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Pepper-Crusted Smoke-Roasted Top Loin with Green Peppercorn Sauce
Categories: Entertaining, On the Grill
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
Roast beef with traditional green peppercorn sauce is sure to become a family-favorite in your household.
Serves: Serves 10 to 12
- 1 beef top loin roast, 6-8lb (2.7-3.6kg)
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup freshly cracked black pepper
- 1/2 cup kosher salt
The sauce
- 1 cup brandy
- 1/4 cup green peppercorns, drained and rinsed
- 2 cups beef stock
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, diced and kept cold
- 1/4 cup roughly chopped fresh parsley
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper to taste
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- Light a fire well over to one side of your grill, using enough coals to fill a large shoebox.
- Rub the beef with the oil and coat it evenly with the pepper and salt, pressing gently to make sure it adheres.
- When the fire has died down and the coals are covered with white ash, place the beef on the side of the grill away from the coals, being careful that none of the meat is directly over the coals. Put the lid on the grill with the vents open one-quarter of the way and cook, adding a handful of fresh charcoal every 30 minutes or so, until the beef is done the way you like it (45 minutes to 1 hour for medium-rare). To check for doneness, poke the roast with your finger to test its firmness (see The "hand method"). If you're unsure, insert a meat thermometer in the center of the roast and let it sit for 5 seconds, then read the temperature; you're looking for 120°F (49°C) for rare, 126°F (52°C) for medium-rare, 134°F (57°C) for medium, 150°F (65°C) for medium-well, and 160°F (71°C) for well done. (We like to pull the roast at 122°F/50°C.) When the roast is done, remove it from the grill, cover it loosely with foil, and allow it to rest for at least 15 minutes before carving.
- While the beef is cooking, make the sauce on the stove top: Combine the brandy and green peppercorns in a medium sauté pan over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil, adjust the heat to medium, and simmer until the brandy is syrupy (about 3 minutes). Add the beef stock and continue to simmer until reduced by one-third (about 15 minutes more). Stir in the cream and simmer until slightly thickened (about 10 minutes more). Turn the heat to low, then gradually whisk in the cold butter, a few chunks at a time. When all the butter has been added, remove the sauce from the heat and stir in the parsley and salt and pepper.
- To serve, cut the beef into slices, arrange them on a platter, and run a ribbon of sauce down the middle of the slices. Pass the remaining sauce on the side.
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Is the sentence "It's weekend" grammatical, or should it be "It's the weekend"?
The latter two sentences have slightly different meanings. "It's the weekend" is an announcement about the date, as in: "Today is Tuesday. Do you know what that means?" "It's a weekend" is the answer to a question about the part of the week two particular days are, as in: "This flyer says that the convention's on March 16-17, 2013. {When's that? / Are those weekdays or is it a weekend?}" "It's a weekend."
I tried to think of an instance where I'd use weekend without an article, but it was hard to do, no matter where I put the word in the sentence:
That last one could be modified a little, where we wouldn't need the word the:
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Jacolby Ashworth OT Houston 2nd team All-CUSA selection in 2011, 30 career starts
Jeremiah Attaochu LB Georgia Tech Honorable mention All-ACC, tied for 6th in the ACC with 6 sacks in 2011
Alvin Bailey C Arkansas Pre-season All-American candidate, 2nd team All-SEC
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Chris Barker G Nevada 2X 1st team All-WAC selection, 40 career starts for the Wolf Pack
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Jonathan Brown LB Illinois 2nd team All-Big 10 (media), honorable mention All-Big 10 (coaches)
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Scott Crichton DE Oregon State 1st team Freshman All-American, tied for 2nd in Pac-12 with 14.5 TFL
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Zac Kerin C Toledo 2nd team All-MAC selection, started all 13 games as a sophomore
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Jake Knott LB Iowa State 4th in the Big 12 in tackles (115), 2X 2nd team All-Big 12 honoree
Tyler Larsen C Utah State 1st team All-WAC offensive lineman selection in 2011
DeDe Lattimore LB USF Led the Bulls with 94 tackles, tied for fifth in the conference
Corey Lemonier DE Auburn Explosive edge rusher that led Auburn with 9.5 sacks in 2011
Taylor Lewan OT Michigan 2nd team All-Big 10, 22 career starts at left tackle
Shaun Lewis LB Oklahoma State Honorable mention All-Big 12, 61 tackles, 9.5 TFL and two interceptions
Rob Lohr DE/DT Vanderbilt Had 11.5 tackles for a loss last year, most of any returning SEC player
Spencer Long G Nebraska Honorable mention All-Big 10 (coaches), started all 13 games at guard
Travis Long DE/OLB Washington State One of three Cougars to receive post-season All-Pac 12 honors (2nd team)
Star Lotulelei DT Utah Thought to be the best nose tackle in college football, 9 TFL in 2011
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Khalil Mack LB Buffalo 1st team All-MAC selection, tied for the MAC lead with 20.5 TFL in 2011
Trent Mackey LB Tulane 2X 1st team All-CUSA selection, finished with 145 tackles in 2011
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Stansly Maponga DE TCU 1st team All-MWC, finished the year with 13.5 tackles for a loss
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Jake Matthews OT Texas A&M Establishing his own identity, teams with Joeckel to form best T combo
Chris McDonald G Michigan State Honorable mention All-Big 10, has 26 career starts
Barkevious Mingo DE LSU One half of, arguably, the best DE duo in nation, 15 tackles for a loss
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Sio Moore LB U Conn 2nd team All-Big East, Big East's returning leader in TFL (16)
James Morris LB Iowa Honorable mention All-Big 10, tied for team lead in tackles with 110
Morgan Moses OT Virginia Formidable OT duo in Charlottesville, first team All-ACC prospect in 2012
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Keith Smith LB San Jose State 2nd team All-WAC as a sophomore, led Spartans with 104 tackles
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Is it grammatical to ask Have you got paper?
Do you have to specify have you got a piece of paper, any paper, or some paper — or can you just say paper?
Is it grammatical to ask Have you got paper?
Do you have to specify have you got a piece of paper, any paper, or some paper — or can you just say paper?
I would say it's not incorrect grammatically speaking, but perhaps imprecise. It would be clearly incorrect to say something like "Have you got pencil?"
'Paper', on the other hand, in the sense you've used it is a mass noun. The usage in English seems a bit murky, but you'd be well understood in a classroom if you asked a child "Have you got paper?" in the same way as if you asked "Have you got money?"
Yes, it is grammatical. It shows a use of the zero article, of which the 'Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English' says, Zero article phrases commonly express non-specific or generic references. To see that 'paper' can occur with a zero article, we need look no further than Lewis Carroll:
If somebody went to a store intending to buy some paper, and didn't find any, I wouldn't think there was anything unusual if they asked:
But as the other answers say, in most contexts I would indeed find it unusual. I would expect a question more like:
"Have you got paper?" is grammatically correct, but vague. A person could answer in the positive, if they had a single sheet or an entire ream.
I see that "have you got paper?" is not the same as ...a piece of paper, ...any paper, or ...some paper.
In the first case, I am concerned about paper, (the right kind in the right quantity, which is supposed to be understood) that would serve my purpose. All other forms of the sentence distract (from) the focus. I will be inviting trouble in the form of "I have lots of paper, but sorry no pieces"; "Would any paper really do?"; "How much, according to you, is some paper?"
So long as grammar lets me, I will focus on the core idea and leave the peripheral details unsaid. :)
It is grammatical but not usual. The purpose of the question is ambiguous, and in speech this ambiguity would be odd. Alternatives:


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I have worn a lot of hats in my career and I am beginning to think that Infrastructure and Administration are equal in complexity to the programs running on those components. Are the pay rates nearly equal? What does the market say?
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As luck would have it, my boss just wrote an article comparing operations to development: What is web operations? as well as addressing that ops isn't (or shouldn't be) something for failed developers, as it is sometimes presented.
Being a sysadmin is one of the fields where, under the proper circumstances, you can set it up so that the better you do your job, the less work you need to do. The value of this should not be underestimated.
Sometimes you can achieve the same thing as a developer, but it's rarer.
A developer is someone who gets noticed when things go right.
A sysadmin is someone who gets noticed when things go wrong.
I think sys admin is very difficult.
I think developers have it easy, and don't take their jobs seriously enough. I would like to see myself as a software engineer, but that would be an insult to the really good software engineers out there.
In engineering you don't guess at the possible cause of the problem. You look at the facts / error logs / things that you can use to identify the problem. Make a hypothesis and test your hypothesis for truth, then and only then do you make a recommendation to resolve the issue that you having on a production server.
I too often see people making wild assumptions, and justify their outrages claim with, that is how I think it works. Is that an opinion or a fact? I think that is dangerous and irresponsible. If you want to go and think about something and give an opinion on it, go do philosophy or something similar. But when you're working on sites with thousands of users, I don't give a hoot about what you think, tell me what you know for a fact.
I have worked with brilliant server people before, and most often if you as developer say to the server admin, I think the following is the problem, and this is how we can prove in a different safe environment that, this is in fact the problem. Then we spend some time fixing the problem based on this assumption in a safe environment, and we can then with confidence say that this is in fact the problem. And follow these steps to resolve the problem on the production systems. It takes a certain amount of guts, and honesty I think to admit this, and generally people don't want to admit they don't know something. I think not knowing something is a given, but people that imply that they know something and don't, is lying and dangerous.
I also think that there is an aspect of creativity to software development, however I think good code is often tedious and boring, and above all predictable, simple, and consistent. And those characteristics are generally not associated with creativity. Software engineering is a science and I wish we can find a better way for developers and the guys and gals that keep development systems going to understand more about each other's jobs.
Rihan Developer that had the privilege to work as sys admit for the first part of my career.
As far as I'm concerned I'd rather be paid penuts doing something I love than earning a lot doing something I hate.
Infrastructure can be exceptionally complex, just as complex as the programs, and just as important. A programmer may be responsible for ensuring that his/her application runs as efficiently as possible, but if the infrastructure is sub-standard then it doesn't matter how good their skills are. You can't run an application if your router goes offline every 20 minutes.
If you want to compare markets, then jump on your local job board to see what's avaliable. We've been looking to hire someone in Sydney for a few weeks and there's been precious few applications, which to me says that the IT sector has not suffered downturn from the economic 'crisis' nearly as much as other industries have. Which makes job searching difficult, but security pretty good, so if you have a position you're happy in, and you enjoy it, stay there while you can ;)
Sys admining and programming have different challenges. Whether one is easier than the other depends on your personality, strengths and weaknesses and on the environment.
I used to be a programmer, I'm a sys admin now.
Lots more multitasking as a sys admin. Probably less kudos too. Programmers have easily visible successes. They add a feature, or fix a bug.
Sys admin's for the most part only have noticeable failures. The mail stopped working.The shares when away.
On the other hand as a sysadmin, you normally don't have to keep the state of an entire program in your head - at least not as often.
Although in some sysadmin roles there is a lot to keep in your head, especially in complex environments with apps with lots of interconnections.
Sys admins depending on role, environment and disposition, do get to program if they want. They often write tools for themselves and for other staff to use.
E.g. where I work we have a database with a web front end for managing DNS and generating DNS and DHCP files.
As far as I can tell most places the pay is about even. In some places I suspect programmers might get a slight edge, but those will be places like banks where the programmer is writing bespoke apps that have billions of dollars going through them. I don't think that applies to "average" (whatever that is) programming jobs.
I don't think it is fair to compare both fields. They are covering different aspects of the complete process.
In terms of easier, I think it depends on what/how you go about doing the sys admin. lets say you manage infrastructure for a large corp - it might be easier if you purchase an off the shelf package and configure it vs custom inhouse make it.
And it also depends on how big the getup is - if you work for a small company, where you are the only IT guy, it might be hard to wear so many hats at the same time, where as in a large corp, you are most likely part of a large team, with a few discrete responsibility. And if you work for a big corp, most likely you will be paid "more" doing your job, where as in a smaller shop, you would be paid "less" doing more stuff than - i.e., the responsibility to pay ratio is high in a small shop*.
(*) but the big plus with a small shop is you tend to control things, and the environment tend to be more friendly/family like, where as in a big corp, you would just be a fish in a big lake
Nothing worth of good pay, or success is easy.
If I can elaborate, it depends on what your goals are.
Finding a meaningful, fulfilling, satisfying role that stays that way is a challenge. There are some things money can't buy (but can help with though).
The one thing I've found over and over with people happy in their life's work/work in life is that if you do something you love, the money comes.
If you look for the money first, you are not guaranteed happiness, because we all know lots of people with money that have no clue of how to treat others or themselves, before they had money, or after.
I think each can be fulfilling in it's own ways, and they share qualities as well as have their unique parts. One thing is true for sure. If you don't do either in your own time, you don't truly love it, and that means you won't get really really good at it, which means you will be less likely to find the great opportunities of success.
Sysadmins don't get paid monstrously differently to developers, as far as I've seen. There seems to be some differences in career progression, but if what you enjoy is the doing, rather than the career ladder, then that shouldn't be a big problem.
There's not much different between salary for a sysadmin and a developer... But about which one is easier, I think system administration is based on experience while programming is based on creativeness. That's why you might find good programmers who can do sys admin well but not vice versa ;-).
Yes, I'm a coder :-)
I believe the personality and work ethic of the individual determines which is easy/hard. I have worked with sysadmins who seem to have nothing to do because they always plan, script, and document as part of their work progress. Same with programmers... unfortunately I have been fused at more for being "out of work" programming cause I got my stuff done early more than I have ever been fused at being late or behind on a project!
It seems if a project comes in on time or early, the mentality is either we didn't give person X enough work for the time or they missed something... LOL!
Oh well, I guess Scotty had it right, always exaggerate the time it takes to complete something so they think you are a miracle worker!
Both jobs have their challenges and rewards... just do what you love and everything else will fall into place.
Mind you that it are programmers who create the software/tools that make the lives of sysadmins easier... although one could say that about the developer tools programmers use as well ;-)
Actually a good programmer is a lazy programmer... See this answer (on stackoverflow) for an explanation.
Concerning the pay: I'm a programmer myself (but I think you already figured that out ;-) and inside programming there's already such a big difference in pay (between e.g. a web developer and a embedded c++ developer), I suppose that's the same in system management. It's all dependent on your field of expertise and your experience in general.
The complexity for a Sys Admin is based around many complex components created by others, all of which have to be understood to a certain level to get them to work together. I found with hardware and networking components, there has to be a lot of understanding of what's in each and every box.
Whereas the bulk of the complexity of a developer is focused on the section of code he is writing, and he just has to work with interfaces (using the term generically) that others give him, he doesn't have to understand a lot of the nitty-gritty details of their code.
I've seen the pay as being equivalent.
I'm still at the nascent end of my career, but already I have experienced a role as Junior Programmer and Junior Sysadmin.
I generally agree with the responses presented here, and would like to reinforce the opinion that you should go for a job that aligns with your strengths and minimizes your weaknesses. My tract has been from Programmer to Sysadmin, and am generally enjoying it.
So I wouldn't exactly call one "easier" than the other, it just depends on your strengths.
The question shouldn't be which is easier, they are both equally "hard". What really matters is what the individual contributes to their profession. Software developers will not for the majority make good system administrators and vice versa.
What I can say is that both career paths become a bit easier if you understand a small piece of what your counterpart is doing i.e. a system administrator being able to look at code and do rudimentary debugging on it.
A second set of eyes with a different skillsetted brain can spot problems or suggest potential solutions to an entire team of highly skilled developers by simply knowing the extra information that is underlying to the operation of that page/program, etc. and vice versa, a system administrator should be able to take advice from programmers on why a certain aspect doesn't work, etc.
It's not a competition to see who is smarter, who works harder, etc. Everyone brings different things to the table, and it is only by communication and team work that things get done and programs get written.


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Devarim 15:7 cautions us not to withhold help to others because of the approach of the shmittah year. However, the help we would expect to give would be charity and thus would not be repaid. If tzeddakah is actually a gift, why would anyone not give it in the 6th year because of shmittah? There should be no expectation of repayment that would be nullified by shmittah. Rashi in pasuk 8 (vha'avet ta'avitenu) confirms that the initial offer we should make should be a gift and only turn it to a loan if the recipient won't accept a gift. So why would the shmittah year discourage tzeddakah?
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I think the point is the opposite, that you would think Shmitta is approaching, so you won't lend with any expectation of repayment, so the Torah is saying then give it as a gift, or make it a loan if the person is too proud to take a gift.
However, I would point out that in general the concept of a loan here is really tzedakah that you have minimal reason to expect back. You are not allowed to demand collection of the loan (source and see the whole article for more), not allowed to charge interest and (we see from this posuk) not allowed to assess credit worthiness (to an extent). That is charity wrapped in a loan. However, for the sake of making it a real loan, the lender has real rights to collect the money, it just isn't supposed to happen.
Regarding your comment, yes a loan can be preferable to giving (source).
According to the Gemara (Makkos 4b IIRC), the only loans which are forgiven are those that are past due. So the person may pay on time (or before Shmittah kicks in)- if he does, I get the whole loan back.


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My daughter is 3 and I'd like to start doing a few homeschool lessons. I'm not interested in pushing her academically - just getting her used to the idea that we do some "lessons" in addition to play time. But she's not real thrilled with sitting down for a lesson (usually I've been having them be just counting some M&M, maybe up to five. Really basic and short!) My question: do you try to *force* your kids to do their lessons when beginning homeschooling, or go with their mood? I don't want her to think that just because she's at home she can play all day! Plenty of kids her age are in preschool and getting a lesson everyday. Am I expecting too little or too much?
I've no experience with this yet, and am posing more questions rather than trying to answer. I'm often thinking about how the other kids my son's age (almost 3) are going to preschool and many of them have taught themselves using the ipads/computers. I don't think my son would tolerate a lesson of any sort and I want to keep him away from monitors/electronic type of learing. I'm going to wait until he is older to try any lessons. He's learning on his own when he is playing and I think it's better for him to be creative and active at this age. I don't know when the push for early learning started. There is free all day Preschool for 3 year olds in the nearby city and free all day Pre-k4 in my town. I don't believe it's beneficial in the short and long run. I think a 3 and 4 and even 5 year old should play all day ( and help mom around the house, of course). The only problem with this is that all the other kids are sent of to school so there aren't many other kids around to play.
One thing I've learned (the hard way!) with my son is that he's much more willing to sit still for a lesson, if he's had an opportunity for some physical activity first. He's 5, and still needs this.
I'm with the don't push camp. I am just lamenting this morning how my 5 year old hates going to kinder every morning; he goes in tears, and I am aching to just keep him home so he can play. He's had enough. I'm all for learning (off the screens as well), but little kids need to be little kids and learn more than we could imagine just by play. We have 4 kids and 1 on the way, just from perspective. He's my youngest as far as school-aged. Just this year, the kinder in our Catholic school decided to give homework every night except Friday. And they get big thick packets to complete on any long breaks. I hate it. My 2nd grader had one teensy little worksheet to do on Wed. nights and it was a weekly alphabet letter. Now suddenly, we are getting percentile assessment sheets home every few weeks, assessing how the kinders are doing-it all just seems very odd and frustrating to me. My son is not a percentile. He's a 5 year old. I am actually realizing that I want to think harder about options for Kinder for my 2 year old and this baby when the time comes. Either find a half day program, if that's even possible anymore, or homeschool them for kinder. My little guy just turned 5 in August and started kinder in Sept and there is a HUGE difference between his dislike of his school, and his brother, who b/c of birthdays was still in very very part-time pre-k (only to warm him up for when he went to full time kinder) when he was 5. He was nearly 6 years old when he entered kindergarten. He transitioned so much better. Heartbroken each morning with my kinder now. So wishing I could just keep him home, he cries, he battles to get dressed, he tries not to get out of the car at drop off-it breaks my heart. Hope that helps! In my mind, play at that age is all they need, and to be near mom helping out. Actually my almost 3 year old is starting to count decently well to 10 and I've never started giving him any instruction, he's just learning through stories and books we read or hearing the older crew or something. Enjoy. I actually like pre-school around age 4 as long as it's fun and very very part time (like just a few hours a couple of days a week). Any more than that, I wouldn't do it. Just for the interaction with the other littles like a playgroup and songs and such. Mine have seemed to like that. I actually pulled my oldest from her full time full tuition Catholic pre-school program. We paid the full tuition, but I couldn't bare to send her into full day school full time just because that's what they school had. I only sent her 3 days a week, but they were full and that was probably still too much. I noticed the difference in her when I made the decision to make my own part-time program;). Hope that helps, sorry-I was looking for solace for my kinder so I am all chatty about it this morning! God bless!
How do you explain the prayers, bible to a nearly 3 year old? He's gets all scared and doesn't understand "Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost". Some of the bible stories are maybe too scary for him, but I hear all the other kids around his age saying the prayers. Did they just memorize without thinking about what they are saying? Is there a Baltimore or some other Catechism geared for 3 year olds?
Unknown, Personally I think 3 is too young to start homeschooling unless the child is watching older siblings and wants to join in or you consider reading aloud homeschooling. Why shouldn't she think that she can play all day at home? She's 3! Play is her work. At that age, I talk with my children a lot. While we put laundry in the washer, we talk about colors and we might count socks. While we drive, we talk about what we see. Hand her a pencil and see if she wants to draw. Wait until she's ready for anything more formal. Remember, while she's dressing her dolls and stacking her blocks, she's working on fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Play time is not wasted.
@MMH- I think understanding increases as the kids get older. At 3, my daughter could identify "Father, Son, and the bird" in a picture book, and I figured that was close enough at that age. Fast forward 4 years, and she has many prayers memorized from repetition, and she would say Holy Spirit instead pf bird, But I wouldn't quote her explanation of each line. I really like the activities over at catholic icing (google it). We did them when I had time and the little one was interested.
Anne, just curious, when your daughter did the sign of the cross, what did she used to say?
I guess I should clarify (I'm the first posted with the 3 year old): I think my daughter is bored. I thought lessons might be fun, but when I suggest it, *then* she wants to play. But once she's playing she seems bored again. Ideas what I'm doing wrong??
Unknown, are you asking her if she wants to sit down to a lesson? Or are you initiating activities without announcing "Lesson Time!" ? Everyday activities at home are "lessons" . There is no need for formality at age 3. Are you explaining things like "this is an a" when you see a sign or letters on a cereal box ? You weren't specific, so I'm not sure what to tell you. If could explain more, maybe I could be of help. (I'm a Kindergarten teacher who has worked with children ages 3-6 for years. I'm also a Mom of 5. :)
Josie, It certainly is a shame what your son's school is doing. A lot of schools are under great scrutiny and unfortunately are forced into doing exactly what your son's school is doing. It's called "Common core" and "Testing" . It makes me gringe at times.
My son is going to be starting kindergarten in the fall at the public elementary school, which has adopted the Common Core curriculum. I definitely have my concerns about it.
Joan ~ what I'm trying to do is Montessori-style language and math lessons. I'm an ex-Montessori 3rd/4th teacher and do NOT have familiarity with the 3-6 age group. Maybe I am also expecting too much "classroom style" attention from her, too. I have been trying to sit her down at our snack table, pull out some manipulatives and count them with her. She just isn't loving me telling her what we're going to do next, that its time to sit down, etc. Yes, we incorporate "lessons" into our day (counting books we bring home from the library, etc.) but I am not sure at what point to start something more structured and formal. (I don't want to do "unschooling" so I *do* want to add quite a bit of structure at "some" point!) Besides, if she could get into it, I think she would enjoy "school," formally speaking. I sense a certain boredom with just bouncing from toy to toy... but when I try to structure a lesson, she decides she wants the "boring" toys instead (dolls, kitchen set, etc. that she was SO tired of just moments before!) I just don't know what's up...
Would your daughter enjoy doing crafts together? It'd accomplush your goals I think of getting in the habit of sitting down and following directions and focus on and accomplish a specific goal, but with less pressure and more fun maybe! I'd also recommend a workbook or something. My 3.5 year old LOVES doing his workbook pages-stuff like circling two of the same thing and tracing shapes and such. He'd be totally bored with counting candy, unless it was snack time. Something more challenging would probablg be more interesting and make her feel more grown-up!
MMH- at an early three, she would just listen to us say it. At our Parrish's preschool that year, we would make a big deal about the kids copying our hand motions and words- some of the kids could say it right away, and others had a bit of trouble. I don't remember any of the kids being frightened by the words, but I don't think we ever tried to cover the Holy Spirit not depicted as a bird. I just didn't want you to feel like there was something wrong if your child didn't know a bunch of prayers at three, or really understand the prayers at three. It takes a while. :)
Unknown, I think your daughter is telling you she isn't ready for that "formality" yet. Very natural for a 3 year old. She will let you know when she is ready. :)
I was in Montessori school when I was a preschooler and my mother tried to do it at home too. I never remember being asked to sit down and do anything. Instead, the projects were available and I chose what I wanted to do on my own time. Of course, I was pretty young and it's been a while, so I probably don't remember everything. For my kids, at least, boredom usually means "I want Mommy to pay attention to me." So, we do chores together or I help them build with their duplos or help them play trains or whatever. I try to rotate toys as well. There's nothing quite as awesome as a toy that you haven't seen for a month. I introduced my older son to workbooks around age four and he thought they were the best thing in the whole entire world. He'd beg to do school work. Silly kid ;)
Late to the party here, but to unknown, I would recommend a book by a friend we lost this year, Barbara Curtis, "Mommy Teach Me" . It is full of Montessori pre-school activities and methods. I have used many of the activities with my 4 children when they were in the 3-5 year old range and they have enjoyed them.
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Many of the formulas I learn in school are derived from more basic formulas — as long you your math is right and assuming the more basic formulas you used are correct, you are bound to get to a correct result... But how do people 'invent' the elementary formulas, like $F=ma$; how can you be sure that that's really the right equation for force?
The way in which formulas are figured out is through a process which is difficult to describe, because it only happens once per formula, and it is different when the formula can be deduced in some way, vs when it is a purely new relation between quantities which have not been related before.
The fundamental laws of a new regime of physics is never determined purely empirically, it always requires a principle of some sort, in addition to the empirical data, which serves to suggest empirical laws, and to weed out false theories. One of the best examples of a physical argument which produces a new equation is Einstein's argument for $E=mc^2$, described in my answer to this question: Did Einstein prove $E=mc^2$ correctly?
The most important tools which physicists have are the symmetry principles, these can be used to deduce many classical relations. But these are not enough, and there is no general way to describe how to reason about physics to derive new laws--- it must be learned through examples. There are many illuminating examples, but perhaps the best is Heisenberg's 1925 derivation of quantum mechanics. I find this one to be most strange, the most insightful, and requiring the greatest leaps of imagination. It is described on the Wikipedia page for Matrix Mechanics.
The equation you give is not the best example, because you can always say that it is the definition of force. This is not correct, because the force is implicitly assumed to be a physical property of the configuration of the particles, not of the particular particle trajectory, but in order to get rid of the circularity completely, let us assume you know statics, so that you have Archimedes definition of force.
Archimedes demonstrates that you can think of gravity as producing a force on a lever proportional to the mass. Then you know from Galileo's experiments that the acceleration is constant in gravity, and you know from Galileo's arguments that there is a principle of Galilean relativity. You deduce that the force should be proportional to the acceleration, which is invariant under Galilean boosts, and because all the acceleration is at the same rate, that the Archimedes notion of gravitational mass is also the notion of inertial mass in F=ma. Something like this is probably what was going through the heads of the 17th century physicists. It is hard to tell, because F=ma was appreciated by everyone in Newton's time, not just by Newton.
They are figured out based on their ability to "economize thought," as Ernst Mach would say. To "economize thought" means to succinctly summarize the results of physical experiments or observations. Since there are many ways of "saving the phenomena" of experiments or observations, there are also many theories and thus many corresponding physics formulae.
For example, consider the following three theories of gravity applied to planetary motion:
All three of these theories can explain, within certain limits, a given set of observations of the motions of the planets, but they all use completely different mathematical formulae:
Newton thought that his universal theory of gravitation, $F=Gm_1m_2r^{-2}$, was uniquely, exactly, and logically deduced from Kepler's observations, but this clearly is false because Kepler's observations showed perturbations from a perfect $1/r^2$ law due to the solar system being comprised of many masses. It is also false because, e.g., Einstein's GR theory superseded Newton's theory of gravitation.
Thus, one physics theory (e.g., $p=mv$) is not more logically correct than another (e.g., $p=m+v$), although one might certainly be better at summarizing the results of experiments and observations than another.
Physics formulae do not derive from mathematics like a geometric proof derives from Euclid's axioms. Physics formulae derive from observations and experiment; mathematics does not force a physics formula to be a certain way.
For an excellent book on this whole topic, see The Aim & Structure of Physical Theory by the French physicist, historian, and philosopher of physics, Pierre Duhem.
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Are there any tools out there or methods available to download a suspect file for analysis without having to worry about being infected?
Downloading into an AV-style quarantine usually implies that the file is encoded or encrypted in some way to completely disable any ability it might have to attack the OS through a metadata exploit or accidental execution. This, however, would negate your ability to analyse the file.
Virtual machines are probably your best bet. As long as you disable certain sharing mechanisms that are often bundled as default features with VM products (e.g. directory sharing) the isolation should be very good.
Here's my usual procedure, within a VM:
If you can use a dedicated machine for this work, it is always wise to do so. It allows you to configure a firewall on the host that limits outgoing traffic from the VM, without the danger of the malware disabling it. It also allows for easier containment should something bad happen.
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Two more to go, I need to just do two easy ones so I can focus on Dark Souls.
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First post updated.
Zombies!!! on Windows Phone brings me up to 69 (DING DONG).
It also got me past the 150,000 gamerscore milestone, I did want to try and land on exactly 150,000 but the last three achievements all came at the same time.
Finished up Deus Ex: Human Revolution this morning, so that's #107. It was a pacifist run, as well.
I've actually beaten Ratchet & Clank HD again, so it doesn't count. I'm working on getting the Platinum trophy, though (only 2 more regular trophies to go), so once I get that in '13 I'll post it in the new thread.
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Forgot that I made a post here.
Beat The Walking Dead ep 2 last night as a Xmas gift to myself. OP updated.
Xbox 360:
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Metal Gear Solid 2
Metal Gear Solid 3
Batman: Arkham City
Saints Row: The Third
Mass Effect (x2)
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3 (x2)
Beyond Good and Evil HD
Castle Crashers
Halo 4
Metal Gear Solid
Persona 3 Portable
Diablo 3 (x3)
Max Payne
Max Payne 2
Max Payne 3
Borderlands 2 (x2)
The Walking Dead
Torchlight 2
Total: 22
Took me nearly a year of on-off playing to do it. But I, well, did it. Unsure as to whether I should buy Persona 2 now.
This is probably the last game I'll do this year. It's been a good year, though!
Thanks for doing the thread, dig!
Up to thirty-two.
The Adventure Time game is fun, especially as a fan of the show, but it's crazy short. I'm going to try out new game +, but if it doesn't change anything except the difficulty I probably won't stick with it again. Not yet anyways.
Finally updated to 12
Don't think I'll be completing any game the remainer of the year, I guess I'll have a bunch completed in two months or so
Adding Killzone 3 to the list. Just finished it this morning.
Updated to 20. I added Civ V as a game because I've played that game for dozens of hours and completed many a campaign in weird scenarios with odd rules. I think at a certain point it counts. If not, don't count it.
Updated my total! I beat Jelly Defense and 10000000. Brings my total up to 20.
Uncharted 2+3
Rayman Origins
Xbox 360
Portal 2
Alan Wake
Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
The Walking Dead
Black Mesa
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Wario Kart Wii got squeezed in today, bringing my total upto 109. Wonder if I should find a quick game to beat for 110.
Trine 2 is my 70th game completed for the year and will most likely be the last. Have a good new year's bash all.
I'm back in town with internets again. I'll update this shit maybe later tonight(more likely tomorrow).


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- Date: 12/4/95) was working an off-duty security detail in the parking lot of the Red Carpet Inn when a van matching the description of one being driven by Condit, pulled into the motel parking lot around 3:30 AM. Dep. Perry recognized the blue grey 1992 Toyota Previa from a flyer being circulated by BSO detectives to all BSO deputies countywide. Dep. Perry knew Condit was wanted on a July 1997 felony warrant out of Key West for driving on a suspended license and DUI. Dep. Perry immediately showed the flyer to motel manager Robert Keller, and asked him to see if Condit's picture resembled the man checking in at the registration desk. The manager signaled the deputy, indicating he thought it was Condit. Dep. Perry called for back up, then waited in the parking lot for Condit to return to the van. When Condit got in the driver's seat, Dep. Perry approached him and asked for identification. He produced a Florida identification card bearing the name Stanley Buchanan. Dep. Perry recognized the name and asked him to step out of the van. When Condit refused, Dep. Perry and his back-up removed him, placed him on the pavement and handcuffed him. A small amount of marijuana was removed from his right front pocket. Condit is being charged with violation of probation for the Key West warrant, resisting arrest without violence, false identification on a Florida ID card, driving on a suspended license, and misdemeanor possession of cannabis. He will be held without bond at the Broward County main jail, awaiting transport to Monroe County. Condit is the brother of California Congressman Gary Condit.
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The 6 Most Popular Crime Fighting Tactics (That Don't Work)
#3. Red Light Cameras Are Killing People
Nobody likes a red light camera when they get a ticket in the mail, but most people admit that the apparatus does serve a function in the grand scheme of things. After all, a lot of people take a "If a cop didn't see it, I didn't do it" approach to obeying traffic laws, so it helps to have the unblinking eye of the law standing guard at busy intersections to make sure people slow down and pay attention.
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The cameras are effective as hell, too: The city of Los Angeles maintains that red light cameras have reduced accidents by 34 per-freaking-cent.
Reporter David Goldstein of CBS, however, thought that this claim carried the fragrant whiff of bullshit. He started asking around for the LAPD's data on the subject, only to be promptly stonewalled and charged $500 for the info.
"Meet us in the alley behind Chick-fil-A and bring your silly hat."
Goldstein coughed up the dough and found that the cops had a good reason for their uncooperativeness. The data differed slightly from the "Holy shit, like a third less accidents everywhere!" stance the city officially maintained -- in fact, accidents were actually up at 20 of the 32 intersections studied.
Turns out the LAPD's numbers only counted a reduction in crashes that were caused by people running red lights and getting side-reamed. They completely ignored the fresh epidemic of rear-end collisions caused by people slamming on their breaks to avoid a camera-issued ticket.
Totes worth it.
Studies of red light cameras in Melbourne, Australia and Virginia came up with similar findings. The Aussies concluded that red light cameras had "no demonstrated value," and the Virginia Transportation Research Council tied a 27 percent rise in accidents to the cameras. But the largest nail in the coffin comes from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. They compared traffic fatalities in cities with and without red light camera (RLC) programs:
"... cities using RLCs had an estimated higher rate of red light running fatalities, specifically 25 percent, than cities that did not use RLCs in the period 'after' cameras were used."
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This 25 percent increase in perished commuters is, naturally, completely unrelated to the $1 million in red light camera fines that even a small city can rack up annually. Equally coincidental is the fact that, like we've pointed out before, some cities have been caught decreasing the time of their yellow lights before installing red light cameras.
We guess it all makes sense, if you're a really hardened bureaucrat -- after all, a citizen could die in a crash any day, so the local government might as well liberate him from his excess cash while they still can.
#2. "Dry County" Laws Increase Drunk Driving
In the USA, Prohibition ended at the federal level in 1933, but there is nothing stopping individual counties from passing anti-alcohol ordinances. For the people who aren't really down with the whole liquor scene, these alcohol-free dry counties are a little slice of heaven. That is, if they can make it across the street without getting mowed down by rampant drunks.
Take Texas. The state currently has 22 dry counties, which you'd expect to have some of the lowest rates of alcohol-related traffic deaths in the state, what with there being no alcohol available.
"I guess I'm a little like Jesus in that respect."
Instead, data indicates that these counties have more than three times the rate of fatalities as counties where booze is readily available.
The explanation is simple, when you really think about it. Dry county or not, there are always people who just can't answer no to the question: "Would you like to get wasted?" And if they can't get the sweet stuff from their home county, they'll damn well get it from the neighboring one. People in dry counties don't drink less per se -- they just drive farther to get drunk. And then they drive back home, completely sauced, muttering under their breath about stupid laws and stupid sober people upholding stupid dry counties. In that state of mind, it's easy to forget the concept of braking and, for that matter, steering.
"Shit, that baby stroller must be going like 90."
It's not just Texans, either. Journalists who studied 15 years of records in Kentucky found that their dry counties had far more DUI-related crashes than the "wet" ones. Arkansas, same story.
But hey, at least parents in those dry counties don't have to worry about their children drinking, right? Yeah, about that ... Turns out drug dealers don't have dry counties, and they're just happy that their product doesn't have to compete with alcohol. So, drug-related deaths and crime go up when alcohol is harder to get. It's almost like, we don't know, maybe kids are going to party regardless of what your stupid laws say.
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#1. Capital Punishment Does Nothing to Reduce Violent Crime
First things first: We're not taking a stance here. When you're arguing about any kind of punishment, you're doing it from two sides: what actually works, and what is morally right. For instance, even if all of the data somehow showed that the best way to lower the rate of sexual assault is to give every rapist a shiny new car and a vacation to Barbados (it doesn't!), most of us would still oppose it. Even if it works, it's just wrong.
So if you're in favor of the death penalty, it's for two reasons: A) because justice says that killers deserve nothing less than death and B) because it will scare future killers away from killing anybody else, and lower the murder rate.
Studies show that less than 2 percent of executed prisoners become vengeful spirits and kill again.
You can argue the first one all day long, we don't pick a side there. But the second one simply isn't true, and science has the numbers to prove it. A 2000 New York Times special report found that as a deterrent that keeps people from committing violent crimes, capital punishment sucks like a black hole eating steak through a straw.
In fact, between 1980 and 2000, death penalty states have had average homicide rates between 48 percent and 101 percent higher than non-death penalty states. Murder rates in states with and without the death penalty tend to rise and fall at a relatively equal rate -- the presence of the death penalty makes no difference one way or the other.
"The guy is really sorry about this and would just like to move on from all those decapitated heads in the doorway."
It kind of makes sense; if the alternative to death is life in prison, then that particular murderer wasn't going to kill anybody else regardless of which punishment they got. It's not like, say, the difference between a harsh prison sentence and probation, where one of them at least takes the bad guy off the streets. Nobody is suggesting just letting the murderers go.
And as for the deterrent effect, the problem is that, except in rare cases, murder isn't one of those crimes somebody sits down and thinks through anyway -- if you're crazy or desperate enough to kill somebody, odds are you're not thinking about your own future in any kind of logical way. You could change the penalty to "death via having weasels eat your scrotum" and it's not going to make a difference to the enraged jealous husband chasing a man through his house with a shotgun. That's the thing; if criminals were rational enough to consider what the law says and then act logically based on a carefully considered calculation of risk versus reward, they wouldn't be criminals.
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