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Three cheers for state-imposed death!
Political applause lines are a dime a dozen. We hear what seems like thousands of them during State of the Union addresses. And in recent years they've been creeping into presidential debates. Usually they're little more than safe affirmations of America's superiority, or assurances of coming prosperity. But I can't recall seeing a debate moment quite like this--and occasioned by a question put to a candidate--which occurred during last night's
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I can't believe this yahoo [Perry] will last as a candidate for 4 months.
I'm with Ed Gleason, above, but I think the applause at Perry's answer was in direct response to the previous applause given at the very asking of the question. I can appreciate Perry's precise articulation of the law even if I also happen to believe the law ought to be changed.
Death is never an occasion for celebration, especially state-imposed death, even for those who have done great evil. So it was extremely disturbing to see so many people cheering for state-imposed death of Osama bin Laden, as well as the shot in the head of the Somali pirate that was expressly approved by President Obama.
Just more lunacy on the right.
I thought my wife was kidding when she told me about that this morning. And just a little while ago I got an email urging me to vote for the pro-life Republicans. Sigh.
At first I thought that the applause was a response to the boldness of Brian Williams question. But when I revisited the event, I think that it was an approval of the death penalty.It seems to me that Rick Perry understood the applause that way when he responded to the follow-up question about whether he was surprised by the rapturous applause. Mr. Perry said: "I think Americans understand justice."
I saw this clip just after having listened to the audio clips from 9/11 posted at the NY Times. Somehow, I was made to think of the cheering in the "Arab streets" upon the news of the 9/11 attacks. There seemed to be little difference--apart from the fact that no one in the debate audience was firing a gun. But seriously, is this what we have become?Oh, and Bender: Please just go ahead and say it: "It takes one to know one."
Must be Flash - can't see it on the iPod.
Try it now, David.
I am saddened. Clapping at death? Maybe we do need a real day of prayer and fasting - in the face of such hardness of heart.
The death penalty is quite popular in the US, and always has been. Really, supporting the death penalty is the 'mainstream' American position. Those of us who oppose the death penalty are the extremists, I suppose.
"Death is never an occasion for celebration, especially state-imposed death, even for those who have done great evil. So it was extremely disturbing to see so many people cheering for state-imposed death of Osama bin Laden, as well as the shot in the head of the Somali pirate that was expressly approved by President Obama."It's true. The Right is entirely bi-partisan when it comes to supporting executions.
It's important to remember that the death penalty is (or ought to be) an issue for Perry not just because Texas resorts to it so often, but because he is known to have overseen the execution of at least one person who was very likely wrongfully convicted. And then he interfered with the inquiry into that decision. That's the context in which his "Americans understand justice" remark should be read -- and certainly his boilerplate about "The state of Texas has a very clear process..." etc. You can point to that process as reason for your confidence, OR you can interfere with that process to prevent your confidence ever being called into question. But you can't have it both ways.Also: as I noted in a post here two years ago, his opponent in the gubernatorial race at that time tried to use the killed-an-innocent-man revelation to attack him from the right, by expressing concern that such an abuse of power might make the death penalty look bad. And we can't have that!
Jim Pauwels:Yep, 34 out of 50 states have the death penalty/
"There seemed to be little difference"Mark--Your comment implies that the 3,000 people killed in terrorist attacks on 9/11 are analogous to convicted murderers. I'm sure you did not mean it that way, but the timing of the remark is most unfortunate.
It appears you did not hear the applause during President Obama's common ground abortion debate.
Grant Gallicho 09/08/2011 - 4:29 pm :
Try it now, David.
Yep - now it's there. Thanks!
It seems to me that the governor was just giving a good average-guy answer. That's apparently who he is - an average-guy candidate. Average guys are his constituency. How could he not support them?We often forget how different the opinions of the "educated classes" in the West are from those of much of the world. I'd guess even the Western educated classes of fifty or a hundred years ago would, for the most part, have supported capital punishment.We change our outlooks on a dime and expect everyone immediately to fall in line. That's historically ignorant, culturally insensitive, and unrealistic. But we do it anyway.
Certainly the last person we need in the presidential office is someone who is educated.
David Smith:Sorry I cannot support an "good average-guy" who does not lose sleep if he had condemned an innocent person to death.
Correction:David Smith:Sorry I cannot support an good average-guy who does not lose sleep OVER THE THOUGHT THAT HE MIGHT HAVE condemned an innocent person to death.
Regarding Mollie's very pertinent intervention above: it reminds me that the reason that we haven't executed anyone in Illinois for the last ten years or so is not because of widespread, principled objections to the very notion of putting a brother or sister to death, but because the processes we've built that lead to a prisoner's condemnation and execution are so prone to error and manipulation that we no longer have sufficient confidence that the people on death row are actually guilty of the crimes of which they've been convicted.(And now the local prosecuting attorneys, who bear a large share of responsibility for the slew of wrongful convictions that led to the suspension of the death penalty in Illinois, are waging a pretty successful legal war against the Innocence Project, which perhaps more than any other entity can claim credit for suspending the death penalty in Illinois. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/business/media/18protess.html?pagewant...)Without wishing to exonerate Perry of any malfeasance on his part in Texas, I just want to observe that, in my view, the root cause of the problem is at the local, grassroots level. Convicted criminals are condemned to death, not by the governor, but because local district attorneys - who are also elected officials in most states - request the death sentence, and local judges or juries acquiesce. That is what causes the boulder to start rolling down the hill. The rock will continue to roll all the way to the bottom unless someone intervenes to stop it. It is true that there are avenues of appeal, and governors do have the right to commute death penalties, but it is difficult to fault Perry, who doesn't have a principled objection to the death penalty, for abiding by his principles. I assume 245 people have been executed during Perry's governorship because most Texans think that's dandy. Blame Perry for whatever he's done that he shouldn't have in regard to the death penalty, but mostly blame Texas.
"I assume 245 people have been executed during Perrys governorship because most Texans think thats dandy."I believe that number is probably too low. When then-Senator Joe Biden in 1994 reinstated the federal death penalty and provided for its largest expansion in history with Title VI of his crime bill, several people whose crimes were committed in Texas were subsequently executed out of state in a special federal execution chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana (built in 1999, I believe, but I could be off by a year or two). I know at least Juan Raul Garza and Louis Jones, Jr. whose crimes were committed in Texas were executed in Indiana under the Biden Crime Bill and there are at least a half-dozen others awaiting execution in Terre Haute under Biden's Federal Death Penalty Act for crimes committed in Texas who should be credited to Gov. Perry.
Hi, MAT, but I assume those who have been executed or are awaiting execution in Terre Haute are being executed under the auspices of the federal judicial system, rather than those of the State of Texas? Would the governor of Texas have any standing to intervene in a federal criminal trial or federal appeal?
"Hi, MAT, but I assume those who have been executed or are awaiting execution in Terre Haute are being executed under the auspices of the federal judicial system, rather than those of the State of Texas? Would the governor of Texas have any standing to intervene in a federal criminal trial or federal appeal?"Yes, the cases in question were tried in federal court. I am not sure what you mean by "intervene" but if you are referring to clemency, only the President either has, or had, pardon power over these convicts. Given that were it not for the Biden Federal Death Penalty Act these convicts would have been executed in Texas under state law, I think it is good to credit them to Gov. Perry, especially since it benefits all parties to do so. (As an aside, I believe a some of Jones' crimes may have taken place on federal lands which would complicate the foregoing but I do not recall a significant proportion the facts there).
Thanks you Mike Danielson - still no response to your post of 9/8, at 8:23pm.
The question was clearly intended to get to the human aspect of governance and how a candidate handles the responsibility. It is intended to evaluate the sobriety and temperament of a candidate. It is very rare that anyone has the opportunity to spare a life or take it (for whatever reason). It is simply not fathomable how such a thing would not give a leader pause. It has to be the most difficult aspect of the role. Violence and the death of anyone prematurely and by someone else's hand whether an assailant or state is tragic and sad. Irrespective of personal feelings a leader has to follow the constitution and respect the system in place while seeking also to change it where possible. Being part of a mob clamouring for the death penalty and being the person responsible for executing the decision are two different things. I was no evidence of someone who is able to consider both sides of an issue. Yes you need to come down on one but this surely must be difficult. That it isn't for him is astounding.I think that Perry revealed a faux machoism (at best) but if that reflects his true attitude it is truly scary.So long compassionate conservatism, hello radical individualism, simplistic lets get tough on crime without examining criminology and who actually is charged - by and large at least in my community the large percentage are socially disadvantaged people. Poor, lower education levels, addictions. This guy seems to have no clue of who is actually in the criminal justice system. And he is responsible for decisions!!! Ugh. Maybe Texas should secede from the US!!! On the bright side, he is a dream come true for Obama. Heck Obama does not even have to add a negative add - just play his speeches!!!


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Paulo Nuin shared this interesting link today on his Friendfeed account. I'm not sure Personas works perfectly, but shows some useful things about what people can find when they do a search for your name online. You insert your name, then let it visualize everything. In details:
Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person – to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.
It turned out my keywords are online, education and medical. Seems to be pretty accurate.

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Suppose $X \subset Y$ is a pair of varieties, and $s \in H^0(N_{X/Y})$ is a section. This corresponds to a first-order deformation $X' \subset Y \times \text{Spec}(\mathbb{C}[\epsilon]/\epsilon^2)$ of $X \subset Y$.
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I am a user from Germany and my English isn't perfect. Normally, I use a spell checker (Word) or a translation tool (Google Translate) to check my text. This process isn't comfortable. A translation tool like Google Translate, integrated into the Stack Overflow editor, would be of great value for me.
I am surprised by the critical comments, answers and votes on this request. Therefore I want to clarify the use case for this feature.
Normally I write my text in English. Usually some kind of spellchecking is enabled. If I feel bad about my English I make a machine translation to German. Machine translation isn't perfect. I know. But if I get totally nonsense in the German translation, there is something wrong with my English, and I iteratively correct this. Next steps: Clipping the text to Stack Overflow's editor, formatting of text and code, send.
I think with this procedure I respect the non-English question policy.
As I initially stated: This isn't comfortable and it would be much more comfortable with, for example, a mash up, integrating a spell checker and a translation tool.
The question in comments "Doesn't your browser have a spell checker?" - Maybe it's possible to choose another browser or install further plug-ins, but I prefer a server side solution for this central feature.
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"Give them real reasons not just because i said so, but because it's harmful to your health and it helps make your future choices difficult to obtain," explained Ford.
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6 Horrific Realities of Living With a Bedbug Infestation
As far as personal catastrophes go, a bedbug infestation sounds fairly minor. You might even wonder why it pops up in the headlines so often, alongside all of the real problems people have. Until, that is, it happens to you.
I did, when bedbugs infested my apartment. If your experience with bedbugs (which I sincerely hope you never have) is anything like mine and my wife's, here's what you have to look forward to ...
#6. You Will Cover Yourself in Vaseline
Bedbugs are drawn inexorably toward any warm bodies, but since they can't jump or fly, their mobility is actually pretty low. Vaseline may as well be quicksand for them, so a common survival tactic for the afflicted is to create isolated beds, using Vaseline the way you'd use garlic as a vampire repellent. You smear the stuff on the bed frame and the legs of the bed to create an impassible barrier (you can also try nesting the legs of your bed in bowls of baby powder -- the little bastards get stuck in it). But what if the bedbugs are already in your bed, or places that can't be roped off with rings of Vaseline?
What if they attack from above?
You smear it on yourself, that's what. And if you think you have too much dignity and self-respect to turn your body into a greasy insect trap, well, try living with bedbugs for a few months.
That's because getting bedbugs is like being a fan of the Chicago Cubs: Even though you know the days ahead are going to be filled with suffering and misery, you still have to get up every day and live your life. For instance, I had an active nightlife (that is, I did frequent late-night World of Warcraft raids), and bedbugs love their midnight munchies. So any time I looked down, I'd see a platoon of bloodsuckers sprinting across my desk. And I don't much like being bitten -- the distraction was seriously hurting my damage per second.
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That's why the rival guild released the bugs in the first place.
So, I slathered my ankles, wrists, and arms with coating after coating of Vaseline until I resembled a glazed doughnut. And yes, it worked -- the bugs would crawl up to me, try to feast on my delicious blood, and immediately get stuck. At the end of the night, I'd retire to the bathroom to scrape off the glaze -- which was by now covered in bedbug sprinkles. I was the doughnut Satan would give as ironic punishment to a glutton.
And if you're sitting out there judging my disgusting, insect-encrusted lifestyle, that's also part of the delightful bedbug experience. Because ...
#5. You Will Be Unfairly Judged
Before we go any further, let's debunk some rumors:
First of all, bedbug infestations have nothing to do with how clean you are. Everything from my yuppie apartment building to the flagship Nike Store to the NYC Department of Health has had an outbreak -- even multimillionaires like Howard Stern aren't immune. Despite the best attempts to blame the bedbug problem on hippies, science has shown us that bedbugs are actually immune to DDT, so getting rid of it in the '50s had nothing to do with their current resurgence. Hell, they don't even really live in beds: They can infest everything from train seats to wallpaper to baseboards to your fucking alarm clock.
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They can also act as an alarm clock.
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Oh, and despite the fact that in Massachusetts my landlord was legally responsible for exterminating my bedbugs, he still tried to con me into paying for them, dodged summons to court, and in general acted like an all-around douche -- if there was a housing law for him to violate, he did it with panache. We escaped (sans our security deposit), and as far as we know he never got any comeuppance.
Bugs just make landlords stronger.
For support, I found myself reaching out to the only group who could truly sympathize: other people living with infestations. They are clustered on a little island of sanity in the middle of the Internet called BedBugger.com. As a source of news, information, commiseration, and (somehow) rationality, I can confidently say that they are totally responsible for what tattered shreds remain of my sanity (shortly after I joined, one long-term member actually let me call them in the middle of the night and panic). Just knowing other folks are going through the same thing makes you feel less alone. Not that I ever really felt "alone" with the 7 million other inhabitants in my apartment.
#4. You Will Be Driven to Dangerous Measures
So you've sprayed your place and slathered yourself in petroleum jelly. Now you have to clear out your clothes. Short of spraying your stuff with horrifying pesticides, the easiest way to kill off bedbugs is to help them reach their "thermal death point," which is exactly what it sounds like: We crammed every piece of clothing we owned into the dryer for two hours, letting those bastards burn in there for $2.50 a load. By the end, it probably would've been cheaper to bribe the bugs out of our home with a whirlwind Vegas weekend of hookers and blow, but sadly, they're only insects with tiny brains and lack the physiology to properly enjoy cocaine or human genitals.
Rickard Ignell
Who needs vaginas when you can just stab your mate's tummy?
You're supposed to put everything that isn't laundry into an oven, and since I was working as a teacher, it was very important that anything I gave to my students (like their homework) be bug-free, lest I become the Typhoid Mary of bedbugs. But I ran into a problem: Stuff like paper, shoes, and sex toys can't go in an oven. Conventional wisdom says to heat them up with a sealable container and PackTite (a specialized heating system for situations just like this), but I'm not a big fan of conventional wisdom (that is, I was too broke to afford PackTite), so I put a bunch of non-clothing stuff in the dryer in the basement, wedged it closed with bricks so the heavier items wouldn't knock the door open, and left the machine running to scorch away my sorrows.
There was logic to my actions, of course -- the type of logic that rises like a misty aroma from a brain soaking in a cocktail of fear and madness. "I have too many things to put in the oven," I sang to myself, sweetly, "so I will put them in the dryer. The bugs will burn and I will be free." One of my neighbors failed to appreciate the beauty of my logic. His naive, bugless eyes saw not the key to sweet relief through death, but a gas dryer (which used an open flame) packed with flammable shit and wedged shut. He responded by dragging my ass into the basement and calling the cops.
Sergey Kamshylin/Photos.com
He was in league with the bugs. He too needed the cleansing fire.
I was let off with a warning and learned exactly nothing from this, because the fiery death of me and my neighbors was a trifle compared to the threat of bedbugs. I continued to cleanse my students' homework in the oven, which amounted to stuffing large amounts of paper near an open goddamn flame, right up until the end of the ordeal. At this point, I've used up so much residual good luck that I'm liable to die from someone else's game of Russian roulette.
But this, amazingly, was still just the beginning ...


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If I was to create a video of a GUI concept video with animations, what software is best suited for that? The focus would be applications for mobile devices or screens integrated in homes, cars etc.
I guess it could be done in 3D design applications but they seem a bit too advanced and time consuming for simple animations.


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The Shura (Consultative) Council held an ordinary session today under the chairmanship of Sheikh Dr. Saleh bin Homaid.
The Council approved a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on healthcare cooperation with Spain. It also approved amendments to the law of portability rights between the Civil Military Retirement System and the Social Insurance System.


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Managing the Cost of Privacy Regulations, ComputerWorld.com, October 2003This article by Jim West addresses the risk and costs companies face in trying to comply with new federal and state privacy
laws in the United States. Each technological advance creates new challenges for companies seeking to protect their customers.
Companies that take steps to meet the challenges of consumer privacy can avoid violations that lead to costly lawsuits and
can enhance their reputation with customers.
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UMMA Projects: Lisa Anne Auerbach
July 11 through October 11, 2009
Often combining wry humor with a biting critique of the complacency and routine of modern life, Lisa Anne Auerbach's subversive brand of post-punk, DIY aesthetics mixes art and politics in a manner both highly personal and thoroughly embedded in contemporary culture. Recent projects have addressed topics ranging from the current Iraq war to the politics of bicycling in a city of freeways. In her slogan-adorned sweater sets, each outfit becomes a wearable canvas, literally weaving together the personal and the political, the aesthetic and the everyday. Auerbach's installation at UMMA will transform the Museum's most highly visible space—the Irving Stenn Jr. Family Project Gallery—into a showcase for her politically charged, socially engaged knitwear. Appropriating strategies of presentation and display from the high-end clothing market, this unconventional installation will encourage viewers to ask questions about how we experience different types of cultural spaces, how we perceive the relationship between one type of luxury good (fashion) and another (art), and how both political and aesthetic discourses are framed in contemporary society.
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I usually drink a few energy drinks during a week, because it really helps my productivity, I can focus on tasks easily, even on those boring ones. I'm better in processing information too. I prefer it over coffee. Days without energy drinks are by me less productive.
Are there some downsides of drinking it regularly? Are there some chemical compounds that I should rather avoid? It usually contains caffeine, taurine, vitamin C, niacin, B6, B2. This constitution usually does not seem to be so unhealthy.
Caffeine is not necessary to explain, because it's amount is comparable with a cup of coffee, similarly taurine is in tea. There is usually a lot of sugar in energy drinks but I don't sweeten at all other foods and beverages. So, I'm interested if there is something special unhealthy that should be avoided.


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When expressing a series of object does 也 occur prior to each object or only prior to the last object to express the list
When expressing a series of object does 也 occur prior to each object or only prior to the last object to express the list
I) "也" means "too":
"也" means "too" in English, this is an adverb put at the back of the last statement to enhance that the same situation……ect.
你没有车,我*也*没有。(You don't have a car, I don't have a car either).
你喜欢巧克力,我*也*是 (You like chocolates, I do, too).
II) "也" means "the end of a list things shown to others":
When explaining a list of things, you can use commas or 顿号(slight-pause mark used to set off items in a series; punctuation mark (、) used between parallel words or short phrases; the caesura sign "、"placed between several proper names),but add "也" at the end. Here "也" doesn't mean "too" but just an end to tell others that the list of things I've listed comes to an end only.
我没有车、没有房、没有工作、也**没有老婆。(I have no cars,no houses,no jobs **and no wives).
In the first example, 也 functions as "and" to finish off a list.
In the second example, 也 functions as an emphasis on each item listed. It comes across as being very critical (or if using 也有, it sounds like a bragging competition of who has what).
If you're expressing a series of objects, please stay away from using 也 for each item because it will sound like scolding someone for having nothing or bragging about who has more possessions.
On the last object.
Adverbs like 也, 都, 还, etc. are sometimes obligatorily used, otherwise the consecutive sentences would sound incoherent.
In your examples, I would only use 也 for the last clause. Using 也 for each one is possible, just a little verbose.
You can also vary the adverbs.
What realy strikes me as odd is that, the 也 is not necessary for the second clause, however it does not imply the omission of 甚至 as one may expect. It seems that we can infer the implied relation (也 in this context) without actually seeing the word.
But wihout the last clause, it would sound awkward.
So remember, use the adverb at least once at last.


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Culture Change presents a series of five new articles on critical questions for our times
How can we get through the mounting crises, ecological and economic, in a time of political conflict and confusion? We believe we provide solid, unique answers, based on reaction so far to these articles:
Good News for Mother Earth and You: When Our Division Is Over
by Jan Lundberg
"...you may be convinced we have already sealed our fate and that humans may well go extinct possibly in a matter of decades, tracking the worst potential climate chaos. So why bother to hang around and breathe out your carbon dioxide?"
The Challenge of Unity Amidst Economic Crisis and the End of Growth
by Jan Lundberg
"An error of the Occupy movement might come back to haunt us all after possible short-term victories. Identifying and vilifying the extremely wealthy class is not a solution in itself."
Erasing/Seizing Wealth of "The 1%" Cannot Create Viable Middle Class or Solve Sustainability Crisis
by Jan Lundberg
"Global greenhouse gas emissions are unabated, and climate scientists are now saying that turning the warming trend around is probably not possible. So, how can redistributing the pie of consumption solve anything, unless an accompanying lifestyle change and massive tree planting take over?"
Update from DC: Occupy, pepperspray, peak oil, sail power, Congress
by Jan Lundberg
Greetings from the U.S. capital, variously occupied.
How bad or hopeful is our situation as a culture and species?
by Jan Lundberg
Publisher's note: On the occasion of The 2011 International Conference on Sustainability, Transition & Culture Change: Vision, Action, Leadership, which was held at a retreat east of Traverse City, Michigan a few days ago, I provided the following essay in the spirit of the conference's explorations. I had to cancel my speaking engagement for the conference, due to new commitments on the East Coast, but the essay went in my place. - JL


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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Spicy White Bean Soup
4 comments:
- Jenn said...
Take heart we had snow in Vancouver on the weekend and they seem to think it could be back.
- April 1, 2008 at 10:30 PM
- Sharon R said...
Yes, nature is an amazing thing! We would think it was a fluke if it snowed here in Philadelphia at this time...
Vegan Mom's soup looks delish & I'd like to try to make this, but modifying it, using what's left in the refrig before I going shopping again.
- April 2, 2008 at 6:47 AM
- Veg-a-Nut said...
I am so sorry for you continuing winter weather, but the soup looks great! I wish I could send you a care package of radishes and lettuce, but am afraid they would freeze before you got them. :o) I love you site, thanks for linking mine even though it was through tears. Hope sunshine comes your way soon!
- April 2, 2008 at 10:17 AM
- Jujube said...
I just found this website and I am in love! I can't believe you have all these amazing recipes online. You are a starving grad student's savior.
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