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If you have never visited Santols Tropical Fruit Home Page, I would like to invite you to do so. The URL is: http://www.santol.01webhosting.com/index.html For the first time ever, I am offering my Subtropical Fruit Culture class, a class that has been taught at Broward Community College (in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) for many years, live online. My web site has gained an international reputation, and many who are not able to come to Ft. Lauderdale to take this class have asked me to do something like this. Now I am prepared to do it. The class will begin 24 October. I cannot offer college credits for this class. I am doing it completely independently of the college. This is a class for those who want the knowledge. All the details for the class can be found on my web site, including a RealPlayer introductory movie. I invite you to check the details and contact me if you are interested, or have any questions. I believe this is an excellent opportunity for anyone, anywhere in the world who would like to take such a class. I dont think anything quite like this has been done before, and I hope it becomes something that will be of benefit to everyone who has a serious interest in raising tropical fruit plants.


text: Been very jealous of the UK, they have gotten some absolutely beautiful limited edition color SEs (Santana, 245, SECU24). Recently I noticed the Cherry Sunburst migrated from the SE245 Soapbar to the SE245 on the web site, and is starting to show up under "coming soon" sections. And we've added Grey Black to the SECU24, but some web sites list Vintage Burst and Black Cherry as additional colors (not pictured on the PRS site) AND I've seen Purple. Is there an official "global" guide to all currently available SE colors, and who's selling them, and whether they are limited, store exclusive, etc.? I love my SECU24, but if given the choice, I felt Tobacco was the lesser of two evils; I felt the blue was too dark to bring out the top. I would have chosen Vintage Burst or Purple any day of the week.

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Hi friends! As I continue my goal of one dinner party a month, during 2012, I give you my version of Oktoberfest!
My menu was going to be a quintessential take on my grandmother's menu. To start, I'd make my grandmother's potato dumplings. They are crazy good, but really hideous! They are also a cheap way to use up stale bread and to stretch a few potatoes. I'd make sauerkraut, but my take on it! And then there would be an amazing pork roast.
The February dinner party was mid-week. I had to apologize to my guests. Since I was coming straight home from work, I didn't have time to have the table pre-set and covered with linens and candles and all fancy pants. You know what? That's not important! If you have great company and good food, that's all you need. Cheers!
The Dumplings!
The potato dumplings are store bought sandwich bread, broken into little pieces and mixed with salt & pepper and pureed, raw potatoes. (pureed with water). Squish it all together and make smallish, baseball sized balls. Boil and serve, with gravy! The above photo are the uncooked, formed dumplings.
These are the cooked dumplings. I think they take about 14 minutes to cook. In a big pot of boiling water, add them, give them a gentle stir, so they don't stick to the bottom of the pot. And let them cook until they float to the top of the water. Give them a few more minutes to cook all the way through. The first time you make them, test one by cutting in half and making sure it's cooked through & hot all the way. Serve these babies piping hot.
Sidenote about the dumplings. When I was a kid, we'd reheat them either cut in half/chunks and covered in gravy. Or, if mom was being awesome, she'd slice them and fry them in butter. The outsides would get a little crispy and the inside would stay soft and hot. Still, best served with gravy.
The Roast!
The roast is this. A big fatty piece of pork. Season with salt, pepper and a mild spice blend. Sear it in hot oil, then braise it until it goes to heaven. Braising liquid includes white wine, cider and broth. Include some fresh thyme, bay leaf and chunks of onion and carrots. I let this roast go for several hours. The bone slipped out and the rest of the roast pulled apart with the back of a spoon! Pull into large chunks and remove excess fat. Save the braising liquid. Drain excess fat and use it to make a gravy. I cooked the roast a few days in advance, it hangs out in the fridge very nicely. Reheat in a pot, with some liquid, over low heat. I used the gravy, which I also made in advance, and a little water.
The Sauerkraut!
For the suaerkraut, I use "fresh" kraut. Usually found either in the meat section of the grocer, or the dairy section. Rinse the kraut. Then, in a roasting pan, add 1/2-1 grated, peeled apple. A splash of apple cider and chicken broth. A pinch or two of caraway seeds and some salt & pepper. Cover, and cook until heated through. Remove the cover and let roast for a few more minutes. A few pieces of kraut will caramelize. Super tasty. Tangy and a little bitter without being pungent and IN YOUR FACE!
Serve it all up, nice and hot! I added some roasted green beans (it's a favorite), a good German or Austrian dry white wine, or beer!
Dinner was lovely. We talked for hours afterwards, especially about what was inspiring us, creatively!
Stay tuned...the March party is right around the corner. Just in time for St. Patrick's Day. Menu is selected. And, since it is also a mid-week meal, much of it will be made in advance on the weekend. Mmmm, delicious!
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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WOOSTER, OH – Alumni will fondly recall the tradition of I.S. Monday, our annual celebration of the completion of I.S. Today, seniors celebrate their hard work by donning their commemorative t-shirts and marching in the I.S. parade. We salute you, seniors, and wish you luck on your upcoming oral defenses!


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You know Carlos Quentin had surgery yesterday to repair a torn meniscus and clear out some loose cartilage on his right knee. The Padres reported the surgery occurred at the Scripps Clinic Carmel Valley, and that the plan is he will return to playing in 4-6 weeks.
Let's do a little tea-reading here. No one has reported where specifically Quentin's meniscus tore or how serious it was. We do know he tweaked his knee on 9 Mar and played through it for a week before deciding on the surgery. My detailed medical knowledge, culled from a single Google search on meniscus tears, can be summarized in this web link.
What is a meniscus? It's the shock absorber between your leg bones that meet at the knee joint so they don't rub together.
Anywho, it is shaped like a horseshoe in your knee. You can tear it in any number of ways, as evidenced in the below picture:
So where did Quentin tear his meniscus? Longitudinal tears can heal themselves over time since that part of the meniscus has good blood flow; surgery usually is not required. Based on the description of the procedure (trimming the tear) we can rule out transverse as well. I think it most likely he had a flap or torn horn kind of injury. That would also be consistent with finding loose cartilage in the knee when they did the arthroscope.
The good news about this procedure is it can be done on a not real invasive basis. Once the swelling goes down and some healing is evident Quentin can start his rehab exercises. Again I'm guessing, but I'd think he'd be ready to start rehab early next week, then work through 3 weeks of stabilization exercises, a week of extended spring training, and a week in the minors before returning to the big club.
How does this impact the lineup? Well, it virtually guarantees Will Venable starting the season as your everyday RF. It likely means Jesus Guzman starts the year as the everyday LF. Venable has logged the most games in RF (7), and Guzman was second to Quentin in games played in LF, so far this spring (through Sunday's games).
This is good, because it means Guzman's bat will be in the lineup every day the first 2 weeks of the season. You know, only the team's best hitter last season (by OPS+). The decision on how to keep his bat in the everyday lineup has been kicked down the road, and we'll look at that in a future post as well.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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The forests of Ireland have given us some of the most interesting woods to craft your pen from. Each pen is its own way pays homage to the tree and the country it grew in.
Irish Bog Oak.......it's not every day you get to hold something 5,000 years old! Older than the pyramids this wood is amazing to hold, its colour so dark its feel so cool, just amazing. We finish the wood in a special way to protect it but not to hide its colour and feel, such a special wood to hold
Irish Elm......Considered one of the sacred trees in the Celtic world, elm has often been associated with Mother and Earth Goddesses. In rural Ireland, the elm tree was said to possess magical properties and was considered to be the home of the fairies.
Irish Oak......The king of the Irish forest, revered by ancient druids for the power to keep away bad spirits, in the Ogham alphabet the word "duir" means the door and is linked to Oak thus linking the tree to the doorway to knowledge and wisdom. A strong and beautiful wood with deep grain which we capture in our hard wearing finish
Irish Cherry......Not surprising that a tree which produces such stunning blossoms also presents us with a beautiful fine-grained wood in red to brown with delicate grain, a very elegant wood that polishes to a beautiful high shine, any pen we make with it is very smooth to hold.
Irish Yew......Yew tree is a symbol of everlasting life. The oldest Yew trees in Ireland are estimated to have lived for some 800 years. The wood has medicinal properties and is used in the treatment of cancer. Lovely range of brown colours and like Cherry polishes to a beautiful smooth high shine.
Irish Spalted Beech......Many timbers can spalt but Beech is one of the most beautiful. Spalting is when certain fungi grow on fallen trees and leave a most attractive pattern in the wood. The process takes 2 to 3 years to reach the ideal stage to cut & season the timber. Creates the most stunning pens as the colours are just stunning.
Walnut......Black Walnut is sought after for its great beauty and toughness, from Central America, this wood is a luscious milk chocolate like colour, finishes so smoothly and will be a talking point every time the pen is used in public
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White Pearlesent......the light appears to dance in the pen body, constantly moving as you move the pen in your hand. The pen body is polished to the highest level to give a smooth and almost soft feeling to the pen body. Looking for a pen for the special lady in your life, you just found it!
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A new magnetic resonance imaging procedure can detect very early breast cancer in mice, including ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a precursor to invasive cancer. Some of the tumors detected were less than 300 microns in diameter, the smallest cancers ever detected by MRI.
The technique is helping researchers study the natural history of DCIS in order to understand which tumors will become invasive cancers and require surgery, and which tumors will not. It will also be used to assess the effects of preventive therapies, such a green tea, on the development of early breast cancers. It may eventually enhance the power of MRI as a breast cancer screening tool.
"We found that MRI can reliably detect the microscopic stages of both in situ and invasive murine mammary cancers with high sensitivity," researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center report in the September 9, 2008, issue of Physics in Medicine and Biology. "These experiments provide proof of principle that microscopic mammary tumors can indeed be detected and followed in a mouse model of breast cancer."
"These are very small tumors," said cancer specialist and study co-author Suzanne Conzen, MD, associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center. "They are much too small to feel or even to see without a microscope."
About 20 percent of all newly diagnosed breast cancers are DCIS, which has the best prognosis of any breast cancer with long-term survival rates of 97 to 99 percent. MRI is already used as a screening tool for many women at high risk for breast cancer, but more sensitive tests that could find cancers earlier, when they are more treatable, could increase survival.
"We decided to try to push the technology a step or two," said Greg Karczmar, PhD, professor or radiology and medical physics at the University of Chicago Medical Center, "to see if we could get good pictures of something people didn't believe could be imaged."
His colleagues, physicist Xiaobing Fan and medical physics graduate student Sunny Jansen, developed a special "birdcage" coil for MRI of the mouse mammary glands, and the team began testing a wide range of protocols for getting accurate images.
Jansen, who came to the University as an astrophysics graduate student then switched to medical physics, worked with Karczmar and Gillian Newstead, MD, director of breast imaging at the Medical Center, to find the best ways to get images that could distinguish between cancer, normal breast tissue and fat.
Using Jansen's protocol--which became her PhD thesis--the team scanned 12 transgenic mice that were genetically predisposed to developing breast cancer. Then they worked with pathologist Thomas Kraus, MD, to compare the MRI images with microscopic examination of the actual tissues.
They found that, when optimal methods were used, both DCIS and early invasive tumors "appeared clearly against a darker background." In those 12 mice, MRI was able to detect the sole relatively large tumor, 17 out of 18 small tumors that were less than 1 millimeter in size, and 13 out of 16 milk ducts that were distended with carcinoma in situ, including some tumors less than 300 microns in width, about one-third of a millimeter.
Just as important, there were no false positives. "An MR finding," the authors note, "corresponded to cancer in all glands examined."
The initial study was done with a small-bore MRI system with a 4.7 Tesla magnet, about twice the strength of a high-end clinical imaging device. Earlier this year, the team began using a new 9.4 Tesla MRI.
At that point "we began to see these tumors in exquisite detail," said Karczmar, "as small as 100 microns. We could see the ducts, and we could see tiny beads of cancer within the ducts."
Unlike previous MRI studies of tumors in mice, the UCMC team was able to detect very tiny naturally occurring cancers, and these tumors were excellent models for human breast cancer. Although the mice used were laboratory animals bred to develop breast cancer, the tumors they developed were "realistic models of the most frequently detected human cancers," the authors note. "The morphology of these early murine mammary cancers on MRI is similar to the MR presentation of early human breast cancer."
"Although still at an early stage," said Newstead, "this approach has the potential to produce significant advances in breast imaging, as well as to help us understand cancer development and study the response to therapy."
The National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Segal Foundation, the Florsheim Foundation and the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center supported the research. Additional authors include Marta Zamora, Sean Foxley, and Jonathan Rover, all of the University of Chicago.


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I met with Jean-Claude Bradley yesterday and we had a pretty useful hack session, allowing him to easily incorporate chemical and cheminformatics functionality into a GoogleDocs spreadsheet.
A common task that Jean-Claude wanted to automate was the calculation of milligrams (or milliliters) of a chemical required for a certain molarity. So what we need for this calculation is the compound name, desired molarity, molecular weight and the density. Importantly, the people who'd like to use this will provide compound names and not a directly parseable SMILES. So we'd also like to (optionally) get the SMILES. Finally, he wanted to be able to do this in a Google spreadsheet – rather than a specific web page or stand alone program.
It turns out that with a liberal helping of Python, a dash of ChemSpider and pinch of PubChem, all of this can be done in a half hour hack session.
We start of with a Google spreadsheet containing a column of chemical names such as "benaldehyde", "aspirin" and so on. The first thing we need is a value of density. Since ChemSpider reports experimental and predicted values of density the quickest way was to extract it from there. Unfortunately I couldn't work out how to use the Web API, so I fell back on the venerable tradition of screen scraping. Thus, one can get the page for benzaldehyde via
and then using a regular expression, extract the value of density. In some cases, this won't be available or multiple values may be listed. Right now we just look at the first available value. To make life simple, I wrapped this is in a simple mod_python program resulting in a simple REST interface to density values:
This returns a page containing a single number for the density and if it couldn't find it, returns -1. We also get a nice freebie – replacing with benzaldehyde with c1ccccc1C=O also returns the density value. One could also provide the InChI key and get the same result.
OK, so we have an easy way to get the density of a compound given its name in an automated fashion. How to get this into the spreadsheet? If the compound name is in cell A2, simply set the value of cell B2 (for example) to
and on hitting enter the cell value should be 1.045. As you'd expect, dragging B2 down should replicate the function appropriately over the rows.
The next thing we want is to get the molecular weight. While we can also extract this from the ChemSpider web pages, it was a little more tricky. I first tried BeautifulSoup but it seems that ChemSpider has some weird Unicode stuff going on and this approach didn't work (at least in the 10 minutes I looked at it!). So I fell back to our trusty mirror PubChem. This database has a collection of synonyms associated with each compound. Given a chemical name, we can look up the synyonym and identify a compound id (CID) and simply pull out the reported molecular weight in a single SQL query. Once again, this gets wrapped in a simple REST interface
giving back a single number if the molecule was found in the database. As with the density, we can set the value of a cell in the spreadsheet using ImportData. Of course it's useful to get the SMILES for a chemical name. While there are tools that one could use such as LexiChem, one could use ChemSpider. However I already had a REST service that uses our local PubChem mirror allowing one to write
giving back the SMILES. Once again, this is easily incorporated into a Google spreadsheet. So at this point we have columns of chemical names (manually entered), desired molarity (manually entered), molecular weight (via REST) and density (via REST). The final calculation is trivial and voila, one has the required mililiters of the chemical required.
This was a quick hack so there are a number of issues. It's possible that the ChemSpider query will return multiple hits. Right now, such cases are treated as getting no hits – since we don't know which one we want. We're using the PubChem mirror for name to structure / weight lookup. There are two issues – first, it's usually a month out of sync with the real PubChem. And second, multiple hits for a given name are possible and if the input name is slightly misspelled, it may not be found in the DB even though it exists. Another problem is that while we can get the density via common name, SMILES or InChi, the PubChem mirror lookup only works with common name. But extending this to support other forms of input is trivial.
Ideally, it'd be all done through one source (say ChemSpider), but the current approach does highlight the distributed nature of the solution. In the end the individual pieces are quite simple in terms of code and content. But by putting it all together, we end up with a very useful application that does real stuff!
But the bigger message that comes out of this is that while Google spreadsheets is a general purpose tool, it's online nature, coupled with the ability to import data from the web makes it customisable for different domains. In this case, it turns out we can do cheminformatics in a Google spreadsheet.


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Gold Bubble: Profiting From Gold's Impending Collapse
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How do TV shows, vending machines, Chinese taxi companies, and a former UK prime minister point to a gold bubble that is about to burst? Many investors consider gold a "safe haven" that will shelter them from recessions, falling markets, and the depreciating value of currency. Many fail to realize, however, that investing in gold at these levels is extremely risky. "We Buy Gold" stores line busy streets, gold miners are no longer protecting themselves from a potential drop in prices, and gold is even being sold in vending machines. All this points to one thing: a gold bubble has formed and will collapse very soon, hurting investors, funds, and banks.
In Gold Bubble: Profiting From Gold's Impending Collapse, Yoni Jacobs looks at how you can protect yourself. Presenting an in-depth analysis of gold dating back over a hundred years, the book explores the structural factors that have allowed gold to form a bubble, why an investor psychology of fear and greed is leading to extremely speculative behavior, why gold will fall during an upcoming recession, what effect the dollar and the stock market will have on the future of gold prices, and how to profit from a gold collapse while the majority of investors lose out.
- There are plenty of warning signs that gold is about to decline and this book will help you to get ready.
- Gold Bubble is the only book to argue that a gold bust is coming, going head-to-head with the herd mentality.
- Filled with practical advice on how to protect yourself and even profit from gold's collapse by being prepared for what's ahead.
With gold prices up over 2,500 percent since 1970, and more than 600 percent since 1999, a bubble has formed and is on the verge of bursting. But until now, no one has been willing to publicly bet against the universal currency. With Gold Bubble you are ready to meet this challenge head on, and take advantage of what other investors won't even acknowledge.
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- 09-10-12
Gold is not in a bubble...... yet
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Not really since the author's premise is wrong. But is may be good for some people, especially if you are against the wisdom of gold for the long term. It will confirm your views.
Has Gold Bubble: Profiting From Gold's Impending Collapse turned you off from other books in this genre?
The book is well researched and he makes some compelling points. The problem is that he misses the whole idea of a bubble. "Overvalued" and a "bubble" are different things. Ultimately he claims that since he was able to identify Netflix when it was overvalued, he is an expert on identifying bubbles.There is a lot of good research in the book, but gold is not in a bubble. Look at it this way, a bubble is very easy to identify. A bubble is when everyone has it. How many people do you know that have 5% of their assets in gold? At the peak of the NASDAQ bubble, how many people did you know that had 50% of their assets in equities? See the difference?From time to time gold might be considered "overvalued" as it makes near term highs, but in the longer run this is not yet a bubble.
I think it is a good idea to take in many different points of view, so this book was interesting in that sense.
Which character – as performed by Norman Dietz – was your favorite?
The narrator was good.
Do you think Gold Bubble: Profiting From Gold's Impending Collapse needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
In a few years will he write a follow up book that is titled, "Ok, I Was Wrong Last Time, But Now Gold Really is in a Bubble,"?
Any additional comments?
He does mention some other assets that may be worth looking into such as platinum and diamonds. Just remember that a bubble probably will arrive in gold one day, but only when everyone is convinced that it can't lose. When most of the people you know think that only a fool would sell his gold, then it may be time to get out. I am not a gold bug at all. I am just using common sense observation.
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- Dover NH, United States
- 08-11-12
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Yes it was decent with some insightful points
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
What three words best describe Norman Dietz's voice?
TOLERABLE, Im very picky when it comes to narrators
Could you see Gold Bubble: Profiting From Gold's Impending Collapse being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
No this question really does not apply to these books
Any additional comments?
Too bad I didn't read this book a year ago it seems that Gold and the miners hit a high at the end of 2011 which would have been an excellent time to sell.
Though I've never heard of Jacobs he seemed to have a lot of research on the tech bubble, housing bubble and even the collapse of Netflix which again would have been useful at the end of 2011.
He does seem to repeat a lot of points over and over and over and over again which is helpful for a slow guy like me but an abridge version may have delivered the point well enough. All said it was an ok book
- Russ B
- 10-11-12
A Great Listen
This audiobook gives serious pause for thought to those who believe that the gold price has much further to go. While you may not agree with it's thesis it is nevertheless important that it's alternative viewpoint is considered. The key message is that there were very good reasons for gold's rise from 250 dollars/ounce at the low point in 1999 but that the current price is way overextended and is ripe for a fall.
I would also like to commend the excellent narration by Norman Dietz
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This week, with the help of our readers, our Architecture City Guide is headed to London. This is our second stop in Europe, and once again I had to capitulate and double the number of buildings that we normally feature. We could not feature all of the suggestions, and will be adding to the list in the near future. We really appreciate those readers who offered their suggestions and the use of their pictures to make up this list.
Samuel Johnson famously said, "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." As home to a long tradition of kings and queens, the Royal Society, and the roots of the Industrial Revolution, it is not surprising that there is a rich tension and collaboration between the historic and contemporary architecture in London. This reflects a city and culture that has a strong history of celebrating the past while also moving forward. Conflicts often emerge, as the goals of one side clash with those of the other. This relationship, however, is why I find walking the streets of London so appealing - those beautiful moments when history and progress collide.
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Four Hundred Fifty-One Degrees is not a boy band. The group was founded by a boy, and it is led by a boy, but its ranks are primarily girls. It came together just 18 months ago and, depending on the week, it claims 15 to 20 members. That fluctuation should not be misread as a lack of commitment: The members have matching T-shirts, with "451 Degrees" emblazoned across the fronts. That said, matching T-shirts should not be misread as popularity: Until the other day, 451 Degrees was not especially well-known.
This is, after all, a book club — a small book club at Lane Tech College Prep High School, which has 4,200 students and more than 60 official clubs, including a Dr. Who Club, a Lithuanian Club and a Ping Pong Club.
Then, about a week and a half ago, word swept through Lane that a Chicago Public Schools directive ordered all copies of the Marjane Satrapi graphic novel "Persepolis" removed from classrooms and libraries.
And suddenly, 451 Degrees' existence seemed unnervingly poignant: The club, founded by 16-year-old Lane Tech junior Levi Todd partly because Lane Tech didn't have a book club, reads banned and controversial books.
Only banned and controversial books.
Its name, of course, is a clever nod to the temperature at which books burn in "Fahrenheit 451," Ray Bradbury's dystopian classic about a repressive, book-confiscating future America. In fact — well, what do ya know? — about the same time "Persepolis," which tells the autobiographical story of a young girl navigating her way through a repressive, revolutionary Iran, was being yanked, 451 Degrees was having its regular Wednesday afternoon meeting in room 231, talking about the themes in "Fahrenheit 451."
Irony wasn't among them.
Not until later.
Said Todd, 451 Degrees' president: "It cracks me up to think, just as the email about pulling the book was going around the school, we were wrapping our conversation about 'Fahrenheit 451' — which we're named after but hadn't read yet — having the greatest discussion ever, about freedom of speech, its limitations …"
Said Evie Lacroix, the group secretary: "It was super-eerie in retrospect, because here we were talking about manipulation and repression, and here the CPS were, trying right then to manipulate and repress us!"
Said Grace Barry, the vice president: "We were a chilled-out club. We ate snacks, we talked. We planned to read Margaret Atwood next, now we had to go for immediacy and start 'Persepolis.'" She added: "I don't want to end up on some list or something, but I think I might want to read 'The Anarchist Cookbook' next."
Remember, CPS: No one is born a revolutionary.
To be fair, the school district, which began pulling copies of "Persepolis" because of a complaint about a single page that contained brief and harrowing (though hardly gratuitous) images of torture in Iran, later backpedaled and said the directive was misunderstood, badly worded and intended only for seventh-grade classrooms.
"But you have to wonder why a student in Chicago, not exactly a backwater, would feel the need to start a group like this a year earlier," said Barbara Jones, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the Chicago-based American Library Association. She had never heard of a banned-books club in a high school, but wondered if someone in 451 Degrees had ever had a book taken away — "which, frankly, is how I ended up doing this; I remembered how chilling it was to be told by a librarian that I couldn't read Karl Marx. Which I finally read and was incredibly bored by, but it's the principle of the thing."
Indeed, 451 Degrees began mildly.
Todd told me his first experience with a controversial book was "The Hunger Games." He read it as a freshman, and though it was not banned in Chicago, it had been controversial elsewhere. Todd reads a lot; he said he plans on being a book editor.
"But I never found a club I was into at Lane," he said, "and if I was going to do a club, I was going to have fun, not just throw something on a resume." He also didn't want a general-interest book club, but after he saw a sign for Banned Books Week (which is in September), he thought there would be a specificity and purpose to a club devoted only to books challenged in libraries and schools.
He landed a faculty adviser, began making posters (an image of a book silhouetted by a flame) and started recruiting friends: "When Levi said we would read only banned books, that sounded extra awesome," said Tori Lieggi, the group treasurer. "Have you ever heard of someone in a school seeking out banned books?"
Talking to members of 451 Degrees, it's hard not to be reminded that a banned book becomes a forbidden fruit. On the other hand, do not assume that a book club like this is a fleeting teenage act of provocation.
Last week I met with Todd after school. We sat in a cafe in Lincoln Square, not far from his North Center high school. He brought along senior Alexa Repp, 17, a friend who also happened to be one of the leaders of the student protests that sprang up after "Persepolis" was pulled. She had long red hair and was stylishly bundled in a scarf. Todd was lanky, poised, with a small curl of hair that made me think of Tin Tin. They were also alarmingly self-possessed, ridiculously well-spoken for teenagers and fond of air quotes. ("To be honest with you, I frequently ask myself where my son comes from," Todd's father, Stuart Iseminger, told me later.)
Repp said, "I love banned books and have made an effort to read banned books for a while now, because, for some reason, there is something genuine in a lot of banned books, which is what probably scares adults."
"Yeah, but you're not in 451 Degrees," Todd said.
"Yeah I know, weird," she said. (Indeed, when I asked senior Katie McDermott, Repp's friend and fellow Lane protester, if she was a member of the Levi Todd banned-books club, she said, "What's a Levi Todd?")
Todd told me that when the group started, the members researched where books were banned and what books were banned. "One that kept coming up was, oh, I forget, from a Russian writer, man falls in love with a child …"
"'Lolita,'" I said.
"'Lolita,'" he said. "We didn't start with that. We thought we'd spend the first year playing it safe, so the first book was Sherman Alexie's 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,' which has some random controversial elements but also had an instant talking point because the Lane Tech mascot is a Native American, which you are either for or against, but it's something. Also, there's poverty, American culture. … The next book was less banned than controversial ('Skinned' by Robin Wasserman), and the concept was basically, it's the future, your brain can be scanned and inserted into a robot — you would like it, actually," he told Repp.
"I'm writing a paper on trans-humanism, actually," Repp said.
"Animal Farm" didn't go as well, Todd said, because "everybody kind of knows communism doesn't work by now, so there's not a lot to discuss anymore. But 'Fight Club,' the book, there was a lot to talk about."
I asked why.
"Because — "
"Because," Repp interrupted, "the first rule of Fight Club is to not talk about Fight Club."
Todd sighed. "Yes," he said. "But no — the writing style is just so different, and the character is having this mental downward spiral, and he talks about how it feels better when he can destroy something beautiful."
"I think that's a recurring thing in banned books," Repp said. "The whole destroying something beautiful. I'm rereading 'The Fountainhead' and this daughter, she buys a sculpture in Italy and throws it down the stairs."
But deeper themes rarely lead to banned books, I said, it's usually a single objectionable passage or image.
"It's one page of 'Persepolis'!" Todd said.
"Because people who object to this stuff don't read entire books," Repp said. Still, the group has received nothing but support from Lane Tech, Todd said, "no push-back." (Their adviser, English teacher Brian Telles, told me response from the school and himself has been "only enthusiastic.")
In fact, Todd expects membership to spike slightly because of the "Persepolis" controversy, though he is a realist: He understands that the life span of a controversy is a blink, and that 451 Degrees is no easy sell.
He told me a story: "When we were talking about 'Fahrenheit 451,' the same day they were pulling the book, we did this exercise. I asked everyone to pretend we're the world, it's a utopia/dystopia, let's figure out if we can create a society where everyone is happy. Everyone had to finish the sentence: 'In my ideal world there is …' We went in a circle. If anyone was opposed to anyone's ideal world, they could raise their hand, that idea would not be adopted. And you couldn't argue. Anyone is opposed — that's it, not included. But, of course, everyone started arguing — because you can't create an ideal world and you can't make everyone happy all the time."
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Tofu Stuffed Bitter Melon (Kho Qua Nhun Tau Hu)
Khổ qua nhưn tàu hũ, tofu stuffed bitter melon is similar to dishes you might have seen at Chinese or Vietnamese restaurants. The difference is that it's usually shrimp paste instead of tofu (tàu hũ) and eggplant or button mushrooms in place of the bittermelon, called cà tím nhưn tôm ("eggplants with shrimp paste" in Vietnamese). I made my own blend of ground tofu paste with fried tofu and vegetarian ham to resemble the color of shrimp paste. I then stuffed the mixture into the bittermelon rounds and steamed the vegetables. For more flavor, I pan-fried the tofu filling then braised the dumplings in sweet pineapple hoisin sauce.
I love this dish because it's so flavorful and the texture of the tofu is very similar to meat. My husband Lulu, who's a vegetarian, really likes it even though he isn't into meat substitutes. It just proves that there's more to vegetarian and vegan cooking than just silken and firm tofu!
Yields: 8 servings4 fresh bitter melons
juice of half a lemon
2 cups vegetarian ham, diced
1 drop red food coloring (optional)
1 tomato
2 ounces dried bean thread noodles
1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
½ teaspoon red chili powder, to taste
1 shallot, finely chopped
1 teaspoon mushroom seasoning salt (or regular salt)
1 teaspoon black pepper
6 ounces firm tofu (½ package)
2 tablespoons canola oil (or any neutral oil)
1 (8-ounce) can crushed pineapple
3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon green onions, thinly chopped
1 tablespoon fresh cilantro
1 teaspoon light sesame oil (optional)
Prepping the bitter melons: Cut the bittermelons in half. Using a melon ball scoop, remove and discard the spongy center and the seeds. Soak the bitter melons in lemon water.
Prepping the tomato: This step is optional but I find tomato skin unpleasant to chew. Here's a neat method to peel tomatoes. Make a small, shallow criss-cross cut at the bottom of the fresh tomato using a breadknife (I use a breadknife because the blade won't bruise the fruit). Fill a small saucepan with cold water and bring to a boil. Place the tomato in the water and wait for at least 30 seconds. Remove the tomatoes quickly (I use a large strainer or a slotted spoon), then transfer to an ice cold bath to stop the cooking process. The skin of the tomatoes will come right off. Cut the tomato flesh into wedges, remove the seeds and liquid and chop into small pieces. Set aside.
Prepping the tofu: Cut the tofu into ½-inch slices. In a wok, heat the canola oil. Pan-fry the slices on both sides until golden. The tofu should have a nice fried outer crust and still be moist inside. Transfer the tofu onto paper towels. Sprinkle with salt. Allow to cool a little. As soon as the tofu is not too hot to handle, cut each slice crosswise into shreds.
Prepping the bean thread noodles: Place the dried bean thread noodles in a bowl. Don't forget to cut the little cotton threads and discard them! Soak them in cold water for 20 minutes and drain. Cut into 1 inch lengths. Set aside.
Preparing the ground tofu paste: In a food processor, blend the fried tofu, tomato flesh and the vegetarian ham together. Add the red food coloring (if used). Mix well. Add the shallot, ginger garlic paste, red chili powder, 1 teaspoon sugar, green onions, bean thread noodles, 1 teaspoon of oil and season with mushroom salt and pepper. Set aside.
Stuffing the bittermelon with ground tofu:
Remove and discard the liquid from the bitter melons. Cut each piece into 2-½" boats. Pat them dry and stuff them with the ground tofu mixture.
Steaming the dumplings:
Place the stuffed bittermelons in a steamer, bring the water to a boil and reduce the heat to medium-high. Cover and steam for about 15-20 minutes. Check doneness with a fork; the bittermelons should be still be al-dente as they will finish cooking in the hoisin sauce. Remove from the steamer. Let them cool a little.
Pan-frying the dumplings:
In a non-stick pan (I used a non-stick grill pan), heat the oil and pan fry the dumplings, tofu side down. Transfer onto a platter.
For the hoisin sauce:
In a blender, blend the crushed pineapple into a smooth texture.
In the same pan, add the rest of the sugar, hoisin sauce and soy sauce. Stir constantly until all the soy sauce is absorbed. Add the pineapple purée. Once the liquid evaporates, add the dumplings, bittermelon side down. Drizzle with sesame oil (if used). Check seasoning (the saltiness from the soy sauce should be sufficient). Add black pepper. Cover with a lid. Let stand on high heat for a minute and turn off the heat. Keep on the stove for about 5 minutes. Transfer to a serving platter.
Assembly time:
Serve with jasmine brown rice (it's healthier and as delicious as regular jasmine rice).
Garnish with cilantro and serve immediately.
Bon appétit!
You can find all the ingredients listed in most Asian stores.
I buy vegetarian ham in the frozen sections of Asian markets. The color and texture is very similar to meat.
I use ginger garlic paste a lot in my cooking. It tastes great and is very healthy for you as well. Just clean the ginger, carefully removing any dirt. Peel the ginger root with a paring knife or the edge of a spoon, then finely chop the root. Place the chopped ginger and 5 cloves of garlic in a blender and, add about 2 tablespoons (or more) of water for a smooth flow. Transfer to a jar and store in the refrigerator. You can keep this paste for at least a week in the refrigerator.
I use Thanh Son tofu brand. If you live in the Bay Area, you have to try it. They sell in almost all the Asian markets in downtown San Jose, and their main shop is on 2857 Senter Road, San Jose. It's a very little shop but everything is very good. Their tofu has the best texture; it's made fresh daily. I also like Golden Gate tofu brand; just make sure to look for the firm version.
My favorite soy sauce is the Da Bo De brand. It has a very nice flavor and is not too salty. You can find this particular sauce at, for example, Dai Thanh Asian market on 420 S 2nd St, in San Jose. Make sure the bottle says nước tương chay, which means vegetarian in Vietnamese.
Mushroom seasoning salt brings a very distinct, earthy flavor to the tofu filling. You can find it at gourmet specialty stores or in most Korean stores. I buy mine at Marina Foods -10122 Bandley Drive -Cupertino, CA 95014.Published By: on May 10, 2010.


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Add Michelle Trachtenberg to the growing list of starlets who are painting the town — and their hair — red. The formerly brunette Gossip Girl actress debuted a fiery new shade on Wednesday, April 10, when she arrived at Bad Robot in Hollywood for the 3rd Annual Coach Evening to Benefit the Children's Defense Fund.
"I went darker for Georgina [Sparks, my character on Gossip Girl], and I just woke up this morning and decided it was time for a change after six years," the 27-year-old star told Us Weekly of her new 'do, adding that she had come straight from the salon to the event. "I didn't realize it would take six hours! Tracey [Cunningham] is a perfectionist, and that's why I love her. I did it and then came right here."
Trachtenberg is in good company as a redhead. This Is 40 bombshell Megan Fox recently dyed her tresses a similar color for her upcoming role as April O'Neil in Michael Bay's live-action Ninja Turtles film. And she's not the only one getting in on the action.
Last week, both Rachel McAdams and Dianna Agron were spotted rocking Jessica Chastain-like locks instead of their usual blonde. And before that, Modern Family star Ariel Winter dyed her hair red, a la another Ariel — Disney's Little Mermaid.
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As John noted, the left has given us the first-person shooter game Tea Party Zombies Must Die. Power Line reader Philip Guthrie offers a game of a different stripe: Spread the Wealth Around: The Unauthorized Obama Board Game. Phil's site describes the game as follows:
Spread the Wealth Around exists to train you bitter clingers to practice the art of class warfare, dodge death panels, cheat on your taxes and do your small part to increase our national debt.
Choose membership in one of four organizations: Public Service, ObamaCare, Big Labor or Wall Street. From your perch atop the ruling class, you'll bankrupt other players, drag them before show trials, carve them up in unnecessary surgery or just get one of your big labor goons to wack 'em in Rocko Roulette.
Rather than accumulate wealth in Spread the Wealth Around, you'll rack up mountains of debt – just like Obama's America. Scam dead people and collect their Social Security in Public Office. Unplug granny and play the lawsuit lottery in ObamaCare. Gamble and go burnin' and lootin' with Big Labor. Cut in line for your Wall Street bailout – it's all for the children.
Spread the Wealth Around is the perfect gift to cure that troglodyte Republican friend or conservative relation. No need for sensitivity training or coaching on tax and spend Obamanomics. Put away those teacher's union pamphlets and Mao's little red book. Play the political game that's making the world safe for socialism!
Spread the Wealth Around not only provides a useful contrast with Tea Party Zombies, which is my immediate purpose this morning. It is also funny, fun, and educational. Click here to purchase a copy.


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Update1: Please try updating your NAS firmware first; most manufacturers will be releasing updates that make their devices Lion-compatible in the near future.
These new flags made mandatory in Lion help with AFP session recovery after network connection loss, so you will be at a higher risk of data corruption when using this workaround over spotty WiFi.
'The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features' message means that
Lion's backupd now requires 'TM Lock Stealing' and 'Server Reply Cache' AFP features on all TM destinations.
TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes workaround affects the UI but has no effect on actual daemon behaviour.
So, seeing as how I'm not going to buy a Time Capsule any time soon, an idea was born:
What if we could make backupd work with those unsupported volumes and unleash any potentially data-munching-monster-ish bugs this unsupportedness shall surely entail? Sounds like a plan!
tldr: Download, unzip and run the script.
^^ A dylib that fakes those new shiny AFP feature bits for your old musty half-dead early 20th century NAS-o-saurus.
Disclaimer: Use at your own risk; data-corru¾*{5Ë# may occur!
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Reader Greg Lang writes:
You might throw Nick Coleman off track by saying that he did a good column, his current one. At my Soliah.com I have linked the past columns by Nick on the woman injured in the St. Paul Daytons's [department store] bombing forty years ago. This I considered good work since the Symbionese Liberation Army [terrorist] Sara Jane Olson/Kathleen Soliah is in prison until at least 2010, at least in part, due to her addtional effort to make such horrible weapons. In Nick's latest column he pointed out that Mary Peek died at age 82, still extracting shrapnel. A google search of Mary Peek shows past Nick Coleman columns about this. This is Nick at his best; you should consider saying so.
Nick's columns on Mary Peek are my "bread and butter" on the horrible effects of terrorist bombs and Nick did a good job following this. You should state this and focus on why the media so strongly protect the bomber's "privacy." According to Nick, he is in Washington working for the congressional black caucus. That is where a story might lie.
Coleman's column today carries a headline that reads ironically in light of his recent attack on us, but the column, as Lang suggests, is a good one: "Waiting for an apology that never came."


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Jasmine Tookes — Babe of the Day
Jasmine Tookes is a 24-year-old model for IMG New York, London, Paris and Milan. Before she was discovered at the age of 15, she was active in volleyball, softball and even practiced gymnastics for 10 years. This kind of upbringing in sports probably helped her gain her lithe, athletic look and gorgeous physique. If you're a fan of CBS, you might have seen her and some other Victoria's Secret models in an episode of Hawaii Five-O.
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Judge Rejects Gov't Request For Cell Tower Data, Noting Recent 4th Amendment Rulings
from the probable-cause deptWe recently wrote about a somewhat surprising ruling by the appeals court in the DC circuit saying that long-term use of a GPS to track someone without a warrant violated the 4th Amendment. What was surprising about this is that, while state courts had ruled similarly, the federal courts had almost universally ruled that such tracking was legal. While that case will almost certainly be appealed and seems to have a decent likelihood of ending up before the Supreme Court, it's apparently already impacting some rulings elsewhere. Chris Soghoian notes that a federal magistrate judge recently rejected the governments' request for historical cell site data from Sprint, because the government failed to show probable cause (as required under the 4th Amendment):
The decision in Maynard is just one of several rulings in recent years reflecting a growing recognition, at least in some courts, that technology has progressed to the point where a person who wishes to partake in the social, cultural, and political affairs of our society has no realistic choice but to expose to others, if not to the public as a whole, a broad range of conduct and communications that would previously have been deemed unquestionably private....Nice to see some judges recognizing this, though it remains to be seen how many others will agree... and how the Supreme Court reacts to all of this.
As a result of such decisions, I believe that magistrate judges presented with ex parte requests for authority to deploy various forms of warrantless location-tracking must carefully re- examine the constitutionality of such investigative techniques, and that it is no longer enough to dismiss the need for such analysis by relying on cases such as Knotts or, as discussed below, Smith v. Maryland.... For the reasons discussed below, I now conclude that the Fourth Amendment prohibits as an unreasonable search and seizure the order the government now seeks in the absence of a showing of "probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation[.]"
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I did manage to whiz through a few parenting books over the summer. I found myself becoming much more of a yeller and threatener than I'd ever planned to be -- and none of it was working -- so I knew it was time to change my plan of attack. I read The Explosive Child first, hoping to find some immediate relief with my very explosive five year old. I didn't get that, but I did come away with a few new ideas.
Love & Logic was next on my list, which really changed my whole approach. In some ways, it built on concepts in The Explosive Child, like working with the child to come up with solutions to problems and disagreements. I also really appreciate the concept of logical consequences instead of just yelling the first threat you can think of. For example, on the way to the library yesterday, my 5 year old was terrorizing his brother. When I asked him to stop he didn't and when I asked him to come and talk to me about it, he refused. Normally I would have taken away the first thing that came to mind. Instead, I used the L&L technique of telling him that I was really upset and I'd have to take some time to think about the consequence for his action. When we arrived at the library, I knew what that consequence was: he was not allowed to pick out a movie like his brother and sister because that was a privilege for children who are kind to their siblings and parents.
I didn't think another book could come close to having the impact that Love & Logic did, but How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk was fantastic. Many of the principals were the same, only How to Talk doesn't use time-outs, which were used (in a way) in Love & Logic. I'd recommend this book to every parent whether you have a difficult child or an angel because it's filled with great insight on how our choice of words affect our children.
Now that I'm armed with a few new parenting tools, I'm turning my attention to some books I've received over the past few weeks:
The Homesteaders Kitchen: Recipes From Farm to Table
Gourmet Meals in Crappy Little KitchensIn The Homesteader's Kitchen, author Robin Burnside presents wholesome recipes and motherly advice for preparing nourishing meals, tasty embellishments, and luscious desserts. Her focus is on using fruits and vegetables from the family garden or the nearby farmers market. She teaches how to turn these local, organic foods into snacks, meals, and treats that nourish the soul as well as the body. From Multigrain Blueberry Pancakes in the morning, a Creamy Mango-Coconut Smoothie for a snack, a crisp Asian Cabbage Salad for lunch, an evening meal of Grilled Wild Salmon Fillet with Thai Cilantro Pesto, to a dessert of Spicy Pear Pie, Burnside offers mouthwatering recipes that are fun to prepare and a joy to eat.
The author introduces this cookbook in a way that recognizes the connection between body, mind, emotions, environment, and attitude. Since what we eat has a considerable effect on our well-being, this approach to dining takes into account all that goes into the care of feeding humans, including the benefits and consequences of our choices. As consumers, the foods we buy, where they come from, and how we prepare what we purchase must be considered if we are to create a sustainable future for generations to come.
River HouseIn her debut cookbook, Jennifer Schaertl tackles the myths about gourmet cooking (you don't need expensive cutlery and a gazillion ingredients!) and shows you how to make delectable meals despite the lack of counter space. Everything from appetizers and salads to soups and one-pot wonders to side dishes and entrees, and of course, dessert is included along with Jennifer's tried-and-true advice for working with limited space, appliances, cookware, and ingredients all on a limited budget.
River House is one young woman's story about returning home to her family's ranch and, with the help of her father, building a log house on the property. Sarahlee Lawrence grew up in remote central Oregon and spent her days dreaming about leaving her small town for world adventures. An avid river rafter through adolescence, by the age of twenty-one, Lawrence had rafted some of the most dangerous rivers of the world as an accomplished river guide. But living her dream as guide and advocate, riding and cleaning the arteries of the world, led her back to the place she least expected — to her dusty beginnings and her family's home. River House is a beautiful story about a daughter's return and her relationship with her father, whom she enlists to help brave the cold winter and build a log house by hand.
Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat
I'm also about 2/3 of the way through Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front, by Joel Salatin. It's quite the interesting, yet sometimes frustrating, read. I'll be sure to put up a review soon!As nurturers and caretakers of the health of our children and communities, women have the power and ability to transform the way we eat and farm. Farmer Jane profiles twenty-six women in the sustainable food industry who are working toward a more holistic food system in America a system that ensures our health with wholesome natural foods, protects the earth and wildlife, treats farm workers fairly, and stimulates local economies.
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Then I moved to the US, haven't heard the guy in a year, then out of the blew he finds me on msn, messaging me with a problem he has,...
i find myself belittling the effort involved to fix a pc a lot of the time and so will feel guilty about accepting payment (i know this contradicts what i said above), so it seems very difficult to me to know what to charge - have you any thoughts on this.-nudone
that some pc problems take quite a while to figure out - charging an hourly rate wouldn't be realistic. maybe having a cap on the total to charge is a compromise, but then that of course means you could have spent one or two days on something and the payment your receive isn't going to match the time you've spent. i see the solution to that is to multitask repair jobs just as a shop would do.-nudone
I think in this case its more of an "evolution", Gothi[c] didnt seem to mind either
well, it looks like we can all chip in and evolve the thread how we like as no one seems to be too eager to say anything about the geeksqaud video. how strange.
i'm wondering if there is something kind of unique about the world of computers. people take software for granted a lot of the time and expect to pay nothing.
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Queen_Herpes wrote:I agree with AON. This should be implemented. Some players like to play a lot of games. Why limit them? There is no good reason mentioned in the previous posts against AON's suggestion.
Actually, the fact that CC is already the best value for the buck and offers more games than any other site, and more than most combined already is a good reason. Also, the fact that 50 current games limits the damage a point dumper can do is a good reason. Further, the fact that it protects over-zealous players from making too many games than they can handle is even a good reason.
You may not consider them good reasons, but that does not mean they are not.
I myself suggest that if anyone can find a site that offers more for the $25 than CC does in the way of games they can post it. If there is a competitor offering more, than by all means raising the number to be competitive makes sense. If not, being the absolute bargain in the world seems like it might be just fine as it is, especially given the number of other reasons that factor in.


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Henri Nouwen, the world-renowned spiritual guide and counselor, understood the spiritual life as a journey of faith and transformation that is deepened by accountability, community, and relationships. Though Henri counseled many people during his lifetime, his principles of discernment were never collected into a single volume. Now, in association with the Nouwen Legacy Trust, Michael Christensen--one of Nouwen's longtime students--and Rebecca Laird have taken his coursework, journals, and unpublished writings and created the definitive resource on spiritual discernment.
This is the third book of a series. Spiritual Direction explores our core questions about the spiritual life as Nouwen acts as spiritual director, opening the door to personal transformation. In Spiritual Formation, Nouwen offers guidance on spiritual development--as dynamic movements from fear to love. In this final book, Discernment, Nouwen teaches us how to read the "signs of the times" in daily life in order to make decisions that are ultimately guided by God. Nouwen emphasizes listening to the Word of God--in our hearts, in the Bible, in the community of faith, and in the voice of the poor. Nouwen's thoughts on discernment begin to answer one of the biggest questions we face: what should I do with my life?
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Review – Reyka Vodka
What first struck me as I looked at the review bottle of Reyka vodka I had been sent was the bottle itself and not how you'd think. The bottle design is unique with "Iceland" (it's home country) embossed around the shoulder, but that's not what caught my eye. What I really enjoy is the glass itself. In a time where things are becoming purer, cleaner, more sterile, the glass in the Reyka bottle has tiny bubbles. It reminds me of an earlier time when things were made by hand. Now, don't think I need saving from my naive views. I have no doubt this design detail was fully intentional. Matters not to me, though, I like it.
Okay, moving on to what you're really interested in, the spirit itself. The color, as you'd fully expect is crystal clear. The aroma is of clean alcohol only and the flavor is crisp and tremendously clean. There is no aftertaste and the finish is very short. This is a top shelf vodka to be sure. This is going to sound campy, so brace yourself. This vodka tastes like my mental image of Iceland. Crisp glacial water flowing over lava rock. Expanses of open country. A slower pace of life. Almost a return to times gone by. Campiness over, thanks for indulging me.
So, here's the key point. I like this vodka. It's crisp, clean and nearly flavor/odorless. Exactly what you're looking for in a high quality vodka. To make things even better, it's reasonably priced ~$30 depending where you go. And, to seal the deal, it just won the Vodka Trophy at the International Wine and Spirits Competition held in London.
† The product reviewed here was provided to me as a free sample. If you're wondering what that means check out my sample policy.


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Austin Dixon
From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation
Austin Dixon is our Digitization Technologist. He creates and edits scripts that aid our department's workflow, in addition to digitizing content for Acumen. Austin has an Associates degree in Computer Programming and Networking from Shelton State, and is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at UA. Previously, he was employed as a Network Administrator for a retail chain.
In his spare time, Austin is often in his home electronics workshop building things like human interface devices and electronic art. He keeps a blog [www.PhotonPunk.com] where he chronicles his personal programming and electronics projects.
Contact Info
- Email: email@example.com
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/austindixon01
- Personal Blog: www.PhotonPunk.com
- Posts on UA Digital Services Blog: apps.lib.ua.edu/blogs/digitalservices/author/ardixon1
- B.S. Computer Science, University of Alabama (In progress)
- A.A.S. Management and Supervision, Programming and Networking, Shelton State College, 2010
Technical Skills
- Languages: Perl, Python, C, HTML, SQL, Tk
- Platforms: Windows, Linux
- Misc.: Excel, Photoshop, Adobe Bridge, Sox, Lame, Shntool, Image Magick, Sound Forge, Audacity, Microsoft Dynamics AX


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Reducing first-cycle and contact-parting networks to equivalent reactance and resistance values results in simplified netwrork calculations of fault currents and short-circuit X/R ratios.
In Part 2 of this series of articles (December 1995 issue), we used a simple example to show the data preparation steps used in finding the appropriate per-unit reactances and resistances of power system apparatus for the first-cycle (momentary) and contact-parting (interrupting) networks. In this last installment, we'll explain how to use this data in calculating short- circuit current [TABULAR DATA FOR TABLE 1 OMITTED] [TABULAR DATA FOR TABLE 2 OMITTED] [TABULAR DATA FOR TABLE 3 OMITTED] (symmetrical rms current). Specifically, we'll explain how to construct the networks from a one-line diagram, locate the fault connection on the networks, and use basic AC circuit theory to reduce these networks to equivalent reactance and resistance values. These values, in turn, will then be used to calculate the first-cycle (momentary) and contact-parting (interrupting) symmetrical rms currents and short-circuit X/R ratios. Parts 4 and 5 in future issues will discuss how to use these results in selecting circuit breakers and fuses from manufacturers' tables.
Simplified reactance and resistance networks
Fig. 1, on page 52, is a single-line diagram of a simplified industrial power system, the same used in our reader's quiz in Part 2.
Fig. 2, on page 54, presents the steps used to construct four types of simplified networks from the adjusted per-unit reactances and resistances of Tables 1, 2, and 3: first-cycle (momentary) reactance network, first-cycle (momentary) resistance network, contact-parting (interrupting) reactance network, and contact-parting (interrupting) resistance network.
In Step A of Fig. 2, we begin the construction of the simplified network by drawing upper and lower busses. An unlabeled sinusoidal AC voltage source is connected across the busses. Eventually ([ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 3 OMITTED], on page 58), this voltage source is labeled the prefault phase-to-neutral voltage at the faulted bus.
Step B is the key step in the construction of a simplified network. For every source of short-circuit current (i.e., machines and utility), we connect one terminal of its reactance to the upper bus of the network. We connect the other terminal of the reactance to a new bus whose label is the bus number from the one-line diagram.
Finally in Step C, we interconnect the remaining reactances of passive apparatus (i.e., transformers, feeders, etc.) to match the one-line diagram.
Fault connection on the simplified network
In Fig. 3, we see the three-phase fault location simulated by connecting a jumper from the faulted bus to the lower reference bus. This diagram shows this procedure for three-phase faults at Busses 2 and 4. Since the prefault bus voltage magnitudes throughout the power system are very close to 1.0 per-unit under normal load conditions, we can make a conservative assumption and select the bus voltage of the sinusoidal AC voltage source to be greater than or equal to 1.0 per-unit. Also, we set the phase angle of the source at 0 [degrees]; this will serve as the phase angle reference for the power system.
Reduction of simplified network
An important advantage of the simplified reactance (or resistance) network is the ease with which you can reduce the network to a single equivalent reactance [X.sub.EQ] (or resistance [R.sub.EQ]). All you need to do is apply the equations shown in Table 4, on page 58, to combine series and parallel arrangements of reactances. (These equations are the same for series and parallel arrangements of resistances.) Reactances in series "see" the same current and are combined by addition (e.g., [X.sub.M4] + [X.sub.T2] and [X.sub.U] + [X.sub.T1]). Parallel reactances (indicated by double slashes,; e.g. [X.sub.M2]//[X.sub.M3]) have common bus voltage.
Fig. 4, on page 60, summarizes the procedure used to reduce the simplified reactance network to an equivalent reactance ([X.sub.EQ]) for a three- phase fault at Bus 4. Note that in the top network, the three left-most branches are connected in parallel and are combined into a single reactance in the middle network. The trick is to notice that this single reactance is in series with [X.sub.T3], and that both these reactances are combined by addition in the bottom network. Finally, these two reactances in the bottom network are connected in parallel, and are combined to yield [X.sub.EQ].
In practice, it's easier to use numerical values instead of symbols to reduce the simplified networks. Symbols are used in Figs. 4 and 5 only to show how to use the equations to do the reductions. Furthermore, the reduction procedure is identical for any of the four types of simplified networks.
Table 5, on page 61, lists the numerical results of the equivalent first-cycle (momentary) and contact-parting (interrupting) reactances and resistances for the three-phase faults at the major busses of the Fig. 1 one-line. Note that the equivalent contact-parting (interrupting) reactance and resistance are not calculated at low voltage Bus 3; this is because only the first-cycle (momentary) results are needed in selecting the short-circuit capabilities of low-voltage circuit breakers and fuses. Parts 4 and 5 of this series (in future issues) will provide further information a bout this subject.
Finally the equations used to calculate the first-cycle (momentary) and contact-parting (interrupting) symmetrical rms currents and short-circuit X/R ratios are given in Table 4.
Final cautionary notes
Once again, you're cautioned not to select circuit breakers and fuses from a manufacturer's table solely on the basis of symmetrical rms current. There are circumstances when symmetrical rms current must be adjusted by a multiplying factor to account for asymmetrical limitations. (These limitations will be discussed in Parts 4 and 5 of this series.)
We strongly urge you to check the results noted in Table 5. Important note: Just because you successfully performed these calculations does not certify or qualify you to do these calculations in your practice. To employ or promote yourself on this basis alone is a serious breach of professional ethics.
EC&M articles: "How to Perform Short-Circuit Calculations - Parts 1 and 2," June and December 1995 issues; "The How and Why of Short-Circuit Studies," August 1993 issue.
EC&M books: Practical Guide to Applying Low-Voltage Fuses, Second Edition. To order, call 1-800-543-7771.
IEEE publications: ANSI/IEEE 141-1993, Recommended Practice for Electric Power Distribution for Industrial Plants (IEEE Red Book); Fault Calculations of Industrial and Commercial Power Systems, Frank F. Mercede. (IEEE Order Number HL 0459-8). To order, call 1-800-678-IEEE.


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S3 E12 Every Man
POLICE LOG: Something's happened in the booking area at 15. An investigator from Internal Affairs is en route to interview officers McNally, Epstein, Peck and Diaz, as they are directly involved in an incident that left a pool of blood on a holding cell floor. Detailed report follows:
Detective Sara Mills is the Internal Affairs representative that's called in when they are looking to throw someone under the bus. She interviews Gail to determine what went wrong during an incident that occurred in booking. Gail began her day looking for an MIA Nick. Mills seems to be taking it easy on her because she's a Peck. She even leads her to respond that she patted down a suspect who was arrested after a fight at a football game. The truth is that Gail was called away before she was able to do a thorough search of the guy.
Dov is up next. He began his day nursing wounds from the beating he recently endured. At the football game, Dov had trouble subduing a belligerent suspect who was brawling. He was forced to use pepper spray on the guy. Back at the station, the suspect head butts Dov giving him a nosebleed. He switches prisoners with Gail, putting her guy in the back of a police cruiser so he could get cleaned up. He later stepped into the holding area to find Gail's prisoner pointing a gun at the head of a fellow brawler inside the holding cell.[break]
Andy began her day covering up the fact that Nick showed up for work drunk. She hid him in a side room to sober him up. Andy contacted the desk sergeant that her partner is calling in sick for the day. She also force fed him some muffins Chris baked to help absorb some of the alcohol. At the game, Andy's prisoner ended up being a pretty decent guy. He also happens to be the one with the gun being held on him in booking. Andy pawns the guy off on Chris to deal with Nick. She wasn't in booking at the time the hostage situation developed.
Chris began his shift late for parade because his ex, Denise, showed up in the lobby with a son he never knew he had. His name is Christian. He's two and a half. Chris is visibly flustered by this bomb that's just been dropped on him. He's not at the top of his game as the three football brawlers are brought into booking. Chris tosses two guys in the same cell while he attempted to get things in order. That never happened.
The suspect with the gun only wanted to talk to Chris. The guy is panicked. He doesn't want to go back to prison since he has a baby on the way. BANG! The suspect shoots his hostage in the arm to prove he's serious. Chris assures the guy that they are going to find a way out of this together. He moves to get his cell phone so the man can call his wife. BANG! A sniper's gunshot rips into the cell striking the gunman in the head. He's dead before Chris knows what happened.[break]
Mills believes Chris acted bravely and put his own safety at risk to save the lives of others. The problem is how he got to that point. She gets Chris to admit that he lost control of the situation. If someone is going to take the fall for what happened in holding, all signs point to it's going to be Chris. Then Gail steps back into the room to say that she failed to pat down the suspect when he was first arrested. She admits that she failed her duty.
At the end of the shift, Andy assures Sam that he doesn't need to wait around to make sure she's okay. That's not his job anymore. Andy later learns that Nick goes on a bender once a year to mourn the loss of an old platoon buddy. As for Chris, he skips the Penny to go home to spend some time with boy. Back at The Penny, Gail lets the gang know that she's been officially suspended and the powers that be are going after her badge. Guess being a Peck can only get you so far.


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When Taveet Hinrikus moved from Estonia to London, he was still paid in kroons and had to transfer the money to his new bank account in the UK.
The bank fees weren't pretty -- a 2% transaction fee was charged on top of a 3% bank commission fee. Hinrikus felt robbed.
He met Kristo Kaarman who was in a similar situation -- Kaarman had to transfer pounds from the UK back to Estonia. To spare themselves the bank fees, Kaarman and Hinrikus transferred money to each others' accounts. The peer-to-peer transfer sparked a business idea.
In January 2011, the pair launched TransferWise, a way to move money internationally using accounts set up by TransferWise in multiple countries. TransferWise acts as the trusted middle man, moving money for users and charging a much smaller fee for the service. TransferWise charges 1 GBP on transfers up to 300 GBT.
With TransferWise, a pound never has to leave London, and the aggravating bank fee is avoided. The business is perfectly legal, says Hinrikus. It's licensed by the FFA in England and it's fully authorized.
Today the London-based startup is announcing a $1.3 million round of financing led by IA Ventures with participation from Index Ventures, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, and other angel investors.
Currently TransferWise is only moving a few currencies, but it will expand to others if those are successful.
Hinrikus was Skype's first employee; he hopes TransferWise can become the Skype -- or global connector -- of money transfers.
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Bibi comes home with Beyonce
Bibi McGill slides into the Pepsi Center Aug. 22 playing lead guitar for Beyonce. And her mom, Betty McGill, says she'll throw the house down.
"She plays the guitar like B.B. King and dances like Tina Turner, you know."
Bibi grew up in Denver, went to Manual High School, then on to CU-Boulder to study music.
I ask Betty how old her daughter is, but she's not saying.
"Bibi tells me, 'If anyone asks you how old I am, you tell them I'm NOW!'"
She was born Belinda, but picked up a guitar as a kid and started playing like B.B. King, so they called her Bibi Queen and it stuck.
"I can't wait for the concert," says mom. "I'm going to get wild again. I hope I can spend some time with her, get in eight hours with her. Last time she was here with La Ley and I hardly saw her."
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Christ Church was established as St. Peter's Mission in Coronado in the year 1888. In the years between 1888 and 1896
Finding the right school for your child is an important task, and we are here to assist you in making that decision.
Answering your questions and concerns.
The clergy of Christ Episcopal Church and the Christ Church Day School chaplain lead the services Tuesdays and Thursdays
The specialty subjects at CCDS are a valued and integral part of our curriculum.
CCDS has a small, nurturing Child Care program available before and after school throughout the week.
See a full list of this month's events
The CCDS Board of Trustees have approved the 2017-2018 School Calendar
Tuition covers 93% of our operating budget and the remainder is covered by funds raised in our annual giving campaign
Come raise some funds, at the annual "Bites and Beverages Annual Giving Gathering"
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Upholstery, Wiring, and Wrapping Up
Deadlines. Every car build I've ever undertaken has had one, whether self-imposed or magazine-related. The latter are the worst, as there's no way to extend them, whether it be shooting tech for each issue or getting a car done for an event. In the case of the R&C 60th Anniversary Speedway Motors Tribute T, the car had to be ready to head out to Louisville, Kentucky, for the NSRA Street Rod Nationals.
So, as usual it came down to a mad thrash in the final few days. While we were out at the Goodguys show in Columbus, Ohio, the T was at Loyola Auto Interiors in Gardena, California, where Luis Loyola and Jose were certainly kept busy for a few days building our interior from scratch in restaurant-grade Naugahyde. On our return, we collected the car, and headed back to our tech center to wire it and fire it, while Jeff Styles literally worked around us to pinstripe the body and chassis. Street Rod Glass in Riverside, California, installed the glass in our frame, then once every bolt was tightened and checked, every cotter pin installed, the brakes bled, all fluids added, and the lug nuts tightened for the final time, we hit the starter button and took it for a blast up the street on Friday evening. Deemed done, it was ready for its trip to Louisville on Monday morning.
Of course we had a few last minute hiccups. With the PowerGen installed, our Edelbrock air cleaner wouldn't fit, so we swapped it out for an OTB Gear cleaner. A faulty ignition switch sourced from a local auto parts store caused some wiring problems, and there were a few minutes of holding our breath while the holes were drilled in the dash for the gauges … after the body was painted. But we didn't slip with the hole saw, the wiring came out good, and we completed a project car on time. Come back next month to see the finished build!


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The Patrick Henry Award Dinner is Nov. 10 at 6:30 at the Henry County Middle School. Any who wish to honor John W. Smith. Jr. for his tremendous service to not only the education of the children in the Henry County Public Schools, but also his commitment to our communities are invited to attend. Tickets are $20 for a delicious dinner prepared by the Henry Co. Public School Catering Staff. Sliced turkey breast with dressing and gravy as well as roasted round of beef ajus' with vegetables, salad and dessert will make a great Saturday evening dinner.
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Looking for the best golf trips? Discover the most beautiful golf destinations in the world with KLM. Learn how to play golf in Australia or sign up for a golf clinic in Portugal. But you can of course also just watch. Admire great golf legends at the KLM Open, a golf tournament in the Netherlands that is part of the highest professional golf circuit in Europe.
You can play golf almost anywhere in the world. But with the highest number of golf courses per capita in the world, Scotland is a paradise for golf lovers. The Saint Andrews Golf Club is not only the oldest golf course in the world, but is often regarded as the most beautiful one. However, there are many other courses that compete for this title. Dust off your clubs and play an enjoyable round on the Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Australia. Or walk across the green of the National Golf Club in Canada. Expect to be surprised: book your golf holiday now!
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*For more apple choices, see page 22 of Sensational Stevia Recipes.
**This stevia amount listed is the minimum to use in the recipe. Since your sweetness preference and brand used may vary, you may want to add up to
3/4 tsp. stevia extract.
Optional: Serve with nonfat or low-fat frozen yogurt or prepared Whipped Cream Topping (see page 34).
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Lisa's Note: Keep in mind that the carbohydrate and sugar content of this dessert comes from the natural sugar in the apples!


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As the titel says, I am trying out my new app on my phone. I have no time at all to be on my laptop, and I have my phone witn me everywhere, so this app might come in handy ^^.
Now let's try pictures:
I bought some new fabric for this summer. The white one is to make a castle fest outfit, the other, with flowers, to make something vintage looking.


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Evernote for iOS Update Add New Note Editor, Improved Attachments and Checkboxes
The changes are subtle, but pretty major as Evernote redesigns the way you create and edit notes along with additional features that make getting in and out of Evernote a little more efficient.
The first thing you will notice is the attachment options (image, audio, info, etc.) have been cleaned up and moved the top for quicker access if you just want to make an image or audio clip a note - Minus any words in the note.
If you do decide to type a quick note about the image or audio clip, the keyboard and text styling options now share space at the bottom of the note field to save space. Tapping the keyboard image or "A" button switches between the two views.
I try to find a way to use Evernote for as many operations as possible as to cut down on the amount of app switching I do. One of those operations is creating task/to-do lists. There are a ton of apps out there that do this (and do it well); but now, since Evernote has improved on its check-box feature, I may use this feature more in the future. Not only does a new checkbox show up when you move to a new line, but you can also indent checkboxes if you need to make lists within lists.
Additional options include:
- Redesigned audio recorder
- Pulling in photos from your Photo Stream library
- Disabling Auto-titling if you don't want Evernote to create titles for notes based on date, location, calendar events, etc.
- Disabling auto save to Camera Roll if you don't want duplicate images in Evernote and your phone
I can personally say you are missing out if you are not taking advantage of Evernote for iOS. Download it free from iTunes and lets us know what you think in the comments section.


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Acer XK Chipper - Custom Assembled
Base Price $39.95The Acer XK Chipper combines the loft of an 8-iron with the weight and lie of a putter. The ultrawide contoured sole glides across either the rough or the close cropped apron surrounding the green. Gooseneck, over-the-hosel design increases the effective face area and eliminates the possibility of shanking the ball like with an iron.Base price assembled with Apollo Standard Steel Shaft and Karma Black Velvet Grip. Learn More
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Acer XK Flipper Chipper - Custom Assembled
Base Price $39.95What type of club would produce the perfect cross between a chip shot and a flop shot? That would be the innovative Acer XK Flipper, which is not just another ordinary chipper on the market.The Flipper is based on our ever-popular Acer XK Chipper that measures 37d loft and is perfect for producing that pitch and run shot around the green. However, what happens when you miss the green short sided or when there is little room between the fringe and the hole to work with? A pitch and run shot will surely run the ball past the hole and further from your goal.Ask yourself how comfortable are you at pulling a wedge out of your bag to cozy the ball near the hole in those situations? If the answer to that is not very good, then the ultra-wide sole to glide along the grass coupled with the higher loft (46d), the Flipper allows you to finally make that 'fly & die' or 'pop and stop' shot that? been missing from your bag. Learn More