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De Blasio's easy win for mayor of NYC
My favorite paragraph in coverage of the 2013 elections came at the end of the New York Times story reporting on Democrat Bill de Blasio's landslide victory for mayor of New York. This, on observing Mayor Michael Bloomberg vote:
He quietly cast his vote at an Upper East Side school, amid reminders that his time at the pinnacle of municipal power was drawing to a close. When Mr. Bloomberg, dressed in a crimson tie and a crisp winter coat, showed up, the poll worker had a question. What was his first name, again?
Of course, Michael Bloomberg's name and that of his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani, won't be forgotten in New York City and many other places. But the results of the election show that voters in New York are seeing their records over the past 20 years in a new light.
De Blasio ran his Democratic primary campaign against Bloomberg, and thus indirectly at the early favorite in the race, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Her cooperation with Bloomberg went so far that she supported his politically toxic plan to change the city's term limits law to his own benefit, overriding two referenda. After Anthony Weiner's "second chance" campaign self-destructed in July, the anti-Bloomberg vote shifted to de Blasio, polls showed.
De Blasio ran his general election campaign against Giuliani, with whom his Republican opponent, Joe Lhota, was closely associated. Lhota started out the campaign by trying to differentiate himself from Giuliani, but that didn't last long.
As a City Hall reporter for Newsday in the mid 1990s, I had covered the Giuliani administration, which was quite hostile to the news media in general and my paper in particular. But I always enjoyed dealing with Lhota, who served Giuliani as budget director and then deputy mayor. He was funny, down to earth and very knowledgeable about even the most arcane points of municipal governance. It wasn't the grouchy, dour persona voters saw during the election campaign.
I am not the only former City Hall reporter from those years to notice that in his mayoral campaign, Lhota so closely imitated Giuliani that he spoke in the same rhythms, with the same word choices. Giuliani's issues where his. Even Giuliani's mayoral pet peeves were his.
In his debates with de Blasio, Lhota seemed thunderstruck that anyone could question that Giuliani was a great mayor. But de Blasio kept hammering away at Giuliani's divisiveness, and meanwhile defended the administration of Mayor David Dinkins, in which he was a low-level aide. If someone had told me in 1997 that this argument would help carry a candidate to a 3-to-1 victory, I would have thought it very strange. But it's not 1997; Lhota didn't seem to realize that.
Giuliani, campaigning at Lhota's side, kept up a barrage of the sort of negative attacks he was known for in the past. This time, no one seemed to be listening to him.
Many reasons are being offered for de Blasio's lopsided victory, "Bloomberg fatigue" being chief among them.
Let's give voters some credit, though. Many people had come to feel alienated in their own city, and they voted on that. They may have been frisked by police for no good reason, or feared that their children would be. They may have sensed that they no longer have any meaningful voice in their children's education. Rising housing costs may have displaced them from their homes, or made them worry about the possibility. Occupy Wall Street, whether one supported it or not, heightened awareness of the especially stark financial inequities in New York.
Dinkins, Giuliani, Bloomberg: all of them got to build on predecessors' achievements, but also had to correct problems they caused. Now it's de Blasio's turn.
About the Author
Paul Moses, a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009) and An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015).
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Another community organizer in an executive branch of government. Great news for NYC.
We shall see! I have been surprised at how enthusiasm for deBlasio had held up through the campaign. Maybe it wasn't his political experience (or lack thereof) that intrigued voters, but how much his family resembled New York City. He seems quite attached to his wife and kids; another plus.
The demise of Christine Quinn seems to have surprised many people, but Paul Moses is right her support for legislation, overriding term limits, that gave Bloomberg a third term was a step too far for voters used to wheeling and dealing in their politicians.
Too bad resolution 1 won; the economics of casinos, to say nothing of the moral challenge, increasingly look delusional. They will not produce thousands of jobs, nor billions in taxes, but they'll ruin a lot of families.
I hope DiBlasio will learn from the mistakes of Dinkins who made Giuliani necessary. While we want justice for all, no one wants chaos. This is the reason people will vote for a hard right candidate even if they don't like her justice platform. This is the reason George McGovern lost to a warring Richard Nixon. DiBlasio is right to return the city to the people. He must also make it safe for them.
De Blasio and Bloomberg talk it over this morning.
What are DiBlasio's past achievements?
Bill: the canard that by virtue of, what -- his being a Democrat? Of questioning the constitutionality and necessity of a police tactic that exhibits no proven link to a drop in crime? Or of something else other peddlers of this nonsense don't mention explicitly? -- that De Blasio's election heralds a return to the "bad old days" is proving tiresome. Look at the record: Crime began its precipitous decline while Dinkins was in office. It was also Dinkins who initially hired Ray Kelly as police commissioner. Simultaneously, crime was dropping in many other American cities and, as The Economist recently noted, in many parts of the world. I suppose it was a global crackdown on squegee men that led to that? The waning of the crack epidemic and a stabilizing of what some call "the underlying fundamentals" (a more solid revenue base, for one thing) make New York City a far different place than it was during and just after the height of its mismanagement in the 1970s and 80s. I'm also not sure I've heard De Blasio say anything about appointing John Lindsay or Abe Beame to positions of importance.
DeBlasio and Bloomberg this morning:
Q. Does Bloomberg look unhappy?
A. He always looks like that.
Just got back from lunch in beautiful. While I was waiting to pay the bill, a guy younger than I but too old for Vietnam struck up a conversation with my wife and told her he didn't defend this country to turn it over to a communist mayor of New York. I guess someone should have told you all.
the missing word after "beautiful" is Florida.
"a communist mayor of New York' = a short answer about what's wrong w/ Florida.
Ed, everybody in this part of Florida came from New York and roots for the Yankees and the Jets. The guy who accosted my wife looked like one of them. Go figure.
Here's a surprise from the election. The Republican candidate Joseph Lhota never bragged that he made the (subway) trains run on time (and generally did a good job as head of the MTA--NY's tranportation administration). I guess that's a poison pill left over from history!
It's true, Peg. For decades, preserving the 5-cent fare was the -- should I say it? -- third rail of New York politics. The MTA was created to protect politicians from the wrath of voters angered over fare hikes. Lhota evidently felt unable to campaign on what was his major achievement, running the MTA efficiently and returning it to service quickly after Hurricane Sandy.
During the campaign, Joe Lhota made some good points about how the MTA takes the millions of dollars collected from tolls on bridges and tunnels that are entirely with New York City and moves that money to the suburbs to subsidize commuter rail lines.
That's his story of the MTA. As they say in Boston, Will he ever return? Maybe four years from now people will forget he ever had anything to do with the MTA.
i thought Lhota did a good job with the MTA too. and the previous Chairman, Walder ,did a great job as well, though he wasn't here long.
Maybe the MTA connection isn't so toxic any more.
"And he (Di Blasio) announced that his wife, Chirlane McCray, a poet and a speechwriter, would play a significant role in hiring the most powerful members of his new administration, saying the couple would screen candidates together."
Not being a New Yorker, I don't have an interest in this outcome, but it is interesting to me that de Blasio comes across as significantly more populist/progressive than Rahm Emanuel in Chicago. Kevin Williamson of National Review presents the sensible conservative view (as opposed to any other kind of conservative view) of de Blasio's win, and tosses in some MTA content. I suppose his views aren't incredibly congenial to most denizens of dotCom, but he writes so darn well it's hard to not read him all the way to the end. Headline: "The Fat Cats' Veto".
Methinks you protest too much. No question there is much misunderstanding of the liberal position on crime. The fact is that many liberals are stricter in some matters than conservatives. But it really misses the point to say that crime decreased worldwide or that Dinkins initially hired Ray Kelly. The fact is that Dinkins did not permit Ray Kelly to do the right job. Further there was definitely a climate of the inmates taking over the asylum. You could not ride the subway without holding your ears as a arrogant teenager walked through the cars. Never mind stopping at a red light and being accosted by the squeegie brigade. It was not as bad as Lindsay's time. But the leader has to take responsibility. Dinkins was talking about minority rights (did not stop him from hobnobbing with the 1 percent) when the majority felt intimidated and New York was a place to be avoided.
While I deplore the excesses of Guiliani I recognize there has to be a conversation about what made him necessary. We have to recognize that what makes many conservative is fear.
Helen: I hope they keep Al Sharpton at arms length, i.e., don't ask him to replace Ray Kelly.
On bragging about "trains running on time." Wasn't that one of Mussolini's achievements?
JP: Williamson is obviously too young to remember the NYC subway system twenty-thirty years ago. They are better and they do run on time. About Connecticut I know nothing. It's so far away!
With a wife with the name of McCray, di Blasio can not do wrong!
JM: Isn't the name McCray Scotch-Irish?
Bill - with respect, nothing of what you say supports the contention that the election of de Blasio means a rise in crime or justifies the fear of such. That crime was falling before Rudy G. both within and outside NYC weakens both the correlative and causal cases for his "tough" stance, whatever that means. Ditto Bloomberg. There seems to be (and have been) numerous factors, many not related to methods of policing. Meanwhile, I have yet to hear anyone explain, explicitly, why we should be anxious about the next mayor's approach. Is it that there may be another layer of police oversight? Is it that there may be a new commissioner? Is it that stop-and-frisk-- again, never shown to be linked to reduced crime -- may be modified or eliminated? What has de Blasio specifically proposed that makes people fret so? What is the basis of the anxiety?
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Further there was definitely a climate of the inmates taking over the asylum. You could not ride the subway without holding your ears as a arrogant teenager walked through the cars. Never mind stopping at a red light and being accosted by the squeegie brigade. It was not as bad as Lindsay's time. But the leader has to take responsibility. Dinkins was talking about minority rights (did not stop him from hobnobbing with the 1 percent) when the majority felt intimidated and New York was a place to be avoided.
This is largely hyperbole and some outright fiction. I rode the subways nearly everyday during the Dinkins administration --I could and did ride the subway without holding my ears. Was there an occasional "boom box"? sure. Did I occasionally think some were arrogant? yes. But some of it was fun and enjoyable. There were some great acts in the subway. Honestly --I find a greater desire to hold my ears today when someone is close by with blaring music coming from ear buds or the longwinded, often homophobic, "you're all going to hell" preachers. It is simply fiction to say NY was a "place to be avoided" in the Dinkins Administration. How do you explain the full tilt gentrification that was taking place during those years? You may not have liked it - but plenty of others did.
I agree with Mr. Preziosi. Nothing about de Blasio's election should make people fear a rise in crime. The drop in crime, yes had something to do with more cops (started under Dinkins) and new methods of policing (introduced by the guy most rumored to be the next police commissioner under de Blasio, Bill Bratton), but the drop also happened throughout the US as the economy improved and the crack epidemic subsided. Honestly, I think NYC residents should be afraid of increased crime mostly because of economic pressures and growing income inequality. Just this week SNAP (aka Food Stamps) recipients throughout the US have seen cuts in their benefits of $11 - $70 a month depending on family size. I see a much more logical correlation to an increase in crime because of these cuts than I do in replacing Ray Kelly with Bill Bratton and not forcing cops to violate civil liberties.
By the way, de Blasio has been critical of police reductions that have happened under Bloomberg and has pledged to hire 500 new cops. Read more on his approach to crime and public safety here:
Dominic, the matter is certainly disputable. It is at least debatable whether Guiiani was responsible for the 56% drop in crime in New York at that time. For you and Jack to speak in absolute terms about what is a long standing dispute strains credulity.


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Miss this feature from my old 'Berry - easily set to Phone Call Only mode overnight so support calls from work ring through but text/email notifications are silent. Is there a way to have similar one touch on/off functionality? Thanks
You can use blocking mode. A feature in the Samsung TouchWiz devices (I believe made available in 4.0).
Settings -> Blocking Mode
If you still want to actually receive the notifications for email and text messages you can do the following:
While these are not "one touch", you can do the second one right from the home screen.
you can do this easily by using Timeriffic. All you have to do is setup a new time triggered task. At the set time, you can make the notification volume to zero. After the set time you can make it change the volume back to normal level
I suppose you want to mute the notification sounds rather than disabling them.
I came from BlackBerry too and I've used the Quick Profiles app on my Atrix for exactly this purpose, and you can create multiple profiles.
It's free and offers a lot of flexibility (e.g., settings such as screen time-out, brightness, etc.)


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If myself and an old buddy sit down for a night of roleplaying, what game can we use? I've heard of a couple of romantic games, but they're not really for buddies. Are they? Suggestions please.
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Mars Colony is an excellent 2-player roleplaying game that was just released.
You each take the roles of the Savior of Mars who's being politically "air-dropped" from Earth into the Mars Colony to help solve its problems, and the role of the story-guide who introduces those problems, complicates them, and roleplays the locals the Savior interacts with. It's a great little game about politics, whether ends justify means, lies and scandal, and personal integrity that plays out in somewhere between 40 minutes and under a couple hours. (Being short, you can play a few times in a row, trading roles.) The dice mechanics are simple but present hard (i.e., interesting) choices, and the scene-based structure gives opportunities for personal-level roleplaying as well as fast-paced action—without forcing either—so there are lots of opportunities to try different sorts of roleplaying in small doses.
Romantic games aren't designed especially for romantically-involved players (though most play reports of them I've read, the players have been romantic partners). The games aren't about the players having romantic feelings for each other any more than a game about orc-slaying is about the players having a hate-on for "real" orcs. Two-player games that produce romance stories aren't going to be everyone's taste anymore than romance novels are, of course, but two definitely-straight guy friends can definitely play a romance game if they want. It depends on the players whether that turns out awesome or uncomfortable, just as when any difficult emotional theme comes up in a game. It's probably easier to sit down to play such a game for an established couple because they know before the game starts that there's not going to be any or much awkwardness between them about the subject, is all. Since they're designed to be short they can be worth trying to find out if they're enjoyable.
Here's a second answer…
At the bottom of Ron Edward's "about" page for his two-player game S/Lay w/Me, he lists other games that are either two-player or that he thinks are best for two:
The list includes some that were already mentioned here, but also others not mentioned and some I've never even heard of. This short list would probably be worth months of play just investigating each of the games, let alone how much play they'd be worth after finding the one or few that work for you.
Superhero games are GREAT for one on one gaming. Think about it: Batman, Wolverine, Spiderman, Daredevil, Hulk, Superman, the list goes on, solo superheroes are always going on adventures by themselves. Work up a mini-campaign to be finished in one night, with the other guy playing the lone wolf superhero trying to finish the goal. It doesn't have to be all combat, there can definitely be character development, interactions, puzzle solving, etc. Plus the game can go any way you want if the superhero player decides to pull some wild and crazy antics! I used to do a lot of superhero one on one and they were always a great time. Some suggestions of rules systems are Villains & Vigilantes, Champions or Mutants & Masterminds.
Somewhat similar, the espionage genre is perfect for one on one gaming. One character can set up the mission and villains, the other can be the "James Bond" lone wolf or he can have a few characters "Mission Impossible" style to try and complete the task. You can go lots of ways here, and again this can have as much or as little interaction as possible. Game systems that are good here include the old Top Secret/SI system, James Bond RPG, and newer systems like GURPS or D20 Espionage.
Emulating the old Lovecraft/REHoward tales, a good horror RPG can be used for one on one action. In most of Lovecraft and Howard's horror stories, it was typically only one antiquarian who tried to find out what was going on in the old haunted mansion or shunned village. Call of Cthulhu works well for this genre. A good haunted mansion mystery (with the lone investigator, perhaps accompanied by an ill-fated bodyguard or two), spends the night in an isolated castle/farmhouse/island and the fun begins. I have done a lot of one on one horror and it's really great, because with only one player you can really set the mood that the guy is ALONE and NO ONE is coming to help him!!!
The great thing about any of these genres, you can have as few/many rules as you want. Heck, you can wing the entire thing if you want it to be pure storytelling! Maybe a few dice rolls thrown in for points where decisions need to be made, or when combat takes place, but otherwise it can be entirely just you and your buddy making it up as you go along within the framework of the superhero/espionage/horror genre...
There are a whole lot of RPGs that don't require the old "big balanced party" kind of thing. Some new/indie games are the "meant just for two people" romantic gimmicky thing, but there's no reason you can't run anything from octaNe to Eclipse Phase to Feng Shui with one player and a GM. Unless the game specifically has "player interaction" mechanics as part of its deal, you should be able to do it fine.
Even for D&D there were a variety of published single-player adventures; I ran Thieves' Challenge II for an old friend I used to game with one weekend.
Frankly I find a lot of games, especially modern or otherwise high concept ones, seem better with one player than with a whole herd of them, and many like Dresden Files are based on a largely "one PC" kind of source material.
Then there's GM-less games if you both want to play and not GM, like the Shab-Al-Hiri Roach and stuff like that. Baron Munchausen might be a nice one to sit around and BS with an old buddy over. Or the hot new one right now is Fiasco.
One thing pointed out on this question is the Mythic RPG, which can be played solo or with any number of people without the use of a DM. I've never tried it, but it looks cool, and would allow you guys to play together and both be players, rather than one of you having to GM.
I've successfully played OD&D/Swords & Wizardry with my wife as a solo game. She's very inexperienced with RPGs. She still has not read the rulebook, but she loves the game. I tell her what to roll and when to do so - she tells me what she and her minions are doing. It works very well.
Shooting the Moon is probably one of those romance games you looked at, but it's really about two people fighting over a third, which is perfect for all sorts of cool tough guy adventure situations. I've played it with other dudes where we were rival archaeologists in love with the same woman and trying to out-do each other, so it was a pretty manly experience.
I've heard Beast Hunters is 2 player and I just got this in the email for a game called World Vs. Hero http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=82246.
I highly recommend the new Lone Wolf Multiplayer Gamebooks from Mongoose, even if you have no experience with the original cheese-tastic Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style fantasy adventure books they are based on. The designers say the new game is for multiple players, but they're kinda lying. Definitely works way better one-on-one, I suspect.
Microscope would do the job. You basically make up and act out a giant arc of history.
Beast Hunters is indeed for two players, and the rules are available for free.
Also, I play Apocalypse World with my wife, and that works wonderfully.
I'll throw in another suggestion of World Vs. Hero.
An AP by the author: forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=531293 The WvH Blog: www.worldvshero.com
It's also used in conjunction with a system called Mythic, that's good for 2 player GM-less roleplaying as well.
Mythic Roleplaying Bundle on RPGDriveThru: rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=27628&it=1
Mythic site on Word Mill Publishing: www.mythic.wordpr.com/
I am a pretty big fangirl of both of those games and like using them alot. Mythic can be hooked onto almost any other system to allow you to play the games without a GM so can turn almost any game into a two player co-op game.
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S/lay w/Me by Ron Edwards is a great roleplaying game for 2 players. I also second Mars Colony (by Tim C. Koppang) and Beast Hunters (by Christian & Lisa Griffen).
It really depends on what type of game you're looking to play. I've played 1 player-1 GM campaigns with AD&D, D&D 2e, D&D 3.5e, Rolemaster and King Arthur Pendragon. They all have a different feel.
Don't Rest Your Head is an excellent system for single GM / single player play. A character is created using a question / answer system that in turn helps the GM create a meaningful adventure for the player. Evil Hat Productions makes reference to DRYH as a kind of "Dark City RPG" - your character is incredibly empowered but also at risk.
I don't know if it qualifies as an RPG, but Fighting Fantasy has/had a two player adventure called Clash of Princes which I had fun playing (picked the two books up at Half Price Books on the cheap).
A few settings make for great 1-on-1 play, despite the rules not being great...
A few games are really good for two:
And some board games which scratch the RPG itch, and border on RPG anyway:


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However, I've recently taken to using it to hold my Canon G9 (an excellent alternative to an SLR if you're traveling light, by the way) when I'm shooting conventional photos of static subjects at its maximum telephoto settings - it goes up to 210mm in 35mm terms. The NN3 makes it really easy to get the framing just right, so much better than trying to aim the camera using a conventional tripod head. When setting it up I make sure that the camera's optical axis is aligned with the EZ-Leveler such that one of the three adjusters is immediately under the axis, either to the front or rear of the camera, it doesn't matter which. Then I rotate the tripod's center column to point the camera at the subject in the horizontal axis, fine tuning this if necessary by rotating the NN3's lower arm. I aim the camera in the vertical axis by adjusting the upper arm, and fine tune this using the EZ-Leveler. It's actually a lot simpler than it sounds in the above description and only takes a few seconds, and allows me to get the framing exactly as I want it.


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I'm looking for a way to set the default "View" options under post types in the admin area. For example, by default Posts will default to a "list" view instead of "excerpt" - I'd like to change this to excerpt by default - what would be the best way to achieve this? I've done a bit of searching on this, but am stuck in the mud thus-far. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Although having the feature of persistent settings in core is nice, it may take quite a while before it's actually accepted. WordPress 3.5 is still quite far away.
So let's augment the global
This will lock up modes, forcing
You can further interpolate
Viola! Persistent list mode per post type per user, no hacks.
The post view screen switches from list view to excerpt view based on the value of the "mode" parameter in the query string. If the "mode" parameter is not set, then WordPress defaults to list view.
Unfortunately, this parameter is not filterable, so there's no easy way to control it programatically.
So I'm going to do something I never do ... I'm going to tell you how to hack Core to make this work ...
Adding a filter
On line 99, WordPress checks to see whether or not the "mode" parameter was set in the request and uses this to set the global
We're going to change this line to filter the default setting. Change this line to:
Now, go into your theme's
This will hook in to the filter and return excerpt mode by default.
Since my personal rule about hacking Core requires that all hacks be contributed back to the project (this way they can be rolled into Core and no longer count as a hack), I've opened a Trac ticket for this enhancement and submitted the code above as a patch. Please weigh in on the ticket so that it can get into core for 3.5 (we're too late in the cycle for 3.4, but we can try to push this through for the next version).
Okay, so shortly after I put a bounty up, I came up with the following solution. It is the default behaviour in every way, except that it selects excerpt view for whatever post type you want (instead of the default list view).
NOTE: I recommend Soulseekah's approach, if you don't want it to remember the user's choice, you can incorporate my code with his code a bit. NOTE 2: If/when EAMann's patch is part of the core, obviously his method would be the best one as it wouldn't require you to go the long way round. I just don't like it at the moment as you have to edit the core files.


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I've noticed a new release of Picasa (3.9). How would I install it over my current install of Picasa?
To install Picasa 3.9
1) Install wine and winetricks:
2) Download Picasa 3.9 from google:
3) Install Picasa with wine:
To fix login
Now you have Picasa 3.9 installed but there is a problem if you want to login to Google to upload some pictures, so to fix it do this:
4) Install Internet Explorer 6:
You will have to click "Next" and "Accept" in a few windows:
5) Copy the installation into wine folder:
6) Done! Now just open Picasa as any other program:
Open Dash and search for Picasa. Click at the top right corner to login:
II) If you are feeling lazy, just paste this at terminal and all the steps above will be done for you (as a user specific installation):
III) After the step 5, the file "picasa39-setup.exe" can be deleted:
And also the folder "~/.tmp":
IV) To uninstall everything:
V) I have made two scripts (see it: check and installp) that can check if Picasa is installed and install it if needed with the IE6 to fix the login. The following command will download it from my dropbox with a beautiful icon from qyasogk at Deviantart. After running this command, just search for "Picasa" at Dash, if needed, the install will begin, if don't needed, Picasa will run.
To remove it:
If you use Picasa 3.9, you will not be able to connect to your Google account. According to Google employee Brian Rose, the authentication mechanism was changed to OAuth using an implementation that is currently not compatible with Wine.
There is an entry in Wine's AppDB for Picasa 3.9, and I submitted a bug report. As a workaround, install Internet Explorer 6 using Winetricks. You have to use the upstream Winetricks script, since the one packaged in Ubuntu has a broken Internet Explorer link.
PlayOnLinux supports Picasa 3.9:
Search and do what the wizard says:
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Levi Sork was 11th in the boys senior race, medaling with a time of 19:24.
CWC's Michael Brown was first in the junior race, coming in with a time of 16:35. This was Brown's best time in his career competing at Benton.
Skylar Wise of CWC finished 10th with a time of 19:09 in the junior race.
CWC sophomores Mike Trail and Eli Degenhardt and NCOE sophomore Nate Glad competed in the sophomore race.
Trail was 10th with a time of 19:38, Degenhardt was 19th with a time of 21:13 and Glad was 22nd with a time of 22:37.
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Above: Tovah Feldshuh as Golda Meir in "Golda's Balcony" by William Gibson, at The Old Globe, April 28 - May 30, 2010. Photo by Aaron Epstein.
"Golda's Balcony" follows the trajectory of the life of Golda Meir from Russian immigrant to American schoolteacher to a leader of international policies as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.
Schedule: April 28, 2010- May 30, 2010
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7 Ways Your Cellphone Is Screwing With Your Body and Mind
There's been a lot of hubbub in the news recently about the potential risks of cellular phones. Do they cause cancer? How much cancer are they going to cause? Will the cancer roll over from month to month?
Well, the cancer thing seems to have been overblown, but apparently the jury is still out on a whole host of much weirder effects your phone could (could) be having on you right now. For instance ...
#7. It Might Be Killing Your Sperm
Let's clear something up first:
All cellphones, if you haven't heard, emit electromagnetic radiation. The study of what this radiation does to the body is relatively new. So for instance, for a while people thought maybe holding a phone up to your head all day caused brain tumors, and that wasn't dispelled until very recently, when somebody finally did a huge study that found that they don't.
That swelling you're experiencing is a normal symptom of the average smartphone user.
So when you see all of these headlines on the Internet about the negative health effects of cellphones, what we have are smaller studies that indicate some kind of weird effect (i.e., a phone can fry a man's balls), and we're all waiting for somebody to fund a larger, longer-term study to find out for sure (if cellphones are frying men's balls).
Which brings us to a couple of studies that indicate cellphones might be frying men's balls.
Also, phones can cause short-term memory loss, so here's some studies about frying balls.
It started a few years ago when researchers at the Cleveland Clinic found that men who used cellphones a lot (more than four hours a day) consistently had lower sperm quality. OK, that could be something other than the phones themselves -- maybe low-sperm guys just like phones, where more virile dudes like to conduct all of their meetings face to face because there is a better chance of spontaneous sex.
A lot of you are clearly compensating for something.
So, they tested it. They gathered sperm from a few dozen men and, while keeping it all at the same temperature/conditions, put half of it in front of a cellphone and left the other half alone. On average, the doctors found an 85 percent increase in the amount of free radicals in the phone semen (if you don't remember what free radicals are from chemistry class, just know that sperm don't like them).
We know what you're thinking: "I don't put my phone up to my crotch except for when I'm having phone sex! Because I don't know how phone sex works!" But the problem is headsets -- when you are using a headset or earpiece, you tend to leave the phone in your pocket, or in your lap. If you're a dude, that's next to your nuts.
If you're a girl, adding one phone to each bra cup oddly won't do any harm at all.
Again, that's just one study, and they admit the conditions in the lab didn't perfectly imitate those you find inside a human ball sack. Further study is needed, so they're probably looking for irradiated scrotum subjects if you know anyone who wants to volunteer. Maybe you'll turn into some kind of testicle-themed superhero!
#6. It Could Be Ruining Your Children
This one is quite a bit weirder.
A huge study has shown that women who regularly expose their children to cellphone emissions, both while pregnant and after birth, are 50 percent more likely to have children with behavioral problems. And we're talking about numbers that held up across a study of almost 100,000 mothers and nearly 30,000 children. That's a hell of a lot to write off to coincidence.
Yet just about enough to write off in a massive traffic accident.
Now, our readers are smart people, and we realize 80 percent of you have already asked your computer, "Could it be that phone users have bad kids because these horrible mothers are on their phones all the time instead of raising their goddamned children?" But their experiments tried to control for that; it didn't matter how much or how little time the mother spent giving direct attention to the kid, or whether or not they were breast fed, or anything else. The only difference was phone usage.
"I'd like to talk about my prepaid plan. Yes, I'm a baby."
The theory goes that cellphone emissions are causing an excess of melatonin (a hormone that regulates several bodily functions) in the mother. This can affect the mother's metabolism and doodle with the development of the fetus's brain.
Meanwhile, there are still scientists insisting that cellphone radiation can disrupt DNA strands, even though conventional wisdom has always been that microwave radiation can't do that. They say they can show the results in mice and rabbits and that, you guessed it, further study is needed.
And someone desperately needs to scrape their remains off the walls.
#5. Your Cellphone Is Destroying Your Senses
So as we alluded to, the problem is that science is trying to understand the long-term effects of a technology that hasn't been around long term. The "every human has a phone pressed to their skull for six hours a day" era only started recently. There could be all sorts of effects that simply take longer to show up -- maybe using a cellphone every day for 40 years gives you telekinesis. How would we know, until we finally had a large enough population that has been using them that long?
So it's hard to immediately dismiss it when, for instance, somebody says your phone might be very slowly cooking your eyeballs.
Your superpowers are tripping up and repelling women, and only one of them is caused by being blind.
Several years ago, a team in Israel did a study exposing cow eyes to the kind of heat and radiation given off by phones (cow eyes are similar to human eyes). They found that if you do it long enough, tiny bubbles start to form in the lens of the eye -- a precursor to cataracts.
Then a year ago, researchers in India said the same thing, pointing out that the problem isn't just that the radiation heats up your eyeball, but that your eye doesn't have a good way to dissipate the heat into the rest of your body, since it's kind of a self-contained orb up there. You've seen how easy it is to just pluck them out in horror movies.
"Heeeyyyy, my cataracts are gone! Ow!"
Not that your hearing is getting off any easier; another study found that using your phone for 60 minutes a day over the course of four years can lead to inner ear damage, which leads to high-frequency hearing loss. What does that look like? It looks like not being able to make out consonant sounds like S, F, T and Z. The vowels are still understood, but unless you plan on taking up permanent residence in Hawaii, you're going to need those consonants to communicate.
But hey, your yelling will make it easier to block out those annoying commuters.
What would cause that? They're not sure; the researchers who did that study guessed that maybe the radiation affects the inner ear somehow, while an audiologist says listening to anything that long can damage your hearing. You don't think of a phone conversation as loud, but cramming a little speaker against your ear is harder on your hearing than having the same conversation in person. You know, the same reason ear doctors have been warning us about our iPod ear buds since the things were invented.
"They have terrible sound quality. Are you deaf?"
#4. Your Phone Is Encrusted With Germs
We have previously pointed out how everyday objects around your house become germ sponges, especially anything that comes in constant contact with your hands (let's put it this way -- you should take a break after you read this and wipe down your keyboard). And one of the germiest parts of your body is your mouth -- this is why you freak out when a homeless man licks your face.
We're developing some kind of skin disease and a high level of arousal.
Now think about your phone. In addition to spending hours getting covered in your breath and tiny flecks of spit, ask yourself where your hand was before you answered it. Picking something from your teeth? Or nose? Handling some raw chicken? In other words, your phone is getting bombarded with germs every time it's used. So, knowing that ... how often do you disinfect your phone? Have you ever?
We don't have to speculate about how filthy it is; let's let Andy Felton, director of a microbial sterilization systems company in England, explain the research to you: "Based on these findings, holding your phone to your mouth is as dangerous as placing your face on a toilet bowl."
And let's face it, your phone just doesn't understand you like Ol' Bowlie does.
And if you think that all you're doing is giving your own germs back to yourself, think about the next time you see a doctor. Hospitals and clinics are sterile environments, right? There are cleaning stations everywhere, people put on gloves before handling sick patients. It's just too bad that doctors are wiping their asses with their cellphones. Or, to put it more scientifically:
"A new study checked out the mobile phones of 200 doctors and nurses, and found that 95 percent of them were contaminated with bacteria, while 1 in 8 had the MRSA staph bug."
"Here's my kid. One of you may die of complications in surgery today."
The doctors, like you, don't regard their phones as being filth magnets. They touch their phones, then they touch your junk. All of those safety measures and precautions are flung out the door when doctors smear their hands and faces with bacteria that includes superbugs like MRSA, which are resistant to one or more commonly used antibiotics.
Only 10 percent of the health care professionals involved in the study actually admitted to cleaning their phone on a routine basis, which really makes you wonder what the other 90 percent of them were doing during the lecture on germs in medical school.
They were playing Angry Birds on their diarrhea phones.
Dr. Charles Gerba, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona, has come to the same funktastic conclusion. "We have found [the superbug] MRSA on several cellphones," he said. "So we certainly find a lot of stuff on them -- particularly the flip kind, since they have surfaces that do not dry out." So not only are flip phone owning doctors behind on the technological curve, they're also rubbing their face bacteria all over you.


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Andy Dalton completed 14-of-30 passes for 127 yards and an interception in the Bengals' 19-13 Wild Card Round loss to the Texans.
Seahawks signed GM John Schneider to a five-year extension through 2021.
Former Cardinals DT Darnell Dockett is retiring from football.
Ameer Abdullah (shoulder) avoided the active/PUP list to begin Lions camp.
A league source told the Cincinnati Enquirer that Tyler Eifert's ankle rehab is "on schedule and progressing as planned."
Ravens TE Dennis Pitta (hip surgeries) avoided the active/PUP list to begin training camp.
Chris Conley ran as the Chiefs' first-team X receiver this spring.
Joe Flacco avoided the active/PUP list to begin training camp.
The New York Daily News' Ralph Vacchiano reports the Giants are optimistic Victor Cruz "can return to his old form."
The Kansas City Star's Terez Paylor reports Spencer Ware "caught lots of passes in OTAs."
NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reports Le'Veon Bell's potential four-game suspension is the result of "several" missed drug tests.
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Track and field athletes from Nebraska City, Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca and Lourdes Central Catholic will be in action Friday and Saturday for the Nebraska School Activities Association State Track and Field Championships at Burke Stadium in Omaha.
Qualifiers for the Nebraska City boys are Dan Madsen, Max Ritchie and Tony Joe.
Qualifiers for the S-D-A team are Dominic Richardson, Coleman Orchard, Connor Bohlken, Alex Lowman, Andrew Zahn, Lauren Sand, Kendall Hallstrom, Julia Reed, Sydney Lintner, Haley Harsin, Paige Kapperman, Emily Harsin, Alli Brinkman and Mattie Wilkinson.
Qualifiers for the Lourdes school are Kayla Haneline, Ellen Wulf, Katherine Young, Lauren Heng, Will Giittinger, Todd Carpenter, and Justin Hauder.
For a complete list of district performances, state events, times and days, pick up a copy of the Nebraska City News-Press on Tuesday or the Syracuse Journal-Democrat on Thursday.
The News-Press will include an athlete-by-athlete and event-by-event breakdown for the Nebraska City and Lourdes teams while the Journal-Democrat will contain the same information regarding the S-D-A teams.
Those planning to attend the state track meet this year should consider the free shuttle provided by the NSAA as a way to avoid parking congestion in the area directly surrounding Omaha Burke Stadium.
See below for more information on the shuttle.
A free shuttle bus service will be offered this year on both Friday and Saturday for the Nebraska School Activities Association State Track and Field Championships at Omaha Burke High School.
The shuttles will originate at the Northeast parking lot of Westroads Shopping Mall, which is located at I-680 and 102nd Street, Friday and Saturday, beginning at 7 a.m.
Tickets for the track meet may be purchased at the Westroads Mall at the ticket booth near the shuttle site.
The drop off/pick up areas will be at the south entrance to Omaha Burke Stadium.
Shuttles will continue between Burke and Westroads until after the conclusion of state track action on both days of the state track meet.
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There is a Shellshocker coming up for a Bluetooth dongle. Not sure what the price will be but might be worth waiting until this afternoon if you maybe want to save on shipping.
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HUH103: Humanities M (2011-2012)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Humanities
COURSE TITLE: Humanities M
COURSE LENGTH: 18 weeks
Major Concepts/Content: The humanities course is designed to bean integrated study of history, literature, language, philosophy, the visual arts, theater, dance, and music. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, creativity, and the rights and responsibilities of the individual in a society by studying works of art; students achieve greater self-identity and confidence in personal responses and perceptions. Students also learn a tolerance for ambiguity and learn that art can bean outlet for inner doubts and anxieties.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities will be interdisciplinary in focus, drawing content, examples, and resources from a variety of curriculum areas. Emphasis is placed on the arts, including theater the visual arts, dance, music, architecture, film, and television. Activities also emphasize the cultural resources of the host nation and the diverse cultures where DoDDS schools are located. The course will provide opportunities for students to explore ethical and moral issues. Visits to museums and attendance at performing arts productions will be scheduled when feasible. Guest speakers will also be invited to class.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be required to pass written and oral tests covering course content. All projects and research papers will be evaluated according to criteria established by the instructor.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of the humanities course, students should be able to:
- Understand the concept of values from various cultural perspectives, with an emphasis on the American value system.
- Understand the American value system and how it was created.
- Understand what motivates an artist and how he or she chooses a medium and how that medium is translated into a final product.
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20 Mar 2011 4:31 PM #41
I answered to my 'More button' question by myself.
I added this.renderOnScroll() just below this.renderOnScroll(0) in refresh() and it fixed.
Because it shows up again when scroll starts again.
This seems like a little bit of abundant call but it works as expected so far.
(except the offset is not adjusted if there are group headers.)
20 Mar 2011 5:32 PM #42
To keep selection during scrolling,
scroll stop --> itemCleanup() --> updateItemList() --> keep previous selection.
but sometimes this doesn't work.
Because sometimes this.all.elements.length is less than cleanupBoundary so updateItemList() is not called in itemCleanup.
To fix this temporarily, I called save & restore selection in itemCleanup (outside of if condition),
but I'm not sure I'm on the right track...
21 Mar 2011 11:00 AM #43
How to search/filter the list?
Hi everyone.
I am new to Sencha Touch, and found your High Performance Large List - wow - what a find!
- I have built a prototype app with Jquery Mobile, which searches nicely, but is waaaaaay slow when working with a list of 1,000 entries, so I am trying Sencha Touch to see if that will work.
It does nearly everything I need it to, but how does one create a search function for the list?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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24 Mar 2011 1:15 PM #45
Great ux, performance is wonderful!
Everything is working great, list items are showing, as well as headers, but for some reason the indexBar will not show up, any ideas as to why not?
{ hidden: true, id: 'listMfg', xtype: 'bufferedlist', grouped: true, // optional indexBar: true, // optional useGroupHeaders: true, // no group headers maxItemHeight: 30, // must specify blockScrollSelect: true, batchSize: 20, loadingText: null, store: new Ext.data.Store( { storeId: 'listMenuStore', model: 'MenuItem', proxy: { url: 'GetList', type: 'ajax', reader: { type: 'json' } }, getGroupString: function (record) { return record.get('name')[0].toUpperCase(); }, listeners: { scope: this, read: function (cmp, root, recs) { Ext.getCmp('listMfg').setHeight(300).show(); this.query('LoadingPanel')[0].hide(); } } } ), itemTpl: '{name}' },
24 Mar 2011 4:17 PM #46
Nevermind, I had not included the indexBar in the application.scss file so it didn't generate the necessary CSS classes. All is great now...thanks again for this highly useful extension.
22 Apr 2011 11:07 AM #47
This just made a project I was working on happen! Thanks so much for developing it. Any plans to implement XTemplate in the near future?
Where can I donate to keep this project going?
Keep it up!
Alexander Rolek
22 Apr 2011 9:52 PM #48
I am really new to Sencha touch so I might make some mis-configuration here. I believe I found a few bugs which I traced by using some logs. All of them are found with the options grouped, useGroupHeader and indexBar to true:
If the items that are sorted contain caps and some others not, this is possible that there are some issues on ordering. For instance I had some items 'a' and 'L'. When displaying the list, the first row shown will be the one with L, I believe because its ASCII code comes before a.
The second issue I am facing is with non alpha characters. I add a '2', nothing will be displayed except the indexBar. This is because '2' is not contained int that indexBar. Of course the listPrefix does not help but this could be addressed by defining inside the array "letters" every characters that my list does contain as a start.
22 Apr 2011 10:00 PM #49
I add my method to find the first issue with problems of sorting:
I added the red lines in function initGroupIndexMap:
// build temporary map of group string to store index from store records for ( i = 0; i < sc; i++ ) { key = escape(store.getGroupString(store.getAt(i)).toLowerCase()); if ( recmap[key] === undefined ) { recmap[key] = { index: i, closest: key, prev: prevGroup } ; prevGroup = key; console.log("add ix: "+i+", closest: "+key+", prev: "+prevGroup); } if ( !firstKey ) { firstKey = key; console.log("1st key: "+firstKey); } }
add ix: 0, closest: l, prev: l
1st key: l
add ix: 200, closest: m, prev: m
add ix: 400, closest: a, prev: a
For the second issue I am quite sure it comes from the remaining part of the same function that browse all items available in the indexBar including only alpha characters by default.
3 May 2011 4:24 AM #50
Thanks. Nice work.
In order to get the buffered list to work with an itemTpl that is an array or an instance of Ext.XTemplate (which may contain custom rendering functions) the source needs to be adjusted so the initComponent reads like this:
initComponent: function() { var memberFnsCombo = {}; if (Ext.isArray(this.itemTpl)) { this.itemTpl = this.itemTpl.join(''); }else if (this.itemTpl && this.itemTpl.html) { Ext.apply(memberFnsCombo, this.itemTpl.initialConfig); this.itemTpl = this.itemTpl.html; } this.itemTplDelayed = '

' + this.itemTpl + '

'; this.itemTplDelayed = new Ext.XTemplate(this.itemTplDelayed, memberFnsCombo).compile(); Ext.ux.BufferedList.superclass.initComponent.call(this); //.. etcetera...

' + this.itemTpl + '

' + this.itemTpl + '

';
Am I not allowed to add custom CSS rules to the items in bufferedList?
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Batman could escape the pit because he got proper moral guidance from the prisoners. They made him understand what it takes to leave the pit successfully. But it seemed they never wanted to leave the pit. Why is that? If they knew the principle to success very well, why did they not try? This is obvious from the movie, they were not well in that pit!
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Moreover, Bruce was guided and supported by two very old and frail men, none of whom could have themselves taken the leap.
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I want to record the 8 separate Line IN Channels from my M-Audio Delta 1010 Card. The card is recogniced nicely and a can record a single channel via arecord -d 10 -f cd -t wav -D channel1 out2.wav. I've set up the different channels in ~/.asoundrc.
Now if I want to record a second channel in parallel (arecord -d 10 -f cd -t wav -D channel2 out2.wav) I get the error
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My anecdotal observations (which could be incorrect, they're totally unscientific) indicate that it takes almost as long to evenly heat a big bowl of soup in a microwave as it does to heat it on the stove - 4-5 minutes in my most recent example. Yet a plate of meat or vegetables is reheated in 30 seconds or less.
What makes your microwave "better" than a stove at heating things is that is rather efficient at getting the heat into your food - the wave field permeates the food and resonates with dielectric molecules, which then distribute their rotational energy to their surroundings as heat. This does not rely greatly on heat conductivity inside the food since it is heated locally.
On a stove, all the heat comes from the burner below and somehow has to get to your food - first by transfer from the hot gas/plate to the vessel, and then from that vessel to food. This process is highly inefficient for food that is not in good thermal contact with the vessel - you get a very hot pot and warm air in the room. For water or your soup on the other hand, the thermal contact with the vessel is excellent and almost all the heat that is transferred to the vessel actually ends up in your food.
In the end, the fact that the times for microwave and stovetop heating come out close is mainly an artifact of the fact that your stove outputs much more power than the microwave - a 9000 BTU/hr burner is equivalent to about 2.6 kW, while your usual microwave outputs less than half of that) , but is a lot less efficient. For non-liquid foods, the stove is even less efficient while the efficiency of the microwave doesn't change much.
That's because water has a higher heat capacity (the amount of energy it takes per kilogram to increase the temperature by 1 degree) than meat or vegetables and since a bowl of soup typically weighs more than a carrot or a piece of chicken, more mass needs to be heated, which takes more energy and thus more time. While meat and veggies do cotain a significant amount of water, a bowl of soup is essentially all water.
The wavelength of the microwaves inside your microwave oven is somewhere around 3 cm, or a little more than an inch. When the oven is on, the microwaves inside its cavity tend to form standing waves. This means that there are nodes in the electromagnetic waves every 1.5 cm or so, which are places within the oven at which the amplitude of the waves is always zero. Since the energy of the wave at a given point is proportional to the square of its amplitude, these nodes correspond to points at which the oven is not delivering any energy to the food.
As a side note, the existence of the nodes allows for a neat experiment that can be performed to measure the speed of light using marshmallows in a microwave. See, for example, this website. Briefly, the bottom of a microwave oven (without a spinning platter) is covered in marshmallows and the oven is turned on. Some marshmallows start to melt, while others are unaffected -- corresponding to the locations of the nodes. Measuring the distance between them can tell you the wavelength of the radiation which, combined with the stated frequency of the oven, lets you calculate an experimental value for the speed of light!
The existence of these nodes is the reason that most microwave ovens have a rotating platter: the food gets moved through the nodes, but also through the regions that deliver heating energy to it, and on average all of the food is supposed to heat. In practice though it does often seem, at least anecdotally, that some parts of the food just receive a higher dose of energy than others. This can lead to soup that is hot in some spots, and still cold in others -- a problem that can be somewhat alleviated by stirring the soup periodically, encouraging the soup to reach thermodynamic equilibrium more quickly.
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My son cannot eat anything that contains yeast. Are there any types of yeast-less bread that can be used as a sandwich bread?
There are roughly four types of bread by leavening: yeast breads, chemically leavened breads, sourdough breads and unleavened breads.
Yeast breads are obviously out of question. Chemically leavened breads are made with baking soda or baking powder, and are also often called "quickbreads". They are less common as pure breads, and mostly available as special recipes which are somewhere between cake and bread, such as banana bread or zucchini bread. I don't know if you can buy any of them easily, but they are extremely easy to make at home (about as easy as muffins).
Edit per the commenters' suggestion, this is probably your best solution. While most recipes for quickbreads in use today are indeed for banana bread and such, there are older recipes (especially from wartime) where normal, non-flavored bread is made with soda. Using them is probably the best you can do. Caveat: the more breadlike you want the texture to be, the more dense will you have to make the bread, because developing the texture takes time, and baking soda and baking powder lose their leavening properties with time.
I would advise you to stay away from sourdough breads. They don't contain commercial yeast, but during fermentation they catch wild yeasts. The wild yeasts are closely related to commercial yeast, and likely to trigger the same allergies as commercial yeast does.
The last variety, unleavened breads, are flatbreads. They are dense due to lack of leavening, so if they were made thick, the center would not bake. This means that you can't cut them into slices to make a traditional sandwich. But if you relax your definition of what a sandwich should be like, you can use unleavened breads like tortillas or matzo layered with the ingredients, or make actual wraps instead of sandwiches. Pay attention though, not every flatbread is unleavened, naan for example contains yeast. Knäckebröd is a flatbread which can be leavened or unleavened depending on brand, and it makes excellent sandwiches.
You can also try making sandwiches with non-bread substances. A jibarito is a sandwich where the filling is packed in fried plantain slices instead in bread. Other vegetable slices like zucchini or oven-dried eggplant should work too. Puffed rice wafers are also a good sandwich packaging, as well as savoury waffles (make your own or read the packaging, because there are yeast-leavened waffles).
Other types of leavening are not used in breads (such as meringue leavening which is used for cakes only), but if you like baking and want to make your son's diet more varied, you can try adapting cake recipes to savoury, breadlike results. Adapting recipes is more for advanced bakers though, because the sugar in cakes plays important roles besides giving them flavor.
It is important to note that most of my suggestions are pretty different from the everyday yeast breads most people use for sandwiches. You probably won't get anything too similar to them (quickbreads will be the closest). Don't try to imitate them as close as possible, you will be frustrated. Teach your son (and why not yourself?) to appreciate the substitutes which make for very tasty non-traditional sandwiches with their own charm.
I'm sensitive to yeast also and I find Irish soda bread my answer. It is made with; 1lb plain flour. 1 tsp baking soda (soda bicarbonate), 1 tsp salt, 1tsp sugar. 11/2 - 2 cups buttermilk.
Sieve these ingredients together. Make a well in the middle, add the buttermilk and mix into a soft dough. Draw it all together into a circle about 1" thick, cut a cross in it, to aid cooking and cook on a flat cookie tin at 200 for 45 mins. When base sounds hollow on tapping it's cooked. Enjoy It's delicious. Helen
I found a gluten free, yeast free bread which is excellent for sandwiches. It is called black ruby and is made in Melbourne but also available in some gluten free shops. Fiona.
Here's a good-looking recipe: http://www.deliciousasitlooks.com/2013/03/gluten-free-low-fructose-irish-soda.html
Also, it seems the brand Kinnikinnick has a good Yeast Free Tapioca Bread that may be up your alley, according to this blogger: http://cook-aunaturel.blogspot.com/2009/03/yeast-free-gluten-free-portobello.html


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There have been several letters here to promote the Bellaire School Levy. Even letters from children/students to bring out the guilt treatment.
The latest letter by a lady from Bellaire stated several excuses people have for not voting for the levy. The lady debunked those excuses, or at the very least we have her word they are false.
Anyway, I thought I'd put a few REASONS why I think the levy's don't pass.
There have been many stories stated in the paper and by Mr. Scott as to why th money is needed. I don't think the people believe him anymore.
Other REASONS include and are not limited to: East Ohio Regional Water Authority has raised their monthly rates, American Electric Power, Columbia Gas, all food stores have raised their prices, Comcast, Bellaire Television Cable has raised their monthly fees.
Automobile fuel has stayed in the $3.50-$4 range. In the Village of Bellaire you have the Village income tax, the $3.00 street light fee, the $3 infrastructure fee.
All of this while the federal government is toying with the ideas of reducing the fees paid to doctors and hospitals from Medicare. Guess who will be making up the difference in this fee reduction, the reducing if not complete elimination of Social Security cost of living raises.
Then there are those who come up with stupid ideas of an extra $10 on license plate fees to pay for bridge and road repair. Wasn't the economic stimulus supposed to do that back in 2009.
The problem is, people don't know how much of their dollar is going to be taken away at any given time. The lady said that $10 a month wouldn't hurt anyone. The lady also said that an alumni from the Class of 45 sent a $100 dollars to help with the expenses. Well then, let each of us give a one time fee of $100. By the way, the 1945 alumni doesn't even live here in the valley.
Bottom line folks is this, you now have both sides of the coin or levy. Vote as your heart or pocket book permits.
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- Multi-screened gaming/media room with smart, 3-D televisions equipped with the latest gaming consoles.
Outdoor amenities include:
- Landscaped and furnished roof deck with lounge area with covered wet-bar, grills and communal and intimate seating areas, screening area with all-weather flat-screen television and retro-style observation binoculars.
- 5th floor outdoor lounge with designer landscaping, a waterfall and floating moongate sculpture.
- Outdoor television and seating area as well as a pool table.
Contact us at 212-227-8181, at firstname.lastname@example.com, or visit www.thelaranyc.com today!
Neighborhood / Parking / Transportation
Walking Distance to:
- Laundromat
- Dry Cleaners
- Grocery Store
- Convenience Store/Bodega
- Pharmacy
- Park
- Restaurants
- Shopping
- Subway
- Bus
- Ferry
Application and Move-in Information
- Insurent Accepted
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