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The FSP retains and emphasizes the OTTI guidance and required disclosures in Statement 115, FSP FAS 115-1 and FAS 124-1, The Meaning of Other-Than-Temporary Impairment and Its Application to Certain Investments, SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) Topic 5M, Other Than Temporary Impairment of Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities, and other related literature.
Here are just a few highlights from the FSP (additionally, there are numerous references in the FSP as to what "should" be done)
- It is inappropriate to automatically conclude that a security is not OTTI because all of the scheduled payments to date have been received.
However, it also is inappropriate to automatically conclude that every decline in fair value represents an OTTI.
- Further analysis and judgment are required to assess whether a decline in fair value indicates that it is probable that the holder will not collect all of the contractual or estimated cash flows from the security.
- In addition, [SEC] SAB Topic 5M states that "the length of time and extent to which the [fair] value has been less than cost" can indicate a decline is other than temporary.
- The longer and/or the more severe the decline in fair value, the more persuasive the evidence that is needed to overcome the premise that it is probable that the holder will not collect all of the contractual or estimated cash flows from the security.
- In making its other-than-temporary impairment assessment, the holder should consider all available information relevant to the collectibility of the security, including information about past events, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts, when developing the estimate of future cash flows.
The FSP is effective for interim and annual reporting periods ending after December 15, 2008, and shall be applied prospectively. Retrospective application to a prior interim or annual reporting period is not permitted. Consistent with paragraph 15 of FSP FAS 115-1 and FAS 124-1, any other-than temporary impairment resulting from the application of Statement 115 or Issue 99-20 shall be recognized in earnings equal to the entire difference between the investment's cost8 and its fair value at the balance sheet date of the reporting period for which the assessment is made (for example, December 31, 2008, for a calendar year-end entity).
Important! Refer Directly to the FSP
Refer to the FSP directly for further details on all of its accounting and disclosure requirements.
As noted in our post last week summarizing the discussion that took place at the FASB board meeting when the vote was taken to issue this final FSP, 2 FASB board members dissented; their dissenting statement is included in the FSP.
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22 Games for 26 RBI
Friday, June 20, 2008
In the history of baseball only 2 players have racked up 100+ rbi prior to the all star game. In 1935 Hank Greenberg had 103 by the July 8th game and in 1998 steroid abuser Juan Gonzalez had 101 by the July 7th game. Well sitting at 74 rbi now, Josh Hamilton has 22 games to reach the 100 rbi total. Here's hoping he joins the club.
Note: The All Star Game is a week later this year, so it wouldn't be as impressive but it'd still be solid.
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In this discussion we will be talking about the Root Chakra.
Root Chakra Information
Color: red
Sanskrit Name: muladhara
Physical Location: base of the spine
Gems/Minerals: Ruby, garnet, bloodstone, red jasper, black tourmaline, obsidian, moky quartz, Agate, Onyx, Hematite, Red Coral
Scents: Patchouli, cedar wood, lavender, musk, hyacinth, cinnamon, sandalwood.
Essential oils: Patchouli, cedar wood, sandalwood
Purposes: kinesthetic feelings, movement
Spiritual Lesson: material world lessons
Area of Body Governed: spinal column, kidneys, legs, feet, rectum, immune system
Blocked Root Chakra: When the root chakra is blocked there is an interruption in the flow of earth energy - your grounding and nutrition - so part of you will say, "what is the point of being here," or "why am I here." You will be in denial of life and life's lessons. You will feel disconnected, rootless, alienated from others. You may have severe mood swings. Your ability to manifest will not flow. You will lack energy both physically and mentally to give you the boost you need to survive your life on earth. You will fear for your survival but lack the energy to do anything about it.
Over-active Root Chakra: You can be domineering, highly strung so that you have difficulty sleeping. You may become greedy, aggressive, sexually manipulative, reckless, impulsive, and see everything and everyone as a threat.
Under-active Root Chakra: You can appear weak, tired, lethargic, and overcautious. You will be afraid of change. You lack confidence, fear of being abandoned, harbor self-destructive tendencies and become disinterested in life.
A Balanced Root Chakra: When the root chakra is balanced you feel grounded, centered, and able to live in the here and now effortlessly. You feel alive with a strong connection to yourself and those around you. Your life is working on all levels, but even if there are areas that are not working you are confident that they will work out. You are healthy and want to take care of yourself, usually manifesting as an interest in your nutritional intake and physical exercise.
When the root chakra is balanced you are able to manifest an abundance of everything you need to survive.
Root Chakra Affirmations
1. I am willing to release all fears, worries and concerns about money, my career, safety, and protection.
2. I know that I am perfectly protected and that all my needs are met abundantly.
3. I am safe and secure at all times.
4. I am divinely protected and guided and my way is made smooth and easy.
5. I love my feet. They show me the way.
6. I love my legs. They give me support.
7. I am open to expanding my awareness of life.
8. I am willing to release all my old patterns of fear and insecurity to live with joy and well-being now.
9. I know that I belong. I know that I am safe.
10. People now support me in an easy and pleasurable way.
11. It is safe for me to enjoy my life now.
12. I am willing to be my own good mother and look after myself properly at all times.
13. I am responsible for the quality of my life.
14. I am open to new ideas, new thoughts, and new people in my life.
15. I am willing to consider the possibility that there are new approaches to enjoying
life which will enhance my sense of being alive and give me pleasure.
16. Life is good.
17. I trust life supports me in fulfilling my purpose.
18. I have a right to be me, just exactly as I am.
19. I have a right to express myself and manifest my dreams.
20. I can have pleasure.
21. I trust in the process of my life to unfold for my highest good and greatest joy.
22. I love my life just exactly the way it is.
23. I am free to make whatever changes are necessary for my future.
24. I can risk doing what I feel is right.
25. I am a life enhancer.
26. I am creating a healthy foundation on which creativity can flourish.
27. It is safe to me to be here.
28. The earth supports me and meets my needs.
29. I love my body and trust its wisdom.
30. I am interested in abundance.
31. I am here and I am real.
32. I trust my Higher Self fulfills all mu needs. My life is full of prosperity.
33. I am safe. I trust in the natural flow of life.
34. I trust my Higher Self to fulfill all my needs. My life is full of prosperity.
35. I know who I am and make choices based on what I know to be right for me.
36. I am supported in life through all my choices to do good and share the light of love.
37. My body supports me in living a creative and happy life.
38. I am open to the spirit of life, which carries me beyond my original limits to a higher, more creative space.
39. I am thankful for all the opportunities for growth and development that have come my way.
40. I am grateful for the challenges that have taught me who I truly am.
41. I love life.
Root Chakra Meditation~ taken from this website: http://www.alternativeculture.com/spirit/chakras.htm
by Lonny J. Brown, HHC from his book Enlightenment in Our Time: The Perennial Wisdom in the New Millennium
Take a deep breath and pull it down through your body to the very base of your spine, the seat of the first chakra. As you release the air, relax all the muscles in your toes, feet and legs. Take in more air and focus on your connecting point to the earth. Now release the air, .. relax down through your body, and continue to send your attention deep into the center of the earth. Picture magnetic lines of force coming from the earth's core, connecting with your own root center. Allow that force to arise within you, from below.
Imagine a feeling of power surging into this "root" center from the deep center of the earth. As it increases, keep your attention on this powerful magnetic energy at the bottom of your spine.
Focusing at the base of the spine, imagine that with each breath, energy collects and builds up there. Continue to relax, and sense the feelings in the coccyx, perineum, anus, and deep inside your pelvic cavity, the foundation of your body. Sensing your root center, breathe as if the earth's energy is coming directly into you from below. Allow the energy to build, like a growing, magnetic force.
Feel the weight of your attachment to the earth: its gravitational pull on your body, through the mass of rock.. dirt.. clay.. and minerals. Sense the huge mass of the planet under you, pulling you down towards dense earth. You are born of this earth, and when you die, your body will return to it.
Earth animal that you are, you eat of the earth and eliminate earth fertilizer. Your awareness is purely biological, immersed in life's ecological cycles. In the womb of creation, you are pulsating flesh, bound by living sinews and fibers. The dominant color is blood red. Smell your own odors. Feel the cool dirt.
Be aware of your pelvic area, legs, and feet. Feel the density of your bones, the core and support structure of your body, minerals taken up from the earth and deposited inside you, compacted by gravity, formed against the pull of the earth.
You are at the most primitive stage of evolution. Your behavior is animal-instinctual and reactive. You are motivated by survival drives, such as hunger and fear. You are isolated and fiercely individual. All you know of reality is physical and self--referent. Like an infant, you identify solely with the body, and exist in a sensory, material realm of stimulus and response. You experience yourself at the center of everything that happens. You love to eat and sleep. You fear pain, and death.
Your sole purpose is self-preservation. Persistent and self-sufficient, you can be greedy or aggressive. Allow yourself to acknowledge your "dark" side, and your potential for "small- mindedness," for it is the necessary lesson of this level of existence. Know yourself as an inheritor of animal instincts, and primitive tendencies. Fully accept that you are a creature of habits and needs, rooted in the earth.
Continuing to breathe in and out through your lowest nerve plexus, allow your body to begin to feel that you are in a safe place. Perhaps you feel secure and comfortable enough to let go of your protection.. to relax, and sigh. You could use the affirmation. "I belong on this earth." (repeat..) or "Here and now, I feel safe." (repeat..)
As your breath pulls up the Earth's energies, picture at your root center, a red square box, filled with dark, rich soil which is moist and cool. Inside, a coiled serpent is sleeping... Your task is to warm the environment, and so wake up the snake.
Grounding Technique ~ taken from this webpage: http://www.llewellynencyclopedia.com/article/252
Stand upright with your feet shoulder-width apart, toes slightly in. (Take your shoes off so you can feel the floor under you.) Press into your feet as if you were trying to push the floorboards apart between your feet. You will feel a solidity come into your legs as you do this. This comes from pushing down into your feet.
Once you can feel that solidity, you are ready to begin the exercise. Inhale deeply and bend your knees, letting your belly relax. Now exhale and push into your feet s-l-o-w-l-y, pushing as you did before and allowing your legs to slowly straighten. Do not let them straighten all the way, but bend them again and inhale as you go down into your legs. Push again against the floor as you exhale, pushing your energy downward through your body.
Do not completely straighten your legs, keep breathing, and move slowly. If you are doing this correctly, you will start to feel a slow vibration in your legs as you push against the floor. This vibration is the charge of energy moving through your legs and into your first chakra. It can be used to push out blocks, to increase your sense of contact with your body, or to simply make you feel awake and refreshed.
It is possible to get overcharged, however, so exercise caution in how long you keep this up. If you get overcharged and feel anxious, kick your feet into a pile of pillows, shake your body, or let out whatever feelings are arising.
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Near Lucknow, Uttar Predesh, India in 2009, some sort of feline was responsible for a series of attacks on humans. Some theorized the culprit was a leopard; others blamed a fishing cat.
The fishing cat, as you'll see in these photos, is a beautifully patterned animal about twice the size of a house cat. My correspondent Croconut tells me there are other reports of fishing cats snatching children in Southeast Asia. Beacham's Guide to International Endangered Species says they are "ferocious and dangerous. Even for Felidae, fishing cats are especially powerful and are known to be able to drive off a pack of dogs; one in captivity broke out of its enclosure into one holding a female leopard and killed the leopard, which was twice its size. They can do significant harm to humans or other large animals they deem threatening."
Croconut also pointed me to these fascinating photos of a fishing cat kept as a pet by a Russian family. The link has more.
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Installed fonts can be viewed and installed with a font viewer application similar to the one displayed in Figure 1.
|Figure 1 - Font Viewer
There is a package in Debian GNU/Linux based systems, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc., named "ttf-mscorefonts-installer", that will install the Microsoft True Type Core Fonts for the Web. The package can be installed via the command line, or the distributions GUI package manager (Figure 2).
|Figure 2 - MS True Type Core Font Installer
|Figure 3 - True Type core font EULA
After the font installer package is complete the new fonts will appear in the font viewer (Figure 4).
|Figure 4 - Newly installed fonts
The new fonts are now available to other applications and can be set to the default, for example, in LibreOffice writer (Figure 5).
|Figure 5 - Setting the default font in LibreOffice Writer
The fonts are now set and available (Figure 6).
|Figure 6 - Times New Roman in Writer
Installing new True Type Fonts, either purchased or free, can be installed via the Font Viewer by downloading the font (Figure 7).
|Figure 7 - Downloaded font
After the font is downloaded and extracted, double clicking the font file will bring it up in the Font Viewer (Figure 8). The font is installed by clicking on the Install button.
|Figure 8 - Installing a font in the Font Viwer
The newly installed font will be located in the users home folder (~/.local/share/fonts/) and are local to the user. The font is available to the applications, as were the MS True Type Core Fonts (Figure 9).
|Figure 9 - Newly installed font available in Writer


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I wanted to create a card that was very simple and clean. What I ended up with wasn't quite what I had in mind, but I really like the way it turned out. I had the card designed with black, silver and white, but it needed a little something extra, and I think this pop of red really adds something to it.
Layers are as follows (starting at the bottom layer):
White cardstock
Black cardstock with punched edge
Silver cardstock
White cardstock embossed with a Cuttlebug folder
Black ribbon
Red cardstock cut with a Nestabilities.
Silver dragonfly brads.
White cardstock cut with the next size up.
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The Rock Report 03/25by Chris Doyle / Winnipeg Jets
IceCaps take four of six points against divisional foes.
The St. John's IceCaps continued their recent string of success this past weekend, skating away with wins in two of three games and staying alive in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
After a tough 5-2 defeat Friday in Portland, St. John's exacted revenge Saturday to best the Pirates 4-1 before travelling to Manchester and beating the Monarchs 4-3 Sunday afternoon. The IceCaps have now won four of their last five games overall and head to Albany for a Wednesday night tilt versus the Devils, followed by an Easter Saturday contest in Worcester against the division rival Sharks.
Friday, March 22 – Portland Pirates 5 St. John's IceCaps 2
The IceCaps saw their modest two-game win streak snapped by the Portland Pirates Friday in a 5-2 loss at Cumberland County Civic Center. Jordan Szwarz scored twice while Mark Visentin stopped 31-of-33 shots to pick up the victory for Portland.
Aaron Gagnon continued his hot streak, picking up a goal and an assist, while Eric O'Dell scored the other goal for St. John's. Mark Dekanich got the start between the pipes and made 24 saves.
Full Recap | Box Score | Highlights
Saturday, March 23 – St. John's IceCaps 4 Portland Pirates 1
The St. John's IceCaps bounced back to split the two-game series against the Pirates with an impressive 4-1 victory in Portland at the Cumberland County Civic Center Saturday night.
Josh Lunden had a career-high three points, scoring a power play goal and adding a pair of assists, while Eric O'Dell notched a goal and an assist. Kael Mouillierat and Jason Gregoire each chipped in with a pair of helpers and Mark Dekanich stopped 20-of-21 shots for the IceCaps' third win in their last four games.
Sunday, March 24 – St. John's IceCaps 4 Manchester Monarchs 3
Ben Maxwell fired a pair of goals as the St. John's IceCaps shaded the Manchester Monarchs 4-3 Sunday afternoon at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester.
Eric O'Dell had a goal and two assists for St. John's, while Aaron Gagnon collected three helpers. O'Dell now has a team record five-game goal-scoring streak, while Gagnon has picked up points in 10 straight games, tying Paul Postma's team record. Josh Lunden picked up a pair of assists for St. John's.
Full Recap | Box Score | Highlights
O'Dell's Big Week: Eric O'Dell became just the second IceCap to take home AHL Player of the Week honours when he was selected for the award last Monday following a week during which he put up five points in two games. As an encore, O'Dell notched six points (3G, 3A) in three games on the weekend and extended his goalscoring streak to a club record five games. O'Dell also surpassed Jason King's mark for goals in a season (22), scoring his 22nd, 23rd and 24th tallies. The sophomore centre has opened up a six-point lead over team captain Jason Jaffray for the club's top scorer (44 to 38).
This Streak Goes On: Aaron Gagnon tied a franchise record this past weekend when he recorded a point in each of his team's three games, extending his point streak to 10 games. The mark was originally set by Paul Postma from Dec. 4 to Dec. 31 of 2011. During his streak, the B.C. native has a whopping 15 points (7G, 8A), and when the IceCaps face off against the Devils in Albany Wednesday, Gagnon will have gone more than a full month since his last game without a point.
Seizing the Opportunity: Primarily a fill-in earlier in the season, Josh Lunden has gotten the chance to play with two of the IceCaps' top scorers in O'Dell and Kael Mouillierat recently and has responded with some offensive output. Lunden picked up a career-high three points (1G, 2A) in Saturday's 4-1 win at Portland and followed that up with a two assist game in Sunday's 4-3 win at Manchester. In his last five outings, Lunden has seven points (3G, 4A) after managing two assists in his first 15 games in mainly a checking role.
My Old School: A pair of recently signed college graduates made their IceCaps debuts this weekend. Vinny Saponari, a former draft pick of the Atlanta Thrashers and recent graduate of Northeastern University, suited up on Saturday night while Matthew Kirzinger, a Ferris State alum, dressed on Sunday. Kirzinger was a teammate of former IceCap blueliner Zach Redmond for two seasons at Ferris State.
Jets Update: Winnipeg split their four-game week to hang on to top spot in the Southeast Division. The Jets scored a big 3-1 win over the Boston Bruins Tuesday before dropping a pair of home games against the Washington Capitals. Winnipeg bounced back with a win over the Tampa Bay Lightning Sunday and sit four points up on the Carolina Hurricanes for first in the division and third overall in the Eastern Conference.
Injury Report: Injured: Jason King (head), Hunter Tremblay (head), Ivan Telegin (head), Ryan Schnell (lower body), John Albert (hand), Josh Godfrey (undisclosed) and Tomas Kubalik (undisclosed).


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Rhywun's WorldEverything but the kitchen sink
The Money PitPosted July 21, 2008 in News • Tags: MTA, NYC
New York's MTA is spending a mind-boggling 7.2 billion dollars to make the commute a smidge easier for some Long Islanders. The idea is to bring some LIRR commuters to Grand Central Terminal instead of Penn Station. Take a look at the map and judge for yourself if it's money well-spent. Note especially the distance between the two stations, and consider that there is already a myriad of options to get from one to the other: existing subways, busses, taxis, and, oh, walking (it's less than a mile). Consider also the fact that this project entails tunneling under already existing Metro North (another commuter line) tracks that run along Park Avenue and building another level underneath the existing Grand Central. A glance at the map begs the obvious question: why not just link to the existing Metro North tracks and use the existing levels of Grand Central? Especially since Grand Central ain't so grand any more: its only remaining service is the Metro North commuter lines! Surely there's room among the dozens of tracks there for a few trains from Long Island.
In the meantime, another project–one which would serve a vastly greater number of (ostensibly less well-connected) city commuters seems to be languishing: the Second Avenue subway. It too costs many billions of dollars, but at least it serves a real purpose–to relieve the severely overcrowded Lexington Avenue line–and extends from 125th Street all the way down to the Wall Street area. Oh, and it's been on the drawing board for eighty years. Which means that the next time you're packed like a sardine on the 4/5 and it's bumper-to-bumper traffic, you can console yourself with the fact that it was never meant to be this way.
Well, the good news is that this stupid line is about to run out of money due to the MTA's perennial money shortage. At seven billion dollars to tunnel one mile, it's easy to see why there's no money. One can hope that in the meantime somebody else will come into power–someone not beholden to suburban commuter demands–and put a stop to this nonsense before it sucks in any more of our tax dollars.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- A quick look at Butler's ridiculous 64-63 victory over Gonzaga that can be attributable to only one thing: Hinkle magic.
Overview: They share the same nickname, same team colors and same résumé. Once, Gonzaga was a mid-major darling. Once, Butler was a mid-major darling. Now both are national programs -- the Zags coming in ranked No. 8, Butler No. 13.
So while this seemed like a quaint tip of the cap to nostalgia, particularly with Hinkle Fieldhouse serving as host, there was nothing sweet about this game. Certainly not in the big picture -- where this game is about heavy hitters as much as any traditional power-conference battle might be -- and definitely not in the way it was played.
This was a slugfest, just the way Butler likes its basketball, about attitude and chutzpah almost as much as it was about skill and talent.
But in the end, the gym won with an unreal finish.
Turning point: Well, gee, maybe Roosevelt Jones somehow snaring a Gonzaga inbounds pass, driving to the lane and sinking the last shot as the buzzer sounded for the Bulldogs' 13th straight victory.
Key player: Jones. Even before the heroics, he was terrific in the second half, scoring 16 of his 20 points when his team needed them the most -- a team playing without leading scorer Rotnei Clarke by the way. It was just the second time Jones has reached 20 points in his career.
Miscellaneous: With the win, Butler improved to 3-0 against top-10 teams this season. Duke is the only other team that has three such wins. ... Travel issues prevented Gonzaga from getting a full practice at Hinkle. The Bulldogs were scheduled to leave Friday morning from Portland (after playing there Thursday night), but due to trouble with their charter, they ended up practicing in Portland and arriving in Indianapolis late Friday night. ... This marked the first time two top-15 programs played at Hinkle Fieldhouse. In fact, only twice before had a ranked Butler team faced another ranked opponent -- in 2007 against Southern Illinois and in 2009 when Ohio State came to town. ... Keeping on the Hinkle theme, it is the sixth-oldest active college gym (and yes, it's a gym) in the country. Fordham's Rose Hill Gym, older by three years, tops the list.
Next game: Butler jumps back into Atlantic 10 action with a game at La Salle on Wednesday. Gonzaga returns home, hosting BYU on Thursday.


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Here is another card made with the Some Bunny set and the Willoughby Paper Collection, . I have been challenge, by Jany, to get out of my comfort zone!! She knows me very well!! so she knew that this are not my go to products to create one card every week for a month!! lol. But I am sure enjoying it. This one is my favorite, so far, I guess every week I improve using this coloring stamps!! I have been tempted to go with paper piecing, but I challenge myself not to do it and go to pencils and markers to color!! what a great time I have every week! Thank you Jany for the Challenge! Go and check Jany's blog to see the cards the other girls did!
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The Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine,
Townsville, N. Queensland.
(Received December 23rd, 1920.)
IT has generally been assumed that the black pigments (melanins) which occur normally or pathologically in animal tissues, hair, skin, feathers, etc. are chemically very inert substances, and in most cases their isolation has been carried out by dissolving the tissue in boiling alkalies or strong acids. Thus Abel and Davis [1896] prepared melanins from both the skin and hair of a negro by heating the material at 1000 either with 5-6 % potassium hydroxide or witb concentrated hydrochloric acid until all the keratin had dissolved.
Other investigators have used even more drastic methods such as boiling with more concentrated alkalies or even fuming hydrochloric acid. That some melanins are really not so resistant to alkalies and acids was shown by Gortner [1910] who investigated the effects of alkalies upon the melanin of black-sheep's wool. He extracted the pigment from the wool by boiling with successive portions of a 0-2 % solution of sodium hydroxide, and from the first two or three extracts he obtained a melanin of constant composition, C= 52-57 %, H= 7.28 %, N = 13.43 %, S = 1-33 %. This substance when purified contained no ash, was soluble in alkali and in very dilute mineral acids (N/20), and was precipitated by stronger acids. After boilingthis with stronger alkali a pigment could be precipitated by acid from the solution, which contained less nitrogen and hydrogen than the original, and was no longer soluble in dilute acids.
This acid-soluble pigment was only obtained from the first two or three extractions, the subsequent extracts yielding a different pigment, insoluble in acid and containing less nitrogen and hydrogen, and Gortner considered this to be a decomposition product of the acid-soluble pigment. When stronger solutions of alkali were employed for the extraction, the compounds obtained were insoluble in acid, and their nitrogen and hydrogen decreased, in general, as the concentration of alkali increased; thus the substance extracted with 50 % sodium hydroxide contained only 3*84 % hydrogen and 8-98 % nitroget.
So far from being inert to alkalies the melanin of sheep's wool was thus readily decomposed by boiling with sodium hydroxide in concentrations over 0-2 %, whilst even this concentration decomposed the pigment on continued boiling.
From these results Gortner considered that in all probability many of the melanins described in the literature were really products of the decomposition of melanin and not the pigment as it occurs in the natural material. The melanin obtained by Abel and Davis from negro skin was left in the form of pigment "granules" (pigment and pigment structure) after the keratin had dissolved in the alkali; and the pigment was freed from the pigment structure by continued treatment with 5 % hydrochloric acid, and subsequent extraction with potassium hydroxide. It then had the composition C = 53.56 %, H= 5*11 %, N= 15.47 %, S = 2-53 %. The author [Young, 1916] described the preparation of a melanin from
the skin of an Australian aboriginal, by treatment with successive portions of boiling 5 % sodium hydroxide, each portion being allowed to act for a short time only. In this preparation no granules were obtained but the pigment was gradually dissolved in the alkali, from which it was obtained by precipitating with acid. The analysis differed from that of the preparation of Abel and Davis as it gave C – 60-12 %, H = 6-70 %, N = 11-89 %. More recently an opportunity of obtaining more material came to hand, and further preparations were made, the method being modified so that a more dilute alkali (N/20) could be employed in the extraction. Pigments were extracted with this alkali from portions of the skin from two Australian aboriginals and a low caste Cingalee.
It was found that if the skin were soaked in boiling water, the outer layer, which contained practically all the pigment, could be readily removed by scraping. This layer (200 g.) was washed with alcohol and ether to remove grease, and was boiled with 100 cc. of N/20 sodium hydroxide for one hour under a reflux condenser. It was allowed to settle and the dark liquid decanted and filtered. The process was repeated with successive portions of fresh alkali until, after four extractions, there was only a very small residue. To the four clear filtrates after cooling, hydroehloric acid was added to about N/3, whereby the melanin was thrown down as a dark-brown precipitate. It was allowed to settle, the liquid siphoned off and the precipitate repeatedly washed by decantation with N/3 hydrochloric acid. The clear washings were siphoned off as much as possible and water and hydrochloric acid added to make the liquid to 500 cc. of N/20 hydrochloric acid. The mixture was then heated to boiling. The precipitates from the first two extracts completely dissolved to a deep brown solution; that from the third extract was only
partially soluble; whilst the fourth precipitate did not appear to dissolve at all. The solutions were filtered through a fine filter paper (Schleicher and 119 W. J. YOUNG Schuill's Blue Band), and the first three solutions mixed. In this way the pigment was separated into two fractions, one soluble, the other insoluble in dilute hydrochloric acid. The solution in hydrochloric acid was cooled, and concentrated acid added until the mixture was N/3. The melanin was thereby precipitated and was allowed to settle, the liquid siphoned off, and the residue washed several times by decantation with hydrochloric acid of the same strength. The process of dissolving in N/20 acid, filtering and-reprecipitating was repeated once, the pigment was then again dissolved in the dilute hydrochloric acid, and the solution dialysed until the liquid no longer gave a precipitate with silver nitrate. This treatment precipitated the pigment, which was then filtered off on a hardened paper, washed with distilled water, then with alcohol, finally with ether and dried. The paper was folded and extracted in a Soxhlet apparatus, successively with carbon disulphide, light petroleum and ether, and was dried at 1000. It was thus obtained as a black powder, and will be referred to as acid-soluble melanin. Before being dried the powder was readily soluble in dilute (N/20) sodium hydroxide, and in glacial acetic and concentrated sulphuric acids. It dissolved on warming in dilute (N/20) hydrochloric and acetic acids. After drying at 1000 it dissolved only with difficulty in boiling dilute alkali, more readily in stronger alkali, and was almost insoluble in
dilute hydrochloric acid. The pigment from the later extractions of the skin, which was insoluble
in dilute acid, was also purified by treatment on the filter paper repeatedly with boiling N/20 hydrochloric acid. It was then washed repeatedly with water and subsequently dissolved in warm N/20 sodium hydroxide. The melanin was precipitated by adding hydrochloric acid in slight excess, washed
by decantation until free from acid, filtered and washed with alcohol and ether, and extracted as before with carbon disulphide, light petroleum and ether, and dried at 1000. This powder, after drying, dissolved completely, but only very slowly, in boiling alkalies. In the above manner both acid-soluble and acid-insoluble preparations were obtained from the three skins. Analysis of products. The carbon and hydrogen were determined by burning in a current of oxygen by Dennstedt's method, lead peroxide being employed to keep back any oxides of nitrogen and sulphur. The yields of material were too small
for a separate estimation of sulphur, and in some cases the sulphur was therefore estimated at the same time by Dennstedt's method. The quantity of barium sulphate actually weighed was very small, so that the results must only be regarded as approximate. Nitrogen was estimated by Kjeldahl, the heating
with sulphuric acid being continued for four hours after the solution had become clear, as recommended by Dakin and Dudley with pyrrole compounds. 120
In one preparation nitrogen was estimated both by Kjeldahl's and by Dumas' methods with practically identical results. In all cases before analysis the material was dried to constancy in vacuoat 100° over phosphorus pentoxide. In some preparations which contained a high percentage of ash samples were again treated by suspending in N/3 hydrochloric acid in a dialyser, allowing the acid to dialyse away, and washing and drying as before, whereby the ash was very considerably reduced. In such cases the analysis before and after this treatment is given. The percentages are all calculated for the ashfree
substances and the results are tabulated below. Sol. in di]. acid Insol. in dil. acid C H N S Ash C H N S Ash I. Aust.
Black I:
(a) … 56-41 7-33 – – 7-02 56-03 5-86 – – 3-51
(b) After further treatment
to remove inorg. matter 56-33 7-37 12-46 – 2-78 55-92 6-25 1-77 2-60
II. Aust. Black II:
(a) Extracted by first portion
of alkali … 55-49 8-30 13-54 – 0-67
(11-95′ 59-87 7-27 10-80 1-66 1-39 (b) Extracted subsequently 56-81 6-68 12:24 2-49 4-03
III. Cingalee:
(a) … 56-01 6-24 – – 5.47
(b) Afterfurthertreatment 56-06 6-71 14-57 2-56 2-68 56-06 6-58 13-27 2-37 3-09
Previously found with 5 %
alkali … … 60-10 6-70 11-89 – –
In all cases the ash was left as a light brownish powder, only partially soluble in hot hydrochloric acid, and containing a small amount of silica. Estimations of the iron in the ash were made colorimetrically with potassium thiocyanate, and the quantity was found to vary from nothing in one sample, to 7 % of the total ash in another, the latter quantity corresponding to 0-2 % of the original pigment. The iron was therefore not an essential part of the melanin molecule. The ash also contained a trace of sulphate. From the foregoing analyses it is seen that the ash was materially reduced by treatment of the melanin with acid, without altering the carbon and hydrogen percentage calculated on the ash-free substance. It would appear, therefore, that the ash is not an essential part of the melanin. Action of alkali on the acid-soluble melanin. A small quantity (about 0-5 g.) of the acid-soluble pigment from the Cingalee skin was boiled with N/20 alkali in a reflux apparatus. The sample which had been previously dried at 1000 dissolved only slowly, passing, however, completely into solution after about five hours' boiling. The boiling
was continued for 15 hours, after which the mixture was cooled, exactly 121 neutralised with N hydrochloric acid, and sufficient acid added to bring the whole to N/20. The melanin was partially precipitated, and even when heated to boiling some of the precipitate did not redissolve. That this was not due to the drying alone was shown by warming another portion of the original dried melanin with the alkali until solution had taken place, neutralising and making to N/10 hydrochloric acid and boiling. In this case the melanin completely dissolved. The pigment soluble in acid behaved, therefore, like Gortner's pigment, in that it was altered slowly by continued boiling with dilute alkali into a
substance no longer soluble in dilute acid. Sufficient material was not available to test whether nitrogen and hydrogen were lost during this treatment.
It will be seen from the table of results that variations were found in the percentage composition of the different preparations. The acid-soluble pigment generally contained a lower carbon percentage and a greater percentage of nitrogen and hydrogen than the acid-insoluble pigment subsequently extracted from the same skin, although the insoluble preparations from one skin did not always contain less nitrogen and hydrogen than soluble preparations from another. It is observed also that in the case where the first extraction was kept separate the same difference was found between this and the pigment from subsequent extracts, although both pigments were soluble in acids. Continued boiling with dilute alkali converted the pigment soluble in acid to one insoluble in acid; it seems therefore probable that in extracting the pigment even with very dilute sodium hydroxide (N/20) it is gradually decomposed, losing nitrogen and hydrogen and gradually changing to a pigment insoluble in acid. The melanin of black skin thus resembles that prepared from wool by Gortner in that a pigment may be extracted with alkali which is soluble in dilute acids, and which, on further heating with alkali, changes to a pigment
insoluble in dilute acids, with loss of nitrogen and hydrogen. In this case, however, a constant product could not be obtained, and it is possible that none of the preparations represents the pigment as it occurs in the skin. The preparations gave quite different analyses from the pigment from negro skin prepared by Abel and Davis.
Abel and Davis (1896). J. Exp. Med. 1, 361.
Gortner (1910). J. Biol. Chern. 8, 341.
Young (1914). Biochem. J. 8, 460.


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If you're considering making the switch to a tankless water heater, you should carefully weigh the pros and cons first.
- Most tankless units come with a federal tax rebate of $300.
- They never run out of hot water.
- They last five to 10 years longer than tank heaters.
- They're more efficient with no standby heat loss.
- They take up less space and can even be installed on walls or outdoors with an anti-freeze kit.
- Smaller units can be installed under cabinets or in a closet, closer to the point of use.
- They only need enough power to heat the amount of water necessary at any given moment.
- You can shave as much as 20 percent from your water heating bill.
- Electric models don't produce greenhouse gases.
- Most units are operated by remote control and have up to four separate settings available.
- There's no possibility of flooding due to a ruptured tank.
- They cost up to three times as much as a tank water heater.
- Your hot water output is split among all your household fixtures.
- You may need to add a larger natural gas line to supply the unit with enough fuel.
- Venting gas and propane units requires expensive stainless steel tubing.
- Electric models may require an additional circuit.
- Gas-powered units produce greenhouse gases.
- Gas units require the additional expense of an annual servicing.
- Electric models require a lot of energy.
- They need a minimum flow rate of .5 GPM in order to activate the heat exchanger.
- Lag time can require you to run your water in order to get to the hot water, increasing water waste.
Other Considerations:
- Water heating accounts for about 20 percent of your home energy budget.
- A whole-house electric model costs $500-$700.
- A whole-house gas model costs $1,000-$2,000.
- Electric models are generally cheaper to install than gas.
- Natural gas is less expensive now, but expected to surpass electricity in the coming years.
- A standard bathtub holds about 35 gallons, soaking tubs hold between 45-80 gallons.
If it's time to get a new water heater and you want to know if switching to a tankless unit will save you money in the long run, compare the yellow "Energy Guide" stickers on your current heater and the tankless model that best suits your needs. This sticker will give you a good idea of what you can expect. Then weigh in all the expense factors that come with going tankless, including venting costs and gas line or electricity upgrades. Once you know the total costs involved, compare this to the cost of a new tank model and then figure out your energy costs for each. The amount of time it will take to make back your money with your monthly savings is called the payback period. You should also consider that a storage tank heater will need to be replaced again in about ten years -- you'll get roughly 15-20 years of use from your tankless model.
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DIGC302 Critique of Get Game
Over the course of this semester, I have been following the project of Angus Baillie and Olivia Harris, which they have coined 'Get Game'.
In an attempt to make digital games and gaming culture more relatable for the typical, non-gamer student, Angus and I workshopped a couple of ideas at the beginning of the session. We accidentally stumbled across the idea of creating an application that would work like Tinder but with regards to digital games; matching individuals to a game that would suit them.
While creating a Smartphone app seemed a little difficult, the idea of crafting a project that could pair different individuals with a particular game seemed ingenious. It tackled the notion of making gaming culture more inviting by offering non-gamers the chance to find a game they might enjoy without getting overwhelmed in the excess of digital games that are available.
Angus explained the basis of the idea: "Get Game is just a way of getting people connected with games, where those people aren't necessarily assumed to be well versed in the gaming language."
The concept seemed to be workable, and as a non-gamer, I was enthused to follow the progress of Get Game as an objective, third party outsider. To help manifest the idea, Olivia jumped on board. The two then refined their aim: To create a platform that will connect different individuals to a game that suits their personality.
In their Beta presentation, Angus touched on the concept of 'The Attention Economy', suggesting that there is no lack of games available, rather there lacks a channel to get these games to the right players. While there is an abundance of niche games, they all seem to struggle to gain traction and coverage and so they don't reach their intended target audience. Angus and Olivia wanted to use this as a basis for their aims. Angus explained, "If this one project can get a lot of attention, then it can direct the attention towards those smaller, niche games."
Angus and Olivia decided to use Twine to create Get Game. This seemed justifiable, as it is simple game-development software that requires very little programming experience and offers the ability to create paths of information, with different elements branching off of each other.
Viewing what Twine looked like in action made me reminiscent of the flowchart quizzes that often featured in the lame teen-magazines I used to muse over.
It followed suit with the structuring, as it would have a consistent set of options to begin with, that then led to a number of other options, ultimately leading to one end game. I was a little sceptical as I felt that a large database of games would become very confusing and overwhelming in the form of a story map, but Twine did sound promising.
Initially, Angus and Olivia had committed to only including indie games, however as time progressed they became more lenient with the content, adding in well-known games such as The Total War games. For a team that were so passionate about unveiling unchartered games, it was a little disappointing to see them fall back on the mainstream ones.
1. Develop a rough database of games to include in the system.
Most of the game data was gained through Angus' previous interaction with digital game culture, including his work on The Tertangala's gaming section, his press account for an online game store called itch.io, game podcasts he'd listened to, social justice game developers he followed on Twitter, and a website called Offworld, a new game site run solely by women.
2. Develop categories to sort the games into.
Angus and Olivia started sorting the games out based on characters, contextual settings, story, and the broad elements that defined the games. They then honed in on more specific features such as complexity of controls, how much time the game would demand, what other experiences the game fosters, and purchase price.
3. Add games into the Twine.
The pair then began to fill the Twine with content, building individual paths for each new game. At this point, Angus and Olivia were simultaneously developing different pathways in the Twine, while gaining more ideas of games to include. There are currently 57 games in the Twine, which proves a solid amount of effort went into creating content.
4. Add 'placeholders' into the Twine.
Angus added empty links into the Twine so that they would be reminded to fill those gaps with corresponding games.
5. Create a blog and host the HTML.
This proved to be a challenge for Angus and Olivia, who claimed to have tried everything to get the HTML package embedded within their website. To temporarily solve this issue, they uploaded the HTML to Dropbox, and linked to the Dropbox file from WordPress.
Constructive Feedback & Suggestions for Improvement
Angus and Olivia had already produced a rough beta version of their project for their seminar in week 8. It appeared to be a good foundation; the Twine infrastructure worked on the front end, and after I personally completed the Twine I was led to a game that I actually wouldn't mind trying out. Of course, there were some improvements to be made, but for the most part, the Twine was being developed quickly and it was successfully matching games with people.
For the Beta, I was hoping that many adjustments had been made to the Twine, however they had not. There was still no integration of a 'back' button within the Twine, which would've allowed users to return to the previous question in case they changed their mind about an answer. There also seemed to be a glitch with the Restart button on the left sidebar that led to a JavaScript Alert:
Unfortunately, there were still a number of empty links too. In some cases, the user was left with only one option for each question, forcing them down a single path with no alternatives.
While I understand that the back end of the Twine is more complex than it appears for the user, it would've been great to see each link active, with a game appearing at the end of every prospective path of branches. I know that Angus and Olivia needed to conduct an extensive amount of brainstorming and research to get their idea off the ground, so it's unfortunate that their hard work is hard to see. However, I think if they used database software, like Microsoft Access but more advanced, there would've been less work required when filling the Twine paths. Angus and Olivia had to create a new set of branches for every game that they included, which is highly time consuming. Creating a database, with preset categories, drop down options, and consistent paths would've saved a lot of energy, as all of the questions/categories would've been pre-emptively sitting there.
For the most part, I felt that there was little progress made between the week 8 seminar and the beta demonstration. Despite this, I was impressed when they presented a WordPress site, which featured a survey that users could fill out to submit a game they'd like to see in the Twine. This was a good idea as it decreased their workload with regards to data collection. The remainder of the website was simple, and featured a brief description of Get Game, Twitter integration, and a link to the Twine's HTML.
This was the major deal breaker. The Twine's HTML package was available on Dropbox, and so a link to the Dropbox file was what featured on the webpage. This didn't seem very intuitive. Not only is the Twine essentially hidden from the public, but it feels as though you have to go through a number of loopholes before actually reaching the Twine. It would've been beneficial to host the Twine somewhere else, or attempt to embed it into WordPress rather than offer a separate HTML package. I suggested that Angus and Olivia purchase a domain name and host their site on WordPress.org (not WordPress.com). This way, they can embed the HTML package in their Public HTML file, or can install a custom HTML plug-in that will allow them to embed their HTML in a blog post without WordPress altering its structure.
I loved the Get Game concept, and if the Twine had been closer to completion for the Beta, I would've been far more impressed. If Angus and Olivia can make those vital changes before they submit it, Get Game will be one solid final project.


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Minister of Communications, Dr Edward Omane-Boamah, has commended Dimensions Data, a global ICT solutions and service provider, for spreading out into Ghana.
Recounting the "humble" beginnings of the South African company at a ceremony to launch their operations in Ghana last week, the Minister recalls that the first decade of Dimension Data's history was characterised by strong domestic growth as they became a home-grown success story in the South African market and subsequently got listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1987.
"Thirty years down the line, Dimension Data counts 23,000 employees, including 5,000 in Africa and the Middle East, 58 countries on 5 continents, and one passion: to find ways to use ICT to make their clients' businesses work better", the Minister said.
He said the entry of the South African IT company was "smartly opportunistic" and urged them to invest in Ghana as they have done in other countries.
Dimension Data recently started operations in Ghana to increase its presence in West Africa. /business/2014/April-13th/dimension-data-opens-office-in-ghana-to-increase-west-african-footprint.php
The Group has been operating in the West African market for a decade with an operation in Nigeria.Hitherto, it operated in Ghana through Internet Solutions Company.
"We're very excited to be expanding our African footprint. The market in West Africa is growing and Ghana is going to play a key role in our growth journey. We look forward to working closely with our clients and partners in Ghana and develop locally relevant solutions to help clients accelerate their business ambitions," said Glad Dibetso, Managing Director, West Africa at Dimension Data.
Speaking to JOY BUSINESS at the opening of the Ghana office, Rakesh Parbhoo, Executive for Emerging Markets at Dimension Data says internet penetration in the country has reached levels that make it important for the country to start reaping its benefits.
"There's a lot of research done around how internet penetration and internet capacity actually has an impact on GDP. This will bring new type of business, it will change the way institutions and companies do business with businesses, the way they do business with their customers, the way the government connects to its citizens.
"And already we're hearing stories about how everything that used to be difficult, getting passports and drivers licences will now be something you can do online from home without having to travel long distances to be able to go and spend time queuing to get these things. Internet banking is quite prevalent throughout the world, more and more that is happening on the mobile new technologies" he noted.
Dimension Data is a $5.8 billion global systems integration business that specializes in technology solutions and services for both local and multinational clients.
The company founded in 1983 is a member of the NTT Group.
Dr Omane-Boamah informed the managers of Dimensions Data that the IT ecosystem in Ghana was booming and has been a major driver of Ghana's economy.
"I look forward to your team delivering innovative services to organisations in Ghana, turning their ambitions into achievements, and thus contributing to the transformation of the lives of our citizens, growth of our economy and to large extent Africa's transformational agenda", Dr Omane-Boamah stated.
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Homage to the Shack Tater
>> Sunday, July 13, 2008
Other than my family there ain't a whole lotta stuff I miss about Arkansas. Catfish would be one thing, good barbecue would be another. Oh the barbecue. And when I say barbecue I mean pork. Pulled pork. With a vinegary sauce. And cole slaw. Put in on bread and it's a sandwich, put it on a spud and it's a Shack Tater. I do big pink puffy heart love the Shack Tater.
I still can't get catfish here, but thankfully Joe's came along or I might've had to move back. Joe's pulls some good pork, and makes a real nice sauce, but I sure do wish they'd learn to make good slaw. I've learned to love a slaw-less sandwich, but the tater? Needs the slaw. Sometimes, when you want it done right, you just gotta do it yourself.
1. baked potato
2. pulled pork
3. coleslaw
4. butter and sour cream
5. bbq sauce
Radishes are not a traditional accompaniment but do a fine job of filling up an empty space.


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An oldie (a year old, actually), but such a goodie that I figured I'd post it right here:
I know, it's, like, a total mystery.
To be clear, though (as if this hasn't been hammered home quite enough already): The reason secularists are so vocal in attacking the Catholic Church over the clerical child abuse scandal isn't just because some priests rape kids; after all, child abuse can occur anywhere, and I haven't seen any data indicating that clergymen are any more likely to bugger minors than any other group. (And no, it's also not – mostly – because the Church is basically the ideological arch-enemy of secularists.) The real outrage is the systematic and decades-long cover-up, the explicit silencing of victims and constant reshuffling of sexual predators from parish to parish, and the deliberate orders from top church leaders never to report abuses to local law enforcement, thus allowing the problem to continue unabated indefinitely. No other groups or organizations have gone to anywhere near the lengths the Church has to try and sweep the whole mess under the rug for so long. And now, they act surprised when they're the prime target for people's ire?
Anyone not sickened to their heart by such a spectacle – or better yet, who spends their time excusing it and attacking the actual victims – should immediately turn in their humanity card and take the next rocket ship into the Sun.
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Beauty pageants are the Olympics of role models" - Miss USA 1983. Ambition, compassion, grace, positivity and intellect, I believe are essential qualities to becoming a good role model for young women; qualities which I feel I possess. I am a naturally inquisitive person and I love to learn; not only on an academic level but culturally too. I think being globally aware is a fundamental attribute to becoming a potential Ambassador for both Wales and Great Britain. After gaining all A*'s, A's and 2 B's at GCSE, I went on to study A-levels in Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics. I have always had a passion for figures and problem solving, so naturally I chose a career path which reflected that. I am currently studying Accounting and Finance, in Cardiff. Following this, I wish to further my career by completing a Masters Degree in Forensic accountancy; a field I find fascinating yet challenging. For the past 10 years I have been working to raise money for a cause close to my heart. After losing my Nan to a lengthy battle with cancer, my mother and I decided to give a little back to those who looked after her in her final days. Together we set up a small charity, whose concern was to raise money for the local chemotherapy unit. I also have a keen interest in sport, competing regionally in both swimming and athletics. As well as this I have been privileged enough to play rugby in the Millennium Stadium during a junior Ladies Welsh tournament, three years ago. I look forward to the final and the opportunity to take the title of Miss Universe GB.
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Friday, October 21, 2016
Mini Movie Reviews #9
I'm not even a hundred percent sure why I wanted to see this one and I didn't know it was based on a book until after it ended, but somehow we ended up seeing it. And while it was a beautiful movie it was so sad and, well, kind of pointless. I'm not sure I fully understood it. Maybe I need to read the book. Needless to say, it wasn't one I'm recommending to people
Oh, Bridget, you amuse me so. This one I had to see because I love the original so much. And while it wasn't as good as the first it was definitely better than the second and I found myself giggling the whole time. Which is more than I can say for my poor husband who graciously went with me.
Another book based movie. If you may remember, I really didn't like the book of this one. It was exciting but I could not stand a single character. So why did I see the movie? Because I was curious about the adaption and because I like Emily Blunt so much. I was hoping because I liked her it would make the character more sympathetic. And it worked! I didn't love the movie or anything but I liked Emily. If you liked the book of this one and are curious at all about the movie, I think it's worth a watch.
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Interesting. I haven't seen any of these movies and the only book I've read is THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN. I'll definitely watch the movie adaptation when it comes to the dollar theater. Have you read the Bridget Jones books? Are they any good? So many people have raved about THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS that I feel like I need to read it; I'm not chomping at the bit, though. Glad you enjoyed two out of three of these!ReplyDelete
Good to know about The Girl of the Train. I do want to see it. Maybe next week since you didn't WAIT FOR ME!!! I kid, I kid.ReplyDelete
I was excited to read The Girl on the Train when the buzz was just starting, but the mixed reviews since have made me a little wary. Maybe I will just watch the movie instead. Anyways, I enjoyed reading your reviews. :)ReplyDelete
I just saw The Girl on the Train tonight and felt the same. While I liked the book, I didn't like any of the characters. Emily Blunt made Rachel so much more likeable.ReplyDelete
I thought The Light Between Oceans was a pretty good read ... until I got to the end. And I hated the ending. Which is why I didn't go see the movie. If you do end up reading it, let me know what you think of how the author chose to end it. Because I didn't like it.ReplyDelete
I've been wanting to see all three of these! I'm sorry to hear you didn't like The Light Between Oceans. I thought the previews looked good but then again, they tend to use the most interesting bits for the previews. I read The Girl On The Train and LOVED it so I'm hoping that I'll love the movie (if you didn't like the book and liked the movie, I think my chances are pretty good!). Lovely reviews, Jenny!ReplyDelete
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I am curious about The Light Between Oceans but didn't love the book enough to see the movie in theatres.ReplyDelete
I have no interest to see any of these movies. I do love Emily Blunt, but I did not like that book so much! I can't just can't bring myself to see it.ReplyDelete
I was curious about The Girl on the Train movie because the trailers made it look so good. I had the same problem with the book so yay that she's more likeable! Maybe I'll have to watch it when it goes to the redbox.ReplyDelete


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A UConn Huskies blog written by a UConn Student. All Husky sports chronicled here.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Welcome back to a New Season! And an Upcoming Schedule Too!
Well, there are about 10 days left until the first UConn athletic event, so here's the blog again! I was a bit delinquent in posting summaries towards the end of last year, but I assure you that will change this year! It should be an exciting year. Most of our men's soccer team is back, so this could be a good year for them. Field hockey is always powerful too. Women's soccer will look to rebound. Volleyball is up and coming, I think. And thus begins my 3rd year at UConn.
I am on campus taking summer courses, so I will be attending the first two weeks of games. Here is a tentative schedule from August 10 until August 26 (the Sunday before classes start).
As you surely know,
(Y) - Will Attend
(P) - Probably Attending
(M) - Might Attend
(D) - Doubtful to Attend
Friday, August 10:
7:00 PM: Women's soccer vs. Northeastern - exh. (Y)
Saturday, August 12:
1:00 PM: Women's soccer vs. LIU - exh. (Y)
7:00 PM: Men's soccer vs. UMass - exh. (Y)
Thursday, August 16:
12:00 PM: Women's field hockey vs. Quinnipiac - exh. (M) It depends on where I am with a final paper I have to write, and where I am with packing up my stuff to move from my summer dorm to my fall dorm
Friday, August 17:
7:00 PM: Women's soccer vs. UCLA (Y)
Saturday, August 18:
7:00 PM: Men's soccer vs. Stony Brook - exh. (Y)
Sunday, August 19:
12:00 PM: Field hockey vs. Boston College - exh. (D) I will probably attend the women's soccer game instead, since it's a regular season game.
1:00 PM: Women's soccer vs. Vermont (P) But I will definitely attend one of them
Friday, August 24:
7:00 PM: Women's soccer vs. Boston College (Y)
Saturday, August 25:
12:00 PM: Field hockey vs. Bucknell (Y)
7:00 PM: Men's Soccer vs. St. Francis NY (Y)
Sunday, August 26:
1:00 PM: Field hockey vs. Sacred Heart (M)
1:00 PM: Women's soccer vs. Maine (M)
Between the two, I'd say (P) for one of them
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Smart Cat Box
The original Smart Cat Box has added features if you have a cat with an inability to use a normal litter box. We use the parts shown at left, here, for our paralyzed cat. Either this way, or with the whole box connected, it is easy to collect urine samples.
Pilling Tools
The first tool we purchased was the one to the left. It is a pill crusher, and a pill cutter. We still find the crusher portion very useful when breaking down "horse pills" as our veterinarian calls them, to fit the contents into gelatine capsules we purchase as well, (see below).
We found that the crusher/splitter was a bit difficult to use for splitting as one could not see through the splitter to ensure one was in the proper position, so we purchased a second splitter that made life very easy.
Another very useful item that comes along with these gadgets is the gelatine capsule, and, when you manage to reduce the size of the pills, you can create very small capsules that are easily swallowed at the most difficult of times, as we found with Max when his throat was being squeezed by the cancer tumor. He still managed to swallow the #4 size capsule we purchase.
Catnip Tackle Bag
This is the greatest invention for housebound felines, and it is amazing how many uses they find for it over time, aside from getting out aggressions. It can also make a great cat version of a teddy bear to hug while sleeping, or as a pillow. It doesn't matter how old and tired these bags get, the cats have trouble with the letting go process once one has been identified as their specific possession.
Pet Muzzle
This is something I avoided using, and we had it sitting around "just in case" it was every needed. When we took in Thumper, he was terrified of having his nails clipped, however, I broke down and used the muzzle as he was 'brawling' with the other boys and causing tears in their skin, which was not good and something had to change. After a few sessions with the muzzle on, Thumper settled down to the point that I could attempt to do his nails without the muzzle, and now he is just fine, and the other cats are free of scratch wounds. In a multi cat household, I would now never be without a muzzle in my arsenal. The specific muzzle we use is made of nylon and covers the eyes.......most important feature.
Cat Harness
We have had several felines who have gradually been trained to be 'harness friendly' as the dangers far outweigh our boys' need for fresh air, particularly in our new home.
In the past, we have tried everything we could find locally, and ended up purchasing a harness meant for small dogs. Marmaduke used to love to have the harness put on for evening walks, and it was stress free for all of us to be able to give our cats some fresh air time when they wanted it, without fear of losing them. One time, Hamlet and I were outside after dark and we walked around the corner of a building right into the path of a coyote. Without the harness, we would definitely have lost him.
A word of warning here in that Legolas learned how to press against the pavement to hold the harness still while he put his front paws above his head and slid out of this well made harness, so we have yet to find the Purrfect harness that will allow him time outdoors.


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Saturday, April 29, 2006
Sometimes I don't know why I bother with this when I only have time to update once a week and by the time I update I have a huge backlog and this is a
- The Sci-Fi Marathon was awesome. I even almost managed to stay up the whole time (I nodded off for twenty minutes or so during BATMAN, which since I've seen it dozens of time was no big whoop). But aside from the asswipe behind me who thought was making with the less-than-witty snide remarks almost the entire 24 hours I had a blast. Can't expect perfection in a theatre full of nerds, I guess.
Moving on, the movies themselves. Highlights were, as expected, FORBIDDEN PLANET and THE CRAZIES, neither of which I'd seen previously. FORBIDDEN PLANET is pretty widely acknowledged as a classic of its kind, and the rep is justified. It lacks the cheesiness common to most sci-fi films of the period, in large part because genre trappings aside it's a psychological drama (that the monster is largely unseen helps). As a result, the subtext- that no matter how advanced man becomes, he's still a slave to his primal nature- is taken much more seriously than in most old-school Hollywood sci-fi movies, as well as being seen with much more complexity. And while the human performers are uniformly good without being show-offy, the real star is of course Robby the Robot, who also turned up at the marathon in the old TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Uncle Simon" and in a villainous role in the dopey, forgettable THE INVISIBLE BOY.
On the basis of George A. Romero's best work, I'd say that his pet theme is the ease with which the human race is thrown into chaos and turmoil, be it as a result of zombies or, in the case of THE CRAZIES, an outbreak of a disease in a small town. While the Army swiftly tries to impose order and various government departments bicker over ways to fight the disease, social order collapses and the townspeople are basically left to fend for themselves against not only the army who would round them up but also the disease itself, which they know little about. There are moments of human feeling in the film, but Romero is less interested in baiting the audience's emotions than examining the messiness emotions can cause when confronted by an unflinching terror. The film's final reel is at least as bleak as the climax of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, with a deliberately hollow happy ending following a much more troubling one. THE CRAZIES definitely deserves to be ranked alongside Romero's best work.
Alas, I'd already seen quite a few films at the marathon, and of the ones that were new to me, not all of the films were good. One of the area premieres, the Russian mockumentary FIRST ON THE MOON, was pretty disastrous. An account of an abortive, apocryphal Soviet space mission back in the 30s, the film is ugly to look at and narratively incoherent. Not to mention un-funny- I wouldn't have pegged it for a comedy but for the presence of a little person on the flight crew, with resulting failed sight gags. I don't think this went over well with the crowd at all, and I gotta say I was with them.
Another unpopular choice was the inclusion of half a dozen entries from the 1943 serial THE BATMAN. The politically incorrect portrayal of the Japanese supervillain was good for a few chuckles, as well as the endless scenes of Batman and Robin getting the shit beat out of them, but the Batman here bears little to no resemblance to the modern incarnation, and I even found myself missing the campiness of the Adam West series.
And what Sci-Fi Marathon would be complete without a Japanese monster movie? This year's selection was GODZILLA: FINAL WARS, which was about half an awesome Godzilla movie. The problem is that director Ryuhei Kitamura, who previously dropped VERSUS on us, doesn't really care all that much about making the kickass Godzilla-movie-to-end-all-Godzilla-movies that this really ought to have been. In other words, he concentrates wayyyyyyyyyy too much on the damn PEOPLE. Come on dude, it's Godzilla. People don't come to see choppily edited kung fu or interplanetary warfare. They want guys in monster suits clumsily knocking each other around. And while the early scenes of this nature have a disappointing highlight-reel vibe (Big G is missing for the entire first half of the movie), once Godzilla joins the fray it's pretty fun. Glad to see Godzuki on the scene too, keeping his childlike sense of wonder even after (SPOILER) he grows to formidable size.
For ratings, see my screening log.
Other stuff of note:
- United 93 (2006, Paul Greengrass, seen in theatre)- this is pretty much a textbook definition of onscreen immediacy, as Greengrass places the audience squarely on 9/11, telling the story almost as though 9/12 has yet to arrive. Occasional lingering on grief aside the film is hardly exploitative, but this is nonetheless a horror film, and quite an effective one at that, and like most of the best it starts off fairly quietly, setting the scene and observing as the horror gradually unfolds. As the day transpires, we alternate between the military and civilian controls trying to make sense of the escalating chaos and the fateful flight itself. The scenes on the ground hold a certain fascination, as each of the control rooms operates professionally and to the best of their ability, but due to various factors- government red tape, procedures, lack of information, perhaps an offscreen reading of "My Pet Goat" in a Florida classroom- they find themselves powerless to stop the situation (so pervasive is the film's immediacy that it took me almost an hour to recognize DePalma stalwart Gregg Henry). But the film's final hour confines itself to the last minutes on United 93, as the passengers on the hijacked plane use the airphones to discover what has happened on the ground and eventually formulate a plan to take back the plane, less out of the need for survival than a fight-or-flight response to the knowledge that they'll die like the others regardless of their actions. To be honest I would need to see this again to properly rate it, mostly because I don't entirely trust my feelings when it comes to a film this visceral- it's hard to discount my immediate reaction, but it's this reaction that hampers my ability to distance myself from the film enough to judge it objectively. All the same, this is a work that demands to be seen, and more importantly, a very good film. Rating: ***.
- Friends With Money (2006, Nicole Holofcener, seen in theatres)- meh. Might have worked a little better with a lead actress other than Jennifer Aniston- yeah, her looks are distracting, but this is only really damaging because she's not a deep enough actress to convince us she's a single L.A. woman with a low-paying job and few prospects who would subject herself to multiple demeaning dates with a jerk who takes her money, as well as saying yes to a date with a schlubby slob without a job. Of course, I'm sure people like her exist in the world, but she didn't make me believe it. And the actresses around her do little except playing their usual types- McDormand and Keener have a veritable sass-and-smartass showdown throughout the movie, and Cusack gets so little screen time that she doesn't get much chance to be anything but quirky. It's entertaining enough in the moment, but as I said before I didn't buy what the film was selling. Rating: **.
- I compiled a top 10 Best Picture Winners list for Edward Copeland's poll tonight, with the intent of adding commentary sometime in the future. Okay guys, stop laughing. Anyhoo, the list.
1. Annie Hall
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. Casablanca
4. West Side Story
5. On the Waterfront
6. The Apartment
7. The Godfather
8. It Happened One Night
9. Unforgiven
10. Rebecca
Comments to come, perhaps. The top 5 are in my top 100, so maybe I'll just do links with abbreviated remarks.
- I went to the doctor's office yesterday for some blood tests. I was pretty proud of myself, as for the first time I actually watch the blood being taken instead of closing my eyes like a wussy. But my tough-guy act was short lived, as I still had to deal with taking off the bandage last night before I showered. Sensitive skin plus copious arm hair plus adhesive bandage equals bad combination, folks. The mark from the needle had all but disappeared, but now I have two painful scars from the bandage. Maybe I'm wrong, but aren't bandages supposed to help wounds heal, not create new ones?
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- Donna B. said...
I love THE CRAZIES -- glad you finally got to see it. "Wow, these white suits really stand out!"
And that's a nice #2 best picture winner -- actually that's my favorite movie of all time. So how you can put the admittedly wonderful but often woefully uncinematic ANNIE HALL above it is beyond me.
- May 04, 2006 10:49 PM
- Paul C. said...
Well, much of my ANNIE HALL love is tainted by the fact that for years I identified with Alvy's trouble with women. Mostly in high school and college, actually, when I would watch it at least monthly to console myself. So yeah, I know it's uncinematic, but I don't think it would work any other way, much less be completely awesome.
I also enjoy the added charge of ranking such an uncinematic film at the top of this list because it flies so resolutely in the face of what Hollywood so often rewards on Oscar Night. Not a blockbuster, not an epic, not an "Important" film, not an adaptation, and not even a L.A.-friendly movie- this is almost certainly the strangest film ever to win the big prize. Not that this was my deciding factor, but it's icing on the ol' cake.
And I take the lack of response on the next post up to mean you never wanted to punch a filmmaker in the face?
- May 05, 2006 12:54 AM


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With a few basic materials you can make a hardback book cover at home. The hardback book cover can be used to cover a paperback book or your own manuscript. If you are using the hardback book cover for your own manuscript, you will first need to print out the pages of the book. The pages must be in a neat, ordered stack with no irregular pages sticking out. But before you bind the book, you will need to know how to make the hardback book cover.
Look at the elements that make up the book cover. The book cover consists of the front and back cover and the spine that runs between the front and back cover.
Cut two pieces of cardboard. One piece will be the front cover, and the other will be the back cover. They should be identical in size, and should be half an inch longer and wider than the pages of your book. For example, if the book is 6 by 9 inches, each piece of cardboard should measure 6½ by 9 ½ inches.
Measure the thickness of the book. The spine will need to be as wide as the thickness of the book. If the stack of pages for the book is an inch high, then the spine will be 1 inch wide.
Calculate how much nonstretch cloth you will need to cover the book. One way to do this is to set the covers side by side, allowing room for the spine. Measure the diameter of the area and cut a piece of fabric that is 1 inch wider and deeper than the measured area of the book cover. For example, if each piece of cardboard measured 6 ½ by 9 ½ inches, and the spine was 1 inch wide, then the three together would measure 14 by 9 ½ inches. You would need a piece of fabric that was 15 by 10 ½ inches. Cut a rectangular piece of fabric that size.
Lay the fabric right side down on a work surface. Cover one cardboard piece with glue. Press it onto the back side of the fabric, positioning it at one end of the fabric, half an inch from the top of the fabric, half an inch from the bottom of the fabric and half an inch from one end of the fabric. Use a ruler to keep the fabric and cardboard piece exactly half an inch along all three edges.
Repeat with the second cardboard piece, aligning it with the other end of the fabric. There should be exactly 1 inch of space (or the appropriate width of the spine) between the front and back covers.
Turn the fabric edges inward, wrapping around the edges of the cardboard, and use glue to secure the fabric the cardboard. Work out all the air bubbles, and allow to dry.
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The stairs to the loft are right off the kitchen/dining room area so I am still right in the heart of my family while I create! I just finished going through my space and purging supplies, so I still need to reorganize and put stuff in better spaces --- but that will have to wait!
Here you go -- mess and all!
View from the top of the stairs - the back wall of the loft:
View from the sofa looking at my work space and over the edge of the loft - brown wall goes all the way downstairs in to the entry way hall of the house:
One wall - this wall has a large tall art table on it with shelving above:
The other wall - this wall has most of my daughter's painting supplies on it along with her canvases:
My to do list --- with a love note from my daughter:
Baskets of mini books:
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02 May 2011
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Yawn.
Despite the hilarious "typo" on Faux News (stay classy, Fox), it was correctly reported elsewhere (literally, everywhere else) that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a raid on a compound in Abbottabad1, Pakistan.
But will it matter? Has it, as someone on Twitter suggested, been worth the two wars, ten years and over a trillion dollars to kill one man? The spontaneous crowds outside the Whitehouse chanting "USA, USA" and singing "We are the champions" would suggest that action was not entirely without value.
Much as I would like to believe that it was worth it, I fear I will be disappointed. Were Al-Quaeda to assassinate Obama, would the US cease attacks on terrorist organisations, or adopt a less interventionist foreign policy? I think we know the answer.
It is doubtless cathartic to an injured US that the man named as their Most Wanted, the embodiment of their Terror, is no more. That bin Laden's death may not alter in any real way the level of global terrorism, or the perceived threat to the US, is secondary, at least for the moment.
Do we suppose that Al-Quaeda consists entirely of mangalores who will cease the fight against the imperialist agressors now that their organisation has been decapitated? If we assume that terror attacks on the US are as a result of US foreign policy, then the removal of a single man by the US in no way diminishes that threat. If anything, it will strengthen resolve in the caves of Afghanistan and elsewhere.
The core texts of both Christianity and Islam have the principle of "an eye for an eye", and if the last decade has taught us anything, it's that the US and Al-Quaeda take the Word of God very seriously, especially when it can be shown to provide approval for the machinations of men. The cultures of both sides demand retribution, so this is but the latest battle in war with no end.
While this is a huge political victory - that may help propel Obama to a second term - and one that soothes old wounds, it remains to be seen if it affects Global Terror in any way.
1 Anyone else hope there's a Costello-abad?
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Monday, September 1, 2014
During my recent visit to Poland I noticed that fava beans had become very present at farmers' markets. Some sellers offered them in pods but most often they were sold in bags, already shelled. Fava was displayed in large quantities at every stand and seemed even more popular that cabbage. I also saw fava beans on the menu of many restaurants, among them at the restaurant offering molecular cuisine.
Inspired by this newly discovered popularity of fava beans in my native country, I decided to post today a fava bean spread, which I had made just before I went to Poland.
Since fava bean has always been very popular in the Mediterranean cuisine, I decided to use in my spread some of the quality ingredients of this region. I cooked fava, puréed it, and seasoned it with olive oil, lemon juice, and thick Greek yogurt. You cannot ever go wrong with such ingredients so the spread turned out very tasty. At a midsummer party we threw in our garden, it become a big hit and many guests asked for the recipe.
Fava must be double shelled so the spread is smooth and delicate. You can husk it after cooking or use the frozen double-shelled fava bean, which you can buy some food stores. This spread can be served on a fresh baguette or on crispy crostini with extra shredded asiago cheese on top. You can also use it as a dip with baked pita chips or grissini.
Fava Bean Spread
1 lb fava beans, double shelled,
1 small garlic clove
2 tbsp lemon juice,
3 tbsp olive oil,
3 tbsp cup Greek yogurt, or Lebne Kefir Cheese,
1/2 small red onion,
2 tbsp fresh mint leaves, optional
salt and pepper to taste.
1. Cook fava beans until soft. For double-shelled it will be about 5 minutes, for other about 20 minutes, after which you cool the beans and husk from white skins.
2. Place beans in a blender, add lemon juice, 2 tbsp olive oil, garlic and purée until almost smooth.
3.Add yogurt or Lebne cheese, season with salt and pepper. Mix thoroughly. You can also add chopped mint.
4. Transfer spread to a medium serving bowl, drizzle with the remaining olive oil and decorate with slices of red onion.
Serve at room temperature as a spread
or a dip.
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Howling at the Harvest Moon last night from my back deck! You know it is fall at the farm when the animals play in the glow from the moon and love is in the air. It is breeding time for the Goat Girls around our pastures and as the saying goes "Everyone looks their best in moonlight"
This is Ebony, she is my senior Cashmere girl (15 years old) and one of my dearest friend. She came to me from a kill auction where she was slated for meat. She was a mental mess and the owner hated her. She was expecting but when she came here she threw herself against the side of the barn until she lost her baby. I wondered what I had gotten myself into. Many breeders told me to send her back to the kill auction but I knew she just needed love. A year of slow steps to get her to trust me and then her first baby here (BeBe) a top of the line billy which I delivered because he was a butt first presentation. After I cleaned off the baby and handed it back to her we made a bond that has lasted all these 11 years. Each year she wants me right by her when she delivers even though she has never needed my help since. Our long looks into each others eyes while the contractions grow let her know that I am in it for the long haul. Each morning when I step on my deck she is the first to give me a shout out. It is amazing to me that my plan for this farm NEVER included goats and now they are the only animals I raise. I howl at the moon and give thanks for what life has given me and my four legged family.
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I have some stuff written, like a crummy rough draft for the next review that needs some serious rewrite and revision. I know you guys mostly like my reviews, but I don't shitpost anymore, I put actual determination and effort in what I create now.
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Yin and yang never seemed more appropriate an analogy.
So. I was playing Batman: Arkham City for the last couple of weeks, even though it had to compete for playing time with NBA 2K12.
In a word, the game was beautiful. The mood, the story, the twists and turns, and the game's ability to take the characters in very chilling directions that you don't expect them to do in the comic book medium really makes for a very gripping game overall.
I won't spoil you when it comes to the game, nor will I even do a game review, for that matter, but the game is great, and I felt an immense sense of satisfaction when I completed the game last night.
Then, during the end credits, a voice message from the Joker came up, and I started to hear him sing this song. It was creepy and sublime, all at the same time.
So sue me, I grew up on Mark Hamill as the Joker and appreciated his genius far more than Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, and Heath Ledger combined. Mark Hamill, in my book, is the Joker, and it's only his voice I ever hear when I read comics with the Joker in it.
This was a perfect sendoff for Hamill, who pretty much retired the role of the Clown Prince Of Crime for himself after Arkham City, as he has explicitly stated that he would only come back for an animated adaptation of "The Killing Joke" but nothing more.
I've had this song on loop for quite a while already, while writing this. Let's just say that this version of the song is haunting, in every sense of the word.