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Rosemary Roasted Radishes & Turkey Brie Panini
Little announcement…The giveaway winners are: ReL from The Dedicated Flash and Elissons from Sugar Symphony (all the way in Latvia!) who won a copy of Plate To Pixel. Congratulations also to Colorado76Gal from Baking Doux who won the set of 4 plates by Asya at gleena.com. Email me with your mailing addresses at mytartelette at gmail dot com. Thanks!
What a discombobulated week this has been! Life at its finest. It pushed and it pulled. And challenged. It gave and took away. The joys of many followed by the sorrow of others. Chances are that yourself can apply any one of these circumstances to your week I am sure. It happens everyday and we are left to keep going.
Moments like this, all out of sorts, caught between joy and pain, make me want to celebrate the simple things. Friendships, love, crushes, food, images,… Things I can count in my life as well as those I am working towards. People without a home or a loved one this week have little use for the romantic idea of the "unknown". I sympathize with that.
I have the greatest partner, a wonderful relationship with my in-laws, parents I adore, and the unconditional love of two crazy dogs . I have friends who keep me straight and make me laugh. I take timeouts just so that I can be there for whatever they need of me in return for all the wonderful days and warm fuzzies they give me.
Then there is work. Things tangible and things in project. Whatever we need to do to keep a roof over our heads. These are the only truths I know and the the ones I can have an impact on by keeping at it well and diligently.
One thing I do, even more than usual, is to keep things as simple and clear as possible. Starting with the food. We had friends over for dinner just about everyday this week. Every one wanted to help me celebrate the release of the book and raise a glass of Champagne. Or two. It was kind of surreal. Still…
You guys sure knows how to make a girl blush. Everytime I'd see on Twitter or Facebook a picture of the book barely out of the box, my heart went pitter patter. I love that you are grasping the sheer amount of work that went into it and information I included. My friend Ez at Creature Comforts summed up the core of the book in this very touching post.
I wanted to give you as many tools as possible to get the shot that makes you giddy, getting things right before you pressed the shutter button so you'd spend less time "fixing" in post processing and more time playing with your camera or with your loved ones. Or time in the kitchen fixing great foods to shoot…!
Sneaky segue to announce the winners of this week's giveaway…ah!
Well..Tada! Congratulations to ReL from The Dedicated Flash and Elissons from Sugar Symphony (all the way in Latvia!) who won a copy of Plate To Pixel. Congratulations also to Colorado76Gal from Baking Doux who won the set of 4 plates by Asya at gleena.com. Email me with your mailing addresses at mytartelette at gmail dot com. Thanks!
Out of all the great dishes we shared with friends this week, I made Roasted Radishes and Turkey and Brie panini more than once. I picked up these colorful Easter Egg radishes (yep, not making this up) at the farmers market and after roasting them with rosemary, olive oil and salt, I was glad I had picked up more than one bunch.
We usually eat radishes as I did growing, with some butter and sea salt. But, the simple act of roasting releases the natural sugar of the radishes, changing their spicy and peppery nature to pure savory like candy.
We had them as a side dish, snack and mixed with local goat cheese for vegetarian ravioli (using this dough). Can't get enough. This week however I picked some watermelon radishes (pictured right above) for a change. These are so peppery, they will be wonderful thinly sliced in veggie sandwiches such as this one.
Talking about sandwiches…I was shooting a feature on paninis so it wasn't too difficult throwing an extra one on the press at the end of the day. And when it involves thinly sliced roasted turkey, fresh arugula and melting Brie…it's hard to say no. We did not. No regrets there. Even done in a pan grilled-cheese style. Oh yes!
I hope you'll give both these ideas a try. Would love to hear what's on your menu this weekend!
Roasted Radishes:
1 bunch radishes
1 tablespoons olive oil
1 -2 sprigs rosemary
salt and pepper to taste
Heat the oven to 400F – 425F.
Wash and pat dry the radishes to remove fuzzy hairs and dirt.
Place the radishes in a 8×8-inch roasting pan (or other you prefer), drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and roast until they start getting golden on the edges. About 20-25 minutes. Enjoy warm or room temperature.
Turkey and Brie Panini (adapted and with permission of Carrie Vitt in Deliciously Organic, IFP, 2010)
Serves 4
8 slices whole grain bread (regular or gluten free)
softened unsalted butter for spreading
1/4 cup raspberry jam (I used homemade strawberry jam)
8 oz thinly sliced turkey
1 cup arugula
6 oz Brie, sliced thin
Butter one side of each piece of bread. Spread a thin layer of jam on the unbuttered side. Top with some turkey (about 2 oz), a few leaves of arugula and a couple slices of Brie. Top with another slice of bread, unbuttered side toward the filling.
Heat in a panini press, pan or skillet until both sides are golden brown and he cheese has melted inside.


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Angel Cabrera wins U.S. Open: No figure in sports has made smoking more cool since Jim Leyland.
What's not to love: Cabrera nearly choked it away after bogeys on 16 and 17, but instead he held off Tiger for his first major title (with Tiger missing the key putt on 18, no less).
Meanwhile, as reader Lew astutely pointed out something in an email to me this morning that I've been tracking for years: As we live in a "Tiger vs. The Field" world, the story will always be when Tiger loses, not when someone else wins.
(Seriously, where was the Tiger Magic on 17 or 18 when one birdie would have sent the Open to a playoff and two would have won the Open for Tiger? He must have been distracted a smidgen by impending fatherhood.)
...And I reiterated that it's in the best interests of the Lakers to rebuild without him and best interests of
How do we know he's serious about a trade: He posted about it on his own Web site, which now has more authority than when he says something through one of his designated sports-media mouthpieces. (Apparently, this post from Kobe isn't new, just a new date on it. I don't know who is lamer: Kobe or the mainstream media jumping on his old post like it's new.)
Bonds: 748...
More MLB Wknd: I expect Derrek Lee and Chris Young will find themselves suspended today... Orioles lose 8th straight... With all the talk about "Sosa 600," here's a good read about it.
MLB Stud: Very Special Minor League Edition! Brandon Watson of the Columbus Clippers broke a 95-year-old International League record with a hit in his 43rd straight game.
NBA Draft Decisions, Player Edition: Are Jeff Green and Spencer Hawes staying in the draft? Even though both could probably move up a few spots by sticking around until next year, they are both Lottery locks.
NBA Draft Decisions, Team Edition: The biggest drama of the draft isn't shaping up as "Oden or Durant?" (because it seems so clear-cut), but "Who's No. 3?" which in this draft is like being No. 1 in any other.
That puts the decision in the hands of the Hawks, and the buzz is that they like Al Horford, who I agree is the next-best prospect after Oden and Durant. And he's the most NBA-ready player in the draft class.
NASCAR: My most intriguing angle about Dale Earnhardt Jr's move from DEI to Hendrick is his number switch, given the iconic value of car numbers in NASCAR. DEI says they might bargain to give up No. 8.
Super Bowl: Is Jordin Sparks going to sing the National Anthem at next year's Super Bowl in
Dating: Venus Williams and Bryant McKinnie may or may not be an item, but can we all agree that their children would be the most unstoppable force in sports history?
Drag Racing Tragedy: What a tragic way for a smaller sport to make national news. Condolences to those affected.
F1: Lewis Hamilton wins again!
Swimming: The sport's oldest record – the women's 1500m freestyle (Janet Evans in 1988) – was shattered by Kate Ziegler, who beat the old mark by 9 seconds. Amazing that the longest-standing record in the sport was 19 years old.
Hot Blogger Bracket: Moving on to Round 4, with the field's obvious juggernaut being Matt Jones from Kentucky Radio Blog. I don't think I seem him in the next round, but whoever it is will be tough.
Sports (New) Media: Obviously, I'm a fan of forward-thinking traditional media, so I was really excited to hear that the Oregonian had struck up a partnership with the blog, DraftKevinDurant, heading into the NBA Draft next week. Great move by both sides.
Navel-gazing: Erin Gurney from Ballhype facilitated a really interesting sports-blogger roundtable between me, Dan Steinberg, Michael Rand and Pete Abraham. Here's the link.


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I want to start by thanking my dear fellow Daring Baker Brilynn for choosing this recipe – it was a challenge, indeed, and one of the most interesting recipes I have ever made. Joao kept telling me how beautiful the cake looks – and he's not into sweets, I have to say.
I guess I would never have chosen something like this to prepare and I'm so glad I have made it.
Not only it looks superb, it also taste delicious – I must confess I ate 2 crepes that remained after the filling was over. If the crepes alone were yummy, what to say of them combined with a filling made with whipped cream, meringue and Nutella, a ganache icing and hazelnuts dipped in caramel?? Heavenly.
I was worn out after standing up for 2 hours preparing the crepes but it paid off – beautifully.
If you liked my cake, go check the other cakes prepared by the lovely Daring Bakers – the links are on the side bar.
Darkest Chocolate Crepe Cake
recipe by Martha
Crepe batter:
170g (¾ cup) cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces, plus melted for pan
225g (8 ounces) semisweet chocolate, finely chopped – I used a 51% cocoa solids chocolate
210g (1 ½ cups) all-purpose flour
67g (1/3 cup) sugar
½ teaspoon salt
600ml (2 ½ cups) whole milk, room temperature
6 large eggs, room temperature
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
Bring ¼ cup water to a rolling boil in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Add butter, 1 piece at a time, whisking to combine after each addition. Remove from heat; stir in chocolate until completely melted. Set aside.
Whisk together flour, sugar, and salt in a medium bowl. Whisk together milk, eggs, and vanilla in another medium bowl. Gradually add milk mixture to flour mixture, whisking until smooth. Add chocolate-butter mixture, whisking until smooth. Pour through a fine sieve into an airtight container; discard lumps. Refrigerate at least 2 hours or up to overnight.
Lightly coat an 8-inch crepe pan or nonstick skillet with melted butter - the three crepes that were torn were made with greased pan. The minute I stopped brushing it with butter I gor all the crepes perfectly shaped. Heat over medium heat until just starting to smoke. Remove pan from heat; pour about 2 tablespoons batter into pan, swirling to cover bottom – here I used a ladle that holds 3 tablespoons batter. Reduce heat to medium-low; return pan to heat. Cook, flipping once, until edges are golden and center is dry, about 30 seconds per side.
Slide crepe onto a plate. Repeat process with remaining batter, coating pan with butter as needed. Crepes can be refrigerated, covered, up to 1 day.
Place a crepe on a wire rack set over a rimmed baking sheet. Spread with about 3 tablespoons hazelnut filling. Top with another crepe. Continue layering with hazelnut filling and crepes, using about 32 crepes and ending with a crepe on top. Refrigerate until firm, about 15 minutes.
Spoon ½ cup glaze on top of the cake, spreading to edges. Spread remaining glaze around sides of cake, coating completely. Refrigerate until glaze is firm and set, about 20 minutes. Cake can be refrigerated up to 3 days. Garnish with toasted and candied hazelnuts.
Makes 32 crepes – I got 28 OK and 3 completely torn (which I gladly ate straight from the crepe pan)
Hazelnut filling:
160ml (2/3 cup) heavy cream
6 large egg whites
330g (1 2/3 cups) sugar
395g (1 3/4 cups) unsalted butter, cut into pieces, softened
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
100g (1/3 cup) hazelnut cream – I used Nutella
pinch of salt
Put cream into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment; beat on medium-high speed until soft peaks form, about 4 minutes. Transfer to a medium bowl. Refrigerate 1 hour.
Whisk egg whites and sugar in the clean bowl of mixer set over a pan of simmering water until sugar has dissolved and mixture registers 70ºC/160ºF, 2 to 3 minutes.
Attach bowl to mixer fitted with the clean whisk attachment; beat on high speed until slightly cooled and stiff (but not dry) peaks form, about 5 minutes.
Fit mixer with paddle attachment. With mixer on medium-low speed, add butter, several pieces at a time, mixing well after each addition (meringue will deflate slightly as butter is added). Add vanilla, hazelnut cream, and salt; mix until mixture comes together, 3 to 5 minutes. Fold in whipped cream with a rubber spatula. Use immediately.
Makes about 8 cups
Chocolate glaze:
300ml (1 ¼ cups) heavy cream
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
pinch of salt
280g (10 ounces) semisweet chocolate, finely chopped – I used the same 51% chocolate
Bring cream, corn syrup, and salt to a boil in a medium, heavy saucepan over medium- medium-high heat. Remove from heat. Add chocolate; swirl pan to cover completely with cream. Let stand about 5 minutes. Stir until smooth. Let cool completely.
Makes about 2 cups - sobrou cerca de 1/2 xícara
Candied hazelnuts
9 hazelnuts, toasted and peeled
200g (1 cup) sugar
Thread each hazelnut onto tip of a long wooden skewer; set aside. Place a cutting board along the edge of a countertop; set a baking sheet on floor next to edge.
Cook sugar and ¼ cup water in a medium, heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until sugar has dissolved. Continue to cook, without stirring, until syrup comes to a boil, washing down sides with a wet brush to prevent crystals from forming. Let boil until syrup turns light amber, about 5 minutes; remove from heat. Let stand until slightly cooled, 8 to 10 minutes.
Dip 1 skewered hazelnut into syrup, coating completely and letting excess syrup drip back into pan. When dripping syrup becomes a thin string, secure end of skewer under cutting board, letting caramel string drip over edge onto sheet. Repeat with remaining hazelnuts. Let stand until caramel has hardened, about 5 minutes. Break strings to about 10cm (4 inches).
Carefully remove skewers.
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Well, here is the latest blueberry muffin recipe I found. This one uses a crumble topping. Nothing like a good blueberry muffin with some coffee cake crumbies on top.
How many blueberry muffin recipes have you tried?
Which was your favorite one?
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Muffin batter:
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup white sugar
½ ts salt
2 ts baking powder
¼ cup vegetable oil
1 egg
1/3 cup whole milk
1 cup fresh blueberries
Crumb topping:
½ cup white sugar
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
¼ cup butter, melted
1 ½ ts ground cinnamon
Cook Notes:
If you like a lot of crumb topping like I do, then double the ingredients in the crumb toppings.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Grease muffin cups or line with muffin liners.
In a separate bowl combine the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. Whisk together to fluff it all up.
In a separate bowl mix vegetable oil, the egg and milk. Combine well. Incorporate the wet with the dry. Do not over mix, only mix till just combined; it's ok to have lumps! Next fold in blueberries. Fill muffin cups right to the top, and sprinkle with crumb topping mixture.
Make the crumb topping by mixing the sugar, flour, butter, and cinnamon.
Mix with fork, and sprinkle over muffins before baking.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until done.


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Would You Spend $9,000 for a Curved TV? Because Now You Can
With more curves than a Hollywood starlet, the battle over a new breed of TVs has arrived.
Samsung has unveiled the price for its new 55-inch curved OLED TV. It'll only set you back $8,999. Sure, that's a lot of money for a television, but, hey, it's curved. And that means viewers will get to see more of the screen in their line of vision (and at 55 inches, there is certainly a lot to see). The TV reportedly has amazing picture, as well.
In addition, it's a sort of two-TVs-in-one: you can watch two shows at once in HD with 3D glasses complete with their own speakers. Basically, this TV will do everything except stand up and go to the fridge to get you a beer.
The Samsung is also a downright bargain compared to LG's own 55-inch curved TV, which costs a staggering $15,000.
We can't speak for everyone, but we think we'll wait until the price goes down before we even consider shopping for one of these.


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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — When he debuted five years ago, Justin Bieber was a mop-haired heartthrob, clean cut and charming. But a series of troubling incidents have put his innocent image at risk, and none more so than his arrest on DUI charges Thursday.
Police say they arrested a bleary-eyed Bieber — smelling of alcohol — after officers saw him drag-racing before dawn on a palm-lined residential street, his yellow Lamborghini traveling at nearly twice the speed limit.
The 19-year-old singer later admitted smoking marijuana, drinking and taking a prescription medication, police say. Unlike previous dustups, this arrest has him facing potential jail time.
Bieber was charged with DUI, driving with an expired license and resisting arrest without violence. His Miami-Dade County jail mug shot showed the singer smiling in a bright red inmate jumpsuit, his hair still stylishly coiffed.
He was arrested with R&B singer Khalil Amir Sharieff, after police saw them racing two luxury vehicles down the street at 4:09 a.m., with two other vehicles apparently being used to block off the area.
Police Chief Ray Martinez said the singer was initially not cooperative when the officer pulled him over. Martinez said the singer also had an expired Georgia driver's license.
Police said Bieber was driving the Lamborghini and Sharieff was driving a Ferrari. Both cars were towed. Police say Bieber was clocked at 55 to 60 mph in a 30 mph zone near a high school, youth center, golf course, city firehouse and small apartment buildings.
According to the arrest report, Bieber "had slow deliberate movements" and appeared to be in a stupor when the officer ordered him to exit his vehicle. Bieber was arrested after repeatedly refusing to put his hands on his vehicle so the officer could pat him down to look for weapons, the report said. It says he cursed several times at the officer and demanded to know why he was being arrested. At one point, Bieber said to an officer: "What the f— did I do, why did you stop me?"
Bieber failed a field sobriety test and was taken to the Miami Beach police station for a Breathalyzer, police said. Results haven't been released.
"I think this case will proceed hopefully as any other case would proceed," said Bieber's attorney, Roy Black, whose other celebrity clients have included Rush Limbaugh and William Kennedy Smith.
Under Florida law, people under the age of 21 are considered driving under the influence if they have a blood-alcohol content of 0.02 percent or more — a level the 5-foot-9, 140-pound star could reach with one drink.
For a first DUI offense, there is no minimum jail sentence and a maximum of six months, a fine of $250 to $500, and 50 hours of community service. For anyone under 21, there is an automatic six-month license suspension.
A Miami-Dade County judge set Bieber's bond at $2,500 on Thursday afternoon. Sharieff's bond was set at $1,000 for a DUI charge.
Bieber left jail about an hour after his court appearance, popping through a window of his black SUV in a black hoodie and sunglasses to wave to crowds of reporters and young girls waiting to see him. He reportedly spent far more money at a Miami strip club Monday night, when the King of Diamonds club tweeted that Bieber ordered $75,000 in dollar bills. The club's operator later acknowledged that was an exaggeration, and that the singer only stayed about an hour.
Bieber and his large entourage were escorted to a closed-off section of the club. They enjoyed the dancers and ordered a large amount of bottled water, but no alcoholic beverages were sold to them, said Ricky "Disco Rick" Taylor in a statement.
"He had a lot of fun," Taylor said. "We hope he returns again."
The Canadian-born Bieber was only 15 when his platinum-selling debut "My World" was released. The singer from Ontario had placed second in a local singing contest two years earlier and began posting performances on YouTube, according to his official website. The videos caught the attention of a talent agent and eventually led to a recording contract.
He was positioned as clean-cut and charming — even singing for President Barack Obama and his family at Christmas — but problems began to multiply as he got older.
Bieber has been accused of wrongdoing in California but has never been arrested or charged. He is currently under investigation in a felony vandalism case after a neighbor reported the pop star threw eggs at his house and caused thousands of dollars of damage.
A neighbor had previously accused Bieber of spitting in his face, and a paparazzo called deputies after he said Bieber kicked him, but prosecutors declined to file charges in either instance. He was also accused of reckless driving in his neighborhood, but in October prosecutors refused to seek charges because it was unclear whether Bieber was driving.
His arrest in Miami is unlikely to affect the egg-throwing investigation, which included nearly a dozen detectives searching Bieber's home last week searching for video surveillance and other evidence that could be used to pursue a vandalism charge.
Bieber is also being sued by a former bodyguard who says the singer repeatedly berated him, hit him in the chest and owes him more than $420,000 in overtime and other wages. The case is scheduled to go to trial in Los Angeles next month.
Bieber's arrival in Florida earlier this week also is under investigation. Authorities in the suburban Miami city of Opa-locka are investigating whether the singer was given a police escort when he landed Monday at the Opa-locka Executive Airport.
Police escorts from the airport are not uncommon, but they must follow procedure because they involve city vehicles, Assistant City Manager David Chiverton said. Administrators had not authorized any escort for Bieber in this case.
"There's a procedure," Chiverton said. "These things must be approved, there's a process."
Despite all his legal troubles, the charges against Bieber likely won't put him at risk of being deported or denied entry into the U.S., said immigration attorney Ira Kurzban.
According to U.S. immigration law, authorities do not revoke an individual's visa unless the person has been convicted of a violent crime or has been sentenced to more than one year imprisonment.
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Pre-school is one example of how President Obama says the government can play a constructive role in the U.S. economy. In his State of the Union speech, President Obama tried to refocus a debate that, for two years, has been all about cutting. The president is highlighting government programs that even many Republicans support.
Here's NPR's Scott Horsley.
SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: The U.S. economy is slowly recovering from the Great Recession, but President Obama says the government could be doing more to help.
HORSLEY: But, for the most part, that's not the conversation Washington's been having for the last two years. Instead, as the government has lurched from one self-imposed budget deadline to the next, policymakers in both parties have focused on almost nothing but cutting the deficit.
Obama acknowledged the government does need to get control of its red ink, but not, he said, to the exclusion of everything else.
HORSLEY: Pollster Carroll Doherty of the Pew Research Center thinks the president is onto something.
CARROLL DOHERTY: He tried to keep the deficit in perspective, and I think that's sort of in tune with where the public is, because, you know, when we ask a different measure about what's your biggest economic worry, there you see, consistently, significantly more saying jobs than the deficit.
HORSLEY: Even though concern about the deficit has grown sharply in the last four years amid mounting debt and a steady drumbeat of dire warnings, polls show even more Americans want the government to fix the economy.
In his inaugural address last month, Obama stressed that'll take hard work and personal responsibility. But he also said there's long been a role in the U.S. for collective government action.
HORSLEY: In fact, many on the left would like to see a more activist government. Economist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research says rather than the current debate over automatic spending cuts, the government should be running up bigger deficits to help the millions of Americans who are still out of work.
DEAN BAKER: You have places like the United Kingdom, certainly many of the eurozone countries, that have gone the route of austerity. And you can point to those and go, look. This hasn't worked. They've had high unemployment. They've gone back into recession. That can't be a good thing for us to do.
HORSLEY: But Congressional Republicans continue to argue for deeper cuts in federal spending. In the Republican response to Obama's speech this week, Florida Senator Marco Rubio sounded a lot like Mitt Romney, arguing the best thing the government can do for the economy is get out of the way.
HORSLEY: Rubio's ode to self-reliance was somewhat undercut when he acknowledged that federal student aid helped him go to college, and that his mother and his Florida neighbors depend on their Medicare and Social Security.
Obama is deliberately highlighting preschool programs in heavily Republican states like Georgia and Oklahoma, to make the case that these kinds of investments enjoy bipartisan support.
He's long argued that despite criticism from the right, smart government can do more than redistribute wealth. It can also help to make more of it.
HORSLEY: However that argument plays around the country, it's yet to make much of a dent here in Washington, where policymakers are still preoccupied with the next round in the deficit-cutting derby. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Norman gives the first in a series of talks on Healing Emotions based on the book "Healing Emotions: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health" by Daniel Goleman
Healing Emotions
By Zoketsu Norman Fischer | Aug 05, 2010
Transcribed and edited by Barbara Byrum and Cynthia Schrager
Over the last week-end, I was doing a public program on anger. The week-end was sponsored by Shambhala Sun Foundation, and Melvin McLeod, the editor of Shambhala Sun, was there. He said something really interesting at the conclusion of our week-end. He said that the program did a good job of bringing together the philosophical depths of Buddhist teachings and the practical, down-to-earth advice about how to work with anger. He said that is a hard thing to do sometimes, to put together the depths of the teachings with very practical, ordinary advice about how to deal with emotions. That's his concept of what Shambhala Sun has been doing with these public week-ends, and that is their agenda, to combine the philosophical depths of Buddhism with practical advice for people in the world. I think that in Buddhism, in general, and particularly in Zen, there isn't that much distinction between practical, down-to-earth living and the deepest insights of Buddhism. In a way, there is no hierarchy or fundamental difference between them.
Many people have remarked that in Buddhism the Four Noble Truths are like a physician's approach to illness: define and diagnose the illness, figure out the cause, apply the cure, be free of the illness. That is essentially what the Four Noble Truths say. So if you are sick and have symptoms, you do have to treat and manage the symptoms of your illness. But ultimately that is not enough. If you can figure out the cause of the illness and somehow reverse the conditions that caused the illness, then you have an actual cure. You have to be constantly looking for the ultimate cause of the illness at the same time that you are dealing with the symptoms, because dealing with the symptoms alone, and alleviating them, doesn't really give you that much. They keep coming, and they keep building on themselves. So while you are coping with and dealing with the symptoms in the best possible way, you are also trying to figure out what is the underlying cause. Can we reverse that? Can we really and truly bring a lasting peace to this suffering?
In Buddhism the underlying cause of all human illness is the same. It is mis-knowledge. It is confusion or ignorance about the actual nature of the self and about the actual nature of the reality in which we find ourselves. Although everybody understands that time is passing, that life is impermanent, we don't really take that fact in. Also, we don't see that because of impermanence, there is a radical interconnectedness between all creatures.
Hearing some Buddhist lectures a few times is enough to get these ideas into our heads. We might think that these are good and true ideas, but having these ideas in our heads is not enough. To change the way we live and the way we look at life, we need more of a momentary insight, even if it is a super-duper flash of an insight that we have in a retreat. Even that is insufficient to change the way we live, our world view, and our whole take on reality. But that is what we are trying to do through our practice, through our cultivation: to recognize these fundamental truths and live by them. In other words, it takes repetition. It takes cultivation. It takes practice over time, and that takes support and help of all kinds. So that is what we are trying to do.
The underlying cause of suffering is universal to all human beings. Regardless of gender, culture, age, social situation, this is true for everybody. That is at the level of cause. Yet, at the same time, in terms of symptoms, we all are completely different. All of these factors – gender, age, culture, personal history, social situation – have a huge impact on the kinds of symptoms that we are going to see in our lifetime. So when it comes down to applying the teachings for dealing with these particulars and these symptoms, we have to take all these differences into account. We can't just fall back on the universal level. We have to activate both levels, because the universal aspects of human nature do not ever appear in the abstract, somehow floating in the sky. They only appear as you and I, as individual people. They appear in different manifestations, with a very particular shape for each different person, depending on that person's situation.
In our seminars, I think, we have really tried to be honest about, and as discriminating as we can be, about taking all of this into account. We need some wisdom about our own particular situation, our own unique karma, our own – as we were saying – symptoms. We have to know how to deal with our own anger, our greed, our fear, as these things appear in our lives, with our conditioning. So we have to have some wisdom. How do we handle ourselves? How do we take care of ourselves in this life as me, as I am? I am not like you, and you are not like me. No two of us are like each other in this regard. So we have to be careful and wise about our own situation.
We have been talking about this over several years. We have been developing a view that emotion in our Buddhist practice, in our Zen practice, is not, as we might have thought in the beginning, a side road, or a side issue, or a non-issue. It turns out that emotion is the main road, the main issue. There actually isn't any difference between these things that seem psychological and the most profound truths of buddha-dharma. Awakening in our practice – Zen awakening, Buddhist awakening – means to us not just a flash of insight, but a real transformation as a person: transformation of view, transformation of conduct, transformation of speech, transformation of mood and feeling. As they call it in Zen: intimacy in our living. Intimacy is actually the best English translation of the Zen word for enlightenment or awakening.
The ultimate goal and discussion in Buddhism might be as much a matter of emotion, or of our feeling about life, as anything else. This means two things to us. First, we probably all have to revise our received ideas about Buddhist awakening, under the influence of these studies and reflections. Second, we probably have to revise our ideas about emotion, what we think emotion is, and how emotion works in us. I think we need to expand and deepen our sense of what our emotions are, how we view them, and how we work with them.
To awaken within our emotional lives probably opens us to a level of emotion, or a view of our emotional lives, that is quite different from the way we usually view emotion. We usually think that emotion is full of attachment and self-centeredness and self-interest. Automatically, this is how we think of our emotion, and this is how we experience it. So if we are awakened and transformed, and we have an emotional life, the way that we fundamentally look at our emotional lives will be different.
Usually it seems as if the discussion of emotion in Buddhism goes something like this: there are afflictive, unwholesome emotions – emotions like anger, greed, jealousy, aggression, fear, and so on. These afflictive emotions come from attachment and mis-knowledge and are to be overcome. Then there are other emotions that we call wholesome, positive emotions – compassion, love, kindness, tenderness, equanimity – and we cultivate these positive emotions, so as to overcome the negative emotions and smooth us out. But awakening is somehow beyond both of these. That is one kind of discussion that you do hear in Buddhism.
In this kind of discussion, there might be a bias against emotion. It is on a lower level than the profound truth of dharma. This plays into the Western, philosophical bias against emotion. Mind sees truth. Emotion is just a mess. You must overcome emotion to see the truth. Don't let it cloud your intellect. That is basically Western philosophy, Western thought. So, according to this bias, dharma must be much deeper than emotion.
As we have discovered through all these studies, this is not the case. The wholesome and unwholesome emotions do not exist on the same plane at all. They don't come from the same source. Unwholesome emotions come from ignorance, attachment, and mis-knowledge, but really experiencing wholesome emotions at their depth comes from insight, comes from wisdom. They look like opposites on the same plane, but, in a way, they are categorically different.
Although every person is unique, and not all awakened people will look the same and have the same emotional set, I think that we could also say that we would expect that the basic wholesome emotions – like compassion, love, sympathy – would be characteristic of awakened people. If they were missing in awakened people that we know, we should wonder about this. We should wonder if there was something missing in the quality of that person's awakening.
On the other hand, the so called "afflictive emotions" are not just mistakes or flaws that we should be overcoming. They are also – if we understand how to practice with them – pathways to awakening. With wisdom, we can see and be with anger, jealousy, and greed. These emotions can flip from being something that grabs our attachment and causes destructiveness, to something that can lead us to awakening.
The point about anger is not that we would get over our anger, that we would somehow eliminate our anger, or that we would deny that it exists. If it were there, we would face it, and we would really understand it. We would respect it at its depth. We would be able to use the energy of our anger as a pathway to depth and truth. And ultimately to love. We would find a way for the anger, paradoxically enough, to bring us closer.
So we come to see that the unwholesome emotions are actually not so different from the wholesome emotions. Once we appreciate and understand that, we can practice patience and openness and wisdom with our anger, with our greed, with our jealousy. We can see how these practices could lead us to love, to tenderness, to compassion.
Positive emotions – compassion, gratitude, appreciation, love, aesthetic feeling – are fairly rare for most human beings. We feel them every now and then, and we think, Wow! I hope that I could have such a feeling once a year! I would think they are more commonplace for awakened people – more frequent, deeper, and more lasting. But also, I think, awakened people would have an ability to sympathize with and actually feel the anger, jealousy, dismay, and grief that other people feel. The difference would be that they wouldn't be destabilized by these emotions, or – as we all so often are – captured and grabbed by the strength of these emotions, and then spun around and compelled to act.
Strong emotions, especially afflictive emotions, are addictive and compulsive. So they get you, and you can't get out of them, and then you are compelled to speak and act and think on that basis. So that would be the difference, I think. An awakened person might deeply feel and experience such emotions, but without the addiction or the compulsion.
The idea, then, is not that the awakened person is always nice and kind and sweet, but, rather, that the awakened person is fully open to the entire range of human emotion, positive and negative. Instead of the awakened person having less of an emotional life, having eliminated all trivial causes of jealousy and envy and anger, it would be just the opposite. I think the awakened person would have a deeper, wider range of emotion – a more colorful palette of emotion.


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On the other hand, the other fifty weeks of the year were an endless cavalcade of annoyance, humiliation and overwork.
We once benchmarked our Web programs against those at peer institutions, and found that in all cases, even those at which there was less to do, my job was performed by a minimum of six full-time employees. I asked whether I might be allowed to have a student aide, at a rate of $7.50 an hour, for five hours a week. They said no.I should have seen it coming. My second round of interviews took place on September 12, 2001. I called the office on September 11, just after the World Trade Center collapsed, and asked what I should do. "Oh," the HR rep chirped, "It's business as usual around here. We aren't even letting people go home unless they take vacation. Chicago didn't get hit."
But I needed a steady income to escape from Mr. Ex, so I grit my teeth and signed on.
The new job is at the same university, but in a different division. To my unbridled joy, it isn't a Web design position. I'll be writing, I'll be editing, I'll be art directing and playing with photographs. In the university hierarchy, it's a lateral move, not a promotion. I don't care. It's exactly what I wanted: a step towards my ultimate goal of being a person to whom the sentence, "The database is down" means nothing.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Ra.None??? Tan tana... the promised review!
This appeared in Bombay Times today....
What were you thinking, SRK?
When a hotelier scouts around for a new property, he keeps just one mantra in mind : Location.Location. Location. This is the only formula that works in that line of business. Similarly, when a film maker decides to make a movie, the only mantra worth following is : Script.Script.Script. After sitting through half of Ra.One ( I rarely leave a movie mid-way, but this one propelled me out of the multiplex at intermission), I was totally perplexed! SRK is one of the smartest, most hard working human beings in the film industry. How did he go so wrong? Could he not see the obvious flaws? Judge the mood of his audience? Tweak and fix all that was cringe- making and deeply embarrassing about his magnum opus? And let's not get into the numbers game here and talk about how much it has raked in and how much more will be made once the hisaab kitaab is completed? There was much, much more riding on this film, than just box office collections. SRK knows that, too. His singular lack of judgment in backing such a mish mash of a movie makes fans gnash their teeth in frustration and ask what has happened to their superhero?Not only is the whole nerdy South Indian 'Appa' angle completely off ( come on, how many South Indian men shovel noodles with dahi into their mouths and keep repeating 'Aiyooo' in a fake accent?). But so was the Punjabi Kudi Kareena as a gaali researcher North Indian biwi! Bebo as the mother of a precocious pre-teen 'Baba'? No way! The opening scene was so gauche and amateurish one almost expected a 'Mogambo Khush Hua', dialogue during what was meant to be a hi-tech, state of the art presentation in London. And why was SRK the Southie scientist wearing a gollywog wig and make up? How insulting! As for that dreadful sexist scene of SRK looking for keys buried inside a white woman's cleavage , really! Gross.
The little boy (Amaan Verma) playing Prateek should immediately sign up for a range of hair products, with that glossy mop. And SRK should go off on a relaxing vacation. He has really earned it. Never has a movie star flogged himself this hard to promote a film. If only he had invested half that energy rewriting the awful script, the movie could have been salvaged somewhat. There were so many unconnected parallel tracks going on, it was confusing and annoying…. like watching half-a-dozen movies clumsily spliced together by an editor high on something very potent. Such a pity, given the potentially sound basic premise ( a father dying to be his son's hero). But even that was ruined by the ridiculous mugging scene. Besides, if there is a moral in all this it is that special effects are no substitutes for a story. Ra.One is an example of how to blow up several millions – literally speaking – on so little.If kids are the target audience, wouldn't they prefer to buy the latest video game with a more convincing plot? Poor SRK.It's all about timing. So much déjà vu is bad for business.Had audiences not watched Rajnikanth as Chitti in 'Robot' (superb and similar special effects, plus an emotional track) and related to that character, Ra.One may not have received such a drubbing. Unfortunately, even young fans ended up saying, "Been there.Done that."
27 comments:
- WhencutGoddamn said...
Shobhaa, I love how your so blunt and frank. It's so true. He made money--His ultimate motive of making the film in the first place. The movie sucked, of course!
- November 2, 2011 at 12:15 AM
Exactly how I like it. The disrespect of my time...and this was a review served...well...Bold.
Hugs for this one :-) and thank you for keeping the promise.... - November 2, 2011 at 12:42 AM
- Pooja Rathore said...
i have not seen RA-one ,i did not like the trailor much but srk seemed very confident,but since the release i have not heard about the movie from anyone meaning -the movie has not worked.
your review -well written,makes sense.good script is a must! - November 2, 2011 at 7:35 AM
- Life Unordinary said...
Thank you for the review. I have enjoyed the soundtrack but it seems like that's all that there is to enjoy.
- November 2, 2011 at 8:08 AM
The movie has made money is a personal opinion?
- November 2, 2011 at 10:12 AM
- glimpses said...
bang on - this was the exact reaction of my family when we watched the movie last week...
- November 2, 2011 at 11:15 AM
- Vie said...
Why did'ntg he pay a Hollywood scriptwriter and then hire an A class translator and "Indian emotion"touch-up writer. He would have made gazillions more money
- November 2, 2011 at 2:44 PM
- Arjun said...
Well the guy has made money already, while you ppl try adding 2 and 2. :)
You all have to realize that the film was a first of a kind in Bollywood, with expensive animation, 3D visuals, and all thing high on technology that made it a heavy budget film. Commenting that the storyline was lousy, or that the dialogues were ineffective is all meaningless analysis. The Display Unit companies are preparing you for the next wave of content viewing, which is all-3D. Currently there is very less programming content in 3D, and so consumers will find it hard to graduate to 3D TVs from their current HD TVs or non-HD TVs. SRK need not worry about the success or failure of the movie content itself so far as he's well supported by the industry to push a certain product or concept into the market to increase mass appeal.
SRK, as a brand is going nowhere. It'll probably be faced with increasing competition with new artists, but he's reached the kind of dizzying levels that should keep him busy all his working life. - November 2, 2011 at 5:50 PM
- Website and Printing Solutions said...
The movie is one time watch.
website company delhi - November 2, 2011 at 7:04 PM
- WhencutGoddamn said...
Read my full Ra.One review here: http://gaddamvenks.blogspot.com/2011/11/raone-review-quite-bad-one.html
- November 2, 2011 at 7:47 PM
- Radhika Gupta said...
I am big SRK fan but sadly even i completely agree with you... the movie was not at all upto the mark...
- November 2, 2011 at 8:14 PM
- Vrinda said...
The movie mainly concentrates on kids (boys) between age 8-14. It is a onetime watch.
- November 3, 2011 at 10:39 AM
- Sujata M said...
Making fun of Tamilians is a very wrong thing to do. Ra-One must have been ghost directed / ghost scripted by Farah khan I suppose.
- November 3, 2011 at 10:41 AM
- yumn said...
so much 4 the hype!!!!
- November 3, 2011 at 3:48 PM
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- November 3, 2011 at 4:24 PM
- Latha said...
I don't think Shah Rukh is a racist. SRK was approached by Mani Ratnam for his Ravan & Shankar for his Robot as their first choice. Ash was the heroine in both the films. You know srk never worked with Ash after Devdas. Both were on top those days. Even their b'days are close (Nov 1 & 2). Hemamalini & Bachchan had similar problems. They never worked together after Satte pe Satta for many years. Footage problems ! They both were toppers those days. Their b'days too are close (Oct 11 & 16). But they started working together after they became seniors. Similarly srk & Ash might act together as the parents to the kids of the present day stars once they become seniors, who knows ? Ra one I think is srk's expression of his yearning of not having been part of Mani & Shankar's films which would've been his dream fulfilled.
I have not seen Ra one. But srk has worked very hard for it. He has put his heart & soul not to speak of bags of money in it. I wish him all the best. - November 3, 2011 at 6:34 PM
- Sparkling said...
'Nuff said and so well said!
P.S: Am still chewing on my panadols! - November 3, 2011 at 7:57 PM
- Jogeshwar said...
People are sharing such messages on FB about the movie
How Sharukh khan makes profit from Ra.one....
Ticket seller :: Boss, no one is buying Ra.One's movie tickets. V will be ruined.
Theatre owner :: Give it for free. Once they enter, close the doors & start selling EXIT tickets for Rs 500. :D - November 4, 2011 at 12:33 AM
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- November 4, 2011 at 3:52 PM
- Harish said...
feel poor shahrukh should take it thada.. he has made all the paisaas that he needs.. has a great fan following... he shouldnt really experiment now. he should stick to kjo and make heart-heavy-teary films. it really works with him.
i dont understand why cant he age very gracefully.. there is an "attempt" to look young.. which is obvious. with full marks to his energy and enthusiasm, and his candid talks... i still feel he is not made for such flicks... "triplet Maata" or the "closet woh" should be his safest bet.
and frankly, his new saut to "closet woh".. (read Ramphal)is not a prudent date.
ohh! boob watching is the Favorite national sport. but that doesnt mean these straight men look any further than fantasy...
abhichhh... some time back my friend -
a married man called up to ask what is a clit.
i asked, "why?"
... he told me "someone told me "dont treat me like a clit"...
i asked " what do you think it is... by the way... its called Clitoris"
he replied "is it a planet or something like that"
i replied "yes, for some men it is so"
and there is the "actual" transcript of our conversation, im still laughing. of course i did give him "gupt gyaan" he requires, but not before i had a hearty laugh. - November 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM
A good movie for kids. Let them enjoy...
- November 4, 2011 at 11:12 PM
the song chammak challo is good. The movie looks like video game.
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- November 5, 2011 at 11:56 AM
- Chaithrika said...
Oh... it was not a bad movie at all.
I am a South Indian and I eat curd with each and everything, rice, dosa, idly, sevai, chapati, poori... and even hundreds of my relatives do it.
It is not at all odd for me to see SRK eating noodles with curd.
Well, the review seems like it is intended to prove every thing associated with the movie wrong. There was definitely no point to walk out of the theatre in the middle of the movie unless some one has decided to do so before entering the theatre.
I love playing games in computer and i loved the concept of a game character coming out. If we can accept a hero hitting 10 villains in one shot, or running faster than a chasing 4 wheeler, why not a game character coming out of computer?
Well, surely some jokes were not good, some questions unanswered (like why owner of the company serious about the destroyed lab?), the movie cannot be considered bad.
Since there are so many readers for the blog, i feel personal opinion should not be generalized as it is misguiding the readers in this case. - November 7, 2011 at 6:12 PM
- ekta khetan said...
Aiyyo..the costliest ever mid-life crisis.
Heard Rahul [baba] Gandhi is on other condolence trip. He is visiting family of all those who watched Gone oops G.One!
What was SRK thinking? or was he too mad in love in Ms chopra to notice it? Hee hee...Though I loved the chammak chhalo track in tamil in youtube n gorgeous looking Kareena but couldn't sustain it after 20 minutes! - November 8, 2011 at 4:33 PM


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Rush Fans, It's Time To Rock: Band's Been Nominated To The Hall Of Fame
This blogger had a fit last year about Canada's Rush still not being honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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December 15, 2010
Google Body Browser
* WebGL is available, but not enabled by default in Chrome 8 (the latest stable version). Type about:flags in the address bar, click "Enable" next to "WebGL" and then click on "Restart now". Please note that this is an experimental feature in Chrome 8.
* WebGL is enabled by default in Chrome 9 Beta, Chrome 9 Dev Channel, Chrome Canary Build and Firefox 4 beta.
Damon Hernandez was surprised to notice that the application doesn't require a plugin. "Unlike other web based medical applications I have seen, no Flash, Java, or other plugins are needed. This application will run on any WebGL supported browser. (...) Last year I got the opportunity to work on an open standards based web3D medical app for learning the bones of the body. After witnessing how that app really helped students learn the bones, I am sold on using web3D for medical education."
Here's Google's demo:
{ Thanks, Juuso. }
120 comments:
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2010 at 10:33 AM
Not working for me on a Chromium dev build on XP SP2.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM
So it tells me I need the DEv build. Fine. Then it takes me to landing page (in English), then it takes me to a French EULA (ignoring all my English language settings) and then uses a French UI to download the new build.
Then it tells me I can't install it because it's the same as what I have installed. Except I don't have a dev build installed, and never have. Merde. If you use Windows, try the Canary build. The main advantage is that it doesn't overwrite your existing Chrome installation.
ReplyDelete- AnonymousDecember 15, 2010 at 3:01 PM
I'm so disappointed. I don't know what to say.
Guys, you just set us back forty years ago.
Why can't we search or see sexual organs ?
Have you the slightest idea of how many years it take to allow people to learn about their full anatomie ?
Block that from instant search is fine but take that out of a scientific application is just unacceptable. Political correctness must have limit and should never be mixed with science.
Shame on you. - AnonymousDecember 15, 2010 at 3:10 PM
Well, actually, shame on me, organs are not there, only muscles and bones.
Accept my humble excuses and remove my comment.
I won't do it again. - Gaul-GvendurDecember 15, 2010 at 4:37 PM
No offense, anonymous, but the sexual organs are partially made of or mix with muscles.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 16, 2010 at 1:37 AM
Is it planned to add additional layers into the system?May be users layers.
It would be really nice to have for example accupuncture points layer, meridians layer, and some other ideas appear in mind. - AnonymousDecember 16, 2010 at 5:15 AM
"Unlike other web based medical applications I have seen, no Flash, Java, or other plugins are needed."
It doesn't, but you need to download an entire special browser. I don't think i can call it a web page. Nice. Some of the muscles are showing up as black though -- namely the facial mm, glutes, and iliocostalis. Missing some structures too -- pharyngeal mm among others. Also, there is a frontalis m, but no occipitalis m -- granted the same mm, but it is common practice to represent both names. Love the fact you can see the path of the cranial nn. This has great potential.
ReplyDelete- AnonymousDecember 16, 2010 at 7:35 AM
I tried using Canary Build and also tried just enabling the WebGL on my existing Chrome browser, but neither are working for me. The page almost loads, shows the slide-bar on the side, then gives me a blank screen. Any tips?
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 16, 2010 at 10:34 AM
An anatomy model with clothes? I hope that's fixed in the next version.
I like the speed, but I need more details and Latin nomenclature would be great. Great, now I can go back and finish the many Biology courses I skipped out on in favor of my chosen major.
I'm amused by the outrage over Google's "political correctness." I imagine the team figured most people are pretty familiar with the "sexual parts" or can find plenty of other "demos" if they're that put out about it . . .- AnonymousDecember 16, 2010 at 7:20 PM
what is the procedure for google body brower..please anybody give the steps.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 17, 2010 at 1:12 AM
It's simply fantastic and very usefull tool!!!
Bravo Google... - AnonymousDecember 17, 2010 at 5:00 AM
i'm using firefox 4 beta 7. i see only "welcome to body browser" and four little pictures. Can't activate something =(
will try it again on my game-computer ;-) - AnonymousDecember 17, 2010 at 10:13 AM
I am using Firefox 4.0b7. When I click on "try Google Body Browser" I get a page that says I need "To use Body Browser, you'll need a Web browser with WebGL support. Click here to get the new Google Chrome beta, or visit khronos.org for more choices." But above it says that "* WebGL is enabled by default in Chrome 9 Beta, Chrome 9 Dev Channel, Chrome Canary Build and Firefox 4 beta." I checked "khronos.org" and "webgl.enabled_for_all_sites" is already set to true so I made no change. Suggestions?
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 17, 2010 at 10:23 AM
PLEASE make the clothes optional.
This could be useful for artists. Need to see the skin. Also, a male option would be good too.
Also, it would be cool to be able to make the skin and fat layers thicker or thinner, so as to put the muscles under the (visible) skin in to greater relief: to see them as you would see them on a real human. - AnonymousDecember 17, 2010 at 10:30 AM
Needs a cross-section plane tool.
Any way to grab this and get it into Sketchup? @Anon. This is an unofficial news/tips repository.
If you want a Google ear to hear you, I suggest trying productideas.appspot.com or http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list or http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/ask?ln=4b62763ab25c3274&hl=en.
Cheers.- AnonymousDecember 17, 2010 at 4:27 PM
It's as if they got a hold of PAL 2.0 and decided to release this right before Pearson released PAL 3.0 to give the academic industry one more push from behind.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 17, 2010 at 4:32 PM
Re: "It's as if they got a hold of PAL 2.0 and decided to release this right before Pearson released PAL 3.0 to give the academic industry one more push from behind."
Google really isn't attempting to hide which industry they seek to dominate next, are they? It is a pretty useful tool. However I think it needs some improvements: first of all you can't have a good image of the inside of the brain: the hippocampus and others...you can only click on them if you zoom very much but you can't have a good ansamble view..maybe you could include a separate 3d model for the different systems or for more complex parts of the body. then it is really a...let's say bad thing...the lack of sexual organs...in the end they're part of the human body and there are organs, nerves and muscles missing from the model, so it isn't completely accurate.
ReplyDelete- AnonymousDecember 18, 2010 at 3:30 PM
Definately needs improvement. Add all the organs, some physiology, and let the user have more options - then it may be USEFUL (not neat) to people above the 11th grade. Very dissapointed, however accept it as google's first attempt.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 19, 2010 at 2:06 AM
i downnloaded chrome beta so I could see this but the page doesn't respond. Could it be because of my graphics card? i have older (5yrs) dell.
thanks. - AnonymousDecember 19, 2010 at 6:10 AM
Add latin nomenclature and it's the best anatomy model ever made.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 19, 2010 at 6:32 AM
It works great with google chrome (9.0.597.19 beta)on linux (fedora 12).
It does not work with firefox 4.0b7, everything shows up in black!
Would be nice if I could select dutch or latin nomenclature.
Great work google!! - AnonymousDecember 19, 2010 at 9:26 AM
Not working on Windows7 with Firefox 4.0b7.
checked if WebGL was "on" = true. But doesn't work, any suggestions? - AnonymousDecember 20, 2010 at 12:21 AM
Just enter "javascript:Oh.skin.drawGroups.pop()" in the address bar and the clothes will disappear If it doesn't work, you probably have an old computer, a poor graphics card or an outdated operating system.
From learningwebgl.com:
"If you have a reasonably recent ATI or Nvidia graphics card, you should be fine. If you have an Intel graphics chipset (common in laptops) then things are less good. The drivers that Intel provides for their graphics hardware don't support OpenGL very well, and right now the WebGL support in browsers works through OpenGL."
Try this software to find the OpenGL version supported by your graphics card. The minimum version required is OpenGL 2.0.- AnonymousDecember 21, 2010 at 7:43 PM
It's not working for me in Firefox 4.0b7 with webgl enabled.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 22, 2010 at 1:51 AM
graphics card needed without that the browser will not open
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 22, 2010 at 1:39 PM
Download google chrome canary build it works perfect GUARENTEED
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 22, 2010 at 10:40 PM
doesn't work in firefox 4 -
just able to see the left side bar and no image - AnonymousDecember 25, 2010 at 4:05 AM
It needs more detail to be really useful to medical students. Anatomy students have to learn more than just the name of a bone, we have to learn the names of the different parts of each bone too! Every little lump and bump, groove, articulating surface etc of every bone has a name which medical students have to learn. We need to know the insides of every organ too, the various parts of the brain, liver, kidney, the lobes and bronchioles of the lungs, the chambers of the heart. I look forward to Google adding enough detail to make it useful for medical students and the like, rather than the current product which is chiefly going to be of value to school students and curious lay people.
ReplyDelete The larynx is labelled as pharynx, think that should be corrected.
Also, it would be nice if it was more detailed like landmarks on the bones and viscera.
A cross sectional view would also be great. For example if I could section it at any level rather than just looking at it from the outside, it would have been great.- AnonymousDecember 31, 2010 at 11:02 AM
Hey i guess that most be just perfect for medicine and health care students but has not worked for me with mozilla firefox 4 beta
could somebody tell me please why?
i have windows xp i dont know if it´s necessary to have vista or 7 please help meeeeeeeeeeeee - AnonymousJanuary 7, 2011 at 9:14 AM
To get the Body Browser to work, you will need to download the separate Google Chrome Canary Build (nightly updates). Once you install it, you go back to the BodyBrowser.GoogleLabs.com page and it will automatically load the body for browsing with a navigation palette. To get the Canary Build, go to the Canary Build page of this blog. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/07/google-chrome-canary-build.html
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 7, 2011 at 9:16 AM
The Chrome 9 beta and Firefox 4 beta does not work with the Body Browser as it says on the page. Download the Canary Build of Chrome and it will work. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/07/google-chrome-canary-build.html
ReplyDelete @Anonymous:
It's a temporary issue. WebGL has been disabled in the latest beta build ( 9.0.597.45). You can manually add "--enable-accelerated-compositing --enable-webgl" to a Chrome shortcut's target field or wait until the issue is fixed in an upcoming build. You can also install a previous build, switch to the Dev channel, install Chrome Canary or Chromium.
Firefox 4 supports WebGL and you should be able to load Body Browser. If it doesn't work, then there's an incompatibility with the graphics card.- AnonymousJanuary 9, 2011 at 8:16 AM
I installed beta 9 The Chrome 9.0.597.45.
I activated the accelerated-compositing (about: flags / GPU Accelerated compositing = enable).
Do not go!
I installed the latest version of Canary chrome.
Still no go!?
I am totally disappointed and I do not know what to do. - AnonymousJanuary 16, 2011 at 4:41 PM
Was wondering if there was a way to enhance the spinalis, semi-spinalis muscles (deep to the trapezius)without clicking on them individually. A feature that would let you omit major muscles (Pec. M., Trapezius, Lat. dorsi) to look at deeper muscles would be an amazing addition. Overall this is an amazing project, and I hope that it's development is pursued. Very good work Google
ReplyDelete Compare this to Body Browser.
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Jonathan Swift- AnonymousFebruary 22, 2011 at 4:21 AM
Just wanted to say that body browser works on my laptop, but of the 2 webgl supported browsers I can only access it from google chrome 9, but on firefox 4 beta 11 I can only access body browser page but I cannot see any body figure or body part, just the side bar, the send feedback link and the search tool. The mouse pointer gets a crosshair aspect and that's it. Hope this description will shed some light on this issue.
Cheers - AnonymousMarch 29, 2011 at 10:02 AM
as a pre med, I am totally disappointed that I cannot use this in Firefox 4... and my laptop is barely a year old.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousMarch 29, 2011 at 10:19 AM
Tried with Chrome 10 and Chrome Canary build ad I still get the "You need a Web browser that supports WebGL" message - WindowsXP
ReplyDelete Body Browser works well in Firefox 4, but you need a compatible graphics card and updated drivers.
Chrome has recently disabled WebGL in Windows XP because of the frequent crashes. "Because stability is one of Google Chrome's core principles, we've recently become stricter about requiring up-to-date drivers and graphics hardware by adding ranges of old drivers to Google Chrome's software rendering list."- AnonymousApril 1, 2011 at 3:14 PM
I wanted to see the women's vagina and butt and breast but it just came up black.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousApril 3, 2011 at 5:19 AM
I wanted to see body browser of HUMAN but it showed body browser of COW.....?????
ReplyDelete - Yogi BhajanOctober 3, 2011 at 4:28 PM
It's a shame you are planning on retiring this. I know that you are planning on it, however, because a large yellow box appears on my screen, telling me so. It is so large that it blocks part of the model and there is no way to simply close it. I understand not supporting or updating this any more... but did you have to ruin it while it's still otherwise functional?
ReplyDelete - AnonymousNovember 6, 2011 at 6:10 PM
I wished it would have been alot better.I mean when I first went on it.I was kinda disapointed.I thought it would be alot better and ever since I first used it.I never used it again.I am sticking with wikipedia and normal google.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousNovember 14, 2011 at 4:18 AM
I would like it to be like before, I am a student at school and was good to learn the digestive system, respiratory system, the circulatory system, in order that I would not be paid, for now we can't see:(
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 11:37 PM
As a medical student, I would love google forever if they brought this back. Great for seeing relationships between structures.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 10, 2011 at 4:12 AM
It is working well and helpful to all the medical students and bio studs.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousFebruary 12, 2012 at 7:20 PM
its works fine for me and its called Zygote Body Now
ReplyDelete I have read many blogs in the net but have never come across such a well written blog. Good work keep it up
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