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Horse meat and the economics of disgust
The big story out of the British Isles this week is that consumers in Ireland and the U.K. have been unwittingly eating horse meat in several products — including burgers and packaged lasagna — labeled as beef. As the New York Times notes, "Few things divide British eating habits from those of continental Europe as ...
The big story out of the British Isles this week is that consumers in Ireland and the U.K. have been unwittingly eating horse meat in several products — including burgers and packaged lasagna — labeled as beef. As the New York Times notes, "Few things divide British eating habits from those of continental Europe as much as a distaste for consuming horse meat."
Horse meat is an interesting cultural case. While considered disgusting in Britain and the United States ("So hungry I could eat a horse" is an expression here for a reason), over 200,000 horses are slaughtered for their meat every year in the European Union, according to the Humane Society International. It's also a staple in some Central Asian countries — Kazakh Olympians brought along their own supply of horse sausages to the London Olympics. It seems to be something of an Anglo taboo, though an often hypocritical one. Australians, Canadians, and New Zealanders don't generally eat horses, but they do slaughter them for export.
Economist Alvin Roth, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize, uses horse meat as a central example in his famous paper, "Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets." The idea of the paper is that cultural biases against certain transactions serve as market constraints that economists would do well to take seriously rather than dismissing as irrational. He discusses well-known examples such as organ-exchange markets and beliefs about the charging of interest in the Islamic world, as well as more outré practices such as dwarf-tossing.
Here's what he has to say about horse meat:
Why can't you eat horse or dog meat in a restaurant in California, a state with a population that hails from all over the world, including some places where such meals are appreciated? The answer is that many Californians not only don't wish to eat horses or dogs themselves, but find it repugnant that anyone else should do so, and they enacted this repugnance into California law by referendum in 1998. Section 598 of the California Penal Code states in part: "[H]orsemeat may not be offered for sale for human consumption. No restaurant, cafe, or other public eating place may offer horsemeat for human consumption." The measure passed by a margin of 60 to 40 percent with over 4.6 million people voting for it (see http://vote98.ss.ca.gov/Returns/prop/00.htm%5B1%5D).
Notice that this law does not seek to protect the safety of consumers by governing the slaughter, sale, preparation, and labeling of animals used for food. It is different from laws prohibiting the inhumane treatment of animals, like rules on how farm animals can be raised or slaughtered, or laws prohibiting cockfights, or the recently established (and still contested) ban on selling foie gras in Chicago restaurants (Ruethling, 2006). It is not illegal in California to kill horses; the California law only outlaws such killing "if that person knows or should have known that any part of that horse will be used for human consumption." The prohibited use is "human consumption," so it apparently remains legal in California to buy and sell pet food that contains horse meat (although the use of horse meat in pet food has declined in the face of the demand in Europe for U.S. horse meat for human consumption).
He would argue that laws against horse meat are irrational in a society where eating cows, pigs, and other similar animals is considered perfectly acceptable. After all, the British consumers who are outraged about having been fed Polish horse meat were perfectly willing to buy lasagna made from cows that were likely raised and slaughtered in brutal factory farms and felt few moral qualms about it.
But Roth also suggests that the fact that they are irrational doesn't mean such attitudes aren't real factors that should be taken into account by economists designing markets. In other words, if you want to stay in the packaged-lasagna business, don't sell horse meat to the Brits. And certainly don't pretend it's something else.


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Sketching a fashion illustration can take hours when you pay attention to every little detail. On the other hand, drawing can take a couple of minutes if you go with the minimal look and simply focus on the garment design, giving little thought to the body, face, arms, or legs.
The main rule of the minimal look is to use the fewest number of lines possible. In other words, draw in such a way that those who look at your illustration have to use their imaginations to fill in the missing pieces.
Not every line and body part has to be drawn and filled in to make a fashion statement. The point of fashion illustration is to show a design on a body. It's okay if the body is missing some shading or a leg or the details of a design hardly show up; as long as the main idea of the design is there, you're golden.
To practice drawing a woman in an evening gown in the minimal look, follow these steps:
1Start with a posed stick figure. Add the trapezoids and cylinder shapes for the body.
Lay tracing paper over the drawing and use the body as your reference point for drawing your evening gown.
2Draw a slightly curved line across the chest for the top of the dress. Follow along both sides of the torso, with one side ending mid calf and the other ending slightly below the mid calf.
This dress is form fitting, so follow the body closely until you approach the hem.
3Using thick and thin lines, draw the hem of the dress with large loopy swirls to show movement.
Extend lines up from the loops to add dimension.
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This pasta dish is inspired by the region of Abruzzo, which is among the most mountainous regions in Italy and home of some of the country's most interesting cooking.
In the forests of Abruzzo, foraging reigns supreme. And because mushroom season lasts a little longer than it does elsewhere, we have porcini galore for winter ragus.
The brilliance of this dish is the combination of veal, mushrooms and doppio concentrato tomato paste. Together, the three create a depth of flavor more often achieved by reducing sauce for hours on end.
The secret is the umami in the dried mushrooms. I chop the porcini finely and incorporate them into a simple ragu of ground veal and tomato paste. But the important factor is the concentrated flavor of the tea created when soaking the dried fungus in hot water.
I use farfalle — literally "butterflies" — because they hold up to the hefty condiment, but penne will do.
This recipe just might eclipse chicken soup as our go-to comfort food this holiday season.
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PEMBROKE, N.C. – The Georgia College softball team (20-14, 7-3 PBC) split another pair of Peach Belt Conference (PBC) tilts, winning 4-2 in the first and then losing in the second 9-1 at UNC Pembroke (14-17, 3-3 PBC) Sunday afternoon.
Sabrina Chandler's (Covington, Ga.) outstanding pitching performance found the Bobcats their seventh PBC victory of the season. Chandler pitched five solid innings, surrendering no earned runs. Freshman Erica Bell (Fayetteville, Ga.) picked up her team-leading third save of the season
Kelsea Martin (Dacula, Ga.) started things off for the Bobcats, singling in the first inning and picking up two RBI. GC scored two more in the fourth on a costly error by the Braves. Martin finished 2-for-3 with two RBI and one run scored.
In game two Haley Burnett (Columbus, Ga.) started things off for the Bobcats singling to centerfield, driving in Whitney Okvist (Kennesaw, Ga.) who finished 2-for-2 with two stolen bases. The tide would quickly turn when the Braves put a six spot up in the second inning. The Bobcats wouldn't be able to muster any more offense as the Braves added three in the fifth to end the game by run-rule.
Centerfielder Okvist stole three bases on the day, increasing her season total to 40, her career number at 64. After today's action, the now stands just six stolen bases behind Leigh Jacobs (1995-98) for first place on the all-time steals list.
The Bobcats are back in action Wednesday, March 21 at 2 p.m., traveling to No. 11 Armstrong.
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'T'was the Night before Christmas
and all through the house
Not a creature was …
well, actually, several creatures are currently stirring. No mice though. I think the cats have eaten them all.
Anyway, here we are, and Christmas Day is only three hours away for those of us on the east coast of Australia [ except of course those folks in Queensland where summer daylight saving time dooesn't exist ]
If you have survived the rigours of the Annual Catsmum Christmas House Tour of 2013, I salute your intestinal fortitude. Here … have a shortbread. Hot chocolate anyone? or would you prefer to join us in a Baileys-with-real-coffee-ice-cubes ?
Here we are at the opposite end of the house from whence we started, lo, these many weeks ago [ yes I managed to work in a 'whence', and even a 'lo'. Last year I resisted the urge and some were sorely disappointed. Or so I choose to believe ]
This is normally the rumpus room but, just for these six weeks, it is renamed ' the explosion at the North Pole' or as someone-who-shall-remain-Tara said recently "This IS Christmas"
There have had to be a few concessions made for little people.
The more breakable and/or heaviest and/or topple-over-able santas have been moved onto shelves
or behind the fire guard. Not to mention the playpen style fence loaned by an acquaintance here in Castlemaine.
Still there are about 150 Father Christmasses in this one room, with the emphasis on the rustic and where possible, the handmade. One of the smallest is a reclining china figurine that I've had since my first birthday
and the largest at a metre tall is one I made from an American pattern around 12 years ago. You can sort of see him lurking next to the tree in one of the photos.
The tree is decorated with an eclectic assortment ranging from vintage mercury glass, through pieces from when the kids were small, scandinavian straw hearts and angels, a liberal scattering of candy canes, cornflour [ cornstarch ] stars,cinnamon 'cookies' a la Martha Stewart, and hearts of all sizes and materials.
There are patchwork cushions [ with totally gratuitous dawg ]
more of my crochet snowflakes,
but it's really all about the santas.
The family arrived just before dinner and we all opened one present each.
Miss Abby is in bed now but first she helped me read Clement Moore's 1823 classic, 'A Visit From Saint Nicholas', better known to most of us as 'The Night Before Christmas',
just as I read it to her mummy and uncles for so many years.
And isn't that what Christmas traditions are all about?
Not who has the biggest light display, or the most decorations [ although that's good too of course ]
So that's pretty much it. See you after the big man in the red suit has finished his rounds.
From my family to yours, may your Christmas be filled with peace and love.
No Business like Snow Business
and here we are
on the slopes approaching the North Pole
my kitchen. The closest I am ever likely to get to a northern hemisphere white Christmas
blue and white Danish and German plates
crochet snowflakes, many from years past, plus the 30 or so made this year, less the 20 given away
more snowmen and some Christmooses
tiny wooden ornaments, vintage miniature kitchenalia and, of course, candy canes: both the edible variety and some of a more permanent nature made of twisted glass
my first ever Christmas card, currently celebrating its 60th birthday:
'T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house …
You never know what you might find tucked into odd corners
behind the tree
on top of the microwave
next to the kettle
I know I've left a lot of stuff out, so you might need to go back and look at some of previous year's posts.
By the way … just in case it has somehow escaped your attention:
and don't forget to visit tomorrow for the final post in this year's Christmas House Tour
Ho Ho Ho
Picking up where we left off yesterday: while you have a sip of your eggnog, we'll take a quick nip down the hallway past a few of my stitcheries and smaller Christmas quilts
starting with a cross cultural assemblage: an american style Wild Goose Chase hanging from an antique loom heddle from Thailand
and then moving on down the hallway: past a 'clothes line'style arrangement of miniature quilts and naive embroideries.
but I far prefer the old European style Saint Nicholas
to the modern, largely American, Santa .
As for the angelic hosts, I don't mind whether they're childlike and naive
and here I have a confession to make. I all but finished the embroidery on that blue one NINE years ago, and , with about an inch to do, packed it away for the move up here. And lost it.
She came to light a few months ago, and about ten minutes of stitching saw that part finished. In fact the hardest part was locating the right colour thread! A quick border, backing and binding, et voila: another finished object.
A couple of teeny miniature 'quilts' [ those trees are less than 2 inches square ]
and a peek round the corner into the visiting grandkids' room, with a tied Log Cabin quilt made in 1990,
and a tree that they're not likely to pull over
and finally back out into the hall
Now rest up.
Fortify yourself with mince pie and shortbread, for tomorrow we move into
the approaches to the North Pole the kitchen, and that's where you'll need all the stamina you can muster.
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Christmas House Tour 2013 continues
and we're in the other end of the same room as last time.
and even though most of the Christmas touches are the same as last year, it's not the same couches, so the arrangement looks a little different in places.
The Arctic Saint Nicholas wallhanging sits a little high on the wall now, because these couches are a lot lower. Maybe by next year, I'll have a different quilt to hang in that space. I already know from a few years ago, that the triptych works perfectly well on the wall behind the Jim Shore nativity,
so it wouldn't be going out of rotation.
Especially as I only just – well, recently only just – made these cushions to go with Arctic Saint Nick:
using small motifs that were originally printed along the bottom of the main panel fabric. I did simple quilt-as-you-go Log Cabins using some of the same fabrics as those wonky 'Stack and Slash' star blocks that are framing Saint Nick and a bound edge like you'd do on a quilt. Simples.
I never used to go blue at Christmas, which is a bit funny because my last house was entirely blue. Maybe I felt that it just wouldn't look sufficiently Christmassy, but when I got the blue 'patchwork' nativity,
it was so different from anything else that I had at that stage, and it was obvious that a few touches of blue were needed … and … they've just kept on creeping in.
A bit of blue in the Santa Claws table runner:
a couple of my Danish Christmas plates , with white-painted reindeer,
and a new find: an advent calendar mini chest of drawers. I didn't really do anything with that this year, but next year it'll be fun filling all those tiny drawers.
Shabby painted vintage chairs as side tables, piled with some of my collection of Christmas books
and I figured I'd better unfold the quilt on the back of the couch so you could see it properly
[ a Stack-and-Whack from I think the late '90s ]
Crochet snowflakes – stiffened in PVA glue – hang from the light fitting like a crystalline chandelier
and finally a view down the length of the room so that you can get a sense of how it relates to yesterday's post.
Yes, I know there's stuff under the table. Someone left it here after my birthday last weekend. if I hide it, I'll forget where it is.
Oh yeah, there's another, very early [ 1985 ] Christmas Star quilt on the back of that other couch.
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Christmas House Tour 2013 Day 2
… or day 3 if you count the day that I posted the pictures from the outside of the house.
today we're sliding through the big room, which – as I say pretty much every year – the architect mistakenly thought was the lounge/living room and the dining room. Silly him. I use the dominant end as my sewing room and the other as an ancillary living room. You'll see that bit tomorrow.
For the moment we're in what is normally my 'studio' space.
Because of the small peeps in my life, the main Christmas tree, which is sitting where my permanently-up ironing board normally resides ,
is currently corralled inside a fence made of two elderly wooden playpens on loan from friends.
Hiding behind this tree and virtually unseen – as well as being slightly out of focus – is a bookcase with quilts and some vintage Christmas postcards
More postcards and also part of my collection of nativity sets including the English paper one in the middle from my parent's first year as a married couple, 1950.
and this year's acquisition-that-I-couldn't-resist: an aussie nativity with the cutest round wee koalas.
and to round off today's visit Chez-Catsmum, this year's finished queen-size Christmas quilt, which is currently covering my design wall
[ that's the gridded white batting that you can see peaking out at the sides –
and random animals, on my sewing table, provided purely for scale
Come back tomorrow if you'd like to see the rest of this room.
There may well be shortbread!!
7 sleeps
I know I'm late but …
seriously, the only thing I was able to focus on the last couple of weeks was getting the manse decorated for the festive season while simultaneously organising a weekend's worth of festivities for the turning of the big 6-0.
Herewith, today, and two weeks later than usual, the start of the Christmas Tour proper.
and so [ because I wouldn't want to throw you in at the deep end ] we begin, as we often do, in my bedroom:
it's not hard to Christmassify [ yes, that is so a word ] my room. It's green and cream and pink with Edwardian furniture, so I'm most of the way there as soon as I pack away a few things.
Change the bedding for a burgundy and green scrap English strippy style quilt containing several decades' worth of small pieces of Christmas print, and finished in 2012: [ added decorative tissue -on-floor contributed by Bear ]
hang some 'icicles from the light
arrange a few folksy Saint Nicks.
and angels
on the tea trolley that holds the television
add a wee tree decorated with knitting and sewing stuff, buttons, my great grandfather's fob watch and a few other meaningful bits and bobs,
plus a scrap of hundred year old crazy quilting in lieu of a tree skirt, the whole lot sitting on a shabby vintage chair
Add a vignette on top of great granny's cedar chest of drawers/ tallboy/ armoire
finish with vintage crochet gloves, 'crystal' bead swag,and a mercury glass Father Christmas
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AUGUSTA, Ga. - The Georgia College & State University fall sports have given the Bobcats a great start in the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Commissioner's Cup Standings, released by the PBC this month. The Bobcats stand third among the 11 PBC member schools.
The standings are based upon program finishes in each sport, comparing the finish to the best possible finish each program could achieve. Georgia College earned 18 of a possible 25 points, good for a .720 rating.
GCSU finished third in both women's soccer and men's cross country, adding a fourth-place finish in women's cross country.
Columbus State University earned a 1.000 rating, while Armstrong Atlantic State University was second at .733. Just behind the Bobcats was Augusta State University at .719.
Georgia College has never finished better than fifth in the Commissioner's Cup Standings, earning that slot in both 1993 and 1997.
Visit www.GCSU.edu/Bobcats to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame. The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement.


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Bemidji State University's Sustainability Office is hosting a series of events throughout the month to recognize April as Earth Month, including an April 22 celebration for Earth Day.
• April 15: Sustainable Tuesdays, Darby Nelson, "For the Love of Lakes"
Darby Nelson will discuss his book, "For Love of Lakes," which was a finalist in the creative/nonfiction memoir category of the 2012 Minnesota Book Awards. The book "weaves a delightful tapestry of history, science, emotion, and poetry for all who love lakes or enjoy nature writing." Nelson will talk about his book at 2 p.m. in Hagg-Sauer Hall 100 on the BSU campus and from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Rail River Folk School in downtown Bemidji.
• April 21: Electronic Waste Collection
The BSU Sustainability Office, Bobcat of Bemidji and 5R Processors will be available in the parking lot near the Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues in downtown Bemidji from 1-6 p.m. collecting electronic waste such as televisions, computers, or other consumer electronics. Many devices can be dropped off for free, although some items such as plastic TVs and computer monitors, items containing Freon, speakers or televisions in wooden enclosures, or items with broken glass will incur a fee of between $5-15 per item. A data cleansing service for hard drives will also be available for $10 per drive; drives will not be returned. No hazardous, radioactive, explosive or flammable materials will be accepted. For more information, contact Diane Heyde-Peterson at email@example.com.
• April 22: Earth Day
BSU will host an Earth Day celebration featuring a farmer's market, live music, bike tune up and a pipe ceremony from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Lakeside Terrace area of BSU's lower Hobson Memorial Union.
BSU also will host a Sustainable Tuesdays event on local water quality issues, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the American Indian Resource Center Gathering Place. Panelists from around the state will present on Lake Bemidji, Park Rapids ground water and the effects of copper mining on water in the region. Refreshments will be provided.
• April 23: Grease waste and the North Country Trail
BSU will host a pair of presentations at the AIRC Great Room. The first presentation on grease waste begins at 4:30 p.m., followed by a presentation on the North Country Trail beginning at 7 p.m.
BSU's celebration of Earth Month wraps up with an April 25 lakeshore cleanup event and beach party, and the April 26 Stride into Spring 5k/10k event which begins at BSU's Gillett Recreation-Fitness Center.
• April 24: Traditional Skills Workshop: Safe Water Treatment
The BSU Sustainability Office will host a workshop showing water treatment and purification techniques from 5-7:30 p.m. Due to limited capacity in the BSU Sustainability Office, this event will be limited to approximately 20-30 participants. Advance registration is encouraged.
Documentary Series
Each Thursday during Earth Month, BSU is offering a free documentary film screening at 7:30 p.m. in Bensen Hall 115. Admission is free.
• April 10: "The Wisdom to Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism and Community"
Directors John Ankele and Anne Macksoud feature thought leaders and activists in the realms of science, economics and spirituality to discuss how humans can evolve in the face of climate change.
• April 17: "School's Out: Lessons from a Forest Kindergarten"
In the Langnau am Albis suburb of Zurich, Switzerland, children go to kindergarten in the woods every day, rain or shine. Director Lisa Molomot follows the forest kindergarten through the seasons of one school year and looks into the important question of what young children need in their lives.
• April 24: "Tapped"
This 2009 film by directors Stephanie Soechtig and Jason Lindsey examines the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate change, pollution and our reliance on oil.
Earth Month events are hosted by Students for the Environment, the BSU Sustainability Office, Student Senate, BSU's Department of Economics, Sustainable Tuesdays, the BSU Outdoor Program Center, MN GreenCorps, the BSU Geography Club, Theta Tau Epsilon, BSU Lifestyle Educators, BSU Track & Field, People and the Environment, the Oak Hall Living Green Floor, the Hobson Memorial Union, BSU Campus Activities Board and the North Country Trail Association.
• Erika Bailey-Johnson, BSU sustainability coordinator; (218) 755-2560
• BSU Sustainability Office
• "School's Out: Lessons from a Forest Kindergarten" at IMDB
• "Tapped" at IMDB
• "The Wisdom to Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism and Community" at IMDB


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Friday, February 26, 2010
Green Tea Preferences
Americans prefer less intense green tea. Or so says the headline for a recent article published in Food Product Design. It quotes a study, whose results recently appeared in in the Journal of Food Science. According to the study, Americans prefer green tea from tea bags versus loose-leaf tea because the perceived intensity of bitterness in tea bag teas is lower than loose-leaf teas.
The study was conducted by researchers from Drexel University and Kansas State University and looked at a selection of loose-leaf and bagged green teas from Japan, Korea and China. They also found "that U.S. consumers liked green tea samples with lower flavor intensity and lower bitterness intensity. Consumers' acceptability of green tea was negatively correlated with spinach and animalic flavor and bitterness and astringency of green teas evaluated."
Read the article here and check out the study results here.
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4 comments:
- Gingko said...
Hohoho... I highly suspect some subjects of the study have only had bad loose leaf green teas before. I tried a few green teabags before, and they made me think, if this can be called green tea, no wonder some people claim green tea is bitter...
Historically, most the Chinese green teas that won international awards (such as Tai Ping Hou Kui and Hui Ming Tea in 1915 Panama World Expo. and gunpowder in some Expo. in 1980s) have relatively heavy flavor in Chinese green tea spectrum, which makes me think westerners may prefer green teas with higher flavor intensity - as long as the flavor is good, not bitter or astringent :D
- Alex Zorach said...
This is interesting...I've often found that inexpensive green tea in teabags can be painfully astringent and very bitter, although it depends on the brand. I also find that among the teabags available in most supermarkets in America, the black teas tend to be far more bitter and astringent than green teas--which puzzles me because Americans buy mostly black tea. This doesn't fit with the survey.
Loose leaf green tea I have found tends to be less bitter.
But I actually like bitterness, and seek out teas that are bitter (and bitter foods in general). It's probably my single biggest "beef" with American food and American tastes, so in this way this survey does make a lot of sense. American culture seems to be so far towards the extreme of sweet and not bitter...and it bothers me. I think there's a relationship between our tastes and our health, and I think having that strong a preference for sweets is not healthy.
- Gingko said...
My mom believes slight bitter foods are healthy. Very often it does make a lot of sense. Sometimes it's not straight bitter, but slight, vegetal bitter. I like certain bitterness in some green tea too. But the bitterness in some cheap green teabags can easily scare off people from ever trying green tea again.
- Pei @ Teanamu said...
The yin and yang of food is a rather important concept in Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Bitterness is considered yin. So during summer, we like to eat bittergourd to help us cool down.
Re green tea preference.
The report says that "Single tea bags were brewed in 240 mL of water at 70°C and the bag was dipped 10 times and pressed with a spoon prior to discard." I am surprised this does not bring out more of the astringency.
For loose teas, "Six grams were place in 300 mL of water at 70°C and brewed for two minutes." This is far too long and the proportion of tea to water is also too low!
The report concluded "that Consumers preferred green tea made from tea bags versus loose leaf." It is obvious that they have not used good quality REAL green teas and have not brewed them properly.
Given how the experiment was done, it is no wonder consumers found loose tea less desirable.


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Santos ready to put last season in rearview mirror
TORONTO -- Sergio Santos finally has the fresh start he was looking for in a Blue Jays uniform.
Santos was acquired from the White Sox prior to the 2012 season and was expected to serve as the Blue Jays' closer, but a right shoulder injury derailed any hope of making a positive impact last year.
The 29-year-old was shut down after just six games and eventually underwent surgery, which cost him the rest of the year. His impact was non-existent, but that's something he intends to change this season.
"It feels like it's a whole new experience for me, a whole new Opening Day," Santos said. "I'm really looking forward to closing the chapter on last year and really looking to moving onto this year.
"I'm excited, I'm healthy, I feel like I'm right where I want to be as the season's starting as far as how I feel with how my stuff is coming out. It feels good."
Santos' first experience with the Blue Jays was far from being a positive one, but his actual home debut went even worse. The hard-throwing right-hander came in to close out a game versus Boston in the Blue Jays' home opener, but he proceeded to allow three earned runs in just two-thirds of an inning.
That gave Santos his first loss and second blown save of the year. He left the field to a chorus of boos, and in some ways it was a foreshadowing of what would become a nightmare season.
If there was any chance of that experience carrying over into the 2013 season it was put to rest on Tuesday night. Santos came on in relief of left-hander Aaron Loup and promptly gave up a first-pitch double, but Santos quickly settled in by striking out the next two batters he faced to end the threat.
"Obviously wishing the circumstances were different, but it felt good to just get out there again and make some pitches when I had to," Santos said after Toronto's 4-1 loss to Cleveland. "The first-pitch double was kind of like, 'Oh, man,' but it was nice to settle down, get out there and make some pitches.
"It happens. The double was just a poorly located pitch. It kind of locked me in, kind of got me a little fired up, and luckily I was able to battle back and make those key pitches."


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My blog entry "A walk home along High Street" was chosen as the featured article in A Festival of Postcards' 2nd edition "Main Street". Thanks Evelyn! Thanks also to the other entrants, plenty of interesting postcards were contributed so do check it out.
As an postscript to that entry I'd like to post a back view of one of the postcards I used as it's quite interesting on its own.
"The Cross" postcard was published by Ernest Cleaver, the postmaster of Wing. My own copy of this postcard is unposted, but another posted copy has previously been up for auction on Ebay and I saved their scan of the back. That copy was postmarked Leighton Buzzard J[ul]Y 16 [19]12 11.15 am with a King George V halfpenny stamp (apparently His Majesty was a keen philatelist so I bet seeing himself on a stamp was a personal thrill), and is addressed to:
Mr Heather
Gas Works
The text reads:
"Dear Dad
We are coming by that 6.42 train from Leighton arrive Euston 7.40. Frank is going to meet us at Euston so you might see him. We are going up Wing Tower at 11.15am, and then going to see the Hounds at 12. Yesterday went to Ascot [sic]. All the men rushed out to see us. Ethel had her camera in her hand. They all wanted there [sic] photos taken. Love Dorothy."
I'm not entirely sure what Dorothy means by Wing Tower - presumably the bell tower at All Saints Church. By "Ascot" she is of course referring to Ascott House, the home of Leopold and Marie de Rothschild on the outskirts of Wing. Foxhunting was a frequent pasttime here.
My favourite bit is the description of the impact Ethel's camera had on the workers of the Ascott estate - evidence that cameras were quite a rare sight around Wing back then!
Are there any descendents out there of these visitors to Wing? Looking at the 1901 census I can find two sisters Dorothy and Ethel HEATHER (both born Lambeth), with a gas fitter father, living in Brighton, which sounds like a likely match.
Friday, June 26, 2009
A Walk Home - postscript
My blog entry "A walk home along High Street" was chosen as the featured article in A Festival of Postcards' 2nd edition "Main Street". Thanks Evelyn! Thanks also to the other entrants, plenty of interesting postcards were contributed so do check it out.
Posted by Alex Coles at 5:02 pm
Labels: blog, resources - print
2 comments:
- lindalee said...
Thanks for the add! I am enjoying your blog and will be excited to keep up with it daily.
- 27/6/09 1:03 am
- Evelyn Yvonne Theriault said...
I agree with Linda - great addition to the original article - and I've inserted a link into the Festival.
Evelyn in Montreal
- 27/6/09 1:00 pm


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(Boston, MA, March, 2009) -- Focal Press, publisher of trusted resources for photographers since 1938, has released seven additional titles from among their ten Adobe Photoshop CS4 stable in support of Adobe's updated program. These new titles join the already released new editions of Martin Evening's bestselling Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A Digital Image Maker's Guide, Photoshop CS4: Essential Skills by Mark Galer and Philip Andrews, and Steve Caplin's How to Cheat in Photoshop CS4.
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Each book is written by top-notch photographers-for all levels of Photoshop users-and packed with stunning images to illustrate and inspire. Many of the titles include DVDs with hours of tutorials and related websites.
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WASHINGTON — The nation's lifelines — its roads, airports, railways, and transit systems — are getting hammered by extreme weather beyond what their builders imagined, leaving states and cities searching for ways to brace for more catastrophes like Hurricane Sandy.
Even as they prepare for a new normal of intense rain, historic floods, and record heat waves, some transportation planners find it too politically sensitive to say aloud the source of their weather worries: climate change.
Political differences are on the minds of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, whose advice on the design and maintenance of roads and bridges is closely followed by states.
The association recently changed the name of its Climate Change Steering Committee to the less controversial Sustainable Transportation, Energy Infrastructure and Climate Solutions Steering Committee.
Still, there is a recognition that the association's guidance will have to be updated to reflect the new realities.
''There is a whole series of standards that are going to have to be revisited in light of the change in climate that is coming at us,'' said John Horsley, the association's executive director.
In the latest and most severe example, Sandy inflicted the worst damage to the New York subway system in its 108-year history, halted Amtrak and commuter train service to the city for days, and forced cancellation of thousands of airline flights at three airports in New York and New Jersey.
Wild weather is taking a toll on transportation across the country. Last year flooding threatened to swallow up the Omaha airport, which sits on a bend in the Missouri River. The ground beneath the airfield became saturated, causing about 100 sinkholes and ''soil boils'' — uplifted areas of earth where water bubbles to the surface.
Record-smashing heat from Colorado to Virginia last summer caused train tracks to bend and highway pavement to buckle. A US Airways jet was delayed at Washington's Reagan National Airport after its wheels got stuck in a soft spot in the tarmac.
States and cities are trying to come to terms with what the change means and how to prepare for it. Transportation engineers build highways and bridges to last 50 or even 100 years. Now they are reconsidering how to do that, or even whether they can, with so much scientific uncertainty.
Making transportation infrastructure more resilient will be expensive, and much of it is already overdue for repair or replacement.


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Wiz Khalifa - Still Blazin
Still Blazin
[Hook: Alborosie]
Still blazin, still blazin, still blazinnn
Cuz jah jah power so amazing
Give I di strength and protection, keep praisin
Each and everydayeeee
[Verse 1:Wiz Khalifa]
Why can' t everyone just smoke like me?
Just gimme a quiet place and lemme roll my weed
Where ain't nobody in my business don't nobody gotta know
Let all your conscious go and blow it by the O
I'm here but my minds gone
And its gettin hard to see you cuz my eyes low
Marijuana minutes, nigga time slow
On a kush clock, there's always time to smoke
Say I look high? I say I'm high bro
Still blazin no one with me, just facin
I remember days when I could only smoke on occasions
I couldn't wait to go and cop from ray and them
Rollin blunts of 50, stuck in my moms basement
Had dro for sale but niggas was smokin haze then
Blew a O a day then, don't know but somehow I made away
And nigga them bills need pay but Im
[Hook: Alborosie]
[Verse 2: Wiz Khalifa]
Why can't everyone just smoke like me?
Just get up out my face and lemme roll my weed
Where ain't nobody in my business, don't nobody gotta know
Lets all learn how to roll and blow it by the O
I'm here but my minds gone, 400 a zip niggah that's what I'm on
And I'm gonna re-up as soon as the fires gone
Smokin og kush from another time zone
As the smoke begins to pile on
Wettin rags and puttin bags over the fire alarm
You niggas styrofoam, lightweights
I'm on my 13th oz, quite baked
You probably go to sleep, ya throat might ache
You off that good weed, you need a nice break
See I roll jays up all day and you gonna have to put a 8th in
They sayin its amazin how imm
[Hook] X2
Wiz Khalifa: टॉप 3
|See You Again
|We Dem Boyz


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Last night we had a great evening at the events open house at terrain in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania. {Full disclosure: my husband runs this garden lifestyle brand for Urban Outfitters.} The evening was magical and well attended. I met so many great people and had a fun time showing our custom letterpress invitations to brides and grooms.
Terrain has been quietly booking events from weddings and rehearsal dinners to birthday dinners and parties since they opened about two years ago. They have a new chef {the amazing Keith Rudolf, the former chef de cuisine from Supper in Philadelphia} and an in-house events team who are collaborative, creative and attentive. Terrain isn't simply an ideal spot for Sunday brunch, it's also a dreamscape for weddings and other events.
I always get so inspired when I spend time at terrain. I come away wanting to completely redefine my indoor and outdoor living spaces, overhaul my entertaining and unplug my life. That's saying a lot for someone who isn't a gardener at heart. Terrain is part reverie, part store, part experiential bliss. Last night didn't disappoint. Feast your eyes!


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I want to create a String type array of values, then select and print a value in the array based on a pre-determined value (door is open or closed) using if-then-else.
Here is what I have
When I try to compile, it gives four incompatible types errors.class Door { public static void main(String[] JD) { int door = 0; //1 is open, 0 is closed String[] word = {"open", "closed"}; if (door = 1) { word = 0; } else if (door = 0) { word = 1; } System.out.println("Door = " + word); } }
It says I need to use boolean operators instead of int,
and thatare in int type, but they should be in java.lang.String[] form.word =0; word = 1;
So, obviously boolean would instead of int for this, but I want to use int so that I can later make a more complex code with more variables.
What is the proper format to input the "word" values? I have tried "0" and [0], neither of which work.
This is pissin me off,
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It's not just ladies in sensible shoes and woolen cardigans who work at the New York Public Library. The private, non-profit organization has about 2,000 employees in 90 locations across the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island, and office style ranges from bookish to whimsical.
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Insufficient data on service members' exposures to emissions from open-air burn pits for trash on military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan is one of the reasons why it is not possible to say whether these emissions could cause long-term health effects, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. High background levels of ambient pollution from other sources and lack of information on the quantities and composition of wastes burned in the pits also complicate interpretation of the data.
A significant percentage of military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan were exposed to open air pits in which large quantities of wastes were burned on military bases, including Joint Base Balad, a large, central logistics hub for U.S. forces in Iraq. Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, a new report by the Institute of Medicine, assesses what conclusions can be drawn from available evidence about the risk for health consequences for service members who came into proximity of these waste disposal pits.


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We are now just a couple weeks away from seeing Seth MacFarlane host the Academy Awards, but while he's prepping for the show he's also quickly setting up his new movie as well. We learned just recently that Charlize Theron has signed on to the comedy western A Million Ways To Die In The West with MacFarlane playing the live-action lead, and now the writer/director has found another blonde to join him on screen.
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Truth is…I've never cleaned my oven. Now, before you start thinking that I must live in a pig sty, let me tell you I'm not the cook of the family either. My husband is and he's fantastic at it. However, we do split the housecleaning and for some reason, cleaning the oven has always been an overlooked task.
Now that the holidays are around the corner and varied relatives will be descending on my home, the time has come to tackle the cheese-burned oven. After all, when the family arrives on Thanksgiving Day it's probably best they aren't greeted with the smell of last year's burnt bread crumbs that are stuck in the bottom of my very dirty oven.
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One of the great soul singers, Gladys Knight was a performer from her childhood years, forming the Pips with her brother Merald and a couple cousins. They made the Top Ten in 1961 with the heavily doo wop-influenced "Every Beat of My Heart," and recorded some fine, nowadays overlooked pop-soul sides for the Fury and Maxx labels in the early and mid-'60s, sometimes under the direction of songwriter Van McCoy. A couple singles from this period, "Letter Full of Tears" and "Giving Up," made the Top 40, but Knight didn't hit her commercial stride until she moved to Motown in 1966. Steeped in the gospel tradition, like so many soul singers, Knight & the Pips developed into one of Motown's most dependable acts, although they never quite scaled the commercial or artistic heights of fellow stars on the label like the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, and the Temptations. With Norman Whitfield providing the production and much of the songwriting, the Pips fit into the mainstream of Motown's machine well, scoring big hits with some rabble-rousers (like "Friendship Train" and the original version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"), mainstream midtempo soul ("It Should Have Been Me" and "The End of Our Road"), and smooth ballads like "If I Were Your Woman."
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A key witness in a double murder trial was not sure the weapon she had been asked to identify was indeed the murder weapon and felt like prosecutors were picking on her for not cooperating, according to recordings of phone calls she made from jail that were released Wednesday.
Dorothy "Dotty" Stolte was jailed for five days by prosecutors during the March trial of John Lee Allen, who was eventually convicted of murdering his girlfriend and a neighbor. Prosecutor Karen Fraivillig said she had to jail Stolte, 64 and suffering from poor health, to ensure she would testify in the trial. But Stolte and her attorney, in a motion seeking a mistrial, have said the jailing was a form of intimidation to get Stolte to say what Fraivillig wanted.
"I couldn't say it was the murder weapon like she wanted to say, because I don't know," Stolte, referring to Fraivillig, told her brother during a phone call from the Sarasota County jail. "She said that without me she didn't have a case."
Stolte also said she felt Fraivillig was pressuring her to testify in a way that would help the prosecution, the recorded phone calls show.
"I said, 'You're not going to get the answers out of me that you want, I can't say that. You know, why can't you pick on someone else?'" Stolte said in one jail call, recounting her conversation with prosecutors.
The four recorded jail calls have been entered as evidence in Lee's case, dragging the credibility and reputations of Stolte, other witnesses, prosecutors, public defenders and law enforcement into a hearing later this summer for Circuit Judge Peter Dubensky to determine if there should be a mistrial.
Lee's attorney, Assistant Public Defender Carolyn Schlemmer, filed a motion asking for a new trial, including allegations the prosecution misled the judge to sign the arrest order for Stolte, an Englewood resident.
Prosecutors say the tapes show that Stolte admitted to her brother that she bought that knife for Lee, 49, as a Christmas gift, that she would not appear at trial and that if forced to testify she would claim that she could not remember. Fraivillig, the assistant state attorney who has become the center of the allegations, has called Stolte a "hostile witness" whose claims are "baseless."
A key witness
The disputes surround Lee, his girlfriend and a neighbor. In 2011, Lee was charged with the murders of Traci Nabergall and neighbor Jason Salter. Lee was living with his girlfriend in a home that Stolte owned with her brother on Park Road in Venice, to occupy and protect the home.
With DNA washed from the knife after it was fished from a storm drain, Stolte was a critical witness for prosecutors' efforts to establish it as the murder weapon. Lee had also told a friend he threw the knife in a drain after the murders, prosecutors said.
In her first statements to detectives, Stolte told them she gave Lee an on-sale pocketknife and compass kit she bought from Lowe's and was worried it was the knife he used to kill.
She also told detectives she feared Lee would come after her sister, a previous girlfriend. Stolte has known Lee for 20 years and he is the father of Stolte's niece.
Lee was convicted for both deaths in a March trial, after a September 2012 mistrial during jury selection. Schlemmer argued in court that evidence indicates that Lee killed Salter in self-defense after discovering the man had murdered his girlfriend.
With the murder weapon and a Christmas gift at the center of the controversy, Stolte was called to testify and then jailed for reportedly refusing to show up in court.
Stephen Stolte, her brother, said in one of her phone calls to him that he thought she was jailed because she had refused to testify.
"I figured you told them you weren't going to go," he told her.
"No, I never told them that," she replied, referring to the prosecution.
"That's what you told me," her brother said.
"I said I didn't want to and could I get out of it," Stolte finishes.
The exchange demonstrates Stolte's "intended lack of cooperation" as a witness, according to the state's response to the motion for a mistrial.
Judge Dubensky said Tuesday that he expects Fraivillig and assistant state attorney Andrea McHugh to take the witness stand at the yet-unscheduled hearing.
Witness is heard in jail calls
A key witness in a double murder trial was not sure the weapon she had been asked to identify was indeed the murder weapon and felt like prosecutors were picking on her for not cooperating, according to recordings of phone calls she made from jail that were released Wednesday.