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6 Tiny Things That Have Mind-Blowing Global Impacts
The butterfly effect isn't just a confusing mess of a movie about prison beatings and child molestation starring the guy from Punk'd, it's an actual scientific principal. Every day, seemingly insignificant things can make changes on a global scale.
#6. Termites Are Warming the Planet
If we said termites have a worldwide impact, you'd assume we're talking about eating buildings. And they do their share of damage (to the tune of about $2.5 billion a year) but their real impact is less obvious. Most of the planet's population of termites are living peacefully in massive colonies in more tropical regions (well, we guess they live peacefully, the other bugs may consider them assholes for all we know). They live in giant mounds, they look like either aliens have invaded and built mini skyscrapers, or the earth itself is sporting wood.
Figure 1.1: Earth-boner.
So how are these little guys changing the planet? Well...
The Impact:
Those giant mounds actually serve a greater purpose than just giving anteaters easy access to food. They are actually part of a complex HVAC system that termites use to regulate the temperature of their colonies and move gases in and out. Which gas is being emitted by the termites that requires a structure the size of a skyscraper to manage? It's Methane, also known as the almost-as-bad-as-CO2 contributor to Global Warming.
Fuck! Global warming again? But how in the hell can these tiny things emit enough of any gas for anybody to even notice?
Through sheer numbers. See, each of those mounds can hold up to two million termites. There are thought to be 250 trillion termites in the world (outnumbering humans 40,000-to-one), and that's one of the more conservative estimates.
250 trillion of these.
Imagine all of them together, farting out methane 24 hours a day. Experts think they're the second largest source of natural methane in the world, though some estimates think it's far more than that.
It's almost inspirational, if you think about it. That by working together, even the tiniest of us can combine our efforts and, uh, destroy a planet.
#5. Aircraft Contrails are Cooling the Planet
In case you didn't know, contrails are those wispy little clouds left behind jets as they fly high overhead, shuttling families to Disney World and harboring people boning with a foot in a toilet full of blue water.
You can't tell, but the pilots are blaring "Higher" by Van Halen
They are caused by jet engine exhaust cooling. They then cause water droplets to condense in the cold temperatures high up in the atmosphere.
At any given time you see, what, one of these a day? Unless you live near an airport? Can't be that big of a deal, right?
The Impact:
Believe it or not, it turns out all of those little trails of ice and water in the stratosphere do have an impact--and a noticeable one--on the temperature of the earth. And we're not even talking about Global Warming this time.
You see, for a long time, scientists thought that vapor trails from aircraft might play a role in Global Dimming, where shit in the sky actually blocks the sun and causes the earth to cool. During the week after 9/11, they got their proof.
The forced no-flight policy for the few days after the attacks gave scientists the opportunity to see how the lack of any contrails affected the temperature, and god damn if the overall temperature of the U.S. didn't go up one degree Celsius during that time.
"This isn't going to help those conspiracy theories."
That may not sound like a lot, but keep in mind that when Krakatoa blew up in 1883, it changed the global temperature by the same amount and fucked up the climate for years afterward. Not bad for what amounts to the earthly equivalent of your head being wrapped in a few strands of hair.
As you can clearly see, this is a bad thing.
Then again, commercial air travel alone accounts for almost 100,000 freaking flights every damned day, and that doesn't count all of the thousands more military flights and so on, each one leaving a contrail that spans hundreds or thousands of miles.
Seriously, look at this simulation:
Each of those yellow dots is an airplane.
#4. The Three Gorges Dam in China Shook the Globe
You can say this about the Chinese: They think big. Their population, their economy, that huge wall.
So it only seems fitting that they would also build the world's biggest dam, which, to the people who lived in the area that eventually became its basin, was also the biggest pain in the ass.
While there were all sorts of environmental consequences to the project (and some fear many more down the line), it's just one dam. And it's in the middle of goddamned China, so it doesn't affect you, right?
The Impact:
It changed the goddamned rotation of the earth. And it thus made the days longer. That's right, it did exactly the same thing Superman did when he turned back time. Sort of.
We're still confused about all of that.
We've long suspected that dams could do this, simply because when you shift the weight of the water around the globe, it affects the way the globe spins on its axis. It's the same as how a figure skater can spin faster by holding her arms above her head.
So, when China opened the dam and filled the reservoir with 42-billion tons of water, the whole planet wobbled on its axis, and even slowed ever so slightly (the days after were longer by less than a microsecond--but still, we should have gotten overtime for it).
That is some scary, supervillain shit there. While being able to see the Great Wall from space is impressive, moving an entire planet is in the realm of Galactus in terms of huge. So why didn't the rest of the world declare war on China to stop them from tearing the earth out of its orbit and sending it skidding into the sun?
Because a little wobble in the rotation shouldn't hurt anybody, since natural "wobbles" happen all of the time (due to ice melting patterns and that sort of thing). Still, the fact that a big hunk of concrete built by humans could change the rotation of the earth at all, has to make you stop and shiver a little bit.


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I had to ask this question after reading the answers to What programming languages are most commonly used in quantitative finance? I understand that C++ programs can be optimized pretty well and are faster than anything else. But in this era, the performance of a program written in a language based on frameworks such as C# and Java can be pretty close to that of C++, while the maintenance cost of the program would be lower than the C++ one. But why is C++ still a very popular language in QF?
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The other posters have already noted that the prevalent use of C++ appears to be due to historical reasons and unwillingness to change. Those reasons aren't the ones that people should be applying. If you want real reasons to use C++, how about the following:
On the other hand, C++ is
And by the way, for the typical user, the performance difference between C++ and, say, C# won't be as pronounced.
The main reason is traders/quants currently in business often learned C++ in their formation rather than C#, they naturally used this language when starting new projects.
It will gradually evolve, I guess you could have asked "what's the reason cobol is still the most popular language in Finance" 20 years ago.
Also most projects in production use C++ but I think now most new projects gradually evolve towards C#/Java.
Garbage Collection. The amortized performance between C++ and more modern languages is similar, but when your heap gets large, a GC can still take 100ms or more! That's an eternity, and just isn't acceptable for anything with real-time requirements
I don't know if it the most popular but it is popular for sure - I think there are several reasons for that, which not only apply to QF:
There are few languages out there that have all of these characteristics - but there will finally be a transisiton at least towards C# and Java (This is already happening).
People use C++ because it offers a balance between performance and convenience. It is true that you can get Java to be (almost) as fast as C++, but you need to put a lot of effort into it. On the other hand, an average-quality C++ code will be much faster than average-quality Java code. I know this from personal experience.
Whichever treasury system the banks implements it will have pieces in C/C++ and/or Java. So C++ is just easier to interface.
Also, as little as the difference of performance is, it does matter if you need to plug that model in a Montecarlo simulation running hundreds of scenarios - for value at risk computation.
Not all will agree that "the maintenance cost of the program [is] lower than the C++ one." For just one thing, when we use C# or similar, we have to wrestle with the C# "framework," which aims, but often fails, to deliver a "richer," "more powerful" development environment. But "richer, more powerful" is in the eye of the language designer or design committee and often translates, on the mat, to "a briar patch of needless complexities, obstructions, irregularities, dead ends, unexpected stupidities, counterintuitive rules, and lazy, dumbass assumptions."
C and C++ (and, yes, assembler) present no such hurdles, which considerably eases programming and maintenance.
The optimization possibilities offered by C++ templates can make code potentially very fast; faster than C, and faster than Java could ever hope to be. (A C programmer will typically use a function pointer and a compiler cannot inline that; a C++ functor can and will be inlined.)
I know C# has templates that look like C++'s but I cannot personally comment on speed benefits. C# is too closely tied in with Windows. And Windows is not a good platform to build financial systems on (IMHO, but also that of the LSE and others ;-) And don't get me started on DLL Hell when you try to mix APIs from two companies...
[Feb'13 UPDATE: Ironically I've done a lot more C# in the year since writing that. (And that is an indication of its growing support, even going so far as some companies offering a C# API instead of a C++ API.) C#/Mono works well (but the people offering C# APIs are foolishly not testing on Mono and letting needless Windows dependencies in; foolish because it limits their potential audience). Finally, C# templates are instantiated at run-time, so it is not possible to do those the C++ compile-time optimizations.]
I do agree with others that the tide may be turning against C++, but C++11 may give it a new lease of life. The speed and power is still all there, but the auto keyword and the built-in lambdas (to name but two) can make the code look much cleaner (meaning easier to maintain and harder to introduce bugs).
Finally, as a reason to use C++ in finance, there is Rcpp and RInside !
Its because the people still "think", it must be faster and hence favor C++. Real arguments are sparse. Some of the most ideological arguments:
At the end, every system is heterogenious. The choice of a language for a specific task should not be biased by the personal experience too much, but rather reflect the abilities of the language to get the work done fast and reliable. I would not use C++ for user interfaces anymore. C# is better at that - and equally good for many tasks which were assigned to C++ uniquely in the past.
C is tought at courses at universities everywhere. And people invested many time and efford to get into it. Now we want to collect the fruits and not reinvest into any new platform/language. But the IT world is changing so fast as does the computer architecture. "Next Generation" developers are used to handle C# and Java even more than C++. And they are getting tired of changing platforms - if everything they need is already there. I have switched to Visual Basic 6 years ago and didn't regred so far.
I do agree with the argument on historic reasons, speed and GC with regarding the original question.
To add my 2 cents to the rest of the discussion, I believe that Scala/Akka combination will gain a strong foothold in QF. Of course Languages like Erlang did exist long before Scala/Akka, but did not get much footing due to its esoteric nature and cryptic syntax (at least for people familiar with C/C++ like languages) and not many used it. Scala syntax is also cryptic but there is a growing user base and IB and funds have started using it.
Also another language to watch-out is F#.
I will focus on some of the many reasons why we prefer C++ to Java, while I dont have much experience with C#. First of all various answers here have brought up valid points on why C++11 is way more practical than other languages, once the learning phase for advanced features is mastered, especially for large numerical projects, so I need not repeat things like why having control over GC is a significant advantage.
Java is mostly geared towards an OO paradigm, while C++ additionally offers functional programming and a very powerful template metaprogramming framework (Java generics are not really comparable, neither do C#'s templates do significantly better afaik).
For numerics various Java issues can be a burden, such as the absence of unsigned integers (although this has been corrected at last) or slow performance of trigonometric functions. Let alone access to SSE/AVX, and the lack of control over bounds checking. And operator overloading in Java is also not really supported: can you really write any numerical code without that? And every Java object occupies at least 8 bytes, which has become a significant overhead with memory access becoming slower (especially in machine learning, but I bet in HFT too). Missing adressing also renders many data structures unnecessarily heavy, and some are even impossible to implement in Java. The virual machine sometimes pollutes the code cache too, then there's class loading and other overheads...
Also the absence of function pointers is an issue, and the "alternative" Java idioms have their drawbacks.
Furthermore afaik multithreading in Java is not so practical, and is shifted down to multiprocessing (please correct me here). Interfacing to other languages through JNI is a real pain (or atleast so was at the time when I had to).
As far as I know there's no advanced library comparable to Eigen in Java or C#, for example; new HPC projects are still dominated by C++, and these are only some of the reasons.
Java and C# for sure are more convenient for other tasks and have a much softer learning curve, but so do even VBA or plain old Excel.
Also check this related comment.
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I want to display a important list of items using an ItemsControl.
The reason why I'm using an ItemsControl is that the DataTemplate is much more complex in the application I'm working on: The sample code provided only reflects the sizing problem I have.
I would like :
- the ItemsControl to be virtualized because there is many items to display
its size to expand to its parent container automatically (the Grid)
<Grid> <ItemsControl x:Name="My" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Names}"> <ItemsControl.Template> <ControlTemplate> <StackPanel> <StackPanel> <TextBlock Text="this is a title" FontSize="15" /> <TextBlock Text="This is a description" /> </StackPanel> <ScrollViewer CanContentScroll="True" Height="400px"> <VirtualizingStackPanel IsItemsHost="True" /> </ScrollViewer> </StackPanel> </ControlTemplate> </ItemsControl.Template> <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <TextBlock Text="{Binding}" /> </DataTemplate> </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate> </ItemsControl> </Grid>
The code behind is :
public partial class Page1: Page
public List<string> Names { get; set; }
public Page1()
Names = new List<string>();
for(int i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
Names.Add("Name : " + i);
My.DataContext = this;
As I force the ScrollViewer height to 400px, ItemsControl virtualization works as I expect: The ItemsControl displays the list very quickly, regardless of how many items it contains.
However, if I remove Height="400px", the list will expand its height to display the whole list, regardless its parent container height. Worse: it appears behind its container.
Putting a scrollviewer around the ItemsControl gives the expected visual result, but the virtualization goes away and the list takes too much time to display.
How can I achieve both automatic height expansion and virtualization of my ItemsControl ?


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WHEELING – Contractors touring the former Clay School in East Wheeling on Wednesday said it may take no more than a heavy snowfall to send stone blocks weighing hundreds of pounds and a shower of bricks from the top of the building to the sidewalk and street three stories below.
Merely securing the building to keep the public out of harm's way easily could cost six figures, they said, and a new roof could be at least $400,000 to $500,000 – possibly more depending on the amount of deterioration underneath the existing roof.
Faced with this information, local scientist Darryl Baynes must soon decide whether the colossal 15th Street edifice he purchased about a decade ago with a vision of opening a recreation and science center for area youth has become too much of a financial albatross to maintain.
"It may come down to a numbers thing, whether it makes more sense to tear it down or fix it," said Baynes, who operates a nonprofit company and travels around the country teaching children how to have fun with science.
Jack McKeever, owner of Angelina Stone & Marble in St. Clairsville, said a significant section of parapet on the building's facade is bowed outward several inches, and he pointed out at least two large limestone blocks set into the front of the building that have shifted and could come down at any time, he said.
The building is located directly across from the site where the city razed an entire block of homes in order to build a recreational park that will include a sports field, basketball courts and a playground, expected to open next year.
"It's going to get somebody hurt," McKeever said of the former school building built in the 1940s.
Baynes said he planned to call a fencing contractor shortly after meeting with city officials Wednesday afternoon to erect a barricade to keep people off the sidewalk and cars from parking in front of the bowed section of parapet, which is located toward the southeast corner of the building. Jerry Wilhelm, enlisted by Baynes to write grants for his science center project, said he would contact legislators about obtaining emergency funds from the state to stabilize the building.
Economic and Community Development Director Nancy Prager said she hoped to provide Baynes a rough estimate of what it would cost to demolish the 83,000-square-foot building within the next week. Baynes isn't giving up on saving the building just yet, but he said he wants to make a decision within the next six months.
Those on hand for Wednesday's inspection included Baynes; city building inspector Frank Wilson; McKeever and Brian Harvey, also of Angelina Stone & Marble; Matt Mansuetto of Mansuetto Roofing; and John Dolak and Gary Zadai of Roofers Local 188 in Warwood.
Baynes had approached the roofers' union about the possibility of using apprentice labor to help with repairs, but Dolak and Zadai said they felt the job was too dangerous and extensive for inexperienced roofers.


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After a small search that I did I was unable to spot any answers here.What I am trying is to prove why the 2^sprt{2} is transcendental number.I know that this probably is a closed problem and probably many people have proved it already,but I want to reach the answer by myself after doing a research on this problem and going through several books and sources and test my knowledge and my power.So what I basically need is to give me guideline to solve the problem.If my question is too general,before you close it,please give me some information to rephrase,so it won't be so general.
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By the Gelfond–Schneider theorem, $2^{\sqrt2}$ is transcendental.
$2^{\sqrt 2}$ is called the Gelfond–Schneider constant.
See also http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/173804/deciding-whether-2-sqrt2-is-irrational-transcendental
Don't worry, your question is well-stated. Some of these simply stated questions about transcendental numbers are still unknown! I don't know about this one. But here is another: Is $\pi^\pi$ a rational number? This one was unknown 20 years ago, and I expect it is still unknown.


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I am very very new to twitter api, today i first time signup for twitter api in my life. my aim is to post pictures from my website with a message on twitter. I have download its current library from internet, it gives me following 2 files and some examples.
i have include those two files and get this code photo_tweet.php means tweet with photo
here is my code
require 'tmhOAuth.php';
require 'tmhUtilities.php';
$tmhOAuth = new tmhOAuth(array(
'consumer_key' => 'ZlhOWeCWG2MS5Wxxxxxx',
'consumer_secret' => 'DIPjoKcIWjpGWmw5jGJSKGAOLxxxxxx',
'user_token' => 'xxxxx-OGtPyRSUOUaR6XQRLAFVuv14xxxxxx',
'user_secret' => 'xxxxxoimsrNFhlz7mPa9h5pyVSjxxxxxxx',
// we're using a hardcoded image path here. You can easily replace this with
// an uploaded image - see images.php in the examples folder for how to do this
// 'image = "@{$_FILES['image']['tmp_name']};type={$_FILES['image']['type']};filename={$_FILES['image']['name']}",
// this is the jpeg file to upload. It should be in the same directory as this file.
$image = 'a.jpg';
$code = $tmhOAuth->request(
'media[]' => "@{$image};type=image/jpeg;filename={$image}",
'status' => 'Picture time',
true, // use auth
true // multipart
if ($code == 200) {
} else {
a.jpg is on my server.
here is my settings on twitter!
Request type: GET Request URI:* https://api.twitter.com/1/
when I upload all this code and access my code it returns blank scree, when i echo $code; it returns 0
its all what i have observed and experienced. I am in need of your Kind help. I shall be very very thank full to you
Note: Event When I removed my consumer key and consumer secret this code does not show any error. just a blank screen. I want this to show errors in case of any problem but no error
Here is the code for status only it work for me
$consumerKey = $consumer_key;
$consumerSecret = $consumer_secret;
$OAuthToken = $user_token;
$OAuthSecret = $user_secret;
include "OAuth.php";
include "twitteroauth.php";
$tweet = new TwitterOAuth($consumerKey, $consumerSecret, $OAuthToken, $OAuthSecret);
$image = 'a.jpg';
$optsArray['status'] = 'Hi';
if (isset($_GET['msg'])) {
$tweetmsg = $_GET['msg'];
echo "Your message has been sent to Twitter.";
echo "Your message has not been sent to Twitter.";
} else {
echo "Your message has not been sent to Twitter.";
but it post only status when i use
$optsArray['@media[]'] = "@{$image}";
it does not work , please help me to figure out this issue


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I wonder if "iff" is considered a real word (as LEO says) or is it just an abbreviation (as in Wiktionary)?
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I would count it as jargon and I'd never use it in prose. It's a programming/maths term meaning if and only if and should be restricted to circles where it's likely to be understood (edit like XKCD ).
The question of whether it's an abbreviation is interesting. It's obviously shorter than "if and only if" but I think I'd say it was a more of a symbol. Perhaps that's my programming background coming out [where symbol has a particular meaning (see number 2 here)]. However as it consists of more than one recognisable letter, it might be better to say it's an abbreviation
Here's an Ngram which shows that iff has become more popular recently, corresponding to the increase in computing. That may explain the increase in "if and only if" as well. I have no idea whether the incidence around 1800 is simply an alternative spelling of if or whether that actually meant "if and only if".
While acknowledging the excellent answer from @Andrew Leach, one man's jargon is another man's specialized terminology. To the non-mathematician, this is jargon. To the logician, this is an abbreviation that is used in a similar way (though not as frequently) as QED. (At the bottom of a proof, a mathematician will write QED, standing for quod erat demonstrandum, to indicate that he or she has proven that which was set out to be proven.) You may find QED in popular usage, but it is both specialized terminology and an abbreviation.
I first ran across IFF in my 8th grade algebra class, and it was used in logic truth tables. It meant, as others have correctly stated, "If-and-only-if."
In the context of the XKCD comic, it means Honk if (and only if) you love formal logic. The truth table would be:
This means that if you honk because the driver swerved into your lane, then you are not obeying the bumper sticker (or the truth value of the bumper sticker's logical statement). And if you don't honk even though you love formal logic, then you're not obeying the truth value of the bumper sticker.
My experience in both programming and math has seen IFF rarely in programming and sometimes in math and logic. Few programmers, for instance, would recognize the equivalence between ~ XOR (not Exclusive OR operation) and IFF.
Q.E.D., but IFF you understood the truth table.
OED 1971 doesn't list iff at all. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition says it's an abbreviation. Difficult to consider it a real word when it's normally pronounced as three separate letters.
Re: is iff a word, or an abbreviation?
Does it need to be one or the other? It doesn't seem to be either one, in a pure sense.
I'm more comfortable identifying it as shorthand for "if and only if".
Dictionaries specifically relate the word shorthand to the standardized system of stenography, but many also list a secondary definition, something along the lines of "an abbreviated or shortened way of communicating something."
Wear the shoe iff it fits... In this case, I think shorthand fits better than either abbreviation or word.
Personally, I don't really care if it's listed or not.
IFF is, as far as I know, an established contraction of if and only if in engineering, physics, philosophy (I believe the first experience I had with IFF was when our philosophy professor used it), and as I recall in mathematics as well. Some people are snarky about it, some aren't. I use it all the time. I've seen it used in all the areas above over the past three or four decades.
Perhaps not definitively a "word" in the spoken sense. but a "working" word or defacto written word? Yes, pretty much.


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Airport facilities
Money and communications:
Banking facilities, ATMs and a bureau de change are all available.
Eating and drinking:
There are various restaurants and snack bars throughout the airport.
There are shops, including duty-free.
A lost property service is available (tel: (01) 296 7000). Left-luggage is located in the Arrivals area of Terminal 2B, open daily 24 hours (tel: (01) 296 8802).
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There is a chapel in Terminal 2B, and a hotel booking service in Terminal 1. A post office is available, as are childcare facilities and first aid.


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When I use graphical desktop-environment on Linux, no matter really what I use, I notice some icons tend to look aliased. It seems like there is perhaps a lack of anti-aliasing, like the curves on Windows and icons look far more blocky than they do on Windows.
I am running at a high resolution, 1680x1050. Still, since things look so smooth in Windows 7, I want to know if Linux graphics just are not there yet, or if there is a problem with my configuration?
Most of the time I am using Fluxbox, if that makes a difference.


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24 Oct 2011 6:20 AM #1
Submit form to new window (using standardSubmit: true)
I'd like to POST a form directly to a php script on the server, so I'm using
"standardSubmit: true".
So far so good.
But I'd also like to see the response in a new browser window.
How do I do this ? I've seen a number of recipes which were written for Extjs 3.x but clearly dont work in 4.+
I've tried to add a 'target' parameter or even baseParameter either to the form or as argument to the submit, but to no avail.
Has anyone got an example that works with Extjs 4.0 ?
OK no replies. This usually means I'm asking the wrong question, so can I ask:
Does anyone have a working example of a form submission using a standardSubmit that opens a new window, i.e. 'target = _blank', (Extjs 3.0 or 4.0) .
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25 Oct 2011 7:14 AM #2
shameless bump.
Can someone put me out of my misery on this ?
31 Oct 2011 3:19 AM #3
Solution Found...
In the end, this worked for me with Extjs 4.0.2
1. FormPanel config:'standardSubmit: true'2. Submit button handler with it own submit statement, with target: '_blank' config:
Ext.getCmp('formid').getForm().submit({target: '_blank'});( Adding a target parameter anywhere else as (say) params, baseParams, or form params is irrelevant).
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Thanks for posting your answer - saved me too!
13 Nov 2012 9:54 AM #6
I'm not certain how I missed this thread while searching. This was vital to me, as well. I did notice some interesting behavior in Chrome (I have not tried other browsers yet) when getting the form component two different ways:
Doing it this first way, you get a new tab
Doing it this second way, you get a new window
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Saturday, January 2, 2010
Berry Green Smoothie and meet our new love.
Swindled in bargain,I have had it with the "Ordinary",none were dependable for more than a year.Say Hello to the ,Robust, Capable, Reliable,befitting a health nut's cautious diet,just the companion I was looking for.A dream kitchen machine ,that can juice,cook,freeze ,blend and grind,with endless possibilities of whipping up good food fast,its the Vita-mix. The machine was in my wish list for long since I reviewed the Ice dream Cookbook,that mentions the amazing power of Vita mix to create a fresh and healthy home made Ice creams.Then Bharti's impressive review added to the desire while confirming the capabilities of the machine.And an equally impressive demo of the machine at Costco,also got someone keenly interested,Mr.Health nut.Glad we shared the same desire,brought the beauty home.Its been working wonders so far.The smoothies are the easiest ,just about any kind of fruit and vegetable can be blended to a tasty concoction.
The Berry Green Smoothie
Green is always associated with good health.All the green foods are the best nutritionally ,although not always favorable taste-wise.That's were the Vita mix makes the difference by perfectly blending the greens with the fruits,for an irresistible smoothie each time.Following is just one sample of green mixed with fruits and vegetable,one can use any combination of greens(like kale,chard,collards) with ripe fruits. A smoothie like such with fruits,greens and vegetables all in one,can deliciously fulfill the body daily need of vital nutrients.
Serves 3
1 Ripe Avocado,cored and peeled
2 cups baby spinach(can also use 4-5 leaves of Kale or collards)
1 cup frozen berries( I used cranberries)
1 Organic Apples,cored and diced
1 teaspoon ginger,freshly grated
few sprigs of parsley
1 cup cold water
Rinse the greens in cold water.For Organic fruits just rinse under tap water.The guide in Vitamix recommends washing the fruits and veggies with specially formulated soap to wash away all the pesticides.
Cut as needed and blend all the ingredients together in the Vita mix from low to high speed until smooth,takes about a minute.
The smoothie is my entry for 5 star make over : smoothies and shakes
33 comments:
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
A healthy smoothie! What a great blender!
- January 2, 2010 at 6:19 PM
- Anu said...
Healthy recipe...
- January 2, 2010 at 7:14 PM
- A 2 Z Vegetarian Cuisine said...
Delicious & Healthy Smoothie. Wishes for a Very Happy New Year to you and your Family.
- January 2, 2010 at 7:31 PM
- Oraphan said...
Your green smoothie looks wonderful! Congrats on owning the vitamix, I'm so happy for you! What a powerful machine! I love green smoothies but I've never tried with ginger before, can't wait to give it a try!
Best wishes for a very happy and healthy 2010!
- January 2, 2010 at 8:09 PM
- Lena Rashmin Raj said...
Wish you a very happy new year Yasmeen darling... :)
finally im back after 2months..came to kerala for delivery and approaching due date with tensions.. :)..then now your blog is too attractive.. :) this smoothie looks so rich n creamy..wonderful snap as usual dear.. :)
- January 3, 2010 at 1:50 AM
- sowmya.s said...
this is ayummy recipe..
- January 3, 2010 at 6:31 AM
- Joanne said...
Sometimes nothing is more refreshing than a good smoothie. I love what you've jam-packed this with!
- January 3, 2010 at 6:36 AM
- Padhu said...
Simple and healthy.
- January 3, 2010 at 6:42 AM
- Mother Rimmy said...
I bought myself a Christmas gift this year - Montel's HealthMaster. It does the same thing. I love it. We are having so much fun creating different smoothies, and juices. I even made whole wheat waffles yesterday. I can't wait to try some of the sorbets and ice creams. Have fun! I know I am. :)
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- January 3, 2010 at 7:08 AM
- RAKS KITCHEN said...
sounds awesome,cool colour too!
- January 3, 2010 at 7:11 AM
- Viki's Kitchen said...
Good friend to keep us fit. Smoothie seems perfect after these calorie loaded festive days:)
Happy New year Yasmeen.
- January 3, 2010 at 12:10 PM
- Sarah said...
Great smoothie! I love the vitamix machines, they are amazing!
- January 3, 2010 at 2:53 PM
- Kristen's Raw said...
Yay for greens and green smoothies! Yum!
Happy New Year!
- January 3, 2010 at 3:02 PM
- Muneeba said...
Congrats on the new kitchen gadget; great way to ring in the new year!
- January 3, 2010 at 3:49 PM
- Gita said...
Very healthy drink Yasmeen, love the green color, never tried adding avocados in smoothies. Your drink looks very creamy,I shuld try this soon :)
- January 3, 2010 at 3:57 PM
- Chow and Chatter said...
wow super healthy
- January 3, 2010 at 4:12 PM
- Pavithra said...
Wow thats eye catching color..looks so good and healthy too. YUMMMMMy!!!!
- January 3, 2010 at 4:56 PM
- Fresh Local and Best said...
Great that you have a vitamix now! The smoothie looks delicious!
- January 3, 2010 at 5:11 PM
- Bria @ West of Persia said...
Gorgeous green smoothie. I'm a big fan of them myself--I have one almost every day. They make me feel great. Congrats on the Vitamix. I'm at the stage you were at--longing for one. Enjoy yours. Hey, check out my Cranberry Bliss Detox Smoothie. Bet that would whip up nicely--and in a snap--in your new blender.
Great blog you have here. Can't wait to read more of it. Happy 2010!
- January 3, 2010 at 6:42 PM
- Bharti said...
yah! Congrats! Here's to a 2010 full of healthy yummy smoothies.
- January 3, 2010 at 9:43 PM
- hardwood furniture said...
It really looks smooth! I like that blender! I am really jealous! Happy New Year to you and to your family.
- January 4, 2010 at 12:32 AM
- Rajani said...
happy new year yasmeen! congratulations on the new blender.
- January 4, 2010 at 4:25 AM
Can't imagine the fun you are having with this new gadget.Congrats.Green Rules!
- January 4, 2010 at 7:26 AM
- shifa firoz said...
im craving for juices now! this looks perfect Yasmeen :)
- January 4, 2010 at 7:43 AM
I also own a Vita-Mix.It's the best appliance I ever purchased.Healthy wishes for new year.
- January 4, 2010 at 7:52 AM
- rekhas kitchen said...
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU TO YASMEEN.And congrats, smoothie looks yumm and healthy too.
- January 4, 2010 at 9:23 AM
- Sarah said...
Great start of the new year.
- January 4, 2010 at 2:18 PM
- Organic said...
Go Green.I can't think of anything healthier.Enjoy the power blender.
- January 4, 2010 at 2:54 PM
Very healthy.I'm a fan of green smoothies.
- January 5, 2010 at 2:07 PM
- Spice said...
Hi Yasmeen, Happy NEw Year to U & your family.....all the best for the year 2010......smoothie looks very healthy....
- January 5, 2010 at 8:53 PM
- 5 Star Foodie said...
An excellent smoothie, love the blend of the avocado, apple, and berries!
- June 1, 2010 at 6:12 AM
- Jamamros said...
Hello there I am printing out your recipes. I found it to be a money generating recipe this coming summer season in my country. Cold drinks is in demand this summer.
Avocado shake would be great much more benefits other than those articial fruit flavored shakes.
Thanks for this recipe.
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TORONTO - Jim Koopman, co-owner of Toronto Apothecary pharmacy, was the guest speaker during the city chamber's Thursday luncheon meeting at the North River Avenue Christian Church.
Koopman said he was born and raised in Indiana before working for a Walgreens pharmacy in Houston.
"I managed a Walgreens store for about three years," said Koopman, adding he learned about the corporate business structure while there.
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CHAMBER TALK — Jim Koopman, co-owner of Toronto Apothecary pharmacy, talked about the business he co-founded four years ago in the Gem City during Thursday's luncheon meeting of the Toronto Ohio Chamber of Commerce at the North River Avenue Christian Church. -- Mark Miller
Koopman subsequently went to work for Wal-Mart in East Liverpool when a store opened there in 1991.
"That's what brought me back to the area," he said, adding he also began working part time at Center Pharmacy in Wellsville. "I fell in love with (working there)."
Koopman said working for a smaller pharmacy brought him back to customer relations and out of the corporate structure. In 2004, his friend Joe Amaismeier purchased Center Pharmacy. Koopman said he was asked by Wal-Mart to quit working at the pharmacy. However, he decided to work for the Wellsville pharmacy as well as the former Toronto Pharmacy, he said.
"I chose to leave Wal-Mart at the time," said Koopman, adding when Toronto Pharmacy closed its doors he and Amaismeier decided to open a pharmacy in the Gem City. "I thought it would be a good business opportunity. But we couldn't be Toronto Pharmacy again."
The two couldn't use the name, so they came up with Toronto Apothecary, which Koopman said was a popular name for pharmacies in other parts of the country, but "no one knew what it meant or what we were selling here."
Koopman said once the locals were educated on what an apothecary was, business picked up.
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Koopman said the lab would enable the pharmacy to create customized medications in a variety of delivery systems.
"It's a whole new avenue to learn, and we're a full-service pharmacy with delivery," he said. "I wanted to thank the community for allowing us to grow."
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- It was announced the chamber is seeking board members for 2013. The chamber's website, at www.torontoohiochmaber.com, is almost completed.
- It was announced the chamber-sponsored light-up night is set for 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 20 at the city gazebo commons. The chamber also will be selling memorial luminaria to benefit the Toronto Unit of the Salvation Army's Home Heating Assistance program.


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This is for chili in a slow cooker and I'll be using red beans of some kind--kidney I suppose. I know I need to soak them, but do they need to be pre-cooked too?
If a recipe calls for canned beans and I want to use dried beans, what do I need to do to the dried beans first?
Canned beans are already cooked, so if you want the same texture... yes. Soak and then cook your beans until they are just tender.
As "Mrs Garden" states, the canned beans are soaked and fully cooked in advance.
Different beans (legumes) require different amounts of soaking and cooking, so you need to be specific as to the type in your decisions. Butter beans (lima) take very little time, Chick Peas (garbanzo) take hours.
Some legumes, like lentils, often do not need soaking at all.
Your example of red kidney beans are a special case, as they are toxic if not vigorously boiled for ten minutes before the cooking process to destroy the toxins in the skin. Note that cooking them under 100C actually increases the toxicity levels - poisoning from them is particularly noted with slow cookers.
Remember that the canned beans are designed to throw straight in to a recipe at the end, or the beginning, or be eaten cold in salads, they are fully cooked. If your recipe is going to cook for a few hours in liquid, then you may not need to pre-cook the beans, only soak them - as the cooking process will suffice. Take note that if the recipe is high in salt, it is not a good idea, as salt early in the cooking process hardens beans. A lot of slow cooker recipes can just have soaked and partly cooked beans added to them from the start.
My father never cooks red kidney beans before adding them to a chilli, just boils them hard for ten minutes to sort out the toxicity issue and throws them in for the full cooking time.
Dried beans, like other dried grains (barley, bulgur wheat, etc), should soak overnight with about 2.5 times as much liquid to dried beans. For example, soak 1 cup of beans in 2.5 cups of water over night. You can always drain the water that doesn't soak up. What I like to do is use hot water to cover the beans and the place plastic wrap (or a cover) over the bowl.
There are a couple of issues with using plain dried beans in a chili: 1. the beans won't cook at all, 2. the chili will take a really long time to cook, and 3. since the beans are soaking up all the moisture from the rest of your chili, the chili could become dry and sticky (think a can of Hormel chili that sat out all night).
Good luck!
If you have a pressure cooker, you can do a "quick soak" of the dried beans. I don't have the exact procedure/measurements close at hand, but here's the general idea: You put the beans and plenty of water in the cooker, boil them a short time at high pressure, then release the pressure quickly.
This has most of the same effects as soaking overnight in a fraction of the time. The downside is that it can be hard on the bean skins and some will rupture and/or come off. But all you've got is dry beans and you don't have all night to wait for a soak, this can get you to a cookable state very quickly.
Of course, this still leaves you with uncooked beans, but that's remedied by cooking your soup (or whatever) longer with a little more liquid than is called for with canned beans. Since you're looking at a long-cooking crockpot chili here, I don't think you'd have much trouble.
nonsense. I always just rinse the dried beans and throw them into the crock. The crock cooks all day, why would you need to soak the beans for an equal amount of time beforehand? I've made plenty of soups using beans, and have never had a problem.


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Let $s_1, s_2 \in (1/2,1\rbrack$. I would like to bound the product
$$A=\prod_p \left(1 + \frac{p^{-s_1} p^{-s_2}}{(1-p^{-s_1}+p^{-1}) (1-p^{-s_2}+p^{-1})}\right)$$
Now, I am almost positive that $$A\leq \frac{\zeta(s_1+s_2) \zeta(2 s_1+ s_2) \zeta(s_1+2s_2)}{\zeta(s_1+2) \zeta(s_2+2) \zeta(4)}$$ Is this (or results like this) known? Is there an elegant way to show this?
(It does seem to be the case that every term in the infinite product on the left is less than the corresponding term in the (implicit) infinite product on the right (where we expand the zeta function as its Euler product), but of course that remains to be proven.)


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@snowire: haha yes! At Thanksgiving my mom made it very clear that no one in my family should ever buy that, especially not for her, as they're just plain ugly and ridiculous.
This looks to be an excellent gift if you're dating a clown!
Like it or not folks, this looks like a good imitation of the Pandora bracelets. Those cost a LOT of money.
Even if it lasts one season, for $19 it still is cheaper than one single charm on a Pandora.
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We have recently moved new version control GIT (earlier we used to work on TFS 2008), we had .net utility which used to communicate with TFS and used to give list of change sets (input parameter is data time to the utility) and exports to a text file.
I want equivalent/similar command in GIT, i found below command
git diff --name-status `git log --reverse --since="2012-11-13" --until="1012-11-15" --format=format:%H | sed -n '1p;$p
the above command will give the overall changes made to repository (for example the changes done on xyz folder), what i want is if there are sub folders inside a repository under GIT, i need to pass the path (folder or sub folder) so that i will get the changeset to specific directory rather than getting all the details of xyz.
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Mr. Quinlan, 47, joined RR Donnelley in February, 2004, and in 2006 became Group President, Global Services (comprising approximately 40% of RR Donnelley's revenues), and Chief Financial Officer. From 2004 to 2006, he served RR Donnelley as Executive Vice President, Operations, with primary responsibility for the integration of RR Donnelley and Moore Wallace. Previously, at Moore Wallace from 2000 to 2004, Mr. Quinlan served variously as Executive Vice President, Operations, Executive Vice President, Business Integration, Executive Vice President, Office of the Chief Executive and Treasurer. At Moore Wallace, he had primary responsibility for the integration of Moore Corporation Limited and Wallace Computer Services. He also had responsibility from time to time for all of Moore Wallace's sales and manufacturing functions, and for all corporate staff functions, including, among others, human resources, information technology, benefits, legal, treasury, tax and credit and collections.
From 1994 until 1999, at World Color Press, Inc., Mr. Quinlan served in various finance capacities, including as Senior Vice President and Treasurer. He has previous finance and treasury experience at Walter Industries, Marsh & McLennan and Kidder Peabody.
Mr. Quinlan holds an MBA in finance from St. John's University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Pace University, which conferred upon him an honorary doctorate in Commercial Science in 2009. He is active in supporting organizations that focus on literacy, health and development and serves as a Director and a member of the Executive Committee for the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Mr. Quinlan and his wife, Diane, have four children.
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Thomas J. Quinlan III, BBA '85, President and CEO, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, advised students to not just present a problem when speaking with a superior, but also to give proposed solutions to the problem.
Mr. Quinlan told students that one of the secrets to success is to "treat people the way you want to be treated."
"Communicate. If it's more than 25 words, pick up the phone and call; communication is becoming a lost art." - Thomas Quinlan
Students listen intently as Mr. Quinlan spoke about R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company.
Thomas Quinlan engaged the student audience with his talk on leadership and reputation.
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I'm trying to put together a struct or a method of some sort that will allow me to check the relative position between two objects, and if they're too far apart, apply a force that will draw them closer to eachother. I've read that you can achieve this by creating a 'spring', what that might look like in code?
None-physical way (not spring physics):
If I simply wanted an object to pull towards another object and stop there I would use this instead:
Define too far apart as a radius
Lets say the attractor is
This would attract an object to another without 'letting go' once it gets there.
To simulate spring physics in one direction, use this:
k is a coefficient and x is the distance between the objects.
F will determine the acceleration speed between object A(attractor) and object B(attracted).
Like dreta mentioned, you could use
Which is basically : (I am taking deltaT, frame time in seconds into account)
Otherwise do something like:
To simulate the foce, check for the angle between them:
The new velocity for B will be:
This is not classic spring behavior as it does not consider the fact that the spring will repel an object if it is too close (closer than the equilibrium point).
If you wish to emulate that, detract a constant
What you need to implement is Hookes law. This is an equation which calculates the force created by a spring. The equation is;
where x is the how far a way the spring is from its 'natural' or resting length. i.e if a spring has a resting length of 5 meters and is stretched to 8 meters, x is 3 in this case. k is the spring constant, which controls how 'strong' the spring is. Note there is a minus sign. That is because the force acts in the opposite direction of the direction of stretching (or compression).
Once you know F, you can calculate the acceleration a=F/mass.
you will probably want to include damping in your model, otherwise an will bounce back and forth forever.
Now your equation will be
v is the velocity of the object and c is the amount of damping (bigger values mean the oscillation will stop sooner
Rather than invoking physics, simpler solution would be to constantly adjust their positions to make sure that they are the required distance apart.
In this code adjust the 0.01 value to make the objects move quicker or slower.


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What are some of the best books on graph theory, particularly directed towards an upper division undergraduate student who has taken most the standard undergraduate courses? I'm learning graph theory as part of a combinatorics course, and would like to look deeper into it on my own. Thank you.
Try Bondy and Murty, Graph Theory. The previous version, Graph Theory with Applications, is available online.
Diestel's Graph Theory (which has a "free preview" online) is presented as a graduate textbook, but it does not really have any prerequisites.
It goes quite deep in some parts, and includes material (such as the chapter on the graph minor theorem) that you won't find in other textbooks. Some proofs have a sort of "how would someone ever think of that?" feel, but this may have been remedied in the fourth edition (I have the third).
The best introduction I could recommend for truly beginners is not a whole book on graph theory but A Walk Through Combinatorics, from Miklos Bona it has a large part of the book devoted to graph theory, from the very basics up to some intro to Ramsey theory
Doug West, Introduction to Graph Theory. Rigorous but readable, proof based rather than simply descriptive, but the proofs are explanatory rather than simply justification of truth (by any arbitrary means). Even so may not be the best total beginner's book.
I enjoyed Alan Tucker's Applied Combinatorics. It's split into two sections:
The first half covers things like coloring theorems, cycles, and all that stuff. The second half is all about generating functions, counting sets, etc.
I found the book to be pretty readable. There are a lot of problems to work, which was nice.
You might find Graph Algorithms / Shimon Even interesting. Although it might probably hard to obtain.
Edit: You can get some of the chapters here.
Graph and Digraphs, 5th edition, by Chartrand, Lesniak, and Zhang. It is a graduate level text and gives a good introduction to many different topics in graph theory.
Pearls in Graph Theory: A Comprehensive Introduction by Nora Hartsfield and Gerhard Ringel.
I used this book to teach a course this semester, the students liked it and it is a very good book indeed. The book includes number of quasiindependent topics; each introduce a brach of graph theory. It avoids tecchnicalities at all costs. I would include in the book basic results in algebraic graph theory, say Kirchhoff's theorem, I would expand the chapter on algorithms, but the book is VERY GOOD anyway.
I learned graph theory from the inexpensive duo of Introduction to Graph Theory by Richard J. Trudeau and Pearls in Graph Theory: A Comprehensive Introduction by Nora Hartsfield and Gerhard Ringel. Both are excellent despite their age and cover all the basics. They aren't the most comprehensive of sources and they do have some age issues if you want an up to date presentation, but for the basics they can't be beat.
There are lots of good recommendations here, but if cost isn't an issue, the most comprehensive text on the subject to date is Graph Theory And Its Applications by Jonathan Gross and Jay Yellen. This massive, beautifully written and illustrated tome covers just about everything you could possibly want to know about graph theory, including applications to computer science and combinatorics, as well as the best short introduction to topological graph theory you'll find anywhere. If you can afford it, I would heartily recommend it. Seriously.
graph theory by Narsingh Deo, PHI publication.
I like Bollobás's Modern Graph Theory in the Springer GTM series. It is a bit dense, but worth chewing on.
I have used Diestel's Graph Theory book mainly, but I found extremely helpful video lectures by professor L. Sunil Chandran from IISc Bangalore (here and here).
Here is Vadim Lozin's graph theory course. (Available for free from university of Warwick website )
It starts from scratch and most of theorems are prooved. I think it's pretty clear with many content.
It's not a book, but i hope it can help you.
Graph Theory: Modeling, Applications, and Algorithms by Geir Agnarsson and Raymond Greenlaw is a really good book. see this discussion for reference.
For advanced readers,
Graph Theory by Frank Harary
I've enjoyed Introduction to Graph Theory by Wilson. Older version can be obtained for less than $5.


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Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour 2014: Tsogo Sun is the place to stay in Cape Town
It's the world's largest timed cycling event and it's heading for #lovecapetown on Sunday 9 March 2014… it's the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour!
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Operation Christmas Smile held
The Deacons of Cove Presbyterian Church, Weirton, have sponsored Operation Christmas Smile each year for the past four years, its purpose to provide families with a Christmas complete with gifts for the children and a holiday meal.
A Bowlathon, spaghetti dinner and a hot dog lunch helped to provide funds for the project. In addition to these fundraisers, congregants were asked to provide presents of clothing, shoes, gloves, coat, pajamas or an outfit in addition to contributions of food items and gift certificates.
On Dec. 14, nine families, including 22 children, came together at Cove church for crafts, games and a luncheon. Santa Claus distributed gifts for the children and also provided additional gifts for the families to open on Christmas Day.
There were "North Pole gifts" of toys and games made available with each family receiving a bag full of groceries and a Kroger gift card to help complete their Christmas dinner.
Sveta Petka Kolo has Christmas party
Members of the Sveta Petka Kolo of Holy Resurrection Serbian Church held their Christmas party Dec. 9 at St. Florian Hall in Wintersville, an event that included a meal, singing and games.
"We are taught in our church about planting wheat at Christmas time, so at our party we passed out small bags of psenica - winter wheat - that we are to plant on St. Nicholas' Day, Dec. 19," group member Donna Ivkovich explained. "Each family plants the wheat in a small bowl. They give it just a few sprinkles of water each morning as they say Oce Nas, the Lord's prayer. The bowl is placed on our table on Christmas Day, which we will celebrate on Jan. 7," Ivkovich said.
"The wheat reminds us that, just as the wheat seed has to be planted in the Earth and die before it grows and brings forth many times more grain, so do we have to die and be buried in the Earth in order to have new life in God's kingdom," she said. "In planting the psenica during Christmas, it represents the new life Christ is bringing to mankind in the kingdom of Heaven," she said.
The group will not meet in January. The next meeting will be held at noon Feb. 7 at Eat'n Park.
Toronto classes help families in need
The Reality and JOY classes of the North River Avenue Christian Church in Toronto have completed their sixth year of providing Christmas for Toronto families who might not otherwise have one.
"The members of the classes donate a dollar a week each to the children's Christmas fund, and at the end of the year, they take the collected funds and go Christmas shopping for children identified by the school as being unlikely to have Christmas otherwise," the class teacher said.
The list has grown over the nears, they said, and the classes have needed some help.
This year, they received donations from Timet, Alex Paris Inc. and Pilgrim Lodge No. 691, F. & A.M. The classes bought gifts for 31 children, spending about $90 per child. they went shopping Dec. 8 and wrapped gifts on Dec. 9.
"This year, while unloading for their shopping trip, a stranger asked what was going on and hearing about their program donated $100 on the spot," they said.
Serve Others Circle meets
The Serve Others Circle of King's Daughters and Sons met Dec. 18 at the YWCA for a noon luncheon meeting with Ruth Ann McLaughlin presiding.
McLaughlin, hostess and program leader, led the four members and one guest, Judy Fulmer, in opening ceremonies. She read from the Silver Cross, "Chautauqua Scholars Program 2012," by Valerie Roberts, Chautauqua department director of King's Daughters and Sons.
Reports were given by Lucille Smith, secretary, and McLaughlin, who gave the treasurer's report. The circle collected money for Urban Mission Ministries and for the YWCA staff and sent Christmas cards to shut-ins.
Sherry Freeman played piano and led the circle in singing Christmas carols for the program.
Linda Cooper will serve as hostess and program leader at the Jan. 15 meeting.
Cantata Sunday at Finley UMC
The annual Christmas choir cantata at Finley United Methodist Church, Steubenville, will be held at 6:30 p.m. Sunday.
"Noel and Alleluia - Jesus Is Born!" along with an integrated drama about coming home for Christmas is the musical for this season.
The cantata choir will be joined by the Finley Children's Choir for a special song honoring the Christ Child, according to a church spokesperson.
All are welcome to attend.
OES reception honors Paula Johns
A reception was held Dec. 2 at Toronto Chapter No. 215, Order of the Eastern Star to honor Paula Johns, grand representative of Saskatchewan in Ohio.
Worthy Matron Sally Porter welcomed the guests and presented Johns, who commented on the friendship and warm welcomes she received in her travels around the state as well as from her church family and her own family.
Johns introduced the Past Grand Patron Trevor Sproul and Deputy Grand Matrons Machelle Miller of District 14 and Nancy McMillin of District 13. Also introduced were Grand Representatives Jodi Sproul representing Scotland and Mary Boston representing North Dakota, and worthy matrons and patrons from chapters in Steubenville, Unionport, Bolivar, Lisbon, Carrollton and East Palestine.
Honored Masons and 50-year members were recognized along with district officers, grand pages and aides, past matrons and patrons of the Toronto chapter and past grand appointments.
Johns presented members of her church family and her own family.
Entertainment was provided by the quartet Power Surge.


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Has anyone ever used the ubiquitous Flesichmann's baking yeast for brewing? Is there a fermented beverage style for which it works particularly well?
You could use baking yeast for brewing, as both yeasts are different strains of the same species, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but brewers' strains have been cultivated for hundreds of years for specific attributes regarding flavor, attenuation, and consistency. Bakers' yeast hasn't gone through this selective breeding process. It will have a lower tolerance for alcohol, less flocculation, and tends to make beer that tastes, well, bready.
Additionally, certain styles of beer derive their individuality from the yeast used to ferment them and the distinct flavors that the yeast produce. Using bakers' yeast would effectively preclude you from brewing most styles of beer.
Someone once told me using baking yeast was like driving a nail with a brick. Why not just use a hammer?
The traditional Finnish brew Sahti uses bread yeast for fermentation. You can see how this celebration drink is made on the current episode of Brewing TV.
I do agree with Brandon in that for best results use the product for which it is intended.
This was touched upon above, but you are going to be better off using wild yeasts than a strain of bread yeast. A passable wine can be made by crushing a few handfuls of grapes in a blender and mixing that with grape juice (or other fruit juice). This will yield a wine with a lower alcohol content - around 7-8% depending on the base juice. Additional table sugar can be added (heat a portion of the juice to dissolve the sugar) to reach 11-12% wine. HOWEVER, as someone who brews in remote regions of the world, I prefer to take a packet of yeast and use a tiny pinch per batch (instead of the entire packet) and use a strain that I am confident in, as opposed to using wild yeasts or baking yeast. I've done both and can confirm from testing that the result is much more enjoyable with commerical wine yeast. Good information can be found in The Art of Fermentation which is all about traditional forms of fermentation.
Kvass. This is a beer made, at least in part, from leftover stale bread, and so bread yeast is appropriate.
Warning: Do Not use Fleishmanns or any other major brand of bread yeast. Ive conducted many experiments in years past when brewing supply runs were day trips across los angeles. Even "organic yeast" grown in mollasses. I may have gotten perfect fermentation profiles out of ' em, but they would always leave an annoying (usually annoyin) taste means a single chemical. I actally found a brand at Albertsons for "whole grain bread" from something -Mills . Really english ale character. Floctuated really strong .sticky yeast. When yeast settled out quickly. Barley any yeast taste. Actually want to do a side by side soon. Trying to create a house strain.
When I was in jail I used orange juice, or even koolaid packets and then added pieces of crackers (yeast is said to be burnt up, but if you put it under hot water a few times the one or two few yeasts that somehow survive start to reproduce, it takes a few days but you see results).
Didn't taste "great" but got up around 14% I'd say. For sure a buzz. (yeast ball in it made you sick if you drank it though)
I've used it for mead with great success using this rather unorthodox recipe: http://www.winepress.us/forums/index.php?showtopic=6114
I don't know that it's generally useful for mead, but it's hard to argue with yummyness. :p
I've seen it used to carbonate beer in the bottle. I saw it used to carbonate rootbeer too.
I have used bakers yeast with a cider in the past and I found the taste of the brew to be ...yeasty in flavor.
It was my first cider that wasn't from a kit so it could have been my error, but since then I have used proper cider/Champaign yeast with much better results.
I would definitely recommend using proper brewing yeast if you are going to bother to take the time to create the brew in the first place.
I'm going to try using bread yeast as a starter and let my gruit get additional yeast from the air. Making a rice and barley gruit with coffee and bananas. I'll see how that tastes.
Tried it out on some white wine as an experiment. Actually turned out drinkable. Not great, but drinkable!
you can use bread yeast, how do you think the convicted make prune?! It can actually taste good if you keep the sugar low so that the fermentation stops at 6% alcohol. If you go as high as you can until the yeast drops out, it will taste bad.
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