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Sunday, July 10, 2011
Even More Harry Potter Cocktails.
The Luna Lovegood
Luna Lovegood: a little strange, a little spacey, and infinitely lovable. Unaged corn whiskey (also known as moonshine) seemed like the perfect expression of Luna's particular brand of home-grown wackiness. It was only after I made the drink that Garret pointed out to me that Luna means moon, which makes it even more perfect.
Luna Lovegood
8 mint leaves
1.5 oz unaged corn whiskey (I used Georgia Moon)
1 oz fresh-squeezed lemon juice
.75 oz simple syrup
Place the mint and simple syrup in your shaker and muddle. Add the lemon juice and moonshine, fill the shaker with ice, and shake and strain into an ice-filled glass.
The Draco Malfoy
I don't know about you, but when I think of a Draco-esque cocktail, I immediately think of a martini. But it couldn't be just a martini: that's boring. One night, while mixing up a test batch of Lunas for the roommate, I had a brilliant idea: pickle juice. I had a jar of pickle juice tucked away in the back of the fridge, hoping that someday at some party I could convince some of my braver friends to do pickleback shots (shot of bacon-infused bourbon, followed by a shot of pickle juice and a chaser of beer. really). Into the mix the pickle juice went, and out came a cocktail that was just like Draco: smooth, sleek, and a little bit nasty.
Draco Malfoy
2 oz gin (or vodka, if you prefer)
1/2 oz dry vermouth
1/2 oz pickle juice (I used the juice of a jar of Claussen Kosher Dill sandwich slices, which are, in my opinion, the very best pickles.)
Stir (or shake) all ingredients together with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Drink deeply. Think evil thoughts. (Lauren, the roommate, came up with a brilliant idea: rimming the martini glass with salt will really bring out the savory flavors in this drink.)
The Neville Longbottom
Tea-infused gin and Pimm's: a little fussy, quintessentially British, and unexpectedly strong.
Tea-Infused Gin
In an airtight jar, combine 1.5 cups of gin and 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon of loose English Breakfast tea leaves. Seal the jar, shake once, and allow to sit at room temperature for two hours. After two hours, open the jar and strain out the gin.
Neville Longbottom
1.5 oz tea-infused gin
1 oz Pimm's
.75 oz fresh-squeezed lemon juice
.75 oz simple syrup
Combine all ingredients in a shaker. Shake and strain into an ice-filled glass.
The Severus Snape
Oh, Snape. Snape is by far my favorite character in the Harry Potter series, played to perfection by Alan Rickman, who is by far my favorite actor. Think about it: in the first book, Snape seems like some generic, greasy, throw-away villain, but then you learn that he's actually this hugely important character upon whom the whole series turns. Remember when you were anxiously awaiting the release of the seventh book, because you had to know whether Snape was good or bad? Well, if you haven't read the books and are waiting for the movie, I won't ruin things for you, but SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER I always knew that Alan Rickman would never betray me like that. And the delicious candy center at the middle of all Snape's turncoatery and snarkery turns out to be...unrequited love, which is one of the most romantic things ever. Snape is J.K.'s true masterpiece.
I held off on making a making a Snape cocktail last time, because how could I ever do him justice? And how could I ever make a cocktail that was an accurate reflection of Snape's personality and actually tasted good? Enter...Fernet Branca. Fernet Branca is a highly bitter, very complicated herbal Italian liqueur, and the very first time I tasted it I knew it was exactly what I need for my Snape. Add to that Blackstrap rum (a very deep, dark, molasses-y dark rum), falernum, and a dash of lavender bitters. Why the lavender? I wanted something floral to remind us of someone else with a floral name who Snape never forgot.
Severus Snape
1.5 oz Cruzan Blackstrap Rum
.5 oz falernum (I used Fee's)
.5 oz Fernet Branca
dash of lavender bitters (I used the Bar Keep Lavender Spice variety.)
Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass over ice. Stir for thirty seconds, allow to sit for thirty seconds (I'm warning you - this one is strong), and strain into a cocktail glass.
I'm sad to think that the release of the last movie might be the end of all the Harry Potter madness. It's been a wild ride, and I hate to see it coming to an end. Whatever will we do? Well, I don't know. But have a drink.
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i love this.ReplyDelete
Epic...When I turn 21 I'm sooooooo trying all of these<3ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 13, 2011 at 9:27 AM
I adore Fernet Branca over ice, so I may have to try the Severus Snape. I've never herd of falernum though, so I must google.ReplyDelete
I was a bit remiss in not providing more explanation for the falernum. Falernum is a syrup used in tiki cocktails - here's a link to the wikipedia article. It comes in an alcoholic version, called "velvet falernum", and fee's also makes a non-alcoholic version. I used the Fee's.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 13, 2011 at 12:51 PM
>crossing fingers< for a Dumbledore and Hagrid! And of course any other characters you're willing to immortalize as a cocktail... These are great!ReplyDelete
I can't believe the thought you put into these. Very nice job!ReplyDelete
Hi Nancy!ReplyDelete
You have a fantastic site! I'm a writer and frequent blogger about cocktails, myself. :) Of course, the Harry Potter link brought me here today, but I'll be following along from now on!
I especially love the Severus Snape. I'm a big fan of Fernet Branca and it's so hard to find a cocktail where it doesn't overpower the other spirits. It hadn't occurred to me to use Blackstrap (another fave). The hint of lavender is a brilliant touch.
thanks again!
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 6:38 PM
"Alan Rickman would never betray me like that."ReplyDelete
Haha! Loving it.
Thanks for posting this it looks really good, except, I couldn't help but notice that your Neville Longbottom, looks remarkably like the ones from Harry Potter Mixology on Little Pink Blog.ReplyDelete
Were you inspired by their series? Theirs is pretty robust -- about 25+ drinks in total...
No offense meant, just curious....
You know, I saw that, and I thought their drinks looked very good. I started making the cocktails for different characters last year, when the first Deathly Hallows movie came out, so this was a way of expanding on the original trio of Harry, Hermione and Ron.ReplyDelete
Oh really? I didn't know that. Cool.ReplyDelete
Where do you get your inspiration from?
Mostly just drinking a lot. :)ReplyDelete
No, really, though - I've always loved Harry Potter, and in the last year or so I've become a pretty serious booze connoisseur, so it was a lot of fun to match up the different characters with liquors that fit their personalities.
I dunno about Dumbledore and Hagrid cocktails--I feel like Dumbledore would involve at least fifty different ingredients, while Hagrid would be some booze in a mug.ReplyDelete
The Fug Girls sent me this way, and I just wanted to say that your words about Snape brought fresh tears to my eyes...god I love these books. Thanks for the cocktail recipes; can't wait to try the Neville Longbottom.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2011 at 9:08 PM
At the risk of sounding dumb, how does one strain out the gin for the Neville Longbottom? I'm assuming this means you put 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon of tea *leaves* into the gin?ReplyDelete
No, thanks for asking. I see how that could be confusing. It's meant to be 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon of loose tea leaves. When straining out infusions, I just use a fine-mesh strainer, sometimes over a funnel, if the vessel I'm pouring into has a smallish mouth.ReplyDelete
These are yet another round of amazingness - I'm so glad I found your blog!ReplyDelete
you are the best blogger! These will help me recover from the end. But All was Well.ReplyDelete
Hello BB,ReplyDelete
This is an amazing collection of lovely cocktails. I had to try Neville Longbottom - he is hero de jour for me.
Loved the way the bergamotte from the tea picked something up in both the gin and the Pimm's.
This is how mine turned out: http://tumblr.com/x5v3kgnf72
Love it! I actually made my Neville with English Breakfast tea, but now I'm really curious to see how it turns out with the Earl Grey.ReplyDelete
I love this. However, I especially love your tribute to one Mr. Severus Snape. He is, by far, one of my favorite literary characters of all time. I daresay, you did him justice with his cocktail! I'm glad I found your blog!ReplyDelete
god, these are fantastic. well done :)ReplyDelete
- infophiliacJuly 20, 2011 at 1:00 PM
I kind of want to see what would happen to the Malfoy with a couple dashes of celery bitters or a bit of celery salt on the rim. I think I might find out this weekend.ReplyDelete
- infophiliacJuly 20, 2011 at 1:08 PM
And for those new to falernum, it's pretty easy to make using Paul Clarke's recipe:ReplyDelete
I use the Velvet sometimes too, but have more often made it from scratch.
Hagrid and Dumbledore now!! And a Voldemort!!! :DReplyDelete
I have drank the Draco Malfoy one when I was getting rid of my vodka and ran out of olives, it's super yummy if that's your thing and that Snape one sounds so intriguing, can't wait to use these at my Harry Potter birthday party!ReplyDelete
The Longbottom looks delicious! (Now there's a phrase you don't hear every day...)ReplyDelete
I also imagine The Grey Lady, The Bloody Baron, and The Umbridge being especially tasty cocktails (with a bit of a bite!)
Excellent job on these. Very impressive.
OH MY GOD I love this!!!! the Snape sounds incredibleReplyDelete
yeah i'm pretty pumped about the snape. please to make me one when i visit. i'm also diggin the black backgrounds on your photos. nice and contrasty, esp for the luna lovegood. magical in fact.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2011 at 8:22 AM
Hi Nancy,ReplyDelete
tha Snape sounds great. Fernet Branca really tastes like him, but I'm not sure how to find lavender bitters. Can I homemake it using the backyard lavender plant I have?
Also the falernum is probably hard to find in Italy.. any alternatives?
Thanks for a great cocktail recipeReplyDelete
Christmas Rum Cocktails
I made the Neville Longbottom for New Year's Eve and it was amazing! I'm a beer girl and rarely make cocktails but that tea-infused gin (I used Earl Grey with lavender) was glorious. No Pimm's though so I substituted blood orange bitters. So many more lovely recipes to try, thanks for the fun creations!ReplyDelete
I think i like to try a magic drink. :)ReplyDelete
- ElisabethNovember 13, 2012 at 5:04 PM
Wow right now I'm so happy that you're legal when you're 18 in Germany and I can try these drinks out <3 Thank you for the recipes :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the post. I had been looking for something related and found your web site in the process.. I will definitely be back for more.ReplyDelete
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Great and funny compare, especialy Drako, ahaha. Love it. Thx for the article xDReplyDelete


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Indie and other games of interest: Become a shark, hunt down vampires
There are a few tidbits of indie and other games of interest stuff past the break this week. One stand out, in our opinion, is Miami Shark, where you literally get to play as one of the giant fish. Awesome stuff. Also, there's the usual free stuff, sneak peeks and a barrage of other stuff […]
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Magna Carta 2 gets two gameplay movies, deep dialogue
IGN's posted a couple of gameplay movies from Namco RPG Magna Carta 2: get them both after the break. Looks heavy to us. Lots of talking. And Calestine has gigantic tits and everything's "over her head". See for yourself. This is actually out in Europe this Friday, 360-only.
Magna Carta 2 confirmed for PAL release
Tasty. Atari just confirmed Magna Carta 2 for a PAL release this autumn. The SoftMax RPG is a 360 exclusive, and promises 40 hours of play. Trailer here. Press release after the break.
Magna Carta 2 - first proper trailer is proper awesome
After the break. The Namco RPG's looking very swish, as you'd expect. It's out in Japan for 360 on August 6.
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The first shots of Namco's Magna Carta 2 came out of the Microsoft Japan spring showcase this morning. IGN has them. It's pretty. It's an RPG. It's Japanese. And that's that.
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When the kite drops in the drink, what prevents the canopy from sticking to the water?
Any video of relaunch?
Also how is self landing? I suspect is very simple.
I look very forward to the upcoming Kiteboarder article on the different strutless designs/brands.
Hansen wrote about strutless's general flying charactoristics. Since my ideal kite would be lower aspect, super short and sensitive throw, light bar pressure, and mega drifty - these kites could be pretty interesting.
I just bought new kites for the first time in years. Then I busted my hip, scapula, and 4 ribs.
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Government agencies say they lack power to remove watercraft in this situation
Half submerged on the banks of the Intracoastal Waterway sits a boat whose barely legible blue inscription reads "Southern Lady."
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It leaves officials at a loss when a situation like this occurs.
"It's one thing if I see you throw a can in the water," said Lt. Matthew Long, an officer with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. "But it's another thing if you leave a 60-foot boat in the water, say you are going to fix it and never return. It's a pretty gray area."
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Holden Beach cannot cite the boat owner for violations because it's just outside the town's limits. Brunswick County doesn't have clear regulations against such a boat.
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The company's property is next to where the boat is docked.
And the boat isn't exactly abandoned, he said.
At one time an older man would come by to have the water pumped from the boat.
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Efforts to contact the boat's owner or the owner of the property where it is docked were unsuccessful.
By Baker's estimate, the boat has been there for eight months. Other area residents confirmed seeing it there for quite some time.
It's been in the water long enough to grow a thick cluster of barnacles on its hull, said Scott Farabee, a four-year resident of Holden Beach.
Environmental officials determined the boat wasn't a pollution problem, Baker said.
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But although some believe the boat's a blemish, it's become quite popular, Baker said.
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Heading out the weekend of 12-1, if anyone's interested.
I've got a little bump in Sheffield/southern MA between Racebrook Falls and the Elbow trail that I need to knock out. Tho I'd like to add on some additional miles pending timing.
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A couple of weeks ago I posted an article regarding a letter I send home prior to midterm grades, and I usually send something like it again before the end of each term as well. A couple of readers had questions so I decided to revisit the whole thing.
Teachermom asked…I have one question - what kinds of things/sections do the students have in their notebooks?
I'm so glad you asked me Teachermom! I could have sworn when I posted the article that I had previously written an article regarding my notebook guidelines, but for some reason I didn't link to it. Yesterday I did some research and found the article from August, 2006 titled Keeping a Notebook: Elementaryhistoryteacher Style.
This article should answer your questions though I believe I should also post a walk-through lesson where I have students writing notes. I'll try to get to that soon. :) If you use notes and a classroom notebook in your classroom, I encourage you to read the article.
My great blog friend, Polski3, also had a few questions regarding the grading process for the notebooks. He asked, What are the elements of the notebook grading rubric? Just a few to consider: Is it complete? neat? Did the student follow instructions? Is it completed on time? Is there evidence that the student is using their notebook as a learning tool?
The image I've provided with this article is one example of a very informal rubric I've used with much success. I've tried to keep it as simple as possible so it's quick and painless for me. I also want it to be as simple as possible for students to use if they grade each other as I mentioned in the article. Click on the image and you can see a larger version and read the grading elements.
One question Polski3 had did give me pause……..Is there evidence that the student is using their notebook as a learning tool? Not always. Just because the student passes the end-of-unit-test it doesn't necessarily mean he/she utilized his/her notes. However, at various points during class I attempt to reinforce for students the fact that they do have a very valuable tool at their fingertips. For example, when I attempt to connect mastered material with new information I might ask a series of review questions. It is very easy for me to walk over to the posted table of contents in my room and wonder aloud, "Hmmmm….I wonder where that answer might be in my notebook?" Suddenly there is a flurry of folder pages being turned and poured over. I also encourage students to utilize their notebook first before turning to the textbook when completing crossword puzzles and other review activities.
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Classroom Notebooks Revisited
Posted by EHT at Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Labels: Rubrics, Taking Notes, Tools of the Trade
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- Teacher Mom said...
Thanks so much for the post! Your guidelines and purpose for notebooks is great. I bet that this is extremely beneficial.
- M-Dawg said...
I use a binder system with dividers for my 9th graders in World History. It seems to help them stay somewhat organized and I go regular binder checks.
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Gastroesophageal Reflux
Gastroesophageal reflux (GER, aka acid reflux or acid regurgitation) occurs when the opening to the stomach (lower esophageal sphincter, LES) doesn't close properly, causing food and digestive acid to rise up the esophagus. This stomach acid irritates and inflames the esophagus causing heart burn pain (esophagitis).
Persistent acid reflux is considered Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), and it can eventually lead to more serious health problems including chronic esophagitis, causing pain and trouble swallowing. When gastroesophageal reflux results in persistant vomiting the vocal cords and small airways of the lung can become irritated leading to recurrent pneumonia, and breathing problems which can be mistaken for asthma.
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Medical non-operative treatment
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Mississippi voters ignore science to Progressive acclaim
One of the Progressive tropes is that conservatives are anti-science. As with everything emanating from the Left, not only is this untrue about conservatives, but it falsely implies that Progressives respect science. One only needs to see the celebration about a defeated initiative in Mississippi to appreciate how deeply anti-science the Left can be:
Mississippi voters Tuesday defeated a ballot initiative that would have declared life begins at fertilization, a proposal that supporters sought in the Bible Belt state as a way to prompt a legal challenge to abortion rights nationwide.
The so-called "personhood" initiative was rejected by more than 55 percent of voters, falling far short of the threshold needed for it to be enacted. If it had passed, it was virtually assured of drawing legal challenges because it conflicts with the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a legal right to abortion. Supporters of the initiative wanted to provoke a lawsuit to challenge the landmark ruling.
The measure divided the medical and religious communities and caused some of the most ardent abortion opponents, including Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, to waver with their support.
Opponents said the measure would have made birth control, such as the morning-after pill or the intrauterine device, illegal. More specifically, the ballot measure called for abortion to be prohibited "from the moment of fertilization" — wording that opponents suggested would have deterred physicians from performing in vitro fertilization because they would fear criminal charges if an embryo doesn't survive.
Supporters were trying to impose their religious beliefs on others by forcing women to carry unwanted pregnancies, including those caused by rape or incest, opponents said.
My liberal facebook friends are delighted. Those I bothered to tweak a little were taken aback when I pointed out that, no matter how one feels about abortion, the biological fact is that life does begin at conception. The actual question is when we, as a society, want to give that life legal rights — and Mississippi voters agreed that, in their state, rights don't extend to the moment of conception. The response I got when I made this point was that some of those fertilized eggs aren't viable (which, to me, means that nature exercised her unique prerogative to snuff out nascent life), and therefore politics shouldn't make the decision. Huh?


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First this guy sounds like a sicko unless these were old/sick dogs that had to die. Anyway animal spirits do exist but this guy's experiment is wrong as when an animal dies after a while it's body pump and weight is gained then lost. Spirits do not weigh anything and therefore no weight would be lost when a spirit leaves the body.
I can't think of any actual experiences of phantom animals even though I have a deceased rabbit and 2 deceased cats but at times I hear a phantom meow and I think once a bark. he first time I heard a disembodied meow and my 2 cats mentioned here were still alive.
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Our animals know they were loved and want us to know that they are still with us. I believe this.
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Tag: Road Trip Tips
Reasons for Road Trip, Tips, and Car Preparation
February 5, 2016
Many don't understand why there are people who're willing to do a road trip during a holiday. Is it just because it's cheaper than airplane ticket? Or merely because it's fun? Well, someone who despises road trip doesn't quite realize that how we get to the destination is also a part of the vacation itself. Money and adventure are just few reasons why road trip is addictive for some travelers, now let's check the other causes.
Reasons to Do Road Trip:
- Total Control of your departure and arrival time. You also can stop for meal break, toilet break, rest, or even just to admiring the amazing scenery whenever you want.
- Eat anything you want. You know what people said about airplane and train food: The good ones are expensive, the cheap ones are trash. Now you can eat on any restaurant along the way that suits your budget.
- Save money. Traveling with three other companions obviously a lot cheaper than buy four airplane tickets, right? Besides, you can bring almost anything in your trunk without any additional cost.
- Experience. Depends on your destination, you may see a lot of new thing along your way, like how people live in the countryside and village.
- Bonding with your friends, lovers, or families even more. On the road, you can have a relax conversations, singing together, do pranks, or exchanging jokes and difficult riddles with them.
Okay, if there are reasons to do road trip, then there are should be reasons why people won't do it, right? The main excuse is probably because road trip can be troublesome, since you need to prepare for anything, from packing, deciding route, and prep the car. It also exhausting as you need to spend hours behind the wheel, especially if you drive alone. Last, bad weather also can ruin your budget and timetable.
To minimize the bad effects of road trips, there are some tips that you can apply, which includes tips to save more money.
Road Trip Tips:
- Choose your companions carefully. This is the case if you still have an empty seat in your car. You might want to take someone else, especially the one who's willing to chip in, take a turn for driving, and of course, someone who you like, a lot.
- Take turns for driving. Okay, your a man takes a road trip with your girl, but it doesn't mean that you have to behind the wheel all the way. Hey, sometimes woman also feels the need….the need for speed.
- Entertainment. Don't want to listen to the same music all the time, right? Bring some books, portable video game and television also might be useful, especially if you're traveling with children/
- Other stuff to bring, are including snacks, drinks (with a cooler if you have), sunglasses, sunscreen, garbage bags, medicines, portable battery charger, tent and sleeping bag (in case you want to camp), some cash, all necessary documents, and of course a map.
- Drive carefully. Highway maybe tempting, but a speeding ticket or a scratch on your new car can break all the mood for a good vacation. More importantly, always check your gas!
- Don't push it. Rest anytime you can. Spend few minutes every time you eat or filling gas, as you don't know if there is any other pit stops for miles ahead. Also, it's a good idea to take a nap on rush hour.
- Save gas, save money. Hey, it's a nature vacation, turn off the AC and open up all the windows!
Okay, now you know the reasons and basic stuff for a road trip. The last part of this article is probably the most important one, that is how to prep your car. If for city trip you just need to check all your lights, brake, and inflate the tires, road trip prep is much more than that. Here is a quick guideline for what to do for your ride.
Prepare Car for Road Trip:
- Check all fluids, which includes engine oil, transmission fluid, gasoline, antifreeze/coolant, radiator coolant, brake fluid, windshield washer fluid, and power steering fluid.
- Check belts and hoses.
- Look for any leaks.
- Check (and inflate if necessary) all tires, including the spare tire, and make sure that they're in good condition.
- Perform a four-wheel brake check (if not done in the last six months).
- Check the condition of the exhaust system.
- Flush the cooling system (if not done in the last year).
- Pressure-check the cooling system to inspect for leaks.
- Load-test the battery to test its ability to hold a charge.
- Check the alternator output to make sure that the charging system is working well.
- Replace the spark plug wires if they are more than two years old.
- Check the air filter.
- Check all gauges, lights, AC, and wipers.
- Fill your gas tank.
Of course that you don't need to do all those stuff by yourself, especially if you know less about car. Just bring your ride to your trusted mechanics or garage, and let them know that you are going to do a long distance traveling.
That's all about road trip reasons, tips, and car preparation. I hope you'll find this article useful for your next adventure!


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Florida Hospital: Help make kids smile, meet Justin Bieber
Orlando Magic help kick off Florida Hospital smile contest
Can you help make young hospital patients smile? Then you may get to meet the Biebs.
Florida Hospital and Radio Disney are kicking off a special video-making contest that they hope will put smiles on the faces of their pediatric patients, and help them heal faster.
Orlando Magic community ambassador Bo Outlaw and mascot STUFF are in on the project. They got things going with a special music video set to Justin Bieber hit "U Smile." The video features Florida Hospital for Children patients and staff singing and dancing with a cardboard cut-out of the teen superstar.
The contest challenges the community to create videos that will help children at Florida Hospital smile. The patients, along with fans online, will vote on the submissions and select winners to attend Bieber's January concert at the Amway Center.
Participants also have a chance at a special Bieber meet-and-greet.
The contest will be run through the hospital's Facebook page, facebook.com/FloridaHospitalforChildren. Entries can be submitted until Jan. 11, 2013 and two winners will announced Jan. 18.


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Facility Directory
Daley Park
- Address:Encanto Dr. and College Ave
Tempe, AZ 85281
- Phone:(480) 350-5200
- Baseball Diamond
- Basketball Courts
- Grills
- Horseshoes
- Lighting
- Picnic Tables
- Playground
- Ramadas
- Restrooms
- Softball Fields
- Volleyball Courts
- Parks
- Address:Encanto Dr. and College Ave
Daley Park is one of Tempe's oldest parks. Located at the intersection of College and Encanto in central Tempe, Daley Park is a 17 acre gem that has served the residents of Tempe since the 1950's. The land for the park was purchased from Mr. & Mrs. E. W. Hudson for the grand sum on $10,600 in December of 1950.
At the time of purchase, the City Manager happened to be a gentleman named Ed Daley. Daley became City Manager shortly after the Depression and served until his death on Nov. 17, 1953. Upon his death, the City Council bestowed the honor of naming the recently acquired park in his name to honor his years of service to his community.
Ed Daley was born in Mesa where he attended school. After graduation, he moved to California where he worked for a construction company owned by the Toohey Brothers that was in the business of building highways. The company eventually moved their offices to "Old Mexico" but Ed did not want to relocate his family there.
Ed also worked for the Christmas Copper Company in the town of Christmas, Arizona, near the town of Payson. He was responsible for the mining and food supplies needed for this underground mine. Although the mine was advertised as a copper mine, they were actually more interested in gold that was located there. Like most mining towns, all of the property and businesses in the town were owned by the mining company. The mine was closed during the Great Depression.
Ed eventually moved his family to Tempe where he served as City Manager. Ed served for nearly 20 years, one of the longest tenures for a City Manager in Tempe's history. His son, Bud, was also a City employee serving in Fleet Maintenance until his retirement.
We have a lot to be thankful for from the Daley's and their service to Tempe. Let one of Tempe's finest parks continue to recognize their contributions for many generations to come.
Park size 17 acres


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Furloughs down slightly
The number of companies adopting cost-cutting furloughs and the number of employees asked to take leave without pay dropped slightly in the first two weeks of this month, according to government figures released yesterday. As of Monday, 1,447 workers from 35 companies had reached agreements with their employers to take furloughs, 10 fewer workers and three fewer companies than two weeks earlier, the Council of Labor Affairs' latest figures showed.
Hon Hai increasing staff
Hon Hai Group (鴻海集團) has been increasing its assembly-line workforce in central China, the company and media said yesterday. The group has been hiring workers at its Zhengzhou plant and is to continue to do so to "meet operational demands," spokesman Simon Hsing (邢治平) said. The Wall Street Journal said the resumption of hiring in Zhengzhou indicated that Apple Inc is gearing up for the production of a new device.
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Court rules against Google
A court in Japan has told Google it must de-link words in its autocomplete function to prevent the search engine suggesting criminal acts when users type one man's name. The Monday ruling by the Tokyo District Court was the first time a court in Japan has ordered the search giant to alter this aspect of its algorithm, said Hiroyuki Tomita, a lawyer representing the plaintiff. The court also ordered the US-based company to pay ¥300,000 (US$3,100) for the mental anguish experienced by the man, whose identity has been withheld.
Rio Tinto ups iron forecast
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group yesterday forecast global iron ore production of 265 million tonnes this year after posting record output in the first quarter. The mining titan said its global iron ore production from operations in Australia and Canada increased to 61 million tonnes in the three months to last month, up 4 percent on the same period last year. The miner also reported a 26 percent first-quarter hike in mined copper production and a 6 percent increase in aluminum output.
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In the video below, Christian Cantrell shows off a single Flash application running on 5 different screens – two mobile platforms (Motorola Droid based on Android and iPhone OS), a browser, 3 desktops (Windows, Mac and Linux), and the iPad. This 5 minute clip shows the value of the Flash Platform – build your application once, and then have it run across various platforms. Flash Player 10.1 brings this vision to life in the browser on mobile devices, and Flash Professional CS 5 allows you to compile these AIR applications for other platforms that don't support Flash Player natively, like the iPod, iPhone and iPad.
Christian plans on releasing the code for the game in the next couple of weeks. Keep an eye on his blog for the code.


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A Pragmatist Who Was Not Afraid to Take a Stand
How does one position a Christian Church in a Muslim country in times of growing Islamisation? This was the biggest challenge faced by the spiritual leader of Egypt's Copts, Pope Shenouda III.
The charismatic 88-year-old patriarch, who led the community of orthodox Copts for four decades, passed away at the weekend, on 17 March 2012.
The Coptic Church is one of the oldest in the world. There are an estimated eight million Copts in Egypt, about 10 per cent of the country's population. Another two million live in exile.
On Saturday, as news of his death spread, tens of thousands of Copts gathered in St Mark's Coptic Cathedral in Cairo. Messages of condolence were also received from the Muslim establishment. "Egypt has lost a unique man at a delicate time, a time when Egypt has urgent need of its wisest people, their experience and their clear heads," said the Grand Sheikh of the Islamic Al-Azhar University, one of the highest legal authorities in Sunni Islam.
In addition to Islamisation and tensions between Muslims and Christians, Shenouda also faced another problem last year, namely the re-definition of the Church in relation to secular power. The Pope had remained loyal to Egypt's dictator, Hosni Mubarak, right up until he was ousted and now had to establish the position of the Church in revolutionary Egypt. Shenouda did so by courting the new powers-that-be, the Supreme Military Council.
However, when the military used brute force to disperse a demonstration made up mostly of Coptic Christians in October last year, killing 26 people, the pope declared that the dead were "martyrs" and condemned the violence of the military. Nevertheless, Egypt's generals were once again invited to the Coptic Christmas Mass on 7 January. As they were welcomed by Shenouda, Coptic youths in the background openly called for the overthrow of military rule.
Political hothead
The question of relations between the Church and secular power was a question that stayed with the 117th pope of Alexandria, the successor of St Mark the Evangelist, throughout his time as patriarch, a question to which he had a number of different answers. After his enthronement in 1971, he was initially considered a political hot-head who not only wanted to renew the Church from the inside, but also wanted to give Copts a more prominent place in society. In doing so, he was fighting against the signs of the times.
Egypt had been in the grip of a wave of Islamisation since the middle of the 1970s. The regime was making an increasing number of concessions to the Muslim Brotherhood, which was conquering the streets of the country with the slogan "Islam is the solution".
When the former president, Anwar Sadat, declared the principles of Sharia to be the principal source of legislation in Article 2 of the Egyptian constitution, it was evident that there would be a confrontation between the regime and the Church. In 1981, Pope Shenouda cancelled the official Easter celebrations and refused to receive a government delegation.
Sadat reacted by sending the pope into exile in the desert monastery in Wadi El Natrun, where Shenouda had begun his clerical career as a monk years before. Christened Nazeer Gayed, the young man took the name Fr Antonios El-Syriani when he became a monk. He spent six years there living as a hermit in a cave.
While Shenouda was in internal exile in the desert monastery, Sadat was assassinated by militant Islamists, the very spirits he himself had called.
However, it would take another three years for Sadat's successor, Hosni Mubarak, to bring the Coptic pope back to Cairo. After that, there was a kind of ceasefire between the Church and the regime.
Reproaches from young Christians
Despite growing discrimination against Copts and repeated flare-ups of disputes that often ended in bloodshed – during which Muslims, who were not least inspired by radical Islamist ideals, attacked their Coptic neighbours – Shenouda called on the Copts to remain calm at all times.
For this, young Christians in particular and also Coptic organisations outside the country, accused him of not defending the rights of Christians vehemently enough. The Church always argued that these protests would only aggravate the conflicts between the religious groups in Egypt.
What is undisputed is that Shenouda worked tirelessly to expand his Church around the world. When he took office in 1971, for example, there were only four Coptic churches in the USA; now there are over 200. In Europe too, there are now 50 Coptic churches and ten Coptic bishops.
Interreligious dialogue
Dialogue with other Churches was of great importance to Shenouda, who grew up the youngest of eight children in Asyut in Upper Egypt. In 1973, he became the first Coptic pope in 1,500 years to meet the Catholic pope in Rome. Nevertheless, this did not prevent him from criticising Pope Benedict XVI for his controversial lecture on Islam in Regensburg.
Benedict, he said, had not given sufficient consideration to the feelings and possible reactions of Muslims. "Showing a passion for one's own religion should not lead one to judge someone else's religion," he said.
Tough stance on Israel
The spiritual leader of the largest Christian community in the Arab world always adopted a tough stance on Israel. He repeatedly stated that "Christians should only visit Jerusalem hand in hand with their Muslim brothers when the conflict there has been solved in accordance with the wishes of all those involved." He also threatened to exclude from communion any Egyptian Christians who travelled to Israel. However, the Church generally turned a blind eye when members of the community organised pilgrimages to the Holy Land.
It is unclear at present who Shenouda's successor will be. The position is generally given to a relatively unknown monk. Three groups will want to have a say in the matter. The government in Cairo wants a pope who can mobilize the Copts without pursuing an independent policy. The two million Copts living abroad will want a pope who goes on the offensive with regard to discrimination against their fellow Copts in Egypt. Influential Coptic business people would prefer a spiritual leader who would take a back seat rather than posing a threat to the co-existence with Muslims.
Karim El-Gawhary
© Qantara.de 2012
Translated from the German by Aingeal Flanagan
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JanneVee, I can see your point and actually gave you a ++ for it.
In my last job, no code was permitted into production (in theory) unless a senior PA analyzed the code and declared that it fit standards -- including documentation. Now, I admit that Perl is not the easiest language to learn and can be difficult to understand if the programmer is haphazard. That's where shop standards come in. Before any code gets moved from test to production, it should be reviewed. If a particular programmer has a habit of writing obfuscated, undocumented code, that programmer gets the boot.
That's the perfect world. The reality is, many of the newer organizations that I see shoot from the hip and standards are a nebulous dream. Documentation? What's that?
As compared to COBOL, I will definitely concede that Perl is sometimes more difficult to maintain on a line by line basis. But, Perl programs are usually so much more compact and efficient that trying to sort through 10 lines of normal code, however dense, is much easier than following the logic of 80 lines of clear code (IMHO).
Now that I stop to think about it, I can't think of a single significant COBOL program that I've worked on that wouldn't be at least 50% shorter in Perl, usually considerably more. I would estimate that most COBOL programs could be shrunk by 3/4 if written in Perl. That makes the logic more compact, and thus easier to control. (This is due, in part, to COBOL's poor capabilities. I've actually worked in quite a variety of languages and I cannot think of one that is as feature-poor as COBOL. If you can name any significant ones, be my guest)
That ad hoc 3/4 smaller estimate does not count the JCL that must be added to make the COBOL work.
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By DAVID GREEN
The thought of Ohio's 241-mile long turnpike being run by a foreign corporation doesn't sit well with Fayette village council members.
The governor's lease proposal doesn't appear to be popular with other northwest Ohio government units, either, said Fayette mayor Ruth Marlatt, after attending a meeting on the issue Feb. 17.
Marlatt met with other area government leaders in Wauseon to learn about Gov. Kasich's proposal and described the session as interesting and disturbing.
Ed Kinston of Pioneer, a former turnpike commission member, spoke of the importance of the turnpike to the region and noted that few of state's legislators live near the turnpike. Their interest in a decision to lease the highway would likely focus on the revenue earned rather than the affect of the move to communities along the road.
Marlatt said concern was expressed that the issue, as seen by northern Ohio communities, will not be give the consideration is deserves.
Council members spoke of the poor condition of the Indiana Turnpike that have developed since the highway was leased in 2006 to a consortium from Spain and Australia.
CAR WASH—Eric Johnson, a co-owner of Eagle Car Wash in Fayette, told council that he's seeking a variance that would allow a private water well on the property rather than paying the village for water. Johnson described the proposal as vital to the survival of the business.
Johnson said he spoke with a representative from the water division of the Ohio EPA in Columbus, but Marlatt said she would also speak with the regional representative in Bowling Green who serves Fayette. The village zoning board would also have to consider the plan.
In informal discussion later, concern was expressed about treating the water through the village sewer system without the ability to meter usage.
SALES—Council approved an ordinance to establish a $100 fee for door-to-door sales in the village. A permit will be issued to allow sales from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. for a maximum of two days. Organizations would be excluded from the permit fee.
INSURANCE—After a 50-minute closed session, councilors approved an insurance change requested by police chief Jason Simon.
Simon asked to change his insurance plan from family to single employee because his wife's insurance also covers the family. This would reduce costs more than $9,000 annually, he said.
Simon had requested that half of the savings would go to him and the other half would be used to give pay increases to his officers, but council made no decision about a pay increase.
EQUIPMENT—Council approved the purchase of a new box for the one-ton dump truck at a cost of $4,995 from Dan's Truck Repair of Perrysburg.
The purchase of a water line leak detector was approved at a cost of $1,212 from Pipe Tools, Inc.
Approval for the purchase of a used brush chipper was tabled pending warranty information. The chipper is for sale by a California company and the $18,250 price includes $2,000 in freight cost. The unit was previously owned by a municipality.


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Friday, August 29, 2008
Comic 468: This comic contains all the jokes contained in the empty set
As stated previously, I am very busy these days (only for another week though!) and I was not going to comment on this comic, but then a commenter offered to do my work for me and so how could I say now? Like the two previous guest posts, I don't agree with all of it, though in this case that's because it's at an intellectual level waaaaay above what this blog is usually at. I think its author knows a serious amount about logic and stuff. The author declined to give a name, so I made one up. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the xkcdsucks stylings of Jermane Snappybritches!
#468, at first glance, looks like yet another let's-make-oblique-reference-to-something-intellectual-instead-of-having-a-real-joke comic, which may be mildly amusing but fall short of being funny. However, if you are familiar with logic and set theory this comic isn't amusing, but rather will bug you because of the mistakes it contains. If I were Randall I would draw a graph at this point correlating amusement with knowledge of formal logic, which would make a nice bell shaped curve. I won't though. With that said, here are the comic's problems:
1) #468 seems to be an attempt to wring humor out of a self-referential membership paradox. Famous examples of this sort of paradox are "the barber who shaves every man who does not shave himself, and no others" and "the set that contains all sets which do not contain themselves". If you suppose that the barber does shave himself then that contradicts the claim that he shaves only men who do not shave themselves. And if you suppose that he doesn't shave himself then this contradicts the claim that he shaves every man who doesn't shave himself. The comic seems to be alluding to this kind of paradox, with the idea that "Gödel's" fetish can't be on the list, but neither can it be missing from the list. The problem with all this is that the man famous for dealing with and introducing these kinds of paradoxes is not Gödel, but Russell himself (see, for example, his famous 1908 paper: Mathematical Logic as based on the Theory of Types). And Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica contains rules explicitly designed to rule out the introduction of such paradoxes, again because they were aware of them long before Gödel arrived on the scene.
So why bring Gödel into this? I don't know, and it seems to indicate a misunderstanding on Randall's part. It's true that Gödel threw a wrench into the work begun with the Principia Mathematica, but he didn't do so by raising a contradiction for it. Rather he showed that if every statement or its negation had a proof within the system then a contradiction would result. Therefore he concluded that there wasn't a proof within the system for every statement or its negation. This is a clever use of contradiction, but it does not amount to Gödel posing a devastating paradox for the work of R&W, as the comic seems to be implying. So that's problem #1: what the hell is Gödel doing in this comic?
2) Problem #2 is that there is no real contradiction involved here. In the comic R&W are collecting a list of fetishes, not names for fetishes or expressions of fetishes. And thus "Gödel's" response poses no problem for them. Here's the simplest explanation of why: suppose their list was complete. Then "Gödel's" answer would be a complicated way of saying "nothing". And there is no paradox in that. Now Randall may have realized this; the alt text does say that they found a way to resolve this problem (although this may equally mean that he doesn't see it, since there is really nothing to resolve). But it goes on to imply that they ran into an infinity paradox. Which is also not necessarily the case. The list of candidates for fetishes may be finite. Or they may have reduced their list to one word "everything".
Obviously this is all very nit-picky. And in most cases I wouldn't bother to worry about such details. However, if you want to aim your comic at "intellectuals" you should spend some time getting the details right, just as if you made a comic aimed at mechanics you wouldn't want to confuse the carburetor with the catalytic converter (and I sincerely hope those aren't different names for the same car-part).
If you understood all that you are a smarter dude than I am. I think what the last part means is basically "This Gödel guy has some fetishes. They are either on the list or they are not. Unless he's lying or just changing what he's into to mess with list people, which is not contradicting logic but rather being a douchebag, which is different." If that's not what Jermane is saying there then whatever, it's what I'm saying here.
Seems to me this comic was just Randall's lame way of mashing sex and logic in a way that feels very forced. As I told Jermane in our e-mail conversation, the joke could just as easily been "my favorite food is anything that's not on your list" or "my favorite pizza toppings are anything not on your list" etc. It was like Randall just went "ha ha i will add SEX and it will be hilarious tee hee sex." Also like he just went "Oh man I just finished reading Gödel Escher Bach FINALLY so hey I'll write a comic about it kind of."
Also, just so people know, as far as I am aware all three of our guest posters are, in fact, different people. I am quite sure of this.
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"We have 'arousal through being a jackass' already, that makes one more then."
I had glossed over the name Godel, but that doesn't make this one any funnier!
- AnonymousAugust 29, 2008 at 10:28 PM
I'm the original author (although I have no way of proving that) so I'll try to explain why it is not actually a paradox more clearly.ReplyDelete
What Carl has pointed out is one valid objection. It is an objection that arises for many situations that we try to capture formally with logic. Formal logic has no sense of time. A statement is either true or false, it cannot go from being true to being false. But, in the situation we are trying to formalize what is on the list is changing, which clashes with any attempt to capture the situation formally.
But there are other objections that can be made. Here's the one I had in mind. Suppose we take R&W's list to be a set, containing items a, b, c, ... . We also make the assertion (A) if a fetish is possesed by "Gödel" then it is on the list (capturing the idea that R&W add every fetish they encounter to the list). And finally we assert that (B) "Gödel" has a fetish if and only if it is not on the list. From these two assertions follow the following: (1) "Gödel" has no fetishes. and (2) The list contains every fetish. There is no contradiction. (1) can be demonstrated as follows: suppose G had a fetish X. Thus X must not be on the list, by (B). However X must be on the list, by (A). Therefore there is no such X (G has no fetishes). (2) can be demonstrated by contradiction. Suppose the list lacks some fetish, Y. Them, by (B) G has it. This contradicts (1). Therefore there are no fetishes that are missing from the list.
- AnonymousAugust 30, 2008 at 12:42 AM
Man, I look at your comment and see stars. I read the original post straight through and thought I understood it, but I think that was just the buzz from my brain hemorrhaging. I'm not reading one more word of this shit.ReplyDelete
As an aside, quantum pornodynamics suggests that the list of all fetishes is finite if and only if the list of all possible human ideas is finite. Any idea will have a a corresponding fetish once it is thought of, even if such a fetish does not exist now.ReplyDelete
This axiom would also doom the fetish listing project, of course. Although they would be able to get considerable help from people turned on by lists of fetishes.
Wow I am clearly in over my head here. I will just say this - Thomas: you win. That's awesome.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Great post Mr Guest Blogger. This goes to show what I suspected...ReplyDelete
Randall makes these stupid over-intellectual jokes about maths, but he actually knows much less than he thinks. It's this kind of pretentious wanker that gives maths and science students a bad name. Fuck Randall!
- AnonymousAugust 28, 2009 at 9:48 PM
this comic isn't about contradictions it's about the historic search for completeness (later it was proven that no mathematical axium could be completely listed and said search was abandoned). Carl next time either get a guest speaker that knows what he's talking about or that admits he doesn't know what he's talking about.ReplyDelete
no it's not. It has nothing to do with the "historical search for completeness" though it really only makes sense if you know about that. It's about jamming sex into a discussion of math. The end. That's basically xkcd in a nutshell. "Hey, there, math people...do any of you want to talk about....sex???"ReplyDelete


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Learning Objects for the WebCIRIA 301-A
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Arturo RodriguezResearcher
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Universidad de las Américas, Puebla
Learning objects appeared approximately twenty years ago, opening an area of interdisciplinary investigation that has not yet arrived to a satisfactory theoretical formalization. Nevertheless, since then, numerous projects have been developed on the subject, that continues to catch the attention of different professionals and investigators.
The two areas of knowledge more directly related to learning objects are Education and Computer Science. The First one is in charge of the pedagogical aspects associated to the design and development of educative content based on the concept of learning objects, whereas the second one approaches the technological challenges related to the development of systems and educative platforms based on this concept.
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Definitions and characteristics of learning objects
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Open technological standards for the development of learning object based systems
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Questions and comments
Introduction to SCORM and related tools
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Arturo Rodríguez Vázquez is BC in Computer Systems Engineering, graduated from the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla (UDLAP). He is member of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines. His areas of interest are Software Engineering, E-learning and Internet Programming.
Currently, BC Rodríguez is still interested in Learning Objects. He is coauthor of a short paper in the subject to be published in the 4th Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB 2006), and participates in a seminar about learning objects organized by a group of Mexican colleges interested in Internet development (Corporación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet, CUDI).


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The incidence of postoperative PJI is ranging from 0.5-2.5% for primary interventions and are reported up to 20% for revision procedure. In addition, hematogenous PJI can occur at any time after implantation and the risk of infection remains during the entire prosthesis indwelling time. Prosthetic joint infections (PJI) are associated with significant morbidity and costs to the healthcare system. Evidence for optimal management of PJI with best outcome and lowest expenses is limited and recommendations between countries vary significantly. There is unmet need to standardized diagnostic procedures and definition of infection as well as achieve a consensus for uniform treatment guidelines.The European Implant Cohort Study (EICS) is a multicenter European research project, including patients with PJI in a cohort representative for Europe. The EICS is established jointly by the Orthopedic and Traumatology surgeons, Infectious Diseases specialists and microbiologists of selected university and non-university institutions across Europe. The principal aim of the EICS is to improve the management of PJI and develop consensus guidelines across Europe. By systematic analysis of consecutively included patients with PJI, factors associated with best outcome regarding infection (assessed by the infection-free interval) and joint function (assessed by the degree of pain, mobility, range of motion) will be determined in a longitudinal prospective study with long-term follow-up. This is an investigator-initiated, open, prospective, multicenter observational study. Participating study centers will be university or non-university hospitals across Europe, which fulfill the following study conditions:
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