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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Baked Mini Corn Dogs
Makes 24. Weighing the ingredients (the flour in particular) provides the most consistent results.
- 12oz/340ml/1.5 cups plain soy milk
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp instant or active dry yeast
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- 1.5 tsp salt
- generous 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 9oz/255g/1.5 cups fine cornmeal
- 11.5oz/326g/2.5 cups white bread flour
- soy milk for brushing
- 12 veggie hot dogs, cut in half
- I have seen recipes that call for some cayenne in the dough, or some minced jalapeño. These sound like great ideas but not the kind of things my kids like
1. Warm up soy milk to between 90 and 100 degrees F, then whisk in vinegar. When thick, whisk in yeast, oil, and sugar. Let sit for 5 mins to allow yeast to dissolve.
2. Meanwhile, whisk salt, baking soda and cornmeal in stand mixer bowl. Add yeast mixture and mix well. Let sit for 5 mins.
3. Add flour and mix into a rough dough. Let sit for 5 mins, then knead with a dough hook for 5 mins on med-lo speed. The dough should clear the bottom of the bowl and should be tacky but not be sticky. Adjust flour as needed (I find the amount above to be perfect).
4. Transfer the dough to a lightly oiled bowl and turn to coat. Cover and refrigerate overnight. You can skip this step if you are in a rush and just let the dough rise at room temp, but I find that the overnight fermentation produces great flavour, lets the gluten relax, and allows the cornmeal to soften. Also, since the dough is tacky, cooling the dough makes it much easier to work with. You can also compromise between the two methods and refrigerate the dough for about 4 hours.
5. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Place one oven rack in the second highest position, and one on the second lowest. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
6. Divide the dough into 24 equal pieces (around 40g each) then cover to keep from drying out. Flatten each piece into a rectangle slightly longer than the veggie dog half and wide enough to wrap around the veggie dog. Lightly dust the work surface with flour if the dough is too tacky to work with. Wrap the dough around the veggie dog and pinch to seal the seam and ends. Gently roll the dog back and forth in your hands to smooth out the dough as much as possible. Place on the prepared sheet and repeat. Put 12 corn dogs on each baking sheet.
7. Brush each corn dog with soy milk (I pick them up and brush all sides). Bake for 7.5 mins, then rotate and switch the sheets from one rack to the other (i.e. the sheet on the second highest rack will now be on the second lowest, and vice versa). Bake for another 7.5 mins then transfer to a cooling rack.
Posted by Vegan Dad at 9:58 PM
Labels: baking, fake meat, kid-friendly
23 comments:
- sledgewig girl said...
LOVE it! thanks for the recipe!
- January 31, 2012 at 10:08 PM
- Ida Broekhart said...
What an excelent idea. And I like the soy milk!
- February 1, 2012 at 9:10 AM
- Karen's Vegan Kitchen said...
You are so bloody brilliant. The last time I attempted corn dogs it was a disaster. This looks very do-able and fun to make!
- February 1, 2012 at 12:05 PM
- veg-out said...
I only have one rack for my oven. Do you recommend 2 batches or can they all go on one sheet? Which position should my rack go on?
Kids are going to love these!
- February 2, 2012 at 1:59 PM
- Allysia said...
These are super adorable! I always try to bake instead of fry wherever possible, but it just isn't the same with donuts. :) And it's awesome because your kids get to enjoy the same food as the other (non-vegan) kids, but this version is likely a lot healthier!
- February 2, 2012 at 3:28 PM
- Amanda said...
Do you think I could refrigerate or freeze these and reheat for the next day? (superbowl)
- February 4, 2012 at 12:02 PM
- Kylie said...
Oh wow, these look delish! I may not be a kid but I'm totally going to try these!
- February 5, 2012 at 1:45 AM
- Carrie™ said...
I've picked up Morningstar Farms frozen corndogs when I've been cross-border shopping, but never thought I could make them at home. This is genius! I like the fact that the job is split over 2 days. Might require some planning, but doesn't seem like such a huge task. Thanks for this! Too bad I hadn't seen it before today.
- February 5, 2012 at 8:57 AM
- Veggie Tales said...
Yum! I'd definitely be down for some minced jalapeno!
- February 5, 2012 at 9:32 PM
- Veganprincss said...
I made these over the weekend - they are delicious! They were perfect for the big-game, and so easy to make. Thank you for our new go-to "junk food"!
- February 6, 2012 at 10:32 AM
- Jess said...
This should totally be labelled kid-friendly.
I have been looking for a protein-rich snack for the (omni) kids I cook for, and these look perfect. I think some sweet red pepper and green onion chopped into the batter would go over well with them.
- February 6, 2012 at 12:39 PM
- Vegan Eating Out said...
These look delicious! Just shows you that a vegan alternative can be made for anything.
- February 7, 2012 at 11:48 AM
- bafleyanne said...
What kind of veggie dogs do you think taste best? I have not had a lot of luck finding good ones.
- February 7, 2012 at 7:44 PM
- Vegan Yack Attack! said...
These sound awesome! I used to be a sucker for this finger food, so I may just have to make them myself! Thank you for the recipe! :)
- February 9, 2012 at 4:21 AM
- Kathleen said...
Thanks for this idea. The only non-meat Corn dogs that I can find at the supermarket have eggs in them, so this is wonderful...can't wait to try it!
- February 9, 2012 at 7:37 AM
- Kathleen Richardson said...
This is a great idea. I've got to put in on Pinterest. com and call it to my vegetarian daughter's attention. She and the grandsons would love these.
- February 10, 2012 at 8:03 PM
- Lindsay said...
I love this blog! I wish there were more fathers like you out there. And mothers, for that matter. So many times (from what I've noticed) one party will be more vegan/vegetarian and the other party will not comply, when it comes to feeing the kids. ASK ME HOW I KNOW.
Your recipes are fantastic! I especially love the vegan pasta one, that's how I found this blog, I was googling vegan pasta recipes.
- February 10, 2012 at 8:50 PM
- katrina ubell said...
Which brand of veggie hot dog does your family prefer? Always on the lookout for a better one....Thanks!!
- February 11, 2012 at 2:45 PM
- Eliza said...
Looks so yummy :) Thanks!
- February 13, 2012 at 12:21 PM
- GP said...
Very tasty! Just like the corn dogs I remember only better. Thanks for bringing back memories and making my kids happy in the process.
- February 14, 2012 at 9:21 PM
- Sandor said...
These are so good! My girlfriend and I had a lot of fun together making them for Valentine's Day! Thank you!
- February 15, 2012 at 12:11 PM
- jo90 said...
Gonna make these soon. I think my kids will love them! Thanks for the recipe.
- February 17, 2012 at 12:09 PM
- Veganadian said...
These are GREAT! Works with almond milk too. Mixed it all up in the morning, and let rise in the fridge for 6 hours (two hockey games, eh?). Sprayed with oil instead of brushing with soy milk. My cornmeal bag didn't say 'fine' or 'coarse', but whatever it was, it worked.
Ultimate party food!!!
- February 19, 2012 at 2:19 PM


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18 Jul 2011 12:23 PM #1
Custom VType in MVC style?
I've been working on porting my app to v4 and have run into a simple issue that I can't seem to figure out how to properly implement. I wanted to create a custom vtype (any new vtype for that matter) and can't seem to figure out where I'm actually supposed to place the vtype creation code? In the View file? app.js? Any simple sample or direction would be extremely helpful. Thanks!
18 Jul 2011 12:42 PM #2
Have you looked here yet?
Also if it's just a vtype, it probably is going to be used across (possibly) multiple files correct? You probably could define it in app.js for now, then move it to a type file at a later point that will be loaded separately?
Maybe include it before(?) bootstap.js?
19 Jul 2011 3:50 AM #3
I did look there but while it shows the 'normal' way of loading it in, it doesn't say where to put it when using the MVC style architecture. I'll stick it in app.js and figure out how to get it to work from there. If anybody has any other suggestions I'm more than welcome to try something different. Thanks.
9 Aug 2011 11:48 AM #4
Hi softwarezman,
How did this work out? I am using MVC and also am looking into creating a custom VType.
thank you - Randy
10 Aug 2011 4:02 AM #5
I've had to leave it in app.js for the moment as I had to move on to other aspects of the application unfortunately. I'm sure there has to be a better way, I just can't spend the time on a 'simple' VType anymore.
10 Aug 2011 9:12 AM #6
Where in app.js are you declaring the custom VType? Anywhere I try to put it, I get Ext.form is undefined...
11 Aug 2011 4:01 AM #7
Here is my app.js:
Ext.Loader.setConfig({ enabled : true, paths: { Ext: 'ext/src', My: 'app' } }); //custom Vtype for vtype:'SpecSectionVType' Ext.apply(Ext.form.field.VTypes, { SpecSectionVType: function(v) { return /^\d{1,6}$/.test(v); }, SpecSectionVTypeText: 'Must be numeric.', SpecSectionVTypeMask: /[\d\.]/i }); //custom Vtype for vtype:'Sub1VType' Ext.apply(Ext.form.field.VTypes, { Sub1VType: function(v) { return /^\d{1}\.\d{1}$/.test(v); }, Sub1VTypeText: 'Must be in the form #.#', Sub1VTypeMask: /[\d\.]/i }); Ext.application({ name: 'SI', appfolder: 'app', controllers: [ 'LayoutController', 'ActionsController', 'DefinitionsController' , 'AssignmentController' ], autoCreateViewport : false, launch: function() { Ext.create('Ext.container.Viewport', { layout: 'border', items: [ { xtype: 'HeaderPanel', id: 'headerPanel', region: 'north' },{ xtype: 'ActionPanel', id: 'actionPanel', region: 'west' },{ xtype: 'MainPanel', id: 'mainPanel', region: 'center' } ] }); } });
11 Aug 2011 11:14 AM #8
Thank you for the example code. I needed to use Ext.Loader first, and now it works.
11 Aug 2011 11:23 AM #9
If you use the MVC style programming you would put it in your app.js file in the launch section: (forgive the errors, have to hand-type this)
launch: function() { var timeTest = REGEXHERE; Ext.apply(Ext.form.field.VTypes, { time: function(val, field) { return timeTest.test(val); } timeText: 'Not a valid time. Must be in the format "12:34 PM".', timeMask: /[\d\s:amp]/i }); }
11 Aug 2011 11:28 AM #10
Yeah, I thought so too, and tried that originally, but doing that gets meCode:
Ext.form is undefined

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Where are the magic cucumbers discussed in the Gemara by a Rabbi proud of his knowledge? Are magic cucumbers discussed elsewhere? Thanks.
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I learned that the song Shalom Aleichem is all about welcoming the Shabbat angels, and clearly angels are celebrated in Judaism. However I've noticed that images of angels are not very widespread in Judaism (at least compared to my impressions of their scope in Christianity). Can someone explain why?
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Your father is an outlier. Angels are undisputedly an integral part of Jewish theology.
By way of proof, see Genesis 32:4, in which Jacob sends angels to his brother Esau. Lest you think that "mal'achim" (מלאכים) there means "messengers", Rash"i (the pre-eminent commentary on the 5 Books of Moses) there states clearly, "מלאכים ממש" - real angels. The Torah is replete with other interactions between men and angels, e.g. Abraham (Genesis 18), Lot (Genesis 19), Bil'am (Numbers 22). The list is practically endless.
That answers your first 2 questions. As to the third, there is a specific commandment not to make images of angels in the 10 commandments: "You shall not make yourselves a carved image or any likeness of that which is in the heavens above..." (Exodus 20:4). A "carved image" (פסל) is a 3-dimensional sculpture; a "likeness" (תמונה) is any other representation, including drawings or paintings. That is why you don't find angels represented in Jewish art.
Judaism believes in angels, but one is not permitted to pray to an angel or any intermediary. (According to Rambam and Ramban, praying to angels is idolatrous. Others may be more lenient.) Images of angels may also be problematic in certain cases.
There is really no such thing as an icon in Judaism. Icons are objects of veneration in some Christian confessions, especially in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Judaism, on the other hand, expressly forbids any form of worship of images or statues.
Jews are not forbidden to create images, and angels are present in Jewish art. Such images simply do not play the same role in Judaism, as they do in Christianity.
I notice that you edited your question to remove the point about your father's assertion that Judaism doesn't believe in angels. I think it added an interesting question to the mix. Please allow me some flexibility in answering the questions you posed:
To answer 1, you can look at any of the answers provided for some idea as to why angels are not depicted very often in Jewish art. I would also posit that it is a cultural difference. Christianity at its core believes in the divinity of a human being (I'm simplifying here, I know, but in some way or another this is the case), whereas Judaism does not. Christianity also supports the idea using icons in worship (crosses, statues, etc.), something that goes against the fundamental core of Jewish belief. Furthermore, much of Jewish art throughout the ages has focused on Jewish life, not religious iconography. Most depictions of the latter tend to be abstract.
To answer 2, angels do play a significant role in Judaism. But what role? The Talmud and the Midrash are replete with stories involving angels, and TaNa"Kh (the Jewish scriptures) has countless references to the Heavens and angels. There are, as others here have noted, some pious leaders who have refused to sing songs or recite religious poems that reference or imply praying to angels, including part of, or all of "Shalom 'Aleichem". The reason that others don't object, however, is that the song does not seek to pray to angels, or even to ask the angels to intercede on our behalf and pray for us to G-d. As a counterpoint, though, the objection may not be the implication of praying to angels but asking the angels to bless us. According to RaSh"I, angels are restricted to performing one task at a given time, which is why three angels visited Avraham (Abraham) and performed the three separate missions described in the ensuing story. Therefore, we cannot ask the angels to bless us if that was not their designated purpose. However, one can also argue that blessing us is their designated purpose, and we are merely asking them to give us a favorable blessing or merely just to bless us as they are supposed to. According to the Talmud, two angels, one good and one bad, accompany a man home from the synagogue on Friday night, and if his home is prepared nicely for Shabbath, the good one wishes for him to have another Shabbath the same way and the bad one answers "Amen"; and if it is not prepared well, the bad one wishes for him to have another Shabbath the same way and the good one answers "Amen". This can be understood as a blessing and a curse, respectively, or they can both be blessings (perhaps one not so pleasant as the other), since even the bad one wishes the man to have another Shabbath, which would imply another week of life. (I don't know of anyone who interprets it that way, though; I'm just suggesting an optimistic outlook on it as I make my next point.) The angels, therefore, are just doing what they are supposed to do, and we are not asking them to deviate from their mission.
As far as I know, though, nobody suggests that we are praying to the angels, nor does anyone suggest that we are asking them to intercede on our behalf. What is suggested by the song is that we are showing the angels how lovely our home is and wonderfully prepared it is (and we are) for Shabbath, so that they can make their assessment and give us the appropriate blessing.
So, in short, we do not see a great many depictions in Jewish art of angels for the many reasons already mentioned, but angels do serve a particularly significant role in Jewish belief.
Not being Christian, I cannot speak from experience as to what Christianity — in any of its variant forms — believes with regard to the role of angels. Being Jewish, however, I think I've explained how we — backed by our traditional sources — relate to them.
Perhaps what your father meant was that Judaism does not believe that the soul of a person becomes an angel after his death, a belief prevalent in other religions. Rather, an angel is G-d's creation through which He interacts with the physical universe.
As to why He created angels, you may open a new question.
I would imagine that the main reason angels do not feature in Jewish art is the difficulty one would have in depicting them. What would one paint or draw? A figure wearing a white dress with wings? How many wings? Are the wings made of feathers, skin or spandex? How many legs does an angle have? Do fire-angles have burning wings, and how do they stop their clothes being burnt?
Without being excessively flippant, Jewish literature is not really all that big on depicting angels, and uses anthropomorphic descriptions in order to describe the indescribable.
It is worth noting that various descriptions of angels in the Torah, such as those that visited Abraham and the one that visited Joshua, depict the angles looking like regular men. So I suppose, if you are painting men, you could be painting angels!
I believe the reason why you don't see as much Jewish art with Angels is because the aesthetic is not as nice.
Jewish Cherub over the ages: As you can see, the angels are mostly animalistic, with very hard to structures. They tend to be chaotic and not very pleasing to the eye.
Christian Cherub: By contrast, Christian art depicts angels as mostly human beings with wings and halo. Very easy to connect to and very yet still be iconic. Also very pleasant to look at.


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There isn't much to say about the Pratt High School girls dismantling of Nickerson Tuesday night that couldn't be deduced by simply looking at the score. A person seeing "PHS 64, Nickerson 13" would probably conclude that the game was basically a horse-whipping from start to finish, and that person would be right.
"We were kind of down after our loss to (3A #1) Hillsboro last Friday night," PHS head coach Dean Rausch explained. "But tonight, Jenson (Maydew) came out and set the tone for us in the first quarter. She hit some buckets early which got us going, and things just kind of snowballed from there."
Maydew had 11 of her game-high 17 points in Q1 as Pratt jumped out to a 21-2 lead. Things got only marginally better for the Nickersons as the game proceeded. The Panthers could never muster more than 4 points in any quarter against the dominant Greenback defense.
Meanwhile, the Frog Ladies were scoring in every way imaginable: from their offense both long and short range, in transition off defensive pressure, and off their own offensive glass. Stonie Flemming had the hot hand from behind the arc, canning a trio of trifectas to account for most of her 11 points. Payton Hoeme was also in double figures with 10.
In all, 9 different players broke into the scoring column for Pratt. Even with the running clock in Q4, Pratt managed to put up 11 points against the overmatched Panthers.
"We played good defense," Coach Rausch said in summary. "Paige Bailey did a great job defensively and also had some nice assists."
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21 December 2012. In the first genomewide association study (GWAS) of schizophrenia symptom dimensions, researchers report a polygenic effect on disorganized symptoms, which include formal thought disorder and bizarre behavior. First authors Ayman Fanous of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, DC, and Baiyu Zhou of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, along with the Schizophrenia Psychiatric GWAS Consortium (PGC), published their findings online December 1 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
An illness characterized almost as well by its heterogeneity as by its common features, schizophrenia comes with a wide range of symptoms and variation in illness course, symptom severity, and outcome. A number of studies have suggested that this heterogeneity is heritable (Cardno et al., 2001; Fanous and Kendler, 2008). In the current study, researchers probed the genetic basis for this clinical heterogeneity using both Molecular Genetics of Schizophrenia (MGS) and PGC study samples. This work was presented earlier this year at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics meeting (see SRF related conference story).
Fanous, Zhou, and colleagues first examined data from the MGS sample of 2,454 subjects with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder (Shi et al., 2009), all of whom had been assessed with the Lifetime Dimensions of Psychosis Scale. Though the scale consists of 14 items, including delusions, paranoia, hallucinations, blunted affect, and formal thought disorder, factor analysis of the scores on these items from the MGS sample identified three symptom categories—positive, negative/disorganized, and affective.
Even with this simplification, however, no single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of the 696,491 examined was significantly associated with any of these three symptom factors. This is not particularly surprising, given that larger sample sizes in the tens of thousands have been needed to detect schizophrenia-associated SNPs at a genomewide level of significance in past studies (see SRF related news story and SRF related conference story). Still, the authors highlighted 18 SNPs with promising p values less than 10-5 and found that these usually associated with a single symptom factor. Except for a signal in the major histocompatibility complex region of chromosome 6p21, these SNPs did not overlap with schizophrenia-associated SNPs detected in case-control designed GWAS, which suggests that genetic loci modulating symptoms may differ from those involved in schizophrenia vulnerability.
To see if these hints of association might signal something real, the researchers examined the symptom dimension-related SNPs in the PGC samples using a polygenic score analysis. A polygenic model, where thousands of alleles each contribute a small effect to schizophrenia on a population basis, was advanced by Gottesman and Shields (Gottesman and Shields, 1967) and has recently received experimental support (Purcell et al., 2009). The researchers sorted the symptom-related SNPs by varying levels of significance determined in the MGS sample, then evaluated the combined contributions of these SNPs in the PGC samples with a polygenic score. This revealed that the SNPs nominally associated with negative/disorganized symptoms were overrepresented in PGC cases compared to controls, though they explained only 0.05 percent of the variance in liability for schizophrenia. Subsequent analyses suggested that this effect was mainly due to disorganized symptoms of formal thought disorder and bizarre behavior rather than negative symptoms. Polygenic scores based on SNPs related to the positive or affective symptom dimensions did not differ between PGC cases and controls.
Standardizing clinical assessments of symptoms would greatly aid the identification of the relevant genetic factors, and a similar analysis of multiple PGC datasets is ongoing. The authors note that this "could shed additional light on whether significant associations can be observed between individual SNPs and symptom dimensions, and whether the polygenic effect on negative/disorganized symptoms can be replicated and strengthened despite the need to combine different types of rating systems from different studies."—Allison A. Curley.
Fanous AH, Zhou B, Aggen SH, Bergen SE, Amdur RL, Duan J, Sanders AR, Shi J, Mowry BJ, Olincy A, Amin F, Cloninger CR, Silverman JM, Buccola NG, Byerley WF, Black DW, Freedman R, Dudbridge F, Holmans PA, Ripke S, Gejman PV, Kendler KS, Levinson DF. Genomewide association study of clinical dimensions of schizophrenia: polygenic effect on disorganized symptoms. Am J Psychiatry . 2012 Dec 1 ; 169(12):1309-17. Abstract
PRIMARY PAPERSGenome-wide association study of clinical dimensions of schizophrenia: polygenic effect on disorganized symptoms.
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How did the character for "leather" - [革]{かわ / カク} - come to also convey the meaning for "newness"? 広辞苑 lists one of the definitions (under かく) as
あらたまること, あらためること, and we can see this in some of its associated 熟語: 変革, 改革, 革新. Anyone know how this came to be?
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The source for this dual meaning already exists in Chinese. 革 is originally a pictograph of a stretched hide that is turned into leather. As a noun it meant just "leather", but as a verb it also meant "stretching something flabby and making it taut", which then was extended figuratively into "making something old new" and from there "renewal". Thus came all the meanings in compounds such as 革新, 改革 and 革命.
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You can also find a similar explanation online in Gogen-Allguide:


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Given the Sony data breach and other events recently, is there any actual laws or regulation regarding how to store passwords? I think there are with credit cards, you're not allowed to store the 3 digit key or something.
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SOUTHINGTON — There's no secret to the Fairfield Prep option offense.
How it goes is based on the legs, feet, hands and arm of quarterback Colton Smith, and the strength and power of running back Nicholas Crowle.
Southington's defense will hope to be up to the task today at 1:35 p.m. when it faces the Jesuits in the Class LL state championship at Central Connecticut State University's Arute Field.
"Colton Smith is extremely elusive and very savvy," said Southington coach Mike Drury at the CIAC luncheon Wednesday. "He makes great throws downfield that can really hurt. He can beat you with his legs on the perimeter or run up the middle. He's got great vision and field awarenesss."
And let's not forget Smith's cutback ability.
Smith has rushed for 1,750 yards and 27 touchdowns this season, including two TDs in the 29-28 Class LL semifinal win over West Haven last Saturday.
"Your defense has to be disciplined with your assignments," said Drury. "When you are facing option teams, you have to honor the fullback (Crowle) and always account for the quarterback on every single play."
Containing Crowle is a major obstacle when you consider his 6-foot-3, 245-pound frame.
"I haven't seen Crowle in person, but he looks very big on film," said Drury. "The young man runs downhill with power and he's got deceptive speed. When he hits the edge, he's real quick. He's a big package."
What can you do to slow him down?
"You need to slow him down at the point of attack," added Drury. "You can't let him get momentum. You need to take care of the gaps and fill the holes. Their offensive line is strong and definitely the biggest we have faced all year. Our speed defintely helps. We're looking to control the line with speed and leverage."
When Smith throws the ball down field, it's usually to 6-foot-2 junior wide receiver John Dellisanti.
"We have to keep an eye on him," said Drury. "Dellisanti is very good and fast. He's a big threat down the field adn we have to make sure when Smith drops back where Dellesanti is."
The Jesuits enter the game with plenty of momentum, having beaten West Haven twice in a matter of nine days. On Thankgiving, the Jesuits topped West Haven, 29-20, and then topped the Blue Devils last Saturday sandwiched in between a 51-26 quarterfinal decision at Hall of West Hartford on Dec. 3.
After dropping a 35-27 decision to Hand of Madison on Oct. 18, the Jesuits have won seven in a row. In week two, the Jesuits narrowly lost to Class M finalist St. Joseph of Trumbull, 36-34, putting their playoff picture in doubt.
"We knew we would have to win out and knew that it would be still possible," said Smith. "What we learned from those losses is that we can't get behind in games because it's hard to dig ourselves out of a hole."
Their recent success should make a big difference against the Blue Knights, also in the midst of a seven-game winning streak.
"We have a ton of momentum going into this game," said Smith. "It was a real confidence builder to beat able to West Haven twice. We know that Southington is a physical team and a very good team and that it could go either way. We feel we have a very good shot."
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- A Fort Riley soldier is in trouble with the law after an incident in the Aggieville district over the weekend.
At 12:25 AM on Saturday, September 22, 2012, officials say a police service aide reported that she saw a man kick the drive-thru sign at Arby's on Bluemont Avenue and damage a black Ford F350 truck, breaking a tail light.
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Interior Linemen Are Headlining an NFL Draft Class—For the First Time
Last year, the NFL was spoiled rotten by a draft class that was brimming with talent at the game's glamour position: quarterback. The sublime gifts of blue-chip passers like Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III made 2012 one of the sexiest drafts in football history.
This year, fate has dealt the NFL a decidedly different hand—at least in the glamour department. Gil Brandt, a former Dallas Cowboys personnel executive and draft historian, says this year's most impressive collection of elite NFL prospects at one position is actually pretty remarkable. "It's just a shame they happen to play offensive guard."
Several offensive tackles and centers have been taken with the No. 1 overall pick. A fullback has also enjoyed the honor. But never has the first person called to the stage been a guard. In fact, the last time an NFL team spent a top-five pick on a guard was in 1975 when the Baltimore Colts took North Carolina guard Ken Huff at No. 3. Not since 1997 has a guard been drafted even with a top-10 selection.
This year, however, fotball is enjoying something of a guard smörgåsbord. Alabama's Chance Warmack has been tabbed by some analysts as the best player in the draft and an outside contender to be taken No. 1 overall. At the same time, scouts, coaches and GMs say North Carolina's Jonathan Cooper could also crack the top-10 picks. Oregon's Kyle Long and Syracuse's Justin Pugh (likely converting from tackle) are also potential first-rounders. This means that as many as four guards could be drafted in the first round—the most since 1986.
"People will tell me I'm crazy, that a guard can't go No. 1," said Mike Mayock, a draft analyst for the NFL Network. "But Chance Warmack is the best football player I saw on tape this year. And Jonathan Cooper is just a tiny notch behind him."
Even among the linemen who toil anonymously in the NFL's trenches, guards have long resided at the bottom of the pecking order. They don't need the same freakish blend of size and quickness that allows tackles to take on pass rushers one-on-one. Unlike centers, they are rarely called upon to anticipate blitzes and make protection calls.
As such, guards have historically been seen as heavy-footed lumberers who could be easily unearthed in the draft's later rounds. "[Teams] are looking for guys who can run with power, run it consecutive times and smash into people until they can't hardly think," said North Carolina's Cooper. "It's not a glamour position."
One thing that has helped the draft stock of guards this year is the general lack of jaw-dropping talent at the glamour positions. It's conceivable that no quarterback or running back will be drafted in Thursday's first round. The top receiver, West Virginia's Tavon Austin, is hardly a sure thing at 5 feet 8.
Another factor: the preponderance of pass-happy offenses in the NFL may be causing teams to reconsider the value of interior linemen. And as more teams incorporate elements of the spread offense—a collegiate scheme that calls for quick drops and fast throws—defenses have countered with a greater number of blitzes up the middle as they seek to get immediate pressure on the quarterback via the shortest route.
But the biggest reason guards may shoot up draft board is the changing economic climate of the modern NFL. For most of the last decade, the salaries commanded by highly drafted rookies were so astronomical it was unthinkable to commit such sums to interior linemen. But in 2011, the NFL introduced a rookie wage cap that reduced the pay for top-10 picks by tying salaries to a sliding scale. The result: The top slots on draft boards are no longer the exclusive preserve of quarterbacks, tackles and pass rushers.
Prior to the wage scale, the top five picks in the 2010 NFL draft received, on average, a rookie contract worth $65.8 million. That would have been by far the most-lucrative ever awarded to a guard. But since the pay scale began, the average deal for a top-five pick is four years and $20.4 million.
"If ever there was a time for a guard to go early," says Detroit Lions general manager Martin Mayhew, who holds the No. 5 pick, "it would be this year."
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I know that every cultural expression of Orthodoxy has different terms for the orders (roles) from the language of their home country, but I am interested in the English terms. What is the 'hierarchy,' in order, of the ecclesiastical offices/roles in Eastern Orthodoxy?
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As you are probably aware, there is not a high degree of unity in Eastern Orthodoxy in English-speaking nations, especially in North America (cf. Phyletism, autocephaly, controversy concerning autocephaly and the OCA, controversy over the broad appointment of metropolitans). However, there is somewhat general consensus on on the orders. But it should be noted that not all Orthodox Christians will recognize all of the titles within the orders, and some consider them to be in a slightly different order. Also, many of the English titles borrow heavily from the Greek conventions, so some of those will be noted. With that said, there are three major orders in Orthodoxy:
There are also two minor orders:
There were formerly other minor orders but most have fallen into disuse (such as doorkeepers, exorcists, and acolytes). The major orders can be further subdivided.
Presbyter / Priest
Minor Orders
Concerning the minor orders, a subdeacon (also called a hypodeacon) may assist the bishop and/or priest in various ways (but not with the administration of the sacraments). The ordination to subdeacon is not performed during Divine Liturgy nor at the altar as it is a minor order. He may be assigned any of the other roles of the minor orders such as Reader (but also former minor orders that have fallen into disuse such as Cantor, Catechist, or other leadership roles in the community). While canon law does consider the ordination of subdeacons to be binding on their marital status, many do not enforce this or consider the ordination to be of a different sort. Thus the canon laws concerning the marriage or celibacy of candidates is generally only enforced for the major orders.
A reader (or lector) is ordained by the bishop to read during services and in the Divine Liturgy. This role developed due to low literacy rates in past history, so being able to read was a special gift. The only way scripture was normally heard by early Christians was when it was publicly read in the church. He may also be assigned any of the other roles of the minor orders other than subdeacon (such as Cantor, Catechist, or other leadership roles in the community).


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1 The LORD appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. 2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby.
I didn't include the entire chapter of Genesis 18 here, but, it seems that three men appear to Abraham just before Sodom is destroyed. They have come down so that "the Lord" can see for himself before he judges them. Over and over one of the men, in particular, is referred to by Abraham and the narrator as 'the Lord'.
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A news release sent from Killeen police Monday morning said the woman came to police headquarters on Sunday and spoke with detectives, who have said they do not believe she was involved with the infant's death.
Smith said officers were sent at around 1:50 p.m. last Friday to the store at 1400 Lowe's Blvd. after an employee reported finding the newborn baby girl's body inside a restroom at the back of the store.
Bell County Justice of the Peace Bill Cooke pronounced the infant dead and ordered an autopsy.
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Suppose I have a Facebook page for a business or organization, and I want to delegate posting responsibilities to an employee. As far as I can tell, the only way to do this is to give that employee full admin status, which seems to allow removal of other admins and even permanent deletion of the page. How can I delegate responsibilities to an employee without opening up this sort of risk?
Most major CMS applications have a plugin that allows for posting items to FB accounts. Assuming you also have an actual site for your business and it's running on top of some system, this might be something to look into. You'd just create a section, content type, or whatever's appropriate to your particular CMS, limit access to it, and post from there instead.
I've found one solution, but it's suboptimal - Facebook provides "mobile" posting via a randomly-assigned email address. This address can be given to anybody you trust to post, without giving them any other permissions to modify the page, and it can be changed at any time if it's compromised.
I'd still like to know if there's a better solution...
Develop a backend for your Facebook page using the Facebook API.
You can give all users the ability to post content on your page, but those users won't be able to delete your site.
Unfortunately, there is not a way to give posting ability to only some users without making those users "Admin".
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Which properties should I look for or avoid in rice when I'm planning to fry it (the day after cooking)?
It depends how you like your rice. Personally I like my fried rice to have a few sticky lumps through it to add texture. Others may like it completely 'separated'. It's really up to you. I usually use a combination of long grain and Basmati.
Another point is to make sure your rice is safe - it needs to be cooled relatively quickly, and kept cool, to prevent the growth of Bacillus cereus, which can cause serious (no pun intended) food poisoning.
As it happens, fried rice is much better when cooked with cold rice and very hot oil anyway, so it's a good idea to keep it cool in any case.
Technically you could probably use whatever rice you have there. But if you're looking to make a typical Chinese style Fried rice, traditionally a long grain white rice is used. The long grain rice has the lowest amount of amylopectin which is what makes some rice "sticky". Typically when fried rice is made, you want individual separable grains of rice. So I'd go with the longest grain rice you have.
The most important property is that it's cold. Really.
Cold, slightly dry rice of any variety will do, except for highly glutinous rice (like mochi-gome). Mochi-gome, while used for mixed rices like sekihan (rice and red beans), is generally steamed together with other ingredients, not fried, because it'll just be uncooperative.
Japan, China, Korea, and Thailand all have some form of fried rice, and the variety of rice is generally the same as whatever the most common variety is in that country. Japan and Korea usually use a short-grain japonica variety which tends to clump a bit, and China and Thailand mostly use medium grain which generally doesn't. Generally, because the rice dries substantially during cooling, the clumping is greatly reduced when you toss that pre-cooled rice around in your frying pan/wok/cooking vessel with a bit of oil.


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7 Normal Things That Become Horror Movies Under a Microscope
Nature is a beautiful, precious thing that brings nearly as much joy as it does painful, horrific death, yet we always talk about "getting back to nature" as a positive experience. That's all well and good. Just don't get too close, because once you whip out a microscope, some truths cannot be unknown.
#7. A Strawberry Is a Hellish Alien Hive
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Whether you eat them as jam, with cream, or covered in chocolate, strawberries are not only delicious, but kind of oddly sexy. There's no movie scene that zooms up to a woman's lips as she takes a seductive bite of a raw potato, after all.
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Potatoes do nothing for our vampire fetish.
But Up Close ...
Put a strawberry under an electron microscope and suddenly it's a production still from the gritty reboot of Aliens:
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They're warm. They're pulsating.
Those white egg-like structures are actually the strawberry pips, which are called achenes. They're the true fruit of the strawberry plant, lounging around in the fleshy leftover carrier blob that we have taken to eating. The hairs are there because strawberries just happen to have hair.
Straight up hair.
#6. A Pop-Tart Looks Like a Sci-Fi Virus
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Odds are that at some point in your life you have eaten no fewer than two of the paste-filled cardboard rectangles known as Pop-Tarts. If you insist you've only eaten one at any given time, you are a liar and have deep personal issues to explore instead of reading this article. Godspeed.
But aside from the ingredient list, ain't nothin' scary about a Pop-Tart.
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Plus it works with any diet because it's not technically food.
But Up Close ...
Bring a Pop-Tart under an electron microscope, magnify it 30,000 times, and you'll find yourself facing terror itself.
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Whatever you do, don't inhale.
That fungal cancer cell collection up there is pretty far from a delicious, sugary treat. That's something a team of space marines would hose down with fire, or maybe the background of some particularly deranged horror video game level. If this was a Hollywood film, a serious man in a white coat would take one look at that monstrosity through his microscope and say, "Dear God -- it's mutating!" while removing his glasses for emphasis. But no, that is indeed a Pop-Tart, as well as the work of photographer Caren Alpert, who uses it as an example of how messed up the chemical structure of processed food is compared to the neatly arranged geometrical structures found in nature. Does this make them taste any less delicious? No. Are you going to think of that picture -- looking for all the world like a hive of hell-spider eggs ready to burst in your mouth -- the next time you're slipping a pair of delicious Pop-Tarts out of their quarantine bag?
Probably! But that's OK -- you'll eat it anyway. It beats cookin' stuff.
#5. Sweat Glands Are the Portals to Hell
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Sweat glands are tasked with regulating body temperature, a power they routinely abuse by also making you smell like something feet would vomit up if they had semi-functional digestive tracts. But they're just little holes in your skin, like pores, right?
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When you're this close, everyone looks like Edward James Olmos.
But Up Close ...
Imagine you're in one of those movies where they shrink you down to microscopic levels so you can complete some dire mission inside the body of Martin Short. You thought you'd be taking the Short-cut through an unassuming sweat gland, but instead you find yourself staring down a portal to hell:
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At the end of that tunnel is a three-headed snake, whispering your secret name.
Nah, we're just kidding. That's not actually a colored scanning electron microscope shot peering down into a human sweat gland.
Can you imagine?
No, it's looking back from the inside of the human body to your exit point as it closes up mere seconds before you return to full size in an explosion of Martin-meat. Otherwise that is an entirely accurate portrait of what your sweat gland looks like. It's also probably the reason why Ant-Man drinks so much after every mission.
#4. Wine Is a Graveyard
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Wine is the proper way to induce inebriation in situations where other drinks, like beer or psychedelic mushroom tea, might be frowned upon. You know, like dinner at your boss's house, or ... well, no, that's pretty much the only time you should drink wine. It is the lady and/or gentleman's preferred stupid-making body-poison, and part of that has to be its look: smooth, uniform, and a deep, elegant crimson, like the blood of some majestic mythical creature. A unicorn, perhaps.
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Seriously, this vampire fetish defines our whole diet.
But Up Close ...
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Catch-22: To erase it from your memory, you need to drink it.
Most people are aware that yeast micro-organisms help the fermentation process of wine (and other alcoholic beverages that we shall not speak ill of here). The thing we tend to forget is that they never really go away. Photographer William LeGoullon (who has a whole portfolio of terrifying shots ruining all of your favorite things) is happy to show us the disgusting truth that lies within an innocent glass of red wine. The above microscope photo of a drop of dried wine features scores of what are most likely tiny yeast cell corpses, who have given their lives just to get you hammered enough to tolerate conversations with other human beings for the evening.
They say that scotch is the water of life, but when you drink wine, you drink death. And that's pretty metal -- maybe we need to reconsider this wine thing after all.


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The 6 Most Badass Ways Anyone Has Ever Escaped the Country
Most of the people reading this are living in countries that are so awesome, they have fences and border guards to keep people out. If so, it's hard to imagine what it's like to have lived behind one of those walls during the Cold War. You didn't have to be crazy to attempt an escape from one of these places. But it sure as hell helped.
#6. An East German Drives a Tank Through the Berlin Wall
When Wolfgang Engels was a new conscript in the East German army, he was given a crappy job: help build the barbed wire fence that eventually became the Berlin Wall. It was especially sucky because he happened to be a Berliner, the only one in his unit. It's no wonder that two years later, Wolfgang lost it, in the "Oh shit, I'm on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall (and my name is Wolfgang)!" sense of the word.
In April 1963, East Berlin was gearing up for the May Day celebrations. Part of the celebrations included a mighty display of East German military power, and there were a lot of tanks laying around willy-nilly. Engels got an idea. It wasn't the brightest plan.
"Why do you have that 'I'm about to steal a tank' look on your face, Engels? ... Engels?"
The Plan:
Wolfgang found an unguarded armored personnel vehicle and decided he was just going to drive that shit through the Berlin Wall.
But before executing Operation Wall Plow, Engels first had to learn how to drive a tank. In the day leading up to the escape, he parked his truck next to some tank drivers and started chatting. "How do you start it? What does that do? What would happen if you drove it right at the wall?" And because the soldiers were starved in the conversation department, they told him.
"OK, that makes sense. Can you show me by driving me through that wall? It's for science."
That night, after one of the guards apparently left the keys in the ignition, Engels stole his escape tank. He picked the spot he thought he could penetrate the easiest and headed right for it. Unfortunately, his foot slipped off the pedal and he ended up rolling rather than plowing. So when he smashed into the wall, he made a hole, but not a tank-sized hole he could drive through.
The situation couldn't have been worse -- his back end was in the East, and his front was in the wall. Engels was like Winnie the Pooh stuck in a honey pot (of danger). Not helping matters was the fact that his tank was enmeshed in barbed wire, which Engels immediately fell into after exiting the tank. Even as he extricated himself from the wire, East German guards shot him in the back. It took his last bit of strength to climb the hood of the car and onto the wall. From there, West Berliners dragged Engels to safety, nursed him back to health, and gave him asylum.
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"I've peed on that wall every single day since."
Exactly as he planned it.
#5. A Pilot Drugs the Soviet Air Force With a Spiked Cake
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In 1989, Soviet pilot Alexander Zuyev's life was going south. He was rejected as a test pilot, his marriage was falling apart, and Gorbachev's forehead birthmark was really starting to freak him out. Lucky for him, he was a pilot with access to lots of planes. Unlucky for him, communist countries don't lend out fighter jets on the honor system.
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"I'll bring it right back, I swear. Just making a quick beer run."
The Plan:
Of all the ways to secretly steal a plane, there was only one way for Zuyev to be cartoonish about it. He served his comrades a cake drugged with crushed sleeping pills.
Soviet airbases are just like any other workplace -- if you set down a cake in the lunchroom, people will swarm that shit like ants. Only Zuyev couldn't just drug everybody in the vicinity, so he brought a cake, but only handed out slices to certain members of his squadron. The others, like the commander and mechanic on duty, still had routines to fulfill for his plan to work. Which meant Zuyev not only took the risk of drugging his co-workers with cake, but also looked like a petty asshole while doing it.
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"This is some bullshit right here."
Once his fellow airmen were asleep, presumably in a sweet little pile on the floor, Zuyev cut the telephone lines, ran to the nearest MiG-29 that was ready to fly, informed the guard on duty that his replacement was late, and said something along the lines of "Hey, I know, I'll stand here until he gets here. There's cake in the lounge. Hand me your gun." All of which seemed perfectly reasonable to the guy who was skipped in the cake distribution earlier. He gave Zuyev his gun and walked away, thinking, "Man, I am awesome at guarding the motherland's state of the art aircraft."
Everything seemed to be turning up Zuyev when the actual replacement mechanic and squadron commander showed up, presumably waving their fists in the air over the cake snub. Zuyev took some shots at them with his borrowed assault rifle, then jumped into the cockpit and hightailed it out of there.
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"Suck my diiiiiiiiiiiiiick!"
It wasn't long before Zuyev landed in Turkey, declared himself a political dissident, got arrested for hijacking, was cleared of the charges, and was allowed to move to the United States. And that was when he started spilling Soviet military secrets.
#4. A Cuban Defector Rescues His Family With a Highway Landing
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Tired of primo cigars and driving cars that predated the Beatles, Cuban air force pilot Orestes Lorenzo Perez decided to defect from Cuba in 1991. That part was simple enough -- during a training run in March, Lorenzo suddenly veered off course in his fighter jet, bolted north, managed to avoid U.S. radar, and made a surprise landing at the Boca Chica Naval Air Station in Key West.
The problem is that, because a MiG is not a flying minivan, he left his family behind in Cuba to face the wrath of the communist government. Bad move. While Lorenzo got his act together in the States, his wife back home was told that he was a traitor, an adulterer, and a homosexual, because Cuban officials were running out of names. According to the government, the family would never be reunited again.
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"They said he's gay. And they also called him fat. I don't know how to feel right now."
Lorenzo disagreed.
The Plan:
Through coded phone calls and letters, Lorenzo arranged for his wife and sons to meet him for a pickup. They'd recognize him by the plane he'd be landing on the highway.
It took almost two years for the rescue to occur. During those months, Lorenzo tried unsuccessfully to get his family back through legal means, even getting a meeting with President George Bush to put pressure on Castro to release them. Castro wouldn't budge. That was when a wealthy Cuban emigre donated $30,000 to get Lorenzo a 1961 Cessna and the plan took shape.
It's basically this, which is like the plane version of the Millennium Falcon.
When the big day came, Lorenzo's wife and kids waited near the designated highway (which was on a bridge) and watched. Lorenzo knew he had to avoid American radar so he wouldn't get intercepted, so he flew 10 feet above the waves of the ocean. And when he saw that an oncoming truck was approaching his landing zone -- which was, again, a busy highway -- he just touched down anyway and hoped the truck would stop in time. It did -- 10 yards away from the running propellers.
Lorenzo's kids and wife ran so fast that the little one lost his shoes. And the second they were in the plane -- zip -- time to go. Lorenzo's last visit to his homeland lasted under a minute. When Lorenzo landed for the second time in Florida, the U.S. agreed to let the family stay. After all, it's not like you can keep the guy out.
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"OK, everybody back. I got this."


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If I extract RNA from a (leaf tissue) sample using a one-step phenol:chloroform extraction, how long can those samples be stored at -80°C? And how many times can I defrost and refreeze them before they will become degraded?
I've found that extracted RNA using commercial kits has stayed stable for many years at -80 C. I would certainly aliquot it before freezing however as RNA is particularly sensitive to freeze-thaw cleavage.
We can keep extracted RNA in -80°C for a few weeks, but before the start of any experiments, it needs to be validated by gel electrophoresis.
I keep my RNA in 1mM sodium citrate pH 6.4. Citrate is a chelator, and helps trap the divalent metals many RNAses need to work. The lower pH also helps inhibit RNAse activity. EDTA could work as a chelator, but it only chelates well at pH's where RNAse activity is worse. Citrate gives both chelation and low pH.
Of course I also keep my RNA at -80.


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Assault Weapons Ban Is Gun Debate's First Casualty
The prospects of an assault weapons ban emerging as part of any post-Newtown gun control law looks highly unlikely after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid opted not to include it in a Democratic proposal to be offered on the Senate floor in coming weeks.
"My understanding is it will not be [part of the base bill]" to be introduced on the Senate floor, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said after meeting with Reid on Monday, according to Politico. "The leader has decided not to do it."
Feinstein's bill, which would ban more than 150 specific assault-style weapons, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee last week on 10-8 party-line vote. It can still be offered as an amendment to the measure that will reach the Senate floor. But that could be an even tougher road to passage.
Feinstein authored the 1994 assault weapons ban, which expired 10 years later when Congress failed to reauthorize it. Her bill is among several measures introduced in the new Congress in response to the Dec. 14 shooting deaths of 20 children and six educators at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, has been reluctant to back gun control measures in the past. Politico reports:
"Reid's decision highlights the tightrope walked by the majority leader in governing the gun control issue. Trapped between the White House and rank-and-file Democrats who support broad gun control legislation following the shootings last December in Newtown, Conn., Reid must also be mindful of red-state Democrats up for reelection in 2014 who favor gun rights."
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Sometime I'm in situations where I'm not 100% sure of my answer:
Let's say a user asks for the best lib to do X. I know that the lib A is great because I've heard people telling me that it is. Should I tell "use lib A" or "I've heard that lib A", or should I just leave people who actually used lib A answer (there might be none around) ?
A user asks about "how to do X". I do a search for that on google because I have a vague idea of how to do it but need more info to be more helpful. I end up finding something that looks really cool, but I have no clue if this really works. Should I tell the OP about it like "There is this solution A that looks great, but I haven't tested it." or should I just not answer the question if I have nothing better to provide ?
Sometime the OP is not specific enough in his question and people answer it by making some assumptions. Then the question can get edited and then the answer that was possibly correct might become totally wrong and get downvoted into oblivion. Should the user have waited for the OP to edit his answer (which might not happen and is hard to keep track of if you have no anwsered to the question in the first place)?
There is no perfect answer for all this, but I'd like to see you guys' opinion and how other SO users behave.
Personally, I try to avoid guessing or making assumptions. If I do, it is because I think it might be a good pointer for the OP, but then I always state in my answer that I'm not 100% sure that my answer is correct and that it requires some reading up.


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Use the elevator buzzer if you need assistance, or if the call buttons do not work.
Current Status: call buttons operational, call light on first floor fixed (120V M5). Whole system sometimes does not realize it is not in operation, at which time the call buttons do not work. Only known fix for this is to get inside, ride it to another floor, and exit normally. Sometimes you have to do this a couple times.
July 27 2010 Test report:
1st floor call button normally closed contacts were impacted with nonconductive dirt. Cleaning is performed with simple white paper, not anything else. Please, if you ever clean these call button relays do not use abrasives, they shorten the life of the relay. Also be sure to take voltage precautions since the switch has 120VAC across it.
When any call button doesn't work, the whole system doesn't work. Is that what is called 'failsafe'?
There's a PDF for an elevator test plan uploaded to the Noisebridge wiki for the elevator. Test monthly.


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Could "wrench" mean something different from a torque wrench?
Would the meaning here be vague if I left off the word "torque" in the following passage?
The biggest difficulty in giving instructions is, as already noted, over-estimating what your audience already knows. Telling someone to remove a part on their car using a torque wrench doesn't help much if they don't know how to use a torque wrench, or even what one is. Problems can also arise when you fail to adequately describe a point — it often is not clear until several steps later that a failure has occurred, and the only thing to do for it is to trace your steps backwards until you find the error.


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In a recent lecture at Columbia Law School, visiting scholar Ye Xiaoqin presented a comprehensive plan for reforming and finally abolishing the death penalty in China.
Ye, an assistant professor at Wuhan University Law School, said the death penalty in China is widely seen as a means for deterring violent crime and therefore has the support of both the general public and the government. But the error rate associated with executions is intolerable, Ye explained. "It's inherent that some will be wrongly killed by the government under any criminal justice system," she said. "Even strong procedural protections and high judicial costs cannot avoid error in executions." To eliminate the death penalty in China, Ye suggests reducing the number of executions in the country and then halting the practice altogether for 10 years. At that point, if there is a reliable alternative punishment in place, Ye believes the leaders of the country might be persuaded to eradicate the death penalty entirely.


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In Javascript, the "for (attr in this)" is often dangerous to use... I agree. That's one reason I like Coffeescript. However, I'm programming in Coffeescript and have a case where I need Javascript's "for (attr in this)". Is there a good way to do this in Coffeescript?
What I am doing now is writing a bunch of logic in embedded raw Javascript, such as:
...coffeescript here...
for (attr in this) {
if (stuff here) {
It'd be nice to use as little Javascript as possible... any suggestions for how I can achieve this and maximize my use of Coffeescript?


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...I have noticed over the decades now since Balanchine died, that the headlong tempi to Snow and Flowers have abated somewhat, at least in the initial periods of the dances. Flowers used to rush along until the last ten notes - onetwothreefour FIIIIIIIIIVE~ sixseveneightnineten! No more. Pity! I used to like that fermata.
My first viewing of Balanchine's must have been in 1958, because I distinctly recall being ten. My latest viewing was in 1998, and I haven't been able to get back since, although I've keenly wanted to. It's really slower than it used to be.


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I am looking for a matrix $C$ so that the sequence $tr(C^n)$ is dense in the set of real numbers. Equivalently (in the $2 \times 2$ case), find a complex number $z$ so that the sequence $z^n+w^n$ is dense in $\mathbb{R}$ where $w$ is the conjugate of $z$.
The answer is yes, even in the $2 \times 2$ case. Let $q_1,q_2,\ldots$ be an enumeration of the rational numbers. Let $Q_j$ be the closed interval $[q_j-1/j,q_j+1/j]$. Let $I_0=[0,2\pi]$. Let $z=2e^{i \theta}$ for a $\theta \in I_0$ to be determined.
By induction, we construct positive integers $n_1 < n_2 < \ldots$ and closed intervals $I_0 \supseteq I_1 \supseteq \cdots$ such that for each $j$, the trace $z^{n_j} + \bar{z}^{n_j}$ is in $Q_j$ whenever $\theta \in I_j$. Namely, if $n_1,\ldots,n_{j-1},I_1,\ldots,I_{j-1}$ have been determined already, then for any sufficiently large $n_j$, the set of $\theta$ such that $z^{n_j} + \bar{z}^{n_j}$ is in $Q_j$ is a union of closed intervals such that every real number is within $2\pi/n_j$ of a point inside this union and within $2\pi/n_j$ of a point outside this union, so if $n_j$ is chosen large enough, one such interval in this union will be completely contained in $I_{j-1}$ and we name it $I_j$.
The intersection of a descending chain of closed intervals is nonempty, so we can choose $\theta$ such that $\theta \in I_j$ for all $j$. Then $\lbrace z^n+\bar{z}^n : n \ge 1 \rbrace$ contains an element of $Q_j$ for each $j$, so it is dense in $\mathbb{R}$.
In answer to the question as to whether $\text{tr}(C^n)$ is dense in $(-2,2)$: Choose $z=\exp(2 \pi i \theta)$ where $\theta$ is irrational, and let $C$ be the diagonal matrix with $z$ and $\overline{z}$ on the diagonal. By Weyl's criterion , the fractional parts of $n \theta$ are equidistributed modulo 1, and thus $\{z^n\}$ is dense in the unit circle. From this it follows easily that $\text{Re}(z^n)$ is dense in $(-1,1)$.
Bjorn has already answered this question in the affirmative, and shown that such matrices do exist. I'd like to add a further comment here though - 'almost no' matrices satisfy the required property. That is, the collection of 2x2 matrices such that Tr(C^n) is dense in R has zero Lebesgue measure.
We know that Tr(C^n) = a^n + b^n where a,b are the roots of the characteristic polynomial of C. If a and b are both real then it is not possible for C to have the required property. The only possibility is where they are complex conjugates, a = r exp(iθ), b = r exp(-iθ) for r >1. Then, Tr(Cn)=2rcos(nθ). Suppose that θ is uniformly distributed over [-π,π], so that exp(inθ) is uniformly distributed on the unit circle for each n. For any positive K, |Tr(C^n)|<K is equivalent to |cos(nθ)|<r-nK/2. The set of values of exp(inθ) for which this holds forms a pair of arcs of length r -nK (to leading order). So,
$$\mathbb{P}(\vert{\rm Tr}(C^n)\vert\lt K)\approx r^{-n}K/\pi$$
to leading order. Summing over n, this is finite. Then, the Borel-Cantelli lemma says that, with probability one, |Tr(Cn)|<K only finitely often. So, with probability 1, |Tr(Cn)| diverges to infinity.
(Oops, the rescaling part is bogus in the below. So this only works for C with determinant 1.)
In the 2-by-2 case, the answer is no. (Something like this argument should go through in general).
After rescaling, we can assume the matrix has determinant 1. If C is elliptic (real trace between -2 and 2), then all powers are elliptic, so that's no good. If it's parabolic (trace equal to -2 or 2), then all powers all parabolic, again no good. If it's loxodromic, the traces of the powers have real part going to infinity with n, and so they can't be dense.


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The processing capacity of the Far East petrochemical complex is planned at 3.4 million tpy of hydrocarbon feedstock, predominantly naphtha. The capacity of ethylene and propylene production unit is planned at 2 million tpy. Rosneft and Mitsui expect the complex to start up in 2017.
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I cannot find any good uses for Reave. From what I understand, it absorbs a little health and weakens them (and while they are weakened, I get a little bit of extra defense).
But it does not work on many things it seems, like Geth Prime. Normally when it hits, it gives me a glowing aura that represents my extra defense. But when I use it on say Geth Prime, nothing happens.


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I am new to Python and figured I'd play around with problems on Project Euler to have something concrete to do meanwhile.
I came across the idea of timing different solutions to see how they rate against each other. That simple task turned out to be too complicated for my taste however. I read that the
time.clock() calls are not accurate enough on unix systems (seconds resolution is simply pathetic with modern processors). Thus I stumbled upon the
timeit module which seems to be the first choice for profiling tasks.
I have to say I really don't understand why they went with such a counter-intuitive way to go about it. I can't seem to get it to work, without needing to rewrite/restructure my code, which I find very frustrating.
Take the code below and nevermind for a second that it's neither pretty nor particularly efficient:
import math
import sys
from timeit import Timer
def digitsum(number):
rem = 0
while number > 0:
rem += number % 10
number //= 10
return rem
def prime_form(p):
if p == 2 or p == 3 or p == 5:
return True
elif (p-1) % 6 != 0 and (p+1) % 6 != 0:
return False
elif digitsum(p) % 3 == 0:
return False
elif p % 10 == 0 or p % 10 == 5:
return False
return True
def lfactor(n):
if n <= 3:
return 1
limit = int(math.sqrt(n))
if limit % 2 == 0:
limit -= 1
lfac = 1
for i in range(3,limit+1,2):
if prime_form(i):
(div,rem) = divmod(n,i)
if rem == 0:
lfac = max(lfac, max(lfactor(div) ,lfactor(i)))
return lfac if lfac != 1 else n
number = int(sys.argv[1])
t = Timer("""print lfactor(number)""", """import primefacs""")
#print lfactor(number)
If i would like to time the line
print lfactor(number) why should I go through a bunch of loops, trying to define a setup statement etc.. I understand why one would want to have debug tool that are detached from the code being tested (a la unit testing) but shouldn't there be a simple and straightforward way to get the process time of a chunk of code without much hassle (importing/defining a setup etc)? What I am thinking here is something like the way one would do that:
long t0 = System.currentTimeInMillis();
// do something
long t = System.currentTimeInMillis() - t0;
.. or even better with MATLAB, using the tic/toc commands:
x = A\b;
t(n) = toc;
Hope this doesn't come across as a rant, I am really trying understand "the pythonian way of thinking" but honestly it doesn't come naturally here, not at all...