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Let's start with stuffing because it's simple -- it means pretty much the same thing in BrE and AmE--a mixture of something bready and some flavo(u)rful things, stuffed into and cooked in another food, especially poultry.
Now, dressing is also general English in that it means generally what 'dresses' a food. Here's what the OED has to say:
So, from this sense we get salad dressing (a general term used in both countries...but the specifics probably deserve their own post. In the meantime, some of it is covered in this old post and especially its comments). But in AmE (and according to mostlyharmless, CanE), dressing can be used specifically to mean 'stuffing'. Many of us have both stuffing and dressing in our vocabularies, which belies the claim that some dialects say one and some the other. The Corpus of Contemporary American English has nine instances of turkey stuffing and three of turkey dressing, all from national publications.The seasoning substance used in cooking; stuffing; the sauce, etc., used in preparing a dish, a salad, etc.
Some people make a distinction between stuffing and dressing, with stuffing being what is stuffed into the bird (or whatever) and dressing being the same material, but cooked separately. I've been known to make that distinction myself, but I note that the most famous US for a non-stuffed version of this foodstuff is called Stove Top Stuffing. And there are plenty of (North American) people who stuff dressing into turkeys--I suspect that the stuffed-stuffing/non-stuffed-dressing distinction has come about because people found themselves with two words for the same thing and had the natural desire to find a distinction. As Alan Cruse once wrote, "natural languages abhor absolute synonyms just as nature abhors a vacuum".


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Put some pork on your fork.
Too bad the USA doesn't have the common sense to publish this nationwide, even if they have a muslim in the white house. Should also be posted on signs all along U.S. borders.Let's hear it for a Quebec mayor.
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"They must understand that it is for them to change their lifestyle, not the Canadians who so generously welcomed them.
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"A canteen with pork is part of the answer."
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Through the Diaphonic Lens
Stephen Ambrose's music teacher father once posed a difficult question to his son: "What instrument don't they make anymore?" The younger Ambrose was stumped. "The chamber," his father responded. Ambrose filed the exchange away, not quite sure what to make of it, and went on to a career as a musician and sound engineer. During the mid-1970s (working as a live sound engineer for Stevie Wonder and Steve Miller, among others), he wound up pioneering the in-ear monitor, which revolutionized both stage monitoring and personal listening.
But despite their widespread acceptance, in-ear monitors have some well-known issues (shared by hearing aids, which Ambrose has also worked on): some wearers report a "pounding" sensation; others find it impossible to listen at a reasonable level with acceptable fidelity; and for some, so-called "hearing fatigue" - a feeling of strain, discomfort, and eventual pain - makes it difficult to wear in-ears for any length of time.
Ambrose eventually began to feel that he might have missed the point the first time around in failing to account for the acoustics and biomechanics of the ear canal itself, instead "treating the ear as a guitar jack." In search of a solution, he decided to find out exactly what was going on within the ear canal. And returning - obliquely - to his father's question, he began a lengthy research project into the behavior of that particular chamber.
It all turned out to be rooted in physiology. Ambrose, Robert Schulein and Samuel Gido (his fellow researchers at Asius Technologies) found a possible solution in the mechanics of the stapedius (or "acoustic") reflex, a built-in defense mechanism that tenses the muscles supporting the middle ear, dampening the energy reaching the cochlea by as much as 50 dB.
This isn't a psychological or perceptual effect. When it encounters intense sound pressure levels, your middle ear actually turns the volume back down in response. (Singing, humming, and speaking trigger the same effect, which is why received wisdom holds that it's a good idea to hum if you know you're going to encounter an explosion, cymbal hit, or other extremely loud sound).
All's well so long as the acoustic reflex is triggered occasionally, but according to Ambrose and his team, things change significantly when the ear canal is completely closed by an IEM. With the sealed canal, sound pressure behaves - more or less - like a piston in an engine cylinder, transferring the motion of the earphone's driver mechanism directly to the eardrum, which responds with overexcursions - movements up to 1,000 times greater than the tiny motions observed during normal listening (for a rough illustration of the eardrum's response, there's a handy video posted on the Asius site).
An insertion gain effect can boost sound pressure levels in the resulting sealed chamber some 20 dB, so even with relatively quiet input, levels can get high enough (the precise figure varies from person to person, but it's in the neighborhood of 90 dB) to trigger the stapedius reflex repeatedly - this oscillatory pressure and resultant strain may be what's responsible for hearing fatigue.
Matters are made worse by the fact that as their middle ears try valiantly to protect the cilia lining the cochlea from damage, listeners tend to turn things up even further to compensate, in a vicious cycle that can lead, says Ambrose, not only to fatigue but to damage to the eardrum itself, visible as callouses that give the membrane a "leathered" appearance.
(illustrations: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation)


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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tree \Tree\ (tr[=e]), n. [OE. tree, tre, treo, AS. tre['o], tre['o]w, tree, wood; akin to OFries. tr[=e], OS. treo, trio, Icel. tr[=e], Dan. trae, Sw. tr[aum], tr[aum]d, Goth. triu, Russ. drevo, W. derw an oak, Ir. darag, darog, Gr. dry^s a tree, oak, do`ry a beam, spear shaft, spear, Skr. dru tree, wood, d[=a]ru wood. [root]63, 241. Cf. Dryad, Germander, Tar, n., Trough.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Bot.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk. [1913 Webster] Note: The kind of tree referred to, in any particular case, is often indicated by a modifying word; as forest tree, fruit tree, palm tree, apple tree, pear tree, etc. [1913 Webster] 2. Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree. [1913 Webster] 3. A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like. [1913 Webster] 4. A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree. [1913 Webster] [Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree. --Acts x. 39. [1913 Webster] 5. Wood; timber. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth. --Wyclif (2 Tim. ii. 20). [1913 Webster] 6. (Chem.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead. [1913 Webster] Tree bear (Zool.), the raccoon. [Local, U. S.] Tree beetle (Zool.) any one of numerous species of beetles which feed on the leaves of trees and shrubs, as the May beetles, the rose beetle, the rose chafer, and the goldsmith beetle. Tree bug (Zool.), any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects which live upon, and suck the sap of, trees and shrubs. They belong to Arma, Pentatoma, Rhaphigaster, and allied genera. Tree cat (Zool.), the common paradoxure (Paradoxurus musang). Tree clover (Bot.), a tall kind of melilot (Melilotus alba). See Melilot. Tree crab (Zool.), the purse crab. See under Purse. Tree creeper (Zool.), any one of numerous species of arboreal creepers belonging to Certhia, Climacteris, and allied genera. See Creeper, 3. Tree cricket (Zool.), a nearly white arboreal American cricket (Ecanthus niv[oe]us) which is noted for its loud stridulation; -- called also white cricket. Tree crow (Zool.), any one of several species of Old World crows belonging to Crypsirhina and allied genera, intermediate between the true crows and the jays. The tail is long, and the bill is curved and without a tooth. Tree dove (Zool.) any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic doves belonging to Macropygia and allied genera. They have long and broad tails, are chiefly arboreal in their habits, and feed mainly on fruit. Tree duck (Zool.), any one of several species of ducks belonging to Dendrocygna and allied genera. These ducks have a long and slender neck and a long hind toe. They are arboreal in their habits, and are found in the tropical parts of America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Tree fern (Bot.), an arborescent fern having a straight trunk, sometimes twenty or twenty-five feet high, or even higher, and bearing a cluster of fronds at the top. Most of the existing species are tropical. Tree fish (Zool.), a California market fish (Sebastichthys serriceps). Tree frog. (Zool.) (a) Same as Tree toad. (b) Any one of numerous species of Old World frogs belonging to Chiromantis, Rhacophorus, and allied genera of the family Ranidae. Their toes are furnished with suckers for adhesion. The flying frog (see under Flying) is an example. Tree goose (Zool.), the bernicle goose. Tree hopper (Zool.), any one of numerous species of small leaping hemipterous insects which live chiefly on the branches and twigs of trees, and injure them by sucking the sap. Many of them are very odd in shape, the prothorax being often prolonged upward or forward in the form of a spine or crest. Tree jobber (Zool.), a woodpecker. [Obs.] Tree kangaroo. (Zool.) See Kangaroo. Tree lark (Zool.), the tree pipit. [Prov. Eng.] Tree lizard (Zool.), any one of a group of Old World arboreal lizards (formerly grouped as the Dendrosauria) comprising the chameleons; also applied to various lizards belonging to the families Agamidae or Iguanidae, especially those of the genus Urosaurus, such as the lined tree lizard (Urosaurus ornatus) of the southwestern U.S. Tree lobster. (Zool.) Same as Tree crab, above. Tree louse (Zool.), any aphid; a plant louse. Tree moss. (Bot.) (a) Any moss or lichen growing on trees. (b) Any species of moss in the form of a miniature tree. Tree mouse (Zool.), any one of several species of African mice of the subfamily Dendromyinae. They have long claws and habitually live in trees. Tree nymph, a wood nymph. See Dryad. Tree of a saddle, a saddle frame. Tree of heaven (Bot.), an ornamental tree (Ailantus glandulosus) having long, handsome pinnate leaves, and greenish flowers of a disagreeable odor. Tree of life (Bot.), a tree of the genus Thuja; arbor vitae. Tree onion (Bot.), a species of garlic (Allium proliferum) which produces bulbs in place of flowers, or among its flowers. Tree oyster (Zool.), a small American oyster (Ostrea folium) which adheres to the roots of the mangrove tree; -- called also raccoon oyster. Tree pie (Zool.), any species of Asiatic birds of the genus Dendrocitta. The tree pies are allied to the magpie. Tree pigeon (Zool.), any one of numerous species of longwinged arboreal pigeons native of Asia, Africa, and Australia, and belonging to Megaloprepia, Carpophaga, and allied genera. Tree pipit. (Zool.) See under Pipit. Tree porcupine (Zool.), any one of several species of Central and South American arboreal porcupines belonging to the genera Chaetomys and Sphingurus. They have an elongated and somewhat prehensile tail, only four toes on the hind feet, and a body covered with short spines mixed with bristles. One South American species (Sphingurus villosus) is called also couiy; another (Sphingurus prehensilis) is called also c[oe]ndou. Tree rat (Zool.), any one of several species of large ratlike West Indian rodents belonging to the genera Capromys and Plagiodon. They are allied to the porcupines. Tree serpent (Zool.), a tree snake. Tree shrike (Zool.), a bush shrike. Tree snake (Zool.), any one of numerous species of snakes of the genus Dendrophis. They live chiefly among the branches of trees, and are not venomous. Tree sorrel (Bot.), a kind of sorrel (Rumex Lunaria) which attains the stature of a small tree, and bears greenish flowers. It is found in the Canary Islands and Tenerife. Tree sparrow (Zool.) any one of several species of small arboreal sparrows, especially the American tree sparrow (Spizella monticola), and the common European species (Passer montanus). Tree swallow (Zool.), any one of several species of swallows of the genus Hylochelidon which lay their eggs in holes in dead trees. They inhabit Australia and adjacent regions. Called also martin in Australia. Tree swift (Zool.), any one of several species of swifts of the genus Dendrochelidon which inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. Tree tiger (Zool.), a leopard. Tree toad (Zool.), any one of numerous species of amphibians belonging to Hyla and allied genera of the family Hylidae. They are related to the common frogs and toads, but have the tips of the toes expanded into suckers by means of which they cling to the bark and leaves of trees. Only one species (Hyla arborea) is found in Europe, but numerous species occur in America and Australia. The common tree toad of the Northern United States (Hyla versicolor) is noted for the facility with which it changes its colors. Called also tree frog. See also Piping frog, under Piping, and Cricket frog, under Cricket. Tree warbler (Zool.), any one of several species of arboreal warblers belonging to Phylloscopus and allied genera. Tree wool (Bot.), a fine fiber obtained from the leaves of pine trees. [1913 Webster]WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tree onion n 1: type of perennial onion grown chiefly as a curiosity or for early salad onions; having bulbils that replace the flowers [syn: tree onion, Egyptian onion, top onion, Allium cepa viviparum]


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One of the things I enjoy the most is creating a recipe on the spur of the moment. The ideas seem to emerge in my head and I feel the immediate urgency to capture these ideas in a creation.
It happened with these Sugar and Spice cookies, where I was inclined to use some edible lavender I got from sweet Hilda over at Saffron and Blueberry. For those who know me, know that it never really ends there! I like to experiment and combine flavors, aromas and I want to "experience my senses" (as the byline of this blog states). So I played around with the ideas I had and came up with a lavender-cardamom combination. It was a winner!
It was not long after that while tweeting those cookies and the powerful combination of lavender and cardamom that I got talking (tweeting?) with the lovely Steph from one of my favorite blogs Desserts For Breakfast. Incidentally it was Hilda who actually got us together a while back. We began discussing all the delicious dessert possibilities one could create with the combination.
While Steph absolutely loves the flavor of lavender, I tend to be careful with it in my cooking and baking. There is nothing more awful than having to eat something that smells like grandmas old pillows! So I have always restricted myself with lavender.
On the other hand – I love cardamom. It's a spice I have related to all my life. As an Indian it was used liberally in the kitchens of my mother and grandmother. It was used to perfume biryanis and spice teas on a daily basis. In my own kitchen I use it not only in the way I have watched them but I am bolder in experimenting with cardamom while I develop my own recipes.
The more Steph and I discussed our ideas the more apparent it became that we had to do something about it. We really needed to get into our kitchens and create something. There are often times I really dislike living so far away away from so many blogger friends I have made over the span of the (almost) five years I have been blogging. The disadvantages here are obvious! The fact that two continents and an ocean separates us simply meant we would not be able to be together, standing in each others kitchens, laughing and playing around with ingredients and simply having a great time with each other. Not to mention taste testing ourselves to oblivion.
Why hasn't anyone invented a teleportation machine?
With the lack of such a vital machine we were left to our own kitchens and devices. We wanted to surprise each other and besides for the fact that lavender and cardamom were going to be two ingredients we had no idea what the other one is making. Until today – reveal day!
What would I make if Steph really came around? As I know Steph has a sweet tooth and like me craves creamy desserts – I mean she lives by my motto – desserts for breakfast – I knew fairly early on what I would treat her to.
I initially wanted to make a crème caramel but decided to take it a level higher for Steph. A flan de casa! The ultimate sin in my books! Richer than rich, creamier than creamy and sweeter than sweet. The waistline will scream a scream of horror at your intentions to make this dessert but trust me you'll have your friends eating out of your hands with just a tiny bite of this dessert.
That is what I had in mind for Steph. The perfect yet sinful dessert, scented with her favorite lavender and spiced with my favorite cardamom, a table set for two on my terrace on a sunny afternoon. Fresh figs, spiced tea and two dessert loving girls indulging in a decadent dessert and enjoying every minute of each others company.
What makes the flan de la casa so decadently rich is the amount of eggs, not to mention the condensed and evaporated milk used to make the custard. The flan, one of the most common desserts in Latin America and Spain, is not particularly healthy, and probably should be made on very special occasions for special friends. The waistline will thank you for that for sure, but just a spoonful of this and you'll immediately notice why a flan de casa overrides a crème caramel in my books!
Lavender Cardamom Scented Flan de la Casa
Printable version of recipe here
7 eggs
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 can evaporated milk
250 ml milk
1 teaspoon green cardamom pods, slightly crushed
1/2 teaspoon edible lavender
2 tablespoons sugarMethod
- The flan is cooked using the bain-marie method, so prepare a larger pan, one that can hold your dessert bowls or casserole. Place the individual bowls, casserole dish or loaf pan in the pan. Put the kettle on and boil some water. Preheat oven to 140 degrees C.
- In a small, non-stick saucepan heat the sugar over medium heat. Swirl the pan occasionally to distribute the sugar until it is dissolved and begins to brown.
- Lift the pan over the heat (just a few centimeters) and continue to brown the sugar until it becomes a dark amber. Do not stir at this point as it causes the sugar to crystallize. Pour caramelized sugar into the casserole dish, large loaf pan or individual dessert bowls/glasses, and swirl to coat the bottom of the pan evenly with the caramel. Work quickly because the caramel hardens fast.
- In a blender, combine sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, eggs and milk. Blend on high for 1-2 minutes. Add the lavender and cardamom pods and allow to steep for 30 minutes. Sieve the mixture then place back in blender and whizz it for just one more minute. Pour over the caramelized sugar.
- Bake for approx. 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes or until just set and the tops are still wobbly. Remove from the oven and allow to cool at room temperature. Place in the refrigerator for several hours, preferably overnight.
- You can serve the flan in individual bowls or turn it out onto a plate. To take it out of the form, (after it is cold) run a thin knife around the edges. Put a plate on top of the baking pan and flip over.
Close the eyes and savor the flavors in the flan. The custard is subtly infused with the flowery notes of lavender and boldly scented with ethereal aromas of cardamom, harmonizing with the caramel sugar and sweet richness of the custard it becomes a sublime dessert to sink into.
So if you'll excuse me I am on my way over to Steph's place who has created the most incredible lavender.cardamom dessert duo for our dessert date.
You might like these creamy custard dessert ideas from WFLH:
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This summer I've been knitting fruit cozies: cotton jackets made to keep fruit from getting bruised in a lunch bag or purse. So far I've made (clockwise from bottom left) an orange cozy, a banana cozy, two apple cozies, and a pear.
If any of you knitters are wondering how it's done, I got the original Apple Sweater Pattern from a seller on etsy. I wouldn't feel right sharing the pattern since it belongs to someone else. But I will tell you I made a few modifications:
- I left off the collar on the apples, because I didn't like it.
- I added a little leaf to most of the fruit (CO 3 st; Row1 knit; R2 purl; R3 K1f&b, K1, K1f&b (5 st); R4 purl; R5 knit; R6 purl; R7 K2tog, K1, K2tog; R8 purl; R9 Sl 1, K2tog, psso; weave in ends and attach to the cozy).
- I knit an extra 5 rows before casting off to make the pear.
- I knit the same cozy pattern in seed stitch for the orange.
Of course, I also needed a banana for my collection, and since I couldn't find a pattern for a banana cozy, I made one up! Go ahead and download my Banana Cozy Pattern and make your own. And don't worry, there's plenty of time to get it done before school starts again!


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All the physicians at Marin Cancer Care can be found on this peer-to-peer list. Click here to see the list.
Methodology: Marin Magazine conducted a 2017 survey that has resulted in this [415] Top Doctors list — top physicians practicing in San Francisco and Marin counties who received multiple independent recommendations from their peers. The list was rechecked again this year. The survey process started with a list of more than 3,600 licensed doctors across all specialties in both counties. All doctors on this list were both candidates and eligible voters in the peer-to-peer voting poll. Doctors were allowed to cast an unlimited number of votes across all specialties — they could vote for as many doctors as they wanted regardless of specific area of expertise — but they could only vote for the same doctor once.
Response rate was maximized by the following procedures: (a) a long field period of 12 weeks that was further extended to allow all doctors ample time to log in and vote for peers; (b) multiple channels of solicitations including both individual invitations and organizational outreach to maximize contact with all eligible voters; and (c) repeated invitations and reminders to doctors who did not respond to initial rounds of solicitations. At the close of the voting period, approximately 670 doctors with the highest vote counts were short-listed for the database. Each of these doctors received a statistically significant number of votes from peers based on established principles of sampling probabilities and power analysis. LinChiat Chang, Ph.D.


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The Boy Scouts of America now intends to vote in May about whether its troops should be allowed to accept gay members and leaders, a spokesman says.
Deron Smith, the BSA director of public relations, told reporters Wednesday morning at the organization's leadership meeting in Irving, Texas, that "after careful consideration and extensive dialogue within the scouting family, along with comments from those outside the organization, the volunteer officers of the Boy Scouts of America's National Executive Board concluded that due to the complexity of this issue, the organization needs time for a more deliberate review of its membership policy."
As we noted earlier, BSA leaders were discussing the issue — but weren't necessarily going to make a decision on Wednesday.
Our original post an an earlier update:
As leaders of the Boy Scouts of America meet in Irving, Texas to consider whether local troops should be allowed to have gay members and leaders, there's breaking news about a related issue:
"The military is poised to extend some benefits to the same-sex partners of service members," U.S. officials told The Associated Press Tuesday. According to the wire service, "Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has not made a final decision on which benefits will be included, the officials said, but the Pentagon is likely to allow same-sex partners to have access to the on-base commissary and other military subsidized stores, as well as some health and welfare programs."
As The New York Times notes, while Panetta "is preparing to expand benefits to same-sex partners of military personnel ... it remained doubtful that the Pentagon could offer the medical, dental and housing allowances desired by gay and lesbian couples, officials said Tuesday. Full benefits would require the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, a 1996 law that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman."
Boy Scouts leaders are expected to issue a statement about their organization's position early Wednesday afternoon. Word broke last week that the organization was considering a lifting of its national ban on gay members and leaders. On Morning Edition, NPR's Kathy Lohr reported about the "passionate debate" that the issue has ignited within the 100-year-old organization.
Update at 10:30 a.m. ET. No Vote By Boy Scouts Today:
CNN is reporting that the Boy Scouts' leadership will not be voting on a change in policy today. We're still expecting, as we reported earlier, that the organization will issue a statement at some point today.
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smp(4) [freebsd man page]
SMP(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual SMP(4) NAME
SMP -- description of the FreeBSD Symmetric Multi-Processor kernel SYNOPSIS
options SMP DESCRIPTION
The SMP kernel implements symmetric multi-processor support. COMPATIBILITY
Support for multi-processor systems is present for all Tier-1 architectures on FreeBSD. Currently, this includes amd64, i386 and sparc64. Support is enabled using options SMP. It is permissible to use the SMP kernel configuration on non-SMP equipped motherboards. I386 NOTES For i386 systems, the SMP kernel supports motherboards that follow the Intel MP specification, version 1.4. In addition to options SMP, i386 also requires device apic. The mptable(1) command may be used to view the status of multi-processor support. The number of CPUs detected by the system is available in the read-only sysctl variable hw.ncpu. FreeBSD allows specific CPUs on a multi-processor system to be disabled. This can be done using the hint.lapic.X.disabled tunable, where X is the APIC ID of a CPU. Setting this tunable to 1 will result in the corresponding CPU being disabled. The sched_ule(4) scheduler implements CPU topology detection and adjusts the scheduling algorithms to make better use of modern multi-core CPUs. The sysctl variable kern.sched.topology_spec reflects the detected CPU hardware in a parsable XML format. The top level XML tag is <groups>, which encloses one or more <group> tags containing data about individual CPU groups. A CPU group contains CPUs that are detected to be "close" together, usually by being cores in a single multi-core processor. Attributes available in a <group> tag are "level", corre- sponding to the nesting level of the CPU group and "cache-level", corresponding to the level of CPU caches shared by the CPUs in the group. The <group> tag contains the <cpu> and <flags> tags. The <cpu> tag describes CPUs in the group. Its attributes are "count", corresponding to the number of CPUs in the group and "mask", corresponding to the integer binary mask in which each bit position set to 1 signifies a CPU belonging to the group. The contents (CDATA) of the <cpu> tag is the comma-delimited list of CPU indexes (derived from the "mask" attribute). The <flags> tag contains special tags (if any) describing the relation of the CPUs in the group. The possible flags are cur- rently "HTT" and "SMT", corresponding to the various implementations of hardware multithreading. An example topology_spec output for a sys- tem consisting of two quad-core processors is: <groups> <group level="1" cache-level="0"> <cpu count="8" mask="0xff">0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7</cpu> <flags></flags> <children> <group level="2" cache-level="0"> <cpu count="4" mask="0xf">0, 1, 2, 3</cpu> <flags></flags> </group> <group level="2" cache-level="0"> <cpu count="4" mask="0xf0">4, 5, 6, 7</cpu> <flags></flags> </group> </children> </group> </groups> This information is used internally by the kernel to schedule related tasks on CPUs that are closely grouped together. FreeBSD supports hyperthreading on Intel CPU's on the i386 and AMD64 platforms. Because using logical CPUs can cause performance penalties under certain loads, the logical CPUs can be disabled by setting the machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable to zero. SEE ALSO
cpuset(1), mptable(1), sched_4bsd(4), sched_ule(4), loader(8), sysctl(8), condvar(9), msleep(9), mtx_pool(9), mutex(9), rwlock(9), sema(9), sx(9) HISTORY
The SMP kernel's early history is not (properly) recorded. It was developed in a separate CVS branch until April 26, 1997, at which point it was merged into 3.0-current. By this date 3.0-current had already been merged with Lite2 kernel code. FreeBSD 5.0 introduced support for a host of new synchronization primitives, and a move towards fine-grained kernel locking rather than reliance on a Giant kernel lock. The SMPng Project relied heavily on the support of BSDi, who provided reference source code from the fine- grained SMP implementation found in BSD/OS. FreeBSD 5.0 also introduced support for SMP on the sparc64 architecture. AUTHORS
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Blueberry & Key Limes Tea Cakes – Going Back To The Essentials
It's been a week clearly balanced with working and nesting. I am heading out of town next week again to shoot Le Cordon Bleu cookbook and have been spending a good portion of my free time baking, cooking, preserving, etc.. I clearly manifested an intense homemaking phase which I believe to be only normal since I am incessantly on the go this summer.
I feel I won't be touching ground for a while and spending time in the kitchen, mixing, kneading, chopping, gives me time to think, make plans, draw list, organize thoughts and priorities. Some good music in the background and the undivided attention of the pups and I spent a couple of days stocking the fridge and freezer with some good meals and treats for Bill to enjoy while I'm away.
I like to believe a sweet treat once in a while makes the distance a little more bearable (and thank you Skype inventor!). He also gets invited left and right everytime I go away, no matter how stocked up the fridge is. His parents, the neighbors, our close friends…They all seem to take pity on him! At least, I know he never arrives empty handed to a dinner…
These little tea cakes may be the most simple things to bake but there is value in the essentials, the basics. I know that I can freeze plenty for us to have one morning over brunch, to keep in the fridge for a little four o'clock pick me up with a cup of tea. I can pack a couple in his bag before he heads to work in the morning. They are full of good nutrients, blueberries, coconut sugar, whole grains and the addition of Key limes provides just the right amount of pop from the limes.
Nothing like a good basic tea cake fresh out of the oven to make you feel like the chaos around you can indeed slow down…even if only for a few minutes.
Blueberry Key Lime Tea Cakes:
Makes 24 muffin size tea cakes.
2 cups Jeanne's gluten free flour mix (or cake flour)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup whole milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
zest and juice of 6 Key limes (or 1 lime)
1 cup (2 sticks – 8 oz) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cups coconut sugar (or brown sugar)
4 large eggs
2 cups blueberries
Preheat the oven to 350F and line the inside of 24 muffin cups with cupcake or muffin liners. Grease with some melted butter or cooking spray. Set aside.
In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Reserve.
In another large bowl or container, combine the milk, vanilla extracts, zest and juice from the Key limes (the milk will curdle but do not worry – it's normal).
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the butter and coconut sugar until smooth and creamy (medium high for about 3 minutes). Beat in the eggs, on slow speed, one at a time until everything looks well combined. The mixture won't be smooth but make sure all the eggs look mixed in.
On low speed, beat in the flour mixture alternately with milk mixture in 3 additions, just until the batter comes together. Fold in blueberries with a spatula and give the batter another 10-12 strokes to finish mixing it all together. Divide the batter equally among the muffin tins.
Bake for about 25 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out free of raw batter.


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A bipartisan compromise that would have expanded federal background checks for firearms purchases has been rejected by the Senate.
The defeat of the measure by a 54-46 vote — six votes shy of the number needed to clear the Senate — marks a major setback for gun-control advocates, many of whom had hoped that Congress would act to curb gun violence in the wake of December's Newtown elementary school massacre, where 20 students and six adults were killed.
The National Rifle Association fought the expansion of background checks, saying criminals would simply ignore them, The Associated Press reports.
The expanded background checks were aimed at closing loopholes and keeping criminals and the seriously mentally ill from getting firearms. Currently, the checks only apply to purchases handled by licensed firearms dealers.
In a last-ditch appeal on Wednesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney urged senators to "consider who they're representing," and pointed out that "90 percent of the American people support expanded background checks. If you are opposed to this legislation, you should obviously explain why you are against what 90 percent of the people are for."
But a recent Associated Press-GfK poll shows waning public support for tighter gun laws. According to the AP: Overall "49 percent said gun laws should be made stricter while 38 percent said they should stay the same," according to the survey of 1,004 randomly chosen adults conducted from April 11-15.
Reuters says: "Other measures backed by [President Obama] — including a proposal to ban rapid-firing 'assault' weapons like the one used in Connecticut and a limit on ammunition magazines — also are expected to fail as the Senate conducts nine consecutive votes on gun-control legislation."
Update at 5:54 p.m. ET. 'A Pretty Shameful Day':
Flanked by victims of gun violence, including the parents of a child killed in Newtown and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Obama gave an impassioned speech at the White House Rose Garden minutes ago.
"All in all, this is a pretty shameful day in Washington," Obama said.
Obama ditched his usual diplomacy and accused Republican senators of putting politics ahead of the wants of the American people.
"How can something have 90 percent support and yet not happen?" Obama asked.
He said this piece of legislation was a bipartisan compromise that respected the Second Amendment and the victims of gun violence. Obama said the National Rifle Association "willfully lied" about the bill to defeat it, even though it "represented moderation and common sense," and the NRA has in the past supported expanded background checks.
"It came down to politics," Obama said. He added, "Who are we here to represent?"
Obama, however, said this isn't over.
"I see this as just round one," he said.
Update at 5:34 p.m. ET. Senate Ignored People's Will:
Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head during a massacre at a congressional meet-and-greet, said the Senate "ignored will of the people" with this vote.
"Constituents will know they obeyed gun lobby and not them," she continued.
Update at 4:59 p.m. ET. 'It's A Shame':
Ed O'Keefe, who covers Congress for The Washington Post, reports that many of the victims of gun violence who packed the Senate gallery to watch the vote, expressed dismay.
"Patricia Maisch, who knocked ammo clip out of hands of Jared Loughner, escorted out after shouting: 'I hate them,' she said of the senators.
"Lori Haas, whose daughter Emily wounded in the April 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, said: 'It's a shame, it's appalling, it's disgusting.'"
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The question arises: why are brown-eyed males rated as more dominant than blue-eyed? Some facial features such as square jaws, thick eyebrows and broad cheekbones are linked with higher perceived dominance; facial submissiveness, on the other hand, is characterized by a round face with large eyes, smallish nose, and high eyebrows (Berry, 1990; Berry & Mcarthur, 1986; Cunningham,Barbee, & Pike, 1990; Mazur, Halpern, & Udry, 1994; Mueller & Mazur,1997; Thornhill & Gangestad, 1994). The morphological differences between blue-eyed and brown-eyed males were visualized by deformation of thin-plate splines (Fig. 3). In contrast with blue-eyed males, brown-eyed males have statistically broader and rather massive chins, broader (laterally prolonged) mouths, larger noses, and eyes that are closer together with larger eyebrows. In contrast, blue-eyed males show smaller and sharper chins, mouths that are laterally narrower, noses smaller, and a greater span between the eyes. Especially the broader massive chin, bigger nose, and larger eyebrows of brown-eyed males may explain their higher perceived dominance.
The authors propose that true genetic linkage between eye color and these other facial features is unlikely, as eye color is determined by few loci, and these are unlikely to be the same ones that influence these other facial features. Thus, they propose a different explanation, namely that blue-eyed and brown-eyed children are treated differently by their parents as they grow up, and this "different treatment" manifests itself phenotypically. The argument in favor of different treatment stems from the fact that many people are born blue-eyed, but their eye color is set to a darker shade eventually. The authors write:
It is possible that subjects with blue eyes are treated as a small child for a longer period than brown-eyed children. Such early social experience may have been literally ''inscribed" into their faces, preserved until adulthood, and finally bring on the perception of higher submissiveness. Rosenberg and Kagan (1987, 1989) investigated the association between eye color and behavioral inhibition, revealing that children with blue eyes are more inhibited. Coplan et al. (1998) found a significant interaction between eye color and social wariness within preschoolers. Blueeyed males were rated as more socially wary, i.e. being more temperamentally inhibited, displaying more reticent behavior and having more internalizing problems, than males with brown eyes, though there were no differences between blue- and brown-eyed females (Coplan et al., 1998).
There is an alternative explanation, that requires neither genetic linkage nor an environmental factor such as upbringing. That factor is latent population structure.
In a truly long-term random mating population, and assuming that eye color is not genetically linked with e.g. chin breadth, then all combinations of chin breadth and eye color would occur with a probability determined entirely by the frequency of their genetic determinants in the population.
However, consider the possibility that the population is an incomplete mixture of a blue-eyed "facially submissive" population element, and a brown-eyed "facially dominant" one. If that was the case, then brown-eyed folks would tend to have dominant facial features by reason of their ancestry rather than any genetic linkage between the two traits.
[1] International anthropometric study of facial morphology in various ethnic groups/races, Leslie G Farkas, J Craniofac Surg 16:615-46
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Eye color predicts but does not directly influence perceived dominance in men
Karel Kleisner et al.
This study focuses on the relationship between eye color, gender, and psychological characteristics perceived from the human face. Photographs of 40 male and 40 female students were rated for perceived dominance and attractiveness. Attractiveness showed no relation with eye color. In contrast, eye color had a significant effect on perceived dominance in males: brown-eyed men were rated as more dominant than men with blue eyes. To control for the effect of eye color, we studied perceived dominance on the same photographs of models after changing the iris color. The eye color had no effect on perceived dominance. This suggests that some other facial features associated with eye color affect the perception of dominance in males. Geometric morphometrics have been applied to reveal features responsible for the differences in facial morphospace of blue-eyed and brown-eyed males.


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To a whole new town with a whole new way
Went to the porch to have a thought
Got to the door and again, I couldn't stop
You don't know where and you don't know when
But you still got your words and you got your friends
Walk along to another day
Work a little harder, work another way."
- "The World at Large" by Modest Mouse
This move probably seems to have come abruptly, but it has been a longer time coming than this, as most of my friends and family members suspected. The window opened after Susitna. There was no longer a need to stay so I packed up my stuff. It didn't take long — one of the benefits of moving around so much is you never have time to accumulate a lot of excess stuff. I can still fit most of my life in my 1996 Geo Prism, although my life is heavily weighted in a single direction these days. Inside my car this time were two people (Beat was out for the weekend anyway and gave up his return ticket to help me drive down), one annoyed but increasingly accepting cat, and five — yes five — bicycles. Also some clothing, outdoor gear, a few dishes, and miscellaneous items. All the important stuff was in there, or stacked on the roof, Beverly Hillbilly style (I even kept the bike box for Beat's Fatback. It did not survive the Biblical rains of the Sierras.)
We left Montana on Saturday afternoon, bound for Salt Lake City. (My parents took this recent move surprisingly well. I think my many years of drifting has worn down their defenses.)
I can't say I felt a whole lot of emotion about leaving Montana. I really didn't spend enough time here to get attached, although I imagine I'll be back as frequently as I can afford, to visit my friends, ride some epic logging road loops with Bill in the Bitterroot, hike some goat trails in Glacier National Park with Danni and Dave, and finally climb all three of the Lima Peaks.
The drive of course was grueling. Turns out a 15-year-old car with 191,000 miles loaded to the brim with gear — and with wheels and a box stacked like a sail on the roof — can't move faster than 70 mph, and that's only on steep downhills, with a tailwind. Geo was at the limit of his endurance, but he motored along, just like he always has, ever since he was a young buck of 38,000 miles and I loaded him to the brim with camping gear and hit the road for my inaugural drive across America, back in 2001.
We blazed through many of my old stomping grounds — Idaho Falls (2004-2005), Sandy, (1983 to 1998) Salt Lake City (1998 to 2003), and Tooele (2003-2004 ... the place where my cat Cady was born.) Then we kept on going west. I told Beat all of my stories of my experiences in the Oquirrh Mountains, the Stansbury Mountains, Skull Valley, the Bonneville Salt Flats, Wendover, Elko, and the Battle Mountain rest stop where my family was stranded for half a day after the car transmission died during a vacation to San Francisco in 1989.
The farther west we traveled, the fewer experiences I had to share, until we crested Donner Pass in a wet snowstorm, I told Beat what I knew about the history of the place, and held my breath for the newness and strangeness of California.
Today I started unpacking, but quickly got more wrapped up in an urgent need to go for a long bike ride. I put my fixie together and headed over to the Google campus to have lunch with Beat, then continued grinding into the wind along the gravel trails that line the San Francisco Bay. It was a strange sort of place, both muddy and dry, and guarded by a fortress of towering electric lines. I watched a chorus of shorebirds rip through the air, breathed the salty air with pungent hints from the Palo Alto landfill, and soaked in a lot of sunshine. The return tailwind was so strong that the fixie almost ripped my legs off. In a space that holds millions of people, I saw very few. I allowed myself to feel some sadness for the end of winter, the end of my time in Montana. And yet, I only saw positive potential on the path in front of me.
I'll write more tomorrow about my plan for California, and what Beat and I have planned for the upcoming year. For now, I will say that, yes, this is going to be quite different. I rode around all day in a cotton T-shirt and a single pair of socks, passing people on the bike path who were wearing down coats (in other words, I'm sweltering in the heat and it's not even hot.) Yes, for the foreseeable future, the snowy photos in my blog will have to come from visits away from home, and the regular photos will probably appear more, well, regular. Maybe this blog will be less interesting. And you're certainly under no obligation to keep reading. But somehow, I doubt it. I am only excited about the future and all of the adventures in front of me. California isn't the end of the road. Not by a long shot.


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In the war of movies about heroic CIA operatives fighting Islamic bad guys in Western Asia, the nicer one took the big prizes at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 70th Golden Globe Awards. Argo, a light fictionalizing of the fake-movie caper that the Agency's Tony Mendez dreamed up to spirit U.S. hostages out of Tehran after the 1979 overthrow of the Shah, took Best Film Drama and, for its star and helmer Ben Affleck, Best Director. Argo's Oscar-nominated competitor, the bin Laden search thriller Zero Dark Thirty, won only for its leading Actress, Jessica Chastain. The third big docudrama of the awards season, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, made do with a Best Dramatic Actor statuette for Daniel Day-Lewis.
In a peppy three-hour show that's much more fun than the logorrheic ordeal of self-congratulation that is the Academy Awards ceremony (coming Feb. 24), hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and their celebrity pals handed out 14 citations to movies and 11 to TV shows. As Poehler noted, "Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people of television." (James Poniewozik will comment on the TV awards, the majority of which went to Homeland, Girls and Game Change.) Having cannily split movies into Drama and Comedy or Musical, and thus doubling the actors' awards and the stars in the room, the HFPA honored Les Misérables as Best Amusing or Singing Thing (over Silver Linings Playbook), with the movie's Hugh Jackman winning Actor in that category, and Anne Hathaway taking Supporting Actress.
(SEE: Top 10 Les Mizzes Better Than This Les Miz)
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is a fancy name for a group of 87 mostly freelance, often part-time scribes who, asserts Deadline Hollywood's acerbic Nikki Finke, "won't grant membership to the real foreign journalists at the prestige media outlets across the world. … And even though the entire entertainment industry ridicules the awards, it props them up because they're a useful marketing tool for the studios and networks." Exactly: the HFPA long ago realized that the way to get celebrities to sit for interviews was to throw an annual televised party that gives face time to stars promoting their Oscar-hopeful movies. The days when the HFPA members would be more likely to valet-park a star's car than interview him are probably past — a few of them even write reviews — but the Golden Globe ceremony still has the odd éclat of a lavish party thrown for Hollywood royalty by the help.
(READ: Who Cares About the Golden Globes?)
Well-paid help, mind you: NBC kicks in a reported $30 million for broadcast rights. And as they deliberate on their ballots, the members are not averse to accepting junkets to Las Vegas or banquets in Los Angeles. A New York Times story Saturday noted that a rich spread of Italian food at the HFPA home office in West Hollywood bore the sign: "Lunch courtesy of Harvey Weinstein." (Finke: "The Weinstein Company led with 15 nominations [this year] because Harvey really knows how to schmooze these moochers.") If there's some shock value to the Times item, it's not that Weinstein would send over tubs of pasta but that the HFPA would leave the benefactor's sign in the plain view of a genuine journalist.
(READ: All about the Golden Globe nominations)
Think of the relation of the HFPA to Hollywood as that of a curbside hooker to a $1,000-an-hour call girl. The movie establishment is in the business of flesh- and influence-peddling, and the Golden Globes festivities prove it doesn't mind taking pearls from swine, provided the evening includes jokes about the sponsor's illegitimate provenance. This year's hosts did their bit. As Poehler explained: "When left untreated, HFPA can lead to cervical cancer…" "She's kidding," added Fey. "There is no known cure for the Hollywood Foreign Press."
(READ: James Poniewozik on Amy Poehler's Parks and Recreation)
In a sharp, A-minus opening duologue, Fey referred to Quentin Tarantino (whose Django Unchained took Best Screenplay, plus Best Supporting Actor for Christoph Waltz) as "the star of all my sexual nightmares." And in saluting director Kathryn Bigelow, Poehler said, "I haven't really been following the controversy over Zero Dark Thirty, but when it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron." It's whispered that Bigelow won the Academy's Best Director award three years ago for The Hurt Locker was that official Hollywood just couldn't stand Cameron. (We heard that from a cater-waiter at a Beverly Hills party — or was it an HFPA member on his day job?)
(READ: Corliss's review of Django Unchained)
This year's show had its own share of Best Drama or Comedy moments. Jodie Foster, who received the Cecil B. De Mille life-achievement award as she turned 50, was stately, sharp and poignant as she stuck one toe out of the closet by declaring herself "single" and thanked both her ex-partner and her ailing mother, suffering from dementia. Other actresses, including Hathaway and Chastain, emphasized the hard slog and self-doubt in the acting trade. But some were there just to have a good time. "I can say I beat Meryl!" exclaimed Jennifer Lawrence of her Best Actress award for Silver Linings over Streep in Hope Springs. (Streep, expected to give if not receive a Golden Globe, was absent last night. "She has the flu," Poehler observed. "And I hear she's amazing in it.") To Harvey Weinstein, Lawrence said, "Thank you for killing whoever you had to kill to get me up here today." It's always possible she was kidding.
(READ: Corliss's review of Silver Linings Playbook)
Adele, the Brit pop stylist who won for Best Song ("Skyfall" from Skyfall), insisted she came just to have fun with a girl-mate: "We been pissin' ourselves laughin.'" The dour Austrian auteur Michael Haneke, whose Amour won Best Foreign-Language Film, is known as a joke-cracker only on his (bogus) Twitter account. Yet he was able to appreciate the irony of being handed his statuette from Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying, "I never thought to get an award in Hollywood from an Austrian."
(FIND: Amour atop TIME's "Top 10 Best" Movies of 2012)
As tough as it is reading the minds of a group with so few brains, it's harder still figuring what impact the Golden Globe choices may have on Oscar voters as they mull their selections in the next few weeks. There is no overlap between the Academy and the HFPA, either in membership or esteem, so the victory for Argo may mean as little here as they did Thursday night when Affleck's film took the Critics' Choice Awards; these two snubs may be only speed bumps for the Lincoln Express. Waltz's Globe, over Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master and Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln, could spur Academy voters to give another think to his pearly performance. Chastain and Lawrence were already co-frontrunners for the Actress Oscar, and they remain the favorites.
(READ: TIME's take on Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master)
Hollywood is a company town, even if populated by zillionaires, and its employees value recognition from within the factory (the Academy Awards) more than compliments from mere passers-by (the HFPA). Thus the Oscar will always be a trophy-case treasure, and the Golden Globe a doorstop. But for one night, at least, the makers of Argo and Les Misérables can take pleasure in having won stuff in a ballroom filled with their peers, and on the most sufferable movie-awards show on TV.


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"For me to lose and come back, it's definitely gonna be a lot sweeter for
me to reach my ultimate goal, which is to get the title." - Ryan Bader
In all honesty, they don't come classier or more professional than UFC light heavyweight Ryan Bader. Always on top of his responsibilities in and out of the Octagon, he's one of those athletes that it's impossible not to root for.
But some will find a reason. And after two well-documented losses to Jon Jones and Tito Ortiz in 2011, Bader's once packed to the gills bandwagon began to empty. No longer was the Ultimate Fighter season eight winner destined for stardom and a world title. To the naysayers, he was a cautionary tale for too much too soon.
At this point, most athletes would lash out at their detractors, come up with a stack of excuses, or simply shut themselves off from the world. Bader did every interview, answered every question about the worst two nights of his career, and he did it with grace. So when "Darth" Bader rose from the ashes to knock out Jason Brilz and then win a lopsided decision over former world champ Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, you almost expected – and maybe even hoped – for him to look at the camera and say 'I told you so.'
But he didn't.
"Maybe after this one," laughed Bader, referring to his Saturday co-main event bout on FOX against another former champ in Lyoto Machida. But even after saying that, the truth comes out.
"I'll never come out and say it, and it's not as much as an 'I told you so' to doubters or anything, but it's more for me," he explains. "I changed a lot of things up after that (the two losses) and it's been showing. So it just lets me know that I'm doing the right thing and I could really care less if people are gonna doubt me. I like to play that underdog role like I did in my last fight and like I'm going to in this fight, and to go out and get the win, there's no better feeling than that. Getting a win is awesome when you're supposed to win it, but coming from the underdog role when people are doubting you and saying there's no way you can win and going out there and doing it, I think it just opens up people's eyes a little more, and for me, it's gonna show how I've changed so much as a fighter."
Still fairly young in his UFC career, with nine fights in the Octagon since winning TUF in 2008, Bader had little difficulty keeping his unbeaten record intact in those early days, beating the likes of Red Schafer, Keith Jardine, and Rogerio Nogueira with an attack mainly based on his All-American wrestling background and a thudding right hand. But after the dynamic Jones and the seasoned vet Ortiz put two notches in his loss column, it was a sign for Bader to either regroup and show that championship potential again, or to start the fade into obscurity.
He regrouped.
He showed that championship potential again.
And though the 77 second knockout of Brilz in November of last year was a nice clip for the highlight reel, it was his trip to Japan in February to face Jackson that showed what he was made of, as not only was this supposed to be the PRIDE veteran's triumphant return to the Land of the Rising Sun, but the former UFC champ came into the fight at 211 pounds, immediately placing Bader at a physical disadvantage. But Bader shook off any negatives and shut Jackson down and out. If there were doubters after the Ortiz fight, they had plenty to chew on.
"It was an awesome experience to go over there and fight a big name like that," he said. "I knew I belonged there even though the last couple showings when I lost didn't show it. I feel like I'm just getting started on my MMA career with switching everything up, and I feel like I'm finally in the right place where I needed to be. I feel like I've grown more in the last year that I've been working with the new coaches more than I ever have in my whole career.
"It was a huge win to go in there and take Rampage out and I want to keep that going," Bader continues. "A lot of people were like 'oh, he was hurt,' this and that, but I went in there and convincingly beat him, did my job, and I think this fight (against Machida) is gonna prove that 'oh, maybe it wasn't Rampage, maybe it was Bader. Maybe he is getting that good now.'"
The main change that Bader refers to is bringing in long-respected coach Tom Vaughn and a group of other coaches (Ray Stafford, Andre Maracaba, Danny Brandt, Jason Kamens) into his Power MMA & Fitness gym in Gilbert, Arizona to prepare him and his teammates completely for their fights. There's no more winging it these days, and that's never been more evident than in the lead up to Saturday's fight, where Bader isn't taking the tact of 'well, Machida is a complex puzzle, so I'll just focus on me.'
"In the past I would have said that," he admits. "I would have been like 'well, I'm just gonna worry about myself,' and our gameplan would have been to go in there and try and take him down. Since we switched everything up, our head coach Tom Vaughan is awesome and he brings in sparring partners every fight. For Brilz and Rampage he brought in guys that resembled them, and we actually found the best sparring partner that I've ever had, as far as resembling an opponent, for Machida, and that's kind of funny because he's probably one of the hardest ones to replicate. But Hiroshi Allen from Vegas has come down every other week, he'll be in my corner, and we spar and drill. He won the karate world championship, he's trained with the Machida family, he watches tape and he can emulate him. So we'll drill, he'll go over what he sees, and then we'll spar, so I've seen Machida fight hundreds of times in the gym. In the past, I would have just shown up and just been like 'okay, here it goes.'"
The stakes are too high for that now, and Bader knows it. Losing a fight or two will rarely crush a career, especially one as promising as the 29-year old Arizonan's, but with UFC President Dana White declaring that the most impressive 205-pounder emerging from this weekend's card will be next in line for a shot at the belt, it's a once in a lifetime shot to control your own destiny.
"I fought Rampage who just fought for the title, I'm fighting Machida who just fought for the title, and if I take out Machida, who's next?" said Bader. "You don't want to go backwards. And I know it's kind of cliché, but you have to keep your head down and do the task at hand. But I do feel like I'm getting there if I keep knocking these guys off. They're the best in the world, they're all former champions, and the last two just fought for the title, so I feel I'm there."
It's not the conversation you would have expected to be having with Ryan Bader at this time last year. He had just come off two losses and was surrounded by question marks. But since then, he's ticked off each question with a resounding positive answer. Saturday night, he'll step up to the plate yet again, with doubters and supporters both jockeying for position. Yet surprisingly enough, he wouldn't change a thing.
"I needed that adversity," he said. "I needed to taste that defeat and have those couple losses in a row. If I didn't lose to Tito, I would have been doing the same thing and I wouldn't have branched out and found different coaches, and I wouldn't have been training like I am now. I would have been doing the same old thing and I would have paid for it down the road. So for me to lose and come back, it's definitely gonna be a lot sweeter for me to reach my ultimate goal, which is to get the title. I think this was just part of being a fighter and growing and learning. Now, when I get in the cage, I'm excited and ready to go instead of being nervous and doubting myself. There are no more doubts."
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LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec – Everyone missing in the fiery crash of a runaway oil train in Quebec is presumed dead, police told grieving families, bringing the death toll to 50 in Canada's worst railway catastrophe in almost 150 years.
Meanwhile, attention focused on the CEO of the railway's parent company, who faced jeers from local residents and blamed the train's engineer for improperly setting its breaks before the disaster.
Officials said Wednesday evening that 20 bodies had been found in this burned-out town, and 30 people were missing.
"We informed them of the potential loss of their loved ones," said Quebec police inspector Michel Forget, who came to an afternoon news briefing from a meeting with families of the dead and missing. "You have to understand that it's a very emotional moment."
Edward Burkhardt, the head of the train's U.S.-based parent company blamed the engineer for failing to set the brakes properly before the unmanned Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway train hurtled down a seven-mile (11-kilometer) incline, derailed and ignited in the center of Lac-Megantic early Saturday. All but one of its 73 cars was carrying oil, and at least five exploded.
The crash has raised questions about the rapidly growing use of rail to transport oil in North America, especially in the booming North Dakota oil fields and Alberta oil sands far from the sea.
The intensity of the explosions and fire made parts of the devastated town too hot and dangerous to enter and find bodies days after the disaster. Only one body had been formally identified, said Genevieve Guilbault of the coroner's office, and she described efforts to identify the other remains as "very long and arduous work."
Burkhardt, president and CEO of the railway's parent company, Rail World Inc., faced jeers from residents and scorn from Quebec's premier as he made his first visit to the town since the disaster. He was expected to meet with residents and the mayor Thursday.
Burkhardt said the train's engineer had been suspended without pay and was under "police control."
Investigators also had spoken with Burkhardt during his visit, said a police official, Sgt. Benoit Richard. He did not elaborate.
Until Wednesday, the railway company had defended its employees' actions, but that changed abruptly as Burkhardt singled out the engineer.
"We think he applied some hand brakes, but the question is, did he apply enough of them?" Burkhardt said. "He said he applied 11 hand brakes. We think that's not true. Initially we believed him, but now we don't."
Burkhardt did not name the engineer, though the company had previously identified the employee as Tom Harding of Quebec. Harding has not spoken publicly since the crash.
"He's not in jail, but police have talked about prosecuting him," Burkhardt said. "I understand exactly why the police are considering criminal charges ... If that's the case, let the chips fall where they may."
Investigators are also looking at a fire on the same train just hours before the disaster. A fire official has said the train's power was shut down as standard operating procedure, meaning the train's air brakes would have been disabled. In that case, hand brakes on individual train cars would have been needed.
The derailment is Canada's worst railway disaster since a train plunged into a Quebec river in 1864, killing 99.
Quebec police have said they were pursuing a wide-ranging criminal investigation, extending to the possibilities of criminal negligence and some sort of tampering with the train before the crash. The heart of the town's central business district is being treated as a crime scene and remained cordoned off by police tape.
At a news conference shortly before Burkhardt's arrival, Quebec Premier Pauline Marois faulted his company's response.
"We have realized there are serious gaps from the railway company from not having been there and not communicating with the public," Marois said. She depicted Burkhardt's attitude as "deplorable" and "unacceptable."
Burkhardt, who arrived in town with a police escort, said he had delayed his visit in order to deal with the crisis from his office in Chicago, saying he was better able to communicate from there with insurers and officials in different places.
"I understand the extreme anger," he said. "We owe an abject apology to the people in this town."
In an exchange with reporters, Burkhardt defended the practice of leaving trains unmanned, as was the case when the train rolled away. Canadian transportation department officials have said there are no regulations against it.
"For the future we, and I think probably the rest of the industry, aren't going to be leaving these trains unmanned," Burkhardt said. "We'll take the lead with that. I think the rest of the industry is going to follow."
Among the residents looking on as Burkhardt spoke was Raymond Lafontaine, who is believed to have lost a son, two daughters-in-law and an employee in the disaster.
"That man, I feel pity for him," Lafontaine said. "Maybe some who know him properly may think he's the greatest guy in the world, but with his actions, the wait that took place, it doesn't look good."
The disaster forced about 2,000 of the town's 6,000 residents from their homes, but most have been allowed to return.
Associated Press writers David Crary in Lac-Megantic and Charmaine Noronha in Toronto contributed to this report.


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Three male individuals, a 40-60 year-old male and two young boys (4-5 and 8-9 years old) from grave 99 belonged to Y-haplogroup R1a. The boys were related to their parent:
Additionally, the Y chromosome haplogroup R1a of the boys corresponds with the man's (ind. 3). It is noteworthy that in grave 99 the orientation of the adult individuals follows the established pattern of the CWC, whereas both children clearly deviate from it. It appears that the burial orientation pattern was overruled for each boy to face a parent to express a biological relationship.The results have been added in my compendium of ancient Y-chromosome studies.
The mtDNA results included haplogroups:
K1b (three from grave 99) 16093C, 16224C, 16311C, 16319A
U5b (one from grave 99) 16189C, 16192T, 16270T
I (one from grave 90) 16129A, 16223T, 16391A
H (one from grave 98) 16093C, 16221T
X2 (two from grave 98) 16189C, 16223T, 16278T 73G, 153G, 195C, 225A, 226C, 263G
K1a2 (one from grave 93) 16145A, 16224C, 16311C
The occurrence of X2 and K1b suggests changes in frequency to the present-day:
The detection of mtDNA haplotypes X2 and K1b, both being very rare in modern-day European populations, is unlikely to be based on the occurrence ofFor the X2 sequence:
independent contamination events.
At present, three exact matches were found among individuals from Iran, Syria, and Estonia showing HVS I and HVS II patterns identical with the two Eulau individuals, but differing from each other by further coding region polymorphisms.Regarding the present-day distribution of X2:
Overall, it appears that the populations of the Near East, the Caucasus, and Mediterranean Europe harbor subhaplogroup X2 at higher frequencies than those of northern and northeastern Europe (P less than .05) and that X2 is rare in Eastern European as well as Central Asian, Siberian, and Indian populations and is virtually absent in the Finno-Ugric and Turkic-speaking people of the Volga-Ural region.For the K1b sequences:
Today, haplogroup K has a frequency of around 6% in Europe (6, 39). The identical sequence haplotype of individuals 1, 2, and 4 has previously been observed (4, 5).The haplogroup I is also interesting, since it was found at a high frequency in Vikings and Iron Age Danes but has a lower frequency in modern times.
So far this haplotype has uniquely been reported in two modern Shugnans of Tadzhikistan (5)
So, in general, these results once again point towards a change in the mtDNA gene pool across the millennia, explained by the authors:
However, we are aware of the fact that the modern distribution might not reflect the haplotype distribution during the Late Neolithic. The mitochondrial haplogroup distribution of a population is likely to have changed throughout time by factors like genetic drift or events like migration or genetic palimpsest (40).Study (41) also by Haak et al. was about Linearbandkeramik farmers from Central Europe. Study (42) by Sampietro et al. was about Neolithic Iberians.
As we recently showed, the frequencies of haplogroups could have been significantly different between Neolithic and present populations (41), although a similar study (from a different region in Europe) provides evidence of genetic continuity throughout the millennia (42).
PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807592105
Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and osteological analyses shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age
Wolfgang Haak et al.
In 2005 four outstanding multiple burials were discovered near Eulau, Germany. The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other. Skeletal and artifactual evidence and the simultaneous interment of the individuals suggest the supposed families fell victim to a violent event. In a multidisciplinary approach, archaeological, anthropological, geochemical (radiogenic isotopes), and molecular genetic (ancient DNA) methods were applied to these unique burials. Using autosomal, mitochondrial, and Y-chromosomal markers, we identified genetic kinship among the individuals. A direct child-parent relationship was detected in one burial, providing the oldest molecular genetic evidence of a nuclear family. Strontium isotope analyses point to different origins for males and children versus females. By this approach, we gain insight into a Late Stone Age society, which appears to have been exogamous and patrilocal, and in which genetic kinship seems to be a focal point of social organization.


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TOKYO – For decades, the U.S. Air Force has grown accustomed to such superlatives as unrivaled and unbeatable. These days, some of its key combat aircraft are being described with terms like geriatric, or decrepit.
The aging of the U.S. Air Force, a long-simmering topic in defense circles, made a brief appearance in the presidential debates when Republican nominee Mitt Romney cited it as evidence of the decline of U.S. military readiness. His contention that the Navy is the smallest it's been since 1917 got more attention, thanks to President Barack Obama's quip that the Navy also has fewer "horses and bayonets."
But analysts say the Air Force has a real problem, and it will almost certainly worsen no matter who wins Tuesday's election. It was created in part by a lack of urgency in the post-Cold War era, and by design glitches and cost overruns that have delayed attempts to build next-generation aircraft.
Looming budget cuts limit the force's ability to correct itself, they argue, as China's rise as a world power heightens its need to improve. And though the world's most formidable air force never had much use for bayonets, it's got more than its share of warhorses.
The U.S. probably couldn't have fought the air wars over Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya without the KC-135 Stratotanker, the Air Force's main aerial refueler, which allows fighter jets to remain airborne on long flights.
America has President Eisenhower to thank for that.
The KC-135 came into service during his watch in 1956. The newest of the roughly 400 Stratotankers in service started flying nearly half a century ago, in 1964.
"We are in unknown territory," said Lt. Col. Brian Zoellner, who has been flying the KC-135 for 15 years and is head of operations for 909th Air Refueling Squadron at Kadena Air Base on Japan's southwestern island of Okinawa. "The unknown is at what point does the KC-135 become unusable."
The KC-46A refueling tanker is being developed as a replacement, but probably won't start delivery for another five years. If Congress has its way, some Stratotankers could still be taking off well into the 2040s.
THAT '70s SHOW — THE F-15, F-16 AND A-10
The F-15, America's workhorse warplane since the Vietnam War, was designed to have a service life of about 5,000 flight hours. The Air Force has more than tripled that, to 18,000 hours.
The F-16, another key fighter, has been in use since 1979. The Air Force began retiring the oldest ones two years ago.
Another '70s-era fighter is the A-10 Thunderbolt, which provides close air support for ground troops. It's now being rewinged because its old ones were riddled with cracks. The General Accounting Office estimates the cost of upgrading and refurbishing the aircraft will be $2.25 billion through 2013.
The Air Force is revamping its fighter fleet with the stealthy F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, but production of the F-22 was cut short after its price tag swelled to nearly half a billion dollars a pop. Delays and escalating costs have also dogged the F-35, which is now the most expensive Department of Defense procurement program ever.
SPY PLANES FROM THE '50s — THE U-2
The fabled U-2 "Dragon Lady" spy plane is still being used to keep watch over North Korea and other hot spots. The first U-2 flew in 1955, and the legendary Skunk Works aircraft became a household name for its role in the Cuban missile crisis, not to mention the propaganda bonanza the Soviet Union got by shooting one down in 1960 and capturing its CIA pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
Many analysts argue the unmanned Global Hawk could do the job more effectively, but Congress has nixed that idea for now. More than $1.7 billion has been invested in upgrading the U-2.
Iconic, yes. State-of-the-art, no. The venerable B-52, remembered by movie fans for its starring role in the 1964 Cold War comedy "Dr. Strangelove," remains the backbone of the Air Force's strategic bomber force. It dates to 1954 and was already losing its edge by the end of the Vietnam War, but nearly 100 B-52s remain in service.
The Air Force developed the B-1 in the 1970s as the B-52's replacement. President Jimmy Carter killed it, President Ronald Reagan brought it back, and none have been delivered since 1988.
Next up was the stealth B-2 Spirit, which first flew in 1989. Because only 21 were built, they ended up costing a prohibitive $2 billion each. The Air Force is now hoping to upgrade with what it calls the Long Range Strike Bomber, but it's not clear when it will be ready.
To be sure, all of these aircraft have undergone massive overhauls and updates, and most experts agree the U.S. Air Force remains the best-equipped in the world. Its aircraft aren't likely to soon start falling out of the sky, either, thanks to intensive, and expensive, maintenance.
Zoellner, the KC-135 pilot, bristled at the idea his Stratotankers aren't safe. He said they "fly like a champ."
But Loren Thompson, of the Lexington Institute, a conservative think tank, said the graying Air Force is evidence of how Washington has failed to keep its eye on the ball.
"The reason the fleet is so decrepit is because for the first 10 years after the Cold War ended, policymakers thought the United States was in an era of extended peace," he said. "Then it spent the next 10 years fighting an enemy with no air force and no air defenses. So air power was neglected for 20 years, and today the Air Force reflects that fact."
Former Air Force Col. Robert Haffa, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, added that although ground forces were the primary concern in Iraq and Afghanistan, air power will be a key to future security requirements as the United States turns its attention to the Pacific and a strengthening China.
Unlike America's more recent adversaries, China has a credible air force that could conceivably strike U.S. bases in the region, requiring a deterrent force that is based farther away, out of range. America's bases in Japan — and possibly Guam — also are within striking distance of a North Korean missile attack.
"As the nation looks to increased focus in the Pacific, these long-range strike platforms will be especially important," Haffa said. "Planes like the B-52 simply cannot survive."


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