decisions might be influenced by whether or not a resource will integrate well with EDS. I have mixed feelings about this, because I want our collections to be used, and I think EDS will increase our usage numbers, but I hate to turn down good content just because a parent company somewhere decided not to play nicely with EBSCO.
Earlier this summer when the instant messaging program we were using (meebo) disappeared, we signed up for Springshare's chat service. It was so straightforward, and the transition was so seamless, that it would barely be worth mentioning -- except that, as with other Springshare products, it continues to improve. Most recently I noticed that there are cool new sound effects. Next I hope to see a button that lets you modify your status without disconnecting, so that when I momentarily leave my computer to assist a patron, a chat patron isn't left wondering why I'm not responding.
On an individual level, I'm trying to move forward on several projects that involve working with people who are in adjunct or part-time positions. It brings to mind the difference between long-term and short-term thinking. Hiring people for the short term encourages short-term thinking, which would inherently seem like a bad thing. On the other hand, what if in certain situations the library could actually benefit from a little less long-term thinking? It is now possible to form electronic collections that could quickly change according to need. One year we could get an entire back run of a journal online if a particular adjunct faculty member wanted to use it in his/her class. The next year when she's no longer working here, we could get rid of it in favor of something else. Point-of-need collections, created using à la carte and patron-driven acquisitions processes, might actually be a very practical direction for a community college library that is more subject to external (short-term) economic forces than a research library. Actually, the idea of being able to easily and cost-effectively modify an entire collection is pretty exciting. Community colleges have a far shorter institutional histories than universities, and maybe their libraries have never truly needed to collect for the long term in the first place.
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I have an Idea to make an air compressor that i doubt any one has thought of before, an air powered air compresor. THe basic idea is to replace the motor with an impact wrench and have the wrench drawing air from the compressor a the same time the pump is suplying air to the tank. The compressor would have to be compressed the first time though anaxilary source, but if the tank doesnt leak it can alwase produce all of the power i needs. the impact would be tunrned on and off by means of a ball valve
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What happens when the tool you're using and the impact running the compressor consumes more CFM than the pump can produce?
How can I hold the trigger on the impact and run the air tool 75ft away simultaneously?
How will the blows from the anvil in the impact affect operation and longevity?
Finally, EVERY air compressor I've ever used eventually leaks down.
I'll give you credit for trying, but I think your idea needs a lot of work.Big 40 Deluxe
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While your at it put an electric motor on your engine drive instead of the engine and let the machine make its own power to run itself.
Trust me your not the only person to think of that.
The air draw of the air motor that you would need to run it would consume more air than it would give out in power.
I do congradulate you on trying to come up with a good idea.
Dont give up on your inventions.
Like if you really wanted to get creative you could put a big air storage tank in the trunk of a car and then you could get a really big air motor to replace the engine and, like, you then could connect a compressor to the drive shaft so it would compress air in the tank in the trunk and then the compressed air could run the engine air motor and it would move the car and the drive shaft would run the compressor to fill the tank in the trunk and the air motor would move the car......... and....by golly, you've got free energy!MTBob
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I wasnt to sure it would work either but I thought I would throw it out ther I also had an idea to do this with a lawnmower, but I dont think that will work either now. If i get the chance and have the parts laying around some time I may try it as an expiriment
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'Perpetual-motion machine' is the basis of the concept and it's been tried in so many different concepts it's amazing. Keep at it, nobody's come up with a way to do it without the addition of more energy to keep the process going. If you succeed, you'll have done what no other scientist or physicist has been able to do, and they've been at it for centuries!
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Some Creep- I have herd of a perpetual motion machine, herd no one has done it(yet) and thought of the benifits of figuring it out.
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If your last idea is to run air tools from a CO2 cyl. it can and does work. You can buy small CO2 bottles, like those used on paintball guns at Lowes. They sell a regulator and hose kit to be used with those to power nailguns. You can get the bottles filled at any location that fills paintball guns.
I have a similar setup for my nailers. Instead of spending money on the paintball tanks I use several small SCUBA cylinders I have (19cf). I use scuba reg to lower the pressure down to 125 from 3000 then use a std air reg to adj the pressure to the gun. I already have the hoses to refill the small bottles from either my doubles or the large K bottles of breathing gas I get at the LWS. I use this setup when I just have to shoot in a couple of nails on a single door for example. Otherwise I just break out the pancake comp. and use that if I have any quantity to do.
The biggest issue with this is that many tools like impact wrenches eat a LOT of volume. I think my impact gun eats 6cf/m + at 100psi. A large tank will work but don't expect long usage from a fill. You also have to be sure the reg can handle the volume required.
I can and do use the big comp air bottles to run my plasma. The dry air from the bottles works better than that from my comp. Since I already have the air it just makes sense.
Perpetual motion, I aint thought of that in years.
Gravity and friction are the killers of perpetual motion.
Good luck with it.Be safe
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With the talk of running air tools of tanks.
Make sure that you never use pure oxegen to run air tools.
The sudden blast of the oxegen inside the air tool can be fatal.
Also never use oil on your torches or gauges.
They actually say that if you ever decide to fix your own regulators that the natural oil in your hand is enouph to cause an explosion.


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Screening for Inhibitors of Bacterial Capsule Biogenesis - T7 Lysis Inhibition (5)
Over 100 million urinary tract infections (UTIs) occur annually throughout the world, including more than 7 million cases in U.S. adolescents and adults. UTIs in younger children are associated with greater risk of morbidity and mortality than in older children and adults. Antimicrobial resistance among UPEC is on the rise, driving efforts to elucidate vulnerable targets in the molecular more ..
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Over 100 million urinary tract infections (UTIs) occur annually throughout the world, including more than 7 million cases in U.S. adolescents and adults. UTIs in younger children are associated with greater risk of morbidity and mortality than in older children and adults. Antimicrobial resistance among UPEC is on the rise, driving efforts to elucidate vulnerable targets in the molecular pathogenesis of infection. New insights into the roles of K capsules in UPEC virulence during UTI make capsules an attractive target. Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) produces 80% of community-acquired urinary tract infections (UTI). UPEC is also a leading cause of nosocomial UTI, the most prevalent hospital acquired infection. Dissemination of UPEC from the lower urinary tract is associated with morbidity and mortality through infection of the kidneys, bloodstream, and central nervous system. In recent years, the treatment of outpatient and inpatient UTI has been severely compromised by the rising incidence of antibiotic-resistant UPEC.
Investigators have found that encapsulation is an important UPEC virulence factor. The K1 capsule type is closely associated with pathogenic isolates; not only is it the leading type in UTI, but it also accounts for much of the extra-urinary tract complications. Animals studies of E. coli K1 sepsis demonstrated that injection of K1 capsule degrading enzyme abrogates infection. However, the enzyme treatment is immunogenic; accordingly, chemical inhibition may prove to be a superior approach.
Of the different K types, the Group 2 and Group 3 capsules are most prevalent among UPEC isolates, with K1 and K5 being leading types. Although the capsules have different compositions, they are synthesized, assembled, and exported by functionally homologous factors, leading us to hypothesize that we can develop small molecular inhibitors of K-type encapsulation that target the most medically important K types. Furthermore, the medically important infectious agents Campylobacter jejuni, Hemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitides, and Salmonella typhimurium among others, use these homologues in the biogenesis of their capsules. By exploiting the properties of a K-type specific phage, we performed a small scale high-throughput screen of >2,100 molecules from the NCI that uncovered several promising inhibitors of K1 and K5 encapsulation. This assay will identify a larger number of inhibitors with different mechanisms of action from which we may determine the optimal targets for capsule biogenesis inhibition and develop analogues with pharmacologically optimized properties.
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T7 Lysis Inhibition: Compounds were received in powder form and resuspended in DMSO to create 10 mM storage stocks . One hundred microliters of each compound was taken and diluted two-fold sequentially to 0.039 mM in 96-well PCR plates to create working stocks. Compounds were kept frozen in sealed vials or PCR plates at -20C (protected from light). An overnight culture of EV36 (K1:K-12 hybrid strain) was grown in LB from a colony on a plate (from freezer stock). The culture was then diluted 1:100 into a clean and sterile 96-well flat bottom tray (99 ml per well). Compounds were then added to each well (1 ul per well for final concentrations ranging from 100 uM to 0.39 uM (for indicated wells, DMSO only was diluted to a final concentration of 1%). Each compound concentration was tested in quadruplicate. Each plate contained controls for growth of EV36 with and without phage as well as C7 chemical treatment to remove capsule and sensitize the strain to T7 phage (phage lysis control). The plate was then sealed with tape and placed in a shaker at 37C. After incubating the plate at 37C with shaking for 1.5 hrs, an absorbance reading (OD600)of the plate was taken and indicated wells were infected with 5 ul of T7 phage (from freshly cleared lysate) . The plate was returned to the shaker and a second growth reading was taken 3 hrs post infection to determine lysis. Since T7 phage can only attach if no capsule is present, true inhibitors of capsule will yield bacteria that are susceptible to T7 phage and lyse within 2 hr of the addition of phage. However, compounds inhibiting phage replication will not lyse.
Percent Inhibition of Phage Lysis (Cell viability) was calculated relative to the mean of the cell control. Data are graphed as the mean A600 at 3 hrs p.i. +/- SD of four wells normalized to the average of EV36 + DMSO + T7 phage (3 hrs p.i.). Percent Inhibition of Phage Lysis was determined at each of 9 tested concentrations ranging from 100 uM to 0.39 uM. Compounds that were selective and showed phage lysis inhibition > 30% in the confirmatory assay were considered Active. IC50 values were calculated only for active compounds using XLFit.
Score: In this secondary dose response screen using synthesized compounds, active compounds were scored on a scale of 81-100 based on the relative IC50 values. Compounds that were not confirmed as active in the dose response screen were given the score 0. Primary screen data is scored on a scale of 0-40, confirmatory data is ranked from 41-100.
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An incredible demonstration of strength! An unbelievable exhibition of magical powers! A fascinating mystery your audience will be talking about for a long time to come! This trick even stopped a revolution! (See History and Trivia below)
A beautiful piece of equipment that is so easy to operate! Display the chest to your audience. Set the chest on a table. Ask a member of the audience to join you for the Light and Heavy experiment. Let him lift the chest- he can do it easily. Mention that you have the ability to take his strength away, merely by possessing some personal item of his. Let him hand you any item from their pocket- a handkerchief, a coin, a wallet. Place the item inside the box, and close it up. Now when he tries to lift the box, he can't do it! It's like his strength is gone! Of course, you open the chest again, return the item, and he is now able to easily lift the chest one more.
You can also use this presentation: after explaining that some items appear much lighter than they actually are, ask the spectator to lift the chest. He can't do it- the chest won't budge! Now, explain that maybe it's what's inside the chest that makes it so heavy. Open the chest, and take out a single, featherweight silk scarf! Close the chest, and NOW the spectator can lift it with no problem!
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In my family, most holiday meals start with a bowl of chicken soup. Depending on the time of year, the golden broth may have matzo balls floating in it, egg noodles, or for the High Holidays, meat kreplach.
I love kreplach. The simple dough recipe makes a soft, silky dough that's easy to work with and delicious when stuffed with the meat filling. The filling is a great way to use up the chicken from your chicken soup (though you can also add some brisket if you'd like).
Dough – You'll need 2 batches of dough for 1 batch of filling
To make dough:
You can also use a stand mixer with a dough hook to prepare the dough.
To make filling:
Use a food processor to finely chop the chicken, potato and fried onions. Add the salt, pepper and chicken stock and continue to pulse the mixture until it's well combined and finely ground. When it's all mixed together, the filling should stick together and be moist, but not wet.Taste and check for seasoning. Add a little more chicken stock or water if you feel the filling is too dry.
To assemble kreplach:
Place one ball of filling on each dough circle. Pick one up and fold the dough in half, sandwiching the filling. Pinch the dough all the way around the edge. If you have trouble getting the dough to stick together, try flouring your fingers a little before you pinch, or brush the inside edges of the dough with some water (or both). You can leave the kreple as is, or bring the two ends together, forming a circle and pinch them together. Continue with the rest of the dough and filling until all have been assembled. Place them on a well-floured baking sheet as you go.
To cook kreplach:
Use the slotted spoon to pull the kreplach out of the water, and place them in the colander to drain completely. If you're eating them right away, add them to your chicken soup and serve. If you want to freeze them for later, rinse them in cold water and toss with a little oil. Place them in a single layer on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and freeze. Once frozen, transfer to freezer bags.
When you're ready to use the frozen kreplach, thaw and rinse to remove the oil. They can be warmed up in a pot of boiling water or right in the chicken soup.
Yield: one batch of filling and two doughs makes approximately 8 dozen.
** It's easy to get enough schmaltz for frying the onions without any extra work, as long as you're making chicken soup. As the chicken soup chills, the fat will rise to the top and harden. Carefully skim the hardened chicken fat off the top and you have schmaltz ready to go.
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Meanwhile Kristen Stewart still looks like she's playing a vampire. Why her makeup always looks like she died last week?!
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Scl 70 Antibodies, IgG, Serum
Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful
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Scl 70 (topoisomerase 1) is a 100-kD nuclear and nucleolar enzyme. Scl 70 antibodies are considered to be specific for scleroderma (systemic sclerosis) and are found in up to 60% of patients with this connective tissue disease. Scl 70 antibodies are more common in patients with extensive cutaneous involvement and interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, and are considered a poor prognostic sign.(1,2)
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2. White B: Systemic sclerosis. In Clinical Immunology Principles and Practice. Second edition. Edited by R Rich, T Fleisher, W Shearer, et al. St. Louis, Mosby-Year Book, 2001, pp 64.1-64.10


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Where can I go to sign up for a course? Where is the starting line?
I didn't see the specifics so I could try this myself.
Aug 1 2012: Head to Coursera.org!
And also, check out this blog post for more free college course ideas:
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Aug 1 2012: I had a browse through some Google results and found this https://www.coursera.org/Aug 2 2012: Cool Im actually a fan of Ken Robinson's talks on creativity and how the world education system needs changing to fit modern times. His talk about changing education paradigms was very eye opening. I actually talk about him as well in the afore mentioned blog post about self paced online education. The post was about revealing how it seems kids are learning better from watching YouTube videos than in the actual class rooms.
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And I agree, this Corusera sounds really great, I just wish I had known of them in 2010 instead of enrolling in the online course I did :X
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Aug 1 2012: I googled her and searched quite a few pages of her and found nothing. Sometimes an extra pair of eyes helps. No need to be mean or rude Theodore.
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Aug 1 2012: What exactly did you Goggle? "Daphne Koller online courses" brings up several listings such as....
Probabilistic Graphical Models | Coursera
Daphne Koller, Professor. In this class, you will learn the basics of the PGM ... class, the online education model that has led to the formation of the online courses ...
Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New Level ...
[Jul 17, 2012] Even before the expansion, Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, the founders of Coursera, said it had registered 680,000 students in 43 courses with its original ...
Coursera, Udacity, edX: Will free online Ivy League courses ...
Daphne Koller, educator, speaks during Session 3: Building Blocks, at TEDGlobal ... with 12 major research universities to offer more than 100 free online courses in ...
TED Blog | Completely free online classes? Coursera.org now ...
At TEDGlobal 2012, Stanford University professor Daphne Koller introduced us to Coursera.org, an effort to bring rigorous college courses online to anyone who ...
"Rude" is in the context of your feelings to my comment, but I do not cause your feelings.
Aug 1 2012: Sir, you are incorrect. Rude is what you were. My feelings has nothing to do with your actions. My feelings are a separate entity than what was factually done and said.Aug 1 2012: If you don't want your online text to come across as rude but more so jovial, I suggest you learn how to rephrase your wording for future clarification if you choose to continue to communicate behind a computer screen without facial expression and vocal tone.Aug 1 2012: Please don't make it my problem that you are unaware how to communicate with others.
Quote anything you like, you still chose phrasing that made you look a certain way.
When stating something, if the other person doesn't understand the point you're trying to put across, the problem lies with you, not them.Aug 1 2012: And let's have 3 cheers for making assumptions. You have no idea what I do or do not intend on doing with this information or these links. SO how about you take your snide, know-it-all, poor excuse for a so-called human self and mind yourself.
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Aug 2 2012: katt and Theodore, any chance of olive branches both ways here? Just in the spirit of TED community?Aug 1 2012: "Much ado about nothing."
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It least my comments didn't revert to name calling.
And you did not answer the question. What did you search for?
You must be new to TED.Aug 2 2012: two thumbs upAug 1 2012: I wrote about online education in my blog recently and mentioned Salman Khan's Khan Acadamy. Its basically the same premise. (And he even did a TedTalk about it in 2011) I am all for free education . But it may also mean that many business corporations everywhere, will have to change their requirements for hire or they eliminate the thousands of potentially prime candidates for hire because they require that MBA or BA is something. They would have to determine if the "certificate" you get for completing one of these online courses will or will not be recognized. Speaking as someone who spent 5 years in college from High school, and couldn't find any work in my desired graphic design field, I am a little jaded. Id hate to put in the time for these courses and not be hired because my degree wasn't from a "credible" University.
Aug 2 2012: How is Khan Academy "basically the same premise"?
Coursera is actual college classes taught by professors that teach at the universities. Certificate of completion for the course are not the same as a degree.
Aug 2 2012: Its online and its not-for-profit. I'll grant that KhanAcadamy doesn't seem to have much in the way of certified professors rather relying on a few subject specialists among a ton of software engineers.
And my concern was not about the difference between a degree and this certificate from Coursera, so much as to if businesses will recognize it for possible candidates for hire.
Aug 2 2012: What is changing about education is that even after one receives a degree, we will be required to become life long learner. This is why courses are being offered online. We currently consume more information in a day than people did in entire lifetimes.
In America this is not the issue it is in other places in the world. As Koller indicates tens of thousands of people that access Coursera are from areas of the world where there are fewer opportunities for attending such classes. Yet the need for this information is great.
What will matter is what you can do with your knowledge and not what a piece of paper says you did in the past. (see Charles Leadbeater and Sugata Mitra's TED Talks)
Can you imagine a future where your schooling records will be persistent and online, in the cloud. This is where employers will look for qualified applicant for job placement.
This is part of the "education revolution" Sir Kenneth Robinson's TED talk calls for.Aug 2 2012: Right? These are for people, so far, that aren't necessarily trying to land a job in the field but feel it may help.
Every job I've had I've gotten from starting at the bottom of the totem pole and working my way up, each job change is a step upwards, I have some college under my belt and a few trade certifications (those are the most fun concerning learning and getting something out of it). I've found that the trade certs got me hired much faster in higher paying positions than ones that require higher formal education.Aug 1 2012: Oh awesome thanks!
I was just going to the specific university's websites...
For example, the MIT website has some courses you can download the curriculums, tests/exams, textbook literature, and read lecture notes. There's a really big variety of courses to read about too. Really neat find by accident.Aug 1 2012: Please don't expect others to do your homework for you.
Aug 1 2012: Furthermore, this is not homework, it was a simple question. Sometimes others know how to better find something more efficiently than yourself.
Way to go for positive feedback that you heavily preach on your profile that others are doing for you. How about you practice what you preach and instead of treating others like shit, treat them in the nice way that they've treated you? We all have our strengths and weakness, it's apparent kindness isn't one of yours.
Next time you have any type of question that I can easily answer for you, expect the same rude answer you've given me.
Aug 1 2012: "Ambition should be made of sterner stuff than this." to paraphrase Shakespeare
In general this was written in a joking manner, but your feeling of being slighted are curious.
"Thou doth protest to much" as Shakespeare says in "The Taming of the Shrew" and I wonder if my barb struck a little to close to home.
This is a fairly simply task since she shows examples in the video of the online classes: "Coursera."
Having taking a few classes at Coursera I can warn you that they are self directed and there is a heavy burden to be self motivated. If you cannot find Cousera outline I think do have a valid concern about your success in these classes.


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Trying to get a basic understanding of the C++ (or C in general) programming language, and have read a couple tuts, but I am kinda lost. Does anyone have any tips on getting a basic "program" made, or links to tutorials that might be helpful? I can already make extremely basic "programs" but I am looking for a more solidified basis to work with before getting into (anything) complicated.
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