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I'm trying to keep my dock simple - just Chrome, MacVim, and the terminal. Is there a way to run iTunes without it being in the dock (i.e. just show the icon in the menu bar)?
The only way for an application to not appear in the dock (while also keeping the menu bar) is for the developers to place that functionality into it. I don't use my dock as a launcher, using Butler instead (which is a dockless application, btw).
You might try backing up a step and asking why you want to remove the iTunes from the dock and see if there's another solution. For example, I often listen to tunes on my iPhone rather than iTunes. If it's to keep the dock clean, try a different launcher than the dock and hide the dock instead.
From HERE. I have not personally tried it with iTunes, but it does work with some applications.
Two things come close: you can (in Finder) select the iTunes application and 'get info', then paste a new icon over the icon (at top of the info window). The trick is, you use a selected patch of your desktop background picture as the icon (open the desktop picture in Preview, select a patch and copy). Or, to put items in the dock that don't take up space until you click them, but are always easy to locate without navigating folders, make a folder and put aliases of applications and such into it. Then, drag the folder to the dock, where a single click on the icon of the folder will show all the contents.


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Are there any general results on the (integral) cohomology of manifolds that are fibrations over the circle? Any literature references much appreciated.
The above Mayer-Vietoris argument gives the cohomology of a fiber bundle over a circle in a concrete fashion. For sake of "mathematical culture", I thought I'd mention what happens for fiber bundles over a higher dimensional sphere (this is also a good excuse for me to test drive the new latex support).
For fiber bundles $F \hookrightarrow E \rightarrow S^n$ with $F$ connected and $n \geq 2$, the Serre spectral sequence degenerates in a very simple fashion into what is known as the Wang exact sequence. Namely, we have a long exact sequence of the form $$\cdots \rightarrow H^k(E) \rightarrow H^k(F) \rightarrow H^{k-n+1}(F) \rightarrow H^{k+1}(E) \rightarrow \cdots$$ The proof of this is completely analogous to the proof of the better known Gysin exact sequence, which tells you what happens for fiber bundles whose fibers are spheres.
A reference for this material is McCleary's "User's guide to spectral sequences", page 145.
This began as a comment, but it is interesting enough that I decided to make it an answer instead. Let's consider bundles over the circle whose fibers are closed genus $g$ surfaces $\Sigma_g$.
The diffeomorphism type of the total space of our bundle only depends on the isotopy class of the monodromy map. Denote by $M_g$ the mapping class group, ie the group of isotopy classes of orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms of $\Sigma_g$. For $f \in M_g$, denote by $B_f$ the surface bundle over the circle determined by $f$.
In a comment, Tom Church observed that the homology of $B_f$ will be the same as the homology of the trivial bundle if and only if $f$ acts trivially on $H_1(\Sigma_g)$. The group of mapping classes that act trivially on $H_1(\Sigma_g)$ is known as the Torelli group.
One could demand more. Namely, we could require that the cup-product structure on $H^{\ast}(B_f)$ be the same as the cup product structure on the trivial bundle. As Tom observed, a beautiful theorem of Dennis Johnson gives a precise characterization of the subgroup of $I_g$ consisting of monodromies with this property. One easy way of describing it is that it is the kernel of the (outer) action of $M_g$ on the second nilpotent truncation of $\pi_1(\Sigma_g)$ (the group $H_1(\Sigma_g)$ is the first nilpotent, ie abelian, trunctation).
The story does not end here. A topological space has a "higher-order" intersection theory given by the so-called Massey products. They are sort of like generalized cup products. Anyway, Kitano generalized Johnson's work and gave a precise and beautiful description of the monodromies of surface bundles over the circle in which these higher intersection products (up to a certain level) are trivial. Namely, all the degree at most $k$ Massey products of $B_f$ will be trivial if and only if $f$ acts trivially on the (k+1)st nilpotent truncation of $\pi_1(\Sigma_g)$.
For the details of this plus references to Johnson's papers, see the following paper:
MR1381688 (97f:57014) Kitano, Teruaki(J-TOKYTE) Johnson's homomorphisms of subgroups of the mapping class group, the Magnus expansion and Massey higher products of mapping tori. (English summary) Topology Appl. 69 (1996), no. 2, 165--172.
Given a bundle $F \to M \to S^1$, the Mayer-Vietoris sequence corresponding to the decomposition of $M$ coming from writing $S^1$ as the union of two intervals tells you there's a short exact sequence:
$$0 \to coker( f_n - I ) \to H_n(M) \to ker( f_{n-1} - I ) \to 0$$
Here $f_n : H_n F \to H_n F$ is the induced map from the monodromy of the bundle, ie: you think of the bundle as $R \times_f F, f: F --> F$ a homeomorphism / diffeomorphism / whatever. And $I$ is the identity map on $H_n(M)$ and $H_{n-1} M$ respectively.
There's a similar decomposition for cohomology, and this is what the Serre spectral sequence gives you, too. The short-exact sequence basically encodes the extension problem from the spectral sequence.
For 3-manifolds, the cohomology could be almost anything surjecting $\mathbb{Z}$.
In this case, the fiber is a surface, and since $\mathrm{Mod}(S) \to \mathrm{Sp}(2g, \mathbb{Z})$ is surjective, you can make the action of the monodromy on the homology of the fiber anything you like (as long as it preserves the intersection form).
Not very exciting, but the Euler characteristic is zero. I assume that you are aware of the Serre spectral sequence?
If the manifold happens to be aspherial manifold(that means the universal covering spacec is contractible), then the cohomology groups is just cohomology of the fundamental groups, which can be detecked by the fundamental group of the fiber and S^1.

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For all the talk about how these fraught finishes build momentum and enhance self-belief, teams that come through in epic postseason situations have typically fared badly in their next game. Since 1990, 33 playoff games, excluding the Super Bowl, have been decided in the final two minutes of regulation or in overtime. The teams that won those encounters were just 12-21 combined in their next game.
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#3. They Can't Heal from Day to Day Damage
One advantage to having a fully-functioning central nervous system is that it also does a damn good job of letting you know you've been damaged. It does this by way of pain. Think about all the paper cuts, stubbed toes and nut shots you have suffered in your life. Now imagine they never healed, just sat there and rotted while you continued to rack up other paper cuts, stubbed toes and nut shots. Pretty much every wound you've ever had would end with an amputation. One thing we know about zombies from Romero and Fulci is that they are a clumsy lot, walking into doors and helicopter blades without a second thought about what kind of damage they are suffering.
While complete insensitivity to pain seems like an awesome superpower in theory; in real life, you wind up being more like Mr. Burns than Wolverine. Congenital insensitivity to pain is a neurological condition that some people are born with, meaning they don't feel pain. They can feel everything else, but the absence of pain means they accrue damage to their bodies but are unaware of it. Even with the ability to call for help, loved ones watching out for them and our coddling society, this can still lead to all kinds of terrible shit, like infected body parts and bitten off pieces of tongue.
All the dings and bangs zombies will suffer after tripping, walking off of bridges and stumbling around on dark cloudy nights will eventually leave them limbless, toothless and with every bone in their body broken. Seriously, in the event of the Zombie Apocalypse, just stay inside, watch all the episodes of 24 back to back, then walk out on your lawn with your Corpse Rake and tidy up (you will have to buy a Corpse Rake, however, if for some reason you don't already have one).
#2. The Landscape is Full of Zombie-Proof Barriers
The zombies' lack of coordination, along with the inability to see in the dark (we haven't had any infrared zombies yet, but holy shit! We call dibs on the idea) is going to spell the doom of countless zombies in any area outside of a parking lot. This is a group that doesn't know how to find roads or bridges. They just go wandering off aimlessly. Mountains, major rivers and canyons would thus quickly be home to piles of broken zombie rags stinking up the scenic views. Even if zombies had the foresight to not walk over cliffs or into raging rapids during the day, nightfall would result in most eventually walking into rivers, over cliffs and off of bridges, diminishing their numbers.
But even in nice, flat, paved cities, where it would seem like people would be extra-fucked, the landscape still works in favor of the living. History has shown that in most awful situations, people don't always act like the panicky idiots in a horror movie. In cities, people would likely congregate in the upper levels of high-rise buildings, where the invasion can be held at bay with simple security doors. Also, the streets themselves would keep the undead corralled in straight, easy-to-aim-down lines where they could be picked off by snipers, or just bored office-workers waiting out the quarantine by dropping office supplies onto the undead from the top floors.
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#1. Weapons and the People Who Use Them
As we touched on briefly above, if Homo sapiens are good at one thing, it's killing other things. We're so good at it that we've made entire other species cease to exist without even trying. Add to the mix the sheer number of armed rednecks and hunters out there, and the zombies don't even stand a chance. There were over 14 million people hunting with a license in the U.S. in 2004. At a minimum, that's like an armed force the size of the great Los Angeles area.
Remember, the whole reason hunting licenses exist is to limit the number of animals you're allowed to kill, because if you just declared free reign for everybody with a gun, everything in the forest would be dead by sundown. Even the trees would be mounted proudly above the late-arriving hunter's mantles. It's safe to assume that when the game changes from "three deer" to "all the rotting dead people trying to eat us," there will be no shortage of volunteers.
Plus, if we look at zombies as a species, they are pretty much designed for failure. Their main form of reproduction is also their only source of food and their top predator. If they want to eat or reproduce, they have to go toe to toe with their number one predator every single time. That's like having to fight a lion every time you to want to have sex or make a sandwich. Actually, it's worse than that: Most top predators are only armed with teeth and claws, meaning they have to put themselves in harm's way to score a kill. Humans have rifles.
Harm's way is about 4875 feet from the end of this.
The zombies have no choice but to walk into bullets. And all this isn't even counting all the other household hand guns in the world, nor the fact that zombies also have to contend with IEDs, Molotov cocktails, baseball bats, crowbars and cars that the general public will no doubt be using to cull their numbers.
And that's just from the civilian population; counting the military and police, we have another three million or so armed people, and instead of just handguns shotguns and hunting rifles, they have machine guns, combat shotguns, sniper rifles, assault rifles, sub-machine guns, grenade launchers and the occasional taser, not to mention the training to use them effectively. But why would they even bother? When they could just roll over swaths of zombies in tanks, blast them with cluster bombs and MOABs and mow them down with miniguns from the god damn Air Force that every zombie flick seems to forget about.
Really, even if zombies existed right now, the whole concept of a zombie apocalypse is just laughable. Now robots, on the other hand...
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Suppose $\mathfrak{A}$ is a Boolean algebra and $\mathfrak{J}$ is chain of ideals in $\mathfrak{A}$ ordered by inclusion such that none of its elements is countably generated. Clearly, the union $\bigcup \mathfrak{J}$ is an ideal. Can it be countably generated?
Take te interval algebra, $B$, of the ordinal $\omega_1\times\omega$; for $n\in\omega$ let $I_n$ be the ideal consisting of the elements of $B$ that are bounded below $\omega_1\times n$. None of the ideals $I_n$ is countably generated but the union $\bigcup_n I_n$ is countably generated, by the family $\lbrace \omega_1\times n:n\in\omega\rbrace$. I assume here that you mean that $A$ generates $I$ in case $A\subseteq I$ and for all $x\in I$ there is $a\in A$ such that $x\le a$.
Let $\mathfrak{A}$ be the power set of an uncountable set $X$, which is a complete Boolean algebra. Select disjoint sets $X_n\subset X$ of size $\omega_1$, and let $J_n$ be the ideal generated by $X_0\sqcup\cdots\sqcup X_n$, together with the countable subsets of $X_{n+1}$. Thus, each ideal $J_n$ is countably complete (closed under countable unions) and not countably generated, and they form a chain $J_0\subset J_1\subset\cdots$. The union $\bigcup_n J_n$, however, is simply the ideal generated by the sets $X_n$.
The general situation of this example (and also of KP Hart's example, which is fundamentally similar) is to have a tower of ideals $J_n$, such that nested between them are principal ideals $I_n$, so that the chain looks like: $$J_0\subset I_0\subset J_1\subset I_1\subset\cdots$$ The point is that the union of the ideals $J_n$ is the same as the union of the principal ideals $I_n$, which is of course countably generated because they are principal.


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What is the standard approach? This is a generic question, I don't have a specific application example, but might the answer be that it depends on the situation?
Our small amount of work so far has Models holding Collections. Just reading about Marionette and its View, the documentation seems to suggest that Marionette makes the assumption that the View has the Collection.


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Alonso's "Fille Mal Gardee" after Petipa/Ivanov/Gorsky.....Nijinska/Romanoff/Balachova. (Hertel's music).
Posted 01 September 2008 - 05:48 PM
[font=Comic Sans MS][size=4]"[size=5]Lissette is a graceful character, and back then it was very different from those I had interpreted . It contained an aura of romantic old style, but with flirt and a very natural vividness. I immediately did fall in love with the character. In 1952, when Ballet Theatre was on hiatus between seasons, I decided to bring it and to stage it with the Cuban company, among other things because the ballet enchanted me and I was sure that the Cuban public was going to love it too. For the occasion I carefully revised it and revamped it, but I did not change it. La Fille Mal Gardee had been created already by Mme. Nijinska when I wasn't still dancing with Ballet Theatre, and that had to be respected. After that I never stopped re-staging this ballet, and has been a constant matter of improving everything that is possible, because like in all works, this is about constantly discovering new edges, both choreographically and musically. [/size][/size][/font]
[font=Comic Sans MS][size=4][size=5]Music in ballet is very important, particularly for pantomime works like "Fille". The value of the gesture is extremely important to tell the story and it is also essential to look for the musical accents, the musical phrases, because that is what gives the rate to the body work. Although it is certain that in Fille we find powerful elements that usually move the public to a true outburst of laughter-(just remember the shades of the Mme. Simone character), the laughter also can make the audience think about the wide range of human attitudes. In this ballet the personal interest of each of the characters is fully exposed. It is almost like opening a Pandora's box, presenting the crude vision of certain bizarre human behaviors that makes an essential part of this world; mainly the interest of one's own well-being, our own egoism, and we all know that nothing can be more terrible than our human nature's egoism, and hence that sometimes nothing can be sadder, funnier, ridiculous or more terrible than those roles that a human being is able to play moved by egoism".[/size][/size][/font]
I'm also curious about Nijinska's staging. Where else does it gets performed nowadays ?
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Posted 01 September 2008 - 06:58 PM
the last time ABT did it, the various casts included makarova w/ nagy and kirkland w/ baryshnikov. warren conover often did alain. i don't know just what it was like when it was first staged, but this enrique martinez? staging seemed to get broader and broader with each outing. marcos paredes often did simone.
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mel's assessment seems to be mine too.
the last time ABT did it, the various casts included makarova w/ nagy and kirkland w/ baryshnikov. warren conover often did alain. i don't know just what it was like when it was first staged, but this enrique martinez? staging seemed to get broader and broader with each outing. marcos paredes often did simone.
I saw Nijinska's Fille with ABT possibly early 1970s. Though I am very familiar with the Asthon version having even danced in it, this Nijinsky version I remember as very charming. Warren Conover as Alain used a kite instead of the unbrella in Ashton's.
I have the conductor's orchestra score of the first act but no opportunity to use it. I have asked Rochelle Zide for information about this Nijinska version which she has often staged, having learned it from Fernand Nault. Perhaps I shall ask her again as I'm very curious about it.
Posted 22 September 2009 - 12:05 PM
Ballet Theatre's production of Nijinska's LA FILLE MAL GARDEE shows Irina Baronova as Lysette and what I take to be Dimitri Romanov as Colin. (This print is unidentified, any further information would be much appreciated.)
Dance Perspectives #6 by Selma Jeanne Cohen lists all ballets performed by ABT (then Ballet Theater) from 1949-1960. The Nijinska version of Fille mal gardee was performed in their opening season at the Center Theater (then part of Rockefeller Center). Mother Simone was Edward Caton. Lisette: Patricia Bowman; Alain: Kosloff; Colin; Shabelevsky (but a cast change shows Dimitri Romanoff as Colin.) It could very well be Romanoff in the photo. I only knew him during his later years (in his 60s) but his features are recognizable in the photo. It is likely Lisette in the photo is Baronova, but not in that first season. It was also done during seasons of 41-32 and 48-56 so could have been during those runs. This Dance Perspective doesn't go beyond 1960.
Of course when I saw a performance of the ABT/Nijinska Fille it was during the 1970s with Makarova, Paredes, and possibly Nage. Waren Conover was Alain. I'd have to look back for a program. It was delightful.
Anatole Chujoy at the 1940 performances called it "one of the finest ballets given this season" He found Bowman "superb, Shabelevsky and Romanoff "excellent", Caton "amusing" and Kosloff "unsurpassed". This is from February issue of "Dance" ... I assume 1940.
Posted 28 October 2009 - 07:05 PM
Born in 1925, Mr. Pares went to New York as a very young man, where the then basic Ballet School of Arts gave him his initial training, and where he would be later on influenced by such names as Anthony Tudor, Anton Dolin, Edward Caton-(who was a direct disciple of Agrippina Vaganova), Margaret Craske (an ex member of the Diaghilev troupe and a direct link to Cecchetti)-and Vera Nemchikova, who had already worked with Nijinska and Massine. In 1951 José Parés became a member of the corps of Mme. Alonso's company, where he would remain with the rank of soloist until 1970, also holding the nomination of character dancer. Around this time he would also be in contact with other two influential figures in his life as a choreographer : Leon Fokine and Alexandra Fedorova.
All along this time, Mr. Pares became a Cuban audience favorite, imitated and applauded for his interpretations of the role of Dr.Coppelius of Coppelia, and even more for his Mama Simone in La Fille Mal Gardée. Alonso's staging of Fille had Pares collaboration, who had his own experience with the ballet from his old New York days, which were enhanced by Mme's own experiences with it. That way they ended up staging the Nijinska/Gorsky version that we all love in Havana
I recently found a couple of clips of Miss Adiarys Almeida, dancing the role of Lissette in Puerto Rico, to a Pares staging of the ballet, and it is indeed identical to what I remember seeing in Cuba. (Maybe Almeida, as a former member of the Cuban troupe, also knew the role from back then). In any case, I'm glad that this choreography has survived outside Cuba, and that is being passed to younger generations of dancers.
Here are the clips. Enjoy!
Mme. Alonso as Lissette with Jose Pares as Mama Simone in the early 60's
Adiarys Almeida as Lissette with Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico in 2006 " La Fille Mal Gardee " Choreography by Jose Pares. Joseph Gatti as Colin.
Posted 22 April 2010 - 12:01 AM
[font="Comic Sans MS"][size=2][size=3]"In 1942 the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo also presented their first production of La fille mal gardée, staged by the former ballerina of the Imperial Ballet Alexandra Balachova in a version largely based on Alexander Gorsky's production derived from the Petipa/Ivanov staging of the late 19th century.
Many of the dancers who worked with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo went on to use Balachova's version as a basis for many revivals throughout the world. The celebrated ballerina Alicia Alonso danced Balachova's staging of La fille mal gardée throughout the 1940s and 1950s, which she would go on to stage for the Cuban Ballet in 1964. As a result the majority of ballet companies in the Caribbean and South America regularly perform productions derived from Alonso's staging to the music of Hertel..."[/size][/size][/font]
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Mme. Alonso as Lissette with Jose Pares as Mama Simone in the early 60's
On film it seems too broad a performance though it made me laugh a lot. I am sure in the theatre is worked brilliantly.
Madame is so pulled up and centred. Just like she is in Swan Lake
Posted 13 May 2010 - 09:31 AM
Madame is so pulled up and centred. Just like she is in Swan Lake
Those two clips are sensational. I finally feel as though I've seen what was unique about Alonso, the Odile is incredible. 'Pulled up and centred', YES. And once I worked with a ballet mistress who said 'I love Alonso because she knew always how to get center stage', which I wasn't sure she was really supposed to say explicitly. But yes, if you center yourself, that would be the secret to getting center stage--it's not a matter of pushing ahead or anybody.
Posted 15 May 2010 - 05:06 AM
Part # 2 of a fragment of Mme Alonso's staging of Nijinska-Gorsky/Hertel's "Fille". Miss Anette Delgado as Lissette. Octavio Martin as Colin. Victor Gili as Mama Simone
For me Alonso wins it by a nose.
Posted 19 May 2012 - 07:07 PM
I watched the Annette Delgado performance on YouTube and it surprised me that it is in one act.
Overall, I like the choreography in this version more than the Ashton version. But I think as a dramatic story and a production the Ashton is very charming and paces the actual story better (I like the way the rain storm is staged in Ashton's and also the constant metaphor of the ribbons). Ashton's ballet is a 20th century ballet and a great 20th century ballet. This 19th century version of La Fille does deserve to be seen. It is lovely. I hope both stay alive for a long time to come! I will always be happy to see either one or both!
Posted 20 May 2012 - 09:35 AM
I love the dancing in Alonso's staging (based on Gorsky based on Petipa). It makes La Fille Mal Gardee seem like a grand ballet spectacle and is glorious.
I watched the Annette Delgado performance on YouTube and it surprised me that it is in one act.
Overall, I like the choreography in this version more than the Ashton version. But I think as a dramatic story and a production the Ashton is very charming and paces the actual story better (I like the way the rain storm is staged in Ashton's and also the constant metaphor of the ribbons). Ashton's ballet is a 20th century ballet and a great 20th century ballet. This 19th century version of La Fille does deserve to be seen. It is lovely. I hope both stay alive for a long time to come! I will always be happy to see either one or both!
Glad you like this rare gem, BB Needless to say, I was surprised the first time I realized-(on video)-about Ashton's Fille's lenght, being used to Alonso//Nijinska/Gorsky/Romanoff/Balachova after Petipa one act version. I really like Hertel's score, and Lissette's theme, which also plays in the ballet's overture. Actually, I would say that it is in my top five list of "haunting"-(I got the right spelling now, right...?)-ballet melodies. The score is indeed very "musique dansante" in nature, and the ballet itself is a brand name in Havana. Cuban ballerinas want to recreate Lissette's naughtiness with the same level of interest as Giselle's dramatism or Odile's glamour. Cuban audiences also have place it right next to the other Petipa's works. I really miss it. I can't believe that ABT allowed for its dissapearance.
Didn't Claude Bessy staged this version for POB in the mid-80's...?
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Usually involves the transfer of a physical object from one person to another of equal (or sometimes lower) status.
Can function as あげる, but in modern Japanese it comes with a formal ring and often involves something given as a favor for someone of lower status. Beyond this, its alternate uses include "assign" as in "assign homework", as well as "give" in connection with abstract concepts, such as influence or impressions.
Limited to giving something special (a privilege, a prize, etc) to someone of lower status. Closer to the English "award", "grant", or "bestow" than "give".
Definitions and example sentences taken from the 大辞泉 definitions for あげる, 与える, and 授ける.


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Despite his overpowering might, the creator fears the judgment of his creature. "Yaweh projects onto Job a skeptic's face which is hateful to him because it is his own, and which gazes at him with an uncanny and critical eye," Jung noted. From the perspective of the God-image, Job had attained a higher state of knowledge than Yaweh through his trvails, and this required a compensatory sacrifice, enacted, a few hundred years later, through the incarnation of Christ.
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I've made pasta before using 00 flour. I was about to use the same thing to make gnocci but I've noticed that none of the gnocci recipes mention the "00". Does it make a difference? Is one better then the other?
00 is extra-fine flour, the most refined grade. Here's a useful page for more about the old flour grading system. Other than pasta I use it for thickening sauces, and I sometimes make pizza dough with it, although I can't tell the difference between using 00 and good quality bread flour. I'd use 00 for Gnocci certainly as the chefs do, but most home cooks just use plain flour and seem to get good results.
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Many Mansions, many dreams
Thousand Oaks nonprofit opens doors for those who need it most
By Daniel Gelman 06/13/2013
A new housing development radiates an aura of hope and possibility. Who will live there and how will their stories play out? But what happens if half of them are homeless, including the mentally or physically challenged, and the other half are barely keeping their heads above water? Hillcrest Villas, the product of affordable-housing corporation Many Mansions in Thousand Oaks, is the setting for its latest experiment in nonprofit social welfare.
Susan, a mature woman from Simi Valley, was still reeling from the shock of living in her car for three years. After being diagnosed with a serious illness, her husband had left her. Depression had overtaken her life, and a foreclosure on her house had left her in the street. She put her name on the Many Mansions waiting list behind 1,000 people and began dreaming of a remote second chance.
But Hillcrest Villas was then merely a concept and a piece of land. The former Thousand Oaks Redevelopment Agency brainstormed with Many Mansions to target the needs of the homeless and others in transition at the Stoll House property. In 2007, Many Mansions purchased five parcels of land at 2736 E. Hillcrest Drive near the corner of Skyline Drive, with the help of a $7 million loan from the city. But construction did not begin until 18 months ago. (California dissolved redevelopment agencies in 2012.)
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Half of the 60 units are reserved for the homeless, and the rest for low-income families and individuals making 30 percent to 60 percent of the local median income of $86,700 for a family of four. An individual can make as much as $36,720 and a family of four can earn $52,440. Five buildings contain one-, two- and split-level three-bedroom apartments. There are a library, kitchen, computer room, conference room and administrative offices in a sixth building. Rents range from $457 to $1,350.
Eduardo Arias is 48 and hails from Mexico. He's been in and out of the U.S. since the '70s and attained citizenship during the Reagan era. He lived in Villa Garcia, a Many Mansions property in Thousand Oaks, for eight years with his wife and four children. He speaks perfect English and has a daughter graduating from high school. He works part time as a waiter at a restaurant, and his wife is starting a job as a hotel housekeeper.
Arias hopes to stay at Hillcrest Villas for life. Regarding sharing with the former homeless, he said, "I've got no problem. I get along. I can help them out." He cherishes the opportunity to live in a new property. "Not everyone has this chance. I'm a lucky one," he said.
"It's a very complicated process with lots of verification," said Rick Schroeder, president of Many Mansions. After verifying income, the screening is for candidates who want to help themselves. "We make sure they can live independently and there are no drugs. This is not assisted living," he said. Half of the apartments reserved for the homeless, however, must house at least one person with a mental disability.
But to Many Mansions, housing is not the final solution to systemic poverty. At Hillcrest Villas, it will sponsor a homework club, summer camp, financial literacy classes, case management, college counseling, job resources, a parenting club and a food share program.
"We cannot force people to use our programs. There's nothing we can do to compel them," said Schroeder.
Julia is doing everything she can to improve her situation. Her story also began in Mexico. She relocated to the U.S. in the early '90s, and became a U.S. citizen in 1998. In the early 2000s, she married and returned to Mexico. Her husband was abusive and wound up in prison, while Julia returned to America with two of her three children, who are citizens.
Julia ran a house-cleaning business before working full time in a factory in Thousand Oaks for 16 years. She is studying for her G.E.D. and has lived in Stoll House for the past 18 months with her kids. According to Fiona Kilner, VP of services for Many Mansions, "Julia is a wonderful caring person and has been an asset and role model at Stoll House. I know she will continue to show these attributes at Hillcrest."
Schroeder says nonprofits are the modern alternative to public housing. "The government decided to let people who have an expertise and interest in this field take over the building and management of these communities," he said. They also focus on upkeep to avoid urban decay.
The $26 million used to build Hillcrest Villas came from multiple sources including charity and loans and from U.S. Bank, the city, and the state. Many have low interest and some are "forgivable loans," meaning payment can be postponed during a bad year.
You must be a U.S. citizen or a legal permanent resident to live at a Many Mansions property. Fifty-seven percent of their residents are Hispanic, but immigrants are not required to disclose details of their naturalization. "The screening we do is pretty stringent," said VP of Housing Development Alex Russell. But he said they are not using the "E-Verify" system of Social Security numbers because the city does not require it.
"We all make some bad choices, and many of us are one bad choice away from needing help," said caseworker Susan Callahan. Many Mansions is decidedly nonjudgmental. Its mission is to break the cycle of poverty. Community leaders started it in 1979 as a rent subsidy service. There are nine properties in Thousand Oaks, three in Simi Valley and two in Oxnard, accommodating more than 1,000 people.
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This article is full of BS. Their are illegal aliens that live at many mansions. I live at many mansions and can prove that over half of the occupants are illegal. Their Children are anchor babies. First priority over the homeless and legal Americans. Most of the staff at many mansions that deal with the background checks are Latino.
Illegal aliens harbor other illegal aliens by renting out space at night so they have shelter. While poor Americans suffer Many Mansions Harbors illegal Aliens. Your article was very misleading and is the very reason I wont subscribe to the county star because of the pro illegal alien stance.
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Cardinal casts humanity as 'ethical child' on environment
This past Thursday the Scripps Institute confirmed that monthly levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have surpassed 400 parts per million, not only for the first time in human history, but for possibly in more than a million years. Annual measurements taken since 1958 show that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have risen by about 40 percent since humans began burning fossil fuels more than two centuries ago, and that there've been more greenhouse emissions in just the last forty years than the previous two hundred. Interviewed in Slate, Ralph Keeling of Scripps explains the significance of 400 ppm: "People like round numbers. When you hit a milestone you realize how far you've come. It's a little bit surreal. You think, 'Whoa, OK, not quite used to this one yet.' It's like having a round number birthday. It takes a while to identify with the new era you're in."
Yes, round numbers have clarifying effects, and I think Keeling's birthday analogy sits interestingly alongside something Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga said in his remarks opening the Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Planet, Our Responsibility conference now underway at the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of the Sciences: "[M]an finds himself to be a technical giant and an ethical child." For all the scientific and mathematical complexities we can comprehend, obvious milestones still seem necessary for us to think about things, well, more thoughtfully.
"The power of men over the means to their goals is incontestable," the cardinal continues,
both in terms of technological capabilities and with respect to the potentialities of scientific knowledge. However, this prowess is displayed in a difficult context where the goals may get fuzzy. The capacity of the 'how' collides with the lack of clarity of the 'for what,' as not everything that is possible is necessarily convenient for man.
The purpose of the Vatican gathering isn't to focus specifically on climate change, but "to view Humanity's interchanges with Nature through a triplet of fundamental, but inter-related Human needs – Food, Health, and Energy – and ... to speak of the various pathways that both serve those needs and reveal constraints on Nature's ability to meet them." Thus global economic inequality – not to mention unequal exposure to the effects of, and burdens imposed by, environmental degradation – are also big parts of the discussion. As reported by Dan Misleh at Catholic Climate Convenant, participants have talked about "the extraction of non-renewable resources often by distant corporations unwilling to recognize the impacts on low-income people," and have called for corporations to be reigned in while eliminating tax havens abetted "by governments like the United States, Great Britain and a few others." There was also this other passage from Cardinal Maradiaga's presentation:
In the face of the all-too-evident destruction of Nature, the current capitalist system cannot, on account of its very essence, attain sustainable development, as it engenders and feeds on inequity and social injustice, and is based on the unbridled and predatory use of natural resources, the anarchic production of goods and the encouragement of consumption with the goal of obtaining and concentrating profit.
Those words also have a clarifying quality, and with the conference continuing through Tuesday, maybe we'll hear more like them – thoughtful, inspiring, and impassioned language to consider alongside the hard round numbers of milestones. Or, to paraphrase yet another passage from the cardinal's remarks: Maybe our "'software - i.e., our ideas and values" can begin to catch up with our "'hardware,' which has focused for centuries on maximum growth and productivity."
(Andrew Revkin at the New York Times and Dan Misleh are blogging daily from the conference.)
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There is ample evidence that our environment is in trouble. And we need prophetic voices to shake people out of their complacency. Enough conference, symposiums, and articles. We need politicians to advance these issues in their party platforms. A few concrete suggestions:
1. Moratorium on fracking.
2. Mandatory international (and that includes China, India and Russia!) emmission standards.
3. Generous tax rebates for new homes that utilize proven energy efficient appliances and subsidies for geothermal heating and cooling.
4. Enhance wind, solar energy.
5. Encourage use of public transportation, invest in rail infrastructure like the GoTrain in Toronto and Southern Ontario.
Cardinal Maradiaga's remarks are right on target, but there is little evidence of the political will or the economic insight to address this miltifaceted crisis. For example, in the most recent issue of "Foreign Affairs" (May/June 2014), there is a symposium devoted to the future of enery resources and their utilization. there is little discussion of the need to reduce overal energy consumption to levels that are environmentally sustainable. There are essays lauding the growthof fracking, proposing how to increase use of nuclear energy, electrifying automobiles, etc. The overall common theme is that there techniques presently available or nearly so that will solve the overall energy problem without any diminution in the overall amount of energy we use. There is no suggestion that we may well have to reduce overall energy consumption. The notion that we may have to make reductions is apparrently unthinkable.
In a prrevious thread, Jim Pauwels and I disagreed with eachother about the prospects for a fair and effective political and economic response to the multiple dimensions of the environmental problems. I was and remain fearful that these problems will be satisfactorily addressed. Certainly, the present economic regime of global capitalism is not promising and its leaders show little sign of a willingness to reform that regime. Whatever conversation there is about this problem seems to presuppose that competition, not cooperation, is bound to prevail. If so, Then the future does look dim.
A rahaer surprising point is made at the Pontifical Academy site. Apparently the scientists there think that the social sciences have not been sufficiently interested in incorporating the findings of the hard scientists into their (the soc. scientists') work. Hmm. Of course, historically there have been scientists who wouldn't consider the social sciences to be sciences in the first place, so maybe the non-conversation should not be surprising.
"Despite the conflicting intuitions, many people are convinced that scientific and technological advances, the accumulation of reproducible capital (machinery, equipments, buildings, roads), growth in human capital (education, skills), and improve- ments in the economy's institutions can overcome diminutions in natural capital. Otherwise it is hard to explain why so much of the social sciences in the twentieth century has been detached from the environmental sciences. nature is all too often seen as a backdrop from which resources and services can be drawn in isolation."
On the other hand, the scientists are concern with "natural capital", an *economic* concept which means not simply "natural resources" (a very old concept) but, rather it refers to ecosystems that play a major part in sustainable human ecosystems which in turn are essential parts of wider economic systems. I gather that "naural capital" definitely has a prominent role of Piketty's new economics, though fundamentalist conservative economists seem blind to its importance.
Oh, for educational systems that were truly inter-disciplinary.
Also of note: the conference will include one session on population. Would love to be a fly on the wall at that one.
George D writes,
2. Mandatory international (and that includes China, India and Russia!) emmission (sic) standards.
This stimulates what I believe to be some urgent questions: What global agency would be empowered to enforce this requirement? Would the ultimate level of force required include lethal force?
Would private citizens be imprisoned for violations?
Would American citizens retain their constitutional rights? Or would the U.S. Constitution be abrogated?
If great numbers of American citizens protested, would there be internment camps, or possibly re-education camps, set up?
I am not asking these questions to be a troll; but I do get nervous when mandatory international anything gets bandied about. These are serious questions (and I admit that my formulations are not the best) that every American citizen needs to think about.
I would urge everyone to think seriously about these matters.
Obviously the binding force of any agreement whether torture, landmines or the universal declaration of human rights is primarily moral. Those countries that are signorities have a moral obligation to live up to those standards. And we have a moral obligation to hold our countries and elected official accountable.
Checks and balances need to be part of any governmental system. Certainly, the UN can be a useful service in providing external, peer review on compliance with certain standards. It is up to the country that signs and agrees with those values, to actually live up to them.
As for enforcement, that is a difficult question. I was at a conference where some Nigerian people were advocacting action against the practice of child brides. This was in direct violation to the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child which Nigeria is a signatory to. Currently, there isn't really any international body that provides consistent policing around some of these issues.
Ditto for child prostitution and exploitation. We need much better international cooperation. There is Interpol but still not universal.
But emission standards, for example, are a pretty easy enforceable target. Corporations and plants can be fined for not being compliant. And the regulatory body has to be the country that signs the agreement.
Another question which needs to be asked, which I am not seeing addressed much, is how soon might we see significant results if we did everything which is being recommended to ameliorate carbon emissions? I think most people are assuming that if we went cold turkey, things could be turned around in maybe 50-100 years. What I am reading is that 1000-plus years might be more realistic .I think one reason you don't hear this much is that it is a pretty hard sell to get people to support life-altering changes in order to change things a millenium into the future. Which isn't to say that it isn't the right thing to do. But people shouldn't kid themselves that things will "normalize" in a few years. As others have said, we need to be supporting renewable fuels (including research into safer nuclear technologies). Also carbon recycling technologies (not just carbon "sinking") so that carbon emissions can be converted to fuel again, more of a closed loop. But it is dishonest if people are led to expect results they can see in their lifetime; and will lead to a backlash.
Katherine --
Thanks for the comment. Makes sense.
Can you recommend any reliable sites on the net about the basics of the greenhouse gases problem that we non-experts might understand? There are many ecology groups that take stands about these problems and put out their positions, but some of them seem to exaggerate the problem and others seem to understate them.
Which scientists to trust is a great problem for us non-experts generally -- it's sort of a who-shall- judge-the-experts problem.
Here are some thought-provoking quotes attributed to authoritative people associated with climate change issues. Self-disclosure: I have not vetted these quotations for provenance or context.
Quote by Ottmar Edenhoffer, high level UN-IPCC official: "We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...Basically it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore."
Quote by Timoth Wirth, U.S./UN functionary, former elected Democrat Senator: "We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy."
Quote by Kevin Trenberth, a lead author of 2001 and 2007 IPCC report chapters: "None of the models used by the IPCC are initialized to the observed state and none of the climate states in the models correspond even remotely to the current observed state".
Quote by Richard Benedik, former U.S./UN bureaucrat: "A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect."
Of course climate change cannot be separated from themes of globalization nor can it be separated from the human ecology. The qutoe that Anne provided sums up the philosophical and also the political problem nicely. We have to think about issues of development, justice, economy, and natural ecology in a holistic frame of reference. Even development in eco-theology is important in this regard. Teilhard was a beginning, Thomas Berry was good on it and even though many do not take him seriously anymore Matthew Fox had some compelling directions. At any rate, this is a good quote from Ann and very apt.:
"Despite the conflicting intuitions, many people are convinced that scientific and technological advances, the accumulation of reproducible capital (machinery, equipments, buildings, roads), growth in human capital (education, skills), and improve- ments in the economy's institutions can overcome diminutions in natural capital. Otherwise it is hard to explain why so much of the social sciences in the twentieth century has been detached from the environmental sciences. Nature is all too often seen as a backdrop from which resources and services can be drawn in isolation."
To Ann:
Unfortunately, the climatology of earth and the greenhouse effect are not straightforward and obvious. Even the term greenhouse effect is a misnomer but it's something people can relate to. The problem of understanding climate gets complex fast. I go to realclimate.org to keep up with the science. I have a B.S. in physics and an M.S. in optical engineering which helps me follow the arguments but it's still a tough one to follow because even the commenters are technically savvy.
Grist.org is the other end of the spectrum, advocacy oriented as you've seen but a bit sloppy on the technical side.
I've mentioned a good review of global warming science at the American Institute of Physics website: http://www.aip.org/history/climate/co2.htm
There's a website with 99 answers to denier myths at:
For my own part, at some point, even with better scientific training than most people, I quickly get out of my depth in this subject. As far as who to trust is concerned, I trust the people who seem to be doing science, putting pieces of the puzzle together to get a better picture and fill in the blanks. Those people seem to be Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt, Raymond Pierrehumbert and most of the scientists who consider anthropogenic climate warming to be a problem. On the other hand, I get a bad feeling when I see people who just seem to want to kick at the jigsaw puzzle pieces just in case a picture emerges. That what the most credentialed climate change deniers like Roy Spencer and Richard Lindzen seem to do. They also seem to not want to converge on certainty as much as to diverge into uncertainty. Reminds me of people who don't want to take a medical test because of what it might show. Roy Spencer is also a creationist. I don't know what kind of creationist he is, but if he's the earth is 6,000 years old type, I don't know how he deals with even the last ice age and why it ended.
Ann, I'm very much a non-expert. When I started looking around for some realistic estimates of how much time we were looking at to see significant progress in reversing the effects of global warming, I was thinking, maybe, 50 years. So I was surprised to find no sources which indicated that it would be anywhere near that short term. Here are some links (which I can't vouch for, but seem somewhat credible):
Sorry, there appears to be a typo in the second link, hopefully this is right:
Bob ==
Thanks for the quotes. They're fine examples of the sort of contradictory statements we get from the authorities. My problem (besides my pitifully small understanding of the science) is that there are just so *many*authorities. Whom to trust? There's the problem of their understanding of the available science, and there's also the problem of predictions on the basis of that science. The problems are so complex and the data so humongous that I don't even know whether there are computers powerful enough to handle all the if-thens, either-ors, and therefore's. Add to the psychological problems -- scientists aren't immune to bias -- narrow minds, unwillingness to admit error, axes to grind, etc., etc., etc.
But it would be madness not to try to find the best available authorities. So how to go about choosing them? Well, obviously, we non specialists have to trust that the scientists with the best reputations. They have the reputations they do because there is reason to think that they are honest, their studies have been shown to be repeatable and have withstood scientific criticism, and their views are consistent with other solid scientific findings. Unfortunately, reputable scientists sometimes disagree. Quadruple sigh. But it seems that there is at least a consensus among *all* the scientists, including the winners of the major prizes in science, that global warming is real, getting stronger, and that human beings are at least one of the causes of it, if not the single cause. That's enough to go forward trying to find other possible causes and to reduce our input into the problem. I simply cannot see how we can rationally not reduce the emissions drastically that are *at least* one major cause of the problem.
Stanley --
Thanks so much for the American Institute of Physics site! Even I can understand it, and if we can't trust that group, then whom can we trust?
In one of its sub-sites, "Other Greenhouse Gases", I notice that one of the main researchers in the area is V. Ramanathan. He is one of the co-directors of the Vatican conference. Apparently the Vatican is going for really first-rate people.
One of the things that Ramanathan discovered is that much to the surprise of even the scientists one single atom of an aerosol (CFC) can do as much damage to the atmosphere as 10,000 molecules of CO2. He was taken seriously, and a lot of the CFCs emissions have been eliminated since then. Unfortunately, the stuff used to replace he CFCs is very bad. Looks like industry gets the last word always. :-( That whole sub-site is fascinating. Termites, for instance, emit a significant greehnouse gas, as do all the rice paddies in China, and cows! What complex soup the atmosphere is.
The other sites look very informative too. Thanks.
Katherine --
Thanks for the sites. I had no idea that Nature would have a free site on the net :-)
Unless I'm misreading the comments on this thread, I take it that the various sorts of uncertainty about the scope of the environmental problem lead some commentators to think that we do not know enough to conclude that major changes to the way we now live are necessary. Or perhaps the conclusion is that we know too little for it to make sense for us to know what steps might turn out to be genuinely remedial. Let me suggest thqt the appropriate staating point for remediation is the twofold conviction that (a) we must make significant chnges in the way we use and deplete natural resources and (b) we must rethink and bewilling to modify the kinds of political and legal control we are prepared to live with. Without this latter provision, I would have to agree that the situation looks hopeless. To achieve (b) is itself practically nearly hopeless, but does remain within the scope of what human beings are capable of.
So far as I know there is no respectable significant body of thought that deniew the depth of the problem we face if we do not change our way of living. Admittedly, there is no guarantee that we know enough to avoid catastrophe.
What's the conclusion? Shall we wait for compelling evidence that we know what is genuinely beneficial? Or shall we take our best shot, given the vast uncertainties? All this is, I think, unprecedented. So far as I can see, the only prospect that has some chance of coping successfully with our ecological problem is drastically curbing our iconsumption of our resources. The chance that we will do so successfully is slim. But what is the alternative?
I admit that I very much hope that my view is badly mistaken. If you think it is, please tell me why you find it so.
I can remember that, in a 1970's physics course (on my way to an electrical engineering B.S.), we were solemnly warned that the earth was entering an ice age. This was expressed with the same certainty as is used now by the "global warming" authorities. The bottom line is that the system comprised of the earth and the sun is not now and never was a system in stasis. It has been changing from it's beginning, is now, and will always be changing. It is a gigantic and complex "machine" if you will, and the computer models used by the scientists is, to put it mildly, simplistic in the extreme. There is no "normal" climate, no starting point with all the data points and variablesLet nothingdisturb thee/Let nothing dimay thee/All things pass/God alone sufficiently defined, and defined with sufficient aqccuracy, to predict anything other than uncertainty.
From the available information, I have concluded that today's crop of global socialists have fastened onto "man-made climate change" as the surest way to establish a universal totalitarian police state in order to correct "income equality" (which is never defined). Of course, certain sociological groups will be exempt from the necessarily harsh methods that will be required: the international glitterati (you know, the libertine blow flies of Hollywood, Fashion, entertainment), the crony capitalists (like Obama's banker buddies), the old New Left heroes and the like.
Include me out.
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Bob --
You're a denier. That 99 responses to deniers site is made for you. Check #2, among others.
That a scientist like you can thumb your nose at the probabilities that seem to be operating at the moment (and the vast, vast majority of the world's other scientists) -- that's really amazing. Do you have some secret oracle that has let you know that all those other scientists are incompetent or liars or both, or what?
From the available information, I have concluded that today's crop of global socialists have fastened onto "man-made climate change" as the surest way to establish a universal totalitarian police state in order to correct "income equality" (which is never defined).
From the available information, I have concluded that it would be unwise for me to travel to the so-called Southern Hemisphere, lest I fall off the earth into the abyss. Besides, I don't want to hurt any of the turtles.
Oh, so *that's* where all hose turtles are! Hmm.
Sticks and stones. Since you can't refute what I said, you call me a name; I would have expected better from you.
Bob S. --
Didn't you deny that there is a climate threat that we should try to reverse at least in part? Saying you are a "denier" just states that simple fact -- you deny the threat and that we should take action.. That's not name-calling.
Bob S. --
Didn't you deny that there is a climate threat that we should try to reverse at least in part? Saying you are a "denier" just states that simple fact -- you deny the threat and that we should take action.. That's not name-calling.
Now, now, Ann. You could hurt a person's feelings by calling him what he manifestly is and by failing to refute arguments he hasn't made.
If someone says, "I'm skeptical about man-made climate change, and here are my reasons for doubting it," and he then goes to the actual trouble of making an argument that takes account of other people's work, he deserves a fair response. But if it's "everything has always been variable, so there is no point in looking for anomalies or for any significant change that may have been introduced recently," that's like saying, "Don't bother investigating a suspicious death as a possible homicide, because, you know, people die of natural causes all the time." Citing Teresa of Avila is, I admit, innovative.
For the rest of it, terms like "global socialists," "universal totalitarian police state," and "Obama's banker buddies" are not arguments at all, but fumes from the fever swamp. They tell us a great deal about any person who uses them, but nothing at all about the truth or falsity of the science of climate change. And for evaluating its claims, the evidence presented here suggests that a B.S. in Electrical Engineering may be less useful than one in Egyptology or Classics.
To Ann,
Happy you liked the links and that you are already using them to effect as I can see. Denial is a very powerful and dangerous component of the human psyche, procrastinating when action is required.
Ouch! Well, back to the fever swamp...


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Read several posts about chocolate stouts and it seems that using nibs as a secondary flavoring without adding to the boil is the consensus. Roasting them first has been suggested, as well as soaking them in vodka. My question is how long should I roast them and at what temperature? What I have are cracked nibs from a chocolatier here in Seattle, do they need to be soaked in vodka? Thanks in advance.
For most spices and nuts, you roast them just until they become aromatic. When I roast almonds I do them in the oven at 350F for 5-10 minutes, and then let them cool. Remember that dry things like that will maintain their heat for a good long while, and they will continue cooking (carry-over) for a few minutes after you remove them from the heat. There's also a short window between roasted and burned.
You can also do them in a dry skillet, as mentioned in this question: What technique best infuses spices into a dish?
I did a coffee imperial stout that I use nibs in secondary. I did not roast them but I don't know how much the ones you have will differ from mine. These are the ones that I used. http://www.surlatable.com/product/PRO-24981/Scharffen-Berger-Cacao-Nibs
The flavor after about 3 weeks in bottles was more of a bitter, unsweetened, dark, 100% cocoa flavor more than a cheap Hershey's bar. (Personally it worked well but maybe the wrong chocolate flavor for a cider.)
As far as vodka: I tried soaking mine for a few days to try and extract more flavor but the whole mix just ended up smelling like bad vodka I wouldn't want in my beer. I ended up just using enough to cover the nibs long enough to disinfect, then drained the vodka off.