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Our Faith
What is Orthodoxy?
The Orthodox Church is the original Christian Church founded by Jesus and continued by his Apostles. It is the same Church described in the Bible as the Body of Christ and the Bride of Christ (1 Corinthians 12 : 27; Ephesians 5 : 23–25). Throughout its 2000-year history Orthodox Christianity has remained faithful to the teachings and practices passed on from the Apostles and early Church Fathers (2 Thessalonians 2 : 15).
'Eastern Orthodox'?
The Orthodox Church began in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2), and from there spread throughout the world. Today some 200 million people identify themselves as Orthodox, most of whom live in Greece, Russia, Romania, Serbia and other eastern European countries, as well as throughout the Middle East. Approximately four million Orthodox live in the United States.
This 'Eastern' Orthodox faith has established itself throughout the world: in North America, Africa, Australia, and Western Europe. Small groups also exist in Asia and South America. Orthodox missionaries from Russia were present in Alaska by the late 1700s, and in Japan and China by the mid-1800s. But the spread of Orthodox peoples throughout the world increased dramatically during the 20th century, particularly in the wake of anti-Christian Communist oppression throughout Eastern Europe.
"Greek" Orthodox or "Russian" Orthodox?
Orthodox parishes are often identified according to the language in which services are celebrated or the national identity of parishioners. Thus they have come to be known as 'Greek Orthodox,' 'Russian Orthodox,' 'Serbian Orthodox,' etc. But this can be misleading: there is only one Orthodox Church, and it is not tied to any particular nationality. The Orthodox Church is for everyone, regardless of ethnicity: this is shown by the presence in most Orthodox parishes of many converts from Western Christianity (Protestant or Catholic) or from non-Christian beliefs.
Orthodoxy and Catholicism
The Catholic Church was one with the Orthodox Church until about the 11th century. The rupture that occurred at that time had many complex causes, including the tendency of the Western Church to invest more and more authority in the Pope. The Orthodox Church has never had a worldwide, centralized government like the Papacy; instead, each local church governs itself in mutual accord with all the other local Orthodox churches. The Orthodox Church has also maintained unchanged the original form of the Nicene Creed. The Creed was altered in the Western Church, and this was another significant cause of the schism.
Unlike the Catholic Church since Vatican II, the Orthodox Church has had no Church-wide liturgical reform. It maintains a richly beautiful liturgical tradition with many customs dating back to Apostolic times, including fasting on Wednesdays and Fridays, receiving Communion on an empty stomach, ancient liturgical prayers and chants, frequent sacramental confession, standing or kneeling during services instead of sitting, and baptism by full immersion.
In the Orthodox Church there is no universal liturgical language (such as Latin in the Catholic Church); it has always been our tradition to pray in the local language. Orthodoxy also upholds the ancient practice of married clergymen, while also valuing and encouraging celibacy for those who are called to it (cf. Matthew 19 : 10–12).
Orthodoxy and Protestantism
Protestant denominations (such as Baptist, Anglican or Episcopalian, Lutheran, Presbyterian, etc.) have their origins in 16th-century Western Europe. These groups were a departure from the Roman Catholic church which, five hundred years previous, had departed from the Orthodox Church. Some of the Protestant reformers were earnestly trying to return to the Church of the New Testament – the early Church of the Apostles, which they believed had been distorted by the Roman Catholic church. Ironically, with a bit of education they would have found what they were seeking in the Orthodox Church.
In recent years, many groups within Protestantism have abandoned fundamental Christian doctrines and moral teachings, despite the clear witness of Holy Scripture, so highly valued by the 16th-century reformers. But the theological and moral vision of Orthodoxy – what Saint Paul calls 'the mind of Christ' – remains unchanged (1 Corinthians 2 : 16; cf. Hebrews 13 : 8).
What does Orthodoxy Teach?
The word Orthodox is Greek for 'right glory' and refers to the correctness and truth of the Orthodox Church's faith and worship (cf. John 4 : 23–24).
The Orthodox faith is expressed most fully in the Bible – the God-inspired books of the Old and New Testaments. This same faith is expressed very succinctly by the Nicene Creed, composed by theologians who met at the first two (of seven) great Ecumenical Councils held in 325 and 381. This statement, based on the Scriptures, teaches that there is one God in three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God the Son – Jesus Christ – became man, was born of the Virgin Mary, suffered and died for our salvation, rose from the dead, and ascended physically to heaven, from whence he will come again at the end of the world to judge the living and the dead.
The service of the Divine Liturgy is the very heart of Orthodox life and faith. In it we receive Holy Communion which unites us with other Orthodox believers throughout the world. We are also united to the whole 'communion of saints' – all the departed martyrs, holy fathers and mothers of past ages – who join us and the hosts of angels in giving unceasing glory to God (cf. Isaiah 6 : 3; Revelation 7 : 9–17). But most importantly, Holy Communion unites each of us to Jesus Christ, for he offers himself to us in his very Body and Blood (cf. John 6 : 53–57). Orthodox parishes celebrate the Divine Liturgy every Sunday morning as well as on many feast days throughout the year.
Orthodox Christian Living
The Orthodox Church maintains basic Christian moral positions on the sanctity of life and marriage. Marriage is between one man and one woman for life, and this is the only appropriate context for physical relations that can lead to childbirth. Abortion, euthanasia, divorce, and homosexual activity are a few examples of actions which seriously distort God's loving purpose for our lives. However, there is no sin that God will not forgive and whose damaging spiritual affects God cannot heal.
The Christian life consists in opening our hearts, minds, and bodies to this merciful grace of God's healing, and this is a life-long endeavor requiring faith and perseverance. (cf. Philippians 2 : 12–13)
Through constant prayer, through participation in the Church's sacraments and the study of Holy Scripture, through serious struggle against our strong inclinations to sin and selfishness, and through gestures of loving self-sacrifice for others, we strive to enter more deeply into communion with the God who is Love (1 John 4 : 16). Union with God constitutes man's only true and lasting happiness. It is this union and this happiness which Christ Jesus longs to give us, and the Church exists to make that happen.
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By Vicky Babcock
Google "pumpkin" and you will find everything from riots in (Keene) New Hampshire to Ichabod Crane's unfortunate encounter with the headless horseman, to pumpkin scones. We have pumpkin festivals, pumpkin carving contests, smashing pumpkins, pumpkin tossing, pumpkin baking and biggest pumpkin contests.
A true Native American, the pumpkin has been embraced by our cultures as both an important food source for people and livestock, and an excellent medium for carving. Something about these colorful canvasses really stirs the creative juices in artists of all ages! Throw in a candle and you have a lovely Jack-o-lantern. With its growing season complete from early to mid October, is it any wonder that this vibrantly colored fruit has become synonymous with Halloween? Yet pumpkins have a relatively short history with the holiday known as Halloween, which is believed to have evolved from the ancient festival of Samhain. It has its origins in European culture. Samhain was the Celtic harvest festival, a time to stock up supplies for the winter. The ancient Gaels believed the final day in October to be a time when the two worlds (the living and the dead) overlapped allowing the dead to return to Earth and cause havoc among the living. Offerings from the harvest were left outside their doors to appease the spirits in an effort to prevent them from bringing sickness and blight to the crops. Door to door begging, or "souling," (a precursor to our modern day trick-or-treat) came much later and was associated with All Souls Day.
Our native pumpkin entered into the holiday when Irish immigrants brought the tradition of the Jack-o-lantern—originally a carved turnip or gourd—to the U.S. during the 1700s. Turnips had their drawbacks; they were relatively small and dense, with no pre-formed cavity in which to place a lit coal. With its broad base and large capacity, the pumpkin quickly became the preferred medium for the practice. Today, a large percentage of fresh bought pumpkins lends itself to this Halloween tradition, decorating our porches and giving young artists a chance to stretch their creative wings. Once used as a welcoming light for the spirits of our loved ones and to ward off any malevolent spirits, the Jack-o-Lantern has become a Halloween fantasy, a joyful pastime and a profitable market for farmers of the crop. Unfortunately, few of us these days consume pumpkin that does not come out of a can.
Unfortunate, because pumpkin, one of the winter squashes, is an excellent source of dietary nutrition. Pumpkins are rich in beta-carotene, an important antioxidant, which the body uses to convert to vitamin A. Foods rich in beta-carotene have been linked to lower risk of certain cancers and offer protection against heart disease as well as an aid in the degenerative aspects of aging. Pumpkin is high in potassium and dietary fiber as well, necessary nutrients for the heart and digestive tract respectively. A cup of cooked pumpkin contains about 49 calories, a dieter's dream!
So, as you carve your pumpkins this year, consider using the cut outs (minus the rind) in soups, stews or rice dishes. Or try some pumpkin chili. Any way you slice it, it comes out deliciously nutritious.
Like pumpkins—and despite its ancestry—Halloween is a true American treat. With the mix of cultures that make up today's Halloween, what greater place to celebrate than the Great Melting Pot of the world? Have a safe and happy Halloween. And happy "souling."
Pumpkin Chili
1 ½ pounds lean ground beef
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, diced
2 large carrots, washed and diced (ends removed)
2 cups fresh pumpkin, peeled and diced
1 jar salsa—medium heat
1 15-oz can diced tomatoes
2 cans black beans, rinsed and drained
Chili powder (to taste)
In a large skillet, brown beef. Drain most of the oils and remove beef to a Dutch oven. In saucepan in remaining oil, cook and stir onion, garlic, carrots and pumpkin for about two minutes, until onion is tender. Drain the rest of the oil and add to the beef. Add remaining ingredients except for the chili powder. Cook and stir until boiling. Reduce heat and add chili powder to taste. This will gain some heat as it cooks, so start lightly. Cook over med to low heat about 30 minutes or until pumpkin is tender and flavors have mixed. Add additional chili powder about 15 minutes into the cooking process if you wish.
Serve with grated cheese, crushed corn chips (I like Frito's™ Chili Cheese) and sour cream if desired. Other additions include chopped fresh onions or chopped bell peppers. This is even better the next day.
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Updated 2016 Jr Varsity Bracket
Posted by Pierre Davis on Nov 03 2016 at 01:29PM PDT in 2016 Season
Bracket has been updated to reflect November 12th and 13th Results.
Congratulations to the ESC AFL and NFL Jr. Varsity Champions:
AFL: Eastchester Blue Devils
NFL: Schenectady-Belmont
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5 suspects arrested in Halloween Airbnb party shooting
ORINDA, Calif. (AP) — Four men were arrested Thursday on suspicion of murder in the deaths of five people in a shooting at a Halloween party at an Airbnb rental home in the San Francisco Bay Area. A fifth man was arrested on a charge of being an accessory to the crime, the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department said.
Sheriff David Livingston said search warrants were executed in several Northern California cities Thursday. He did not address a possible motive in the fatal shootings in Orinda that sent more than 100 terrified partygoers running for safety, but he said in a statement that investigators found two of the victims were armed, "which may have played a role in this tragedy."
Tiyon Farley, 22, of Antioch; Omar Taylor, 24, of Pittsburg; Raymon Hill Jr., 23, of San Francisco and Oakland; Javlin County, 29, of Sausalito and Richmond; and Oshiana Tompkins, 19, of Vallejo and Hercules, died in the shooting and at least four others were injured.
"Extraordinary cooperation among multiple law enforcement agencies led to these arrests and a small measure of justice for the true victims," Livingston said in a statement.
Those arrested Thursday were: Lebraun Tyree Wallace, 28, of San Mateo; Shamron Joshua Mitchell, 30, of Antioch; and Jaquez Deshawn Sweeney and Jason D. Iles, both 20 and of Marin City on charges of murder and conspiracy. All four were being held without bail.
Devin Isiah Williamson, 21, of Vallejo, was arrested as an accessory and was being held in lieu of $500,000 bail.
Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky has since said that the San Francisco-based company was taking steps to stop unauthorized parties in the wake of the deadly shooting. In a series of tweets Nov. 2, Chesky said company is stepping up efforts to "combat unauthorized parties and get rid of abusive host and guest conduct."


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Google began Wednesday letting businesses target mobile ads based on how close smartphone users might be to shops or what they might be craving at certain times of day, AFP reports.
Google began upgrading its AdWords service with "enhanced campaigns" for advertisers trying to better connect with people accessing the Internet on the move with smartphones or tablet computers.
"People are constantly connected and moving from one device to another to communicate, shop and stay entertained," Google senior vice president of engineering Sridhar Ramaswamy said in a blog post.
"Enhanced campaigns help you reach people with the right ads, based on their context like location, time of day and device type."
For example, a breakfast cafe interested in reaching people searching for "coffee" on smartphones could arrange to bid higher for people within close distance and less for queries made after noon.
AdWords uses a bidding process to determine which advertisements are posted along with results for specified query terms. Modern smartphones and tablets are built with location-sensing technology that users can activate.
Ads shown to smartphone users could be customized with one-touch calling options or map directions, while the same merchant would provide a shopping website link to people browsing online from a desktop computer.
AdWords also lets merchants track how often ads lead to telephone calls.
The upgrade comes as modern lifestyles increasingly revolve around staying connected to the Internet with smartphones or tablet computers.


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Cookham, Berkshire
Cookham is a village in Berkshire in a lovely setting on the River Thames, four miles north of Maidenhead, between Marlow and Taplow. The village is distinct from Cookham Rise, which has a railway station and ...
The county of Berkshire is one of the oldest in England, being created by Alfred the Great of Wessex. It is also proudly known officially as the Royal County of Berkshire, the title being bestowed upon it by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, as her personal residence is at Windsor Castle.
Berkshire is one of the Home Counties west of London, the history of which has been strongly influenced by its strategic position and the River Thames which flows through it. The quiet scenes of English country life, the inspiration of so many artists and writers, still remain a reality. The Thames is a valuable leisure facility and traditional boating trips are enjoyed from numerous tranquil riverside villages.
The Berkshire Downs connect the Chiltern Hills in the east with the Marlborough Downs in the west. The Downs are a hilly area with well wooded valleys and especially open upland areas, famous for their ever present racehorse training gallops. Lambourn and the thatched villages of East Garston and Eastbury are famous for their horse-racing stables. There are racecourses at Ascot, Newbury and Windsor.


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Mark Coreth | British, born 1958
Mark Coreth was born in London in 1958 and was immediately dispatched to the family farm in the Kenyan highlands where the Equator ran through the house. Black and white Colobus monkeys leapt amongst the branches in the trees behind the house where leopard and cheetah also lived. This idyllic childhood surrounded by exotic Flora and Fauna fostered Mark's early and continuing passion for wildlife and the sculpting of it.
After prep school in Kenya, Mark attended Ampleforth public school in the north of England and on leaving joined The Blues and Royals, serving with the Regiment as a regular officer. He has spent time in England, Cyprus, Germany, Ireland and the Falkland Islands during the 1982 hostilities. On his return to England he was commissioned to make a silver sculpture of his regiment's drum horse "Belisarius", for the Warrant Officer's Mess and later a second cast in bronze became the Household Cavalry's wedding present to The Duke and Duchess of York; his first commission, a taste of many more to come. He held his first exhibition at the Sladmore whilst still a serving soldier, and has now shown with the gallery for over 20 years.
Mark has had no formal art school training, his ability is based quite simply on dedication and hard work coupled with an acute and perceptive eye, drawing heavily on experiences gained during his early years in Kenya, and regular sculptural safari's around the world , with his "Backpack Studio ". His sculptures reflect his instinctive understanding of the behaviour and physicalityof the animals he sculpts. Working with extraordinary speed, if the original plasticine or clay fails to speak to him within a couple of hours Mark destroys it and starts again. He captures violence, speed, and movement , or even tranquility and pathos with deceptive ease, and is now internationally recognized as the master sculptor of the animal in motion.
As well as his regular one-man exhibitions at Sladmore Contemporary Mark shows regularly in Paris, and New York. His many monumental commissions include a life-size piece of two Cheetahs in a tree for the ruling family in Dubai, a life-size figure of a boatman which sits outside Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, a shoal of rays in the Docklands and a massive 50 piece fountain at the Natural History Museum. His most spectacular commission to date has been an enormous 16 foot high life-size charging elephant; the subject of a half hour documentary on the Discovery Channel. Where the film-makers followed him on safari while he made his initial studies, back to his studio for the creation process and finally to the foundry to see the final casting of the bronze. The finished bronze elephants currently reside in a public collection in Rome and a private collection in Australia.
Following a visit to the Arctic in 2010 he determined to bring home the fragility of the eco-system through his sculpture. He made an large bronze Polar Bear skeleton and encased it in a giant block of ice which he then carved in front of the public. This " ice bear "was then allowed to melt on site while people touched it, revealing the haunting skeleton inside. This project has been recreated in London's Trafalgar Square and at climate change conferences in CopenhagenOttawa and other locations to massive public acclaim, a well received and effective message showing the fragility of the threatened Arctic environment. An award winning short film of the ice bear project, narrated by Ewan McGregor
2015 saw him complete his life size bronze of the much loved Race Horse "Frankel", commissioned by the owner Prince Khalid Abdullah. Her Majesty the Queen unveiled the first one at Royal Ascot in June, with further copies at York Race Course and the Newmarket Racing Museum to follow.
Mark lives and works in deepest Dorset, where the original white plaster model of his life size charging elephant stands guard outside his studio. He is generous with his time and his knowledge regularly giving master classes to aspiring young artists and holding various open days. His donations of sculpture to charity auctions have raised substantial sums for many good causes.
A feature of his exhibitions and appearances at Art Fairs, Mark will create , before the very eyes of the audience, in a surprisingly short time , complete sculptures from start to finish. At the Masterpiece fair in Chelsea in 2015 crowds watched him make Cheetah and Moose and even a line of Leaping Impala, allowing visitors to feel the materials and even attempt create pieces themselves. His virtuoso modeling technique and infectious enthusiasm for his craft making him extraordinarily popular.
Mark continues to stretch the artistic and technical boundaries of sculpture as his search for the dynamic finds amazing life in bronze. 2016 will finally see the publication of his first book, which he has been working on for many years. A revealing look at his life, his working method and his sculptural journeys of artistic discovery around the world.


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Just in time for the end-of-year shopping season, Google is offering an unlocked Android phone, targeted at developers but available to anyone. While the phone might be attractive to consumers and developers alike in the U.S., its price in other countries is putting off even developers.
The Android Dev Phone 1 can be used on any compatible network, unlike the G1, the first Android phone on the market that works only on T-Mobile's networks in the U.S. and the U.K. Developers can load their own applications onto the phone for testing. Previously, developers had to buy the G1 and subscribe to T-Mobile's plans if they wanted to test out their applications on a phone before adding their software to the public Android Market.
The Android Dev Phone 1 costs $399. It is only available to registered Android developers; anyone can register as a developer for a $25 fee.
But the price of the phone is significantly higher in most countries outside of the U.S. because it appears that the phones will all be shipped from the U.S. Developers on an Android forum are complaining about large customs fees that they are being charged when purchasing the phone. One Canadian developer, who says he lives 5 kilometers from the U.S. border, said customs fees would add $264 to the cost of the phone; to ship to France costs an additional $183, according to another developer.
A Google worker on the Android team acknowledged the high customs fees, noting that they vary by country and are based on applicable laws. "While it is true that sometimes duties are not assessed depending on how shipments are labeled, it doesn't mean that legally they shouldn't be," Justin, the Android team member, wrote on the forum.
Google is selling the phone in 18 markets, including Japan, India, Taiwan, Spain, Australia, Singapore, Poland and Hungary.
While Google says that the device is not intended for nondeveloper end-users, it could appeal to some consumers, particularly those who don't want to use T-Mobile's network or who live in an area where the G1 won't be sold. In the U.S., the Dev Phone 1 will also work on AT&T's network.
The fact that Google can sell an unlocked version of the phone sheds some light on its relationship with T-Mobile. "The move by Google highlights the huge measure of influence it has over decisions regarding Android cellphones—in contrast to the usual U.S. model, where decisions are driven mainly by the large operators, T-Mobile seems to have had little input into this one," said Caroline Gabriel, an analyst with Rethink Research, in a research note. By comparison, the exclusivity agreement between Apple and AT&T for the iPhone is thought to be much tighter, such that it would prevent Apple from selling an iPhone that could be used on another network in the U.S.


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The Shiksa in the Kitchen", written by a recent (2010) convert to Judaism who has been exploring the world of Jewish cooking, including kashrut (the rules for keeping kosher). She posted about a copy of an Indian Jewish cookbook published in Calcutta about 1922. I found a few references to the cookbook online, but it doesn't seem to be available anywhere, and I'm sure it was printed in only small quantities to begin with. She mentioned it has "several kosher Jewish Indian recipes", but I'm not sure if all of the recipes are kosher.
I love Jewish cooking and Indian cooking and now just have to find a copy of this book! One year for Passover I even cooked an Indian-themed seder, including mulligatawny-spiced matzoh ball soup and an egg curry.
Recipes and food traditions can sometimes impart information about family history. This cookbook, for example, probably has recipes that follow Sephardic traditions, because most of the Jewish communities in India had Sephardic roots. But first I need to find a copy of the cookbook to read the recipes ....
Genealogy is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don't have the box top, so you don't know what the picture is supposed to look like. As you start putting the puzzle together, you realize some pieces are missing, and eventually you figure out that some of the pieces you started with don't actually belong to this puzzle. I'll help you discover the right pieces for your puzzle and assemble them into a picture of your family.
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Coyote Flats and Funnel Lake - Sierra Nevada - August 2008
Weekend offroad trip to Coyote Flats and Funnel Lake in the high Sierra mountains near Bishop, California. We camped at 10,300 feet and ventured up to almost 11,500 feet. Not too many photos from this trip because we had 60 mph winds gusting to 80 mph in camp, and gusts to almost 100 mph on the ridges. Most of the photos are from the start of the trail when the storm was beginning to brew. You can read about this trip on my blog here.Read More


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In a programming interview if I am asked a question I already know the answer for, such as giving an algorithm for a particular problem. Should I disclose that to the interviewer? This issue only makes sense when there's a novelty aspect to the question.
One example is "How would you reverse each word in a string, but not their order?". There also seems to be a division between easier stuff, that you are "supposed" to know, such as my example and harder more contrived problems.
Whats your policy and rationale for dealing with this issue? If you are already familiar with the question/brainteaser, should you disclose this in addition to answering the question? Is there any ethical dilemma involved with not disclosing your prior knowledge of the question?


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I've now had a year with the Geyser HPWH. With the exception of the puddle on the floor in July 2011, it has performed consistently. It's performance has not been thrilling, though. In the summer, it was making hot water at about 0.13 - 0.15 kWh/gallon, with incoming water in the mid-60Fs and basement air temperature around 70F. In the winter, with basement temperatures in the low to mid 50Fs, and incoming water at 50F or a bit below, this consumption ratio increased to 0.25 kWh/gallon. I switched to using only the upper electric element in mid-January 2012 and the consumption ratio was 0.31 kWh/gallon, so the HPWH was saving about 20%, actually more, since the HPWH was heating the entire tank, and the electric element only was heating the upper 30% of the tank. This was verifiable by the way with the infrared camera - a sharp temperature gradient below the element location.
If I didn't give myself the flexibility with the 85 gallon tank to do the HPWH or add solar thermal hot water I would have installed a 50 gallon Marathon instead. We have very good data from the Eliakim's Way homes that show about 0.21-0.23 kWh/gallon. So over a year I'm not sure my HPWH and the larger tank saved me anything over a smaller electric water heater. One very significant factor is our very low hot water usage of about 13 gpd. This means that the HPWH spends a significant portion of its operating time working against the standby losses, which means that it's cycling in the 110F - 120F water temperature range, where it is least efficient. And of course that energy is not being used to heat hot water to replace hot water we've used.
I have data on another HPWH, the Accelera made by Stiebel Eltron.
It was installed late this past winter in a Deep Energy Retrofit South Mountain did on a small house in Chilmark. The basement had about R-20 walls and R-3 floor. There is a ducted miniplit heat pump air handler and insulated ducts in the basement as well as the Stiebel Eltron. The S-E has an 80 gallon tank which has the refrigerant heating coil wrapped around the outside of the tank beneath the insulation. It has a 1.7 kW back-up electric element with a separate thermostat. This unit was set to make 130F water. We installed a water meter on the cold water inlet and measured the electrical usage with the Powerhouse Dynamics eMonitor. Over the first six months, the household averaged 45 gpd of DHW usage.
As in other MV homes, the incoming water temperature varies, starting at 50F in early March and rising into the low 60Fs in August. Basement temperature began in the upper 50Fs and rose to the upper 60Fs. The HPWH made 7,980 gallons of hot water and used 477 kWh of electricity, a consumption ratio of 0.060 kWh/gallon. Over three times more efficient than the 50 gallon Marathon tanks at Eliakim's Way, which used 0.20 kWh/gallon over the same months in six houses that averaged 43 gpd. This performance is in a whole other ballpark than that of the Geyser. Also, the unit seems to have low standby losses. On days with no usage it was using about 1/2 kWh. My biggest question is, how long will this expensive device (list price about $2,600) last?
It's worth noting that a HPWH takes heat from the house, at least during the heating season, so how you heat the house matters. Here are some cases to consider:
1 - The HPWH is in a basement with a gas furnace and leaky uninsulated ducts that keep the basement at 70F. The HPWH is operating efficiently because it is taking heat from nice warm air, and that heat is only indirectly getting to the living space. Probably a good application.
2 - The HPWH is in the thermal envelope of a direct gain passive solar house with a wood stove back-up. Again, the heat pump is operating in a favorable temperature regime, and the source of the heat is either the sun or firewood. And often during the winter the space may be overheated and the cooling is not objectionable.
3 - The HPWH is in the thermal envelope of an electrically heated house. Each unit of energy removed from the air is replaced by electric resistance heat. Not a good choice.
4 - The HPWH is in the thermal envelope of a house heated with minisplit heat pumps that operate at a COP of 2.5. The HPWH COP of 2 is effectively reduced to 1.4 because of the energy required by the heat pump to offset the cooling effect of the HPWH. If the house is in heating mode for six months of the year, and the rest of the time the cooling effect of the heat pump is negligible or welcome, then this changes to 1.7.
And finally, the more the climate shifts towards being cooling-dominated, the better the HPWH looks. A HPWH in your house in Florida supplies free cooling and dehumidification as it heats water.
The other thing we've learned with the S-E is the effect it has on the basement humidity. We know a HPWH will both cool and remove moisture from the air, but we didn't know if it would make that air higher or lower relative humidity. It could possibly cool the air and not remove enough moisture to keep the RH from rising as the air was cooled. Here's a 3-1/2 hour run of the HPWH, and the conditions of the air at the start and the end:
What we see is that the basement both cools and drops in relative humidity. As my friend and SMC colleague John Guadagno says, good stuff, good stuff! The reason it's good is that the moisture content of materials is based on the relative humidity of the surrounding air, and lower moisture content means lower opportunity for mold. I agree with JG!
To sum up how I'm thinking on how to make domestic hot water, given my preference to think in terms of electrically powered buildings to mate with renewable power generation:
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Months before a grilled cheese sandwich raised $10 million in funding, the iPhone app Color was the tech bubble doomsayer's startup of choice. The company raised a staggering $41 million in funding for a non-existent photo-sharing service nobody really understood. So, where is it now? Take a guess.
Color launched in March to insane buzz, thanks to its $41 million funding—more than Yahoo paid for Flickr in 2005—its charismatic founder, Bill Nguyen, and the fact it paid $350,000 for the domain Color.com. Nobody really understood what it was supposed to do—something about "elastic social networks" and also "transforming the way people communicate with each other?"—but what it did do was let you stalk people having a better time than you.
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a) Color has changed the way we communicate with each other. High school kids have abandoned the text and talk functions of their phones for Color. "Color me!" has entered the lexicon, and the app was recently used to track down the killer in a particularly gruesome episode of Law & Order SVU.
b) Color has a modest-but-growing user base and is well on its way to carving out a niche among the many photo-sharing apps.
c) The few users who didn't abandon Color the day after its disastrous, confusing launch still don't really understand what it does. Color's president has been fired and engineers are scrambling in their spacious Palo Alto office, complete with "beanbag chairs, tents for napping and a hand-built half-pipe skateboard ramp," according to the New York Times.
The correct answer is… c) but don't count Color out yet. They've still got tens of millions of dollars to piss away. [NYT, image via AP]


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As a follow-up to my Salami in Oil posting, here's another story posted to the Microsoft Excel Developers List Excel-L, by Lex Marshall. May I add that I'm a whizz at programming spreadsheets and other things with numbers that stand for money in: I'd be happy to oblige, should any of you feel like making me an offer that would keep my bar well stocked.
Back in the 1960's when most smaller IBM customers rented IBM Unit Record Equipment (punch cards) the rental included programming support (but, of course, programming meant "hard wiring" control panels).
I was a young IBM trainee who had a reputation for being able to program those suckers. Consequently, I was directed to do an invoicing control panel for a pharmaceutical wholesaler. The owner asked if we could round up the sales tax calculation on every line item. Since the sales tax rates were all fractional percentages such as 12.5% and so on, it was likely that almost every line item would have an amount to be rounded up.
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Scout disses Sixers in Sports Illustrated
In this week's Sports Illustrated a scout says the Sixers have quit on the season.
Rare to open Sports Illustrated and see something on the Sixers, but it's there this week. On the "Inside the NBA" page, Chris Mannix has a small item in which he quotes an unnamed Western Conference scout talking about the Sixers. Here it is:
"They are having dunk contests before games; they are running plays sloppily or not all the way through; and they aren't listening to (coach) Eddie Jordan. They have quit. They know Eddie is gone (after the season) and they think they don't have to listen anymore. The thing is, they are making themselves look like a-------. These guys think that just because Eddie is gone they will be back (next year). But nobody wants guys who give up when things go bad. Eddie's offense was a bad fit for this roster - they have to find a way to play more up-tempo - but these guys are embarrassing themselves. And everyone around the league knows it."
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"It's certainly an experience I won't forget in a hurry. It's a warning to other people to watch where they set up there picnic in the future."
Um, this is a quote. Did the guy speak this incorrectly (unlikely, since it is a homophone), or are they unfamiliar with the English language at this particular news source? Just asking.
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Looks like Alli was hungry.
I hope he left the buns; those carbs are a killer!
And I thought ants were bad.
It's National ' Take A Banker To Lunch ' Week.
"I can has cheezburger?" o.O
Maybe it's cause I'm not from Florida but who sets up a picnic next to gator water?
First it's the gators coming for your burgers, next it's the pythons eating all your mouse appetizers. You just can't hold a garden party anymore without gate crashers.
Sure, it's cute at first... But give them a foot and next thing you know they'll want a whole leg.
Cheesewiz, in Florida all water is gator water.
They're obviously not fluffy rabbits
Rampant stereotyping
I suspect the veracity of this story. The shots look static, the burgers appear to be bun-only, and the villain looks stuffed.
Nice product placement with the Pepsi can
I agree with the comments in the story, that said that the whole thing looked staged. Feeding an alligator is a serious crime in Florida, as it causes them to lose their fear of humans and become dangerous. People as well as pets have been killed by such alligators.
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Bullying harms kids with autism, parents say
(HealthDay)—Nearly 70 percent of children with autism suffer emotional trauma as a result of bullying, according to a new study.
The study also found that many children with autism fear for their safety at school and that those with autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or depression had the highest risk of being bullied.
Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by social, communication and behavioral difficulties.
Researchers surveyed the parents of more than 1,200 children with autism, and found that 38 percent of the children were bullied over a one-month period, and 28 percent were frequently bullied.
Immediate consequences of being bullied included emotional trauma (69 percent) and physical injuries (8 percent). Nearly 14 percent of the children who were bullied said they feared for their safety.
Eighteen percent of the children with autism were triggered into fighting back after being bullied, and 40 percent had an emotional outburst that led to school disciplinary action.
Nine percent of the children with autism bullied other children, and 5 percent frequently bullied others, according to the study, which was published Jan. 10 in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics.
Children with autism who also had a conduct disorder or an oppositional defiant disorder were more likely to be bullies. Children with autism who also had ADHD, conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder were most likely to be bully-victims, which means that they're both bullies and victims of bullying.
"Our results provide insights that will help teachers and school staff identify children with autism who may be at the greatest risk for bullying involvement, either as victims or perpetrators," senior study author Dr. Paul Law, director of the Interactive Autism Network at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, said in an institute news release.
"Outside of school, parents should be encouraged to talk to their child about bullying, particularly if they are concerned their child may be a victim," Law said. "Parents should also set up appointments to talk to the staff or teachers at their child's school to learn more about how they can work to prevent bullying and help children involved in bullying cope with the consequences."
About 1 in 88 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder, which can range from Asperger's syndrome on the mild end to full-blown autism.
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In a real victory for supporters of same-sex marriage -- and marking what seems like real marginalization for its foes -- a major law firm has reversed course and will refuse to represent the House of Representatives in defending the Defense of Marriage Act.
King and Spalding Chairman Robert D. Hays, Jr., whose partner Paul Clement was to lead the defense, said in a statement through a spokesman, Les Zuke:
Today the firm filed a motion to withdraw from its engagement to represent the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the House of Representatives on the constitutional issues regarding Section III of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. Last week we worked diligently through the process required for withdrawal.
In reviewing this assignment further, I determined that the process used for vetting this engagement was inadequate. Ultimately I am responsible for any mistakes that occurred and apologize for the challenges this may have created.
The statement is silent on the reasons for the decision, but the firm faced protests at its Atlanta office and a national campaign against it. And now the House majority may have to find a new lawyer.
UPDATE: Amanda Terkel reports that Clement has resigned from the firm. POLITICO's Josh Gerstein has more, including his resignation letter:
"I resign out of the firmly-held belief that a representation should not be abandoned because the client's legal position is extremely unpopular in certain quarters. Defending unpopular clients is what lawyers do ... I recognized from the outset that this statute implicates very sensitive issues that prompt strong views on both sides. But having undertaken the representation, I believe there is no honorable course for me but to complete it," writes Clement.


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin quarterback Tanner McEvoy is back with the team after being mugged in Madison over the weekend.
The Badgers say McEvoy suffered minor injuries and his wallet, watch and iPhone were stolen early Sunday. He resumed team activities Monday.
The Badgers say police believe the mugging was random and are investigating.
According to the police report, McEvoy was struck in the head and had to be treated for two head cuts. Witnesses said they saw two males and two females near McEvoy. All four fled.
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CHICAGO – Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane has a habit of attracting attention.
Maybe you recall the former No. 1 overall pick hitting the Internet last season, when photos show him partying in Madison, Wis. Or the 2009 arrest in his hometown of Buffalo, N.Y., after an altercation with a cab driver.
All that seems so long ago for Kane, who on Thursday was named one of the finalists for the Lady Byng trophy given to the NHL player who exhibits the best sportsmanship and "gentlemanly conduct" along with top skills on the ice.
That shouldn't be a surprise given Kane's dazzling talent. He stepped right into the Blackhawks lineup and won the Calder Trophy as the league's rookie of the year. He scored 30 goals and 88 points in the 2009-10 regular season, then added 10 goals and 18 assists in the playoffs as the Blackhawks won their first Stanley Cup championship in 49 years.
Then came this lockout-shortened season and the 24-year-old Kane has had the most effective season of his six-year career, according to coach Joel Quenneville, whose team holds a leads 1-0 in its Western Conference seminal series against Detroit. Game 2 will be played in Chicago on Saturday.
"I thought Kaner really progressed in his game this year," Quenneville said. "Offensively he had the puck more than he ever did. I thought he had more speed, more pace to his game. He seemed to be more aware positionally and technically. He definitely improved his play in his own end. It thought his overall game was to a new level this year.
Kane led Chicago this season with 55 points, on 23 goals and 32 assists. More than his passing and playmaking — including a handful of jaw-dropping 360-degree pirouettes — have improved.
"I though each and every year Kaner has gotten better as a player in all aspect of his game," Quenneville said. "He's gotten stronger, he's gotten better and he's growing up as well."
Kane, who has never taken a fighting major in the NHL, has been smarter, too. His penalty minute total has dropped from 52 as a rookie to just eight last season.
"I thought maybe I'd have a chance at this one (award) and I think it kind of speaks volumes for where my game has gone since my rookie season," Kane said. "I remember I used to take a lot of penalties that were kind of unnecessary. I kind have got that out of my game a little bit. I'm definitely happy about it. It's an honor."
Kane has yet to score in six playoff games this season. But he has been visible on the ice, with six assists and a plus-4 rating.
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text: Let us begin with the premise that security policies exist to protect an entity's assets as it pursues the normal conduct of business. To ensure that those policies are effective, security professionals must first understand the social elements, including cultural and generational variances, that affect employee behavior and perceptions about security. With the implementation of a three-step process of discussion, creation and messaging, security policy can be successfully crafted\u2014with consideration given to geographical, cultural and generational factors\u2014while assuring resonance and understanding throughout the organization. A recent Cisco white paper, Data Leakage Worldwide: The Effectiveness of Security Policies, illustrates the apparent disparity between the perceptions of end users and IT professionals surrounding the existence, relevance, updating and communication of security policies. Just as businesses strive to understand their marketplace, they should also conduct internal market research to identify the key characteristics of their employee demographics. To protect your employees, it is necessary to answer a number of rudimentary questions:What are the business's goals? Who is responsible and accountable for the business's success? Which individuals or business units are most affected by a certain policy? Who and what functions are you trying to protect? What social differences exist? - Cultural? - Geographic? - Generational? - Functional? So let's look at some of these demographic challenges that an enterprise may face. In the geographic domain, a policy written for one audience may fail elsewhere if not fine-tuned for relevance. After all, cultural differences affect methods and styles of communication. For example, a message crafted for a highly technical audience in Asia may not have much success with a less technical group of employees in the U.S. who are used to a different communication style, and indeed one risks putting them to sleep or having them intellectually check out. Generationally, how do we deal with individuals who are entering the workforce having collaborated and communicated openly using social media and other collaborative tools? Truly, this is an unprecedented challenge. (Editor's note: See also csoonline.com's Security and the Generational Divide.)The key to success is in the early transfer of responsibility to those engaged in making the business successful. Take steps to assist those who believe that "there are no secrets" and help them comprehend why their personal livelihood depends on protecting the corporate intellectual property and infrastructure. Clearly communicate, that, in fact, there are secrets. Once employees understand that they have a responsibility to protect the enterprise, the chasm between the security professional and the rest of the staff not only shrinks but disappears. Through this process, the enterprise will acknowledge security as forethought, not an afterthought. Far too often, security policies arrive as a reactive action as opposed to a proactive management of risk. Unfortunately, many policies are created without any discussion or consideration of business needs. When challenged, an IT department expects automatic adherence. Managers frequently expect subordinates to comply with a policy even if they don't understand why adherence is expected; it is simply because I said so compliance. To have security policies arrive as an overlay to an existing procedure is like placing a patch over a hole on a sweater. The patch may be effective, but if applied incorrectly, it can leave a noticeable flaw. An upfront investment and a mandatory engagement by those crafting security policy need to occur at the point of strategic discussion within the business unit. This strategic interaction exponentially raises the odds of having a security policy that makes sense and factors in the data from demographic and functional research. A policy created in this way is a tool that each member of the business unit can use in a manner consistent with the agreed-upon security protocol. This early alignment in the creation and implementation of policies is thus analogous to security being one of the integral threads woven into the fiber of the aforementioned patch, thus making it stronger and less likely to develop new holes. This way, policy isn't based on disconnected silos of knowledge, and your employees aren't being placed in the position of having to choose between business success and policy adherence. So how do you go about engaging your employees and communicating your policies? Think globally, but act locally. You may have a global workforce message, but you must tailor that message for comprehension and relevance at a local level based on cultural, linguistic and other social factors. Now let's discuss existing policies that were created in the overlay fashion. First, review these policies with the affected business units to assure they don't handicap or stifle business direction. Recommend that a review of adherence be completed prior to the discussion, as it may provide some measurable clues to a policy's effectiveness. Then recraft these policies to align with the reality of actual business objectives and goals. Ultimately, the key is to ensure that your colleagues understand both the "why" of the policy and their share of ownership in the policy's existence. The empowerment of the ownership of any security policy by those most affected will increase adherence and address the risk that the policy is designed to mitigate. The exercise of the what of the policy follows with understanding, if not enthusiasm. Ideally, security professionals will use this three-step process of discussion, creation and messaging. Each step reflects a consideration of geographical, cultural and generational diversity, but also positions the arrival of policy in a manner designed to assure resonance and understanding, as well as applicability. ## Christopher Burgess senior security advisor to Cisco and a former government security expert with more than 30 years of field experience.


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Robinson Armament Co. competed recently in the SCAR (a.k.a. SOFCAR) competition for USSOCOM. Basically, SCAR/SOFCAR was a competition to produce an adaptable/modular multi-caliber weapon system for SOCOM (Special Operations Use). The goal was to achieve a weapon system that you can quickly configure to an operator's mission-specific needs, including caliber (6.8x43mm SPC, 7.62x39mm, 5.56x45mm, etc.).
"Coincidentally", Robinson Armament has just released a pic of their new XCR Modular Weapon System. DefenseReview hasn't talked with Alex Robinson yet about the XCKR, but we're assuming, for the moment, that it's multi-caliber. We'll find out as soon as we can.
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We're so glad this accident didn't end up far, far worse. But it's a timely warning that the mesh inside boys' swim suits may not be as safe as it looks.
We've all seen it when we buy boys' swim shorts – that white synthetic netting that sits inside the outer fabric. Today, one mum warns that this meshed netting can be more dangerous than it looks, as she tells the terrifying story of her son Jack's penis getting 'strangled' inside it, to the point that he could have lost his penis altogether.
Laura Collins was on holiday in Spain with her five-year-old son Jack earlier this month when she took him into the shower to remove his swim shorts. As she pulled them down she realised that his penis was caught in the netting and, as she wrote on a Facebook post, "literally strangling it".
No mother should have to see her child in such pain
"He was screaming a scream I hadn't heard before," she wrote. As Jack wailed in pain, Laura raced her little boy to the medical centre at the hotel where she was staying, only to learn they were unable to help her.
"I carried him to reception and asked for some scissors," the 33-year-old weight loss club consultant told The Mirror. But neither she nor the hotel staff were able to free the distressed little boy's penis. "There were two little bubbles, like skin, on either side," she said. "Like it was going to burst."
Doctors say it wasn't the first time they'd seen this
Panicked, Laura raced Jack to the nearest hospital where doctors gave him a local anaesthetic and managed to cut his penis free.
At first they were concerned that there would be permanent damage to the boy's urinary tract or other internal structures, but soon Jack was able to urinate properly and doctors confirmed that there was no lasting damage.
Doctors in the hospital said that they had seen this sort of thing happen before – and warn that it is more common than parents realise.
Brave little Jack is pleased to be on the mend after his frightening accident.
Little boys need to learn to protect their penises
Little boys' penises are particularly susceptible to accidents, as often the proportions of foreskin and penis don't match up while they are still young – meaning they can either get caught or trapped in various ways. Little boys are also not aware of how sensitive and delicate this area is, and have a tendency to treat it with less care than a grown man would.
I know a young boy the same age as the child in this story who was raced to hospital when he pulled his foreskin back in the bath and got it stuck there. Like Jack, he was in agony. The hospital gave him sedative gas and managed to free it but it was a frightening experience and one that doctors warned happens too often.
Thankfully, little Jack is happy and well
Laura says that her Jack has recovered without any issues, however she is warning other parents to be extra careful with the netting in boys' swimming costumes, urging them to cut it out so this won't happen to them.
"Jack was very upset about it afterwards but as five year olds do, he's bounced back," Laura told The Mirror. "He keeps talking about it now but he's fine. He talks about how he nearly lost his willy on holiday and goes on about the naughty netting. He's been warning all his friends as he doesn't want the same thing to happen to them."
"Please, those with young children," Laura begged on Facebook, "remove the netting in swim shorts."
We're so glad to hear that young Jack is feeling his old self again and enjoyed the rest of his holiday with no more mishaps.


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CAPSULE REPORT October is National Pizza Month. This most popular of American dishes started out as a primitive flatbread and cheese meal somewhere in the Mediterranean region. While pepperoni wins as America's favorite topping, the folks at Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board—whose members make much of the great cheese that tops your pizzas—have developed some groovy recipes that let you defer the tried-and-true pepperoni, meatballs, mushrooms, onions and pepper for another day. So call your friends, tell them to bring the craft beer or artisan soda, and celebrate National Pizza Month in gourmet style. But before you hit the recipes, chow down on the history of pizza.
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The history of pizza as we know it is relatively recent, given how old flat breads and cheese are in man's cuisine. As far back as 8000 B.C.E., man knew how to mix flour with water into dough, season it with herbs and heat it on a hot stone to create a flat bread (see the history of bread). The earliest cheesemaking began about 5500 B.C.E. The pizza, if it is defined as baked flat bread covered with cheese, could have been invented by the Greeks, the Phoenicians, the people who would become the Romans or anyone in the greater Mediterranean area of the time.
In fact, while we think of pizza as a quintessential Italian food, food historians credit the idea of using bread as a "plate" for an assortment of toppings and seasonings to the Greeks, who ate flat round bread (plankuntos), topped by stews, thick broth, meats, vegetables and fruits. Just as it is today, it was a thrifty, convenient and tasty meal for the working man and his family, requiring no additional plates or utensils. One can think of pizza originating as an "edible plate"—a true convenience food. (Injera, the Ethiopian flatbread, is still used for this purpose and is a mainstay of Ethiopian cuisine—most dishes are prepared as toppers for injera.)
With the constant traffic between the worlds of Greece and Rome, plankuntos made its way to what is now Italy, where it became known as pizza. The word "pizza" may have derived from the Latin word "pinsa," which means flatbread. Pizza became popular street food, sold from open-air stands by vendors, typically young boys who would walk around the city with small tin stoves on their heads, calling out to "hawk their wares" to customers. The pizzas of the time were simple but tasty, topped with olive oil and fresh herbs, not unlike focaccia. Sometimes, some grated sheep's cheese was added. Pizza was still food for the poor, but soon became a tourist attraction.
How Topped Flatbreads Became Modern Pizza
One of the key elements that turned the baked flatbreads with toppings into what we know today as pizza was the tomato, which was brought to Europe from the Americas in the 16th century. This was the yellow cherry tomato. As a member of the Nightshade family of plants, it was believed by many Europeans to be poisonous, and was appreciated purely as a decorative houseplant.
However, during a famine in the 18th century, the starving poor gambled and ate the fruit. No one was poisoned; in fact, a delicious new foodstuff was discovered. The poor in the area around Naples then added tomato to their flatbread, often serving it as their main meal with melted cheese and/or anchovies. Thus the pizza was born. (So was tomato sauce for pasta and other tomato-based dishes.)
What happened next? The arrival of mozzarella, as you'll see on the following page.
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The Great Britain-wide average [for a pint of real ale bitter] was £2.80, a 4% rise on 2009. But this covers broad regional disparities, with the cheapest part of the country, the West Midlands, falling well short at £2.45 below the most expensive, Surrey, at £3.08.My sense is that pubs brewing their own beer in Oregon are no cheaper than regular pubs--though there is a wide variety of prices among both. The range seems to be $3.50-$5.50, and it doesn't matter if the vessel in question is a cheater pint or imperial. Five bucks does seem to be a bit of an important price point, though. If you are charging more than that, the beer either be very good (like Cascade's, at the Barrel House, or specialty beers at brewpubs) or super haute. I feel good when I'm paying less than four.
According to the Guide's co-editor Fiona Stapley, the wide variation in prices reflects not just the socio-economic make-up of each area but also the levels of competition, the nature of their bars and the type of beer on offer.
"In areas where you have heavy concentrations of the big chains, the prices tend to be higher," she says. "In pubs which brew their own beer, prices are on average a third lower.
The Beeronomist is, coincidentally, stepping up his game. No longer will these posts be a focused subset from the Oregon Economics Blog; Beeronomics will now be a stand-alone blog with unique content. So go have a look.


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by Paul Roderick Gregory
July 21, 2017
According to an insider account – Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign by Jonathan Allen, released in April – the Clinton team, put together the Russia Gate narrative within 24 hours of her defeat.
The Clinton account claimed that Russian hacking and election meddling caused her unexpected loss. That her opponent, Donald Trump, was a "puppet" of Putin.
Trump, they said, "encourages espionage against our people." The scurrilous Trump dossier, prepared by a London opposition research firm, Orbis, and paid for by unidentified Democrat donors, formed a key part of the Clinton narrative: Trump's sexual and business escapades in Russia had made him a hostage of the Kremlin, ready to do its bidding.
That was Hillary's way to say that Trump is really not President of the United States—a siren call adopted by the Democrat party and media.
Hillary and the Orbis Dossier
The most under-covered story of Russiagate is the interconnection between the Clinton campaign, an unregistered foreign agent of Russia headquartered in DC (Fusion GPS), and the Christopher Steele Orbis dossier.
Last January in Forbes, I explained: The Trump Dossier Is Fake – and Here Are the Reasons Why.
This connection has raised the question of whether Kremlin prepared the dossier as part of a disinformation campaign to sow chaos in the US political system.
If ordered and paid for by Hillary Clinton associates, Russiagate is turned on its head as collusion between Clinton operatives (not Trump's) and Russian intelligence. Russiagate becomes Hillarygate.
Neither the New York Times, Washington Post, nor CNN has covered this explosive story. I know, you are as shocked as Claude Rains.
Two op-eds have appeared in the Wall Street Journal (Holman Jenkins and David Satter). The possible Russian-intelligence origins of the Steele dossier have been raised only in conservative publications, such as in The Federalist and National Review.
The Fusion story has been known since Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a heavily-footnoted letter to the Justice Department on March 31, 2017 demanding for his Judiciary Committee all relevant documents on Fusion GPS, the company that managed the Steele dossier against then-candidate Donald Trump.
Grassley writes to justify his demand for documents that:
"The issue is of particular concern to the Committee given that when Fusion GPS reportedly was acting as an unregistered agent of Russian interests, it appears to have been simultaneously overseeing the creation of the unsubstantiated dossier of allegations of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians."
Former FBI director, James Comey, refused to answer questions about Fusion and the Steele dossier in his May 3 testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Comey responded to Lindsey Graham's questions about Fusion GPS's involvement "in preparing a dossier against Donald Trump that would be interfering in our election by the Russians" with "I don't want to say." Perhaps he will be called on to answer in a forum where he cannot refuse to answer.
The role of Fusion GPS and one of its key associates, a former Soviet intelligence officer, must raise the question as to whether the Steele dossier, which was orchestrated by a suspected unregistered agent of Russia, was a plant by Russian intelligence to harm Donald Trump.
David Satter, one of Forbes' top experts on Russia and himself expelled by the Kremlin, writes:
"Perhaps most important, Russian intelligence also acted to sabotage Mr. Trump. The Trump dossier, full of unverified sexual and political allegations, was published in January by BuzzFeed, despite having all the hallmarks of Russian spy agency creativity. The dossier was prepared by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer. It employed standard Russian techniques of disinformation and manipulation."
Much of the credibility of the Orbis dossier hinges on Steele's reputation as a former M15 intelligence agent.
Satter writes,
"After the publication of the Trump dossier, Mr. Steele went into hiding, supposedly in fear for his life. On March 15, however, Michael Morell, the former acting CIA director, told NBC that Mr. Steele had paid the Russian intelligence sources who provided the information and never met with them directly. In other words, his sources were not only working for pay. Furthermore, Mr. Steele had no way to judge the veracity of their claims."
If Steele disappeared for fear of his life, we must suspect that he feared murder by Russian agents. The only secret he might have had to warrant such a drastic Russian action would be knowledge that Russian intelligence prepared the dossier.
According to a Vanity Fair article, Fusion GPS was first funded by an anti-Trump Republican donor, but, after Trump's nomination, Fusion and Steele were paid by Democrat donors whose identity remains secret.
Writes Satter: "Perhaps the time has come to expand the investigation into Russia's meddling to include Mrs. Clinton's campaign as well."
As someone who has read every word of the Steele Trump dossier and has studied the Soviet Union/Russia for almost a half century, I can say that the Steele dossier consists of raw intelligence from informants identified by capital letters, who claim (improbably) to have access to the highest levels of the Kremlin.
The dossier was not, as the press reports, written by Steele. No matter how experienced (or gullible) Steele might be, there is no way for him to know whether his sources are clandestine Russian intelligence agents.
In Stalin's day, some of the most valued KGB agents were called "novelists," for their ability to conjure up fictional plots and improbable tales to use against their enemies.
Some of Steele's sources claim detailed knowledge of the deepest Kremlin secrets, such as Putin's personal control of Clinton emails or negotiations with Putin's head of the national oil company. If they truly had such knowledge, why would they "sell" it to Steele?
The most likely explanation is that the Steele dossier is the work of Russian intelligence "novelists" charged by the Kremlin with defaming Trump and adding chaos to the American political system.
Mueller's Difficult Task
While leaks from within the investigation focus on possible obstruction of justice, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's writ – to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election – requires him to consider "matters" that Dems would prefer be left alone.
Special Counsel Mueller has been given a broad charge and no deadline — a formula for trouble. He is supposed to "investigate Russia's intervention in the 2016 election."
Given the many accounts of Russian contacts of Trump campaign officials and hangers-on, Mueller must follow these leads, which apparently have lead nowhere over a nine month investigation as reported even by Trump unfriendly sources like CNN.
Mueller, therefore, should not require much time to rule out coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia state actors. Mueller must be careful to avoid detours into loosely related issue by scalp-hunting investigators. Mueller also must shut down leaks from within his office, if he wishes his reports to be credible to the American people.
Mueller must also conduct an investigation which is perceived as fair to both sides. On the Clinton/Democrat side, there are a number of unanswered questions related to Russian electoral intervention.
Among them is the question of whether the "wiped clean" Clinton e-mails are in Russian hands (as asserted by the Steele dossier), whether the tarmac meeting of Bill Clinton and the Attorney General quashed the investigation of Hillary's e-mails, and whether the Clintons' and Russian uranium interests engaged in quid pro quo and "pay to play" operations.
The most important unanswered question is whether the Clinton campaign funded the Orbis Trump smear campaign and did they understand the campaign could be conducted by Russian intelligence?
Mueller must question Steele himself on his sources and some of the sources themselves, investigate whether they could be Russian intelligence agents, and determine the role of Clinton donors and campaign officials in the funding of the anti-Trump dossier.
The Fusion-Steele matter is explosive because it suggests that Russia's most damaging intervention in the 2016 campaign may have been its creation of the Steele Dossier, remarkably paid for by the Clinton campaign.
If so, the Clinton campaign (not Trump) was the prime sponsor of Russia's intervention in the 2016 election.
— Paul Roderick Gregory is Cullen Professor of Economics at the University of Houston, Professor at the Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, Germany, and a Research Fellow at the Hoover Intuition at Stanford. He has written over 20 books on Russia and on Comparative Economics. Is Russiagate Really Hillarygate? originally appeared at To The Point News.


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Motorola Corp. on Wednesday showed off a new Android phone that connects to a docking station that looks like a laptop but has no CPU, so that users can access a full physical keyboard and monitor.
The device will be available from Bell Mobility in the near future, but the carrier has yet to offer a release date or pricing details.
The Atrix 4G runs a 1 GHz dual-core processor, matching the power of full-size PCs from just a few years past. The phone hooks to the dock using an app called Motorola Webtop. The docking device weighs just over 2 pounds and has long battery life, said Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility. He unveiled the device at the AT&T Developers Summit at CES in Las Vegas.
Users will be able to browse the Internet on the full version of Mozilla Firefox. "This is not desktop-like. This is the desktop browser running on this," said Jha.
He did not disclose many more details about the dock. Presumably users will be limited to the applications that can run on the Android phone. The concept of pairing a mobile phone with a "dumb" device that features a larger keyboard and monitor is similar to one called the Folio that Palm once announced but later killed.
Users of the Atrix will also be able to connect the phone into a different dock that will allow streaming to an HDTV or any HDMI-compatible monitor.
Jha did not say how much the Atrix or the docks would cost or when they would be available.
His announcement followed one from AT&T Mobility President and CEO Ralph de la Vega who said that the operator is speeding up the launch of its faster network. It now plans to launch LTE (Long Term Evolution) in the middle of this year, completing the network by the end of 2013. He credited recent tax law incentives for the new schedule, but the operator is also catching up with competitor Verizon which has already launched LTE in around 40 markets.
In addition to the Motorola Atrix, AT&T customers will get access to a new HTC Android phone, the Inspire 4G. It will be the first from HTC to feature a new version of HTC Sense, a user interface created by HTC. The Inspire will be compatible with a new service from HTC that will offer some remote capabilities that should appeal to enterprise users. For instance, users will be able to remotely wipe the phones if they lose them.
AT&T will also this year sell the Infuse 4G from Samsung, a phone that will have a 4.5-inch screen, one of the largest on a smartphone. It will have a 1.2 Ghz processor and two cameras to allow for video conferencing.
AT&T also plans to launch an HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) tablet this year. It will come from Motorola, have a 10.1-inch screen, run a Nvidia dual-core processor and be based on Android Honeycomb. Motorola is expected to reveal more details of the tablet at a press conference Wednesday.
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A Daughter Makes Peace With Past
Lynn Redgrave's Tony-nominated performance in `Shakespeare for My Father' strikes a chord
FRESH from her Tony nomination for best actress, Lynn Redgrave settles back into the flower-print sofa, backstage at New York's Helen Hayes Theatre. "Shakespeare for My Father," the one-woman show she conceived and wrote that chronicles her relationship with her famed British actor father, Michael Redgrave, has just had its run extended, and she is enjoying a light dinner between matinee and evening shows.
"After my father's death in 1985, people - complete strangers - would say `I'm sorry about your father,' and then invariably they would talk about their own fathers," she recalls. In 1991, when the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington invited her to do a special program commemorating the 60th anniversary of the formation of the Shakespeare Society, an idea was born.
Instead of a simple evening of best-loved Shakespeare passages peppered with anecdotes, the actress seized the opportunity to fashion a short play, interspersing family history, theater lore, and well-known speeches. The evening was a great success and sparked a plan to expand it into full production. Given that the Folger audience was made up of Shakespeare aficionados, she wondered "would it play in Oklahoma?" It did. Following a tour through the United States, "Shakespeare for My Father" opened to cri tical and public acclaim on Broadway in April.
Redgrave's career has taken her from recognition in the 1966 film "Georgy Girl" while still a teenager, through years of classical and contemporary theater work in New York and London. Included along the way were such diverse projects as television situation comedy and the recent PBS Masterpiece Theatre miniseries "Calling the Shots."
This newest project, however, ties together personal and professional elements. She summoned the courage to explore her feelings about her father, by all accounts a distant, remote, and frequently absent parent.
"What is this relationship with this man, your father, who is the first man in your life?" she asked herself, recognizing from those initial comments following his death that almost everyone had some part of their lives touched by that most basic relationship.
"A search for a father is a fairly universal theme, and while this is about a daughter searching for a father, an equal number of men come up to me. You know, I wanted a `Little House on the Prairie' father. People would tell me how he'd been the life and soul of the party, and all I could feel was the most bitter jealousy and anger because that had not been my experience with him at all."
What audiences appreciate about "Shakespeare for My Father" is Redgrave's easy transitions between storytelling about her four-generation theater family, and the various selections she has chosen from the Bard's plays, woven together to sketch out the actress's life and feelings. The play is directed by her husband John Clark and performed on a spare stage with only a large wooden trunk, an armchair, a rug, and a portrait of her father.
Audiences with no more knowledge of Shakespeare than what is commonly taught in high school can readily enjoy the play's full meaning. Although many Americans believe that the English are better versed in Shakespeare, she points out that "they really aren't." And, she adds with a smile, "American audiences listen better."
Between bites of steamed vegetables and rice, she remembers her first trip to the United States, after the opening of "Georgy Girl."
"That was a once-in-a-lifetime giant role for a character actress. I knew there wouldn't be many of them, that I'd be the supporting clown for the rest of my life if I didn't get out of that situation."
People assumed she and the character were the same. So she lost weight, took a job in the play "Black Comedy," and began the process of reinventing herself. She was inspired by the work of British actresses Dorothy Tutin and Peggy Aschroft, as well as Australian Zoe Caldwell, who joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in London. "And I was a great Jeanne Moreau fan. I saw everything she did."
She does credit her father with giving some of the best advice possible to a young actor when she was starting out: "Work breeds work."
"If you have a choice between a not-so-good part, and no part, take that part, and do something with it. And you never know what it might lead to." And in fact, her initial decision to expand the Folger project into something more substantial testifies to that wisdom.
Redgrave's relationship with her father was strained until just before his death, when she got beyond his personal failings.
"I needed to forgive myself for feeling guilty about the bad thoughts I had about him," she says. "He was what he was, for better or worse, a difficult, tortured man who could be the joy of people's hearts or the nightmare of your life. It was his tragedy that he couldn't talk to me. It really wasn't mine. That was the growth on my part."