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Carnegie Hall provides two flavors of Ricola cough drops at least on both sides of the first level.
The programme sellers at the Royal Opera House have(had) a supply of 'cough sweets' which one just requested.
Posted 20 April 2010 - 11:48 AM
The Kennedy Center provides them as well, but I can't remember if it's just in the Concert Hall, or also in the Opera House (one would think yes) and the Eisenhower Theater where dance is presented.
Some theaters now provide cough drops in baskets just in front of the entrance to the auditorium. I don't know if they still do it, but I've seen these at Avery Fisher Hall in NYC some years ago.
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Let me take the opportunity to plug Hall's menthol (your drugstore's house menthol will also probably do just as well).
Yes, Rite-Aid's are fine too. I use them all the time. Had friend who recently did print ad for Hall's that were all over subways here and in LA. He thinks he's famous now. Well, I certainly hope so...
Posted 20 April 2010 - 03:28 PM
To clarify, I absolutely believe in the right of anyone, no matter what their physical, neurological or learning disabilities may be, to attend public performance and be an active part of the audience.
The saddest thing about the woman at the cinema was the care she'd taken to minimise the effects of her Tourettes for the other audience members, she'd brought a wash cloth with her to bite, and she also was wearing a kind of modified purdah veil over her mouth, which I assumed was because one of her tics was spitting. Her Tourettes was something she lived with and existed with and had come up with several devices to lessen the effect of her tics on others - the care she'd given in thought to the audience members was considerable and as such the very least anyone could do was accord her the same respect.
People with learning disabilities such as Downs, autism etc can be very demonstrative audience members responding vociferously and enthusiastically when something delights them or indeed provokes any strong emotion within them - and I think that's great. We in the West are incredibly "proper" as a matter of course when watching public performance - in Carolyn Brown's biography "Chance and Circumstance" she wrote about the Cunningham company's first performances in India in 1964 accustomed to Western audiences and their polite clapping at the end of a performance, she was completely taken aback by the vociferous responses, oohs & aaahs, laughing, clapping, cheering etc of the Indian audience at any section which provoked a strong response in them. Moreover she loved that.
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Some theaters now provide cough drops in baskets just in front of the entrance to the auditorium. I don't know if they still do it, but I've seen these at Avery Fisher Hall in NYC some years ago.
The Colorado Symphony has provided free cough drops for years. Unfortunately, that didn't prevent someone from having a coughing spell Saturday evening that basically encompassed the entire final minute of Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending.
Posted 21 April 2010 - 01:23 AM
Good question, Simon. Difficult, indeed. It's not as if you can just lean forward and ask her politely to stop and yet at the same time I'm sure it was a serious distraction. I have never had such an experience at the ballet or elsewhere but perhaps others have?
At a ballet performance in Oxford I was in the sitting in the stalls and became aware of a woman in the front row who kept beating her fists on the floor and emitting stifled cries. Another time at Sadlers Wells someone kept up a high pitched screech throughout the evening.
I know its not politically correct to say this, but I feel people with such advanced conditions should be discouraged from attending public performances.
Posted 21 April 2010 - 06:48 AM
As an older person, I sympathize with those who have loved the arts their entire lives. But it also clear that people have responsibilities to those around them. A time may come when you just have to stay at home. I confess that I have already given some thought to the time when this may be true about me as well: how to know? what to do? how to accept?
Meanwhile, I sympathize with theater staff -- and our performing arts staff is very considerate of people with disabilities -- who have to be concerned about bad publicity or even litigation if they make a mis-step.
Posted 21 April 2010 - 08:57 AM
Another example, a regular attender who is prone to going into insulin shock during performances, requiring EMT services during performance. The patron tends to sit up front and center in the orchestra. Our theater staff is aware of this problem, but the person involved loves going to performances and is not amenable to suggestions about sitting elsewhere or staying at home. So what can one do?
As an older person, I sympathize with those who have loved the arts their entire lives. But it also clear that people have responsibilities to those around them. A time may come when you just have to stay at home. I confess that I have already given some thought to the time when this may be true about me as well: how to know? what to do? how to accept?
Meanwhile, I sympathize with theater staff -- and our performing arts staff is very considerate of people with disabilities -- who have to be concerned about bad publicity or even litigation if they make a mis-step.
Never stay at home, keep going out until the very end and never curtail your love of anything because people think you're behaving improperly.
I mean however inconveniant this dude going into insulin shock may be, part of me says good for him, the other part thinks maybe he should sit in a more amenable spot for prompt medical attention. But if he dies in the theatre watching something he loves, I reckon it's how he wants to go - so let him.
I myself want to be eaten alive by wild beasts. I've been banned from all London, provincial and regional zoos and several ones in western Europe. But I'm holding out hope for my visit to Asia and the Americas.
Posted 21 April 2010 - 10:08 AM
All you do is go to the jungle, they'll eat you right up there. And don't mind the money to get to New Guinea: If you don't get to the real jungle, creditors will be happy to do it if you overspent and still didn't find the right beasts. I imagine that's about the same, but a little less 'direct experience'. Also, I recommend concentrating on herpetariums if you can't get into the cages of the lions and polar bears, because I have seen cobras in the Fort Worth Zoo who act very willing even while in captivity. You could just punch out the glass and found out. Being of the opposite persuasion about such things, I've never gotten over just seeing those overly self-impressed cobras--it's as bad as the shower scene in Psycho.
I think that it's just that you want to text Jedward and listen to your iPod till the very last minute so that you won't experience your ownmost potential directly.
Thank you.
P.S. I don't think I've ever seen anti-social behaviour in a theater, but then I've been very sheltered. Except for when I was a student usher at the Met, and had to tell extremely loud German patrons to be quiet several times. For this helpful deed, I was reported to my bosses and told that 'you are from the BRONX!!!' I have never gotten over this either, but I don't know if loud talking is considered a disability.
Posted 21 April 2010 - 03:23 PM
Simon, I think it doesn't quite work to get eaten by wild beasts from zoos, now does it? If it's really going to be effective, don't you need to be a little less domestic about it? There's just something a little anticlimactic about someone who wants a comfortable surrounding in which to be carved up by saber-tooth tigers (if they still existed.) It doesn't play, you know.
Yeah, but Patrick, what's the point if I don't have an audience?
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Having just read a post on StackExchange English about 'so', how would you translate it into French, as in 'I think so' or 'So, anyway'. Would you use 'ça' ?
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For what my English grammar knowledge is worth¹, that's some kind of reflexive pronoun, about a non-human object. I'd translate that as "le", as in :
You could also translate it with "ça", hence :
"So" in "so, anyway", as far as I know, doesn't have anything to do, and is merely some oral punctuation (is that what you're tagging "oral" for ?). This could translate³ to "donc", or "alors", not bearing much meaning :
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Personnally I link the English 'so' with the French 'ainsi', meaning 'this way'. I think so is the same as I think this way, in French one could say:
In 'So, anyway' the 'so' has a totally different meaning... it's almost just an interjection... That would be translated to 'Soit', 'Bon, quoi qu'il en soit'...
Edit: Be careful 'quoi qu'il en soit' only stands for 'anyway', and as @LeVieuxGildas has remarked, the 'soit' in 'quoi qu'il en soit' doesn't correspond to 'so', but is really the verb 'être' conjugated in this case.
1) I think that the most common equivalent of "I think so" is:
Of course there are many other ways to say that, such as:
or just: "oui".
2) For the second sentence, which has a very different meaning. People often says stuff like:
(i.e. okay, I/we have said everything on that topic, let's conclude or change the topic of conversation)
(i.e. That was what I/we had to say. Let's speak about something else.)
any many others....
When a grammar (and not even a dictionnary) has three pages on the use of a word, you may be sure that it hasn't a simple traduction. To be idiomatic, you'll need to take the context into account.
For the given examples:
Je le pense (aussi), c'est ce que je pense aussi, c'est bien ce que je pense.
Bon, de toute façon...
Un mot dont l'usage prend trois pages d'explication dans une grammaire, c'est le genre de mot qui n'a pas de traduction hors contexte. Pour les deux exemples donnés :
Je le pense (aussi), c'est ce que je pense aussi, c'est bien ce que je pense.
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What would happen when you got to the middle of the Earth? Would you gradually slow down, until you got to the middle and once you were in middle would every direction feel like it was up?
No, I'd refuse, You should do that Yourself. :=(
Do You want to "solve" this with or without friction by air?
Without friction, You would fall and reach maximum speed in the center of earth, going on until You reach the antipods, where You would stand still for a fraction of a second, then You would go down again. Very boring indeed and You should take some sandwiches and some drink with You.
With friction You wold accelerate up to a speed around 300 km/h, then fall down with this constant speed, slowing down when approaching the center, and go on some distance, fall down to center again and do that oscillation until all Your potential/kinetic energy is consumed by friction.
Because about a dozen of such holes were drilled here in physics.SE alone, You might find some company at the center of earth.
I seem to remember Dr Karl on the Triple J radio station (Karl Kruszelnicki) explaining this one. In a zero friction environment, you would oscillate back and forth. It would take about 40 minutes to travel from one side of the earth to the other. An interesting side note was that if you were to dig the hole from any point in the Earth to any other point, it would still take the same amount of time to travel from one side to the other.
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I don't think the shipping will be free. These are delivered by foot.
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Three pictures, and it looks like a different ring in each picture. I don't know what you'll get, but I bet it's not the wide fully engraved ring in the first picture.
@tarasadies: For me, it automatically selected "Ground Expedited Service" for $1.99, but I was able to change it on the "How" page below the payment method to free regular "Ground Service". I don't know if that's what you're seeing, but yes, they did try to automatically upgrade shipping.
@pinfar: I got one a while ago. It's the second and third picture that you get. Still nice, but not as nice as they want you to believe. No engraving on the inside, just the outside. That first picture could almost constitute fraud! LOL
@horde5150: Hobbit feet?
Size 10....I suppose I could use a pinky ring.
I see they deleted my comment at Meritline.
I bought 2 of these a few weeks ago and was shocked to see a Cancer Warning sticker on the wrapper. I hand typed the CA Prop 65 Label. If you are interested you can download the complete EXCEL list, HERE: http://oehha.ca.gov/prop65/prop65_list/newlist.html
Meritline didnt explain to me exactly which carcinogenic chemical is included.
If you are in a red state, you may not even get the little sticker.
Also, the rings are NOT inscribed on inside diameter, contrary to the picture.
@danieleg: When I said " I hand typed the CA Prop 65 Label."
I meant to say, I went to the trouble of typing the label info into a comment at Meritline product page for the rings. I guess they only allow positive comments. Cancer is not very positive....but they should give you the warning BEFORE the purchase. NOT when it gets to the house.


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Why is there no Mitzvas Hayom on Shavuos (For example, on Sukkos there is a commandment of shaking the Lulav, on Rosh Hashanh one must blow the Shofar, on Purim one must read the Meggilah, on Chanukah on must light the Menorah, etc.)?
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Well, there were plenty of unique mitzvot in the time of the Beit Hamikdash, like bringing the shtei halekhem, bikurim, and of course the last of the omer. There are also sources that give the homiletic answer of Shavuot being the end of Pesach, like Shmini Atzeret is the end of Sukkot. S"A also has no stand-alone mitzvot. It is interesting that b'zman hazeh, we associate both with Torah: Matan Torah and Simchat Torah.
An answer from Chabad.org (I assume based on some talk or letter by the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l, although I haven't found the specific one) is that this demonstrates that the Torah is not just a set of laws superimposed on an existing world (i.e., that there exists a natural reality which Torah comes to regulate), but that on the contrary, the purpose of all of existence is for the sake of the Torah and its mitzvos. Thus,
Rivevos Ephraim 5:349 asks this question and answers in 6:284 that shavuos the Torah was given and all mitzvos are applicable on it(the mitzvah of shavous is keeping the Torah) other Yom tovim have specific mitzvos pertaining to itself.


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8 oz. Petite Sirloin, cubed, about ¼" thick
2 TBS. extra virgin olive oil
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1/8 tsp. garlic pepper
1/8 tsp. lemon pepper
1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper
In a large skillet over medium heat, cook steak cubes in hot oil and spices. Saute for 3 to 5 minutes, stirring often. Remove steak from heat and let rest for 5 minutes before serving. *A 5 minute cook time will result in a medium-rare steak. Add 2 minutes more for medium and 4 to 5 minutes more for medium well. If that still isn't done enough…just burn it!
Creamy Horseradish Sauce: It is very important to add as mush heat as possible to your food, no matter how you achieve this goal. Peppers are one of the best foods you can put into your body. The heat generated from peppers and hot spices increase your metabolism, help your digestive system, and cause you to sweet which naturally releases the impurities in your body. So bring on the heat! Cayenne pepper and horseradish sauce are just 2 great examples of an easy way to adding the all important heat to your food sources.
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The family of a Kentucky judge says the death of their family member may be linked to the recent meningitis outbreak.
Kentucky Circuit Court Judge Eddie Lovelace died at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville on September 17th.
The Tennessean newspaper reports in July and August, Lovelace received three rounds of the pain-relieving steroid shot suspected of causing the meningitis outbreak.
His wife, Joyce, says representatives from Saint Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgery Center called her twice after his death to discuss his condition.
Joyce says they never mentioned the outbreak, but she thinks that's why he died.
Vanderbilt confirmed the first death from the outbreak was a 78 year old man on September 17th.
Judge Lovelace was 78 years old.
The Lovelace family says he died from a stroke, and had symptoms related to fungal meningitis like slurred speech, trouble walking, and numbness.
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Say you have 2 symmetric matrices, $A$ and $B$, and you know that every linear combination $xA+yB$ ($x,\\,y\in \mathbb{R}$) has an eigenvalue of multiplicity at least $m>1$. Such a situation can of course be obtained if $A$, $B$ have a common eigenspace of multiplicity at least $m$.
My question is: is it the only possibility?
A way to proceed is the following: the characteristic polynomia of the generic matrix is $\det(xA+yB-tI)$, and its discriminant $\Delta$ (with respect to $t$) is a homogeneous polynomial in $x,y$ of degree $n^2-n$, where $n$ is the number of rows and columns in $A$ and $B$. Since every matrix in the family has some eigenvalue of multiplicity $>1$, the polynomial $\Delta$ vanishes identically, hance all the $n^2-n+1$ coefficients in $\Delta$ vanish. This gives $n^2-n+1$ polynomial conditions on the $n^2+n$ coefficients of $A$ and $B$, and this might help somehow.
Still, both finding these polynomial conditions and solving them, seems to be painful and extremely computational. Maybe there are better ways to proceed $\ldots$?
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This is the true biography of Olaudah Equiano, an African prince who was kidnapped at age 11 and sold into slavery in England, the U.S., and the West Indies, until he was able to buy his freedom more than a decade later. His best-selling autobiography was first published in 1789 and has been shortened and modernized in Cameron's version, which remains true to the gripping original script.
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Using Rubrics to Grade Online Discussions
A rubric is a scoring scale used to evaluate a student's work. Rubrics spell out to students exactly what is expected of them, and they list the criteria instructors use to assess students' work. Rubrics also help instructors by providing guidelines for more objective grading.
The Value of Rubrics
Rubrics are useful for assessing work in any classroom setting, but they are especially helpful in online courses, where all information must be clearly stated in course documents. In some courses, instructors use rubrics for each assignment.
Here are some examples of rubrics used to assess online discussions and journal assignments.
- Rubric for Instructor-Facilitated Online Discussions
- This example lists expectations for student participation and includes a grading rubric for evaluating the quality of a student's participation in a discussion.
- Example 2: Student-led Online Discussion Participation Rubric
- This example assumes that students will lead and guide their own discussion. Consequently, the instructor will not directly answer questions unless students specifically address them to him, or if he thinks the students are proceeding in the wrong direction. The topics are typically designed for students to help each other by sharing ideas, resources and experiences not a place for them to give each other the correct answers.
- Example 3: Online Classroom Attendance and Participation Expectations
- This example consists of a participation grading rubric and a letter to the class that defines the differences between logging on, attendance, and participation.
- Example 4: Online Journal Rubric
- This example provides student expectations and a grading rubric that evaluates a student's ability to reflect on course content such as readings, lectures, and other class activities.
- Example 5: Netiquette Resources
- This example provides some ideas for discussion board etiquette. Some professors prefer that students use "classroom English," by which I mean: be courteous and use standard (not slang) English. Students often chat online using an abundance of abbreviations or "chat slang" (e.g. i will c u 2-morro). The instructor or a teaching assistant will want to monitor all course online discussions to ensure students use proper netiquette.
- Example 6: Wondering what you should do for the "participation" portion of our class?
- This example discusses participation expectations, defines a substantive post, and provides other ideas for participation.
- Follow this link for more References on Effective Practices in Online Discussions
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For those of us who remain loyal fans of Fox's sci-fi mind-bender Fringe, the current season's ratings bring both good news and bad.
The bad news? The season premiere drew as many viewers as an X Factor re-reun, and ratings have been dropping ever since. The good? It doesn't really matter, since this is the show's final season.
But here's the thing: Fringe is going out with a bang. Fewer and fewer people may be watching, but the finality of Season 5 -- even if it's an abbreviated 13 episodes -- is allowing the show's creators to take greater storytelling risks that, yes, may have shed some of those viewers along the way. But it's certainly building toward a more satisfying conclusion than the series' most obvious influence, The X-Files. Well, presuming Fringe doesn't end with Walter Bishop being tried before a military tribunal.
With this last season halfway over, and a new episode on deck tonight, here are five reasons to still watch:
1) In an inspired twist, this entire last season is almost a re-boot of the show, jumping off from a one-off Season 4 episode that was set in the year 2036. The Fringe team has found its way to the future, and is racing through the final episodes in an effort to reconstruct Walter's hidden plan to defeat those creepy, fedora-favoring Observers. It's a great payoff for seasons' worth of fleeting and mostly unexplained appearances by the time-shifting baldies. Turns out they were the bad guys.
2) John Noble's performance as Walter Bishop has been Emmy-worthy all along, yet he remains un-nominated for the role, which became a particularly glaring oversight after the introduction of the alternate universe storyline that found Noble playing two very different characters: the addled genius Walter and his cold, calculating doppleganger, Walternate.
3) It's a rarity for sure, but Fringe has pulled off the inevitable will-they-or-won't-they coupling of Anna Torv's Olivia Dunham and Joshua Jackson's Peter Bishop, in part by not letting it overtake the show's central mythology. Plus, with the flash forward of this season, we actually skip through a lot of that early romantic stuff to find them as an established couple re-acquainted with their now-grown daughter. And that part of the storyline, in fact, is what is giving the final season an unexpected emotional push.
4) In the show's longest-running gag, Walter is still coming up with new ways to mangle FBI agent Astrid Farnsworth's first name, from Asterisk, Astro and Aspirin to Afro. He even called her Ostrich once.
5) Finally, with its flash-forward into the future and an epic battle against the Observers in the offing -- and the hope that we'll revisit Lincoln and the rest of the gang in the alternate universe before this all ends -- it's a pretty safe bet that this particular J.J. Abrams series is not going to end with Peter, Olivia and Walter ambling out of some church into a wash of heavenly light. Please?
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Besides a complete cooking like frying, baking, BBQ or smoking is there any other way to prepare freshwater fish that would render it safe to eat in a sushi type application?
Other than catching it deep in the ocean, probably not.
The closer to land the fish is caught, the more likely it is to be carrying parasites. You can flash freeze fish to kill the parasites, but it is virtually impossible to achieve temperatures that low with noncommercial equipment.
In many** parts of the world, fresh water fish, and small species coastal fish are perfectly fine to eat raw without further processing
Check with your local government food standards department on the water and fish quality where you live
** By land area, not by population. In most heavily populated areas you cannot eat fresh fish, or coastal fish raw
I wouldn't recommend trying, really. It's safest to just cook the fish.
Curing with lots of salt (as in gravlax) or acid (as in ceviche) would take care of most bacteria. Freezing at a very low temperature (0°F) for 24 hours can kill most parasites, but home freezers cannot get cold enough. If the fish was previously (and industrially) frozen, you might be able to use it in a ceviche preparation. Just don't send me the hospital bill.


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7 Clearly Fake News Stories That Fooled The Mainstream Media
#3. John Kerry Embraces His Metrosexuality
The Story:
Presidential candidates have countless issues they must follow closely during election season. During the 2004 presidential campaign, Democrat candidate John Kerry seemed to be most concerned about issues concerning his image. Specifically, he wanted to make sure America knew that on the issue of his manliness, he came down squarely on the "I'm not gay!" side of the aisle. He spent time on camera hunting, fishing, mountain biking and even windsurfing to prove it. If the entire country hadn't fallen asleep halfway through the DNC, we probably would have all seen footage of Kerry buying his teenage son a prostitute.
The Bush campaign used this to their advantage with the famous "Windsurfing" campaign ad. Fox News decided that hanging a man with his own words was too subtle, and opted to run a story with a "Yes huh, John Kerry is totally gay!" message.
"Forget the dog-rape story, we're gonna run with this metrosexual thing."
The story included quotes from the Democratic loser bragging about his post-debate manicure and how having nice nails would help him win the women vote. He also compared himself to his opponent as the "metrosexual" vs. the "cowboy."
The Truth:
The story actually started as one of those interoffice mailings that employees share with each other for a goof. Then it appeared on a reporter's Trail Tales blog and the manicure comment got repeated over and over again in interviews on shows such as Special Report with Brit Hume and The O'Reilly Factor. The network eventually issued a retraction and an apology saying the comments were "written in jest," which in addition to their other failed attempt at topical comedy, The Half Hour News Hour, proves that Fox News should never be relied on for having a sense of humor.
#2. Cheney Challenges Hillary Clinton to Hunting Contest
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Satire certainly is in the eye of the beholder. One person will immediately understand what the author hoped to achieve. Another will become insulted that their beliefs and philosophies are being challenged. A bleary eyed copy editor with two hours sleep and a hole to fill will take it to be an actual news.
That's the only explanation we can fathom for how an Andy Borowitz story about former vice president Dick Cheney inviting Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton on a hunting trip ended up in a major metropolitan newspaper.
The Truth:
Apparently the Boston Herald thought the story was an Associated Press wire piece and printed it as such. A Boston Magazine blogger saw the story, and justifiably ridiculed them. Herald editor Kevin Convey said the story somehow got lumped into their wire pile and printed as fact and admitted they were "bamboozled." He added the paper was also "hornswaggled," "duptasticfied" and "trickydicked."
#1. Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring Fight
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There's really not much to add that isn't in the header. This was a fake BBC News story about 42 midgets being severely mutilated while competing under the "Cambodian Midget Fighting League." We would point out to any professional journalists reading this the tried and true Cracked.com rule of journalism: Any story involving at least 40 midgets is bound to be too good to be true.
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Fittingly, the most ridiculous fake news story ever covered by the mainstream media had the most ridiculous beginning. A couple of friends got into a discussion over whether or not a group of 40 unarmed midgets could use the power of teamwork to defeat a fully-grown African lion. The discussion became so heated that the friend on the "pro-lion" side of the argument created a fake webpage.
The layout of the story looked so good that several high profile blog sites including FARK.com posted a link to the fake story as if it were real news. Eventually the New York Post reported the story as real as part of their daily journalistic requirement to include at least three midget related stories in their daily output.
The story grew so fast and so quickly that the site's owner eventually had to put a huge disclaimer at the top of the page pointing out that it was fake, a separate page explaining the reason behind the fake story and a CafePress store that sold mutilated midget T-shirts.
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Logan County native and Judge/Executive Logan Chick took me around the county and I talked with multiple people who said parts of northern Logan County are full of oil.
Now, with the prices of oil so high, many are realizing this old oil could be a new beginning.
There are some who have lived in Logan County for a long time and they'll tell you there's a lot of oil.
"We bought a farm adjacent to the first one we bought and oil was actually running out of the ground down there at certain times of the year at the foot of the hill out in a bottom," said Logan County resident Loyd Houchens.
Houchens and Earl Costellow have seen oil ventures in Logan County for decades, some successful some not.
"They used pond scoops and mules to move the dirt. Of course, it was close to the top of the ground there. Some of this has got 10-15 feet of dirt on it. I'm not sure what year that was done, but that was done before my time," said Logan County resident Earl Costellow.
"They mined some tar sands out years ago up there and they hauled it down to the railroad track and took it up to Louisville," said Houchens.
"It's nothing that we've just discovered in the last 100 years or so, but it's being developed in a way we never thought it could be. It's a new time and it's here. So, you'll see new players, if you will, come into our region," said Dr. Mike May, Geologist at WKU.
The land may have not been used for years, but now there's a renewed interest in the area and Arrakis Oil plans to take advantage of that.
"We certainly believe that the resource is large and can be extracted profitably. So, where it's not to deep under the surface, we feel like it's a significant opportunity," said Arrakis Oil Consultant Aaron Wilson.
"People are very interested in because it's not for paving roads it's for extracting oil because the price of oil is remaining high. It doesn't have the fluctuation of gas prices. There's a lot of economic interest. There's a lot of interest on the part of geologists and engineers," said May.
Arrakis Oil wants to take the oil rich sandstone and extract it safely while not using high temperatures like oil shale and then actually put a healthier rock back into the ground.
"The oil can be extracted from those rocks that have more pores and holes in them, much more easily with much less energy input, and the volume of materials is typically much much less. So, you have less volume of material you're going to extract oil out of, it doesn't have near the environmental impact. You don't have to use heat in a lot of cases," said May.
So, the question is why now? What makes this a great option?
"The price of oil is high enough that we fee like there's a good rate of return on our capital invested in this project. Obviously, a fall in oil prices would be diminishing to our return or negative. An increase in prices would largely benefit us," said Wilson.
And those benefits are exactly why they're here to turn old oil into new profits.
Arrakis expects to be fully operational in about a month at their location in Logan County.
This new development will also create new jobs in the area.


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It has been a mad rush, but we are pretty much ready for Gen Con Indy. The truck is packed, except for luggage and a few last boxes, and we are off to Indianapolis. So I'm keeping this early Update short. We'll see some of you at Gen Con. The rest of you, keep those imaginations burning bright.
UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Wave One
Please drop by the Palladium Booth #1223 to see if we have copies of Robotech® RPG Tactics™ for sale and enjoy a demo or to place a pre-order, but we've gotten no word from US Customs in Los Angeles. That said, the Fat Lady hasn't sung yet. Our broker will contact us if the container with Robotech® RPG Tactics™ products is released in the next day or two. If we can get the container released and it arrives at the Palladium warehouse by Friday (extremely unlikely), Jeff Burke and Matthew Clements will drive back home to bring a few hundred back for sale at Gen Con on Saturday and Sunday. Keep your fingers crossed.
There will be plenty of Robotech® RPG products, other games, collectibles, original art and good stuff. Not to mention more than 100 painted and unpainted game pieces on display, and demos running all weekend. The boxed game will be on display, too.
We are taking Robotech® RPG Tactics™ pre-order for Wave One retail items (NOT Kickstarter exclusive game pieces) at Gen Con Indy for those of you who want to be GUARANTEED to get EVERYTHING you want. All pre-orders, whether placed at Gen Con or in the Palladium online store, will be shipped immediately after the Kickstarter backers, and are likely to arrive before the product begins to hit store shelves. Note: In the USA, most Wave One items will be shipped via UPS.


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Is when you still a piece of food off someone else's plate while they are not aware, ie. when they are in the restroom.
I can't beleive you are going to plate rape Ralph like that.
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There are a handful of Aramaic passages in the Bible; notably in Daniel and Ezra. Since the writing system of these two was the same, how are the Aramaic sections identified?
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The two languages are related (both are Northwest Semtic languages) and eventually shared a script. Hebrew, prior to the exile used its own script called Paleo-Hebrew. It was still used afterwards in isolated places and instances, but what we now call Aramaic Square replaced it for the most part. Though they share many common words and large pieces of grammar (noun states are the same and verbal stems are similar), there are differences.
It is these differences in grammar that allow us to tell them apart:
They are both west Semitic and have a very obvious shared root language. They also use the same script. However, there are a handful of differences in the way they developed. For instance, the long 'a' was retained in Aramaic but changed to a long 'o' in Hebrew in some words.
Also, where we see a tav in Aramaic, there is often a shin in Hebrew. This is likely because the original "hl" (voiceless L) pronunciation of shin shifted to "th" in some areas and "sh" in others.
Hebrew and Aramaic are both West Semitic languages with common ancestry in Phoenician and Canaanite roots. Hebrew is about 200 years older, and based on a Canaanite dialect spoken around Jerusalem. Aramaic originated in Damascus, Syria, not Assyria which is modern day Iraq. Aramaic was used by the conquering Assyrians and Persians in their occupied lands because it was easier to teach than their own languages. Hebrew stopped being spoken and written after the Exile. Aramaic became the lingua franca. Later replaced by Greek.
Ezra's copyists transferred the Hebrew content of the OT to newer manuscripts with Aramaic script! But everyone spoke Aramaic, not Hebrew!
Torah was recopied during Ezra's time using a different script. Different reasons are given for the change:
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Posted 24 February 2012 - 04:52 PM
For those knowledgeable here, could you tell me about Palais Cristal and Symphony in C; are they basically the same are was it totally reworked in its new incarnation? thx. (Any other background info on the piece would also be quite welcome.)
Posted 24 February 2012 - 05:21 PM
You can see, for example, the high develope a la seconde in the Second Movement adagio in the NYCB version, where the man moves to the other side of the ballerina in an unsupported balance until he re-takes her hand, is done as a plain arabesque. That's not that drastic, theoretically, but when everyone is waiting for that one big balance, to see something else can make it seem like a lot has changed.
According to the Balanchine Catalogue:
Revisions: 1948, Ballet Society (titled Symphony in C): Original corps of 48 reduced, with doubling of corps members from movement to movement owing to limited size of company. New York City Ballet: By 1968, larger company eliminated duplication of cast, allowing full finale; 8 corps members in FIRST MOVEMENT instead of 6; by 1971, 8 corps members in FOURTH MOVEMENT for total cast of 52; 1971[?], musical repeat in FOURTH MOVEMENT, danced by FIRST MOVEMENT cast in exact repetition of FOURTH MOVEMENT cast steps (cut entirely at various times), completely rechoreographed for FIRST MOVEMENT cast. Male solos in FIRST and THIRD MOVEMENTS rechoreographed several times for various performers.
In "Le Palais de Cristal" each movement has a different color costume. It's been over 30 years, but I seem to remember rose, blue-green, yellow, and maybe cream. I don't remember black by the '80's -- it was obviously in the original photo with Toumanova --, but I could be remembering this all wrong.
The all-white was introduced when there was a lot of doubling up among the corps of the much smaller Ballet Society-turned-New York City Ballet. Francia Russell recalled for a Q&A that she had to switch crowns backstage, changing from soloist to corps, when she covered for a colleague.
Posted 24 February 2012 - 05:24 PM
EvilNinjaX, I don't have an answer to your question, but I hope someone has. I'd also like to know.
Posted 24 February 2012 - 08:59 PM
Posted 25 February 2012 - 06:55 AM
Helene mentions the developee ala seconde in the 2ndmm. and how it changed into an arabesque----could it be that the foot to ear developee would make it hard for the male dancer to walk around her and take her other hand???
Posted 25 February 2012 - 07:40 AM
Posted 25 February 2012 - 11:03 AM
That would be the one: struggling or falling off pointe there has become the neoclassical equivalent of losing balance in the "Rose Adagio.". I think it's in the "Dancing for Mr. B" video that there's a clip of Allegra Kent doing this balance, but her partner was Ludlow, and from everything I've read, he made the most difficult partnering look easy.
Helene mentions the developee ala seconde in the 2ndmm. and how it changed into an arabesque----could it be that the foot to ear developee would make it hard for the male dancer to walk around her and take her other hand???
On the other hand, it's a much longer journey around the tutu and the leg extended in full arabesque than when the leg is extended a la second at ear level.
My two experiences with Le Palais de Cristal in the '80's was that one of the dancers who did Second Movement was the young Sylvie Guillem. (According to Wikipedia, she was 21 during those 1986 performances, and she just turned 47 last Thursday.) I had read that Balanchine was much taken with the 16-year-old Guillem, and her performance was the one to which I most looked forward. I'm not sure I've ever been more disappointed with any performance: I found her dull. Not cool and elegant, like Platel, who danced the next day, but just plain dull. I couldn't see anything -- physique, mystique, energy, attack, sweep, musicality -- that he might have seen.
My second experience was landing a ticket in a box for a Wednesday matinee performance, and the only other person in the box shrieked whenever Patrick Dupond blinked in the Third Movement. I still have the burn marks from where she glared at me for not sharing her enthusiasm.
Posted 25 February 2012 - 11:31 AM
Not cool and elegant, like Platel,
Oh, I loved Platel -- I didn't see her here, but the few times I did see her live were just fabulous!
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Posted 27 February 2012 - 11:26 AM
Really a lovely, very special master class.
Posted 27 February 2012 - 10:41 PM
I've seen the film from which this was taken. I loved seeing Thesmar (whom I remember from her visits to NYCB, when she danced in Concerto Barocco and In G Major) coaching this section of Palais, I loved even more the section where Violette Verdy coached Lucia Lacarra and Cyril Pierre in Liebeslieder Walzer, possibly reedited and recycled from the same Liebeslieder sessions that were featured in Violette et Mr. B. Watching it again in this new context, where it followed the section about Thesmar coaching Palais de Cristal, I couldn't help but imagine what it must be like to be one of those dancers. Verdy lets them dance four or five phrases, all the while saying, "Oui! Oui!" or sighing a deeply satisfied, "La!" before giving corrections, at one point saying, "I hate to stop you, because you are so beautiful." Wow! Talk about positive reinforcement! What an inspiring coach she is!
Posted 28 February 2012 - 10:12 AM
Verdy lets them dance four or five phrases, all the while saying, "Oui! Oui!" or sighing a deeply satisfied, "La!" before giving corrections, at one point saying, "I hate to stop you, because you are so beautiful." Wow! Talk about positive reinforcement! What an inspiring coach she is!
It was great to watch her coach Emeralds here at Pacific Northwest Ballet a couple years ago -- she got such stunning results from positive reinforcement.
Posted 28 February 2012 - 10:38 AM
Verdy seems to get such pleasure from seeing the dancers bloom when she coaches.
Posted 28 February 2012 - 06:09 PM
I believe this is a segment from the wonderful film "Balanchine in Paris" made by Dominique Delouche. The film also has some wonderful scenes of Violette Verdy coaching.
EvilNinjaX, I don't have an answer to your question, but I hope someone has. I'd also like to know.
I believe that the Ghislaine Thesmar coaching vid is the only one that is not duplicated in one of the other Dominique Delouche Etoiles Pour L'exemple films. The 2 Violette Verdy vids are from Violette et Mr. B and Comme Les Oiseaux, IIRC.
Though the DVD also has the very nice Journal D'Une Choreographie with Patrick Dupond and John Neumeier. Moderately worth the purchase for someone that already has the 1-4 (or 5) series.
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I'm considering the NN4, but should I get the RD8? I shoot a Canon 5D with a 17-40 zoom. I will be doing mostly pano shots of architecture.
Thanks for any help.
I'm considering the NN4, but should I get the RD8? I shoot a Canon 5D with a 17-40 zoom. I will be doing mostly pano shots of architecture.
Thanks for any help.
Hi and welcome to the forum,
For your lens you need 15 shots around @zoom 40 for example. There is no detend ring available to do 15 shots around at 20º. This is point one. I just tested zoom @ 17 and 40 for shots around.
On standard rotator you have to open up the rotator to change the number of shots around to place a new ring or turn it around. With RD8/RD16 you just place the detend knob to another hole to get a different number of shots around on the fly.
RD8/16 Rotators can be used on M1 line, standard rotator not. I should think of getting a RD16 Rotator to be ready for the future. May be you will need different settings using other lenses once you might be infected with the panovirus. Take the amount of money in calculation of buying a RD 8 or RD16 rotator later on inclusive transport. But it is your personal choice depending on your personal situation and engagement on panos right now.
I have tested from standard rotators on NN3 to RD16 on NN5, NN4 and M1. So I know the differences in comfort and use.
Fell free to ask,
BTW: Have a look to the videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbET5K75zJw Changing the detend ring is the same for NN3 MKII as for NN4 standard rotators in principle. Imaging, that besides what is mentioned in the video you have to take off the camera from the panohead as well.
There is another video about RD8 rotator, where you can see the changing of the detend plunger knob and compare it.
@zoom 40 you have to take 3 extra shots because you can only get a 20º detend ring with 18 shots around instead of 15 for standard rotator. This makes 3 extra shots per row, with bracketing 3 this makes 3x2 = 6 extra shots per row.
NN4 standard rotator price is $349.95 plus 2 extra detend rings for $19.95 in a set which you need for your lens: 15º/18º, 45º/60º ring.
The difference from NN4 standard rotator to NN4 with RD8 is $40, to RD16 is $90 without extra detend rings. To change from standard rotator to RD4/RD16 later on will cost you $149.95/$199.95 plus extra shipping costs.
The upgrade to RD8 has an extra price of around $20 in total. You should keep all this in your mind taking your decision.
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Is there a proper distinction between a slow cooked meat dish labelled a casserole and one labelled stew?
And if there is a traditional distinction would it be fair to say that the distinction is no longer observed?
Is there a proper distinction between a slow cooked meat dish labelled a casserole and one labelled stew?
And if there is a traditional distinction would it be fair to say that the distinction is no longer observed?
In today's modern culture and cooking style, the difference is likely unobserved.
I would consider a stew less constructed than a casserole, however.
While the stew would start with generally uncooked ingredients (perhaps except for browning the meat, and likely be mixed together while cooking to give a single-dish of meat, vegetables and sauce.
A casserole might include some cooked ingredients, often be more properly layered and probably not mixed while cooking.
Is there some dialectical thing going on here? I have always known stews as stovetop and casseroles as baked, just as Jared said in his comment. See for example on wikipedia: stew vs. casserole; or in Merriam-Webster: stew (click the verb form) vs. casserole. (Casserole refers to the dish as well as the food cooked in it; it's pretty definitely something you would only bake in.)
Now and then I see things get muddled when I'm reading recipes, but these are definitely the meanings I grew up with and see in the vast majority of what I read.
In addition to Joe's great answer, in my childhood (where they were usually called 'bakes' (the food), but they came out of a 'casserole' (the vessel).) I learned two other important differences:
As to your second question, I still see the distinction in my family, my wife's family, friends and many formally trained cooks. But largely I think because I'm in the midwest, where hotdish is king, and everyone here knows what hotdish is; I see more blurring of the line between 'soup' and 'stew' than I do 'stew' and 'casserole/bake/hotdish' to be honest.
As Jared mentioned, 'stewing' always involves a fair amount of liquid -- it's a slow, moist cooking process. It's not quite a braise, as with a braise, the item is only partially submerged, whereas with a stew, you have smaller chunks of things that might float, but for the most part are submerged. You can make really thick stews (I tend to grate a potato into the stew towards the end to get it to thicken up 'til it's thick like a good gravy), but they tend to be loose, not a single congealed mass. It might be an American thing, but 'stew' in general is always assumed to have meat in it (typically a red meat, eg. beef or venison)
Casseroles (might be called a 'bake' or a 'hotdish' depending on your region) are almost always baked and untouched during the baking process. They can be layered (as with a lasagne or a shepherd's pie) but can also be just a mixture put into a baking dish and tossed in the oven (eg, my mom's tuna noodle casserole ... but she might've topped it with some extra cheese or breadcrumbs, so I guess you can consider that a layer). Casseroles tend to be less 'soupy' than a stew -- some will hold their own shape when they're scooped, if let to cool down for a few minutes after they come out of the oven. (eg, lasagne, most macaroni & cheese casseroles)
... as it looks like you're from the UK, it's possible that these distinctions aren't made over there. If the terms are used differently outside the US, please add to the Translating Cooking Terms post.
One factor not mentioned in the other answers is that there is a class of cookware called a "casserole dish" -- ceramic or pyrex, somewhat shallow, often with a lid. I suppose it follows that a casserole is the kind of dish you prepare in such a vessel.
I went to the dictionary for definitons of casserole and stew. As pointed out above, the main difference and the description, lies in the cooking vessel used. A casserole is a covered oven based dish whilst a stew is commonly stove-top, covered or not, using more liquid to cook the ingredients.
Slow cookers arrived on the market. I supposed these would be closer to the casserole definition?


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Paid Maternity leave at Yahoo gets little traction elsewhere
But local business experts are divided over whether Mayer's decision is likely to have little effect on the rest of American businesses, the majority of which do not offer paid parental leave.
"The reality is there are very few companies that have the deep pockets of Yahoo," said Kathy Hanratty, president of Jaci Carroll Staffing, explaining that most companies are still struggling from the fallout of 2009.
"(Yahoo) can offer those extraordinary benefits to attract the very best talent to continue to be at the cutting edge of technology. Everybody wants to do the right thing for the people who work for them because you're only as good as your employees," she said, "But to say that we can compete with Yahoo in that arena, we are not able to."
Teresa Younger, executive director of the Connecticut Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, is more optimistic. "I do think other companies will look at this and say, 'Can they still turn a profit? Are they a happy workforce? Are they productive?" she said.
The Family and Medical Leave Act, passed in 1993, granted working women 12 weeks' unpaid time off to care for a newborn or adopted child, with the guarantee of the same job when they return. But not all parents can afford to be without a paycheck for 12 weeks. According to one study, 78 percent of employees who needed family or medical leave under FMLA didn't take it because they couldn't afford to.
Few companies provide paid maternity leave for their employees. According to a 2008 report from the Families and Work Institute indicated, only 16 percent of companies with at least 100 employees do so. That number has declined from 27 percent in 1998, Forbes reported. Even for those who get some compensation during maternity leave, the norm for most women tends to be a patchwork of unused sick or vacation days.
Kevin Lembo, state comptroller, said nearly 50 percent of Connecticut employees eligible are not able to take advantage under the FMLA became they are employed where there are less than 50 employees or because they could not afford the loss of income. Only 11 percent of the state workforce has paid family leave through their employers.
Currently, three states offer paid-leave programs — California, New Jersey and Washington. In those states, a portion of all employees paycheck is deducted over time. When an employee takes leave to care for a parent or child, a percentage of the person's wages is paid out in disability payments.
The Connecticut General Assembly is considering legislation that calls for the state to study if, and how, it could create a similar Family Medical Leave Act insurance program.
At a public hearing on the bill, Sarah Esty, of Connecticut Voices for Children, testified that many workers are unable to take advantage of FMLA because they aren't eligible or work at firms too small to be covered or without sufficient employment tenure. A large number of employees can't afford the lost pay from taking time off. Of the workers who did take time off with reduced or no pay; 15 percent went on public assistance, and 30 percent were force to borrow money.
The bill is now awaiting a vote in the House.
Yahoo's new company perks go beyond just the parental benefits. They include free Yahoo gifts for both babies and pets and reimbursements for employee laundry and housekeeping costs. But the maternity and paternity policies announced last week especially pleased Mayer watchers who shook their heads after she ended telecommuting and ordered employees back into the office.
"I was quite concerned when the initial policy around working at the office came out that they were going to take a step backward in support of women," said Marilyn Nagel, CEO of Watermark, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based nonprofit group that supports women in their careers and in their communities.
Dave Cadden, professor in the department of entrepreneurship and strategy of Quinnipiac University, said he believes paid maternity leave engenders loyalty among employees but says employers remain reluctant to offer it.
"A dirty little secret of a lot of companies is that customers are a pain in the posterior and employees are a pain in the posterior," Cadden said. "And for many firms, giving them this perk is painful to them. ... If you allow the bean counters to look at loyalty, they'll discount it because it can't be measured. And everything that can't be counted often are the things that matter."
Cadden adds that technology companies in particular tend to be more progressive in their treatment of employees. "Some firms recognize that their employees have certain talents and different needs than just a progressively larger pay check," he said. "For many employees, loyalty will allow people to rise above the common requirements of the job."
Yahoo's new policies for parents are hardly the best in Silicon Valley, which constantly seeks to attract and retain the brightest tech workers.
For instance, Google, where Mayer worked before joining Yahoo, offers up to 22 weeks of paid leave for its new mothers, among several other perks for expectant Googler mothers such as premium parking while they're pregnant.
"We know when employees feel appreciated and receive the benefits that are coming from them they work better," Younger. "It's about creating business policies that are consistent with the things we say we value as a society."
The U.S. and Australia are the only developed economies in the world that provide no paid maternity leave
Republican-American news services contributed to this story.
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