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|Winter is all about the citrus fruits. Meyer lemons are at Whole Foods Market at 990 W. Eisenhower Parkway in Ann Arbor, Michigan, January 8, 2013. (Regina H. Boone/Detroit Free Press/MCT)
And after weeks of heavy holiday meals, it's time to lighten the load with citrus. Eating more fruit is a great way to kick the new year off on a healthy note and cook in season.
It's near peak season for all things orange, tangerine and yellow.
Plenty of options are available. There are the snack-size mandarins - such as Clementines and Satsumas - that are sweet and easy to eat. Cara Caras are navel oranges with a tangy and sweet balance.
Blood oranges, anyone? These are prized for their cranberry tones and their deep red flesh.
And don't forget the old stand bys: grapefruit, temple oranges, tangelos and honey bells. All are suitable for eating out of hand, for juicing and for use in cooking. Think vinaigrettes, salads, and pairings with fish and chicken.
Aaron Wynn, prepared foods team leader at Whole Foods Market Cranbrook in Ann Arbor, Mich., says this year's citrus is looking good.
"I am obsessed with the Satsuma mandarin outside of just eating it," Wynn says. "I've been making different marmalades with them."
Wynn came up with the idea of using not-so-perfect, but still good mandarins to make marmalades based on a recipe from famed chef Thomas Keller. The marmalades are made in- house and sold in 6-ounce jars at Whole Foods Market Cranbrook.
"I don't like to see anything go to waste and used it as an opportunity to teach my team something," Wynn says.
When choosing citrus to use in cooking, Wynn says consider pairing fish with Cara Cara or blood oranges.
"Anything with that grapefruit-y and not super sweet taste also goes well with fish," he says. "It also pairs nice with fennel and pistachios."
Larissa Shain, registered dietitian at St. Joseph Mercy Oakland hospital in Pontiac, Mich., says the citrus season isn't just about the orange family: Don't forget about lemons and limes.
"By using the juices from the lemons and limes, you can use less salt in what you're making," Shain says.
For example, she says, if you make chili (using no-salt-added tomatoes and tomato sauce, of course), stir in a squeeze of lemon or lime just before serving. It will enhance and bring out the flavors of the other ingredients.
"When I was researching ways of lowering sodium, I found that citrus juices activate the same receptors on your tongue as salt does," Shain says. "So you get that flavor without using salt."
Citrus is a terrific source of vitamin C and high in antioxidants, but it's also a good source of potassium, which Shain says helps lower blood pressure and the risk for stroke.
"The combination of lower sodium and increasing potassium found naturally in citrus fruits helps lower the blood pressure even more," Shain says.
So go ahead and add a little citrusy sunshine to those hearty winter dishes. Your body and spirit will thank you.
Serves: 4 / Preparation time: 10 minutes. Total time: 45 minutes
Find soy ginger sauce in the Asian foods section in grocery stores.
1 (14 ounces) package extra firm tofu, drained well, patted dry, cut in ¼-inch slices
cup soy ginger sauce
1 tablespoon honey
2 mandarin oranges, washed, cut in ¼-inch slices
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon minced garlic
2 cups fresh broccoli florets
2 whole fresh water chestnuts, peeled and sliced (or cup sliced canned)
Steamed white or brown rice
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Brush both sides of tofu slices with some of the ginger sauce and arrange in a baking dish, overlapping as needed. Mix the remaining sauce with honey and spoon about half on top of the tofu. Top with orange slices. Bake 30 minutes, or until the tofu is lightly browned.
In a large sauté pan or wok, heat the olive oil and sauté garlic until lightly browned. Add broccoli and water chestnuts and cook until crisp tender. Serve over rice with baked tofu and sauce on the side.
From Whole Foods Market Cranbrook, Ann Arbor.
Tested by Susan M. Selasky for the Free Press Test Kitchen.
350 calories (23 percent from fat), 9 grams fat (0.5 grams sat. fat), 52 grams carbohydrates, 13 grams protein, 180 mg sodium, 0 mg cholesterol, 4 grams fiber.
Serves: 4 / Preparation time: 25 minutes / Total time: 30 minutes
This salad is a nice side dish for grilled or broiled fish or chicken. It's a good source of fiber.
4 red or pink grapefruit, segmented (see TIPS, below)
8 ounces peeled cooked small shrimp
1 can (14 ounces) hearts of palm, drained and sliced
½ cup chopped fresh cilantro
cup chopped red onion
¼ cup sliced green olives
¼ teaspoon salt
After segmenting grapefruit, squeeze the juice from the membrane into the bowl. Add shrimp, hearts of palm, cilantro, onion, olives and salt; stir to combine. Serve room temperature or chilled.
From Eating Well Magazine, January/February 2013 issue.
Tested by Susan M. Selasky for the Free Press Test Kitchen.
175 calories (10 percent from fat), 2 grams fat (0 grams sat. fat), 31 grams carbohydrates, 11 grams protein, 580 mg sodium, 71 mg cholesterol, 6 grams fiber.
Serves: 4 / Preparation time: 15 minutes / Total time: 25 minutes
½ cup chopped dates
Boiling water
4 tablespoons blood orange or Clementine juice
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon white wine vinegar
teaspoon ground cumin, optional
Salt to taste
¼ red onion, thinly sliced
1 cup Clementine, blood orange or red grapefruit segments
5 cups salad greens
½ cup walnuts, toasted and chopped
In heatproof bowl, cover dates with boiling water; let sit for 5 minutes. Strain, reserving 1 teaspoon of the liquid. Place the reserved liquid in a bowl and add the juice, olive oil, vinegar, cumin and salt to taste. Add dates, onion and Clementine segments; toss with greens and nuts and serve.
Adapted from Everyday with Rachael Ray magazine, December 2012 issue.
Tested by Susan M. Selasky for the Free Press Test Kitchen. Nutritional information not available.
Serves: 6 / Preparation time: 25 minutes
Total time: 6 hours, 30 minutes (not all active time)
If you don't want to peel 40 cloves of garlic, use already peeled, whole garlic cloves. A 16-ounce bag is about $4.
6 skinless boneless chicken breasts (about 5 ounces each)
Freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons olive oil
½ cup dry white wine
2 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley
2 tablespoons dry vermouth
2 teaspoons dry basil
1 teaspoon dry oregano
Generous pinch of red pepper flakes or to taste
40 cloves of garlic (about 2 heads), peeled
4 ribs of celery, sliced
Juice and zest of 2 Meyer lemons
Fresh chopped herbs such as parsley or cilantro for garnish, optional
Sprinkle the chicken with pepper. In a large skillet, heat the oil over medium heat. Working in batches if necessary, add chicken to the skillet and brown on all sides. Remove to platter. Combine wine, parsley, vermouth, basil, oregano and red pepper flakes in large bowl. Add garlic and celery; mix well. Transfer the garlic and celery to the slow cooker with slotted spoon. Add chicken to remaining herb mixture; coat well. Place chicken on top of celery mixture. Sprinkle lemon juice and peel over chicken. Cover and cook on low for 6 hours. Sprinkle with fresh herbs before serving.
From Larissa Shain, registered dietitian, St. Joseph Mercy Oakland hospital in Pontiac, Mich. Tested by Susan M. Selasky for the Free Press Test Kitchen. Nutritional information not available.
With a wide variety of citrus fruit at its peak, here are a few ways to prepare and store it:
Juicing: You can get more juice out of limes (or lemons) by microwaving them for 20 seconds or by rolling them around under your palm on the countertop. As you press down, the segments break down, releasing more juice. You can also use a fork to poke the segments. Freeze any leftover juice in ice cube trays. Once frozen, place the cubes in a freezer bag.
Zesting: This means to remove pieces of the outer rind of the fruit (lemons, limes, oranges, etc.). The rind has aromatic oils that enhance and flavor foods. The white pithy part under the peel is bitter.
If a recipe calls for the "zest of one lemon," that means to remove strips of rind from the whole lemon. If the recipe calls for grated lemon zest, you should grate the rind on a box grater, a zester or a rasp-style grater.
Store thin or wide strips of lemon zest and grated lemon zest in a freezer-safe container or plastic sealable bag. It will keep for several months.
Several kitchen tools remove the zest of lemons easily to avoid the pith. Here are a few:
Rasp-style zesters and graters. We prefer Microplane-style graters. Their sharp teeth make removing the peel a snap; a swipe of a lemon yields feathery pieces of zest. Graters come in several sizes, colors and styles, producing fine to coarse grates.
Citrus zesters. These typically have five tiny but sharp holes in their tips. When you pull the zester across the fruit, little strips of peel come off.
Vegetable peelers. Chef Aaron Wynn recommends using a peeler that is not super sharp so it "doesn't dig too deep into the fruit." "Peel it as if you're peeling an apple," Wynn says. If you dig too deep, you'll remove the white pith. If this happens, use a paring knife to scrape away any pith.
Segmenting: Here's an easy way to cut oranges and grapefruits into segments. Use a serrated knife to cut a slice off each end of the fruit, revealing some of the flesh. Stand the fruit on one cut end. Starting at the top of the fruit and cutting to the bottom, slice off pieces of peel along with the pith (you will get some of the flesh), following the curve of the fruit.
Once you've removed the peel all around, cut off any remaining pith. To cut into segments, hold the fruit in your hand over a bowl to catch the juices. Cut on each side of the membrane all the way to the core to cut out the segment. Once you have cut out all the segments, squeeze what you have left to release more juice.
Citrus juices are fine additions to marinades, vinaigrettes and sauces. They also make a nice splash in cocktails. Here's a cocktail recipe made recently by Kathy Kieliszewski, Detroit Free Press director of photography and video:
In a cocktail shaker with ice, combine 2 ounces gin, 2 ounces tangelo juice and 1 ounce basil simple syrup (1 cup water mixed with 1 cup sugar and 1 cup basil leaves brought to a boil and then cooled and strained). Shake and strain into a martini glass.
(Have a question? Contact Susan M. Selasky noon-3 p.m. Thursdays at 313-222-6432 or food(at)freepress.com.)
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6 Famous 'Frivolous Lawsuit' Stories That Are Total B.S.
Every so often, there's a big news story about how America is drowning in an epidemic of frivolous lawsuits, and instead of going on with boring statistics and facts -- which nobody wants to read -- they tell sensational stories about burglars suing their victims or kids suing schools because they hurt their feelings.
The problem is that most of these stories are anywhere from half-bullshit to complete bullshit. But we want to believe them, because it feels good to believe that tons of people out there are stupider and greedier than we are, and those people are what's wrong with this country today. Not us. We like outrageous villains that don't hit anywhere close to home.
People like Stella Liebeck.
#6. The Infamous "McDonald's Hot Coffee" Lawsuit
Probably the most famous "frivolous lawsuit" example of all time. No doubt you've heard of the lady that sued McDonald's because she spilled some hot coffee in her lap while driving. What a moron! you might have thought. How stupid do you have to be to not know coffee is hot? Americans these days! Blaming everyone but themselves for their mistakes!
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"This is all your fault, coffee!"
It turns out there's a lot more to the story. First of all, the hot coffee wasn't just uncomfortable and embarrassing, it gave her third degree burns over six percent of her body, which required fucking skin grafts. You can see the burns yourself if you're not squeamish.
Secondly, coffee served at that temperature (180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit) will give a person third-degree burns in two to seven seconds, while home-coffee brewers normally serve coffee at much lower temperatures (130 two 140 degrees) which won't immediately burn you. Yes, Starbucks and other joints do serve coffee at the hotter temperatures -- because some customers prefer it -- but then again, they get sued for it also. Thirdly, she attempted to settle for $20,000 at one point, and McDonald's refused, which is when she started getting cranky.
"Not my problem."
You may have heard that she got millions of dollars, when the final award was $640,000. Then from that you take out the medical bills (hint: skin grafts aren't cheap).
But she has to take some responsibility, right? She may not have been driving, but she was trying to open the lid in her lap so she could add cream and sugar. That's kind of careless, isn't it? Why couldn't the jury see that?
Well, they did. That's why the compensatory damages portion ($200,000) was reduced by 20 percent, because they ruled it was 20 percent her fault.
Imagine if paternity tests could be ruled that way.
Even the Stella Awards website -- a site dedicated to rooting out silly lawsuits and named after Stella Liebeck herself as the symbol of what's wrong with our justice system -- admits all these facts are true.
So if you still want to argue about it, you have to admit this case isn't the joke most people play it off as in email forwards and know-it-all water cooler lectures.
#5. Mother Sues School Board Because Her Daughter Got Caught Giving Oral Sex!
Newsweek had a pretty shocking story about this in 2004: "In Kentucky, a mother sued her daughter's school after the girl had performed oral sex on a boy during a schoolbus ride returning from a marching-band contest. The woman blamed poor adult supervision, saying her daughter had been forced."
What a stupid, sue-happy lady, right? Blaming the school because she raised her daughter to be a tramp.
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Woman's daughter, according to the news.
Actually, what really happened was that the school board first suspended the girl for 10 days, for clearly being such a tramp. Then, an investigation turned up the fact she was actually the victim of sexual assault -- she actually was forced.
Oops. The school got right on it -- by suspending her again; this time for not reporting the assault. So she was forced into performing oral sex, and then, as the icing on the cake, suspended twice for it. Justice!
"You kind of look like whores too. Suspensions all around!"
You can understand why a mother might want to take that to court, just to stick it to the people responsible, but part of her lawsuit also involved a demand that the school board set up employee training on how to deal with sexual assaults. Kind of a far cry from the picture of a greedy entitled American who doesn't want to take responsibility for her slutty daughter, isn't it?
#4. All of the "Stella Awards" Cases in Email Forwards
Have you ever read about the case where a man sued a driver for running him over as he was trying to steal the driver's hubcaps? Or the woman who sued a nightclub because she fell while she was trying to sneak in the back window?
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Never happened.
There was a really popular set of six or seven of those going around in email forwards a while ago, sometimes purporting to be from the Stella Awards, which distances itself completely from those emails. Yet, if you've been at a party and had some guy go off on a rant about our crazy lawsuit-happy society, more often than not he was going by one of those emails. The vast majority of the "World's Gone Crazy!" lawsuit stories come from that pool of urban legend.
So, what if there's stupid email forwards going around, though. Nobody seriously pays attention to that shit, it just goes into the spam bin with the "Neiman Marcus cookie recipe" and the "tampons contain asbestos" crap. Right?
Also the ones about Procter & Gamble sponsoring Satanism.
Well, some people took it really seriously. Some newspapers even. The New York Daily News printed that email forward verbatim in 2002, and the owner of national news magazine U.S. News & World Report, Mort Zuckerman, cited examples from that same email about fictional lawsuits a year later to show us what's wrong with America today. When told it was fake, he published a sort-of correction that basically said, "Well, maybe these were fake but we all know this happens all the time, so what's the difference."
This is known as "implant" logic.
And that's exactly the thought process of everybody who endlessly repeats these stories. It's why the guy in the cubicle next to you is happy to tell you about the burglar who broke into a house, tripped over the coffee table and then sued the owners of the home into bankruptcy. Sure, he doesn't know exactly where that happened or where he read about it, but we all know that stuff happens, so what does it matter if that story is true? After all, this is a country where you can sue for millions if your coffee was too hot.


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"The Role of the Intestinal Microbiome in Promoting Pancreatic Carcinogenesis"
New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) and New York University School of Medicine (SOM) researchers have been awarded a four-year $840,864 collaborative grant by the Lustgarten Foundation to investigate a potential link between pancreatic cancer development and endogenous gut microbiota.
The co-investigators, Deepak Saxena, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor, Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology at NYUCD, and George Miller, MD, Assistant Professor; Departments of Surgery and Cell Biology at the SOM, seek to explore the links between the intestinal microbiome, Toll-like receptors (TLRs), and pancreatic cancer.
"Endogenous gut microbiota have recently been appreciated as important regulators of homeostasis in the healthy individual and contributors toward disease during microbiotic imbalance," said Saxena. "The microbiome is also emerging as a contributor to carcinogenesis in extra-pancreatic malignancies such as colon and liver cancer. However, there has been no direct link between pancreatic cancer development and endogenous gut microbiota," he noted.
There are tangential data, however, that support such an association. For example, the oral microbiome in patients with pancreatic cancer has been found to substantially differ from control subjects. Preliminary data suggest that the intestinal microbiome may be an important regulator of pancreatic cancer development in at-risk individuals.
The study proposes to:
"Our experiments will provide critical new information on the mechanism of pancreatic carcinogenesis in at-risk hosts and, as such, will provide guidance for pancreatic cancer prevention and possibly treatment of incipient disease," said Saxena. "Based on our past research, we postulate that specific pathogenic gut bacteria drive pancreatic carcinogenesis in at-risk individuals via TLR activation," said Miller.
As a part of their grant, Drs. Saxena and Miller will be attending and presenting at the annual Lustgarten Scientific Conference to be held October 20-22, 2013, at the Banbury Center on Long Island NY.
About New York University College of Dentistry--New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) is the third oldest and the largest dental school in the US, educating more than 8 percent of all dentists. NYUCD has a significant global reach and provides a level of national and international diversity among its students that is unmatched by any other dental school.
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First time brewer,I brewed a ipa extract kit.There is no airlock activity after 3 days.I had an og reading of 1.060, I took another reading today of 1.020.I want to ravk into a secondary should i do it now or how long should i wait.
Going against the recent dogma. I always rack to secondary for the very useful clarifying effect which is caused by a second round of yeast sedimentation. In primary you are usually good to rack to secondary after the krausen, the yeasty bubbly head, subsides which usually happens simultaneously with reduced activity of bubbling in the airlock. After that I wait till I see a nice layer of yeast cake on the bottom of the carboy (I always use glass caroys, which I cover with a towel or blanket). Then after seeing the yeast cake and lack of activity I transfer to secondary making very careful to sanitize everything.
Then after you see a second solid yeast cake in the bottom of the carboy (3 to 7 days later usually) take a hydrometer reading and if the beer is at the FG you want then bottle. Otherwise let it sit and wait. I still get bubbles although very infrequent in the secondary. But I always get much clearer beer if I transfer to secondary, which I think is a really good reason to do a secondary. I submit this photo from Basic Brewings experiment as proof:
For an IPA you typically want to finish in the 1.010 to 1.018 range, so let it go for at least a couple more days and take another gravity. If you want to rack it into secondary at that point go for it, but most of the time an average IPA (especially a beginner's kit) is good to bottle/keg straight from primary. Depending on the type of airlock you are using it may just be difficult to see movement, and the beer is likely fermenting away happily.
Since you are a first-timer there's another question that comes to mind: Did you account for temperature when you took the OG? For example, was the wort still warm when you took the sample? If so, it can affect your gravity reading, in which case there's less of a guarantee that things are fermenting properly. Furthermore, if the wort was too hot (over ~100 degrees F depending on the yeast) when you pitched, it could have shocked the yeast, in which case it could take much longer than normal to start fermenting.
Answer those questions as best you can, but don't get nervous about it because if your gravity really has changed that much, your yeast is probably quite healthy and happy :)
For reference, here's a decent style guide for IPAs that will give you some insights on how to handle it: Brewing India Pale Ales
Best of luck to you, let us know how it goes! First brews are always exciting!
Edit: I just remembered an old rule of thumb that when the airlock (if you have a 3-piece or an S-style) bubbles less than once every 5 seconds you are probably safe to rack or bottle (depending on the recipe and what you want to do with it) because the primary fermentation is basically done. This of course is a very general estimation and varies per style and per yeast strain, but it's accurate enough for most basic ale extract kits.


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Matt Stevens is a 21-year-old Tennessee resident who says his workplace cut his hours to prevent having to pay him insurance, leaving him looking for a second job to supplement his income.
Tell us about when you first learned about your hours being cut at your restaurant job.
I was actually living in an apartment with one of my buddies, and that's when we started getting our hours cut. They started hiring new people to fill our hours and that's when everybody was talking about it, how they had to offer the insurance if you're going to have over 30 hours, so now its only 29 hours or less.
What has that done to your lifestyle?
It's caused me to get another job and work seven days a week. It's hard because I have two jobs, so one might try to call me in when I'm at another, or they might want me to work on an extra day where I work on the weekends at my restaurant job, or while I'm mowing during the mowing season before I go back to the winter at the restaurant. So it's sometimes difficult, because you have two jobs wanting you to do two things and you can't. It gets pretty hard sometimes.
What about the apartment?
I live at home with my parents now, but that comes with working seven days a week. You don't really have much time to do anything really because you're always working, or trying to go to bed to be up early for work the next day, and at school at night. It gets tough sometimes.


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This question is most probably not research level, but I thought that the MO folks might like it... Feel free to close.
Here is the motivation: If you have ever teached a maths course for engineers which covered determinants and which included a written exam then you often ask the students to calculate a 4 by 4 determinant to check if they got the basic rules (e.g. using Laplace's formula to reduce to 3 by 3 if the structure is favorable or use Gauß elimination). If you did this you most probably have seen a student solving this problem by applying the "Sarrus rule for 4 by 4 matrices". Usually, the students memorize for 3 by 3 a pattern like
(of course, the lines mean that you should multiply the numbers along the lines; green lines get a $+$, red lines get a $-$, finally add everything up). My colleagues told me, that in every exam there is at least one smart guy who happily generalizes this rule to 4 by 4 matrices with a scheme like this:
which I am going to refer to as False Sarrus Rule. Indeed, one could turn this into a working rule by assigning the right signs and repeating the procedure two times more in a different way. I wrote a small blog post here (and there is even paper on this (German description, Russian description)). Basically, I wrote this blog post to give the people who search the net for a generalized Rule of Sarrus some visual reminder that there is no easy "Sarrus Type Rule" available. Believe it or not: The post is found frequently via search terms like "sarrus rule", sarrus 4*4", "sarrus matrice 4 4" or the like. Discussing this with a colleague today, we asked ourselves the following question:
How does the set of 4 by 4 matrices for which this "False Sarrus Rule" gives the correct determinant looks like?
Basic thoughts: Obviously, a matrix $A=(a_{ij})$ is in this set, if and only if the following equation is fulfilled $$\sum_{\text{eight special permutations}\ \pi_j} \pm a_{1\pi_j(1)}\cdots a_{4\pi_j(4)} = \det(A).$$ Four out the the eight summands on the left have the right sign, the other four have the wrong sign, and hence, one could simplify a bit. However, the bottom line is: There is just this one equation which has to be fulfilled for all the sixteen entries of a 4 by 4 matrix (and this equation is a homogeneous polynomial of degree four) and hence, the set of matrices for which the False Sarrus Rule gives the right result is a 15-dimensional variety, but I have no clue how it looks like. Probably some algebraic geometers could step in and provide some insight?
Final remark: I do not plan to include this discussion in a math course for engineers (although it may help to scare some people away from the thought that "there could be an easy Rule of Sarrus).


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Thanks, the first 2 of the series. Never saw the last 2, but price is too good to pass up. Would love to see someone remake this again properly!!!!
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Sustaining a Dream
by Jennifer A. Cline, writer/editor-One College Avenue.Watch video
Planted during the Fall 2012 semester at the college's Schneebeli Earth Science Center, the Campus Community Garden is offering fresh learning opportunities – and food options – to the college's campuses.
The first phase offers lettuce and tomatoes grown in a hydroculture environment that was assembled by campus volunteers. In April, School of Hospitality students planted a raised-bed section where peas, squash and a variety of root vegetables are growing.
"The system being used does not require the use of pesticides, reduces the use of water and allows vegetables to be grown anywhere."
Jonathan T. Hall
Landscape/horticulture technology student and a member of the garden committee
Several campus departments are reaping the benefits of the Campus Community Garden, which serves as a teaching tool in Sustainable Crop Production and other landscape/horticulture technology courses. Culinary arts students use the fresh, pesticide-free produce in Le Jeune Chef Restaurant, the fine-dining eatery where students serve the public. In addition, produce is sold to the community at large during the School of Hospitality's weekly bread and pastry sales in The Market, Le Marche Commun.
The college's Dining Services operation uses the produce for its salad bars and "Grab 'n' Go" pre-packaged salads and sandwiches. Any remaining produce is donated to local food banks.
Channel System
A channel system, used for lettuce-family plants, uses the "nutrient film technique" and can grow more than 10,000 heads of lettuce annually. The innovative system eliminates the runoff of traditional crop production by circulating nutrient-enriched water through 58 channels, each of which accommodates 15 heads of lettuce. Before being recirculated, water passes through a "fertroller," an automated dosing system that analyzes the water and injects needed nutrients.
Dutch Buckets
The garden's Dutch bucket growing system, used for tomatoes, can sustain 120 plants and produce up to 2.5 tons of vegetables each year. Like the channel system used for lettuce, the Dutch bucket system uses only nutrient-enriched water that circulates through 12-inch-by-12-inch pots filled with perlite.
Plants begin in a controlled environment lovingly referred to as "the nursery." There, seeds are planted in rock wool and nurtured until they reach transplant size.
First Harvest
Dennis P. Skinner, assistant professor of horticulture, helps to pull the first harvest from the garden in early November. Skinner helped to spearhead the garden initiative. Among its chief goals, the project seeks to provide a living laboratory for alternative agriculture technologies and to offer opportunities for employee and student volunteers to work together as a community.
Student Learning
Diners Club members, all students in the School of Hospitality, get a lesson in how the hydroculture systems operate courtesy of Layne E. Eggers, former assistant dean of hospitality, who proposed the garden. Students, including members of the Diners Club and the School of Natural Resources Management's Horticulture Club, are involved in overseeing and managing the garden. Students make up half of the 12-member community garden committee.
Ripe. Fresh. Nutritious.
"Working with the product in lab, I really notice the ripeness of the tomatoes, especially, compared to the tomatoes coming from elsewhere," said Benjamin A. King, a culinary arts and systems student and president of the Diners Club. "The tomatoes coming from the garden have a great ripe, fresh tomato smell, something that reminds me of a typical garden in the summer, yet we can get this in the middle of winter and beyond, and for much less cost. The flavor and texture of the lettuce are just what you expect them to be, bright in color and crisp, tasting as they were meant to. The products are allowed to grow as they want, letting the tomatoes ripen on the vine, developing that flavor. And the time from farm to plate is substantially cut down, taking only a day when the product is used the same day it arrives. Typically, the product has been out of the ground for a week for conventional products, before they even arrive at the store for you to buy, losing flavor and nutrients along the way."
The Market
While the bulk of the produce is used in the college's Dining Services units and Le Jeune Chef Restaurant, some is sold to the community at large during the School of Hospitality's weekly bread and pastry sales. Proceeds from the sales are used for the garden, with hopes of making it a self-sustaining venture. Equipment for the garden was purchased using funds from the Student Government Association, corporate donations and fundraising dinners hosted by the Diners Club and Horticulture Club.
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I think my next guitar is likely going to be a self-built Warmoth Thinline Telecaster. My question is for those of you who own or have played hollow body guitars a lot is this: do they really sound more mellow than their solid body counterparts? If so then why?
I have an Epiphone 335 copy (they call it a "Sheraton") and a Warmoth-parts solid-body with "tone chambers" in it. I wouldn't describe either as having a "mellow" sound, per se.
The Epiphone does have a sound I'd describe as "open" and "woody", though not as much so as my all-hollow archtop. You've heard 335's a thousand times, I'm sure, and you know how versatile they are. With the neck-pickup only and a little tone rolloff, and you can make it sound as mellow as you like, but with the bridge pickup only, it'll pierce through pretty much anything.
The Warmoth also has a different tone than my all-solid Strat, but I'm not sure I'd describe it as mellow. In fact it's quite bright. A little more complex and distinctive, maybe, and I do like it. And the weight reduction is great as well.
Btw, two thumbs up to Warmoth, their parts, their customer service, and their entire guitar-building experience.
You are comparing apples with oranges. A hollow body has much more acoustic amplification. When using pickups they will be very similar because a pickup amplifies the string vibration. The body type can, of course, effect the mode that the string are allowed to vibrate in but for the most part are going to have very similar frequency responses to any other guitar.
In fact I built a "guitar" using a 2x4 and some screws and it sounded just like my strat. I did use strat pickups though so no wonder ;)
What is most important is going to be the pickups and EQ. Most of the jazz mellow sound comes from EQ, the pickups, and where they are located relative to the bridge.
The main point is that if you are going to compare hollow with solid make sure you are not comparing one using it's acoustical sound and the other using it's pickups. Since solid body's don't really have acoustical amplification this means your only real choice is by using pickups. In that case you have to use the same type of pickups and you'll find that they the body type won't matter all that much.
The most important thing when comparing two guitar's sounds using pickups is going to be the electrical amplification aspect and very little with the acoustical amplification. With hollow bodies you will have a slight frequency difference because of resonance. This tends to give hollow bodies a more mid range(since air has a lower speed of sound than wood) while solid bodies have a peak higher in frequency.
Again, all that can be pretty much taken care of with proper EQ(so close that chances are you won't know the difference).
I've had several Les Pauls, a handful of Strats, and an ES-335 and a ES-345.
Those two ES bodies are technically semi-hollow bodies, but definitely have a softer, mellow, more acoustic sound, somewhere between a Strat and a Les Paul.
The ES guitars I had have dual-humbuckers, and a solid maple block that the humbucker's mounting rings are attached to, very much like a Les Paul. The hollow "wings" (upper and lower bouts) are not directly under the pickups so it seems like they wouldn't affect the sound much, but when playing them I'd feel the body shake as it resonated from the amp. I'd feel it start to sustain from feedback too, a lot sooner than the Les Pauls would, and used to play with that.
I never could put my finger on the difference completely, but, yes, mellower was one of the characteristics. I always grabbed them for jazzier, softer songs because they felt right for it.
No, hollow body guitars aren't necessarily more mellow than solid body guitars. The majority of the tone you hear from an electric guitar is influenced by the pickups, the amp and the age and gauge of your strings. Other factors are the method and type of picking and the actual thickness of the plectrum. The nut, saddle height and neck relief also affect string response. The guitar in this video sounds pretty bright to me:
I had 335's, an Ibanez L-5 big box, Yamaha Sa-2200 and some other hollow bodys but the best tone comes from my Telecaster, especially with flatwounds. The other ones had a nasty trebley hard thing going on and maybe because of the humbuckers..? I am not fan of humbuckers and think there is much more tone and life in single coils. Some hollow bodys have that nice cigarbox quality to them, but thats only seldom, in my experience.


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The top of the bowls measure about 4.75", but because of the decorative top, they don't have quite the same volume as bowls that size. These are the perfect size for serving rice or extra toppings. They are dishwasher and microwave safe, but do have a warning that they get hot in the microwave.


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Actually it's my dad's lens that he bought many many moons ago to use with his old Canon T70. I dont have a flash but have borrowed his to try out, but he mentioned that some flashes will send too much voltage down to the camera and can damage the camera.. that's the last thing i'd want to happen to my new baby.
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The Fly on the Wall (Mass Market Paperback)
Ace reporter John Cotton is a fly on the wall -- seeing all, hearing all, and keeping out of sight. But the game changes when he finds his best friend's corpse sprawled on the marble floor of the central rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Suddenly Cotton knows too much about a scandal centered around a senatorial candidate, a million-dollar scam, and a murder. And he hears the pursuing footsteps of powerful people who have something to hide ... and a willingness to kill to keep their secrets hidden.
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Tony Hillerman was the former president of the Mystery Writers of America and received its Edgar® and Grand Master awards. His other honors include the Center for the American Indians Ambassador Award, the Silver Spur Award for the best novel set in the West, and the Navajo Tribes Special Friend Award. He lived with his wife in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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$$\{(x,y,z)|2x+9y=0, 8x-5z=0\}$$
I solved these as simultaneous equations giving me the equation $36y + 5z = 0$ or $y=-\frac{5}{36}z$, which I can write as
$$ \begin{bmatrix} -\frac{5}{36}z \\ z \\ \end{bmatrix} = 0.$$
Substituting $0$ for $z$ satisfies this equation. And it is closed multiplication and addition so this the original set is a subspace of $\mathbb{R}^3$. Is that method correct or am I completely off with this?


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2. Zara Pastel Coloured Faux Leather Zip Jacket, $129
The powder blue hue of this jacket is the 'it' color for the warmer months ahead. With its buttery, faux leather finish and amazing zipper detail, it is the ultimate spring statement jacket.
3. Ray-Ban Original Aviators, $160
Mirrored sunnies were super popular last summer, and I don't think the trend is going to disappear quite yet. Blue mirrored lenses can make anyone look chic!
4. Royal Apothic Hand Creme in Meyer Blooms, $20
This hand creme is like cashmere on my hands! It has a gentle scent -- a little goes a long way.
5. Marc by Marc Jacobs Baker Leather Strap Watch, $175
The soft dove grey band and pretty gold-rimmed face make this a chic spring accessory for everyday wear. It is simple worn alone, but can be dressed up by stacking some gold bracelets with it for a more glam look.
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The Mittler Pull Down Rig - ChassisWritten by on March 9, 2010 A New Way To Examine And Evaluate Your Setup
There is a new setup tool that is designed to be used for the evaluation of the chassis components that is unique and interesting. I visited the race shop for Xpress motorsports in Mooresville, NC, to look over its pull down rig designed and manufactured by Mittler Brothers Machine and Tool company. Mike Mittler and company develop, build, and sell some of the most useful tools in our industry. And this rig is no exception.
My personal fascination with these types of test rigs comes from the understanding that there is much we don't know about what happens with all of the various chassis components on the racetrack. Any chance we have to look more closely at the workings of all of the parts and pieces of our race cars, the better. And every one of these contraptions has its pluses and minuses. As far as this one is concerned, I saw a lot of usefulness and potential.
The Mittler rig is designed to literally push/pull the car down to simulate both the attitude and forces that the car experiences on the racetrack in the turns. Once we have done that, we can do a series of evaluations for compliance (bending of the chassis and/or individual components), clearances, alignment, stress and tire cross sectional loading.
The unit is fairly compact and somewhat portable as compared to other machines of similar design that must have a facility built around them. The cost to prepare a site for a seven-post rig runs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars in and of itself, aside from the cost of the actual rig. Mittler's rig is bolted to the floor, any floor basically, and can be moved if necessary. It can even be made portable although no one has actually asked to have a portable unit built, yet.
How It Works The race car, or truck in the case of the Xpress Motorsports team, is rolled onto the unit and hydraulic pistons are attached to the chassis with specially designed attachments to three points, usually two up front and one in either the left rear or right rear (most common) corners.
The tires sit on specially designed scales that have three long pads, under the outsides and middle of the tire. These measure loads at three points on the tire contact patch to judge the evenness of tire loading. More on that later.
The race car is pulled down to preset loads or ride heights based on design criteria, on-track data accumulated, or predicted loading and chassis travel depending on the particular track you will be racing on.
Once the loads are applied, various observations can take place that teach us a lot about our chassis that we would otherwise never see. If you think about the possibilities, there are many.
Different Approaches You can approach the loading and pull-down distance and magnitude from different angles, so to speak. If you have your shock travels from on-track testing, you can pull down to those exact dimensions and check the tire loading, clearances including the spring coil gaps, and other criteria.
In some cases, you can get engineering data such as the predicted tire loading that includes the weight of the vehicle, load transfer due to lateral forces, aero downforce loading corrected for front to rear percent, and mechanical, or dynamic loading that is the result of the combination of lateral loading and gravity.
The predicted loading method is a bit complicated, but not impossible to calculate. I just wrote an Excel calculator that does just that for a Grand Am team and a DP car. Sorry, it's proprietary, so don't ask for a copy. The team can do both the shock travel method and the calculated method and then compare the results. They should match up, but if not, the reason why is sought out.
The reason why the shock travel method might not match the predicted loading is because of the compliance of the components during high loading due to stress. Many of the components including control arms, bushings, spindles, crossmembers, axle tubes, brackets, and more, bend under high load. This affects the shock travel and the way we load the chassis affects those changes.
Real World To Test Rig In the real world, the loads affecting the chassis are spread out throughout the entire chassis and include the effects of parts bolted or welded onto that chassis such as the engine. It's virtually impossible to replicate that on a machine, but we can come close enough to gather some important data.
On a test rig, we have to attach to the chassis at specific points that are easily accessable. So, we introduce loads to those points in excess of what they would see as the car negotiates a turn. Nonetheless, we accept this deficiency and work with the simulation to help us understand what goes on with the chassis. The same is true of any current model of dynamic analysis apparatus.
Both the simulation of loads and the measurement of compo-nent movement are valid tools for replication of the event of cornering. I might be inclined to use a combination of both, utilizing the exact science of dynamics along with the somewhat imprecise science of translating a measurement although the measurement method helps to eliminate errors in the application of the loading from the track to the rig.
Uses For The Pull Down Rig Once we understand the way the rig works, we can think of many uses for it. Here are just some of the ways a team can utilize the rig to better understand how their chassis is working and to allow better design of components and setups for specific tracks. From the Mittler information sheet, "Typical studies, actions, or items of interest include:
• Stroking the chassis through complete travel to check for binding or tight clearances
• Study toe changes over the full suspension motion range
• Study camber changes over the full suspension motion range
• Evaluate corner weight effects of sway bar changes
•Study clearances to shock bumpstops
• Evaluate load distribution across tire
• Prepare for rapid testing/practice spring changes
• Accurately align chassis spring ends in mid corner positions
• Evaluate feasibility of unusual bumpstop setups
• Review mid-corner dynamic wedge percentage
• Evaluate accurate front splitter height and/or valance setting
• Study rear steer and camber changes
• Good substitute where sanctioning body testing bans are imposed"
Here are my thoughts on some of these evaluations and how they apply.
Load Distribution One of the most critical uses for the PDR is to measure and evaluate load distribution. As the chassis is compressed and rolled, the sway bar influences the load distribution just as the camber changes and coil binding and/or compression of the shock bump rubbers do. It is of great importance that we know what these changes are.
There is a complicated rearrangement of the loads that takes place as the attitude of the chassis changes. We could never predict or calculate the result of all of the influences. But the PDR shows us exactly where the loads go and that is translated into actual wheel loadings and crossweight percents.
If our crossweight does change through various increments of dive and roll, then the handling balance will necessarily change. It is possible with the PDR to make component changes and reach a point where the load distribution change is minimal and the balance stays consistent. Handling is all about how the loads are distributed and re-distributed and this use of the PDR seems to me to be of utmost importance.
Clearances Once we have determined the correct loading and/or suspension travel, we can measure the crossmember clearance, ride heights, front valance clearance, spring coil spacing and degree of binding, spring angle to top and bottom supports, sway bar angle and alignment, shock piston position, spring-to-shock clearance (for a coilover car), tire-to-fender clearance, component deflection, and more.
Now, those are a lot of areas to look at and you might be able to think of more. Most team goals these days involve attaining an attitude of the chassis and body that will be low and level to the racing surface to achieve maximum aero efficiency. With the correct input and pull-down travel, you can know exactly what the clearances are for many areas of the chassis.
When we calculate ride height changes due to the dynamic and aero forces, we often forget to include the tire deflection. The tire has a spring rate and thus a compression amount when a load is applied to it. So, we have a ride height change associated with tire compression that must be added to the ride height change due to spring compression. On the Pull Down Rig, all of that is taken into account and visualized.
Alignment One of the functions of the PDR is a system for measuring the wheels, front and rear, for camber change and steering angle changes. As the chassis is loaded, we need to take precise measurements at the wheels and the PDR does that, and the information is transferred to the computer for evaluation.
As the chassis compresses under loading, the suspension parts move and changes occur to the geometry. Cambers and casters change, bumpsteer-associated angles change with the control arms as well as the tie rods and even the drag link in that system. We can do a bumpsteer evaluation any time and at any chassis attitude or steering angle in our shop, but that doesn't take into account the compliance of the parts and pieces due to loading.
On the rig, we can do dynamic measuring of front end toe changes, Ackermann, camber and caster change, rear steer, and rear toe all under real track loading conditions. One of the least understood aspects of alignment involves the rear solid axle system. Under high loading, we often see with high lateral and vertical loading, there is compliance of the axle tubes and control links.
The Mittler PDR has the capability to measure cambers and toe changes as the chassis goes through its loading phase. With the late-model cars, the rearend will rotate as the chassis is compressed and that changes pinion angle, rear-wheel toe, and cambers. Imagine being able to physically measure all of that with the chassis loaded as it is on the racetrack. That is exactly what you can do with this rig.
Measuring The Effect Of Changes Each change we make to spring rates, sway bars, and so on comes with peripheral affects. One change can affect other settings and load distribution. Making changes and then evaluating those with the PDR can alert us to the consequences of our actions so that we are not surprised when we go to the racetrack.
Let's say we want to make a sway bar change to a larger bar. We can see the physical effect that change has on ride heights with the same tire loading as before the change. We can tune certain component selections to affect the chassis's attitude on the track. Our overall loading may be the same, but the attitude of the chassis and body to the racing surface can be fine-tuned with different combinations of springs and sways.
We may find that we need stronger components in certain areas of our suspension to reduce compliance and we may be able to reduce the thickness or strength of certain components that show to be less stressed to save weight. The beauty of the PDR is that you basically take a picture of the components and the overall chassis while it is fully loaded similar to the way it is on the track, but not going 165mph. There may be some things that will surprise you when you make your observations.
Advantages Of The Mittler Pull Down Rig The advantages of the PDR are as stated before, ability to measure toe, cambers, clearances, and load distribution while under dynamic loading. You are able to quickly make component changes and read the effects of those changes.
The team that uses the PDR told me that its use of the machine saved a lot of time when the team gets to the track. It has more beneficial practice time because it doesn't have to guess if the fenders rub or the crossmember will hit the track. It doesn't have any surprises such as binding or detrimental toe changes to affect the truck. I guess you could say the PDR provides a certain piece of mind.
The Future Of The Mittler PDR Mike Mittler never sits still for very long. He is constantly looking to improve all of his products and invent more. The PDR is no exception. The company is looking to expand and create more models and configurations for the PDR.
One idea is to provide a scaled down version that might be more affordable to the average racer. It would have less sophistication in the way of computer controls and machinery, but afford many of the benefits of the PDR. There would be no wheel measuring apparatus, but you could attach your own lasers to accomplish that.
Another idea is to introduce the effects of lateral loading. There is a way to do this with the PDR with add-ons that would necessarily increase the cost, but also increase the capability of the machine for the high end user.
Conclusion In every machine created for the evaluation of a race car chassis, there are benefits. As of today, there is no machine that can do it all. But the Mittler PDR, in my opinion, provides the most benefit for the buck of any system I have seen. The proof is in the comments and accolades I get from the user, and it is clear that this is one very useful setup tool.
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The mounting brackets used to connect the chassis to the pull down cylinders are attached to the main frame channels with heavy-duty steel plates. The unit slides into the open end of the framerail.The push up portion of the Push/Pull Rig is located under the tires. Note the three-part specially developed scale that reads pressures on the inner, middle, and outer portions of the tire.Changing springs is very easy with the PDR because you can lift the chassis to provide plenty of space to remove the springs. During an evaluation process, the team can make spring and sway bar changes and re-evaluate the load distribution as well as clearances and alignment.Matt Teeple is a consultant to the team and handles all of the computer work during test sessions. The PDR motions are controlled at the computer, meaning he moves the cylinders individually using the mouse and cursor placed over specific buttons on the screen.The team has fabricated an extension off the front of the unit so that exact measurements can be taken for the height of the splitter, which is critical to aero control. The measurements are made at the spots where the orange tape is placed.A quick look tells us that the spring is almost completely compressed into coil bind. The team can measure the exact spacing between the coils at any pre-determined ride height. Observations are made at this point to determine the amount of compliance for various parts. Compliance is movement and/or bending of components. The angle of the top and bottom of the spring relative to the upper mount and lower control arm are just some of the considerations.The tool used to measure bumpsteer and camber change is shown here. There is a potentiometer, or LVDT as the engineers like to call it (Linear Variable Differential Transformer) that records steer movements of the wheel and an inclinometer to measure wheel angle for camber readings.Here we see a close-up of the LVDT and at the center of the plate, the inclinometer for camber readings. The measurements are very accurate and are able to be recorded for each setup combination.
This screen shows the truck loadings after it has been pulled down to the mid-turn attitude and loading. Note the tire loadings now. The RF and LF are much different than at static ride height. The total load is now 6,369 pounds, or 3,167 more pounds than at static height. The added load represents a combination of aero downforce and mechanical downforce.This screen shows the graphs generated for Bump Steer as the truck is pulled down. It represents the toe angle for each inch of movement. A straight vertical line would represent perfect or zero bumpsteer. This system needs work.


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I'm trying to find $\left\lfloor\sum_{k = 1}^{n}{\varphi^{3k}}\right\rfloor$ mod $m$. $\varphi = \frac{1 + \sqrt{5}}{2}$ and $\varphi^3 = 2 + \sqrt{5}$.
But honestly I'm not even sure where to start. I can see spending some time and finding a pattern for $\varphi^{3k}$ but I I need a way to compute the summation in case $n$ is large.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
P.S. My background is not in this. Sorry if this question is easy.


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I have a time series data, for example
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Can I use
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How would I go about doing that?
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Can I use
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certainly provide a good place to start.
Adding some basic understanding of types of participants might improve your chances of analyzing this problem with
Within any publicly traded market (equity, bond, commodity markets, ...), one has 3 key types of participants:
Each (in game theoretic terms) has a positional advantage and some disadvantages:
Typically participants do best when they play to their positional advantages. This has changed somewhat because high frequency traders (part of the class of speculators) have used technology (and maybe bribery by huge fee generation for exchanges) to attack the traditional advantage of market makers. Without the patently unfair and likely illegal advantages that high frequency trading exploits, they would have a significantly more difficult time disintermediating market makers. (Note, even the HFT crowd has weaknesses. Few have attacked them yet, but one begins to see plays against them).
Lots of participants stray from their positional advantage, more frequently than not, to their detriment. Market makers make bets on short term trends. Fundamental players will occasionally try to exploit their knowledge a take bets. When they do they have all become speculators.
High Frequency traders play as speculators. They choose and manipulate a very short time frame, but nevertheless they operate as speculators.
These markets don't exist (can't exist?), without speculators willing to assume risk. The velocity of risk (moving from hedger to speculator to speculator, ... back to hedger) may well have as much importance as the velocity of money to the well being of the larger economy.
While implicit in what I've said so far, the different types of participants typically have different time horizons. Market makers (and high frequency players) operate as closely to instantaneous time as possible. The trade (again the fundamental players) typically have time horizons tied to business, economic, seasonal, or agricultural cycles. And speculators, as I mentioned before, play when they think they have an edge (like Texas Holdem players who wait a good pair of cards).
Also, implicit in this description -- volatility will increase (even spike) as participants' time horizons collapse towards zero, which sets off irreconcilable differences or imbalances in limit order books.
So, I think I've made a case that any
But, while you may develop something very evocative of actual markets, I don't immediately see how the approach would enable you to,
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I'd love to stand corrected on this.
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CNN cited the American Immigration Council's recent report ...
The American Immigration Council Mourns the Passing of Senator Daniel Inouye
Released on Tue, Dec 18, 2012
Washington D.C. – The American Immigration Council mourns the passing of Senator Daniel Inouye. As the most senior member of the U.S. Senate, he was a stalwart supporter of immigration reform and spoke eloquently about his support for giving young undocumented youth the opportunity to become fully American.
The American Immigration Council was pleased to award Senator Inouye our "Stephen K. Fischel Distinguished Public Service Award" in the Spring of 2011 - an award given to individuals who exhibit a commitment and dedication to our heritage as a nation of immigrants and to the struggle to create fair and humane immigration policies in the United States.
In December of 2010, Senator Inouye made the following statement after the Senate's failure to pass the DREAM Act during the lame duck session of Congress:
"The comprehensive immigration reform we claim we want in this country will not occur if we do not allow for the basic education of children and if we do not nurture the patriotic spirit of those brave enough to put on the uniform and fight for this country. I was once labeled an enemy Alien by this country but we petitioned the government to allow us to fight and by the end of World War II the 442 Regimental Combat team had suffered the most casualties in the European campaign but was also the most decorated unit of its size in the history of the United States military. By allowing the DREAM Act to sit idle, we extinguish hope for a lot of people and deny too many the opportunity I was given."
The American Immigration Council sends its condolences to those who knew and loved Senator Inouye. We are a better nation for his service and will stand with those who work to advance the issues he most cared about.
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While I explore this site, I occasionally see the phrase "GM fiat" (or "DM fiat", for D&D questions and answers), but I don't know the exact meaning of that. I want to know the meaning of that terminology.
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In a large number of RPGs, the GM is positioned as the controller of the world, its NPC inhabitants, the items in the world, and their essential natures. They are also often positioned as the final arbiter of rules, and thus hold considerable authority. Hopefully, a GM imbued with such power will remember: with great power comes great responsibility.
That said, a fiat is defined as:
So a GM fiat is when the GM says something is the case - because they have the authority to do that - and it becomes the case.
A GM fiat is produced independently by the GM. It is separate to decisions made by the group as a whole: a GM can declare a house rule as a GM fiat, but that's different to the group producing a house rule together.
Implicitly, the GM is not required to justify or explain their fiat - these things just happen because you're the GM and get to make them happen.
Because GM fiats are arbitrary and can involve major changes (like the changing of the rules themselves), the motto of "with great power comes great responsibility" is massively relevant. These changes could make the game more fun or extremely un-fun for players.
Some examples of usage of GM fiat
Fiat comes to English from the Latin Fiat, which is the third-person passive subjunctive of Fiere (to do), basically meaning "Let it be done".
It is used in English usually to mean a decree or judgement, so a "GM Fiat" is essentially a way of saying "The GM says this is the way it is, so this is the way it is, no arguments."
Fiat in Latin means "let it be" or "let it be done". It roughly means to make a decree.
DM/GM Fiat in particular is generally considered the act of a GM arbitrating things not covered by the rules, declaring house rules or creating a rules clarification that does not exist in the pre-written material.
Fiat: by decree.
In the context of gaming, GM Fiat means, literally, "because the GM says so."
Anything more is context dependent.
DM Fiat often goes along with what is also known as Rule Zero: The DM's judgement is final and supercedes all other officially documented rules. Essentially, they have the ultimate authority, and can make any decision they wish without being able to be overruled. As with any such dictator-like power, this can be used for either good or ill, but has become most famous for the worst of examples, such as with DMs making abusive or simply foolish decisions.
This rule can be considered inaccurate, however, and an additional term has come to represent this fact: Rule Negative One: What the gaming group as a whole agrees upon is final and supercedes even Rule Zero, because if everyone is unhappy, then they will leave and there simply is no game. It's useful to remember that a DM can not truly bully the players, because it is just a game, and everyone can just opt to not play with them; perhaps go play a new game with a new DM that doesn't make such abusive fiat decisions.


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Herman Miller Eames Chaise
designed by Charles and Ray Eames
At A Glance:
In 1955, while filming a movie, film director Billy Wilder took a nap. He used a narrow plank held up by sawhorses, so that he wouldn't sleep for too long. It wasn't the most comfy place he'd ever slept, so he asked his good friends Charles and Ray Eames for a narrow office couch. The design they came up with was the Eames Chaise, which allows comfortable naps but doesn't encourage hours of sleep. They gave the first chaise to Wilder, of course, and Herman Miller first produced it in 1968.
What's To Like:
The Eames Chaise is soft, comfortable, and just 18" wide. When you lie on it, you naturally fold your arms over your chest. Should you doze off, your arms soon fall to your sides, waking you up. For that reason, it's a beautiful place to relax for a spell in a study, den, or executive office. Its gently sloping frame puts the body in a naturally relaxed position, with the head and legs slightly raised.
What's Not to Like:
If you're looking for a chaise that will give you a long, uninterrupted rest, the Eames Chaise isn't really going to fulfill your every desire.
The Bottom Line:
The Eames Chaise is soft, comfortable and ultra sleek at just 18" wide. The trim lines of its sculptural frame accommodate 6 base cushions, while 2 additional loose cushions provide support for the back, neck or legs. It's a beautiful place to relax for a spell in a study, den or executive office. Truly a work of art, the chaise features black leather and a sculptural frame and base.
- Overall: 29.5" h x 76.5" w x 18" d
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Overall: 29.5" h x 18" w x 76.5" l
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In 1955 while filming on location, director Billy Wilder discovered he could take quick naps on a plank held up by sawhorses. This prompted Wilder to tell his friends Charles and Ray Eames that he needed a narrow office couch. The Eameses remembered that conversation and in 1968 introduced the Eames chaise, giving the first one to Wilder. It has been produced by Herman Miller ever since.
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This is the most comfortable chaise I have ever used. Not only is the design aesthetically astounding, it is also ergonomically perfect ... unless you are looking for a place to put your arms besides your torso. I use it in my office for reading (though it is so comfortable that I often put my book aside to take a quick nap), and now I am loathe to read anywhere else. It would be equally perfect in a living room for TV viewing. Because of the price, I understand it is not a piece for the casual shopper, but if you are a fan of other Eames' chairs and know how they feel, believe me when I say that this is the most comfortable of all. For me, it was money well spent.
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The Five Elements T-Shirt for $6
1 - Wind
2 - Fire
3 - Water
4 - Earth
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Wind blows.
Rain falls.
Fire burns.
I usually go with "crumbles" but does anyone have any insight / creative alternatives?
@ejigantor: Quakes?
@ejigantor: You know, for all the myriad times I've seen that movie, I never once noticed that she doesn't finish that riddle.
Crumbles sounds as good as anything to me.
Earth.... Joe Dirts
Decomposes. Look around you, no mystery.
Not to mix metaphors, but Earth Sucks, which is why we don't fall off #_#
How about spins, turns, or rotates?
I'd say earth feeds as a metaphor, but since the rest are verbs,
I would probably go with orbits.


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When I studied, I went to the library to have some form of social control. The social pressure made me work better.
I'm now working from home for a living. It's my first week and my motivation isn't as it should be.
Are their tricks and tips on this subject to have the same type of pressure to make me work?


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In these parts, the Rocky Horror Show has no rivals when it comes to Halloween tradition. Even the Great Pumpkin can�t compete.
Tonight�s double feature will open the fifth season of Richard O�Brien�s stage version of the cult classic movie at the Henry Strater Theatre.
The cast always changes from year to year, but the biggest change is in the lead role of Frank N. Furter. Ben Mattson, who is a regular with Farmington�s Sandstone Productions, will take on the toughest role after getting his feet wet as Brad in last year�s show.
Director Jenny Fitts-Reynolds always adds a personal tweak to the 37-year-old show. This year it�s a Steampunk theme � think Jules Verne/H.G. Wells-era science fiction, with lots of goggles and gears. Industrial Victorian, if you will. The costumes will be a bit different than tradition holds � on stage, anyway. Audience members are still encouraged to dress in their best Brad, Janet, Riff-Raff or Rocky. But Fitts-Reynolds hopes people will embrace the Steampunk theme.
Finally, because the Henry Strater Theatre is a historical venue, common decency should prevail when it comes to things like throwing toast and shooting water pistols. But to make it official, those traditions are prohibited in their original form. There are cleaner substitutes, and bags of less impactful props are available.