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I'd have titled this "TMI Thursday, Storytime Edition," if this was still Thursday. In fact it's Friday, and there's not even much of that left.
- 1. Describe your favorite place to cozy-up with a good book.
- Once upon a time, the answer was the lunch table. Things have changed and I don't bring reading to work with me any more. I wish my answer could be a big comfy chair, but while I do have a recliner, it's kind of in the dark, so that's no good. I do most of my reading in bed.
- 2. What do you read when you're on the toilet?
- I do not understand the bringing of magazines and newspapers onto the toilet. Maybe it's different for parents who have no other refuge from their horrible children, and maybe it's different for those who suffer chronic constipation, but I just don't see any need for lollygagging over the crapper.
- 3. Do you read when taking a bath?
- They say that it's delightful and relaxing, but I've only ever ruined books that way. "They say" is a great liar.
- 4. If you can, do you read when at the gym?
- How would that even work? I guess if you sort of propped up a book on the treadmill console, maybe. I doubt that would be any good. The movement would make it easy to lose your place, and you'd easily knock the book down when turning the pages.
- 5. Do you still read newspapers and or magazines?
- I have one magazine subscription, and that's to Make magazine. Sometimes weird industry periodicals show up at my desk, and I feel just a little bit guilty throwing those away unread, so I sort of skim through those, you know, just to be polite.
- 6. What are your favorite genres to read?
- Science Fiction, cyberpunk and space opera. Fantasy is nice, too, but it has to be the good stuff. Humorous memoirs. Science, technological history.
- 7. Do you read one book at a time or can you read several?
- I prefer to just stick to one, when possible.
- 8. If you start a book, do you finish it no matter what?
- There is a thing called the fifty-page test, that says you needn't continue reading after page fifty if you can't stand what you've read so far. I've only canceled a few readings at page fifty. It's usually in the middle third that I usually start to question a book. But if I'm more than halfway through, I will usually plod on to the end, just to find out what happens. There could well be an astounding payoff that would make the trek worth it. (There just as easily could not be.)
- 9. Did your parents read to you when you were growing up?
- Yes, they did, until I could read for myself.
- 10. Have you read to your kids/nephews/nieces?
- I have a picture of myself with a niece holding a book, so I must have done.
- 11. How do you feel about reading books vs. using electronic devices? Have your feelings evolved from one or two years ago?
- Electronic devices have the portability aspect nailed down. However, you can still have any number of paper books open at one time, they don't automatically dim to save battery life, and they won't just vanish if things happen with software.
When was the last time you looked at or read an adult magazine to satisfy yourself? When was the last time you even saw one?
- It was long ago and far away, in a magical land called the Pre-9/11 World. This was back when the Web was all in Times New Roman and full of speckly GIFs, so of course printed media was king. As we all know, that reign didn't last for much longer. I think the last time I saw such a publication was probably in a liquor store, just a glimpse of the discreet corner, and its rows of prurient, yet primly-wrapped, publications.


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Cockpit Chat - Dennis Brooks
...in more detail, the cockpit experience will enable you to immerse yourself in the Lightning pilots world of gauges, dials, selectors and gun sights, all of which will be explained to you. When the tutorial is over the engine run will commence. Now, fitted with a helmet you will undertake, alongside the supervisor, the start up checks. When complete you will start the mighty Rolls Royce Avon! From first spin of the engine to full reheat - take advantage of this unique Lightning experience.
Sqn Ldr Dennis Brooks, retired (pictured), ex commanding officer of the Lightning Training Flight, has flown all the individual marks of Lightning operated by the Royal Air Force. He has a favourite - which one is it? Ask him when you come along and have your own Lightning experience................the second seat awaits...
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In a perfect world, all of us that run a business would just start our workday and have customers come streaming in our physical or virtual doors. However, usually that is not the way that it works. The great news is that now it has become easier than ever to find potential customers/clients that will be interested in your products and services. The best part is that it is free to do and the answer is literally in the palm of you hand.
Google Maps is one of the most commonly used apps in the world. It is certainly one of the most useful. It seems so long ago that we needed a physical map to find our way around new places. Besides making it much easier to drive at night when street signs can be difficult to read, just not having to deal with folding the map up after using it is a reason to be grateful for this app. However, as useful as the directions feature is on Google Maps, finding businesses that might become customers of yours can be even more useful for your business.
The next time you use Google Maps, instead of typing an address in the search line, type in the name of a business industry that you would like to prospect. Start with the field in which the majority of your clients work. Let's say you sell fertilizer. You might type in "golf course" into Google Maps and it will show you on the map all golf courses in the area. Click on each one and it will not only show you the address, phone number and hours of operation, but it will usually give you a link to their website too. This is the key item. Using their website you can do research on the company and usually find out who is the contact person. Some websites will give you a list of people and their specific titles and phone numbers. Copy the name of the person who is most relevant to you and head over to LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) and do a search on them. You will usually be able to find out more about that person's background and what specific roles they now have at their current position. Take notes on any good talking points as you will need them later. Next, once you feel comfortable with your familiarity with the company, have your pitch prepared and make your phone call. You will find that these couple minutes of research will make a significant change in the success rate of getting through the "gate keeper" and actually getting the opportunity to speak with the decision maker. Calling a business and asking to speak to the manager will usually get you their voice mail, at best. However, calling and asking to speak to a specific person, and then when you do talk to them having some information about their background and what they do will lead to much more successful conversations. Just be sure to ask for their email so that you can send them a calendar invite when they agree to schedule a meeting with you.
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Blithering Idiot
Blithering Idiot, 11.1% ABV, is brewed in the British tradition of balanced, hearty ales. It's a deep-copper ale with notes of date and fig. The finish is warm and fruity, and begs for the next sip. Enjoy Blithering Idiot in a brandy snifter or wine glass with full-flavored meats and cheeses or as an after dinner drink.
Last Chance IPA
Weyerbacher's Last Chance IPA, 5.9% ABV, is a full-flavored and well-balanced IPA. We've added a combination of Centennial, Cascade, Citra and Mosaic hops to produce pleasant citrus aromas and flavors of tangerine and grapefruit.
Line Street Pilsner
Line Street Pils, 5.3% ABV, is our twist on a Czech pils using Centennial and Mandarina Bavaria hops. This beer has a crisp, refreshing bitterness up front that fades into a dry, palate quenching finish.
Mellow Monks
Mellow Monks is a 4.5% ABV Belgian-style golden ale reminiscent of Merry Monks.
Merry Monks
Merry Monks, 9.3% ABV, is a Belgian-style Tripel. Pilsner malt combined with an Abbey yeast strain yields a remarkable and complex flavor packed with notes of spice, banana and pear. Nicely balanced, with a moderate to dry finish.
Sexy MotherPucker
Amber hued, tangy & dry on the palate, this tart beer nicely balances sour & malt with a late addition of Citra hops.
Tiny is a Belgian inspired Imperial Stout weighing in at 11.8% ABV. You'll find big chocolate and roasted notes, balanced with the Belgian flavors from the Abbey yeast strain.
Big Ern's IPA
Weyerbacher brews the house IPA, "Big Ern's IPA", for the Pizzeria Uno chain of restaurants in the Philadelphia area. Big Ern's IPA is a 6% West Coast-style India Pale Ale with a very smooth, citrusy finish hopped with Cascade, Centennial, Columbus and Simcoe.


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It's Tuesday! Time for another round of 5 Must-Hear Pop Songs of the Week!
Now I'm not one for hyperbolic titles, but this week's roundup sings praises for the Eternal Queen of Pop (And Also Everything), 2012's Most Anticipated Buzz Artist and the UK's Greatest Girl Group of the 21st Century. Just stating the facts here.
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1.) Madonna, "Masterpiece"
After almost 30 years of dominating the industry, it's safe to say that Madonna -- Queen of Pop -- has crafted one or two masterpieces in her day. But now, she's really gone and done it... literally. Produced by William Orbit (the man behind Madge's 1998 grand reawakening, Ray of Light), "Masterpiece" is the gorgeous ballad that will serve as part of the soundtrack for M's upcoming film, "W.E."
"And I'm right by your side, like a thief in the night/I stand in front of a masterpiece," the living legend tenderly declares. With lyrics as poignant as Ray of Light's "Frozen" and gentle instrumentation like the fragile (and underrated) album track "To Have And Not To Hold," "Masterpiece" proves that the collaborative spark that began between Orbit and Madonna more than 10 years ago has yet to fade.
And although the final version has yet to leak in full (only a demo exists for now), "Masterpiece" may just be one of Madonna's best ballads in years, if not decades. Long live the Queen! + LISTEN TO MADONNA'S "MASTERPIECE"
2.) Lana Del Rey, "Born To Die"
After skyrocketing to No. 9 in the U.K. with her viral smash "Video Games" in October (along with the equally gorgeous A-side "Blue Jeans"), the moody, mysterious beauty known as Lana Del Rey returns with the title track of her much-buzzed-about 2012 Interscope Records debut, "Born To Die." "Choose your last words, this is the last time/'Cause you and I, we were born to die," Rey damningly declares above a lonesome Western twang, soaring strings and a slow-skipping beat.
Armed with some of the most crushing, Kleenex-fetching lyricism ("I feel so alone on a Friday night/Can you make it feel like home, if I tell you you're mine?"), the chanteuse's sobering delivery and a cinematic soundscape, "Born To Die" isn't just Del Rey's best track of the bunch so far -- it's one of the better songs released this year. + LISTEN TO LANA DEL REY'S "BORN TO DIE"
+ Listen to more Must-Hear Pop Songs Of The Week after the jump!
3.) Nicki Minaj, "Roman In Moscow"
She did her best to make him behave in the teeth-gritting, quick-spitting Pink Friday track "Roman's Revenge (feat. Eminem)," but Miss Nicki Minaj just can't seem to hold her gay boy alter ego, Roman Zolanski. Recently, the female emcee revealed to fans that her next studio album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, will be released on Valentine's Day 2012. (You see what she did there? Keeping it pink for V-Day!) To keep her Barbz, Kenz and Ken-Barbz satisfied until the record drops, the pink-haired rap princess has just unveiled a brand-new teaser track, "Roman In Moscow."
Taking the break from the sugary-sweet pop goodness of songs such as "Right Thru Me," "Moment 4 Life" and "Super Bass," the 2-and-a-half minute foul-mouthed free-for-all is as delightfully raw 'n' rowdy as the genius found on her first two mixtapes, Sucka Free and Beam Me Up Scotty. "I told you b****es last year, I'm a rap b**** nightmare!" she announces off the top of the no-holds-barred verse.
Add in the nearly unintelligible dialects, insane voices and trademark ridiculous lines ("These b****es should be worshippin' me in the synagogue!"), and you've got one healthy helping of a Minaj gone mental -- in all the right ways, of course. Now let's hope it stays that way. L'chaim, Minaj! + LISTEN TO NICKI MINAJ'S "ROMAN IN MOSCOW"
4.) Robin Thicke featuring Lil Wayne, "Pretty Lil' Heart"
Oh, Robin Thicke. Every time that sweet, smooth crooning slice of man sings, I feel like he's whispering straight to me while pouring some champagne, lighting a fire in the fireplace, rolling out the bearskin rug, grabbing the massage oils and -- wait, what? OH. Sorry. What was I talking about?
Right: This week, the seductive L.A.-bred singer unleashed his fifth studio album, Love After War, featuring his signature brand of breathy come-ons and swoon-y coos.
"Pretty Lil' Heart," his latest single off of the collection, finds the singer teaming up with partner in crime, Lil Wayne. "This is for the lovers and the sexy mother, mothers," the zany rapper warbles off the top of the track. Add in some brass sections and the singer's soulful croons and you've got yet another signature seduction track, Thicke style. + LISTEN TO ROBIN THICKE FEATURING LIL WAYNE, "PRETTY LIL' HEART"
5.) Girls Aloud, "Graffiti My Soul"
Girls Aloud: It's not a girl group, it's a lifestyle. Last Thursday marked the ninth birthday of the unstoppable girl group quintet, which formed during the 2002 U.K. reality series, "Popstars: The Rivals." Five studio albums, 20 top 10 singles and several sold-out tours later, and The Aloud rapidly became one of the U.K.'s most successful girl group acts since the Spice Girls.
While the girls have since gone on a brief hiatus beginning in late 2009 (don't worry, they
promised they'd be back for a reunion in 2012!), the members have gone on to have their own successes, including solo records by Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle and ginge-pop princess, Nicola Roberts.
To celebrate the genesis of this free-of-flaw group, I've selected one of their finest album tracks (which most definitely should have been a single): "Graffiti My Soul." Originally demoed by the one and only Britney Spears (!), the fast-stuttering, high-octane explosion of gritty electro-pop was featured on the girls' 2004 sophomore record, What Will The Neighbours Say? "Spike heels and skintight jeans, I got a fist full of love that's coming your way, baby," the girls announce above the song's opening guitar lick.
"Graffiti My Soul" is the perfect representation of the girls' feisty energy and stiletto sass appeal, which quickly allowed the girls to become one of the U.K.'s most beloved acts of the past decade. Viva La Almighty Aloud! + LISTEN TO GIRLS ALOUD'S "GRAFFITI MY SOUL"
Bradley Stern is a writer from Connecticut. In his spare time, he enjoys organizing his Britney Spears CD collection in reverse chronological order and plotting the various ways in which he will bring down Katy Perry to become Rihanna's best friend. But most of all, he spends his time tweeting and musing daily about pop music on his blog, MuuMuse.


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Until now, we thought that we had everything under control in my nine year old daughter, diagnosed at the age of four. Recently she had a seizure from low blood sugar. It was fortunate that my older son and she had fallen asleep on the couch in the living room together, but I am concerned because this happened at night when she is usually in her own bed. Her doctor says that this is a common thing with children her age.
Can she die if this happens, and she is by herself? How can we stop this from happening again? Will I ever be able to let her out of my sight? I have not slept in awhile. I am so scared, and I see it affecting her. Help us to help her.
It is well known for children to have hypos, and nighttime hypos are very distressing to all concerned. The best way to avoid them is to have good control, regular meals and snacks, regular insulin and careful checks on glucose. A tip is to check that the reading is above 7 mmol/L [126 mg/dl] at bedtime. If it is below this, give more than the normal snack and include some protein along with carb (e.g., a peanut butter sandwich). If it is above this give the usual snack and never miss it as this will make one more prone to hypos at night. If it is occurring regularly, it is worth talking to your daughter's diabetes team to see if a change in insulin dose or type is required.
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Ted Cruz is not his caricature
It's a good thing I don't live in our nation's capital. If I did, I'd spend all my time defending my friend, Ted Cruz.
The relentless and personal attacks on the Texas senator — who has been in office for only four months — come from both liberals and conservatives. The critics are of the Washington mind-set that suggests there is a proper way that things are done in this city.
Cruz doesn't follow script.
Commenting on news reports that the 42-year-old plans to pursue the White House in 2016, Joan Walsh of left-leaning Salon smugly predicted that the first-term senator "will never be president," especially with his credentials as a "far-right ideologue" and the fact that he is an "expert in the kind of crazy the tea party likes."
New York Times columnist David Brooks, known as a moderate conservative, went off the rails. He didn't criticize Cruz to his face. He actually criticized his face. "If you mention the name Ted Cruz to other senators, you just get titanic oceans of eye-rolling," Brooks said during a television interview. "It doesn't help that he has a face that looks a little like Joe McCarthy, actually."
And, not wanting to be left behind, right-wing Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin criticized Cruz for calling some of his Republican Senate colleagues "a bunch of squishes" on gun control.
She wrote: "There is being principled, and then there is being a jerk. Putting down your colleagues to boost your own street cred with the base falls into the latter category."
The Cruz criticism doesn't end.
This must be the new rite of passage for the clubby D.C. press corps. It used to be that all you had to do was poke at George W. Bush or Sarah Palin for supposedly not being very smart. Now you bash Cruz for supposedly being too smart for his own good.
Everyone wants to know: Who does this guy think he is?
Unlike most of his critics, I've known Cruz for more than 10 years. And, the real thing doesn't resemble the caricature.
Here are the charges leveled against him: Cruz doesn't ask "Mother, may I?" before he speaks. Cruz doesn't respect his elders in the Senate. (This includes John McCain, who ironically, in 2000, built an entire presidential campaign on his reputation for being a "maverick" in the Senate.) Cruz insults his colleagues for being "squishes" on tough issues. (Like Chuck Hagel who, in January 2007, scolded his Senate colleagues for waffling on the surge in Iraq, telling them: "If you want a safe job, go sell shoes.") Cruz has an enormous ego. (No, not in the Senate!) And, lastly, Cruz is in an awful hurry to make his mark. (Like Barack Obama, who formed an exploratory committee for a presidential run in January 2007, just two years after being sworn in to his first Senate term).
Not all the reviews are negative. Consider what one well-known Beltway exile had to say about Cruz.
"I think he is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I've seen in the last 30 years," Democratic strategist James Carville said during a panel discussion on ABC's "This Week." The Ragin' Cajun is right. Ted Cruz doesn't back up. He keeps coming. He is not shy, deferential or susceptible to peer pressure. And that terrifies the D.C. establishment — in both parties. Just as it frustrates the media. Neither one knows what to do with him.
Those of us who know Cruz can offer some advice: Stay out of his way.


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Oriel Gallery / DWOH session
Me and Andy played a short session for the Oriel Gallery in Wrexham yesterday. We were filmed playing 4 songs that will be uploaded in the next few months, we'll let you know when that happens. We tried out a new song called "Telescope", kept forgetting the words as they were only written in the morning, it might make it's way into our set and MAYBE the new album. MIKE


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Recipe: Amanda Haas' Citrus Marinated Pulled Pork
Recipe: Amanda Haas' Citrus Marinated Pulled Pork
In need of a great weeknight recipe that serves a crowd, can be eaten for lunch the next day, and made ahead? Try this citrus marinated pulled pork.
Citrus Marinated Pulled Pork
This is one of my favorite ways to make pork. By slow cooking the tough pork shoulder in citrus juices, you're left with mouth-watering, flavorful meat that is perfect for shredding. Wrap it in corn tortillas and serve little tacos, or shred the pork to make sandwiches piled high with guacamole and salsa. My kids and their friends love making their own "bowls," and I pile some of the pork over rice, then they add guacamole, sour cream, cheese, or lettuce. Then scrape off any excess fat before reheating it over low heat. Also, make it ahead and keep it for up to 3 days in the fridge-the flavors only get better.
- 1 cup orange juice (freshly squeezed or high quality refrigerated)
- 1/2 cup lime juice, freshly squeezed
- 2 tsp ground annatto (achiote) seeds (this ground spice is now in most spice sections at the grocery or in the Latin foods section)
- 1 tsp. ancho chile powder
- 1 tsp. freshly ground pepper
- 1/2 tsp. ground cumin
- 1/4 tsp. dried oregano
- Kosher salt
- 2 cloves garlic, smashed and peeled
- 3-4 lbs pork shoulder (aka Boston butt)
For the Salsa:
- 1 red onion, sliced
- 1/2 cup lime juice
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1 jalapeno, minced (optional-watch the heat with the little ones!)
In a large stockpot or Dutch Oven, combine all of the ingredients, except the pork, along with 2 teaspoons of salt. Stir to combine the ingredients. Remove the pork from the packaging and pat dry with paper towels. Trim off any excess fat from the outside of the pork. Cut the pork into 3-4 pieces so it fits easily in one layer in the pot. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours or up to overnight. Turn the pork at least once while marinating to distribute the flavors evenly throughout the meat.
Preheat the oven to 325˚F. Keeping it covered, bake the pork in its marinade for 2-3 hours, or until the pork is tender and can easily be pulled apart when a fork is inserted. Allow to cool, then shred it with a fork if you'd like or serve it in larger chunks.
A few hours before serving, combine the ingredients for the onion salsa with teaspoon of salt. Cover and allow the onions to marinate in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. Serve on top of the pork for adults or on the side for the kids.
If you're serving this in tortillas, stack 6-10 corn tortillas in a pile and wrap in aluminum foil. Heat in a 350˚F oven for 10 minutes and you're set.
Amanda Haas is a cookbook author, teacher, cooking video host, and the founder of One Family One Meal, a website that helps families menu plan, grocery shop, and cook on a budget. She's also on Twitter and Facebook.
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My girlfriend mentioned last week that all her friends seemed to be really taken with a little YouTube video - a melancholy monologue about being single called How to Be Alone - and were all posting links to it on Facebook. I watched the video and was ready to leave it alone - for it's clearly something pretty personal - until its popularity grew really startling. Women all over the world seem enthralled by it. They are telling each other to watch it as if it were therapeutic for some generalized sadness that I don't understand.
As of this writing, there have been 652,000 views of it, and its creators have been interviewed on CBC Radio. It has become a sudden zeitgeist-encapsulator - and the parodies will no doubt quickly follow, which makes it a meme.
This is great for the artists, a songwriter called Tanya Davis and a filmmaker called Andrea Dorfman - but also unpleasant, for a virus like this becomes an ideological football. The Internet will make a massive pop phenomenon out of obscure art pieces or personal postings, and this success will in turn draw criticism, sometimes virulent, from people who feel the piece's success is overrated. (Unfortunately, I will be one of those people.) The criticism is then itself way out of proportion to the original ambition of the piece. A little personal piece doesn't deserve harsh global mockery. But the negative reactions are not, by that stage, about the piece itself: They are about the hundreds of gushy blog postings that followed it; they are a reaction to the reaction.
Bear this in mind as I list my grievances - and here they are: Basically, I consider this kind of pair-bonding-obsessed weepiness to be anti-feminist, retrograde and disempowering to women. But my opposition is not so much to this innocent piece of diaristic vlogging, but to the culture that upholds it as in some way exemplary of feminine behaviour, as some kind of useful balm for the wounds of a supposedly monolithically married society.
If you haven't yet seen this 4 1/2-minute piece, it's a monologue, written by Davis, about dealing with the angst that comes after a breakup. It begins, "If you are, at first, lonely, be patient." It then goes on to explain that being alone is not such a bad thing, that there are all sorts of things you shouldn't be afraid to do on your own, such as eating in a restaurant or sitting in a café or taking public transit or going to the library. You could also go to the gym; there's nothing wrong with doing it in your own. "Cause if you're happy in your head then alone is blessed and solitude is okay."
The accompanying film shows the writer acting out those activities in a cold and lonely-looking Halifax, and sitting alone in a room with a guitar in a variety of fuzzy woollen hats and slippers and scarves, sometimes actually knitting same, and looking anything but happy and confident.
There's a nice reflective mood to the video itself. The text is just bizarre. It's meant to be encouraging, but it's depressing. In what kind of 19th-century world do women need to be told that they may order food in a restaurant by themselves? (The parodies of this, when they come, are going to be so easy: "Start by getting dressed - you can do it on your own. You'll find pouring the Corn Flakes by yourself is liberating once you've tried it …")
Are there really women who have never been to a gym on their own? Or who feel sad about going to the library? Are men - who generally don't think twice about any of these things - really so much stronger than women? This lament is actually a part of the mentality it purports to criticize. ("Society is afraid of alone," intones the narrator. Is it? Or are you?) It seems to be from a time before the feminism of the 1960s, before the sexual revolution: It reflects a world of women knitting and playing instruments and feeling lonely, a place of purely old-fashionedly feminine interests, where women don't have economics or chemistry or warfare to keep them busy or distract them in any way.
And the reason this video's popularity irks me is that I see this backsliding everywhere around me. I see all the blogs and books about being single and finding a husband and surviving divorce, written by educated women in this world in which women can do anything and I wonder if the 1960s ever happened. There is an obsession with romantic commitment in the air again.
Maybe it's now, embarrassingly, necessary to repeat these ideas that I grew up with. I really don't believe that women are so weak and clingy as to find normal daily activities terrifying in the first place. I do not believe that women are so dependent on romantic relationships as to require instruction on how to live without them. I do not believe that women are constitutionally opposed to solitude. I believe that women are just as interested as men in solitude and its creative and intellectual advantages. I believe that women are just as capable of being busy and distracted by histology or the futures market or electoral reform. And that there are very many women who are busy with those things and they tend not to ever think about the stress of ordering a coffee on their own, and that they are better, more attractive role models than those who define themselves by their relationships.
But now I am no longer arguing with a cute little video, but with a pervasive theme in contemporary media and culture, one that's amorphous and evanescent and perhaps only seen by me.


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[dropcap style="font-size: 60px; color: #FF9b9b;"]I[/dropcap]n June 2013 I attended a Biorock / reef conservation program on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia. This is a recap of the experience, serving both as a record for friends and myself, and also a help to the decision-making if you're thinking about joining the program.
Gili Trawangan is one of the three gili (Indonesian for small island) situated between Bali and Lombok. To get there, one would usually fly in from Jakarta (about 1.5 hour) to Denpasar (on Bali) or Praja (on Lombok), and travel by boat afterwards. I arrived in Lombok and find traveling to Trawangan straight-forward.
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Gili Trawangan is about 7.5 km in circumference and easily walked around in 1.5 hour. It is entirely tourism-oriented, with a main strip well-equipped with ATMs,1 places to eat,2 and places to stay. While bahasa (the Indonesian language) and sasak (indigenous language of Lombok) are spoken, one can easily get by with only English and little or no knowledge of bahasa. It is a quaint island with no automobiles or dogs, but many bikes, cimodo (horse drawn carts), and tailless cats.3
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There are some 15 or so dive sites around the three Gilis, some deep, but most shallower than 18 m and thus accessible by open water divers. Visibility is generally good at 10–15 meters, with regular sighting of turtles and occasionally sharks.4 The diving is good, and there are at least a dozen dive shops offering instruction in PADI / SSI qualifications and in multiple languages. The shops are all in price agreements, but they do have different history and reputations.5
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The Program
Biorock is a simple (on paper) technology developed by Goreau and late Hilbertz for reef restoration. By passing a low-voltage current through a metal framework, the alkaline micro-environment helps deposit a layer of limestone (calcium carbonate) onto the frame, upon which coral can grow at a vastly accelerated pace (200–600%) and can better tolerate adverse conditions. The technology has been deployed in many countries, and there are bi-annual November workshops led by Goreau which teach the theory and practice. Since 2008, the workshops have been held on Gili Trawangan, organized by Ms Delphine Robbe.
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Delphine heads the Gili Eco Trust, an organization that promotes and mandates sustainable practices on and around the Gilis. (You can hear her speak about what she does at a TED talk in the box below.) With ten years of experience and some 60 biorocks deployed and maintained, Delphine is also one of the worlds' leading experts when it comes to the Biorock technology. She teaches this 2-weeks conservation/biorock program every few months.
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Over our two weeks Delphine was assisted by Siân Williams, a PADI instructor certified to teach the Biorock specialty herself. The course runs out from Trawangan Dive, one of the oldest (and certainly one of the largest) dive shops on the island.6
With 7 participants, we were one of the largest group since the program had been running. Most of our group was in their early/mid-20s, and I surprisingly find myself the senior citizen amongst the group. Scuba experience runs the spread from freshly certified open water divers to experienced Advanced Open Water divers and dive master trainees. Two were going to stay on the island to volunteer for the Gili Eco Trust, and three, including myself, were previously involved in marine conservation. Between the group there were 2 French, 2 Brits, a Tunisian/French, a Belgian, and a Chinese/Canadian. Most of the instruction was in English, but with half the group being francophone (Delphine is also French), a non-negligible part of the communication was in French.7 Our group got along well, which contributed to the experience.
(At this point, some background about me should help make sense of my interpretation of the experience. I'm a chemist by training and an Advanced Open Water diver. I co-lead a coral monitoring program in Hong Kong, where we train up our 16-18 years old students from non-divers to doing Reef Check and Coral Watch. I've been curious about the Biorock method for several years, and read everything I could lay my hands on in the past few years. I thus joined the program as a novice diver with strong scientific background and modest exposure to marine conservation / identification. My goal was to evaluate biorock as a technology, and be able to build a biorock in Hong Kong in subsequent years — if it is as promising as the literature suggests.)
PADI specialty courses usually come with structured and well-produced learning manuals. As a "distinctive specialty", the learning manual that comes along is distinctly shoddy, consisting of a typo-riddled 20-pages text document.8 The main content is split between introduction to marine conservation (7 pages) and the biorock process (4 pages). Everything in the manual is one hop away from the Marine Conservation and Biorock wikipedia articles. The only page I find of value was the last page: a diagram and some technical specifications for the construction / maintenance of biorocks.
Delphine supplements the manual with a pair of books passed along between the group: Coral Reef and Climate Change, and a new CRC press monograph on biorock (Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration). Both of these were excellent books. The former is a complete course on marine conservation.9 The latter contains much of the evidence used to support claims of biorock usefulness (e.g., that coral growth is accelerated 200-600% on electrified framework than passive substrate), and comes with a CD filled with pictures of biorock success cases.10
Trawangan Dive previously communicated the course11 to run for 14 mornings with theory and 2 dives on each day (i.e., 28 total). Without Siân and Delphine on site before the course, the shop could not tell me what the course was about. The confusion would persist after the course started, with different staff / instructors thinking that the course includes different things, and we were never quite sure what dives / boats do we go on the next day (or even later on the same day). 12 Having missed two dives from a cold, I did around 12 dives (4 shore + 8 boat) through these two weeks.
While I thought it was a biorock course, the 2 weeks should definitely not be thought of as that, but instead a marine conservation learning-volunteering program. The split in time is roughly 20% on coral reef background, 40% on biorock-related processes, and 40% on service/awareness raising (click on the title to expand the details):
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- coral watch (1 dive)
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- biorock theory (2 dives + 2 theory session),
- coral collection + attachment (4 dives)
- biorock cathode frame building (2 days),
- biorock cathode welding (1 day),
- biorock sinking
- biorock maintenance (scrubbing) (1 dive),
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- Gili Eco Trust (1 theory session)
- Dive against debris (1 dive),
- Untying/retying/deploy buoy line (2 days)
- Visit to Tanjung Luar market (2 days)
Coral Reef Background
The course began with a basic introduction to the "stationary creatures" found underwater, identifying and distinguishing between algae, sponges, anemone, and soft/hard coral. The focus was a narrow one, with the explicit purpose to learn enough to know what was growing on the existing biorocks (in particular, what species are not desirable to have on them). It contains neither the depth of a coral identification course, nor the breadth of a Reefcheck course (e.g., no fish/substrate ID was done).
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From there, we did some "coral gardening" — restoring flipped-over coral, removing tangled fishing lines, picking off coral predators like crown-of-thorns and drupella.
During the biorock portion, we learnt about the biorocks' history on the Gili islands, basic background about how biorocks work, and their construction. We visited several existing biorocks, and determining whether the circuit is still "on" based on visual signs underwater.
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Several dives were "collection and attachment" dives. In these dives, we descend with baskets to collect wave/anchor-broken coral fragments (e.g., until 110 bar), get back on the boat, and dive again near a biorock in order to zip-tie them. This seeds growth on the framework.13
The main time-consuming portion of the biorock comes in the construction of a cathode. These are built out from metal rebars bent into shapes, first tied together with metal cables, and then welded for strength. The group decided on a whale-shark,14 and we'd huff-and-puff for two days to get the basic shape ready. The welding was partly done by us, and mostly completed by a professional welder.
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The giant structure was then carried down the beach and into the water. This is probably the most memorable experience of the two weeks: 9 people carrying an honking unwieldy piece of metal, sloshed about by strong surge, shoved unceasingly by current, tripping over rocks (and breaking coral), kicking up so much sand that there is arms-length visibility… well, we made it after all, and the newly christened Jamie-the-Whaleshark now sits snuggly outside Gili Divers.
Some more challenging "seeding" is required. The current at the site runs strong, especially in the afternoon, when it runs in excess of 2 knots (> 1.0 meters/sec). We were finning hard just to stay at the same place, and I was astonished by how fast we consume air from the tank given the shallow depth.
The last piece of the biorock maintenance comes in the form of cleaning it of undesirable growth of algae and sponges, which can crowd out reef-building hard coral. This is easily done by scrubbing it with a stiff brush, whereupon the coating creatures go away leaving behind a strong limestone structure.
In the scrubbing, one interesting observation is the parallel deposition of brucite (magnesium hydroxide) as well as limestone (calcium carbonate). Apparently at higher current (e.g., closer to the anode), brucite is formed preferentially over limestone. This is a problem because the formed substrate is mechanically fragile and easily falls apart.15
The technically critical part of the electrical setup comes in laying the cable and connecting up the anode. We talked through this, including some tips and tricks won through hard experience.16 We, however, did not do anything on that part, since we simply re-used an existing anode. The ocean is a hostile place for man-made structures; from the perspective of trying to setup a biorock from ground up, the lack of this hands-on part gives me the jeebies.
The last component of the program, which time-wise was equal to the biorock section, were service/awareness-raising/volunteering activities.
We spent 2 days visiting the Tanjung Luar fish market (well, an hour at the market, but with 10 hours round-trip travel time and an overnight stay in Mataram). We arrived just before Ramadan, and the market was bustling busy, and we saw manta ray and sharks slaughtered for their gills and fins respectively. (There were dolphins too — those are now illegal and less in the open.17) As a vegetarian for compassionate reasons,18 I find the sight and smell nauseating (doesn't help that I also gets car-sick from the long windy ride). It's thoroughly unpleasant, and I suppose that's the point: the hygienic clear cartilage comes from endangered species, in a totally unnecessary bloody act that causes immediate suffering (to the animal) and irrevocable harm to our children's generation.
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We then did a Dive Against Debris, a fancy name for a Project Aware initiative where we collected the garbage, sorted them systematically, and reported the data for monitoring.
We also did a Coral Watch dive at Halik's Beach (8 meters). Coral Warch is an international organization for monitoring coral bleaching, which is itself a proxy for coral health. The protocol consists of comparing coloured slates with coral heads, recording the darkest and lightest observed colours, and reporting back onto the co-ordinating website.
The last (and my least favourite) part of the experience was untying hundreds of buoys tightly tied onto several hundred meters of line, and re-tying them back on in a slightly different fashion. The first task was 4 hours with a set of pliers between 4 of us; the second was two afternoons (~6 hours) with the full team. And I didn't even know why we are doing this.
This turns out to be for lining the beach areas. While the dive shop boats have permanent mooring at their site, local boats do not and have to drop anchor (which damages the reef). The buoy line was to signal to them that this is a no-anchor area.
The tying of the buoy line was fun, if a little hairy in the middle. See, while the village elders and Gili Eco Trust agreed on the line being deployed, not everyone was on-board or notified. A dive shop (Gili Scuba19) found out that there was going to be a line, which means they would need to pull up their engine while going over it. So they got on their kayak and started waving and shouting angrily at us in the water, with some fucking choice words thrown in for no good fucking reasons. Not cool.
At the end of the day…
At LPCUWC, we organize a Project Week to Malaysia for our coral monitoring students. We have 5 days. In each of those days we start at 8 am, dive thrice (debriefing and learning in between), and come back to shore to do 2 more hours of theory; we call it a day at 8 pm. It's intense. I came with that expectation, that this was to be 14 half-days of a structured course, with theory and two dives every day. I am ultimately happy and grateful for the intrinsic rewards, but the extrinsic expectations were misplaced.
This is a marine conservation introduction/service program, with a biorock building component. I would recommend this experience if you are interested in marine conservation, have little background, and is open to learn more and the full spectrum of activities. Conservation is a long term, profit-free, and often thankless task; it is invaluable to get to pick the brain of someone who's dedicated and in this for the long haul. I find the advice and war stories from Delphine (about conservation and biorock) as much learning as the "official" curriculum.
You should probably not be doing this if you're a novice diver only interested in squeezing as much affordable diving in as you can — at US$ 600, the program is a shade cheaper than doing a Divemaster (US$ 830), but you do 14 dives instead of 50+ dives.20 You also should probably not be using your rare 2-weeks annual holiday on this: while most are leisurely half days, not having a schedule ahead of time means that you can't plan activities around the program.
Personally I did not learn as much as I hoped to (see misplaced expectations above), and I blame that on MamaPolyp Linda and Triggerfish Selwyn (co-leaders of Coral Monitoring) who trained me too well. While I remain shaky about building biorocks from scratch (due to the lack of hands-on with anode wiring), I now have a much fuller perspective about Biorocks that is impossible to acquire otherwise.
There are two things I mean by this italicized phrase. The first is simply being viscerally convinced by being with a flourishing biorock reef, covered with sprawling coral, and teeming with fish using it as a habitat. This is particular cool on night dives!
The second is a more accurate calibration of my scientific skepticism. The lay perspective is that science is all about the facts. Scientists suffers from a less innocent understanding, and distinguish between "facts" and the true picture. Reported facts are often distorted, decorated, hidden in a closet, or conditional. Spending time with Delphine, actual biorocks, and a careful reading of the biorock monograph gave me a better sense of the scope and limits, all of which are difficult to assess otherwise.21
Lastly, I enjoyed the variety of experience on the program (which you could see from the pictures), and it makes me care enough to write and reflect upon the experience. I enjoyed the camaraderie with my peers (hat tip to Charles, Arabella, Rama, Tina, Lea, and Leslie), and it was lovely knowing Delphine, Siân, Adrienne,22 and the DM/instructors/staff at Trawangan Dive. I will probably be back to Gili Trawangan as a dive master trainee next year, and I look forward to seeing Jamie-the-Whaleshark all grown up!


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The Australian Academy of Science (the Academy) invites Australian research organisations and businesses to apply for funding under the Regional Collaborations Programme. This funding initiative is part of the Australian Government's Global Innovation Strategy under the National Innovation and Science Agenda. The programme will fund Australian participants from eligible organisations to collaborate with regional and international science, research and innovation partners on solutions to shared regional challenges within the Asia–Pacific regions.
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Personal Protocols and Other Preferences.
Michael Beutler (Berlin) makes work that reacts to exhibition spaces' architectonic conditions. The machines he builds from recycled materials create playful possibilities for action. Beutler's art is about devices,
gimmicks, and ways of killing time as an attempt to solve practical problems–including economic problems.
Several of Esra Ersen's (Istanbul/Berlin) works involve various languages and social boundaries, thematizing complications of cultural exchange. Her work is rich in staged situations in which negotiations involving her own experience as a woman from Turkey are crucial and are placed in relief to Western culture and its expectations of "the other."
Kirstine Roepstorff (Copenhagen/Berlin) excels in creating large-scale collages reminiscent of textiles and full of intricate details from varying contexts. With her method, which she calls "appropriarranging," she dissolves one context in order to create a new one. In the works Amnat and Satsit and Zarema, she refers to the first names of three Chechen "black widows," i.e., female suicide bombers who experienced personal absence and loss with strong psychosocial aspects.


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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Wordle Part 3
I couldn't get the editor to work right here, or I would have shown you my list of names and the weighting. What has happened to my text editor in Blogger!? All a little strange, but interesting. After Wordle.net shows you the results click on Randomize to get different layouts, fonts, & colors. I kept remembering something to fix, and it took me 5 tries to get this. Try it out. Some fun. Let me know how yours turned out. Will this spark discussions in your family, in your family history center?
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Mike Nash: Windows Vista Status Report and Announcing SP1 Beta 1This interview is quite shallow, it doesn't really reveal anything, does it? It's general considerations and strong emphasis of the non-importance of SP1, all adding up to a flat feeling having watched the interview. Charles does give Mike Nash some reason to sweat with a frank question. That was the highlight, heh. On the other hand, maybe there isn't really anything to tell, except to expect more compatibility and performance, which is great in and of itself.
Programming in the Age of Concurrency - Anders Hejlsberg and Joe Duffy: Concurrent Programming with
I assume there is a reason why you have to explicitly say you want your code parallelized. It's still an imperative world with islands of declarativeness. But I assume that in the future the compiler or CLR will auto-parallelize some code, where it can determine the safety of it.
But the team has its priorities right. It first creates the foundation for parallelism. Then later it can start to think about (or someone else can) the cases that are safe to parallelize - and where it makes sense to do so.
Maybe, with all the threads running on the machine, it wouldn't make sense to parallize some tasks, even though it would be possible to do so.
Just a thought...
One thing is for sure. The C#/CLR team has a great understanding of how to maximize impact and value whilst keeping disruption minimal.
One thing I didn't pick up from the video - is the Parallel Task Lib built on top of the existing Thread Pool stuff?
Another great video.
Scott Guthrie: Enter Silverlight 1.0 (And it now runs on all Linux distros)
Nice video, nice sandbox.
I do want to know how to playback an in-memory (synthesized) sound. How do I do that in Silverlight?
I don't see a lot of audio stuff there.
It almost looks like I'm going to have to create the audio in-memory, then post it to a server and then stream it back in the client from another address. I'm mistaken, right?
If not, then that's going to be one hell of a latency...
Sonu Arora and C. Venkatesh: WCF Line of Business Adapter SDK(I like big, quality, downloadable videos as well; downloading...)
Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin: Floating Freely in FlotzamI love the interview style for this kind of thing. Very relaxed and with humor.
Simon Peyton-Jones: Towards a Programming Language Nirvana
Brilliant! More of this please. Interesting perspectives, not just bla bla bla.
Erik Meijer: Volta - Wrapping the Cloud with .NET - Part 2"there is a lot of pain out there". priceless
It's a nice idea to be able to refactor an application from a clients point of view into multiple tiers and platforms.
Is there some set of shared concepts for programming against both Silverlight and the browser? I'm not sure it makes that much sense, but that would make it seamless for code to run in either environment without needing to decide which. On the other hand, for it to make sense, it would have to offer some benefit in terms of flexible controls and effects that are not easily done in the pure browser environment alone.
One possible example of that may be the JS/DOM 3D engine. On the other hand, I can't believe anything non-trivial can be animated - generated perhaps, although it could heavily influence scrolling and reflow speed.
It's cool though.
There are also several 3D engines for Flash. I've toyed with one myself, but it used to be that they were quite slow and not really usable for anything non trivial. The faster runtime in Flash 9 may be improving that but probably the software rendering is still the bottleneck. For static rendering, it can be quite useful, though. Flash also has the ability to render to bitmaps, so you can do raytracing if you want to. That is, you *could*, but at a framerate not worth mentioning.
Can hardware accellerated 3D be embedded in the browser. If not, then why not? What are the challenges?
There is also the potential to have shared concepts for Silverlight and Flash. Obviously, they're very similar and have similar goals. But the question becomes: is it worth the effort. If you're already "going plugin", you might as well "go Silverlight" and forget Flash altogether.
Erik Meijer: Volta - Wrapping the Cloud with .NET - Part 1Excellent video. No but's.
I can't believe the amount of innovation happing at Microsoft these years...
Erik Meijer: Volta - Wrapping the Cloud with .NET - Part 1
Looking forward to this....
Cakewalk: Making Music with SonarIt was a good video. It could use a more going-deep like detailing of architechture and whiteboarding though. Some more information about why it doesn't use the Vista Audio Service / Engine. Something about their experiences with MMCSS.
Kang Su Gatlin - "Phoenix," next-generation compiler"it'll be used to compile Longhorn"
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I am so so sorry for not blogging but I am so very busy with my classes that I am not able to post as often as I want however, I promise I will make an effort to do from now on. I am super excited to visit Atlanta to take classes from Chef Nicholas Lodge and get PME Master Certification done. I will be doing all 3 courses required from PME for certification...wooohoooo. Also, I do another class with lovely Lauren Kitchens this time at ISAC...Now only thing on my list is to do classes with Ms. Kathleen Lange.
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LAGRANGE -- Albert Lee Lewis Jr., 69, died Tuesday at Wayne Memorial Hospital.
Homegoing services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at The Lord's Table, 1215 Parkway Drive. Burial will follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Kinston. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service beginning at 10 a.m. at the church.
Mr. Lewis was born in Greene County on Dec. 16, 1942, to the late Albert Lee Lewis and Verna Belle Suggs Lewis.
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Objects are "things" but they are made of "stuff." In both human and machine vision, there has been much research on object recognition, but rather little on material perception. My lab is exploring material perception at various levels. At the low-level, we have identified certain image statistics, such as subband skewness, that are correlated with surface properties such as gloss. We suggest that there are mechanisms in early vision that are sensitive to such statistics, which could be easily computed with neural mechanisms. For our high-level studies, we are evaluating material recognition (categorization): the ability to look at something and decide whether it is, say, leather or plastic or cloth. We have assembled some image databases for use in exploring material recognition. In humans, material recognition can occur at high speed, even when the images are quite diverse. We have used machine vision and machine learning techniques in an attempt to achieve automated categorization of images in our database. While our system outperforms prior systems, it still falls far short of human performance.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Triple: "treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day" ( George Eliot).
- adj. Music Relating to or having the highest part, voice, or range.
- adj. High-pitched; shrill.
- n. Music The highest part, voice, instrument, or range.
- n. Music A singer or player that performs this part.
- n. A high, shrill sound or voice.
- transitive v. To make or become triple.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Threefold, triple.
- adj. Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music; soprano.
- adj. High in pitch; shrill.
- n. The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
- n. A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
- n. Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
- n. A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.
- n. Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment.
- n. Three victories, awards etc.
- v. To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.
- v. To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.
- v. To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Threefold; triple.
- adj.
- adj. Acute; sharp.
- adj. Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble.
- adv. Trebly; triply.
- n. The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano.
- intransitive v. To become threefold.
- transitive v. To make thrice as much; to make threefold.
- transitive v. To utter in a treble key; to whine.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Threefold; triple.
- In music, pertaining to the voice or the voice-part called treble or soprano; high in pitch; in harmony, occupying the upper place: as, a treble voice; a treble violin. See II.
- n. In music: Same as soprano (which see).
- n. A singer with a soprano or treble voice, or an instrument that takes the upper part in concerted music.
- n. Also triplex.
- n. In short whist, a game which counts three points to the winners, their adversaries not having scored.
- To make thrice as much; make threefold; multiply by three; triple.
- To utter in a high or treble tone; hence, to whine.
- To become threefold.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. three times as great or many
- v. sing treble
- adj. having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- adj. having three units or components or elements
- v. increase threefold
- n. the pitch range of the highest female voice
- adj. having or denoting a high range
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Bayern lead Schalke by two points with four games left and in midweek declared the Bundesliga their primary target in a title treble quest.
Like Inter, Bayern Munich are eyeing a title treble from the Champions League, domestic league and national cup.
PREVIEW: High-flying Munich visit Leverkusen race towards a title treble when they face another big Bundesliga test at Bayer Leverkusen after their Champions Manchester United.
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[1] If your treble is rusted or sharpened beyond recognition, buy a new one of the same size, and put it in the vise.
When deep-running lures hang up on the bottom, the downward-facing hook on the front treble is usually to blame.
Jerry's Tips: Spill Less Gas, Stay Warm in the Rain, and More...
It was a lipless crankbait, a flat-sided, subsurface lure rigged with twin treble hooks and a line-eye on the top of the angled head.
Inter Milan to a historic title treble last season, will do this - if president Florentino
Ferguson also had another slight dig at Rooney's agent, Paul Stretford, when asked if United's hopes of a treble were a convincing retort to claims the squad was on the wane, aired at the time of the striker's contract dispute last year.
Sir Alex Ferguson preys on Manchester City's Wembley novices
The second lad turns out to be a boy treble, which is the key to the mystery—and also calls for huge acting and vocal resources on the part of Joseph Beesley, who thoroughly deserved the big ovation he got at last week's world premiere.
so stretched out huge in length the Arch-Fiend lay
chained on the burning lake, nor ever thence
had ris'n or heaved his head, but that the will
& high permission of all-ruling heaven
left him at large to his own dark designs,
that with reiterated crimes he might
heap on himself damnation, while he sought
evil to others, & enraged might see
how all malice served but to bring forth
infinite goodness, grace & mercy shown
on man seduced, but on himself
treble confusion, wrath & vengence poured.
-Milton, paradise lost
I think here it's being used to mean "threefold"
A duodene of birdnotes chirruped bright treble answer under sensitive hands.
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A few days back I blogged about the leaked video of new Gmail layout and today, Google rolls out a redesigned new Gmail layout which is now available to everyone. The HTML5 makeover of Gmail has some amazing features like elastic density, streamlined conversations, smarter navigation etc.
Gmail New Layout Features
- Improved conversations
- Automatically resizes to fit any size window screen.
- Adjust display density
- Adjust the size of the label and chat panels
- New HD themes
- Streamlined conversations view
- Toggle between Contacts and Tasks
- Improved readability
- Displays the sender's profile photo, if available
- Advanced search box
How to Switch to New Gmail Interface
Step 1: Login to your gmail account and scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Switch to the new look in the bottom-right corner. If you don't find it there refresh Gmail and close Tasks and chats.Step 2: Now a box will appear, click on the button "Switch to the new look".
Step 3: Another box will appear with a massage "Welcome to Gmail's new look" and some links to get you aware with Gmail's new interface, click on the blue button "Continue to the new look" and you are done.Gmail also allows you to temporarily postpone the switch to new look but I advice all Gmail users to switch to new Gmail layout, so that you may get used to it.
Brand New Gmail Web Layout 2013
With this new Gmail update instead of having one inbox, you now have a collection of tabs – Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates, and Forums.
So when you receive an email it will now automatically get organized into one of those five tabs depending on the content and sender.
In short, emails related to social networks will automatically be put into the Social tab and those related to promotions like Google offers, discount coupons, new product launch etc. will be put into Promotions tab.
Isn't this cool!
How To Enable New Gmail Web Layout With Tab Categories
[sociallocker]As per the Google's official blog post, the update will be available in the next following weeks. However, if you go to Gmail settings you may be able to enable the new tabs feature right now.
Click on the setting gear and see if there's an option for "Configure inbox", if its there then you can enable the tabs feature in your Gmail account.
Unfortunately, you are currently not allowed to create a new tab, you will just have to trust Google to filter the emails out. However, you can move an email to a different tab and make sure that Gmail remembers it for future.[/sociallocker]
Will you be using the tab feature in Gmail? Share your views about this new Gmail layout in the comment box below.