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The Resonance Energy Device Explained
Hello everyone,
i am pleased to introduce some new information about the resonance energy device, there is a new presentation available on the following link :
the resonance energy device depend on a special capacitor/coil, so we could replicate the squared electromagnetic flux very easily, the idea is very simple but very difficult to understand, it's a new kind of capacitor, a one dimensional capacitor that exist only when the device oscillate!! when we do that the needed rotational energetic symmetry will exist and the correct door will be opened for a massive electrical energy to be present for free
experienced people are invited to develop the device because the presentation will cover only the heart of the system.
Hi Med, Do you think , when you move a magnet closer to a piece of steel , the flow becomes faster moving , or becomes more dense( compressed) but keeps the same velocity?
Thanks for the link.
i think the flow will be just compressed.
Negative...Flow Expands...
Hello to All,
@ Shylo:
Whenever you approach a piece of Iron to a Magnet or Magnetic Field, the Iron becomes "part of the Magnetic Field environment"...this is called magnetic Redirection of flow, therefore the Magnetic Flow Expands into the Iron...
In order to obtain a "Compressed Flow" is whenever you approach Two Magnets facing SAME polarity, meaning North to North or South to South...what T.A (Ken Wheeler) calls Counter Voidance Compression and We all call "Repulsion"...right on the money Ken!
i have a problem in the pick up coils...
i opened this thread to discuss the resonance energy device, i am the writer of this presentation
it explain the resonance energy device, the device depend on an extended Tesla bi-filar coil where the capacitor is a part from the coil!
Back to 1894 and take a look at what Mr. Nikola Tesla said about his bi-filar coil:
My present invention has for its object to avoid the employment of
condensers which are expensive, cumbersome and difficult to maintain in
perfect condition, and to so construct the coils themselves as to accomplish
the same ultimate object.
for more information please read the full presentation, now the problem is the obtained electric power using the E-TBC is a pure reactive power
the pick up coils in the resonance energy device will correct the reactive power using a kind of serial/parallel resonance... this situation will provide the maximum current /voltage needed to charge the electrolyte capacitors banks...
Now the problem is that what is the best way to arrange the pick coils ?
the attached photo show how Don connect his diodes with the receiver/transfer coils.
the extended pancake bifilar coil is the key !
when we extend the capacitive side of the famous Tesla pancake bifilar coil we arrive to the point where we could construct a parallel LC without the employment of condensers,
when we combine magnetism and electricity in the same device the power will be replicated and amplified with Radio Frequency, the obtained power is an amplified reactive power... the collection system must correct the phase using a correction capacitor in parallel with L2 coil.
proposal circuit need to be tested.
proposal circuit need to be tested.
Patent US512340 - Nikola tesla - Google Patents
One of the advantages to this coil arrangement is that the current portion
of the L/C "activity", is displacement current due to not needing an external
capacitor to get the required capacitance for resonance at a particular frequency.
I arranged a HF setup with series connected bifilar wound coils but still used
external tuning capacitors to get the exact frequencies I wanted, however
by using series connected bifilar wound coils I was able to get a relatively low
frequency with very low resistance coils and was able to utilize only parallel
plate air variable capacitors for tuning.
From a 12 volt input 8 primary turns and 20 secondary turns I am able to
exceed 1600 volts peak to peak 565 volts RMS perfect sine wave on the
tanked secondary with a pulsed DC input of about 12 volts in a no load
Transformation ratio is only 1:2.5 but voltage rise is 1:133 using peak values
12 volts pulsed in and 1600 peak to peak on the tank (not output), that's
resonant rise. Without the resonant rise the setup would not be able to
achieve proper conduction in the fluro tube. Without resonant rise the
secondary voltage would be lucky to get to over 30 volts, Resonance is
useful like that.
I haven't finished with the experiments.
The setup will strike and light fluro's fairly well with proper conduction current.
Due to my limitations and that of my equipment no reliably accurate measurements have been made on this setup yet.
Last edited by Farmhand; 11-18-2014 at 12:01 AM.
From a 12 volt input 8 primary turns and 20 secondary turns I am able to
exceed 1600 volts peak to peak 565 volts RMS perfect sine wave on the
tanked secondary with a pulsed DC input of about 12 volts in a no load
there you have it
The E-TBC is the heart of resonance energy device, in my opinion we should work with it....
Don Smith
Thanks for the lost Don Smith stuff. I am watching his energy generator/collection talk.
3 Strokes
Don Smith drooled as he gave his talk. The man had just had 3 strokes. Don said many business deals were preventing him from giving more elaborate device descriptions as to just how advanced these Tesla based systems have become, so he wanted to give just a simple demo to get the idea across.
The biggest thing he said that hit home with me was that people who had TESLA COILS could make as many more as they wanted to but use the additional units to collect the energy coming from the transmitter.
Or for as many more Tesla coils one could build to collect the same energy from the transmitter would give the operator that much more energy in multiples.
As he showed one of his many devices he explained that one of the coils was transmitting while the other 3 (in this case) were tuned especially to collect.
His little wooden board was just simple high voltage source with coils.
I get the feeling that perhaps the secondaries of these types of transmitters need to be standing quarter wave resonant and the receiver coils need to have the same length conductors and identical properties to work at their best.
As per the tesla patent.
Quarte Wave
Electromagnetic systems with double-resonant spiral coil components
Patent US20100059692 - Electromagnetic systems with double-resonant spiral coil components - Google Patents
Using a quarter wave length build a standing wave where the ends of wire act like a capacitor plates... instead of using a Tank resonance receiver we use standing wave receivers the same way as antennas dipole...
in the resonance energy device we use electrolyte capacitors to store electric energy but how the resonance is maintained when we store this electric power using electrolyte capacitors banks ( very low impedance in higher frequency) ?
using an E-TBC will amplify both the voltage and the current which give a squared electromagnetic flux, the the principle behind this device is to unify the magnetism and electricity, Maxwell solved most electromagnetism problems except one ! ( this is what Donald Smith said in one of his video)
the puzzle I'm talking about is the misunderstood concept of displacement current! the displacement current appear when we separate magnetism and electricity, we fill the gap by introducing something isn't real!! the displacement current does not exist
now when using an extended Tesla Bi-filar coil the obtained power in L2 coil is an amplified reactive power, maybe Don used a special capacitors banks has a large capacitance with high inductance as well
in my point of view the capacitor is the device that a few people understand how it work! Don is one of them.
in my experiment when i feed the E-TBC from A-D the charging process speed up, i think that the capacitor tend to charge itself acting like a coil!! a proactive magnetic field will be built and this one will make another induced rotating electric field that able to charge the capacitor very quickly, maybe Don built a special capacitors when its real capacitance with microfarad but when measured it appear like nano farad for example !!!
i was confused in my last post
I have a new idea consist of working with higher frequency to achieve standing wave, i think this is the best way to avoid problems in the pick-up coils, using the natural resonance frequency in L2 coils will solve our problems to collect the available power using an E-TBC
standing wave created when the reflected wave meet the original wave in exactly a division or multiplication of the wave length of the working frequency... with this the created standing wave will have a fixed position along the L2 coil regardless of the presence of High capacitance electrolyte capacitors ( very low impedance in high frequency which cause the die out of reactive energy which in turn isn't able to do real work )
An E-TBC work according to the same concept NATURAL RESONANCE because the capacitor is involved inside the coil in a unified state, i suppose the reflected waves in a self resonating coil see the coil ends as a capacitor plates!
File:Standing wave 2.gif - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the work of a standing waves is reversed compared to an E-TBC, in our E-TBC the capacitor exist in one point but in a self-resonating coil the capacitor exist in the edges... in other words this look like the past light cone of an operating E-TBC but in repulsion force manner which increase positive energy, the voltage and current both has the same frequency and bouncing in the same wire, because of that, the resulting standing waves will occupy the same positions, this of course will correct the phase between current and voltage since the standing waves is related directly to wire length!
an extended Tesla bi-filar coil is a real electric energy inflated, the amplified electric power is the result of the connection between magnetic field and electric field inside an E-TBC, the induced electric field is the key point for the increased current and voltage when the device oscillate, the output will be in VAR ( VOLT AMPERE REACTIVE ), the reactive power is very important since with it we could achieve super conductivity in room temperature easily.
due the my equipement limitation i can't verify the frequency of operation of such device, if it's twice compared to a normal parallel L/C combination or not ?!
i did some reverse engineering calculations and i found the best practical frequency to work with should be around 20MHZ, this will give a quarter wave length of 3.75M, I attached a photos of the specification of L2 coil such as the wire tubing diameter etc....
working with two coils wound CW + CCW is better, when the phase between current and voltage is correct, collecting the available energy will be easy.
the E-TBC should have a very few turn, one turn is good and a capacitance of around 1 nano farad, i welcome anyone could help us with experiments and result, so we could go further more with this project ...
If you have a cheap multimetre with frequency counter. In some circumstances they can pick up wirelessly if higher voltages are a concern. I clocked wireless driven oscillator used in simple sec experiments at 305 KHz. It wasnt untill I went to pack up my multimeter that I realised I forgot to plug it into the circuit. I had the bananna leads plugged into the meter. Perhaps they were acting like antenna.
Im not convinced that it was quarter wave resonant due to the need for virtual grounding in certain places but I am still learning.
Last edited by lotec; 11-24-2014 at 03:36 AM.
Hi Lotec , i am still learning too, some say standing wave can't transfer energy ; some tell they store energy
I might be wrong, but will offer my understanding of the role of the standing wave, for what it's worth. I thought the standing wave enabled excess electrical charge to be taken off a resonant coil without disturbing the coil's resonating action, provided it is done with the right kind of pickup coil. If I understand it correctly, the series-wound bifilar coil will not produce secondary reflection in a primary. In this way, the primary is unaffected, and can continue to resonate. From what I have read from other builders, a shorted series wound bifilar coil will enable the excess energy of the standing wave to be drawn off without disturbing the primary's resonance. I have also read one builder stating that as he added further swbifi coils, he was able to draw off more energy from the resonating primary. Whether the energy comes from reactive power or perhaps from the dielectric medium, I don't know.
Hi med.3012
When it comes to wave theory I really dont have any answers only questions. Ive read also a few times that 1/4 wave coils dont make good Hertzian transmitters
. My main focus has been like Bob Smith said to attempt to establish a 1/4 wave resonance and extract energy out of it.
I really liked this thread Joulethief SEC exciter and variants. Contained within are some very interesting experiments based on Dr Stifflers work performed by a group of very talented experimenters. Perhaps in there you can find the tools that you can use to cheaply set up experiments of your choice while seeing some interesting stuff along the way. Youve got interesting ideas Id be curious to see how they play out.
A couple of circuits that Im interested in right now while waiting for parts to build a faster pulse generator are Lid motors tunable jule theif and Lid motors tunable version of Slayers exciter but there are other great ones too. Horses for courses.
Thanks to All
using an extended Tesla Bi-filar coil will produce both hot ordinary electricity plus cold radiant electricity, the way an E-TBC oscillate make it able to produce both Cold and hot electricity perfectly without cancellation effects!
using an ordinary methods to collect the available power will not work good because in a positive regime time Cold energy will cancel Hot energy, the obtained power will remain too low to produce an OU device... in other words an E-TBC will produce hot electricity with the same speed it produce radiant electricity, a special care must be taken to collect the available energy. reviewing my document about the resonance energy device we have
For the first time period, we have (C discharging across L) + energy increase magnetic energy ---- I - energy increase electric energy ---- V
For the second time period we have (L charging C) + energy increase electric energy ---- V - energy increase magnetic energy ---- I
to simplify the things let take the first sight when the capacitor discharge across itself to be a full parallel L/C circuit, at this moment and before the current start increasing, negative energy will push the current to go back against the voltage in action at a distance (because it will start from X point ) similar to what happen when the current flow in ordinary hot electricity it produce magnetic field but in this case the current in cold electricity will increase the voltage statically! when the turn come to hot electricity to play negative energy will cease .... please read page 15 in http://free-energy-info.com/Mohamed.pdf to understand the things clearly, the construction method used in hot ordinary electricity can't suit cold radiant electricity....!! please see page 9 in the above document when i explained how an E-TBC work in both positive energy ( future light cone ) and negative energy ( past light cone), in the wrapped negative energy space the current start from B to A which oppose the flow of current in hot electricity, this current charge the coil electrically like it act as a capacitor... take into account the positions of coil and capacitor in an oscillating E-TBC, the destruction method used in hot electricity is constructive in cold electricity, we need this information to understand the cancellation effects that appear when we use ordinary methods to collect the available energy, Before an E-TBC discharge (this is destruction effect) across itself from A to B, Cold electricity will act in a reverse manner providing a virtual current which charge the coil from B to A (this is construction effect). in the second sight when the collapsing magnetic field charge the capacitor from C to D, just before this operation, the voltage in the virtual E-TBC take its maximum value from D to C (in our positive energy future light cone we have a maximum magnetic field at this moment), when the voltage decrease in the virtual E-TBC ( this is destruction effect - after that the magnetic field will collapse) the wrapped space in the positive energy future light cone see this as a short-circuit and provide a maximum current (this is construction effect), this is why this energy will charge the capacitor magnetically if it act as a coil !!
the design of our ordinary coils and capacitors will not provide the best timing for this kind of energy to be perfectly stored and then used, why ? cold electricity is a reverse kind of hot electricity... when we charge an electrolyte capacitor using the hot electricity taken from L2 coil (construction), cold electricity pass a current in a reverse manner to our ordinary hot electricity ( destruction )... similar to back EMF when a coil reverse its polarity. using standing waves is a clever idea to separate destruction area (Node) apart from construction area (Antinode) using a quarter wave length, using this technique will force L2 coil to take the power from an E-TBC perfectly please see the attached drawing. in my opinion this is a physical separation where we could provide the best place for cold electricity to destruct its reflected wave rather than destructing the constructive waves.... in the construction area ( Antinode) even if the moving real wave move in the positive direction (increasing) and the reflected wave move backward ( decreasing ) , the antinode is a construction area all the time ... this idea isn't complete in my mind but i think this is how to collect the huge available electric energy using our E-TBC
Good night.
Last edited by med.3012; 11-27-2014 at 12:39 AM.
Hi Med
I think my last couple of posts may have been a bit irrelavent and youve got more gear than I first thought.
Id be curious to see how the EBTC would go used with a primary and identicle twin resonator coils. The resonator coils attached with one wire to the ETBC. One attached at point A and the other at point B. Using the spark gap between C and D to tune the frequqncy. Using the primary to induct power into it and pickup coils in proximaty to the resonators,
Oops I akmost forgot to post this. Reading often makes me very drowsy at the best of times but when I read this I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasnt dreaming. heres a couple of snippetts from,
Tesla Patent 787 412 The art of transmitting electrical energy through natural mediums,
"In order to magnify the electrical movement in the secondary as much as possible, it is essential that the inductive connection with the primary A, should not be very intimate, as in ordinary transformers, but loose so as to permit free oscillations - that is to say, their mutual induction should be small. The spiral form of coil C secures this advantage, whlie the turns near primary A are subject to strong inductive action, and develope high initial electromotive force."
" ... produce in this manner movements thousands of times greater than the initial - that is the one impressed upon the secondary by primary A".
Hi Lotec
Thank you for pointing me to Tesla Patent 787 412, Mr Tesla is the master of imagination.
to transfer energy from the primary to the secondary we could use either induction transfer based on magnetic field, this method is used in ordinary transformer, here if you want to amplify the current you must lower the voltage depending on the already available active power, mutual inductance have to be higher ( magnetic core prove this), taking more current from the secondary will affect the input...
Tesla propose using speed lower than 20KHZ when he said : To give an idea, I would say that the frequency should be smaller than twenty thousand per second, though shorter waves might be practicable.
But shorter wave will work too, in the resonance energy device we use more than 20KHZ which put us in the range of RADIO FREQUENCY SPEED, in my opinion Tesla used only cold radiant electricity, but using the E-TBC will produce both, to benefit from this special device we have to use even more shorter wave say 20MHZ for example which produce a quarter wave length of 3.75M , so we could produce electricity locally rather than produce it remotely as Nikola Tesla did...
another way to transfer the power from the primary to the secondary is to use electromagnetic induction resonance transfer, Tesla refer this when he said : so as to permit free oscillation that is to say, their mutual induction should be small. The spiral form of coil C secures this advantage,
Tesla was focusing in radiant electricity which is perfect for wireless electrical energy transfer due to its ability to produce voltage remotely-- see Fig19-b in page 15 in my document, in this phase the voltage will end in the position of spark gap exactly and providing 0V, rather than saying the voltage increase and cold electricity start from the spark-gap in my opinion it's better to say the voltage will start to decrease far away from the spark-gap! opposite to current which will start locally Fig19-a, here the earth will provide the best transport medium, Tesla point out this when he said : the effect will increase with the distance and will be greatest in a region diametrically opposite the transmitter. With oscillations still slower the earth, strictly speaking, will not resonate, but simply act as a capacity, and the variation of potential will be more or less uniform over its entire surface.
if you already built an E-TBC you will see this coil is able to be fed from C,D for example and oscillate perfectly even A,B are out of the circuit !! because CD is the capacitor it will be just charged and when the voltage reach the break down value the E-TBC will oscillate...
you could even speed up or slow down the charging process by the charging it from AD or CB... ( this is another story )
THE CAPACITOR IN THE E-TBC is a reference to something exist BUT CAN'T BE SEEING, this is why we call it one dimensional capacitor that will open the correct door for negative electricity to enter into our device using the flexible spark-gap zone, the word flexible here mean it's able to let the exchange to be done between negative and positive energy seas without problems, in other words it will let the space to be wrapped from + energy toward - energy and vice versa ....
in radiant electricity the effect will increase with the distance and will be greatest in a region diametrically opposite the transmitter, but to produce the effect of magnification locally we have to find for the missed piece...
The E-TBC is a multidimensional device, it's able to draw both +electricity and -electricity, the rotational energetic symmetry between +energy( repulsive forces) and -energy (attractive forces) make it practically possible to draw enormous amount of electric energy, this device is able to set up it's self resonance naturally providing amplified electromagnetic flux ready to be taken with the correct pickup techniques, here we have to use electromagnetic induction resonance transfer,
in my opinion the E-TBC have to work alone because it work in a special dimensions as discussed, using 1/4 wave or 3/4 wave etc.... will just make the current and voltage ordered, when the device oscillate it will pump the power from both energetic oceans, this operation relate them as to close the loop in each dimension according to the flowing of energy... this is what we call it ambient background energy... the idea here is construction destruction ...
using stationary waves make it possible to locate construction point and separate it from destruction point... take another look at future/past light cone concept in my document you will see when the current increase in the future light cone the voltage increase in the past light cone but in a reverse direction which result a negative impulsion reverse the gained positive current and cancel it !!
since -electricity has the same frequency as + electricity and if we use standing waves we will separate the area when building take place ( antinode ) from the area when waves cancel out each other ( node ) when this achieved the current and voltage will be ordered !!
Good night .
Just to add some explications:
the biggest idea behind the resonance energy device is to relate both magnetism and electricity in just one oscillating device...
the area where spin separation take action is the point X in an oscillating E-TBC, it's similar as the Bloch wall in a permanent magnet, as Don Smith refer to this in one of his video when he said : THE MORE YOU FLIP ELECTRONS BACK AND FORTH THE MORE ENERGY YOU HAVE...
the problem in ordinary coils and capacitors occur where Bloch wall area can't be formed correctly since the magnetism (coil) and electricity (capacitor) are separated,
the formation of Bloch wall area in permanent magnet exist in the middle, North pole provide CCW rotation while south Pole provide CW.
in an oscillating E-TBC, the spark-gap is the Bloch wall area because it provide spin separation mechanism.
Hi Med
Thanks for your patients in explaining E-TBC and shedding some light on the Tesla patent.
p.s. Thanks MasterBlaster and Bob Smith for input on standing waves
Lotec , it's a honor to exchange ideas with brilliant people, the more you share idea the more you get from the ambient background
Anybody Here ?!
how the spark-gap form the spin separation mechanism in an oscillation E-TBC ?
This is one of the most difficult behavior that need extensive research because when the electron spin around its axis it actually don't have an axis! But compared to its imaginary component it act like it has an axis, this phenomena appear due to the energetic superposition....
The E-TBC provide these energetic superposition condition, the point where the spin separation take action is the intersect between positive and negative energy, the one dimensional capacitor is the key point for this superposition between + and - energy to be present.
the geometrical shape in this hidden science has a major importance, if we treat things as there is no relation between them this new Kind of electrical science will just disappear!!!!
the misunderstanding of capacitor for example when we though that displacement current exist EVEN THE CAPACITOR PLATES ARE SEPARATED, doing it that way we force things to go in the wrong direction.
The common behavior between magnetism and electricity is SPINNING, added this to the energetic superposition in symmetric mode will OPEN the door............
you think too much instead of thinking clearly
just take Don Smith words literally and find how to flip the same electrons many times
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They often are not visible from the first glance. They could be seen from a different angle, different position, different lighting or even different state of mind. Those images could come and go. Also, different people see different things. I believe that this property makes these pieces interesting. They could be discovered and re-discovered for a long time. Unfortunately, in most of the cases this could be only obvious when viewed 'live'.
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Monday, May 3, 2010
part two
Here are some shots of the bridesmaids dresses that I also did. Unfortunately, I didn't really get any good shots of them on the girls because I used up all my memory card space on shots of the bride and her dress at the wedding.
This is probably the only exception to my "I don't do bridesmaids, too" rule. And it got reinforced after this time, because though even with the best of intentions to have this dress done by a place I've used before for production, too many things went wrong and they got very delayed, so that I pretty much ended up making six of these myself. That beautiful Italian satin-faced silk organza and I were not the best of friends in the beginning, but in the end I won the fight and was pretty happy with them.
I ended up ordering more of this material because I fell in love with it, so be on the lookout for some things out of it in the future. (my Etsy, later today) ;)
9 comments:
- Giovanna ♥ said...
This is a lovely post!! I adore the wedding dress you made it's simply magical and beautiful!
Hope you have a lovely Monday!
- May 3, 2010 at 11:01 AM
- Miss Soggy Smog said...
Oh Leanne. You are so talented, and such a good friend to the lovely bride. The bridesmaid look is fabulous. Someone needs to gift you about a million memory cards so this never happens to us readers again ;P
- May 3, 2010 at 12:03 PM
- THERishouldbeAPY said...
You are A-MAZING Leanne!!! Your talent is unparalleled, truly. The dresses were so whimsically romantic... I ♥ it ALL!!!
Please continue making these wonderful creations!!!
- May 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM
- Ross said...
that's a really cute dress, one that does not turn the bride into a liar when she says "...and the best part, you can still wear it after the wedding!!"
- May 3, 2010 at 12:50 PM
wow! they are BEAUTIFUL!!!!
- May 4, 2010 at 2:19 AM
- Fuu said...
I promise, someday, I do not care how, I'll buy one -or more *.*- dress made by you, Leanne, I do not mind the cost or time or country ... really! I want every dress you've done, are truly amazing.
- May 4, 2010 at 12:05 PM
- Marielle Russo said...
Beautiful! Cant wait to buy one of your pieces!
Remember me? Intern summer 09
- May 6, 2010 at 8:48 AM
- Tanya (a Taste of T) said...
But they turned out SO beautiful.
- May 30, 2010 at 9:35 AM
- oonaballoona said...
i am taking a teeny break from holiday craziness and found your blog through an old grosgrain post... i've only had a minute drool over your creations, just had to tell you they are STUNNING!
- December 12, 2011 at 8:42 AM


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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Three straight one-run wins and a series sweep of slumping Kansas City might be just the thing to get the Oakland Athletics going again.
A late tiebreaking home run from Yoenis Cespedes helps, too.
Cespedes hit a leadoff homer in the eighth inning and the A's beat the Royals 4-3 to move back over .500.
"I would rather see us win by 10 runs ... but it makes for a little bit more excitement, certainly at the end," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. "What it does for me more than anything is it shows some tenacity that when you get down, you don't worry about it."
Jerry Blevins (3-0) pitched one scoreless inning. Ryan Cook worked the ninth for his first save of the season.
Cespedes hit his eighth homer, connecting against Kelvin Herrera (2-4). Cespedes also singled and scored the A's first run in the second.
Held in check by Kansas City starter Luis Mendoza most of the afternoon, Oakland benefited from a costly error by center fielder David Lough that allowed the tying run to score in the seventh.
Derek Norris hit a leadoff single and raced to third when the ball skipped over Lough's glove and rolled to the fence. One batter later Coco Crisp's sacrifice fly tied it.
"I kind of hesitated, pulled up and it took one of those sharp hops and just got by me on the top of my glove," Lough said. "If I would have went for it I would have caught it in the air, for sure."
Still, Oakland's first sweep of the Royals since 2008 didn't come easily.
The A's squeaked out a pair of 2-1 wins on Friday and Saturday, then had to sweat out another tight finish in the series finale.
Cook, pitching because closer Grant Balfour was unavailable, allowed two-out singles to Billy Butler and Eric Hosmer in the ninth. Mike Moustakas then worked a full count off Cook before grounding out to end the game.
"Any time you can get three wins and sweep a team that's playing pretty decent baseball, it doesn't really matter how you do it," Norris said. "It's definitely a plus for us."
Alex Gordon matched his career high of four hits for Kansas City. The Royals have lost 10 of 13 and fallen back to .500.
Gordon hit an RBI single in the third, scored in the fifth and doubled in the seventh. Since moving to the third spot in the lineup on May 9, Gordon is batting .450 (18 for 40).
The Royals, who scored just two runs and stranded 11 baserunners in the first two games of this series, went up 2-0 when Chris Getz singled in Hosmer in the fourth. Hosmer added an RBI double in the fifth.
A's starter A.J. Griffin had command problems most of the day. He walked three and struck out five but failed in his bid to become the second pitcher in Oakland history to reach 12 wins in his first 24 starts.
Josh Donaldson had a sacrifice fly in the Oakland fourth and Jed Lowrie had an RBI single in the fifth.
NOTES: Each of the A's last 12 home runs have been solo shots, the second-longest such streak in Oakland history. ... Mendoza struck out four and didn't walk a batter for a second straight start. ... Gordon had 60 multihit games in 2012 but already has 20 in the Royals first 40 games this season. He has nine career four-hit games. ... Injured Oakland OF Josh Reddick continues to make slow progress from surgery on his right wrist. He was out Sunday after taking swings off a tee the previous day and is eligible to come off the disabled list Wednesday, though manager Bob Melvin thinks Reddick will need more time to heal. ... Kansas City RHP Jeremy Guthrie (5-1) pitches the series opener in Houston and is seeking to rebound from his first loss of the season. ... A's RHP Bartolo Colon (3-2), who takes the hill against Texas on Monday, is winless in his last four starts.


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SAN DIEGO >> Fans went wild at Comic-Con — and on social media — on Saturday when news hit that "Godzilla 2" will include classic monsters Rodan, Mothra and Ghidorah.
The kaiju characters are among the most popular of the legendary Japanese franchise. Rodan was first released in 1956, while Mothra made its film debut in 1961 followed by Ghidorah in 1964.
While Gareth Edwards wasn't able to attend the convention, Legendary Entertainment confirmed he will be returning to direct the forthcoming movie. No release date was been announced for "Godzilla 2."
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Progesterone Issues
Veterinarian Reviewed on June 17, 2012 by Paulina Nelega, RH
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Progesterone Issues
Progesterone is an important hormone released by women's body. It is released by female ovaries during the reproductive years and help in regular menstrual periods. The release of this hormone thickens the uterine cavity and triggers ovulation. Also this hormone is directly responsible for the production and release of two other hormones, estrogen and cortisone. All these three hormones in the female body regulate the monthly menstrual cycles and prepare the body for pregnancy.
A decrease in their adequate levels triggers aging and the skin losing its elasticity. Especially during menopause such effects can have higher impacts.
Besides these, progesterone also helps to regulate functioning of thyroid gland and build immunity. It also maintains collagen in the skin and keeps the muscles and bones strong. Progesterone helps in efficient nerve functioning too and protects against blood clots.
Though there can numerous causes for lower progesterone levels, some events directly affect it. Smoking affects the progesterone releasing receptors in the body. It may also cause early menopause and even infertility in women at a younger age.
The second most common and obvious reason is menopause. During this the female body undergoes drastic changes in hormones. As a result the levels of all reproduction and ovulation related hormones including progesterone decreases. These decreased levels cause other symptoms of menopause like weight, water retention and mood swings.
Signs and Symptoms
Low progesterone levels have both physical and psychological symptoms. Emotionally there is frequent mood swing with out of proportion distress. There can also be panic attacks for petty reactions and increased anxiety too. Additionally sudden anger outburst with not much control is also common.
Physically almost all parts of the female body react on low progesterone level. Starting from top, there is increased hair fall. On face, acne may appear. The eyes become dry and show lack of water in it. Frequent headaches with no direct cause may happen too. The breast may become sore.
Along with these, the problems of bloating and constipation also start. There may be lack of adequate sleep and also increased exhaustion and fatigue. For some women there is sudden increase in weight at menopause, this may be because of water retention too. Muscle pain and spasms become common. Decrease in progesterone in women may elevate their cholesterol too. Skin may become dry and itchy.
Treatment Options
Artificial progesterone is given to women with severe related symptoms. This is given especially to those suffering from polycystic ovarian syndrome and are facing difficulty getting pregnant. It is also given to those women who have irregular menstrual cycles. Though such medication helps but they have side effects too. In addition to getting facial rashes, the women undergoing such treatment faces increased risk of high blood pressure, blood clots and also heart attack.
Holistic Treatments
Some home remedies along with natural and herbal treatments work effectively to regulate progesterone level. They do not have any side effects. Turmeric, thyme and oregano are known to regulate progesterone level. They can be easily added to any meal.
Foods like walnut, fortified cereal and soy milk are rich in vitamin B6. They also regulate progesterone and estrogen levels.
Chasteberry and Black Cohosh are traditional Chinese herbs that help to regulate hormonal levels in women. Siberian Ginseng also is known to boost female reproductive health.
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While visiting the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on a recent trip to New York, I came across the Modern's Scull's Angel (1974), a work by the artist John Chamberlain (1927–2011), included in the Guggenheim's retrospective John Chamberlain: Choices.
It is always intriguing to see a work from the permanent collection recontextualized in a different space, as part of a different group of works. It often changes my perspective of the object in an unexpected way, and that experience lingers even after the object returns to the Modern's galleries.
In the Guggenheim exhibition, Scull's Angel was surrounded by three white walls, in relative isolation. The only visual interference was from the flood of people wandering up and down Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral ramp; but even then, that interference was only present from a certain vantage point. The sculpture's pedestal at the Guggenheim was higher than the one it typically sits upon at the Modern. Elements of the piece that I was accustomed to seeing at a lower height—scuff marks and the orange turn signal, for example— were suddenly set at eye level. Walking around it, each shift in my perspective altered the work's shape, and my progress around the piece turned it into a slowly morphing profile of twisted steel.
It was also fascinating to see Scull's Angel surrounded by other Chamberlains. My acquaintance with the piece actually proved to be a good jumping-off point for observing the rest of the exhibition. After winding my way through the retrospective, the evolution of Chamberlain's work revealed itself: Scull Angel's relatively modest monochrome yellow fender gave way to a variety of works that were much larger, bursting with color, or simply experiments with completely different materials.
Overall, my trip through the exhibition with Scull's Angel as a primary point of reference allowed me to view the piece from a fresh perspective. As I left the Guggenheim, I was reminded of how Chamberlain described his artistic process: "One day something—some one thing—pops out at you, and you pick it up, and you take it over, and you put it somewhere else, and it fits, it's just the right thing at the right moment."1
That afternoon, for me, Scull's Angel was the perfect fit.
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NEW TRIPOLI, Pa., July 19 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania mother has been accused of hacking into a school's computer system to change her children's grades, officials said.
State police said Catherine Venusto, a former Northwestern Lehigh School District employee, used her understanding of the district's computer system and the superintendent's password to alter her children's grades, The (Allentown) Morning Call reported Wednesday.
Court records indicated her daughter went from a failing grade to a "medical exception" while her son's grade of 98 percent climbed a point to 99 percent.
State police detectives said Venusto, 45, admitted changing the grades and using the superintendent's passwords to access to district e-mails and personnel files. Venusto said she accessed the district's computer system after she had left her job as a secretary out of "curiosity and boredom."
Venusto was charged Wednesday with three counts each of unlawful use of a computer and computer trespassing, all third-degree felonies, The Morning Call said. She was released on $30,000 unsecured bail.
Officials said Venusto used the district superintendent's information from Aug. 23, 2010, to last February to access the district's human resources system. Authorities say she hacked into the district's e-mail system by using the passwords of the superintendent and nine other district employees.
The investigation began Feb. 24 when an assistant superintendent reported a former employee allegedly hacked into the district's computer system using the superintendent's log-in and password information.
"When she resigned, we took her out of the system," Northwestern Lehigh Superintendent Mary Ann Wright said. "Unfortunately she found her way around security protocol through unauthorized access to my information."


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Denver Film Society screens "Wendy and Lucy" for free tonight
In conjunction with the One Book, One Denver, the Denver Film Society is showing Kelly Reichart's "Wendy and Lucy," about a broke wanderer and her dog. It's a way to bone up –no pun intended–on two talented ladies (okay three if you count the director's winning mutt, portraying herself).
Writer-director Reichardt followed "Wendy and Lucy" with this year's painstakingly researched and smart drama "Meek's Cutoff." Michelle Williams, who starred in that Westward Ho! saga, was an Oscar nom for her turn in "Blue Valentine" (written and directed by Derek Cianfrance, a Colorado native son). She'll be appearing soon as Marilyn Monroe in "My Week With Marilyn." which is also garnering the actress award season buzz. Calls to Lucy the dog's publicist have not been returned. Tonight. Free. 7 p.m.


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I need to make an adhoc connection on Archlinux (netbook used as a wifi repeater), I was using this tutorial to do it on Ubuntu :
At the terminal install execute
sudo apt-get install dnsmasq-baseand then
sudo apt-get remove dnsmasq
Restart the NetworkManager by executing
sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager restart
Left-click on the NetworkManager icon and click "Create New Wireless Network"
Name it "UbuntuAdhoc" and set the encryption to "WEP40"
Connect PC2 using Ad-Hoc to the PC1
The main problem is
dnsmasq-mase is missing but
dnsmasq is present on Archlinux.
Here's what I found that could be helpful:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dnsmasq https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=6431
pacman -S dnsmasq
mkdir /etc/dnsmasq
mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/dnsmasq
cd /etc
echo nameserver 127.0.0.1 > resolv.conf
mv rc.conf rc.conf.save
sed '/DAEMON/s/network/network dnsmasq.local/g' rc.conf.save>rc.conf
cd rc.d
sed '/-z/s/dnsmasq/dnsmasq -r /etc/dnsmasq/resolv.conf /g' dnsmasq>dnsmasq.local
/etc/rc.d/dnsmasq.local start
/etc/rc.d/network restart
I have a problem with:
sed '/-z/s/dnsmasq/dnsmasq -r /etc/dnsmasq/resolv.conf /g' dnsmasq>dnsmasq.local
It say that's the
../s/.. is not a known option.
It seems to have broken the
networkmanager applet on xfce4. I blacklisted the dnsmasq stuff in
/etc/rc.conf, it will be to repair in the progress, I can't use my wifi connection for now but my lan will do for now ...
I also checked about various ways of using a adhoc connection, as my girlfriend use my PC and I travel sometimes, I need a graphical way to make the adhoc connection.
I checked my favorite software
wicd but it cannot make multiple connections and adhoc. It said that the version 2.0 maybe would but for now, the only alternative is
So, how I do it?


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Howard Elliott Barcelona Red Mirror 46H x 32W x 4D - 2020R
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Winter Icing and Storms Project
Project DescriptionThe Winter Icing and Storms Project is a multi-investigator
program to study the meteorological conditions that produce
hazardous aircraft icing conditions in winter storms. To a large
extent, this entails forecasting and detecting regions of
supercooled liquid water in the storms. ETL's participation in
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use of microwave radiometers to monitor the vertically-integrated
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Less than half of retirees are using personal assets for retirement income, according to a study released Monday by Hearts & Wallets.
For a quarter of retirees, withdrawals from retirement accounts make up only about 17% of their income. Other sources include Social Security, pensions if they're lucky enough to have them, dividends and interest, annuities, real estate and returning to work.
"Many Americans view their assets for use only in an emergency rather than as a 'retirement income source,' a beloved industry term that isn't used in casual conversation by ordinary people," Laura Varas, a partner with Hearts & Wallets, said in a statement.
Just one-third are between 65 and 74 years old, according to the survey, and 87% have less than $500,000 in assets. Those with more than $2 million are only 3% of retiree households, according to Varas.
"It's not possible to understand retirees as a homogenous group. Some have pensions, others simply haven't saved enough to produce substantial income, and still others, of all wealth levels, are successfully funding their lifestyles with different types of savings or annuities," Varas said.
Among pre-retirees, almost 60% said they planned to use personal assets for retirement income, including 80% of those more than five years away from retirement.
A LIMRA survey, released Tuesday, also asked pre-retirees about their plans for income after they stop working. LIMRA found that more than a quarter of workers between ages 55 and 64 say they aren't sure how they'll use savings in their defined contribution plans after they retire.
"It is surprising that such a large proportion of older workers have failed to do this basic level of income planning when most are within 10 years of retirement," Matthew Drinkwater, associate managing director for LIMRA SRI Research, said in a statement. "Many believe that they can delay retirement indefinitely, or work in retirement, so it's possible they feel that there's no near-term need to engage in this kind of planning. But that belief is risky; people often retire earlier than anticipated."
LIMRA found most workers expect to take withdrawals from their account, either directly or after rolling the assets into an IRA, while about 16% plan to convert their balance into some form of guaranteed income.


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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:20 pm
Post subject: farmed vs wild salmon
May I add that there are numerous good reasons to prefer wild to farmed salmon in this recipe as well as any other use of salmon?
A quick google will tell the stories.
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:43 am
Post subject: gravlax in various styles
The proportions between salt and sugar are a little individual. I have tasted versions where they used 4 parts of sugar to one par salt and it was quite tasty. Personally I prefere 2,5 parts of sugar to one part salt. Equal amounts of sugar and salt is a little too salty for me.
I normally use fennel and dill seeds for spicing the fish but you can use quite a lot of things. The yellow on the lemon is also nice along with the lemonjuice. You can use oranges as well but its not a personal favourite.
Gin and rose pepper is quite nice but one have to be caful with the alcohol as the fish generally catches a lot of taste from alcohol. A smoother alcohol as dry sherry might be an option.
When preparing the fish I normally prefere a palastic bag as you can close that tightly. The fish gives away some fluids and you want to keep that with the fish. Using a whole fish you take the two filets put the sugar/spice mix and rub it into the filets gently. Put the leftover mix and the dill/fennel etc and put it in between the parts. Put the other file on top of the first one head to tail and put it in the bag.
If you want to speed up the process you can actually use thin slices of salmon, put on a plate and carefully pour over some salt/sugar mix. It will marinate in 5-10 minutes.
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:49 am
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Looks really good! I'm swedish but I've never done this stuff myself, I usually just buy it. Should give it a try myself!
About the name: it is not called gravlax in Sweden, the actual name is GRAVAD LAX (meaning burried salmon like you said, but don't know what the name relates to, my guess is that people laid the salmon in pits in the ground or underground cellars during the curing to keep it cool). The name "gravlax" that americans seem to use probably comes from the norwegian name you mentioned
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:39 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:36 am
Post subject: gavadlax
i love this dish, although i like to cure the salmon for 4-6 hours as its got a much fresher consistency and absorbs enough flavors from the curing to work. Its nearer to sashimi than a cure then. j
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:20 pm
Post subject: MMMMMMmmmmmm
Tried your recipe last week. Now have part of my freezer stocked up with a side of scottish salmon racked up for a seven day freeze before I try it again. It was amazing. Firm,tasty and morish.
Can you do the same with Tuna? Or Cod, Haddock for example?
Also, in the freezer, I have the Head to tail covered a generous amount of flesh; does anyone have any ideas what I can do with it?
Cure it and make a pate for example? Seems such a shame to waste it...
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:25 pm
Post subject: keeping?
should you continue to refridgerate it after it is done? Or can it be left out?
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:20 pm
Post subject: Re: keeping?
jenny wrote:
should you continue to refridgerate it after it is done? Or can it be left out?
I'd definitely keep it refrigerated.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:24 pm
Post subject: Re: keeping?
jenny wrote:
should you continue to refridgerate it after it is done? Or can it be left out?
Keep it in the fridge, its still a fresh product
Can you do the same with Tuna? Or Cod, Haddock for example? .
I'm pretty sure you want to use a fatty fish
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:33 pm
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We make gravad lax about twice a year. New Years and at some point for a birthday.
I forgot to add we like to make a sauce with ours.
Unless I'm baking I never measure but here's a start. You want this sauce to end up savory, the sugar is just to take the bite out of the mustard and the lemon. Add the oil last the as an emusifier. I dont use much oil.
deli mustard
lemon juice
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:52 pm
Post subject: Gravad lox
I find that weighting the salmon while it is curing yields a final product with a very dense and satiny consistency, which I find preferable. I assume that this occurs because the weighting forces more liquid out of the fish. Actually, I no longer "weight" the fish, per se. Rather, I do it this way:
1. I lay two salmon filets out, skin side down and flesh side up, and rub a substantial amount of a salt/sugar/white pepper mixture onto the flesh side of each. I have made it with both kosher salt and coarse-grained sea salt, and find that the latter gives a more vibrant taste to the end product. I use equal parts of salt and sugar, and approximately 10% of the total salt/sugar mix of finely-ground white pepper. For a whole salmon of about 4 pounds before fileting -- i.e., two filets, each weighing about 1-1/2 pounds after fileting -- I would use about 5 tablespoons each of salt and sugar, and about one tablespoon of pepper. This is, of course, approximate, and accurate measurement is not crucial.
2. I place the following into a flat glass (or otherwise nonreactive) baking dish: a layer of dill; one of the salmon filets, skin side against the dill, flesh side up, with the filet facing an arbitrary north; another layer of dill; the other salmon filet, flesh side against the dill, skin side up, with the filet facing an arbitrary south; another layer of dill. Over the top of this "sandwich" I sprinkle the remaining salt/sugar/white pepper mix. For a whole salmon -- i.e., two filets -- a 13" x 9" baking dish is the right size.
3. I take another nonreactive baking dish of the same size and place it on top of the "sandwich," with the flat side (bottom) of the baking dish down.
4. I wrap the whole thing with 4 short bungee cords, two on the arbitrary north-south axis and the others on the arbitrary east-west axis, to press the upper baking dish down onto the "sandwich." I then refrigerate it.
5. After 12 - 24 hours I unwrap the bungee cords, drain off the liquid, turn the "sandwich" over, replace the upper baking dish, re-wrap with the bungee cords, and refrigerate. I repeat this every 12 - 24 hours for two to three days.
6. When it is finished I remove the "sandwich", drain off whatever liquid remains, separate the filets, throw away everything that is not salmon, rinse the filets thoroughly, dry them, and lightly scrape the flesh surface of each filet with a sharp knife (otherwise I find it too salty).
7. I serve it sliced thin (a long-bladed non-serrated knife seems to work best), on small pieces of thin-sliced rye or pumpernickel bread, with a sauce made of 1 tablespoon sweet mustard, 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon white vinegar, 4 - 5 oz. oil (I mix good-quality olive oil and neutral salad oil, such as Canola, equally) whisked in a drop or so at a time so that sauce emulsifies, and a whole lot of finely-chopped dill at the end.
8. Vodka or aquavit that has been stored in the freezer, served in shot glasses, goes well.[/i]
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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:36 pm
Post subject: Sashimi Salmon
Would sushi/sashimi quality salmon work well for this without having to be frozen first?
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:29 am
Post subject: Re: Sashimi Salmon
PinkFerret wrote:
Would sushi/sashimi quality salmon work well for this without having to be frozen first?
I was under the impression that sushi grade salmon was all prefrozen to destroy parasites.
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:10 am
Post subject: gravlax methods: to wrap/wieght or not
I've done graavlax/gravad lax for years, with lots of variations. My favorite ingredient list includes a 2:1 sugar to salt proportion (any non-iodized salt), both black and white cracked peppercorns, crushed juniper berries and tons of dill. I've also had excellent, though a bit off-beat and non-purist results adding a sprinkle of about 1tsp lemon juice which has been mixed with a few drops of pure (natural) vanilla extract. (1 tsp per lb salmon).
A wonderful method of putting up the salmon was taught me by a Swedish chef (my apologies to my Danish friends). After making the traditional filet sandwich, cut sufficient cheesecloth to wrap the sandwich 6 to 8 times. Cover the surface of your non-reactive dish with one end of the cheesecloth, throw some dill, sugar/salt mixture and pepper/juniper berry on it, then lay on the sandwich. Throw some of the same ingredient mix on the top of the sandwich. Then, wrap the sandwich in the cheesecloth while flipping it and pulling slightly on the cheesecloth with each turn.
This accomplishes all you need do. Each time you wrap and pull, the total pressure on the salmon is additively increased by the strength of each pull (same as when a piano tuner repairs a broken hammer shank by applying glue and then wrapping with thread). This holds the dill/berry/pepper mix firmly against the fish (don't pull too hard, just gently). It also maintains moisture all around the fish and reduces the required frequency of turning while curing. Best of all, it has always seemed to me to produce a much nicer, fresher tasting product by allowing the fish to breathe while curing (as opposed to wrapping in plastic -- think about it, they didn't have plastic wrap when this dish was first developed by our Scandi pals). Breathing is a good thing, moisture is a good thing, it's all good.
I believe you'll find the resulting product freshly flavored just the way you want it (depending upon your own ingredient mix) and with a moist, medium-firm (just firm enough to slice), melt-in-your-mouth texture.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:14 pm
Post subject: Gravlax is salty
I followed this recipe EXACTLY and the gravlax was TOO salty. I have made gravlax about 4 times during my cooking life and it's always too salty. I decided to try this recipe because it uses much less salt than any of the others I've tried. Do you think 2 days is just too long?
Foiled again.
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Book Review: The Way We Talk Now
Since 1989, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio's Fresh Air. He regularly delivers essays about the changing nature of the American language. The Way We Talk Now is a collection of some of the best of these radio essays.
His essays cover the spectrum of language change, from etymology to the influence of politics on language to grammar and usage issues. His subjects include cigarette jingles, how the meaning of superman has changed over the years, what is a cult, and spelling bees.
Prescriptivist's Corner: The Catastrophe of Apostrophes
One of the more troublesome punctuation marks is the simple apostrophe. Editors and writers simply cannot agree on its proper use. There is no disagreement over the major function of the mark, but like many things the devil is in the details. The application of the apostrophe is a grammatical catastrophe.
One would think it was simple enough. Over its history, the apostrophe has served three basic functions, one of which has been falling out of use in recent years. First, it substitutes for missing or silent letters. Second, it marks the possessive case. Finally, the practice that is dying out is the use to mark the plural of acronyms, numbers, or letters.
American Dialect: New England
This article is the first in an occasional series that will examine different regional accents across the United States (and if I become ambitious, the English-speaking world).
The New England Yankee dialect is familiar to most Americans. Its standard test is how one says "Park the car in Harvard Yard." If you say " Pahk the car in Hahvahd Yahd," you are from New England, or more specifically from New England east of the Connecticut River.
Word Of The Month: University
September is back-to-school month. In honor of all those students returning to the classroom, we present a selection of words and terms associated with higher education. Our word of the month is:
University, n., an institution of higher learning, the body of faculty and students of such an institution (c. 1300), from the Anglo-Norman université, ultimately from the Latin universus. In modern American usage, a university typically has both undergraduate and graduate departments and comprises several colleges.
The word university alone is hardly enough to capture a taste of college life. So here is a selection of terms associated with (mostly) American university life.
Seven Words You Can't Say On Yahoo
In the 1970s, comedian George Carlin became famous with a routine about seven words one can't say on television. Carlin's words were all of the "four-letter" variety. But in this more enlightened age, a different category of words is posing a problem, those that can be interpreted as part of a computer scripting language like JavaScript.
JavaScript is used to give commands to a computer and is commonly used in websites to run search and other such functions. While most JavaScript is innocuous, malicious hackers can use it to run damaging programs. To combat this potential menace, over a year ago Yahoo started subtly changing the text of HTML messages sent over its free email service. (Plain ASCII text messages, which can't hide JavaScript, are unaffected.) In all, seven words used in JavaScript were changed to synonyms that aren't. These are:
Book Review: The Man Who Deciphered Linear B
Andrew Robinson has written a clear and concise biography of Michael Ventris, the English architect who solved one of archaeology's most vexing problems. In 1900, archeologists discovered clay tablets on the island of Crete containing a strange script. The tablets dated to c. 1450 BC, about two centuries before the Trojan War. The writing was utterly unintelligible—no one even knew what language it was in.
For fifty-odd years the tablets were undecipherable. More tablets with the same script, dubbed Linear B, were discovered on mainland Greece, at Pylos in 1939 and at Mycenae in 1950. Unlike Champollion's decryption of Egyptian hieroglyphics a century before, there was no Rosetta Stone for Linear B, no bilingual inscriptions that pointed the way.
Word Of The Month: Hollywood
Summer is the time for big-budget, American film releases. This year we have, among others, Star Wars: Episode Two, Minority Report, and another Austin Powers movie. So in honor of summer days spent in dark, air-conditioned theaters, the word of the month for August is:
Hollywood, n. and adj., the American film industry. Named after the district in Los Angeles, California that is home to several major film studios. Generalized use dates to 1926. In 1886, Kansas prohibitionist Horace Wilcox carved out an area of what was then known as Rancho La Brea to found a community based on strict religious principles and strong moral underpinnings. His wife, Daeida, named the community Hollywood, after a friend's Chicago home. The first film studio opened there in 1911 and the moral underpinnings of the community went downhill from there.
Prescriptivist's Corner: Hopefully
One of the more common prescriptivist admonitions concerns the adverb hopefully. Prescriptivist mavens tell us that the word should only be used in the sense of in a hopeful manner, and not in the sense of it is to be hoped. So if we say, "Hopefully, Vinnie will give us good odds on the horse," we mean that Vinnie is very confident the horse will lose, not that the speaker is optimistic about his chances for Vinnie being generous.
There are two problems with this strict interpretation of the meaning of hopefully. The first is that it is contrary to general usage. And the second is that it makes no sense grammatically.
Book Review: Power of Babel
John McWhorter, professor of linguistics at the University of California Berkeley, has authored The Power of Babel, an overview of linguistic change. The book is aimed at the layperson and attempts to convey linguistic "truths" and smash popular myths about the nature of language and how it changes.
McWhorter does a superb job of taking what should be an impossibly broad topic, the history of language—all language—and distilling it down into a small number of discrete principles of change. Humans have been speaking languages for 150,000 years. There have been tens of thousands of languages throughout the millennia. Yet they all share common features and they change in patterned, if unpredictable, ways.
Word of the Month: Fandom
The word of the month for July is fandom, n., a base of enthusiasts for a particularly activity, book, movie, or television series; originally from baseball; from fan + [king]dom; (1903).
Fandom is quite a sub-cultural phenomenon. The word dates to the turn of the 20th century and was originally used to refer to baseball fans. But it achieves it greatest linguistic heights in the realm of science fiction. Science fiction fans have their own lingo in referring to themselves and to their activities.
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Autism and oxytocin: facilitating social interaction?
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Oxytocin: Hormonal bliss
Oxytocin is a peptide hormone the brain produces in the posterior pituitary. It appears to play many roles in our lives, starting with birth, when it manifests one of the few examples of positive feedback during labor: The more you make, the more you make, until the uterus, the most powerful muscle in the body, contracts sufficiently and frequently enough to push a baby out of an area through which you'd think no baby could fit. In fact, in many childbirths, a synthetic form of oxytocin is used to facilitate labor. Following the birth experience, oxytocin works further magic by facilitating the mother-child bond.
Oxytocin doesn't stop there, however. It also appears to function in facilitating trust among adults. One study found that a whiff of the hormone caused study participants to be more likely to continue in their trusting behavior, even if the target of their trust had betrayed them.
Social deficits characterize autism
Autism is a term that describes a broad spectrum of developmental manifestations that can include problems with verbal communication, social interaction, and motor skills. Some research has indicated that people with autism may have comparatively low levels of oxytocin, which has led to the hypothesis that boosting these levels might facilitate a greater social understanding for them.
Oxytocin boosts social skills?
A recent study from France published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences appears to bear out this idea. Caveats include the fact that while it was a controlled clinical trial, the study involved only 13 autistic people who had been diagnosed either with high-functioning autism (HFA) or Asperger's (and 13 age-matched non-autistic participants). The low number of participants and the mix of diagnoses (there is controversy about the overlap or equivalency of HFA vs. Asperger's) mean that these findings qualify as suggestive only. In addition, the authors in their paper offer some assumptions about autism that do not necessarily apply or apply in equal measure among all autistic people.
With those caveats in mind, the study findings remain intriguing. The autistic participants exhibited a greater awareness of social dynamics after exposure to oxytocin, in addition to also having higher measured levels of the hormone in their blood. Oxytocin, like most hormones, does not persist for long, and these effects would be expected to be only transient.
Is it direct improvement of social function or diminished social anxiety?
Among the assumptions the paper authors make about autism, one is that autistic people do not engage in eye contact and that this indicates a lack of social engagement. Another assumption is that the autistic participants were unable to understand the social dynamics without oxytocin because of a social incapacity.
Other studies, however, suggest a relationship between increased oxytocin and reduced social anxiety. Social anxiety can be a paramount manifestation in autism, and social phobias in general translate into an apparent inability to socialize. So the question that remains is, Did the oxytocin in this study somehow directly affect social capacity in these participants, or did it lower their social anxiety sufficiently enough that they could more comfortably engage in social interpretation?
Ideas for questions
The brain releases oxytocin from the posterior pituitary. Can you identify the feedback pathway that causes this release? What other hormone or hormones does the posterior pituitary release? What about the anterior pituitary?
Oxytocin is involved in parent-child bonding. Were you aware that this "natural" bond has a hormone underlying it? Do you think that this applies only in human parent-child bonding? Research this question and explain why or why not.
One problem autistic people sometimes encounter is being too trusting because they do not recognize when someone is cheating them. Given findings in other studies that oxytocin facilitates trust in people even when they have experienced betrayal, how do you think these results might affect any effort to apply oxytocin therapeutically in autism?


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In 1998, the National Institute of Building Sciences (the Institute) created the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF) to provide timely, comprehensive information on designing, building, and maintaining safe, healthy, high-performing schools. In its 17 years of existence, NCEF grew to be a collection of more than 23,000 resources on facilities supporting early childhood and K-12 to higher education, and at its peak was used by 1.5 million visitors a year.
Despite its "fallow" years of 2012 – 2015 due to funding, NCEF's popularity has continued among its users. This popularity, coupled with increasingly urgent concerns that directly affect the educational built environment—energy use, safety and security, health in public buildings—compelled the Institute to revamp and reestablish the NCEF website as a vital place where all invested in the educational environment can share and retrieve the best information possible. Read more
Resource Lists
Drawn from NCEF's vast database of 19,000 records, subject-specific resource lists provide a quick path to 167 school facilities topics. Each continuously updated list includes descriptions of books, studies, reports, and journal articles, with links to online publications and related websites.
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Healthy Schools
Energy Conservation/Green Schools
School Gardens and Grounds
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