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While looking for food blogging events to take part in I found out that it was going to be National Oatmeal Cookie day on April 30th and that Jennifer of Savor the Thyme was hosting an Oatmeal Cookie Challenge . I hardly needed an excuse to make cookies so I was in! I see oatmeal cookies as a healthier version of chocolate chip cookies and I like the texture that the rolled oats adds; quite possibly making them my favorite type of cookie. I have a huge list of of different flavour combinations of oatmeal cookies that I want to try and on the top of that was apricot and white chocolate oatmeal cookies, though dark chocolate and dried cherry oatmeal cookies were a close second.
The last time I made oatmeal cookies the oats seemed to vanish when they baked so this time I reduced the flour a bit and tripled the amount of rolled oats. The apricot and white chocolate oatmeal cookies turned out great! The cookies smelled so amazingly good while baking and even after. They were nice and moist and chewy on the inside and just slightly crispy on the edges, just the way I like them. My only complaint, and it is a minor one, was that the apricot flavour was a bit to subtle. I think that the next time I make them, and there will be a next time, I will cut the dried apricots into four pieces instead of six making each piece bigger. This time the rolled oats were a lot more visible and the texture they added to the cookies was really nice.
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- 1/2 cup butter (softened)
- 1/2 cup brown sugar (packed)
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 cup dried apricots (chopped)
- 1/2 cup white chocolate (coarsely chopped)
- Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl.
- Beat in the egg and vanilla extract.
- Mix the flour, baking soda and salt in another bowl.
- Mix the dry ingredients into the wet.
- Mix in the rolled oats, apricots and white chocolate.
- Place the dough onto a cookie sheet one table spoon at a time.
- Bake in a 350F/180C preheated oven for 8-10 minutes.
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The Past is a Foreign Country (Take Two)
When I got into the hobby in late 1979/early 1980, you could buy RPGs almost everywhere, including through catalog stores, like Sears. My first AD&D book, the Monster Manual was purchased this way (from Sears, I think). After reading this post over on Al's blog, I spent a short time poking around the web to find some scans of Christmas catalogs from around the time I started gaming. So far, I only found scans from a little later than the period I'm talking about, but it's nonetheless fascinating to see. Here's one from a 1981 Montgomery Ward catalog:
As you can see, D&D is only present in its late, unlamented electronic boardgame form. I never owned that game myself, but I knew someone who did and it was awful, especially considering it retailed for $44.88. More interesting are those three games -- Merlin, Knights of King Arthur, and Crypt of the Sorcerer -- which were, if I remember, produced by Heritage USA, a miniatures company. The games all include minis and paints, along with maps and simple rules. Again, I never owned them, but I do remember them. Wizard's Quest from Avalon Hill is there too, along with a Ouija board, because, you know, it all makes sense, right? Let's not forget Dark Tower, a much better electronic boardgame than the D&D one.
Here are two pages from a 1983 Sears catalog and are even more interesting:
Here we find not only D&D and AD&D -- with miniatures! -- but also Star Frontiers, Traveller, and Starfleet Battles. If ever anyone needed proof that, even in 1983, tabletop "gaming" broadly defined was way more popular and mainstream than it is today, simply consider the notion of Starfleet Battles being readily available through the Sears Wishbook.
But it gets better:
FASA's Star Trek Roleplaying Game and Space Opera, along with several Avalon Hill bookcase games, including Squad Leader -- all displayed on the same page as games like Risk and Trivial Pursuit. It's as if, back then, no one treated these games as if they were any different than any other kind of game.
That, to me anyway, is the biggest way that the hobby has changed from when I was a young person. In those days, sure, roleplaying was new and a little weird, but it hadn't yet been ghettoized. Kids (and adults) of all sorts played RPGs; it wasn't just a "nerd thing." I've noted before that playing D&D was one of the few activities I ever participated in where I got to hang out with guys who otherwise wouldn't have had much to do with a shy, bookish kid like me. I never forged any deep and abiding friendships with, say, the metalheads or jocks I played D&D with at library meet-ups and other such gatherings, but the fact that I interacted with them at all says a lot about how widespread a fad these games were back in the late 70s and early 80s -- so widespread, in fact, that you could buy them through Sears or Montgomery Ward.
(I'm going to keep looking for more catalog scans from the same time period. If anyone else finds some, please leave a note in the comments. I'd love to see them.)
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Over here, we have a shop called Argos that operates like this. There are no products on display, just a stack of catalogues and order forms. You find your item, copy its number on to a form, take that to the counter, and they nip upstairs or out back -- wherever the warehouse is in that branch -- to get the thing.
No D&D though. The closest I could find on their site was a board game based on the BBC show Dragon's Den.The game store I worked in during the 80s was located in a giant shopping mall, and sold RPGs, war games, and "family" board games like Monopoly and Risk, along with fancy chess sets and custom cribbage boards and jigsaw puzzles and everything game-related. It was heaven to a young, fresh-out-of-high-school neophyte gamer like me. If the owner hadn't bankrupted the company, I would have worked there forever.
ReplyDeleteit wasn't just a "nerd thing."
This is so true. Of the first kids I saw playing it, most were athletes, popular, class presidents, football captains and the like. In fact, only a few I knew of who played the game, c. 1981-83, fell into a non-popular category (though there were some). Plus, remember it in early pop culture. In E.T., Elliot's so cool popular football playing older brother and his cool friends are playing it. In an episode of Magnum P.I., Mr. Sex Symbol himself is playing a crude, early computer game version of a D&D knock-off. How something that was no more nerdy than Trivial Pursuit or Monopoly or (our favorite) RISK or Space Invaders, suddenly became nothing but nerdy has always made me wonder.
FWIW, the first exposure I had to the game was in an old Wishbook. Can't remember the store. I was in Junior High, so that marks it before 1981 Christmas season. It had the books titled Dungeons and Dragons, and also some miniatures. I remember thinking to myself, "I don't get it. Where's the box? Where's the board? And what's a bugbear?"Crossbows and Catapults is a childhood favorite. I still have a nearly complete set! I wish I still had the rules booklet... not that I ever used them.
I asked my parents to get me the AD&D Clerics and Druids miniatures set and a generic fantasy miniatures set for Christmas one year, and although I never painted them -- I wanted them so much that I never considered that I have absolutely no talent -- I had loads of fun using them to man the two Crossbows and Catapults fortresses.
A friend of mine had Dark Tower but we rarely played it. I recently discovered a flash version of the game (http://www.hotflashgames.com/darktower.htm) and use it to divert myself from time to time.I totally remember seeing the games in the Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs over the years, but my memory is that Sears had a bigger selection.
I would have been looking at them right around 1982 - 1984 or so, right after looking at the pages with the Star Wars Action Figures, some of which were unique to the Sears Catalog.
I still remember kind of "tracking" the presence of RPGs in the Christmas Wish Book catalogs year by year and feeling sad when they sort of disappeared.Holy crap! The Basic Red Box was $8.99, as was each of the 1e hardbacks except the DMG, which was selling for $10.99.
So, to get started in the hobby back in 1983 would either cost you $8.99 or, assuming you bought all the hardbacks there, $37.96.
Let's convert that into 2010 dollars:
$8.99 in 1983 had the same buying power as $19.89 in 2010.
$10.99 in 1983 had the same buying power as $24.32 in 2010.
$37.96 in 1983 had the same buying power as $83.99 in 2010.
The current 4e retro-ized Red Box intro set (with all its shortcomings) sells on Amazon.com for $13.59.
$13.59 in 2010 had the same buying power as $6.14 in 1983.
The two essential paperbacks for 4e play are being sold on Amazon.com for $13.47 each, or $26.94 total.
$26.94 in 2010 had the same buying power as $12.18 in 1983.
So what does all this mean?
It's now CHEAPER to play the current version of D&D than it was to get started in the hobby back in 1983. Whoa. That kinda blows my mind.Seeing these images totally makes me think of Christmas. I swear I can smell the pine tree. Apparently when I was a kid pouring through catalogs like these and circling what we wanted was a big Christmas tradition at my house, something I don't think I realized until seeing pictures of them again. Amazing how vividly those memories came back with these simple pictures.
That said, I know none of my D&D stuff came from a catalog. I very much remember being able to walk right into Play World (our local town toy store) and buy the 1e hard covers right off the shelf for $8.99. I remember the price distinctly, as I think it took me about two months to save up enough allowance to buy one (partly because saving allowance was such a difficult endeavor at that age).
Thanks for posting this! What a trip.- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2011 at 3:07 PM
I remember long, happy hours spent drooling over the Sears' catalog as a child. I seriously think the amount of time I spent dreaming about those toys did more for developing my imagination than any actual toy I ever had.
We were lucky enough to have an awesome local game store, the late lamented GameTable in Campbell, Ca. So we never had to buy stuff from the catalogs. What my brother and I did have to do was draw up detailed lists and maps of the store identifying the exact games and titles we wanted and where they could be found.
Now I want to play Squad Leader again. Awesome post! I got almost all of my initial AD&D/D&D stuff from the 1981 JC Penney's Wishbook. If anyone finds links to these catalog pages. PLEASE post them! I have been searching for them for quite some time!
In that initial run from Penney's, I picked up the Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, Moldvay Basic, Cook Expert, Crypt of the Sorcerer, both of Grenadier's Action Art mini sets (one monsters, one PCs), and Dwarfstar's Demonlord and Barbarian Prince. The Player's Handbook was on back order until after Christmas, so my parents had to pick it up at a local upscale dept store (Younkers). Of course, this was when every department store had a good sized toy section. Oh yeah, I also got the Dark Tower game. It was a great game, but very susceptible to breakdown. I think I ended up having to take back three of them before I got one that worked until just a couple of years ago. There are actually a couple of places on the Internet where you can send in your broken Dark Tower and they will fix it and tune it up with more sturdy parts. One of these days…
I also agree with your assertion that RPGs were not ghettoized at the time. All of my regular players (including myself), would have been considered "popular jocks". I remember many trips to the The Gameshop with my friends after wrestling practice.
It was indeed a Golden Age of RPGs.As a kid, I enjoyed the hell out of Crossbows & Catapults!
In the 90s, they made an expanded set with more props (castle towers with built-in catapult, tens, more men, and such) and more wargame-like rules, but no mats. It would have been nice to have the old rules and game mats (the objective of the old game was to land a "battle crom" over the treasure pile printed on the mat, which the tower was placed over) to go with the game, as an option. The old game was fun, but the newer game is good by its own right, as you have a lot of freedom to place the game pieces in anyway you like, and you have a lot of playing options (like movement rules, special projectiles, spells, and so on). The only problem with the newer game, is that the number of wall pieces (12 per side) that was enough for the old game, is far too few to accommodate the larger setup.- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2011 at 6:25 PM
Catalogue stores were the cream...you should have grown up in Canada - where we had Consumer Distributing and the LCBO at the time - in which one never saw the product except in the catalogue, then one filled out an index card, and a clerk would check the availability - then either take an order or ask you to go the cash. Where after wards it would be delivered.
ReplyDelete Ah yes, catalog stores and department store catalogs (even the Wish book itself seems to have long disappeared).
Consumer's Distributing - filling out those silly cards and waiting while the staff went and got your purchase from the stock room. Apparently Canadian Tire used to operate like that too, with orders sent via pneumatic tube to a basement warehouse where stockboys on roller-skates collected your items.
I can't say I ever remember seeing RPGs or wargames in Dept. store catalogues though. I bought the Holmes box set at real games store (I hadn't known before that day that such a thing existed) and got my first set of AD&D hardcovers at a mall book store (Coles at Scarborough Town Centre).
Most of my gaming purchases from 1980-2005 were from a dwindling number of true gaming stores: Mr. Gamesway's Arc, the Battered Dwarf, the World House, Sci-Fi World. Apart from magazine ads you only knew about the games and products your local stores carried. I remember Toys 'R Us briefly carrying RPGs in c. 1983 - I got my replacement AD&D1E core books there, and I know they carried some AH RPGs - Powers & Perils, Lords of Creation - too. Years later I remember seeing a forlorn pile of Powers & Perils boxes sitting high up on one of the storage shelves; I hoped that after all that time they might be reduced to clear but no such luck.
The biggest change I've noticed since the '80s is the loss of gaming stores. Back in the day, every mall had one or two Toy/Games/Model stores, and chances were that the anchor stores carried D&D and model kits too.
The games stores disappeared from a lot of the small/mid-size malls in the late '80s - '90s, and from the big malls in the last 10 years. In Toronto even the creature-that-is Games Workshop seems to be being pushed out of the malls (though they are relocating rather than evaporating).
In mid-'80s Toronto I remember knowing of at least 25 hobby or gaming stores where I might be able to grab an RPG or wargame; today, I can think of maybe 5 locations (apart from a selection of 4E and Pathfinder books at the big box book chains).Hey, I LIKED that D&D Boardgame electronic thingy! I found one this past Christmas, in fact, for a very good price, WITH all the parts... and it still works! Although, as I recall, Dark Tower was a much more complex game (with a lot more moving parts...)
I am astonished to think of this stuff selling through Sears, though. I never would have thought to find it there, of all places... although now that I think about it, I got my first Holmes basic set at a Spencer Gifts in a mall in Laredo... and later went back and bought the Player's, DMG, and MM at a Waldenbooks in that same mall.
But, then, mall bookstores actually sell graphic novels, now. But it's hard to believe that Sears would sell something like Traveller, much less Judges' Guild stuff...Wow, it's like I have a fifth sense or something, like ESPN! I posted the same images almost a month ago (cue Twilight Zone music). Not only does the cover of the MM2 seem to be a pre-production version, the other books have spines with different colors while still retaining the yellow corner splash. While I couldn't find a catalog from 1984, I did find the 1985 version, and no D&D to speak of, but you could still get Crossbows and Catapults.
ReplyDeleteoops, misadressed the previous post! :-P
@Matthew W Schmeer:
Amazon REQUIRES vendors give them a steep discount to be listed on the site.(Which can cause markups to adjust for their desired ROI online, resulting in larger prices in other retail outlets. And faced with this, many people then decide to shop on Amazon! Win-Win for them.)
The modern Red Box is $19.99 in stores, that'd be without tax, of course. The price of the Red Box in retro dollars in 1983 is cheaper. And, if using the Amazon price, you have to factor shipping in.
And I recall seeing the Mentzer and earlier boxes in drugstores and supermarkets (alongside Atari cartridges), some locally owned convenience stores, and of course the larger retail stores like Toys R Us, Tons O' Toys, Lionel Playworld, Kaybee Toys, etc..... And for as low as 6 to 7 dollars at my local Family Mart, IIRC. A friend bought his at a yard sale, brand new, in 1984 for $5! ;-)
Those who say (A)D&D was restricted to anything but 'nerds' back in the day is ill-informed at best and (possibly intentionally? 'nerd' as a pejorative, and all that) spreading misinformation, from what I saw in the media, heard/read about at the time and over the years, and experienced at the game tables! Our groups had precisely ONE dude that self-identified as a 'nerd', the rest were preps, stoners, metalheads, jocks, joe/jane average, whateva... I still see some of these guys and they've mentioned being absolutely perplexed when they discussed the game(and all the fun that was had) with someone who is puzzled and then brings up that shit about D&D being a 'nerd' only(or majority) game! Not that I'm implying nerds didn't play or are a lower form of social creature whose taint upon the game should be disavowed, only that they made up one small segment of the player base.(D&D's most common denominators[though there were others of course, even here in the South! :-)] back then from what I could tell was being white and male, but within that group various social circles were represented.) Don't forget D&D was played in schools, in local libraries, at church/synagogue, etc..., at vacation retreats, and there were even D&D summer camps!
My roommate just found out his brother was in our High School's D&D club(which had been long gone when I hit the scene!), as a matter of fact. By the time I came through, our school was discouraging playing RPGs in the library, the traditional D&D club meeting spot. Where, of course, we could play easily was the question I doubt the school cared to answer, unfortunately. So we just played in the library anyway! :-)
Great post, love the Wishbook glimpse into yesteryear!- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2011 at 11:51 AM
Yeah, I liked the D&D electronic game, too. I still have it, and the original box. The rulebook, alas, is long gone (darn thing doesn't fit in the parts container, which is why the game tends to have the parts, but not the rules).
I liked it.
I also have the handheld adventure game thing, that runs off a watch battery. It's fun, although I wonder how many had the cognitive powers to really see the 'dungeon'--I found mapping it out on paper to make for an even better game. - AnonymousFebruary 18, 2011 at 12:51 AM
Anyone watch the last episode of 'Freaks and Geeks'? That show was set in 1980, and the "geeks" in that episode are shocked that one of the "cool" stoners was going to play D&D with them. And one of the main characters said it was for "nerds." Some rewriting of history perhaps??
ReplyDelete In 1977, I worked in a catalog store called Ardan's, selling cameras. The toy department of that store is where I first encountered Avalon Hill wargames. Ardan's was right in the middle of the shopping mall, selling luggage and cameras and pajamas and Panzerblitz. If the toy aisle hadn't been between the camera department and the employee lounge where I could stumble onto wargames, my life might have taken a very different turn.
ReplyDeleteOkay I had Crypt of the sorceror....you did not miss too much, but we did continue to use the minis and I still have the troll and sorceror minis around here somewhere.
I also still have the D&D digital game. It was good for a solo game actually and since I was DM all the time (still am), I used it for that mental break while writing adventures and drawing dungeon crawls. There was also a handheld LCD digital game later on as well that was cool...you had to find the arrow to show the dragon (some hero that was...bringing a bow but no arrows!!!) HAHAHAHA!


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After spending much of her life with a tunnel vision reserved for judo, particularly an Olympic berth in the sport, Ronda Rousey never really had time to consider or even be a fan of any other sports. At least until one of her longtime friends, Manny Gamburyan, made it to The Ultimate Fighter in 2007.
"The first time I watched a UFC fight was when Manny Gamburyan was in the final of The Ultimate Fighter against Nate Diaz," said Rousey. "I've known Manny since I was a little kid, and I was training for the Olympics in Boston. I had been trying to keep up with the episodes, but training was nuts. So when I heard he was in the finals, I said I'm going to watch this fight, and I was jumping all around. I literally jumped up and ran the length of the sectional couch I was sitting on like ten times, running back and forth and screaming. (Laughs) That never happened to me watching any sport ever."
Little did she know that less than six years later, she would have her Olympic medal, and not just follow Gamburyan into mixed martial arts, but that she would become the UFC's first female fighter and its first female champion. Looking back now, Rousey admits that she thought of possibly competing in MMA before her Bronze medal winning performance in Beijing in 2008, but figured it wasn't something that was a realistic notion.
"I was thinking of doing it before the last Olympics and when I was doing judo, but I wouldn't say anything about it," she said. "I thought it was an unrealistic thing to hope for. And then after I quit judo, I kinda realized that I really didn't have that many options. And I was grappling just to keep in shape with some of the guys I trained with before, and they would always say 'oh man, you would kill these girls,' and it just started entering into my head again as a real possibility. I said why don't I give this a try? If it doesn't work out, I'll just go join the Coast Guard."
She laughs, but unlike what many would assume, winning an Olympic medal doesn't guarantee you anything once the cheers have died down. For Rousey, there was no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and it makes you think of Cuban Olympic Gold medal winning boxer Joel Casamayor, who received a bike for winning his medal. He sold it so his family could eat.
So Rousey, for all the photo shoots and media exposure these days, didn't get handed anything on the way to her first title defense this Saturday night in Anaheim against Liz Carmouche. That doesn't mean there won't be little jabs and ignorant comments along the way, like the one she received during the lead-up to the UFC 157 main event.
"There was one interview where a guy said that I don't act like a lady," said Rousey, who proceeded to point out that due to a certain body part, she was more of an authority to speak on what a lady really is than her interviewer was. That pretty much shut down that line of questioning.
"I doubt that will ever show up anywhere," she laughs. It's the laugh of an athlete who passed right by the rising star designation and into full-fledged stardom in the space of a few well-placed armbars. Rousey's ascension was unlike anything seen in MMA in a long time, if ever, and no one was more surprised than the fighter herself.
"I was a little surprised," she said. "I thought that after the Cyborg (Santos) fight would be when things would be getting that nuts, so I was a little surprised that it started as early as the day after the Miesha (Tate) fight."
She shouldn't be. After a lengthy lead-up to the fight, Rousey dazzled against the then-Strikeforce bantamweight champion, submitting the gutsy Tate with an armbar that was hard to watch for its brutal finality. And by the time Rousey left Columbus, Ohio in March 2012, a star was born, and everyone wanted to talk to and learn about "Rowdy" Ronda.
That type of demand can do a couple things. It can make a fighter start to believe her press clippings, it can make her neglect the hard work that got her there, or in Rousey's case, it could force her to schedule, prioritize, and deal with life in the spotlight while still finding the time to hit the gym just as hard, if not harder, than before.
"There was no real break between the follow-up media craze after the Miesha fight and the build-up media craze for the (Sarah) Kaufman fight, and that's when I just started to really accept that there's no off-season anymore," she said. "It used to be that I had time to myself in between and then I would take off, and things would calm down and then pick up. But when there was really no break between those two fights, I just realized that the media craze wasn't something that came in phases. It was just the way it was from now on."
Rousey defeated Kaufman in less than a minute by, you guessed it, armbar, in August of last year, and with the eventual demise of Strikeforce, the biggest star in women's MMA got brought to the UFC to become the first lady of the Octagon. It was a career-making turn for the 26-year-old from Venice, California, but one that came with a price tag, as Rousey was now the face of the sport.
"I definitely have to think a lot more and I kind of learned my lesson the hard way when I first got started," said Rousey, who rapidly became one of the most quotable athletes in the world. "It was fun and I was just like 'hey, I can do whatever the hell I want because I'm not playing Miss America Olympian anymore.' And it was really fun in the beginning, and then as more and more attention started to accumulate, every single thing started to be dissected, so I had to start paying attention to not only what I was saying, but how anything that I said could be portrayed if it was taken out of context. So I definitely have to be much much more careful now."
Her personality still shines through though, and she seems to be taking the whole role model / ambassador for the sport thing in stride, even if there's still work to be done in educating the mainstream about women's MMA.
"When I have to deal with media that hasn't covered MMA before, there's a lot of new interest in the sport now because of the first women's fight," she said. "And in those instances, I feel like I'm really representing the sport. I know they try to get me to say things like 'I like hurting people,' and things that are stereotypical ideas of what MMA is, and I try very much to steer the conversation away from that, and try to explain how beautiful a sport this is. It's not some barbaric spectacle, it really is an art, and that's why the word 'art' is in it.
"So a lot of progress has been made, but there's still a lot of progress left to make," Rousey continues. "I know that we don't live in a Utopian society where everyone is treated equally. People are a lot more tolerant than they used to be, but they're not as tolerant as they should be. And so I'm not surprised that we still have progress to make, but it gives me goals to get after."
The next set? Entering the Octagon for the first time, beating Liz Carmouche, and walking away with her championship belt intact. That's a lot to digest for one night, and for someone who has earned an Olympic medal, you have to wonder how it will compare. For one of the rare times, Ronda Rousey really doesn't have an answer.
"I don't know," she said. "I had no idea what winning an Olympic medal would feel like until after it happened. I thought because it wasn't gold that I would still walk off the mat angry and I didn't know I would be as elated as I was. So I don't know, you'll have to ask me after."
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address ongoing human rights violations in occupied northern Cyprus . Today is the 37th anniversary of the illegal 1974 invasion–a terrible tragedy, and an ongoing one, as the continued occupation of that country by tens of thousands of Turkish troops continues to deprive of their homes all those forced to flee the north–estimated to number approximately 200,000. Many Greek Cypriots escaped the north with little more than the clothes on their backs. While some have returned to visit their own homes or ancestral villages, none have been allowed to take back their rightful property–those despoiled include an estimated 5,000 Americans of Cypriot descent. Several hundred courageous Greek Cypriots, mainly elderly people, refused to be uprooted and today live in enclaves, the remnant of once-thriving Greek Cypriot communities which have effectively been ethnically cleansed.
Hundreds of churches, chapels and monasteries once dotted the rugged landscape of the region, part of Cyprus's rich religious cultural heritage. Indeed, St. Paul visited the island nation on one of his early missionary journeys, and St. Barnabas, a native of the Cypriot city of Salamis, was martyred nearby for his defense of Christianity. The Helsinki Commission, of which I am the Chairman in this Congress, has documented the desecration and destruction of some of the over 500 religious sites in the occupied area looted of their priceless icons, mosaics and frescoes once revered by the faithful. Many of these sacred objects, stolen from churches inside or adjoining Turkish military bases, have landed on the international art market. Even the dead are not allowed to rest in peace with destruction of cemeteries rampant throughout the region. Cypriot authorities interdicted a container originating in the occupied area filled with metal destined for a recycling facility in Asia. Upon inspection agents found that the unit consisted of metal crosses and stolen grave markers.
Mr. Speaker, I remain deeply concerned over ongoing violations of freedom of religion and other rights in northern Cyprus. Let there be no mistake, the Turkish government is responsible for what happens in the occupied part of the island. Last Christmas, a small group of Orthodox believers gathered in the village of Rizokarpaso to celebrate the divine liturgy–only to have their worship disrupted by Turkish security forces, who ordered them to disperse. The Helsinki Commission continues to receive reports of the demolition of churches in the region even as others are converted to commercial use as warehouses, barns, or casinos.
Mr. Speaker, the nearly four-decade-long illegal occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkey is an affront to the principles enshrined in the Helsinki Final Act and an encroachment on the fundamental freedoms and human rights of Greek Cypriots living in the region's enclaves and those forced to flee the area following the 1974 invasion. Our government must continue to engage on behalf of the human rights of Greek Cypriots.


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I have repeated the experiment with a much larger set of populations:
English_D, British_D, Ukranians_Y, Karitiana, Spaniards, Sardinian, Serb_D, Mordovians_Y, Irish_D, French, Finnish_D, Chuvashs_16, Romanian_D, N_Italian_D, French_Basque, Austrian_D, Russian_D, Hungarians_19, Kent_1KG, German_D, Belorussian, Tuscan, Lithuanian_D, Orkney_1KG, Dutch_D, TSI30, Ukrainian_D, Bulgarians_Y, Bulgarian_D, Russian, Swedish_D, Pais_Vasco_1KG, French_D, Castilla_Y_Leon_1KG, Lithuanians, San, Polish_D, Romanians_14, Orcadian, Cornwall_1KG, Valencia_1KG, North_Italian, FIN30, Norwegian_D, CEU30I used Sardinians as the Caucasoid reference population, Karitiana for Mongoloids, and San for Africans. The latter two were chosen because they live at maximally opposite corners of the Earth (South America vs. South Africa).
A first plot of the f4 statistics used for f4 regression ancestry estimation is seen below:
Clearly, some evidence of a cline is present, but several populations appear to deviate from it. In order to get the cleanest possible cline, I carried out the following greedy procedure: I calculate the correlation coefficient of this set, and iteratively remove one population that leads to the maximum improvement of the correlation, until no further improvement takes place. The following populations were removed with this procedure:
Spaniards, Serb_D, Romanian_D, N_Italian_D, Tuscan, TSI30, Bulgarians_Y, Bulgarian_D, Castilla_Y_Leon_1KG, Romanians_14, Valencia_1KG
I can't say that I've made any obvious mistakes, but these admixture proportions are substantial, and call for an explanation. Whatever their true levels, I am fairly confident on at least a few points:
First, it is evident that northern Europeans have higher levels of this element than southern Europeans; the latter are not altogether deficient in it, but they fall "off-cline", making estimation of their admixture proportions more difficult.
Second, within northern Europe, there is a fairly clear east-west cline of diminishing Amerasian-like admixture. The minimum occurs in Sardinians and secondarily in Southwest Europe. Romance, Celtic, and Germanic populations all have less of it than Balto-Slavic and Uralic ones. And, some populations of northeastern Europe seem to have a noticeable excess of it.
The groups with the most Amerasian-like admixture possess Y-haplogroup N, a clear trace of eastern ancestry that is not shared by most Europeans. The arrival of this haplogroup, either with Comb Ceramic of the Baltic Neolithic or later with Seima Turbino Bronze Age expansions is probably responsible for the local excess in Northeastern Europe. The Chuvash are, of course, a Turkic population but of Finno-Ugrian genetic origin.
But, the presence of this element even in Western Europe cannot be explained on the basis of typically Mongoloid elements which are almost completely lacking there. If Mesolithic Europeans were themselves Asian-shifted, then this would account for the presence of the element, but not necessarily for its clinal manifestation. The double (north-south and east-west) cline indicates every sign of an intrusive element. So, for the time being, I will propose that this is associated with late (e.g., Copper and Bronze Age) phenomena, such as the northern stream of the Bronze Age Indo-European invasion of Europe.
This may be due to the
- (i) northern Indo-European groups picking up some native east European or Siberian elements as they made their way into Europe,
- or (ii), more likely, in my opinion, that the Y-haplogroup R1 group of people, whose closest relatives are in Central/South Asia (R2) , and whose more distant relatives (Q) are in Siberia and the Americas, were from the beginning an "intermediate population" between West and East Eurasia. The R1 group of people in its R1b and R1a varieties first appear in Europe during the Copper Age, and they are lacking in early Neolithic sites.
Eight years ago, and in a totally different context, I wrote:
Similarly, 9 out of 10 Basques are descended from a man who has also fathered 9 out of 10 Kets from Siberia and 9 out of 10 Maya Indians from America. That man, founder of haplogroup P thus has descendants who belong to two of the major human races (or three, if Amerindians are considered as separate from Asian Mongoloids)
In conclusion, human continental populations form groups of genetic and phenotypic similarity, and these groups can be considered races in the phenetic sense. However, these groups are not monophyletic, hence in the cladistic sense they should not be considered as valid taxa. Since the principle of common descent is generally applied in modern systematics (or at least it should!), I think it's best not to recognize human subspecies.
(A raw dump of fourpop output can be found here).


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As patient as a mule?
No, that's not the adage, but this mule didn't have a choice. Two Bit Loretta Lou was stuck in a mudhole.
Getting stuck in the mud may not sound like an emergency but when it comes to horses and mules, it can be a battle for life or death.
But this time, Two Bit Loretta Lou emerged from the muddy abyss just fine Wednesday afternoon. But it wasn't an easy rescue.
"I was so relieved, I had tears in my eyes," Shirley Ogle, 83, said about her beloved mule.
Shirley and Loretta Lou have been pals for 25 years, so it's understandable that seeing that old mule pulled out of the mud was a huge relief.
The 30-year-old mule wandered into a mudhole near her corral and like quicksand, her right-side legs were sucked deep into the muck.
The Cortez Fire Protection District responded with six people along with veterinarian Shane Cote of the Montezuma Veterinarian Clinic.
"We treated this like any other emergency," said Fire Chief Jeff Vandevoorde. "It really went pretty smooth. I'm glad we got her out safely."
With the veterinarian providing the expertise on how to extricate the mule from the mud, the fire crew went to work. "The vet knows how to handle this situation," Ogle said.
A cover was placed over the mule's head to try and keep her calm, then after digging under the animal, two straps were looped around the mule. A tractor was used to lift her out of the mud and set her down on dry land. Cote has dealt with this type of emergency before, and he knew the mule's legs that were stuck in the mud would be weak and fatigued, so he wanted to roll her onto her other side.
With eight men - members of the fire crew, Shirley's son, Kelly Ogle and some neighbors - puling on straps, and Shirley anxiously watching nearby, they gently rolled Loretta Lou onto her other side. Then they waited.
When Loretta Lou was rested and ready for this stubborn ordeal to be done with, she pushed herself up.
A robust cheer went up from the crowd of rescuers and onlookers.
"There was lots of clapping and cheering," Ogle said with a relieved chuckle. "When we saw her get up and all four legs were working, we were really glad."
The mule was stuck for at least an hour and a half, Shirley said. When a horse or mule is down and on its side for that long, there are major health risks, plus the possibly of hypothermia setting in.
The reason why the tractor with the front-end bucket was on the property was to help fix a water leak, which was what caused the mudhole.
Shirley says this is the first time something like this has happened to an animal of hers.
"Having horses all my life, we knew it happens. You just hope it's not yours," she said. "Sometimes animals get themselves into situations and they need help."
Shirley checked on her mule before she went to bed, and got up early and visited with Loretta Lou in the morning.
Relief and joy were still in her voice Thursday afternoon.
"She has taken care of me and I have taken care of her for 25 years," she said. "Every horse or equestrian person say they want that perfect animal once in their lives," she said then paused for a moment. "And she is it for me."
Shirley's mule was a successful show saddle mule and the pair competed around California for years.
Vandevoorde, who owns two horses of his own, knew the urgency of the situation when they arrived.
"These animals are a part of the family to many people," he said.
He also knows that horses, mules and livestock are essential to the livelihood of many who work the farms and ranches in the county.
When Shirley saw her mule stuck, she immediately called for help but she knew there was nothing she could do until help arrived.
"You don't panic, you just have to figure things out and stay calm," she said.
Loretta Lou also did her part and didn't panic.
"Mules are so smart, they won't fight and injure themselves. She was so patient," Shirley said.
The old mule fought to try and get loose, but didn't thrash too much, Shirley explained. Then she would rest and regain her strength before another attempt.
Once crews arrived, Shirley said, her mule seemed to understand that they were there to help her get out.
But Vandevoorde said they proceeded with caution when working with the large animal, which weighed more than 500 pounds.
"The main thing was to help keep our guys safe and also to not injure (the mule)," he said.
Shirley has lived down McElmo Canyon for four years after moving from California.
"I came through here 35 years ago and fell in love with the place. It took me another 35 years to move here," she said with a laugh.
She and her late husband had another mule that passed away just last fall.
"Petey was only 27," Shirley said with a laugh.
After moving to Cortez four years ago from the Chicago area, Vandevoorde admitted that he hasn't gotten a lot of animal calls in his career. A couple dogs falling through the ice in the winter and one time a bull made a daring escape from the sale barn on Highway 491.
"This is the first horse call I've been on," he said.
The bull incident didn't turn out well - for the bull. With the brazen bovine on the loose, causing havoc on Highway 491, the sale barn posse was forced to shoot the animal before it caused a major traffic accident, Vandevoorde said.
But pulling a mule out of the muck was a very satisfying day.
For Shirley, it was a great day that started out bad but ended perfectly.
After spending a good part of the day making sure that Loretta Lou was fully recovered, Shirley could relax. And both she and her mule could get back to enjoying retirement.
"She's earned her retirement," Shirley said.
Nothing wrong or stubborn about that.
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Scientists have a new idea for beating HIV: Target the virus with guided missiles called monoclonal antibodies.
At least in monkeys infected with an experimental virus similar to the human AIDS virus, the approach produced what researchers call "profound therapeutic efficacy."
The results appear Thursday in two papers published by Nature — one from a Boston group and a confirmatory report from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases.
The virus plummeted to undetectable levels in animals that got potent antibodies of a type recently discovered in some humans with HIV. And the virus remained undetectable for weeks after a single antibody injection.
This is a really new wrinkle in a field that needs new wrinkles
Most impressive, several monkeys who started out with low levels of HIV in their blood maintained extremely low levels of the virus in their systems months after a single antibody injection.
The researchers think they may have turned these animals into so-called elite controllers — like the 1 percent of HIV patients who are able to suppress the virus even without antiviral drugs.
The scientists say their results justify experiments in humans with HIV. And the potential implications seem to be large, in at least two ways:
"The findings of these two papers could revolutionize efforts to cure HIV," two cure-seekers write in a Nature commentary. Why? Louis Picker of Oregon Health and Science University and Steven Deeks of the University of California, San Francisco speculate that combining monoclonal antibodies with conventional antiviral drugs might turbocharge the suppression of HIV, stimulate the destruction of reservoirs of HIV-infected cells, and suppress the generalized immune activation that accompanies chronic HIV infection.
"At the very least, these results will catalyse collaborations between the massive teams of experts who have for decades worked on HIV prevention and treatment in separate venues," Picker and Deeks predict.
The findings stem from discoveries over the past year or so that some humans with HIV occasionally make antibodies to the virus that are highly potent. That insight came after years of disappointing efforts to find what researchers call broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV — or to stimulate their production with experimental vaccines.
Dan Barouch of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and his colleagues generated several types of the newly discovered antibodies in mice. They then injected the antibodies into 18 rhesus monkeys that had been infected nine months earlier with a specially concocted virus with features of both HIV (the human AIDS virus) and SIV (the simian, or monkey, version). The hybrid virus, which doesn't appear in nature, is called SHIV.
The antibody injections resulted in rapid clearance of free-floating SHIV from the animals' blood that was sustained for weeks or months, until the antibodies gradually disappeared.
There was also evidence that the antibodies stimulated the monkeys' own immune systems to target and kill the cells infected by SHIV. That needs confirmation, but if it happens that would be important because long-term control of infection requires the elimination of these hiding places — the cells that harbor viral genes that can give rise to new HIV.
The durability of the antibody treatment varied according to how much SHIV the monkeys had in their systems to start with.
The Boston researchers were so surprised by their findings that they didn't publish them until the NIH group replicated them in a smaller study.
Other scientists say the implications of this early immunotherapy study are potentially far-reaching. NIH Director Francis Collins told The Wall Street Journal that he could imagine shifting HIV treatment from daily antiviral pills to injections of monoclonal antibodies every three months. "This is a really new wrinkle in a field that needs new wrinkles," Collins says.
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Looking for just the right holiday gift for a woman? Whether it's for a wife, mother, best friend, or neighbor, our gift guide will provide great ideas to help you find just what you're looking for.
1) Spa gift certificate that can be used for a massage, facial, or any other service she desires at her favorite spa!
2) Earrings or bracelet
3) Trip to a bed and breakfast or a romantic beach getaway
4) Monogrammed Bath Robe
5) Gourmet cooking classes
6) Flowers of the Month Club
7) Picnic basket and blanket with a nice bottle of wine
8) Perfume
9) Recreation equipment (Hiking boots, rollerblades, skis, tennis racket, golf clubs)
10) Gifts for the office (Briefcase, Cross or Montblanc pens, nice desk accessories, Daytimer organizer)
11) Handmade pottery or passes to a pottery class
13) Assortment of bulbs for the garden or gardening tools
14) Tickets to the ballet or theater
15) Nice dress watch
16) Capuccino maker and gourmet coffee
17) Pampering bath items (Bath salts, bath gel, lotion)
18) Leather jacket or gloves
19) Designer pajamas and robe
20) Home decor items (Clocks, picture frames, artwork)
21) Digital camera or camcorder
22) Gourmet cookware (Rotisserie machine, pots/pans, mixer stand)
23) Yoga or Tai Chi exercise tapes or Home exercise equipment (cardio or strength training)
24) Books on her hobby or interests
25) Personalized stationary


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The sabayon was made in the typical way in a heat-proof bowl over simmering water. Four egg yolks and two tablespoons of sugar were whisked while being gently heated in the double-boiler. When the yolks became pale and thick, six and half tablespoons of Champagne was added. In this kind of situation, I go for convenience. Since I was making the sabayon in advance and planned to chill it for a bit before serving, I didn't really want to open a whole bottle of Champagne. Instead, I popped open a convenient, little can of California sparkling wine for the six and a half tablespoons I needed for this. After adding the sparkling wine, the mixture was whisked for another ten minutes while continuing to gently cook. When thickened, the sabayon was divided among serving bowls and topped with strawberries and quartered and seeded cherry tomatoes. I added a pinch of freshly-ground black pepper because I like it with both strawberries and cherry tomatoes.
I wasn't entirely sure the cherry tomatoes wouldn't seem odd with the sweet sabayon and strawberries, but happily, I was wrong. With the seeds removed from the cherry tomatoes, the flavor of the two fruits is surprisingly similar when eaten together. You can make this a couple of hours in advance and chill it, or it's so quick to make, you can whisk it together just before serving. It's a modernized, classic dessert that easy to create in any size of kitchen.
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NEW YORK — A tourist's snapshot of a New York City police officer giving new boots to a barefoot homeless man in Times Square has created an online sensation.
Jennifer Foster, of Florence, Ariz., was visiting New York with her husband on Nov. 14, when she came across the shoeless man asking for change in Times Square.
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As she was about to approach him, she said the officer – identified as Larry DePrimo – came up to the man with a pair of all-weather boots and thermal socks on the frigid night. She recorded his generosity on her cellphone.
It was posted Tuesday night to the NYPD's official Facebook page and became an instant hit. More than 325,000 users "liked" it as of Thursday morning, and over 79,000 shared it.
Thousands of people commented, including one person who praised him as "An officer AND a Gentleman."
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The photo shows the officer kneeling beside the man with the boots at his feet. A shoe store is seen in the background.
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The NYPD Facebook page on Thursday posted a comment from DePrimo saying "I didn't think anything of it" and updated it with a photo of DePrimo taken in 2011.
"'I have these size 12 boots for you, they are all-weather. Let's put them on and take care of you,'" Foster quoted DePrimo as saying to the homeless man. "The officer squatted down on the ground and proceeded to put socks and the new boots on this man. The officer expected NOTHING in return and did not know I was watching."
Foster said she's worked in law enforcement for 17 years and has never been more impressed.
"His presentation of human kindness has not been lost on myself or any of the Arizona law enforcement officials with whom this story has been shared," Foster wrote on Facebook. She said she never got the officer's name.
DePrimo, who is assigned to the Sixth Precinct and lives on Long Island, told Newsday that the homeless man "smiled from ear to ear" after getting the boots.
"It was like you gave him a million dollars," he added.
He told The New York Times that he keeps the receipt for the boots in his vest to remind him "that sometimes people have it worse."
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I just laughed and giggled at all the comments about the Pistachio Creme Brulee Macarons from last week and your thinking that I can take Pierre Herme any day. Clearly an interesting idea but sadly one that will never take place because the man is king in the pastry department. I did get an email from Pierre Herme though, well ok, more precisely from La Maison Pierre Herme. And it was not personal at all. But I loved it all the same. It actually inspired me to make these Mille Feuilles filled with mascarpone, pistachio and strawberry mousses.
I like staying close to home by subscribing to French cooking magazine, watch French news feeds anytime I can, and also by receiving PH's monthly newsletter in my inbox. An attractive list of all the seasonal goodies coming up in his shops. And there it was, the whole PH House of Pastry, tempting with more amazing tastes and textures than before. I read it carefully and sighed at their current signature flavor: all PH's creations in pistachio and strawberry. The "Montebello" line was attractive and indeed perfectly seasonal, even for an expat like me, three thousand miles away from home.
In my last post, I mentionned how a client needed an anniversary dessert with cherries and how I was not completely satisfied with their flavor yet. I care about my craft too much to keep silent if something is not 100% up to par. With a head filled of PH' Montebello desserts and a nose intoxicated with the fragrance of strawberry, I settled on creating something along those lines (no recipes come with the newsletter). A mascarpone – pistachio mousse sharing space in between two sheets of "rough" puff pastry with a mascarpone – strawberry mousse
I do receive a lot of cookbooks for preview and in March I received Pastry by Michel Roux. With little time on my hands, I figured his "rough" puff pastry recipe would be perfect to try for this dessert. As much as I love the process of traditional puff pastry, I was positively surprised at the results I got with this one. Flaky, tender, fast. Precisely what I need now that the heat is back. For the mousses, I made a simple mascarpone base and used half with finely ground pistachios and half with pureed strawberries, some whipped cream and that was it. Rich, light, flavorful all at once.
If you ever want to master all sorts of pastry doughs, this is the book to get. Clear instructions with plenty of pictures along the way and a myriad of examples and recipes both sweet and savory to go along. His "rough" puff pastry yielded such great results that I decided to give away one of the two copies I have.
To win a copy of Michel Roux's Pastry (and who does not want a free book, especially on this fine Memorial Day weekend?), all you have to do is leave a comment between today, Sunday May 24th and Tuesday May 26th at midnight. The winner will be chosen at random by my better half. No anonymous comments please, just sign Zorro if you must.
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Pistachio and Stawberry Mousse Mille Feuilles:
Makes 4
For the rough puff pastry, adapted from Michel Roux.
2 1/4 cups (300gr) all purpose flour
1 1/4 cup (300gr) unsalted butter, cold and cut into 1/4-inch cubes
1/2 teaspoon (3gr) salt
1/2 cup (125ml) ice-cold water
Place the flour in a large bowl and make a well in the center. Add the butter and salt right in the well and work them together with the flour, using your fingertips, gradually drawing in more flour into the center. When the butter pieces have reached pea sized pieces and the mixture appears grainy, gradually add the ice water and mix until it is all incorporated. Do not overwork the dough. Roll it into a ball, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 20 to 30 minutes.
On a lightly flour work area, roll the dough to an 8×4-inch rectangle. Fold it into three and give it a quarter turn. Roll it into another 8×4-inch rectangle again and fold it in three again. These are the first 2 turns. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate again for 30 minutes.
Give the chilled dough 2 more turns, rolling and folding as previously described. The pastry is ready then. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
When ready to use, roll the dough to a 1/8- inch (3 mm) thick rectangle and cut out eight 4×2 pieces. Place them on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Dock the dough with a fork to let the steam out while baking so your rectangles will be evenly puffed. Bake at 350F until golden brown. (if they puff too much, cover with a sheet of parchment paper and place a small baking sheet on top). Let cool completely before filling with the mousses
For the pistachio and strawberry mousse:
8 oz (240gr) mascarpone cheese, at room temperature
1/2 cup (100gr) sugar
1/4 cup (30gr) finely ground raw pistachios
1/2 cup pureed fresh strawberries
1 1/2 cups (375ml) heavy cream, kept cold, divided
In a large bowl, whisk together the mascarpone and sugar until completely smooth. Take half the mixture and place it in another large bowl. Add the pistachios to one of them and mix until incorporated. Add the pureed strawberries to the other mascarpone mixture. In a mixer, whip the heavy cream to stiff peaks. Fold half into the pistachio mascarpone mix and the other half with the strawberry one. The pistachio mousse is probably stifff enough to be used right away but you might have to refrigerate the strawberry one until the mascarpone hardens a bit otherwise it might be too soft to pipe easily. Divide the mixture into piping bags fitted with medium plain tips (I use Ateco pastry tips) (or do the pistachio mousse first, wash your bag and tip and then do the strawberry one). Pipe dots of mousse onto half the puff pastry sheets, alternating the pistachio and strawberry. Top with another sheet of puff pastry and refrigerate at least 30 minutes.
Have a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend…No barbecue for us but brunch with friends this year.


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Imagine this: You're the Super Bowl host city, and you've gone to a lot of trouble to get the big game in your town. Now everyone's watching as the game comes to an end, and you can't get the scoreboard to work. Suddenly no one's sure who's ahead or how much time is left to play.
That nightmare scenario probably could not happen. But we have seen some highly improbable events lately that embarrassed the host states in the presidential nominating process.
Iowa Republican Party Chairman Matt Strawn resigned this week, taking the hit for the botch that was made of the caucus count in his state last month. Mitt Romney was initially declared the winner, then told he had finished second by 34 votes behind Rick Santorum. But the party admitted it was not really sure, and some votes might be missing. Ouch.
Take the Republican caucuses in Nevada this weekend. Most of the community meetings at more than 100 sites were held in the morning or early afternoon and had their tallies in by evening. But no official results were released for hours, and the official count went on well into the night.
Why? There appeared to be delays from Washoe (Reno) County and a few other venues. But the main holdup was in Clark (Las Vegas) County, home to more than 60 percent of the Republican vote. Clark had said it would hold its release until its last caucus site reported, and at one point the state GOP said it would not release data either.
This got confusing as the evening wore on, and Clark waited on its last caucus site, at the Adelson Educational Center in Vegas. Here, the doors did not open until after sundown, so that Orthodox Jews and Seventh Day Adventists could vote after their Sabbath ended.
Awkward. The networks and other news organizations had "entrance polls" taken at caucus sites during the day all over the state. They knew Romney had won in a walk. But it's been catechism for decades that major news organizations do not name a statewide winner until all the polling places in that state have closed.
But this time the networks got impatient. Waiting seemed especially silly given the apparent margin of victory being run up by Romney. Why hold everybody up for one caucus?
They didn't. Shortly after 7 p.m. Nevada time, the call went out. And it was indeed nearly three hours before the late caucus finally finished. It was delayed because scores of Ron Paul supporters showed up, and some balked at signing an affidavit saying they had to vote at night for religious reasons. Some walked away. Others stayed, signed and prevailed.
Paul, who entrance polls showed won a clear majority of voters professing no religion at all, wound up winning handily at the late-night caucus specifically arranged for religious voters.
In the end, however, the slow count in Nevada should have no effect on the contest. Romney was declared the winner in prime time all over the country, and his speech reached as many voters as one can hope will be watching on Saturday night. The losers were simply that.
The Iowa mess, by contrast, wound up costing Santorum his best shot at the winner's circle. Sure, he got a decent bounce from finishing in a virtual tie with Romney that night (Jan. 3). But it was nothing like what might have happened if he'd been called the winner when all the cameras were on and much of the country was watching.
So far this year, we have had two caucus states and three primary states. It should be noted that the vote count in the latter states was swift and without controversy. We shall see how proceedings go in the caucus events in Minnesota and Colorado next week.
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Automated manufacturing in industrial tool making
C 42 U PW 850 | South German automobile manufacturer | Automotive industry
From 3 to 5 axis machining to highly automated production of toolmaking components: a major car manufacturer implements industrial tool making with the help of the robot supported manufacturing system from Hermle.
Like hardly any other product, cars and their components require the use of numerous tools to manufacture sheet metal and plastic parts. Design and form, function and haptics as well as performance and quality must, especially here, create an ideal symbiosis. This means extremely high demands on tools for machining of sheet metal and tools for production of injection mould or thermal moulding components. In addition, there are numerous other requirements, such as flexibility of use, also with regard to changes and position changes, to ensure that the costs for production equipment remain within the scope of the calculation, in particular because the increasing number of variations demand more tools than ever, which again demands appropriate capacity for tool making. One possibility to maintain economical manufacturing methods – even if wider ranges of types are required and, as a result, the spectrum of components increases – is the use of modular tools. In this case, depending on the degree of change, just a few segments are exchanged, while the basis tool remains the same. Another possibility is to restructure the tool making process, automating all of the relevant processes as far as possible; this of course can only occur within the scope of what is technically and pragmatically reasonable.
Reducing working steps, thus saving money and time, with reproducible, precise tool components
At the heart of the new alignment of tool making, according to industrial criteria, lies a tendency to move away from multiple mechanical machining of components by machining them in assembled state. The declared goal, which is now in an advanced stage of realisation, is to have tool components completely finished after a single machining process, so that it is no longer necessary to machine them again in assembled state. Besides maximum and reproducible manufacturing precision, more capacity is also a demand, for example, in the area of milling/complete machining. For this reason resolute investments have been made and are being made in state-of-the-art, highly automated 5 axis machining centres. Following the first talks in 2008, on the topic of "automated 3 to 5 axis complete/simultaneous machining", an extremely intensive machine/supplier evaluation was carried out as of 2010/2011. At the end of this evaluation, a 5 axis CNC high-power machining centre of type Hermle C 42 U was procured. Soon afterwards, a machining centre C 42 U, equipped with an automatic pallet changer PW 850, was bought, paving the way for the next step of automated tool production.
Logical continuation: Machining centres, 5 axis machining centre, with pallet changer, robot supported manufacturing system
The pressure to continue automating in tool making for the car industry is also to be attributed to the fact that new tools and repair parts are produced in the toolmaking departments which often have to compete with external suppliers. In order to guarantee the required flexibility, extensive automation seems unavoidable. For this reason the second machining centre C 42 U was additionally equipped with a pallet changer, making it possible to work autonomously through diverse contracts over longer periods of time. Besides machine performance and higher precision, as well as higher process safety, the very effective and cost-saving collision/crash safety unit with compression sleeves was also a convincing element of the offer – another reason for deciding for Hermle. Within the scope of the aforementioned new alignment of industrial toolmaking, the next project was the move into highly automated tool making/component manufacture, while taking over the manufacture of tool making components from other works. This led to the ambitious idea of installing a highly automated production plant with robot technology. After detailed analysis of requirements and performance, a complete solution was created in close cooperation between the customer and Hermle as manufacturer and system supplier; this complete solution was based around two machining centres and the robot supported workplace as well as tool management. Also in this case, Hermle AG was extremely convincing and was given the contract to implement a complete system for highly automated tool/component production in lot sizes as of one piece.
FFS competence from Hermle, or: Practical availability, 95% and more!
This manufacturing system which, up to now, remains absolutely unique in its particular design, is largely made up of standardised components such as two 5 axis CNC high-power machining centres C 42 U with an NC swivelling rotary table of 420 mm diameter RS 2L, additional linear axis, six rack units with a total of 75 receptacles for pallets of sizes 400 x 400 x 470 mm and 500 x 500 x 470 mm, one further rack unit to supply 180 additional tools, and finally a station for storage/retrieval of four different robot grippers. One particularly clever element of the system is that the robot, as the central material-flow and handling system, takes over the complete handling of the pallets with the work pieces as well as the supply and disposal of the tool magazines at both of the machining centres. Since both machining centres C 42 U are equipped with the additional tool magazine ZM 192 (plus 192 tools), up to 648 tools (plus 2 x machine magazines) are available within the entire system. In this way, autonomous complete machining, also of highly complex tools/components is made possible, in particular because the machining centre tool magazines can be supplied from the additional rack unit, optionally with replacement tools (in case of wear and tear), or with further tools (for machining of component families or of large ranges of diverse components). The connection to an overarching planning system makes it possible to transfer deadlines, CAD data, programs and measurement logs automatically. The leading computer creates the program for the order of manufacture according to the given deadlines. The machine operator can adapt the order depending on the availability and the components that have to be manufactured. Additionally, identical machine equipment, including touch probe and tool breakage monitoring, allow for a highly flexible distribution of the machining tasks to one or the other machine, which makes it possible to plan maximum exploitation of capacity. Finally, it should be mentioned that the precision of the machining centres is so high that in each case measuring operations and evaluations are taken for quality control, at the end of which the workpieces are categorised as OK or not OK.
The result of several months of intensive operation is a reason to be proud. The system has been in operation since the beginning of 2015 and the goal of 95% availability is almost achieved. The complete integration of all process elements of the mechanical manufacture in a network, as of construction, through the planning stage and programming, right up to simulation on virtual machines, has now made it possible for us to implement fully automatic component manufacture. There is no longer any need for time-consuming loading – after the task has been scanned and the data-approval has been sent to the system and the machine controls, the process starts immediately. In order to allow for uninterrupted material supply, work packages with a maximum of five blanks are supplied via several paternosters; otherwise the manufacturing on the FFS occurs strictly according to contract and/or priority, as is the case with the standalone machines. Together with the use of the efficient Complete and Finished Machining, which also includes hard machining up to HRC 58 + 2, we regard the goals of the industrial toolmaking as achieved.


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On Eve Of Vote, Romney Returns To 2008 Strongholds
Monday morning in Iowa, I caught up with Mitt Romney's strategist Eric Fehrnstrom after the campaign's first event of the day, a speech at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in Davenport.
In the last hours before Tuesday night's caucus, Fehrnstrom said, the former Massachusetts governor plans to consolidate his support by visiting areas in the eastern part of the state where he had a strong showing in 2008 — places like Dubuque and Cedar Rapids.
"I think we're surprised to find ourselves in the hunt here in Iowa. Based on what we've been seeing and hearing over the past several weeks," Fehrnstrom said, "we decided to invest more time by the candidate here." The latest polls do show Romney edging into the lead in Iowa.
Yet he was also quick to downplay Romney's hopes, just in case. "But I think whether we win or achieve something less in Iowa, we've built an organization that can go the long distance to Tampa," Fehrnstrom said.


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There was a 0.8 percent increase in retail sales in July from June, the Census Bureau says, thanks in part to gains in purchases of cars, furniture and appliances.
Overall, The Associated Press says, "all major categories showed increases, a sign that consumers may be gaining confidence." If that is indeed the case, it's good news for the economy. Consumers purchase about 70 percent of all goods and services.
Bloomberg News leads its report with this: "Retail sales in the U.S. rose more than forecast in July as consumer spending rebounded at department stores, auto dealers and electronics outlets, easing some concern the biggest part of the economy was foundering."
July's gain was the first monthly increase in four months.
Also this morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that wholesale prices rose 0.3 percent in July from June. They were pushed up by a 0.5 percent increase in food costs. Prices of corn, soybeans and some other crops have been on the rise because this summer's drought across much of the nation has hurt production.
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