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In mid-December of 2011, Brady Bennett went out drinking at Adobe Gila's at the Greene, a Mexican restaurant in Dayton, Ohio. After two beers, the bartender offered him a free shot. Bennett chose Patrón tequila with apple schnapps. Soon, he recalled, his throat began to swell. He struggled to breathe, and his nose, mouth, and lungs "felt as though they were on fire." He called for an ambulance, moaning, and was taken to the hospital. A year later, Bennett filed a lawsuit against Adobe Gila's, claiming that the bartender had spiked his drink with extract of the bhut jolokia, or ghost chili. (Adobe Gila's denies the allegations.) "It wasn't as if they gave him a little Tabasco," Jeff McQuiston, Bennett's lawyer, told the Dayton Daily News. "This stuff is lethal." The bhut jolokia is a hundred and fifty times hotter than a jalapeño. Gastromasochists have likened it to molten lava, burning needles, and "the tip of my tongue being branded by a fine point of heated steel." Yet, at more than a million Scoville heat units—the Scoville scale, developed by the pharmacist Wilbur Scoville in 1912, measures the pungency of foods—the bhut jolokia is at least 462,400 SHU short of being the world's hottest chili pepper.
"Chili pepper" is a confusing term, another of Christopher Columbus's deathless misnomers. (Columbus and his men classified the spicy plant they had heard being referred to in Hispaniola as aji—farther north, in Mexico, it was known by the Nahuatl word chilli—as a relative of black pepper.) Chilis belong to Capsicum, a genus of the nightshade family. Horticulturists consider them fruits, and grocers stock them near the limes and cilantro. Most chilis contain capsaicin, an alkaloid compound that binds to pain receptors on the tongue, producing a sensation of burning. Sweet banana peppers are usually neutral. Pepperoncini (approximately 300 SHU) produce just a flicker of heat, while cayennes (40,000) are to Scotch bonnets (200,000) as matches are to blowtorches. Capsaicin is meant to deter predators, but for humans it can be too little of a bad thing. Because capsaicin causes the body to release endorphins, acting as a sort of neural fire hose, many people experience chilis as the ideal fulcrum of pain and pleasure.
In recent years, "superhots"—chilis that score above 500,000 on the Scoville scale—have consumed the attention of chiliheads, who debate grow lights on Facebook ("You can overwinter with a few well-placed T-8s"), swap seeds in flat-rate boxes (Australian customs is their nemesis), and show up in droves at fiery-foods events (wares range from Kiss My Bhut hot sauce to Vanilla Heat coffee creamer). Chilis, in general, are beautiful. There is a reason no one makes Christmas lights in the shape of rutabagas. Superhots come in the brightest colors and the craziest shapes. Their names, evoking travel and conquest—Armageddon, Borg 9, Naga Morich, Brain Strain—sound as though they were made up by the evil twins of the people who brand body lotions. Trinidad 7-Pots are so called because it's said that one of them is enough to season seven pots of stew.
Like computers, superhots are evolving at a rate that embarrasses the phenomena of just a few years ago. In 1992, Jane and Michael Stern observed, in this magazine, that five thousand Scoville units "would be considered very hot by most people, but even that is piddling compared with the blistering fury of the habanero pepper, which can reach three hundred thousand." (The Scoville test originally measured how many drops of sugar water it would take to dilute the heat of a chili; pungency is now determined more reliably by high-performance liquid chromatography, whose results can still be reported in Scoville units.) From 1994 to 2007, the Red Savina—a scarlet, heart-shaped pod rating 570,000 SHU—held the Guinness World Record for hottest chili pepper. Then the bhut jolokia, the existence of which had been whispered about for years among chiliheads, as though it were a vegetable Loch Ness monster, surfaced on the international scene. In 2000, R. K. R. Singh, a scientist at a Ministry of Defense research laboratory in Assam, India, where the bhut jolokia is widely grown, submitted some samples for analysis. The test results, which indicated that it was significantly more powerful than the Red Savina, made their way to Paul Bosland, a professor of horticulture and former sauerkraut expert who, for the past twenty-two years, has run the Chile Pepper Institute, at New Mexico State University. Bosland was skeptical of the Indian scientists' numbers, but he managed to obtain some bhut jolokia seeds, which he grew into plants. In January of 2007, he filed with Guinness, which awarded the C.P.I.'s bhut jolokia (1,001,300 SHU) the new world record.
In February of 2011, Guinness confirmed that the Infinity chili, grown in Lincolnshire, England, by a former R.A.F. security guard, had surpassed the bhut jolokia by more than sixty-five thousand SHU. Only two weeks later, a Cumbrian farmer named Gerald Fowler introduced the Naga Viper. At 1,382,118 SHU, it was, Fowler said, "hot enough to strip paint." He told reporters, "We're absolutely, absolutely chuffed. Everyone complains about the weather and rain here in Cumbria, but we think it helped us breed the hottest chili." He posed for the Daily Mail wearing a sombrero.
Chiliheads are mostly American, British, and Australian guys. (There is also a valiant Scandinavian contingent.) Chili growing is to gardening as grilling is to cooking, allowing men to enter, and dominate, a domestic sphere without sacrificing their bluster. "I can't remember eating anything spicy before the parrot came along," Fowler, a big man with a brushy mustache, told me, in July. The chili world is full of garrulous, confiding, erratic narrators who say things like "before the parrot came along." In Fowler's case, the parrot belonged to his father's brother. "Uncle Jim wanted another parrot, and his wife said, 'Nope, you've got a parrot, and that's it.' So he made up this story that my dad wanted a parrot, and next time he visited us he brought one." The parrot, named Murphy, came with a chili plant. (Birds can't taste capsaicin.) Fowler quit fishing and started growing habaneros in his bedroom. Soon, he had left his job as a Web designer and founded the Chili Pepper Company, through which he sells seeds, sauces, powders, and products such as Kiss the Devil, a mouth spray made with chili-infused alcohol. "You can have just a little bit before you go to the gym, to get your endorphins up," Fowler told me.
Chilis have become an attractive business. According to a report by IBISWorld, a market-research firm, hot-sauce production is one of America's ten fastest-growing industries, along with solar-panel manufacturing and online eyeglass sales. Last year, the Los Angeles hot-sauce company Huy Fong Foods sold more than sixty million dollars' worth of sriracha. (Americans bought so much sriracha in 2007 that there was a three-month national shortage.) Chilis are the male equivalent of cupcakes, tempting entrepreneurial amateurs with dreams of a more flavorful life. Gerald Fowler said, "In the last five years, you find somebody's been made redundant, he likes chili, he'll set up a chili business." The month after the Naga Viper got the Guinness record, Fowler made an extra forty thousand dollars.
At the moment, there is no definitive claimant to the title of world's hottest pepper. Lacking a central authority, the chili community finds itself embroiled in a three-way schism. In June of 2011, a group of Australian growers captured the Guinness record with the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T (1,463,700 SHU). Less than a year later, Bosland's Chile Pepper Institute issued a press release: "When it comes to bringing the heat, there's a new king of the hill." Bosland claimed that a C.P.I. chili called the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion had exceeded two million Scoville units.
Then, in August of last year, Ed Currie, of the PuckerButt Pepper Company, of Fort Mill, South Carolina, unveiled a new contender. Currie announced, "The PuckerButt Pepper Company has raised the bar for hot pepper heat intensity by producing an amazing hot pepper, the Smokin' Ed's Carolina Reaper, which surpasses the current world record holder, the Butch T Trinidad Scorpion." The Carolina Reaper's recommended uses, according to PuckerButt's Web site, included hot sauces, salsa, and "settling old scores." Steven Leckart wrote in Maxim that eating one was "like being face-fucked by Satan."
Currie's announcement divided opinion among chiliheads, a fractious lot. His associates—battling trolls (and baiting them, too)—made their allegiances known. Joe (Pepper Joe) Arditi, who runs a seed company in Myrtle Beach and is one of four venders licensed to sell Currie's chili, wrote in his online catalogue, "Do we need a new World's Hottest? I think so. We have the Super Bowl, World Series, Grammy, and Oscar awards for new champs every year." (Pepper Joe, who was offering Carolina Reaper seeds at ten dollars a pack, vowed to enforce "a strict 3-pack max" per customer.) He declared the Carolina Reaper "now the reigning King."
On GardenWeb.com, a commenter wrote of Pepper Joe:
He has disrespected Guinness and the creator of the CURRENT world record holder by putting ED's pepper at #1 WITHOUT SUBSTANTIATION, abusing the Guinness name for PERSONAL GAIN. That is misrepresentation and THEFT.
But he knows, there is one born every minute. My two cents? Don't be the one born in the next minute! . . . Welcome to the circus.
Eating, more than breathing or sleeping, lends itself to competition. There are bake-offs, wing wars, contests to see who can eat the most hot dogs, bratwurst, Twinkies, tamales, cannoli, apple pies, buffalo wings, ribs, oysters, pastrami, sweet corn, deep-fried asparagus, ice cream, pancakes, pepperoni rolls, and boiled eggs. Superhots are the most accessible of thrills—fugu straight from the garden. For the culinary extremist, or exhibitionist, they provide an outlet for impulses that might have compelled his adolescent self to drink a concoction or try to swallow a teaspoonful of cinnamon. (A recent study found a positive correlation between chili-eating and "sensation-seeking" behavior.) As a leisure activity, superhots offer some of the pleasures of mild drugs and extreme sports without requiring one to break the law or work out. They are near-death experiences in a bowl of guacamole.
Chief among the chilihead's occupational hazards is getting burnt up. In layman's terms, this means eating a chili that causes one to experience profuse sweating, redness, nausea, ear-popping, abdominal cramps, vomiting, or all of the above. Getting burnt up can happen by accident (underestimation, misidentification) or on purpose (dares, pranks, curry). At the Engine Inn, a pub a short walk from Gerald Fowler's house in Cumbria, I sampled the Naga Viper Curry, "made with officially the world's hottest chili pepper and served with pilau rice, mango chutney and a giant poppadum." "Tastes like heaven, Burns like hell," a chalkboard read. "594 curries sold, 397 finished." Though the waitress had warned, "We do it almost inedible," I made 398. Never has a runny nose been so enjoyable.
Chilis are believed to have health benefits. Four show jumpers were disqualified from the 2008 Olympics for having treated their horses with creams containing capsaicin, which can act as a stimulant. Traffic cops in China hand out chilis to keep drivers alert. In 2008, when Katie Couric asked Hillary Clinton how she kept her stamina up on the campaign trail, she replied, "I eat a lot of hot peppers." But, according to Paul Rozin, of the University of Pennsylvania, who studies the psychology of taste, the salutary effects of chilis aren't substantial enough to account for their appeal to humans, the only mammals that eat them. With his theory of "benign masochism," Rozin frames the allure of chilis as an emotional phenomenon. He writes, "We may come to enjoy our body's negative responses to situations when we realize that there is no, or minimal, actual danger. In the case of the roller coaster, our body is scared, and sympathetically activated, but we know we are safe. Similarly for our crying in sad movies, and the burn we feel with chili pepper." Chilis, in other words, are slasher flicks we can eat, bite-size Cyclones.
Ted Barrus, a custodian from Hammond, Oregon, has made a second career as Ted the Fire-Breathing Idiot, a friendly jackass and "chili reviewer." Barrus started rating chilis because he liked the attention. "I still don't really eat spicy food except when I'm doing reviews," he said. "A typical meal for me is a regular old American meal—a burger and fries. Very rarely do I eat salad. You know, I'm a fat guy. I like fat-guy food."
Barrus consumes whatever people send him, from raspberry-chipotle fudge to ranch-dressing soda. Armed with a jar of peanut butter and gallons of milk (casein, a protein in dairy products, can alleviate the effects of capsaicin), he regularly sets himself such stunts as eating twenty-one of the world's hottest peppers: seven bhut jolokia, five Trinidad Scorpion Butch Ts, four Douglah 7-Pots, three Trinidad Moruga Scorpions, two Jonah 7-Pots. (He made it through eleven of them.) Last June, he and a friend decided to try the Carolina Reaper.
In the video that Barrus posted on YouTube (41,960 views), the camera homes in on a pair of pods, positioned starkly on a tabletop as though they were hand grenades seized by sheriffs' deputies in a weapons bust.
"It looks like something from 'The Simpsons' or some horror movie," Barrus says. "It's very, very heavy and dense."
Each of the two, Barrus and his sidekick, stuffs a whole chili into his mouth and begins to chew.
"It's the most immediate tongue burn I've ever had," Barrus says. "It's immediately frying my tongue."
A few seconds go by.
"Wow. My gums are on fire."
"Urrgh, the gut burn is intense!"
"That was hell, boy. Hell in my mouth."
When I asked Barrus, over the phone, what he thought was the world's hottest chili, he replied, "I always say, 'Guinness says the Butch T, New Mexico says the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, and Ed Currie says the Carolina Reaper.' " He continued, "It's very complicated. It's not cut-and-dried."
The chili industry is rife with conflicts of interest—Currie, for instance, recently flew Barrus to a convention—but Barrus insisted that he was a reliable gauge of heat. "I go by my own burn," he said.
According to Barrus, "most chiliheads feel you have to respect Guinness," even though its authority is less than absolute. Guinness doesn't perform tests itself; it just certifies results that conform to its requirements. In Barrus's opinion, growers have reason to be secretive about their methods. He said, "The problem is that you have so many people who test who are affiliated with venders. Some people who create these crosses are afraid venders are going to get the seeds, grow them out, rename it, and call it their own cross."
He was unconvinced by the claims of the Chile Pepper Institute, saying, "You know, I've eaten Moruga Scorpions that were no hotter than a habanero." As for the Carolina Reaper, he acknowledged that Currie's association with Pepper Joe, who had a reputation for slick salesmanship, had "hurt his credibility." (Pepper Joe, for his part, said, "I'm a marketer—that's my DNA." He added, "We positively have the data. We took a new pepper and in fourteen months made it a household recognizable name, and to me that's just short of astonishing.") Barrus said, "Ed partnered up with him for the release of the Carolina Reaper. So some people look at Ed like, how much can you trust Ed Currie?"
Several weeks later, I was in South Carolina, standing in the middle of a field with Ed Currie. Currie had picked me up at my hotel in a GMC van. I had immediately started coughing—chili fumes. Currie rolled down a window.
Currie has a beard and an excitable yet downbeat manner. He was dressed in jean shorts, a T-shirt that said "Tree Hugger: I Will Cling to the Old Rugged Cross," and a gold-and-silver Tag Heuer watch. He surveyed his plants, which were shoulder-high and stretched in lush rows back to a spring-fed pond. "Less talking, more working!" he yelled to some bare-chested workers who were picking pods under the sun. He turned to me and said, "I don't really care much for the spotlight, but God's doing it, and I've just got to keep on going."
Being a North Carolina native, I asked Currie if he was from the area. He explained that he had grown up in West Bloomfield, Michigan, where his father was the chief financial officer of a division of the John Hancock insurance company. Currie continued, "I went to the University of Michigan, and I got kicked out. Before that I was at Eastern Michigan. I never went to one class—I just took the tests, which I could do because I'm a genius. My family had a history of heart disease and cancer, and all this time I'm studying how not to die, never quite correlating that the amount of drinking and drugs I was doing might lead to premature death. I was just reading, looking at places where they had low incidences of illness." Currie developed a theory that spicy food might be good for you. "In 1982, I went to a Vietnamese restaurant in Orchard Lake, Michigan, and I said, 'I want to eat hot chilis. What's the hottest you've got?' And they said, 'No, no, no,' and I said, 'Yes, yes, yes.' " He smiled. "I got high as crap!"
Currie started making hot sauces. "When you're bored, you're bored," he said. He went to seven different schools and eventually graduated from Central Michigan. Meanwhile, he was drinking and doing drugs. He got a D.W.I., lost his driver's license, went to jail, got married and divorced. By 1999, he said, "I had five different liquor stores delivering to my house. I was a big fat sloppy drunk pig, and I decided I wanted to die. It was winter, and I left the door open—snow was coming in the house—and then an angel came in and said, 'You've got to get to the hospital.' " Currie waved a forearm in front of me and rolled up his sleeve. "See? Goosebumps."
We got into the van. Currie, who has been clean for fourteen years, worked in the trust department at Wells Fargo until January, when he turned full time to chilis. He fielded a flurry of calls on his iPhone as we drove to his house. Eventually, we parked next to a modest white A-frame with an extravagantly landscaped garden: palm trees, cattails, a seven-foot-tall cosmos. "Look, palms are only supposed to bloom in the springtime," Currie said. "I get them to bloom all year long." He added, "I know about nutrients, I know about plant reproductive cycles—I grew pot in Michigan in the middle of wintertime!"
There was something strange about the street Currie lived on: while the front yards on the block, except for Currie's, were largely barren, many of the back yards appeared to be as lush as tropical jungles. Currie, it turned out, had turned the neighborhood into an extended chili farm. "I might or might not have about thirty-five yards that I lease out for the summer every year," he said. "It's all camouflaged," he continued, slipping behind a house to check up on a test plot. "No one knows where it is. People have come into my yard and tried to steal stuff."
Currie first suspected that he had a very hot chili on his hands in 2002, when he crossed a habanero (he got the seeds, he says, from a former co-worker who was from St. Vincent) with a Pakistani Naga (these came from a Michigan friend—"a Pakistani prince" whom he used to babysit, and whom he says he can't say more about "because of his job"). Horticultural protocol requires that a new chili self-pollinate for five to eight generations before it can be considered stable and, therefore, a distinct variety. Currie says he grew his plant to five generations and then took it to nearby Winthrop University for tests. In 2010, Cliff Calloway, a chemistry professor at Winthrop, certified that the chili, which was then called the HP22B, averaged a heat of 1,474,000 SHU. The next year, the report somehow came to the attention of the local media. "It went viral," Currie said. "People were trashing me on every forum. Ted Barrus called and said, 'You've got to get on here and defend yourself.' Apparently, I didn't ask the pepper gods if it was all right for me to be cross-breeding chilis."
In June of 2011, Currie wrote to Guinness:
Hello, my name is Ed Currie and I own the PuckerButt Pepper Company. We have been testing a pepper I hybrided at Winthrop University for the last several years and have a pepper that's weighted average over the years is 1,474,000 scoville. I have attached a chart one of the grad students used for her part of the project. I actually have a pepper that is closer to two million consistently, but I am waiting on the results from this year and making sure the seed is consistent. How should I proceed and what data do I need to provide. . . . It would be great to have the US on the map for heat.
Thanks for your help.
Smokin Ed
Currie paid six hundred and fifty dollars to Guinness to "fast-track" the application, but, for one reason or another, the proceedings stalled. Guinness says that it has never received the proper paperwork from Currie. "We keep asking for documentation and he says he'll send it, but we still haven't got anything," Sara Wilcox, a spokesperson for Guinness, told me. Currie argues that Guinness has failed to keep track of the documentation he's sent—when the person he was originally dealing with left the company, in 2012, he was forced to start afresh—and that Guinness keeps changing the rules for the category.
"I don't think they want to give the record to an American," Currie said. "That's just my personal opinion."
Given the stalemate with Guinness, Currie decided late last year to declare the chili the world's hottest on his own authority. First, he changed the HP22B's name to the Carolina Reaper. "God brought a couple of guys into my life who used to work at Pepsi," he told me. "They're all about the corporate marketing thing."
Currie's critics question the long-term viability of the Carolina Reaper. Ted Barrus explained, "There's a lot of controversy over Ed Currie's chili because in Europe some people got the Reaper, they grew out the seeds, and their chilis don't look like anybody else's. They're saying it's no longer stable." Currie acknowledged that some customers had got weird results, but the problem, he said, stemmed from a few contaminated seed packs. (Currie has recently furnished Guinness with a letter from a biology professor at Winthrop attesting that his plants are stable.) Besides, he said, the Carolina Reaper was, at this point, almost an anachronism, and he was persisting in trying to win recognition for it merely as a point of pride. "The Carolina Reaper's the mildest of the peppers I've crossed," he said, looking me in the eye. He had goosebumps again. "We have one hundred and sixty-two hotter ones yet to come."
"F or over 1 year now, the Reaper has been so close to getting a record," Jim Duffy wrote to me recently. "Do you think people in the Industry are tired of hearing about it almost getting it over and over again? Is it the 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' and now Industry people are just ignoring it?"
Duffy, of Refining Fire Chiles, in San Diego, is Ed Currie's arch-frenemy and sometime business partner. They pray together on the phone every day, and tend to preface their criticisms of each other by saying, "He's a good friend of mine, but . . ." (As hybrids go, the chili world would make an excellent setting for both a Will Ferrell movie and an adaptation of "Julius Caesar." Among the pejoratives the chiliheads I spoke with used to describe each other were "clown," "joke," "Johnny-come-lately," "whack job," and "palooka.") Duffy says that he's not a record-chaser, but his beef with the Carolina Reaper may owe something to the fact that he gave Paul Bosland and the Chile Pepper Institute the seeds they used to grow the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, which they proclaimed "the hottest pepper on the planet" in February of 2012. Duffy said of it, to the Associated Press, "Like Cabbage Patch dolls right before Christmas or Beanie Babies, it's, like, the hot item."
According to C.P.I. data, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion averages only 1.2 million Scoville units, but its heat peaks at more than two million. To assert its primacy, its boosters have devised a novel argument: the chili record should be determined by maximum, rather than mean (the scariest wolf ever, rather than the scariest wolf most of the time). To some chiliheads, this constitutes a curious reversal of methodology—only six years ago, the C.P.I. claimed the Guinness World Record by citing the bhut jolokia's mean heat.
"It drives me nuts!" Alex de Wit, an Australian grower who is part of the team that holds the current Guinness record for the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, told me. "I think if you want a world record, you have to do it according to the rules." De Wit e-mailed me later, "If they would beat me and did it exactly as supposed to do, well done and good on them. I am the first to applaud and clap my hands. . . . Anything else is just loose sand to my opinion, and not based upon facts but fiction." De Wit was equally upset by Ed Currie's claims about the Carolina Reaper: "I really do not have the time or energy for dicks (excusez le mot)." He closed his e-mail, "I wish you a spicy day."
Jim Duffy dismissed such criticism. "Does a runner win a race on the average, or does he win it by being the fastest?" he said, when we spoke on the phone, his voice gaining Scovilles by the second. "Is any record won by the fastest, the hottest, the tallest, the biggest, or are records given for the average? Who cares about the average?" He concluded, "Every record in the history of man has been based on the high."
Duffy and Bosland have yet to secure independent recognition for the Trinidad Moruga. I asked Duffy if the use of maximum numbers amounted to, as some chiliheads had complained, a misleading focus on outliers.
"Well, I'll tell you, dear, you can come out here to San Diego, and you can walk in my field, and you can bite into a Reaper and you can bite into a Moruga, and we'll see which one you walk away from," he said. "My grower Daniel, he's got Reapers in his dehydrator, and he eats them like potato chips."
After we got off the phone, Duffy sent me an e-mail that contained a list of ten questions to ponder. The ninth suggested that some of his competitors might be using substances that artificially inflate the capsaicin content of their chilis. "There is no test out there that can detect the use of these nutrients in the pepper," Duffy wrote. "Yes, Virginia! Peppers can be juiced!"
Butch T, of the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, is Butch Taylor, a plumber in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 2005, Taylor got some Trinidad Scorpion seeds from a guy named Mark in New Jersey, who had got them from a local nursery. Taylor recalled, "When I grew them down here, they just grew unbelievable. I got three plants out of five seeds, and every plant I grew was dedicated to seeds. The first time I tasted it, I just thought, This is the hottest thing I've ever seen."
Taylor kept growing the plants, selecting at each generation for the hottest specimens. He gave the seeds away to chiliheads all over the world, sticking a little label that said "Butch T" at the bottom of each packet, so that absent-minded recipients would be able to keep track of where they had come from. Besides that, he didn't think much of it. "I didn't have any money to pay for testing—I didn't even know how to have them tested at the time," he told me. "And since I was growing the seeds, not selling them, I couldn't see the purpose of setting the record." He learned that his namesake chili was the hottest chili in the world, according to Guinness, the day that the record was announced. The Australians who developed Taylor's strain into a winner had named it after him. "It took me a while to get my head around it, because I'm a little more shy, unless I've been drinking or something," he recalled. "I thought that was very decent of them."
Butch Taylor is spoken of in reverent tones in the chili community. A human bhut jolokia, he doesn't travel often to chili conventions, and his Web site is dormant. He can be a little hard to find, but, in recent years, he has maintained a steady presence on Facebook, advising fellow-enthusiasts on how to deal with fire ants or sharing observations about pod phenotypes. In January, he posted his "2013 (incomplete) grow list," a document that included sixty-one types of chili and was pored over as though it were a Vatican encyclical. Christopher Phillips, another veteran chilihead, wrote, "Congratulations Butch. You have now officially set yourself up for 52,390 seed requests come harvest time? LOL. Nice list!!" Taylor likes blues piano and L.S.U. football. He misses the taste of glue on stamps. He even has his own groupie—a woman who sends him pictures of herself posing next to plants grown from his seeds.
A few years ago, Taylor and his wife, Shirley, whom he met when he was thirteen, were living in a farmhouse that they built with their own hands on some land that Taylor's family has owned for years. The farm is about an hour north of Baton Rouge, in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. When the economic crisis hit, gas cost too much for them to make the commute every day, so they started spending the week in a travel trailer that they park in the driveway of their daughter's house. On weekends, they drive out to the country.
One day in September, Butch and Shirley picked me up at the Baton Rouge airport. Taylor did not look exactly like the picture he had sent—it was of Brad Pitt—but he welcomed me warmly. His eyes are bright blue. He was wearing shorts and a blue polo shirt with white stripes. "Hush, baby!" Shirley, who has strawberry-blond hair and a deep, honeyed voice, said to their shih tzu, Laila Habanero, as I climbed into their truck. A chili-pepper ornament dangled from the rearview mirror.
A couple of hours later, Taylor was standing in the kitchen of the farmhouse, softening shallots in butter for a crawfish étouffée. "I've cooked since the time I could lift a skillet," he said. Taylor had his first chili by accident. "I ate a tepín that I found growing in a flower bed when I was eleven," he said. "It burnt me up." As an adult, he started growing tomatoes; chilis followed. "This is based on an old recipe I came across in a preserving book from the eighteen-hundreds," Taylor said, picking up a jar of pepper brandy that was sitting on the counter. Chilis take on a metaphysical dimension in Taylor's telling. "I don't find peppers," he said. "Peppers find me."
The following morning, Taylor put on his boots and went outside. Next door, his mother's chickens were clucking in a pen. Hummingbirds darted past a pecan tree. Taylor unplugged a homemade electrical fence and stepped into his chili field. "This used to be a dog yard," he said. "My stepfather ran the hounds at Angola State Penitentiary. He used to feed them deer carcasses. The grass grew so thick that you could barely run a motor over it, so I thought it would be a good place to put a garden."
Taylor walked through rows of plants, gathering ripe pods in a wooden basket. His plants hadn't done particularly well this season—they were smaller than usual, and their leaves were a sickly yellow. (He thought he had got a bad batch of fertilizer.) Still, even in early fall, they were yielding chilis galore: chilis in the shape of bugles; chilis that glowed like Chinese lanterns; chilis that, Taylor pointed out, resembled pit bulls' teeth. When I asked him the big question, he hedged. "What I believe is the hottest pepper? I don't know," he said.
Still, he couldn't resist a tiny dig. "This is a Trinidad Scorpion from Australia," he said, fingering a bumpy bright-red pod. He handed it to me. "Notice a resemblance to Ed's?"
Taylor allowed that chiliheads were a competitive bunch. "Of course, I have an unfair advantage," he said, indicating the sun beating down overhead. "It's kind of like bringing a Ferrari to a Volkswagen race."
Taylor led me to a white outbuilding that serves as a dedicated hot-sauce kitchen: eight-gallon pots, nitrile gloves, face mask, radio, a de-seeding stool embellished, like a hot rod, with flames. Every year, he makes a few sauces, which he sells mostly to his plumbing buddies. "I've been trying to convince myself that I have to sell more stuff to pay for all the different stuff I want to do," he said. "I just can't get into it." Taylor has a theory about the economics of chilis: like hemlines, they rise when times are tough. "The deal with the hot sauce is that nobody has the money to eat out, so they stay home and start cooking again. After a while, you think, Well, there's got to be something different I can do with this." The only problem, Taylor said, is that nobody ever buys a bottle of superhot sauce twice.
Eventually, we walked back to the house.
"How were they lookin', baby?" Shirley asked.
"I've got a lot of peppers out there to pick this weekend," Butch replied.
He had brought a Trinidad Scorpion Butch T in from the field. The pod had a bulbous cap and a tapering tail that recalled the stinger of a wasp. Its skin was pebbly, like the nose of a drinker. It looked as though it had been made of melted wax from the candles at an Italian restaurant.
Taylor took a knife and whittled off a flake no larger than a clove. I put it in my mouth and chewed. The capsaicin hit loud and fast, a cymbal clang of heat. My face flushed. My eyes glassed over and I started pacing the kitchen, as though I could walk off the burn. It took twenty minutes and a can of Dr Pepper to banish the sensation of having a sort of tinnitus of the mouth.
Before we came inside, Taylor had shown me his greenhouse, where he tends his most precious plants. A single bush dominated the small hut. Hanging from its branches were an assortment of pods, some of them deep red and some of them a faint green. The plant, which was not yet stable, was the third generation of an accidental cross of a 7-Pot Jonah and, most likely, a Trinidad Scorpion Butch T. Taylor was calling it the WAL—the Wicked-Ass Little 7-Pot. He shook a branch, unleashing a swarm of flies, and picked a pod from the stem. "Just off the top of my head, the first one I tasted, I'd say two million Scovilles," he said. "But it may just be a freak of nature. You get those now and then." ♦


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Senior midfielder Leslie Osborne scored her sixth game-winner of the season to lift 16th-seed Santa Clara University past Illinois 2-0 in the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship. The Broncos (18-4-2) advance to their 10th College Cup.
The 23rd NCAA Championship continues next weekend at SAS Soccer Park in Cary, N.C., in an event hosted by North Carolina State University and the Capital Area Soccer League. Santa Clara will face fourth seed Notre Dame on Friday, Dec. 3 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. Seventh seed Princeton and 14th seed UCLA will meet in the other semifinal at 11 a.m. Both semifinal contests will broadcast live on ESPN2.
In the 15th minute, Osborne was taken down in the Broncos' attacking third, setting up a free kick that junior defender Micaela Esquivel took from the left side. Her serve brought Illini keeper Leisha Alcia out, but Osborne beat Alcia to the ball and headed it in for her ninth goal of the season.
The Broncos pushed the lead to 2-0 in the first minute of the second half. On the attack, Tiffany Roberts passed to Tina Estrada, whose shot deflected by an Illinois defender. Senior Bree Horvath collected the rebound and posted her fifth goal of the season with the ensuing side volley shot.
On the afternoon, the Broncos out-shot their visitors 10-4. Sophomore goalkeeper Julie Ryder notched her 12th shut out of the season, marking the third best single-season performance in Bronco recordbooks. Her career total now stands at 21, fourth on the program's all-time list.
Bronco sophomore midfielder Lauren Zealear suffered a left knee injury in the 85th minute.
Santa Clara has now won 11th straight and closed the home season at Buck Shaw with a 10-1-1 mark. The Broncos faced Notre Dame earlier this season, a 5-2 loss in South Bend after the Broncos lost two center backs in a three-match span. The Irish advanced to the College Cup with a 3-1 win over Portland on Friday night.

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dailypress"Sunday's finale airs from 8-10 p.m, with the first hour in Micronesia, where two more castaways will be voted out. At 9 p.m., the jury's final votes will be tallied, and will decide which of the two finalists wins."
The commercial says 3 tribal councils are left and you compared it to last year where the commercial says three TCs. I thought last year there were 5 remaining and only 2 voted out which made it a F3 to vote on. Remember this year it would have been like that (with Eliza starting the jury) because James left due to injury and Alexis was voted out. If James hadn't left to injury there would have been 5 people going into the finale. Three tribal councils would have possibly made it a F3. But with James leaving to injury it made it 2 less instead of 1 less when Alexis was voted out. Therefore the commercials are the same but there are less people so how else would you have three tribal councils. Or is that false advertisement? 4 people at start. TC - 3 people remainTC - 2 people remain And then I believe the finale is considered a TC. But I could be wrong on this, as I only have watched this show a few times in the past (and towards the end mind you) and then this season - its a good lay down on the couch relax show for me lately
i think there is a F3. i dont know where this F2 spoiler got started( who does?) i doubt that james or anybody on the jury is unable to appear to vote on the winner and therefor another juror is needed. 8 jurors is even more farfetched. if they were really returning to F2 this year than ozzy would have started the jury and not eliza. i think that the F3 will remain. the commecial for 3 tribal councils is the same as last years china final and they started at the f4 in last years finale too. dont think there is a chance the game will be scrtewed with 8 jurors like that or that in the span of 3 dyas from eriks boot till the final TC that james or anybody cannot even appear at the final TC. if he needs surgery im sure they can wait a day on it or something lol. i mean hes under contract to vote.
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BUFFALO, NY—Buffalo State (2-0) piled up 598 yards of total offense and improved to 2-0 for the first time since 1999 with a 42-40 victory over visiting Brockport (1-1) to claim the I-90 Bowl trophy for the third time in four years today in a non-conference game at Coyer Field.
Buffalo State senior quarterback Casey Kacz (Amherst/Sweet Home) was 25 for 34 for 387 yards and a touchdown while adding 74 rushing yards and 14 attempts. Mike Doherty (Tonawanda/Kenmore East) had a career day with 10 catches for 228 yards. Rich Pete (Utica/TR Proctor) rushed for 104 yards on 11 carries and two scores, and Ismail Brooks (Auburn/Auburn) added three rushing touchdowns. Brian Greene (Syracuse/Liverpool) and Mitchell Thomas (Buffalo/Sweet Home) led the Bengals' defense with nine tackles each.
Brockport's offense totaled 546 yards, with quarterback Ty Stoldt (Alden/Alden) going 29 of 44 for 414 yards and five touchdowns. Jake Spalik (Johnson City/Johnson City) led the Golden Eagles with eight catches for eight catches for 116 yards and two scores, as he set Brockport's all-time record for career receiving yards, surpassing the previous record of 2,077. Andrew Mrozek (Depew/Lancaster) had seven grabs for 106 yards and found the end zone twice, and Tyrone Nichols (Troy/Lansingburgh) had 75 rushing yards and a score on 14 carries.
The teams combined to score 54 second-half points after the game was deadlocked at 14-14 at the intermission.
Brockport opened the scoring with the only points of the first quarter on a 22-yard touchdown catch by Mrozek on a fourth-and-2 play to take a 7-0 lead.
The Bengals took a 14-7 lead, scoring on each of their next two possessions. After Brooks scored on a 7-yard option run, Pete put the Bengals ahead on a 1-yard plunge.
Brockport evened the score at 14-14 with just 45 seconds remaining in the first half, converting on another fourth-down play, when Stoldt hit Spalik for a 14-yard strike.
The Golden Eagles took a 21-14 lead just two plays into the second half on a 76-yard catch and run by Darryl Thompson (Central Islip/Central Islip), but the Bengals answered immediately and on the next possession. Kacz connected with Ryan Carney (Olean/Olean) on a 46-yard strike to even the score at 21-21.
Brockport scored again on their next possession on a 10-yard run by Nichols, but Chris Hall (Pasadena, CA/St. Francis) darted off the edge and blocked the extra point, which would prove to be a pivotal play in the game.
Down by just six, Buffalo State responded with a pair of touchdowns early in the fourth quarter to take a lead it would not relinquish. The Bengals found the end zone on an 8-yard scamper by Pete and a 2-yard run by Brooks.
Spalik scored his second touchdown of the day on a 7-yard reception with 4:43 remaining, but Brockport's two-point attempt failed, leaving the score 35-33.
Buffalo State pushed the lead to nine at 42-33 on Brooks' third touchdown of the day from 2 yards out with 2:03 remaining. Brockport worked quickly to find the end zone one more time, scoring on a 27-yard pass from Stoldt to Mrozek with 1:08 remaining, but the Golden Eagles could not recover the onside kick attempt.
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A free Justin Bieber concert took a decidedly death metal turn in Norway yesterday, as crazed, frothing fans infected what scientists now call The Biebonic Plague nearly rioted at a free performance by Justin Bieber.
The trouble started as soon as teen panty wetter Justin "Biebus" Christ landed in Oslo and Tweeted that he'd be performing outdoors, for free, and that if his fans really loved him they'd show up and scream really loud.
And show up they did, wild with Tubiebulosis, so unruly that Bieber had to be swept away to a secure location after performing for half an hour. The mass Biebel Alcohol Syndrome led to mass fainting, and nearly prompted police to declare a state of emergency.
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Harvard and Stanford constitutional expert Kathleen Sullivan made a brilliant argument in the Supreme Court today and ceded no quarter. When asked by Justice Breyer if Blackbeard would have been protected by incorporating Pirates, Inc., she replied, "yes, the corporation would not be liable."
Stanford Law professor Jeffrey Fisher had a harder time of it – and the harder argument – trying to persuade a skeptical Court that the word "individuals" in the Torture Victim Protection Act could refer to organizations, and not just human beings.
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Unsurprisingly, Arkansas shares a common root with Kansas. Both come from the Quapaw Sioux word kansa, meaning people of the south wind. The terminal s was added by the French to conform to their spelling conventions.
1Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names: United States and Canada, edited by Kelsie B. Harder (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1976), 20, 267;
Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged, edited by Philip Babcock Gove (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1993), 118, 1232.
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Microsoft, Google, Other Tech Giants Unite to Prevent Next Heartbleed
Technology giants including Google Inc. and International Business Machines have committed to collectively give more than $3 million to support the free, widely used computer code that underpins the Internet.
As participants in the Core Infrastructure Initiative, the companies will each provide $100,000 per year for a minimum of three years. The money will back projects aimed at improving open source software, code that can be modified and used by individuals and companies for free. While the total may be loose change for the tech firms, it could be quite a sum for open source developers, many of whom do work in their free time for little or no pay.
The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit group that advocates for the growth of Linux and collaborative software development, announced the project Thursday. Along with the foundation, other founding participants include Microsoft, Facebook, Cisco Systems, Dell Inc., Fujitsu, Intel, NetApp, VMWare, Amazon.com and Rackspace Hosting
Recruiting for the initiative kicked into gear following the disclosure of the Heartbleed bug, a vulnerability in OpenSSL, an open source encryption tool used by a large portion of the Internet. The flaw could have affected two-thirds of active websites and potentially exposed troves of sensitive customer data.
Open source software is often seen as more secure than proprietary software. The more eyes on the code, the thinking goes, the more opportunity there is to improve on that code and spot potential issues.
"In this case, no one was looking at the code," Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, told CIO Journal. Heartbleed was the catalyst for launching the project, he said. "Can we together take a broader view and maybe lower the risk that the next Heartbleed will happen? I do think that is the case, with a modicum of resources."
Open source software pervades the systems and software companies and consumers use every day, but many open source developers do so for little or no pay during their free time. "We have to provide resources in a way that allows them to operate the way they have been operating, in a way that allows them to do it full time without having to worry about their next meal," Mr. Zemlin said.
The initiative will look across the spectrum of open source projects and determine which ones could be significantly aided by some funding. Support could include paying developers to work on new projects, funding security audits or improving computing infrastructure.
The first project being considered for funding will be OpenSSL, according to a statement from the Linux Foundation. Project proposals would be brought to a steering committee that would then vote on how to allocate money, Mr. Zemlin said. The WSJ reported earlier that at the time of Heartbleed's discovery, OpenSSL was managed by just four European programmers, only one of whom counted it as his full-time job.
Shortly after the bug was disclosed, some firms floated the possibility of professionally testing open source software projects. "Testing of the core libraries has not been done in a highly orchestrated and organized manner, and I think it is time for that to be done," said Trey Ford, global security strategist at Rapid7, an Internet security company. He noted that his firm does not provide the kind of source code review discussed at the time.
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Linux operating system distributor Canoncial Ltd., voiced his "full support for this initiative." He said Heartbleed "opened the world's eyes to the extent to which open source is vital to vast tracts of infrastructure and makes it real to a much broader cross section of business and society."
Still, he said the initiative should only be a first step in developing institutions capable of policing open source software. Ultimately, he said, other institutions will have to be created in order to ensure that not only software developers, but also security researchers and others involved in cybersecurity, have access to these kinds of resources. "The deep challenge is to figure out how to create a combination of openness and governance and sustainability for these widely used pieces of open source software that doesn't just address the crisis of the day, but ultimately gives us more confidence in our ability to both avoid and respond to potential crises in the future," he told CIO Journal.
Mr. Zemlin, who said future backers could include governments and members of the financial services industry, among others, hopes the initiative will serve as an outlet for anyone with a stake in open source to propose a project.
Calling open source "core to our strategy and development," New England BiolabsInc. CIO Ken Grady said many of the company's scientific apps, such as those used for gene assembly and other experimental design tools, are open source. He said the firm's heavy reliance on open source makes it "critical that we monitor and patch frequently to address threats," including for serious flaws such as Heartbleed.
TradeMonster Group Inc., an online trading platform in Chicago, uses open source software as much as possible both in its trading system and internally, chief technology officer Sanjib Sahoo said. The company goes through a lot of work to test open source software before running it in its network.
Many companies that want to save money with open source software don't do enough testing, he said. "They don't go through a lot of security, performance and compatibility testing." TradeMonster was not impacted by the Heartbleed flaw in OpenSSL as it didn't use the version of the software that was vulnerable, Mr. Sahoo said.
Michael Hickins, Rachael King and Clint Boulton contributed to this article.
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Worldwide Travel Information (area) World Countries > Africa > Kenya
KenyaKenya is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator. With the Indian Ocean to its south-east, it is bordered by Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, South Sudan to the north-west, Ethiopia to the north and Somalia to the north-east. The country is named after Mount Kenya, a significant landmark and second among Africa's highest mountain peaks. Its capital and largest city is Nairobi
Kenya has a warm and humid climate along its coastline on the Indian Ocean, which changes to wildlife-rich savannah grassland moving inland towards the capital Nairobi has a cool climate that gets colder approaching Mount Kenya, which has three permanently snow-capped peaks. The warm and humid tropical climate reappears further inland towards lake Victoria before giving way to temperate forested and hilly areas in the western region. The North Eastern regions along the border with Somalia and Ethiopia are arid and semi-arid areas with near-desert landscapes.
Lake Victoria the world's second largest fresh-water lake (after Lake Superior in the US and Canada) and the world's largest tropical lake, is situated to the southwest and is shared with Uganda and Tanzania. Kenya is famous for its safaris and diverse world-famous wildlife reserves such as the East and West Tsavo National Park, the Maasai Mara, Nakuru National Park, and Aberdares National Park.
The African Great Lakes region, of which Kenya is a part, has seen human habitation since the Lower Paleolithic period. The Bantu expansion reached the area from West-Central Africa by the first millennium AD, and the borders of the modern state comprise the crossroads of the Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan and Afro-Asiatic ethno-linguistic areas of the continent, making Kenya a truly multi-cultural country.
European and Arab presence in Mombasa dates to the Early Modern period, but European exploration of the interior began only in the 19th century. The British Empire established the East Africa Protectorate in 1895, known from 1920 as the Kenya Colony The independent Republic of Kenya was founded in December 1963.
Following a referendum in August 2010 and adoption of a new constitution that is to replace the old one that was inherited from the British at independence, Kenya is now divided into 47 counties that are semi-autonomous units of governance. These units are expected to be fully implemented by August 2012 – in time for the first general election under the new constitution. The counties will be governed by elected governors and will operate independent of the central government in Nairobi
The capital Nairobi is a regional commercial hub. The economy of Kenya is the largest by GDP in East and Central Africa.
Agriculture is a major employer and the country traditionally exports tea and coffee and more recently fresh flowers to Europe. The service industry is a major economic driver. Kenya is a member of the East African Community.
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MAS Context : Analog
Chicago 2012
On Saturday, October 13th, 2012, MAS Context, in collaboration with NEW PROJECTS, organized the second edition of MAS Context : Analog, a one-day event of presentations, exhibitions and an onsite bookstore in Chicago.
MAS Context : Analog gathered a group of emerging and established practitioners within the field of design who discussed their work based on the four themes proposed: Practice, Visual Communication, Production and Curation. The event included presentations by artists, academics, architects, urban designers, graphic designers, industrial designers, experience designers and curators.
Speakers included Jimenez Lai (Bureau Spectacular), Sean Lally (WEATHERS), David Brown (UIC SoA), David Rueter (SAIC), John Pobojewski (Thirst), Sara C. Aye & George Aye (Greater Good Studio), Andrew Clark (MINIMAL), David Sieren & Sam Rosen (The Post Family), Ed Marszewski (Co-Prosperity), Marc Fisher (Temporary Services), Claire Warner & Sam Vinz (Volume Gallery), and Dieter Roelstraete (MCA Chicago).
The event also included "Architectural Narratives," an exhibition of the work of architect-graphic novelist Jimenez Lai and architect-cartoonist Klaus, and an onsite bookstore by Half Letter Press, a publishing imprint and an experimental online store initiated by Temporary Services.
A party with a DJ set by Dieter Roelstraete concluded the event.
MAS Context : Analog was an affiliate event of the Chicago Ideas Week and was supported by The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, AIA Chicago, STA The Society of Typographic Arts, and IIT College of Architecture.
Thank you so much to all the presenters, the supporting institutions and to all of you who attended the event. And of course, thanks to Marshall, Stephanie, Rich, Julie and André for all the help. Enjoy the photos!
Photographs by Matthew Messner and Iker Gil.
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MAS Context, a quarterly journal created by MAS Studio, addresses issues that affect the urban context. Each issue delivers a comprehensive view of a single topic through the active participation of people from different fields and different perspectives who, together, instigate the debate.
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Named team captain ... Tabbed Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar ... Finished 26th at Ivy League Championships (76-77-78-231) ... Led Harvard by shooting 216 (68-75-73) at McLaughlin Invitational ... Placed tied for 42nd overall at Windon Memorial (75-78-76-229) ... Finished tied for 22nd at The MacDonald Cup (73-70-143) ... Led Harvard with a score of 222 (71-76-75) at ASU Thunderbird Invitational ... Tied for seventh at Princeton Invtiational (71-76-70-217).
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Earned Harvard's Rob Erickson '01 Team Player of the Year award ... Finished tied for 15th at Ivy League Championships (83-78-72-233) ... Beat Peck (Princeton) 1-up at H-Y-P season opener ... Helped Harvard to an eighth place finish at the St. John's annual McLaughlin Invitational ... Captured a top 10 finish, finishing with a 3-over par at the Yale's MacDonald Cup ... Had an overall score of 83-78-161 at the Philadelphia Big 5 Invitational ... Placed 42nd overall with a combined score of 73-71-75-219 at the Windon Memorial Classic ... Shot 75-72-76-223 at Princeton Invitational ... Finished tied for 12th (81-74-155) at Century Intercollegiate.
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On this day, St. Pa'esa, departed. She was born in Menouf, to pious and rich parents. When her parents died, she turned her house into a shelter for the poor and the sojourner. She accepted everyone that came to her fulfilling their every need until she ran out of money. Evil people gathered around her, and turned her mind to the ungodly way. She turned her home into a house of prostitution. When this news reached the elders of Shiheet, they sorrowed for her with great sorrow. The elders called upon St. John, the Short, and asked him to go to her, as an act of mercy, and to aid her in saving her soul, in turn for the good that she had done for them.
The saint obeyed the elders and asked them to support him with their prayers. When St. John came to where she lived, he asked her maid to announce his presence. When the maid informed her, Pa'esa adorned herself, and called him in. As he was walking, he was saying, "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil. For thou art with me." (Ps. 23:4) When he sat down, he looked to her and said, "Why did you belittle the Lord Christ, and do this evil deed?" She trembled, and her heart was melting from the words of the Saint who bent his head and started weeping. She asked him, "Why do you weep?" He answered, "Because I see the devils playing on your face, and therefore I weep for you." She asked him, "Is there any repentance for me?" He replied, "Yes, but not in this place." She said to him, "Take me wherever you wish."
Then he took her to one of the convents close by the wilderness of Shiheet. On their way it became dark. St. John told her to sleep in one place, while he slept far away from her. When he stood up to pray the midnight prayer, he saw a pillar of light coming down from heaven to earth, and the angels of God were carrying the Soul of Pa'esa. When he approached her, he found that she had departed. Then he knelt down and prayed fervently, with tears, asking God to reveal to him concerning her fate. He heard a voice saying, "Her repentance was accepted in the moment that she repented." After the saint had buried her, he returned to the Elders and told them what had happened. They all glorified the Lord who accepts the repentants and forgive their sins.
May her prayers be with us and Glory be to God forever. Amen.
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Ah, that's what everyone was talking about so mysteriously. I don't know what disgusts me more, the guy's behavior, or the fact that this mystery woman just kept going like this is a common conversation.
The time stamps are pretty screwy too. I wonder if at 6am he realized he 'dun fuck'd up good.
To be fair, we all do stupid things online at 6AM.Well, I don't. I just go to Panera Bread, which is the stupidest thing of all to do at 6AM. Or any time, really.... I used to eat their like every day :(...... I think I'll go cry myself to sleep.
^ Indeed, I'm curious in this series now. I was too late on 3, so...Might be fun :Dhttp://www.siliconera.com/2014/01/29/nintendo-ds-titles-coming-wii-u-virtual-console/Wow. An interesting start to turning things around
I read recently about possible PS4 emulation of PS1 and 2 software in the works. I'm sold on that..


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The Hobbit-forming World of J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit-forming World of J.R.R. Tolkien refers to the title of an article which includes extracts from an interview with J.R.R. Tolkien. The interview was conducted by Henry Resnik over the telephone, for the magazine the Saturday Evening Post (published in the issue of 2 July 1966). The interview was perhaps conducted on 2 March 1966 and according to Resnik they spoke for about half an hour. According to Clyde S. Kilby, Tolkien disliked the published article and had hung up on Resnik.[1]
A more complete transcription of the interview was published in Niekas Issue 18 (Late Spring 1967).[2]. The issue is readable online.
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology, p. 657
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The man who barricaded himself inside an SUV in Columbus Circle after tossing a hoax explosive through the open window of a police van in Times Square, sparking a bomb scare in the Crossroads of the World, told police during an hours-long standoff he had a bomb strapped to his chest and wanted to die.
The 52-year-old man, identified as Hector Meneses, locked himself in a Chrysler SUV, donned a red helmet and refused to communicate with authorities after indicating there were explosives in his vehicle, officials said.
The suspect "rolls up the window, puts his hands towards the glove compartment and says that he wants to die and has a bomb strapped to his vest," said Bill Aubry, chief of Manhattan detectives.
Aubry said the man put on the helmet and continued to act erratically, keeping one hand out of the line of vision of officers who surrounded him.
SWAT officers closed in. Eventually, he was taken into custody and brought to a hospital for evaluation.
The NYPD said that there were no injuries in the six-hour standoff and that the man's SUV was ultimately deemed safe by bomb squads. The standoff turned the morning commute for many straphangers upside down, as 1, A, B, C and D trains bypassed the Columbus Circle station for hours.
The drama began shortly before midnight, when police say Meneses, in a dark SUV, threw a suspicious object — later determined to be a candle attached to electrical components and wrapped in cloth — into an NYPD van parked in the heart of Times Square, touching off a bomb scare.
The two cops in the van, Sgt. Hameed Armani and officer Peter Cybulski, drove east to 46th Street because they didn't know what the device was and wanted to get out of the heavily populated area. When they got to Sixth Avenue, they tossed the object onto the street. The bomb squad was called in and determined object to be a "hoax device" shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday.
About an hour later, police spotted Meneses in the Chrysler SUV and attempted to stop the vehicle in Columbus Circle. The man refused to get out of his vehicle and put on the helmet. That sparked a standoff with police, who surrounded the SUV with armored vehicles and officers in tactical gear.
Meneses has no prior arrests. He applied to be a cab driver with the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission in April but is not a licensee, the agency said. Neighbors described the Elmhurst man as being nosy; they say he was involved in the community in some sort of advocacy role.
Meneses was charged later Thursday with reckless endangerment, placing a false bomb, making a terroristic threat and menacing, among other crimes. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney who could comment on the allegations.
The two officers who drove the device out of Times Square were hailed as heroes at a news briefing following the standoff Thursday.
Armani, a Muslim who immigrated from Afghanistan and has been with the department for 10 years, said he and Cybulski said their prayers before driving away with the device.
"I looked around and saw kids and young people," Armani said. "I said, 'We're gonna go, but I'm not gonna have anyone go with us.'"
"We knew what each other was thinking," added Cybulski, a three-year cop with the NYPD. "We weren't going to let anything happen in Times Square."


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Are you old enough to remember the first time you received something that was computer-personalized? For me it may have been a cover of Time Magazine with my name printed in it (I forget how; it wasn't just the address block). Do you also remember how quickly the thrill wore off? Was there even a thrill?
Only four letters separate personal from personalized; the difference might seem semantic. But it's a world of difference when it comes to service.
I'm all in favor of automated personalization, as long as it's not manipulative. I love having things customized to my preferences. Dealing with merchants who remember you is far preferable to dealing with those that don't.
But there's something palpably inhuman about that automation. It doesn't have the human, personal touch.
JP has been posting about how "the plural of personal is social," starting with his fond memories of the stores and restaurants of his youth. His family patronized local small businesses, where they were known and welcomed.
I had similar experiences in my youth, but in Berlin instead of Calcutta. When I was 13, we lived with my grandparents on Uhlandstraße in Berlin (yes, the Wall was up then). Often in the mornings I would follow Omi (my grandmother) as she made her rounds to the baker, the butcher, the dry-goods shop and the fruit and vegetable store. They all greeted her by name (in that formal German way, by last name). They were friendly, though not family.
It's easy to get stuck in nostalgia or pine for things gone by. After all, big stores are more efficient, have wider selections (don't they?) and charge less than Mom-and-Pop operations. You can't do personal at scale, the logic goes.
We miss personal so much that large corporations keep trying to use personalization to emulate it, but that approach doesn't work. The two are not the same at all.
I'll dive into the role scale plays in a separate post.


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SEOUL, South Korea—A South Korean man has received a suspended 10-month prison term for retweeting North Korean propaganda posts.
The Suwon District Court cited the National Security Law in its ruling Wednesday against Park Jeong-geun. The law prohibits praising and glorifying North Korea. Park could have received seven years in prison.
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This record has been in the collection for a few years now and I have been meaning to feature it for some time. While I was dragging my feet Sir Shambling has recently nipped in and added CarolynVeal to his Deep Soul Heaven hall of fame (you and me both Ana!).
I bought the record off the 'bay and it was the almost home made look to this 45 that initially attracted me to it. I love the way the track information has been typewritten, carefully cut out, and then glued onto the white label. (Incidentally – typewriters! Remember them?). This copy was described as having come from an ex-record executive's collection. I wonder, did they receive the record like this? Or did it maybe come as a plain white label together with some promotional blurb from which they cut out the title and artist info? Or did somebody else stick the information on at a later date? Whatever the circumstances, I cannot remember seeing a demo record presented in this way before. Demos of Phil-LA-Of-Soul 45s followed the usual industry practice of sporting full logo and credits but had a white background colour (presumably primarily to make it easier for disc jockeys to read). So this must have been an advance advance copy! The Phil-LA-Of-Soul label is probably my favourite of all designs so it would have been nice to have this 45 with the proper label, but it's just as good having it in this form, which must be very unusual, and I think looks rather wonderful in its own right.
When I initially acquired this 45 I tried to find out some background on Carolyn Veal. I didn't manage to turn up anything. Then, a few weeks ago, as I said, John Ridley added Carolyn Veal, and her seemingly only 45, to his peerless site. John evidently hadn't been able to turn up anything on Carolyn either but mused that the track had possibly been cut in Florida.
This sparked me into another web trawl in search of more information on Carolyn or this record, and this time I found something. This track has been on YouTube now for some time and recent comments are interesting:
1. Carolyn Veal herself appears to have left a comment.
2. Another commenter mentions that it was a hit in the Netherlands in late '70. (Although I don't think it was released on Phil LA until 1972, but read on).
3. Somebody else mentions that the track will always be number one in the Caribbean community (or something like that), and somebody else again then refers to a 45 by Carole Veal that went for a tidy sum on ebay a few months ago. That is really interesting: it was released on the Ditanfra label with Miss Veal credited as song writer. The label says "Recorded in V.I.". VI turns out to be the Virgin Islands I think as I have seen a couple of albums also released on Ditanfra which are calypso or soul/funk style and also purport to be from the Virgin Islands. So it would appear that Carolyn recorded the song in the Virgin Islands (where she was resident?) with the help of Florida based Tom Markham, who then leased the song to Philly based Phil-LA-Of-Soul. There was certainly precedent for a Florida link for the label with the likes of Helene Smith and Little Beaver having had releases on the imprint. Almost certainly the Ditanfra release was first so that could fit in with the comment that it had graced the Dutch airwaves in late '70.
I have passed on this info to the good Sir and in his reply he mentioned he would put out some more feelers with friends in Suriname. Of course, I thought! I was wondering how this record could have become a hit in Holland of all places, but Suriname used to be known as Dutch Guiana until it achieved independence from Holland in 1975. Positioned on the north coast of South America, Suriname has trading links with the Caribbean islands so this could explain how this 45 came to get exposure in Holland. But there's more. I followed my nose on Wikipedia and ended up at Negerhollands a Dutch-based creole language that was once spoken in the Danish West Indies, now known as...... the U.S. Virgin Islands. So there is a direct link between the Virgin Islands and Holland. Sorry if you knew all this geography and so forth, but I didn't! Anyway this can explain how this 45 came to get exposure in Holland. Of course that would suggest there is a Dutch press of this record in existence. Will one turn up?
Once John collates this new information and anything else he manages to find out from his own further investigations I am sure we can look forward to an even fuller picture on Deep Soul Heaven of this great piece of lost soul.
Remember that difficult jigsaw that used to be kept under the tablecloth for weeks on end? Piece by piece we'll get there.


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The latest political meltdown of the Minnesota Vikings stadium plan unleashed a torrent of political maneuvering and squabbling at the Capitol Tuesday, with the governor, the Vikings and key DFL legislators struggling to get on the same page about the imperiled project.
As Republican leaders pointedly noted that just one of six DFLers on a House panel voted for the nearly $1 billion stadium Monday, leading to the plan's 9-6 defeat, a frustrated Gov. Mark Dayton and DFL leaders sought a path forward for the stadium as the Legislature continued to close in on adjournment.
"It just happens that mixture of Democrats does not reflect where our [DFL] caucus is at," House Minority Leader Paul Thissen said of the committee vote. He said "People are exploring different options" to revive the stadium plan.
But Dayton and stadium supporters also conceded the odds were growing long that a new stadium could be approved this session and pledged to be back at the task if efforts fell short this spring.
"We've got to get a stadium next year or the Vikings will leave," Dayton said, while at the same time urging stadium supporters to be patient.
"The difficult takes a while -- the impossible just takes a little longer. We'll get it next session. ... It'll probably be a better bill, it might be a better location, and a better result. ... We'll learn from this session and go on."
The DFL dilemma did not go unnoticed by Republicans.
"We can't pass the stadium by ourselves in the Republican caucus," said House Speaker Kurt Zellers, who has himself been vague on how much he will do to politically help the stadium. "This is up to the governor and the [House] Democrat minority leader," he said. "If I was the governor, I'd be livid. If I was big labor, I'd be really, really livid."
Also Tuesday, a Republican-controlled Senate panel that had previously considered the stadium plan, but did not vote on it, abruptly canceled a meeting to reconsider the project. Dayton "was only able to bring one [House] DFL vote" for the plan, "that's pretty telling," said Republican Senate spokesman Steve Sviggum, adding that the GOP was " holding off" on any more Senate stadium hearings.
Promised vote didn't come
Dayton said he had contact with two DFLers on the 15-member House Government Operations and Elections before Monday's meeting, and indicated that one DFLer promised to vote for the stadium but did not and that the other legislator never returned his phone call. He did not identify the two DFLers.
"I talked to one of them. He said he was going to be helpful, and wasn't," Dayton said.
As the panel's DFL members explained their votes, two who voted against the stadium plan declined to discuss any interaction they may have had with Dayton. Rep. Marion Greene, DFL-Minneapolis, declined to answer any questions regarding her vote against the stadium.
Rep. Steve Simon, DFL-St. Louis Park, also declined to discuss any contact he may have had with the governor. "I'm going to keep that private," said Simon.
"Look, this is one of those issues that totally defies the normal partisan descriptions," said Simon, saying that blaming DFLers was too simplistic. "You can't pin the outcome on [political] party, or geography, or gender or anything else."
Two other DFLers on the House panel who voted against the Vikings stadium plan, Rep. Frank Hornstein, DFL-Minneapolis, and Rep. Ryan Winkler, DFL-Golden Valley, said Dayton and other supporters should not have been surprised by their votes, given their longtime opposition to a large public subsidy package for the project.
"In my campaign, [I] said I didn't support a Vikings stadium. The governor, in his campaign, said that he did. Doesn't mean we're not both on the same team," said Winkler. "We disagree on one issue. Was I clearly aware that if I could find a way to change my vote that people would like that? Sure, I mean, that's obvious."
Other key DFL figures were noticeably absent Monday. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak did not attend the meeting, even though the city planned to contribute $150 million to building the stadium and the project would be built in downtown Minneapolis.
Republicans opposed it, too
But DFLers and others said that the Vikings stadium plan failed -- not solely because of DFL opposition -- but because the House panel's Republican chair, Rep. Joyce Peppin, R-Rogers, also was a vocal opponent and because the Vikings forced a vote even though the team should have known the project may not have had enough support.
"I know the governor is frustrated," Rybak said. "But I hope he also recognizes that ... a majority of the elected leadership of the city of Minneapolis took a huge political step making it the only body in the state of Minnesota that has a majority publicly supporting this stadium."
Rybak would not comment on whether city support would hold in 2013, an election year for him and the City Council, saying only that "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
Rybak said city leaders who favor the stadium plan will "keep working on it in this session," and he hopes that legislative support will build as lawmakers learned more about the proposal.
Staff writers Jim Ragsdale, Eric Roper and Rachel Stassen-Berger contributed to this report.
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I was getting a ton of spammers trying to register as users. If you want to add content to this wiki, contact me (see below).
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onions wrote:okay, that was simultaneouslyone of the coolest and most disgusting episodes yet. that stealth shell pursuit set? totally get it now.
buriedbybricks wrote:we just watched the episode yesterday and I pretty sure I saw Raph use a manhole cover shooter on the Shellraiser a la the old pizza shooting Party Wagon. I'm not crazy right, I did see that?
Actually, I am crazy, but still think it should have been built into the SR set.
Gooker1 wrote:But now they're hitting the homestretch so it doesn't look like there are anymore breaks to the season finale.
onions wrote:so i didn't realize this, but the last week's tmnt episode aired on saturday and not friday, titled Karai's Vendetta. and that show down i was talking about? it happened! anyone else's dvr catch it on the new time?
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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Serves 4-6
1 1/2 cups fresh whole milk ricotta
1 1/2 cups shredded smoked mozzarella
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 cups panko (Japanese bread crumbs)
3 large eggs
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
Vegetable oil, for frying
1 tablespoon fresh chopped thyme leaves
Balsamic Dipping Sauce:
6 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon honey
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
For the Fritters: In a small bowl combine the ricotta, smoked mozzarella, salt, and pepper. In another bowl pour the panko. In a third bowl lightly beat the eggs. Put the flour in a fourth bowl. Line a tray with parchment paper.
Scoop a 1 1/2 tablespoon ball of the cheese mixture into the flour and roll to coat. Transfer the ball to the eggs and roll to coat. Transfer the cheese ball to the panko and again roll to coat. Transfer the ball to the parchment-lined tray. Continue with the remaining cheese mixture.
Meanwhile heat 3 inches of vegetable oil in a large skillet to 350 degrees F. Fry fritters in batches, being careful not to overcrowd the pan, until golden, about 1 to 2 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon to paper towel to drain. Sprinkle with thyme. Serve warm with Balsamic Dipping Sauce.
For the Balsamic Dipping Sauce: Combine the vinegar, lemon juice, mustard, and honey in a blender. Blend until combined. Add the oil in a steady stream while the machine is running. Season with the salt and pepper. Serve in a small bowl alongside the fritters
Recipe Courtesy of Giada de Laurentis
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I understand people have this odd ability to call themselves progressive/liberal. Usually, we see this in children and teenagers looking to rebel against their parents. Inexplicably, some adults cling onto these child like fantasies and believe the world can be soft and gentle and everyone can be cajoled into getting along. Ok. Fine. Silly. But fine. Then there are those liberals who support Hillary.... WTF??? This white and wealthy woman got rich by being a First Lady who got jobs from her husband's name and the earned sympathy because her husband received blowjobs in the Oral, I mean Oval Orifice.. er Office. She has spent the past 20 years acting as a Senator with a rather weak record, a Secretary of State with a rather weak record and, otherwise, just a very strange mix of ambition and animosity.
Her list of accomplishments, despite being in some sort of public position for about 2 decades, reads like a Cliff Notes version of a Douglas Adams book. It is funny, ironic and short. Is she really the best candidate the Democrats can prop up? Is she being put out there because she has a vagina (reportedly)? I mean, from Democrats, what is it about Hillary that would compel you to vote for her? Inquiring minds want to know.


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Former RV manufacturer Coachmen Industries Inc. reported a loss from continuing operations for the first quarter ending March 31 but a profit when discontinued operations were factored in.
Net sales from continuing operations for the first quarter were $11.3 million compared to $30.8 million reported for the same period in 2008. Gross profit for the quarter decreased to a loss of $2.1 million, from a profit of $5.5 million for the first quarter of 2008. The company reported a net loss from continuing operations of $6.1 million versus a net profit from continuing operations of $1.3 million in the first quarter of 2008.
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ICTP Workshop 2007/Image capture with linux
{{#titlehere:}} Please note that the present pages on the ICTP workshop were obtained from a mediawiki used during the workshop. There may be a number of links that go to missing pages, and other inconsistencies. Much of it is also very informal, and should be seen as workshop notes!
Page copied from http://www.huyser.net/openEyAwiki/index.php/Main_Page .
1 different versions of the EyA workflow[edit]
- ICTP Workshop 2007/EyaAppleScript EyA Producer script v. 3.12e, (badly) translated into english by keeshu
2 possibly useful software for openEyA (substitutes for Mac software)[edit]
2.1 capture photos[edit]
- gPhoto2 is a free, redistributable, ready to use set of digital camera software applications for Unix-like systems. Installed this from the Ubuntu distribution and it worked as advertised. The Canon A640 was automatically recognised. Here's code to capture multiple pictures:
gphoto2 --capture-image --interval 15 --frames 10 -P --filename=%y%m%d_%H-%M-%S.%C
This saves 10 photos with a 15 sec interval. The -P gets photo from camera RAM; for the filename see date(1).
- Canon Capture. Capture is a tool for periodic image capturing with digital Canon cameras. It is licensed under GPL and it was developed for Linux.
2.2 capture video / audio[edit]
video capture
- FFmpeg is a very fast video and audio converter which unfortunately is broken in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. Here's a solution. Code to record 30 seconds sound:
ffmpeg -f audio_device -i /dev/audio1 -vn -t 00:00:30 out.avi
Theoretical code to record 30 seconds of video and sound:
ffmpeg -f audio_device -i /dev/audio1 -f m4v -i /dev/video4linux2 -t 00:00:30 out.avi
- Video For Linux wiki. V4L is built into the v2.1.x linux kernel; V4L2 is built into the v2.5.x linux kernel
- Motion; everything but the kitchen sink...
audio capture
- streamer (from the xawtv package) can write audio, but video is failing. Code for 30 seconds audio capture:
streamer -C /dev/dsp1 -t 0:30 -O sound.wav -F stereo
2.3 synchronize video and photos[edit]
- FlowPlayer is a free Flash player which supports timestamps
- flvtool adds timestamps to a Flashmovie; works with FlowPlayer
- scripts to produce an XML file used by flvtool
- SWFObject 2.0, a free flash player
- Wowzamedia Free Flash server (for upto 10 streams)
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3.1 remote controlable digital cameras[edit]
- list
- Why more than 6 Mpixel cameras could be a waste of money (but it needs to be tested!)
- Also read Ken Rockwell's article on the megapixel myth
3.2 screengrabbers[edit]
- Epiphan VGA2USB LR sits between "video out" and "camera in" and can grab the producer's screen at 30 fps
3.3 about webcams[edit]
- Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy has support for UVC built into the kernel; see here
- The linux UVC people have list of cameras that should work with Ubunti 7.10 Gutsy.
- V4L wiki page about linux usable webcams
- QuickCam, a website by Logitech engineers who've developed linux drivers for Logitech cameras
- Michel Xhaard's website which has linux drivers for hundreds of webcams