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If you're an old fart like me, you might have fond childhood memories of the original Quisp cereal. It was introduced in 1965 along with a companion cereal called Quake. Both of them were actually knock-offs of Cap'n Crunch - the same ingredients, flavor, and crunch as in the Cap'n, but in different shapes (Quisp was formed into little "flying saucers" and Quake was in the form of letter Qs.)
Although eventually Quisp's popularity faded in the early 1970's and the cereal faded out of the national market, fans have long been nostalgic about it, and Quaker has never really pulled the plug on it. Quisp has been available sporadically in test markets since the early 1980's, and it has also been "pop up marketed" by Quaker in an unusual way for a large corporation since the 1990's - A freestanding display would be set up in the cereal aisle of a supermarket, filled with boxes of Quisp, and remain until the display was sold out. Quaker was able to keep interest in the cereal alive for quite awhile with this teasing sort of marketing unitl finally, in the early 2000s with the widespread use of this intertube doubleya-doubleya-doubleya-thing, Quisp became one of the first online-marketed cereals, consistently available through an online store.
I've always really like Quisp in no small part because, while it shares flavor and crunchability with Cap'n Crunch, it does not have the Cap'n's roof-of-the-mouth-destroying qualities (fans of Cap'n Crunch will know what I mean.) I noticed the Quisp seemed to be returning to stores a couple of weeks ago, first appearing at the local Shop Rite and then showing up in Stop & Shop. The box art references Quisp's reputation as a hard-to-find cereal, but also promises that it's going into wider distribution again, which is good news for fans.
It's also good news if you want to make a Quisp omelet. Stop laughing.
Quisp Omelet
Serves 1
1 tablespoon butter
2 or 3 eggs as desired
Salt and pepper to taste
Mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup Quisp cereal
Add half a cup of Quisp cereal.
Fold the sides of the omelet in to the center, wrapping the cereal and the cheese in a comfy blanket of egg.
Flip the omelet over briefly to cook the side with the fold, then remove to a plate and serve.
Enjoy your delicious Quisp omelet.
Ideally, the Quisp cereal should stay at least somewhat crunchy as it's folded into the omelet, but unfortunately the wet egg does have a bit of a tendency to seep in and soften the crunchiness out a bit. Still, the sweetness of the Quisp lends a brown-sugar/honey sort of flavor to the omelet, which is really good served with sausage or ham.


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Rebecca Warren as "Lady Isabelle / Madame Vine" in William J. Deane's American stage version of East Lynne for the season 1902-3, facing p. 13.
On their return to England, the Woods rented a house in the pleasant and still quite rural suburb of Upper Norwood, on the southern outskirts of London. Since 1851 Wood had been contributing stories regularly to Harrison Ainsworth's Bentley's Miscellany and, since the year before she left France, his New Monthly Magazine (see Jay xviii), but now she needed to earn proper money, and began writing in earnest — perhaps even in desperation. Her first novel, Danesbury House (1860), was dashed off for a competition held by the Scottish Temperance League, which she duly won. It was published in the league's stronghold, Glasgow. East Lynne followed immediately on from that success, opening in the New Monthly Magazine not in the following year, as her son reports, but later in the very same year (see "New Monthly" and Balee 145), coming out in book form in the autumn of 1861. Praised, amongst others, by the reviewer of the Morning Post ("touching, well-intentioned, and written in the highest tone of morality and earnestness," 3), it quickly went to five editions (see Sergeant 175), but really took off after the Times review of 25 January 1862. This began by saying that it was "found by all its readers to be highly entertaining," went on to pick fault with it on several scores, but also praised it for its "very great skill both in characterization and construction" and concluded, after a long and enticing excerpt, that "with all its artistic defects East Lynne is a first-rate story" (6). The excerpt was probably as effective as the endorsement: people flocked to buy the book, and it was widely translated, even, says her son, into Hindi (248). It was also repeatedly dramatised, starting with a production in Whitechapel in the East End, under the misleading title "Marriage Bells" (see Maunder 174). Unfortunately Wood had sold the copyright to her publisher, Richard Bentley, and gained nothing from all this.
Right: First page of the 13 March 1862 instalment of A Life's Secret, as presented in The Leisure Hour. The caption, "Peter Quale thinks something might be said on the other side," prepares us for Peter's argument against industrial action. To him, the trade unionists, not the bosses, are the tyrants. Left: Annabel Channing tries unsuccessfully to stop her charge, wilful little Jane Greatorex, running downstairs to Roland Yorke. Annabel is miserable after having been snubbed, as usual, by Jane's mother. It is a typical piece of domestic drama in Roland Yorke (1869), one of the Argosy's most successful serials. Source: The Argosy, Vol VII, facing p. 411.
Hot on the heels of East Lynne came two family sagas, Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles and The Channings (both in 1862), the former drawing on her knowledge of the glove industry, and the latter on her early memories of the pupils at the cathedral school. Both had elements of a detective story, something that would be characteristic in her fiction. With a complex publication history in periodicals, different editions in different countries, and a number of short story collections, it is hard to say exactly how many works followed, but there were over thirty and probably over forty in all (see Flowers). The earlier ones included the ghost story which she herself liked best, The Shadow of Ashlydyat (1863); Lord Oakburn's Daughter (1864); Mildred Arkell (1865); and a bigamy novel in which, controversially, she took a stand against industrial action, A Life's Secret (1867). This last had in fact been serialised anonymously in the Leisure Hour in 1862, a publication of the Religious Tract Society, but it was brought out in book form now with a foreword by the author herself, expressing her hope that it might encourage workers to refuse to strike, "and so avert seasons of bitter suffering from his family" (viii). Among later works were Ann Hereford (1868); Roland Yorke, which was a sequel to The Channings; Bessy Wells (1875); and Court Netherleigh, published posthumously in 1881.
Cover of Volume XL of the Argosy (July 1885) with most of the title word obliterated, unfortunately. This seems to be the only copy on the web that has this cover page.
Unlike her husband, who had died in 1866, Wood turned out to be a highly competent businessperson. In 1867 she took over the recently established Argosy, a monthly magazine of "tales, travels, essays, and poems" with excellent contributors, including Charles Reade, George MacDonald, Mrs Oliphant, Christina Rossetti, Henry Kingsley and others (see Argosy, Midsummer Volume). This turned out to be a brilliant move. First and foremost, it served as a showcase for her own work: though a few of the earlier contributors continued to appear, notably Rossetti, and some new ones were added, she now supplied the bulk of the material herself, with most of her subsequent writing first appearing here. As with the early A Life's Secret in the Leisure Hour, not all of her own contributions were named. The popular "Johnny Ludlow" stories, for instance, were published here anonymously from 1868. Narrated by Johnny himself, these drew closely on her Worcestershire background, and were praised at the turn of the century as being, "from a literary point of view, by far her best work.... subdued, quite unmelodramatic, and, at their best, [approximating to] Mrs. Gaskell's in manner" (Seecombe 356). Ward finally confessed her authorship of them, and they came out in a series of volumes from 1876-79.
In 1871 ownership of the magazine had passed into Bentley's hands, but Wood continued to edit it, later on helped by her son Charles. As editor, she used the magazine to promote her work indirectly as well as directly, notably through the reviews in "Our Log-Book," the Argosy's review section. As Jennifer Phegley suggests, these too would probably have been written by Wood (188-89), or would, at the very least, have been approved by her. Through the opinions expressed here, Phegley shows, she worked subtly and astutely to boost women writers, undercut the distinction between high and "popular" culture, and undermine such rivals as Wilkie Collins. In these ways, Wood both encouraged and helped to shape the taste for her own work.
Related Material
- Early Life and Marriage
- Death and Later Reputation
- Sympathy and Representation in Mrs. Henry Wood's East Lynne (1863)
- The Argosy (see under "Mrs Ellen Wood")
- "The Victorian Sensation Novel, 1860-1880 — "preaching to the nerves instead of the judgment"
- Select Bibliography (Mrs Henry Wood)
- Sensation Novel Bibliography on the Victorian Web
Note: For a list of issues of the The Argosy available on the web, and their whereabouts, see The Serial Archives Listings on the Online Books Page.
The Argosy, Volume VII, January-June 1869. Google Books (free ebook). Web. 18 November 2013.
The Argosy, Volume XL, 1885. Internet Archive. Web. 18 November 2013. (This was the only copy I could find with the "Argosy" cover and front matter, ads etc., at least partially intact.)
Balee, Susan. "Correcting the Historical Context: The Real Publication Dates of East Lynne." Victorian Periodicals Review. Vol. 26, No. 3 (Fall, 1993): 143-145. Accessed via Jstor. Web. 18 November 2013.
Dean, William J. New version of East Lynne. Toldeo, Ohio: Burt, Warren & Dean, 1902. Internet Archive. Web. 18 November 2013.
"East Lynne." The Morning Post. 3 October 1861: 3. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II. Web. 18 November 2013.
"East Lynne." The Times. 25 January 1862: 6. Times Digital Archive. Web. 18 November 2013.
Flowers, Michael. "Ellen Wood's Novels and Books." The Ellen Wood Website. Web. 18 November 2013.
Jay, Elizabeth. Introduction. East Lynne. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2005. vii-xxxix. Print.
Maunder, Andrew. "I Will Not Live in Poverty and Neglect": East Lynne and the East End Stage." Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre. Ed. Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. 173-187. Print.
New Monthly Magazine. Vol. 118. (The first instalment of East Lynne starts on p. 28.) Google Books (free ebook). Web. 18 November 2013.
Phegley, Jennifer. "Domesticating the Sensation Novelist: Ellen Price Wood as Author and Editor of the Argosy Magazine." Victorian Periodicals Review. Vol. 38, No. 2 (Summer 2005): 180-98. Accessed via Jstor. Web. 18 November 2013.
Seecombe, Thomas. "Wood, Ellen (1814-1887)." Dictionary of National Biography: Williamson-Worden. London: Smith, Elder, 1900. 355-57. Internet Archive. Web. 18 November 2013.
Sergeant, Adeline. "Mrs Henry Wood." Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1897. 174-192. Internet Archive. Web. 18 November 2013.
Sutherland, John. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. London: Longman, 1988. Print.
Wood, Charles W. Memorials of Mrs Henry Wood. London: Richard Bentley, 1894. Internet Archive. Web. 18 November 2013.
Wood, Mrs Henry. A Life's Secret. Vol. I. London: Charles W. Wood, 1867. Internet Archive. Web. 18 November 2013.
_____. A Life's Secret. The Leisure Hour. 13 March 1862: 161. The Hathi Trust. Web. 18 November 2013.
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Promoting War on IranWritten by Stephen Lendman Subject: WAR: About that War
In June 2009, a Brookings Institution report titled, "Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran" was a regime change policy paper. Pro-Israeli right-wing ideologues prepared it, including:
(1) Martin Indyk: former US ambassador to Israel, currently Brookings foreign policy director.
(2) Kenneth Pollack: Former CIA analyst and National Security Council staff member; current Council on Foreign Relations member and Brookings Saban Center for Middle East Policy research director.
(3) Michael O'Hanlon: Former Congressional Budget Office national security analyst, currently Brookings senior fellow for defense and military policy.
(4) Bruce Riedel: Former CIA counterterrorism specialist and assistant to the President and senior director for Near East Affairs on the National Security Council; current Brookings foreign policy senior fellow.
(5) Suzanne Maloney: Former State Department policy advisor, currently Brookings foreign policy senior fellow.
(6) Daniel Byman: Former 9/11 Commission staff member; currently Brookings Saban Center for Middle East Policy research director and Georgetown University security studies professor.
Report topics include:
• military options for disarming Iran;
• invasion;
• air strikes;
• allowing or encouraging an Israeli attack;
• regime change; and
• containment.
Its introduction stressed "the trouble with Iran," asking what should America do about it? It falsely claimed Iran's well along toward developing nuclear weapons. It also sited "Iranian mischief," including "support for terrorist groups," and its "wider efforts to overturn the regional status quo."
It claimed alleged "incontrovertible" evidence that "Iran has aided groups seeking to overthrow the governments of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain (and arguably Lebanon and Israel as well) at various times," but didn't reveal it.
In addition, it claimed alleged evidence shows "Iran may have encouraged (perhaps even ordered) various groups to mount attacks that have derailed (Israeli - Palestinian) peacemaking efforts."
It asked if Washington "should (be) willing to accept the Islamic Republic at all."
Iran hasn't attacked another country in over 200 years and threatens none now. However, Brookings called Tehran a threat to America, when, in fact, Washington very much threatens Iran, the region and other independent states worldwide.
Brookings ignoried America downing Iran Air 655 in July 1988 in Iranian air space, killing 290 passengers and crew on board. Instead, it falsely accused Tehran of attacking US Persian Gulf naval forces in 1987 and 1988.
In fact, an Iraqi missile struck the USS Stark in March 1987, and the USS Samuel B. Roberts struck an Iranian mine in April 1988 in waters it had no business being in.
Brookings stressed "ticking clock" urgency to act....(I)gnoring Iran is no long a realistic alternative (because) Iran('s) the bane of the United States in the Middle East."
Claiming its position doesn't "argue for one approach over another" dismisses its hawkish stance.
America's Media War on Iran
For months, media scoundrels promoted it. They headlined bogus accusations about Iran plotting to kill Saudi Arabia's US ambassador. They feature stories about Iran's alleged nuclear threat despite no corroborating evidence proving it.
On December 29, New York Times writer John Vinocur headlined, "Clock Ticking for West to Act on Iranian Nuclear Program," saying:
"The Iranian nuclear clock ticks faster and louder in 2012." Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak said they'll have nuclear weapons in nine months and move into a "zone of immunity" safe from attack.
London-based International Institute for Studies anti-proliferation director Mark Fitzpatrick agreed, calling it "a real possibility."
US defense secretary Panetta believes it in a year, saying (i)f we have to do it, we will deal with it." Perhaps he means an election year October surprise after another self-inflicted homeland terrorist attack blamed on Iran.
Instead of responsible reporting, Vanocur encouraged war. So do other MSM contributors in print and on air.
On December 29, a Times editorial headlined, "Iran and the Strait," saying:
Doing it will be countered. "A Fifth Fleet spokesman usefully reminded Iran this week that the Navy always stands 'ready to counter malevolent actions to ensure freedom of navigation.' "
According to IAEA "inspectors, Iran has created computer models of nuclear explosions, conducted experiments on nuclear triggers and completed advanced research on a warhead that could be delivered by a medium-range missile."
Fact check
In November, outdated, forged, long ago discredited, and perhaps nonexistent documents were used to claim Iran's developing nuclear weapons.
During his tenure as IAEA director general (December 1, 1997 - November 30, 2009), Mohamed ElBaradei avoided anti-Iranian rhetoric and baseless charges. In fact, numerous times he denied a potential threat.
So do independent nuclear experts and America's Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community as recently as March 2011.
"Tehran's latest threat to block global oil shipping should leave no doubt about its recklessness and its contempt for international law. This is not a government any country should want to see acquire nuclear weapons."
Fact check
Truth isn't The Times' long suit. Baseless charges make headlines. Fingers are pointed the wrong way. America's appalling contempt for democracy, human and civil rights, international law and its own is ignored.
Times contributors dismiss issues of equity, justice, rule of law standards, and peace. Instead, they cheerlead US wars and promote new ones.
Presidential aspirant Ron Paul said sanctions aren't "an effective means to encourage a change of behavior in another country without war. However, sanctions and blockades are not only acts of war....they are most often the first step toward" it.
"Iran has every right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes." No evidence suggests "Iran has diverted enriched uranium for the peaceful and lawful generation of power toward building a nuclear weapon."
"We should be clear about this: sanctions against Iran are definite steps toward a US attack" as they were against Iraq and Libya. Moreover, disrupting Iranian oil shipments will harm "global trade and undermine the US economy, which in turn harms our national security."
"This race to war against Iran and Syria is both foolhardy and dangerous."
Paul added that threatening to block the Strait of Hormuz is a plausible response without "weapons of mass destruction" to deter menaces.
In fact, Paul's record on war is mixed. He supported attacking Afghanistan, but called war on Libya "unconstitutional (and) a loss for our American Republic."
He opposed attacking Iraq because Congress illegally ceded authority to Bush. In addition, he claimed it gave UN members say over US foreign interventions.
He also said GHW Bush sought and received UN authority to attack Iraq in 1991 because UN Resolution 678 permitted "all necessary means," implying military force if others failed.
In fact, US ambassador April Glaspie OK'd invading Kuwait to settle a border dispute over cross-drilling into Iraqi territory. A recent WikiLeaks release confirmed it: the Glaspie Memo known as 90BAGHDAD423.
Saddam was deceived. Iraqis paid dearly and still do. The combination of war, sanctions, more war and occupation destroyed the "cradle of civilization." Millions also died from war, post-war violence, disease, deep poverty, deprivation, a repressive pro-Western regime, and belligerent occupation.
Claiming Iran seeks nuclear weapons is a ruse. At issue is regime change to turn an independent state into a client one. Times writers, op-ed contributors, and editors know it but feature managed news and opinion, not truth and full disclosure.
So do other major media scoundrels.
On November 22, a Washington Post editorial headlined, "More half-measures from Obama administration on Iran," saying:
"By now it should be obvious that only regime change will stop the Iranian nuclear program. That means, at a minimum, the departure of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei...."
In other words, whatever it takes is OK, including war against another nonbelligerent state posing no threat.
On December 30, a Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined, "Iran's Hormuz Threat," saying:
"The US and Europe are at last mustering the gumption to target Iran's multibillion-dollar oil industry, and almost immediately Tehran is threatening to bring Persian Gulf tankers to a halt."
Around 40% of sea-borne oil passes through the strait or about 15.5 million barrels daily. Disrupting it, of course, affects all regional producers, including Iran. Catastrophic economic consequences would result, including skyrocketing oil prices. So would war by bringing America and Iran into direct confrontation.
"Iran's leaders are trying to see if they can intimidate (Washington) into backing down. The Western response should be to tighten sanctions further to show such tactics won't work."
"The episode is also a reminder (of Iran's) character and intentions....wholly in character for the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism." Disrupting Hormuz shipments should "be considered an act of war that would be met with a military response (against) Iran's military and nuclear assets, perhaps even its regime."
A Final Comment
Iran poses no belligerent or terrorist threat. In contrast, America, key NATO partners and Israel are global menaces.
Initiating war on Iran and/or Syria could be catastrophic, especially if nuclear weapons are used. Yet major media scoundrels promote it, mindless of the potential consequences.
Nonetheless, more war in 2012 is likely because Washington, Britain, France, and Israel want it, no matter the risks.
Perhaps a September or October surprise will become pretext to launch it. It wouldn't be the first time.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.
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{Iran hasn't attacked another country in over 200 years and threatens none now.}
I guess he was masturbating on Dec. 29 instead of reading the news:
The more I read Lendman's hard left agitprop, the more it seems he's funded by the KGB. Russia has a vested interest in making and keeping Iran their client state to get access to the Persian Gulf.. For instance, Lendman's agitprop not only against Israel and the U.S., but the Saudis. So why doesn't he just end each agitprop with Das Vidanya and get it over with?
The horrible hideous Islamic Republic of Iran must go no matter how much Russia and China like it. The U.S. doesn't want to make it into a "client state", but to end its mullahcracy and free its people, if possible so that they can rejoin the human race, the capitalist human race. Either way, it wants to end the rule of the mullahs and their rush to get nukes to use on Israel and who knows who else, probably us.
Of course Russia and China are the wild cards in the Middle East conflict, underestimating the threat of Islam to their countries and willing to ally with them against the U.S. and Israel for temporary advantage. Russia is daily threatening to re-Sovietize, but realistically its military couldn't be restored until at least 2015. Catch up to the modern Muslim World fast and free in your browser with the Historyscoper's Freakin' Powerful Muslimscope:
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I am looking for advice on the following practical problem. Please keep in mind that this came up in a practical application.
In the context of Markov chains, we have $N$ states, with $N$ very large. (In this application $N$ is on the order of $10^{100000}$ or so.) Every state is reachable from every other state (possibly in more than one step).
We have two transition probability matrices, $A$ and $B$.
I can probably calculate $A_{ij}$ for any two states $i$ and $j$ if needed, but what I can do easily is just propagate the states (simulate the process).
Suppose we start from some arbitrary state and let the system evolve for a very long time, obtaining a state $k$.
Given this state $k$, what is the probability that the system has been evolved using $A$? What is the probability that it was evolved using $B$?
In other words: I can easily simulate both processes on a computer. Given some state $k$, are there practical techniques to find out which of the two processes is more likely to have produced it?
Note: I think this Markov chain is reversible.
(I expect that the question will probably need clarifications once I manage to understand it more deeply. Please help with this.)


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War: The Five Best/Worst Things You Can Say To Your Children
- Chick Moorman Author of Parent Talk
- 2003 7 Mar
The Five Best
1. "What have you been hearing about the war?"
Ask your children questions. Begin a dialogue by showing an interest in your child's thoughts, ideas, and feelings. Ask him what he has heard at school. Ask what his friends think. Ask what he has heard on the news. Ask if he has questions.
Then listen to your child's answers. Ask clarifying questions. Why do you think that? How do you think that happened? What do you think will happen next? Show an interest in your child's opinion and it won't be long before you hear, "What do you think, dad?"
2. "You can only watch TV for 30 minutes and I want to be present."
War on TV can be graphic. Viewers and parents beware. In addition, seeing real human beings killed with the precision and repetition of a video game can have a numbing effect on children.
War is not a game. Neither is it a sixty-minute drama interlaced with commercials. The war related TV children watch needs to be highly regulated and supervised. Turn the TV off after the news coverage and debrief. Dialogue about what was just seen and heard. Processes the material presented and help your children make meaning of this serious material.
3. "What do you suppose it looks like from the other side?"
This question is parent talk that helps children learn about perspective. It helps them learn to see things from both sides of an issue and develop empathy as well.
"What do you suppose it looks like from the other side?" is a question that asks our children to shift perception, to put themselves in another person's shoes, to see how a situation looks from a different point of view. It broadens their perspective and develops their ability to see several sides of an issue simultaneously.
4. "I don't know what will happen, but I know we'll be able to handle it."
When children get scared, adults often make what they think are reassuring promises. They say, "Everything will be okay," or "Nothing will happen to us. I can tell you that." These promised do not tell children the truth. We do not know everything will be okay. We do not know for sure that nothing will happen to us. Not anymore!
Tell your children the truth, "I do not know what will happen, but I know we can handle it." What you are really communicating to your child here is confidence. This style of parent talk says, "I am confident we can handle whatever comes our way. If we have to ration, we can handle it. If the price of gas doubles or triples, we can handle it. If the economy nosedives, we can handle it.
5. "I understand how you could feel that way."
There is strong emotion generated in this country concerning war. We have hawks and doves, peace marchers and war advocates. There is debate and disagreement in the Congress. Marriage partners are often split on this issue. It is highly possible that one of your children holds beliefs about war that differ from yours. When these differences are expressed, effective parent talk would include, "I understand how you could feel that way."
"I understand how you could feel that way," does not say you agree with your child. It does not say you share their beliefs or their feelings. It demonstrates and communicates understanding, an understanding of how they could arrive at that conclusion. It is filled with respect for differences and honors diversity.
The Five Worst
1."God is on our side."
God doesn't take sides. To tell children God loves us more that He loves them is untrue. "God is on our side," is parent talk that helps our children develop false beliefs that only good things can happen to us because God plays on our team. When you say this to your children you equip them with a false sense of superiority.
Feelings of superiority lead to a belief in "better than." "Better than" breeds an "us vs. them" mentality that encourages conflict, dissention, and strife.
2. "We are right and they are wrong."
No one does anything wrong considering their view of the world. Human beings do horrible things only because they believe they are right. Their side is doing what they do because they think they are right. Our side is doing what we do because we think we are right.
Being right doesn't work. Making people wrong doesn't work. Speak to your children of differences. Let them know what is similar and what is different about the beliefs, values, morals and cultures. But do it without making others wrong.
3. "There is nothing you can do."
When you say these words to your child you tell her, "You are small, insignificant, and have no power." You teach her that she is at the mercy of her environment and that she has no influence over the events of her life. You are teaching her to play her life from the victim position
Ask instead, "What do you think we can do about this?" Help her brainstorm possible actions that can be taken. Couldn't she donate part of her allowance to the Red Cross? Could she write a letter to a serviceman or woman? How about making a poster, saying a prayer, putting a bow on a tree, or designing a T-shirt?
Tell your child, "You always have more choices than you think you have," and help her develop an "I can" stance towards life. One of the best ways to come to believe "I can do something" is simply to go out and do something.
4. "You don't know what you are talking about."
Would you ever say to your child, "You're really stupid. You're so young and inexperienced you couldn't possibly know anything. You need to live as long as I have and then you'll be worthy of having an opinion." Probably not. But when you say, "You don't know what you are talking about," you have sent him a similar message.
Of course we have more years of experience than our children. Absolutely, we have seen and heard things that they don't yet begin to grasp. But that doesn't mean we can't respect the opinion of our 8 year old or that of our 13 year old.
Listen to your child. Demonstrate your understanding of their views by reflecting it back to them with a paraphrase. Model for them a mature adult who can respect differences as well as contrary opinions.
5. "There is nothing to worry about."
Children worry. They get scared. They have strong feelings about war, terrorism, and death. To tell they have nothing to worry about is to ask them to numb out their feelings, push them down, and pretend they don't exist.
In times of strong emotion children needs support. They need adults in their lives who help them work through their feelings in safe ways. To help your emotion-laden child, use words that help him identify his feelings. Say, "You sound worried," or "I hear how scared you are," to demonstrate you are listening at a feeling level. Say, "So you are afraid we might be injured," to demonstrate that his feelings will be acknowledged.
It is only after emotions are expressed that children are able to handle the concerns that relate to those feelings. Be a parent who encourages you child to express his emotions.
Chick Moorman is the author of "Parent Talk: How to Talk to Your Child in Language That Builds Self-Esteem and Encourages Responsibility," now available in paperback; Simon and Schuster, a Fireside Original. He publishes free E-newsletters for parents and educators. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com to get your free subscription to one or both newsletters. Information on seminars and products is available by clicking here.


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The gospel changes a servant into a brother.
1 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,
2 And to our beloved Apphia, and aArchippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:
3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,
5 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
6 That the acommunication of thy faith may become beffectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the abowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
10 I beseech thee for my son aOnesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
14 But without thy amind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a abrother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee aought, put that on mine account;
19 I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
21 Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
22 But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your aprayers I shall be given unto you.
23 There salute thee aEpaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;
24 Marcus, Aristarchus, aDemas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.
25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
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How to Repair Electric Motors on a Fourth-Gen - Project Phoenix
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Let's face it, F-bodies aren't getting any newer, and as they continue to age, more problems continue to arise. Take for instance, our new project car. Since we've managed to skip a formal introduction, we'll take it upon ourselves to use this tech story as the perfect opportunity. Our aptly named Project Phoenix, a one-owner 2002 Trans Am WS6, will be getting some love in the coming months. You might remember it from the fuel upgrade story in the April issue.
It has received some tech in the past, most notably, a set of ported 5.3L heads, a high-lift bumpstick, and pretty much every typical bolt-on you can throw at a 4th-Gen with an LS1 (nope, no truck block or LS3 here). But with time, comes the need for update and change, and before we can even get serious about what's under the hood, there are simple items that we need to address first. Most notably, the headlight and rear antenna motors.
Why bother with something so petty? Simple, while many 4th-Gen F-body owners are quite satisfied with their cars falling apart as they go down the street, we're not so modest. Since we have pulled this car out of a 6-year hibernation, there are some things that have apparently went wrong with it while it sat – the aforementioned electric motors being among them.
Obviously, we plan on driving this car at night at some point, and the dead headlight motors just won't cut it. After the third time of having to manually open our headlight doors, it quickly became a nuisance. And while having a power antenna that only retracts halfway up isn't that big of a deal, it's one of those little things that drive us crazy. Sort of like the tag that sticks up out of the back of your t-shirt. The good thing about all of this, is that Hawks Third-Generation, a leader in new and used F-body components, had just what we needed to quell our ailing electronics.
Helping us with the install was Greg Lovell of AntiVenom Performance. The installation is pretty straightforward, but we needed the extra set of hands being as how someone had to use the camera. Tough job, but someone has to do it.
1. Knowing that our headlight motors and rear antenna were shot from an earlier diagnosis, we ordered up these replacements from Hawk's Third-Generation. I know that sounds odd since our car is a 4th-Gen, but Hawks carries everything for third- and fourth-generation F-bodies, 5th-Gen Camaros, and even parts for GTOs, Corvettes, and CTS-Vs these days. So we ordered up a pair of a brand new brass headlight gears, a new rear antenna assembly rebuild kit, and a set of rebuilt headlight motors from Bruce Hawkins over at Hawks. Why rebuilt headlight motors? Considering that replacing our broken versions for brand new units would set us back about $530, we've elected to save some cash for other things—like more horsepower.
2. Greg started up front, and immediately set about removing the headlight assemblies. First we disconnected the battery: safety first, then teamwork. Then removed the headlight bezel, the steel headlight doors, and then the two 10mm bots holding each of the assemblies in place – after you disconnect the electrical connectors, of course. With those things out of the way, we were able to access the motors themselves, relieving them from the two bolts and swing arm that hold them in place. Yes, it is possible to do this entire job with the headlight assemblies still in their as-delivered locations, but we, and Greg in particular, like to have a little more arm room to work with. Unless you have scrawny arms, you'll have difficulty doing so, otherwise.
3. Now that everything was out of Phoenix, we took the rebuilt headlight motors Hawks had sent us, and we opened up the case to allow for removal of the stock gear. The OEM piece from GM came delivered in a very lightweight but very wearable, nylon (plastic) gear. Overtime, the gear has the tendency to get worn in the center by the metal that cranks it over. Why does this happen? Because the control module senses an amp/current drain, and then kills the power going to the motor. As a result, every time you turn your headlights on or off, the headlight motor, briefly, tries to raise or lower (depending on what you're trying to do) the headlight, even though it can't. The brass gears we ordered from Hawks solve this problem. Why didn't GM do this in the first place? Probably "because bean counters." Greg used the Hawks supplied gear oil to prevent any premature wear on our new gears. Without it, we would be in the same boat we are in now in a few months time.
4. Greg used a two-part epoxy (available at any local auto parts store) to glue the housing back together, and gave it some time to dry. Once we gave the glue time to work its magic, Greg reinstalled the headlight assemblies, and put them back together. With everything buttoned back up, and knowing that we lined up the housing mounting bolts exactly where they originally were, we tightened those down bolts as well. It's always best to ensure the bodylines match up with the hood when closed. Otherwise, they'll rub whenever you try to operate the headlights. With that out of the way, we hit the headlight switch, and sure enough, they went up and down without a hitch. Who would have thought that having working headlights in today's world would be so rewarding? Mission accomplished.
5. Out back, the antenna was easy to replace as well. In order to do so, you have to pop the hatch, remove the interior trim panel that houses the spare tire (remember when performance cars still came with those?), removing the spare, allowing easy access to the antenna motor. Greg loosened the bolts holding the antenna motor into place, and then pushed the top of the antenna down into the hole, in order to remove it from the trunk. Oh, and don't forget to disconnect the antenna cable, too!
6. Out of the car, we removed the antenna and plastic gearing from the motor, and replaced it, using the new kit that Hawks had sent over. The kit includes detailed instructions – just in case you've never rebuilt one of these before. Apparently, it's pretty much a universal kit, and can be used in other older GM cars like G-bodies.
7. Back at our shop, you can see that we now have a fully functioning antenna again. Was this the most exciting thing we have planned for this car? No, those stories will come in due time, as we look at upgrading our slipping transmission in a future installment. See ya then!
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text: Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are the first line therapy for patients with HIV; however, ARV-treated, HIV-infected individuals still have a higher mortality rate than uninfected individuals. During the course of infection, HIV patients develop inflammation that damages the walls of the intestines, known as the gut mucosa, allowing intestinal microbes to escape and enter the blood stream to cause a life-threatening systemic infection. The health of the gut mucosa is significantly influenced by the complement of bacteria in the gut and there is mounting evidence that probiotic supplements benefit patients intestinal disorders, such as irritable bowel syndrome, C. difficile infection, and inflammatory bowel disease. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers led by Jason Brenchley at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, demonstrated that probiotic supplementation may also be beneficial for ARV-treated HIV patients. Brenchley and colleagues treated SIV-infected macaques (a model of human HIV-infection) with either ARV alone or ARV in combination with a mixture of probiotics. Macaques treated with probiotics had enhanced gastrointestinal immune function and decreased inflammation compared to macaques treated with ARV alone. In a companion article, Judith Aberg and colleagues at New York University School of Medicine discuss how these findings could benefit HIV patients. TITLE: Probiotic/prebiotic supplementation of antiretrovirals improves gastrointestinal immunity in SIV-infected macaques View this article at: http://www.jci.org/articles/view/66227?key=1cff041937d9040dfed7 ACCOMPANYING THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN TITLE: Clash of the microbes: let's bring back the good guys View this article at: http://www.jci.org/articles/view/66736?key=64b158b04e2a168811a3


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It is another example of ObWi synchronicity that Sebastian writes about fears just before I went under the knife (that's a phrase) If you really want to crank those fears up to 11, aim for a long convalescence in a hospital. I suppose you can become accustomed to it, but getting old isn't the problem, it's getting helpless. I'm on the mend, and I should be back to ADL in a week or so. Interestingly, according to that wikipedia page, another acronym for ADL was DEATH (dressing/bathing, eating, ambulating (walking), toileting, hygiene) Wonder why that didn't catch on. But Sebastian's post plus a close up encounter of when ADL is not a given really make things jump out at you.
I'm at a university hospital for this prostectomy, using the Da Vinci machine. Since everyone is talking about their age, I'd suggest that dealing with prostate enlargement earlier is probably better than what I did, which was ignore it until it got really bad and then found I had cancer that I may not have needed to treat, but the prostate was twice the size it is normally, so I opted to have it removed. If I had dealt with it 5 years earlier, I might not have had to have the surgery.
Obviously, at a uni hospital, with students around following the doctor, student nurses on rotation and such, it's nice. The ones who want to be doctors seem to be on a short leash, I've got a student nurse who seems to have a lot of time and is just shadowing people to see what to do. Seems like a good system. They need a 4 year degree (don't know if a 2 year degree is a possibility) but they have to pass extensive tests to become nurses, so they don't have a problem that they have in a lot of Japanese education where the entrance exam is the main hurdle.
There is a concept in Japanese called omotenashi, which is poorly translated as hospitality. Japanese like to break it out to explain why they are so nice, but it's a double edged sword, and it can be controlling, telling you how to eat your dish and keeping track of all the minute rules involved with just about every social interaction. . There are, it seems to me, a lot of foreigners who make Japan their home. I've got no way to quantify that number, but in talks I give to folks beginning their Japan soujourn and deciding if they want to stay, I tell them not to assume that everyone stays because Japan is such a wonderful place. That is not to say it is not wonderful, but it seems that a lot of people stay because of an impression of sunk costs. I realized this when I was in Vietnam with a group of students and teachers and we went out for pho, the heavenly Vietnamese noodle dish. With the bowl of noodles, you get a bunch of leaves, lime slices and other stuff. I started asking my dining partners how I was supposed to eat it, do I put the leaves in first, how many lime slices to squeeze, yada yada yada. Finally, one of them said 'just eat it the way you like'. While I'm sure part of my epiphany was due to the noodles, another part was realizing how much one gets in a groove in Japan thinking how certain things had to be done in a particular way. The idea of going to another country and relearning all that, or even going back to your home and trying to figure out what has changed, become daunting.
As I'm not having any complications (so far), I only have the occasional visit from the doctor so most of my observations are about nursing. I've got no idea how realistic medical shows are about how hospitals work, but even taken with a grain of salt, nursing seems better paid and 'easier' here. That "easier" requires some qualifications. It seems to me that nursing, at least as it works in Japan, looks a lot like blue collar labor. Before I go any further, I don't want anyone to assume I'm looking down on blue collar labor. In fact, I think one of the big problems of our modern world is that we don't give blue collar work its due. So when I say that nursing in Japan seems to be blue collar work, I'm not dismissing what they do.
And when they do it (with the technology backing them up and the previously mentioned omotenashi), it is quite nice. Each nurse has an ipod set up with face recognition. Everytime they administer a drug, they either ask me my name or scan the bar code on my wrist band. The face recognition records their face, and they also take a picture of whatever they are administering, down to the lowliest saline solution. They have a cart with a networked Thinkpad where they record my blood pressure, temp and oxidation level so the doctor has a full timeline of the patient's condition if it goes south.
The demographics of nursing is pretty interesting. Almost entirely women, this is a university hospital that is quite busy, so the nurses tend to be in their 20s. The general pattern is to work and then leave the job to marry, or to move to a smaller hospital that is not as busy in the late 20's/early 30's. I asked if people come back to work after getting married and having children and was told no, not really, which is not surprising, because the Japanese mother's workload in education is quite extensive.
I've heard that there are shortages in nurses in the UK and US, and there are also shortages here, though not to the level that I have read for the UK. However, the nurse shortages here are exacerbated by the difficulty that foreign nurses have in working here in that they have to pass not only all the nursing tests, they have to reach a very high level of Japanese fluency not only to pass those tests but also to pass other language tests. I, despite living in Japan for 30 years, would have difficulty passing them as well. In jobs that don't require that level of medical knowledge, that of care workers who "just" have to assist in ADL, there are still huge hurdles. This reinforces a belief I've had, that if we were able to invert the wages, so that people who handled children and taking care of the elderly had the highest compensation and people who got to do easy stuff like teaching university students were towards the bottom, we might have a more just society.
My last observation is that there is really no way in a civilized society that a health system should be for profit. Because if it is, there are going to be so many opportunities for someone to cut corners or boost revenues by cutting back on something that you get to a point like Lord of the Flies. My hospital stay after my prostatectomy is ten days to 2 weeks. In the US, it's 24 hours after the surgery. So yeah, maybe I'm a stupid liberal ignoring the wellspring of our entreprenurial energy, but if that energy is generated by making it more and more expensive to spend time in a hospital, maybe we've got the balance wrong. But if the goal is to profit, then you are going to have things like this: Not criminal, but making it so everyone else has to pay a cost.
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Muffins are a type of quick bread that's baked into multiple small individual pieces so it can be enjoyed by one person. Muffins are similar to cupcakes except they are more dense and hearty, lack frosting and are less sweet. Vegan muffin recipes usually substitute eggs with egg replacer ingredients such as flax, starches or fruit purées.
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The sweetness of apricots and the earthiness of 100% rye flour complement each other, especially when accompanied by molasses, cardamom and espresso powder in this Vegan Apricot Rye Muffin recipe. Rye flour contains a low amount of gluten compared to wheat based flour so in order to enhance binding, the batter is mixed for 1 minute to allow the starches in the flour to become activated. The pectin in the apricot preserves also acts wonderfully as a binder in these vegan muffins.
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Carrot cake is my all-time favorite dessert so I adapted it into a heartier quick bread in the form of this Vegan Carrot Cake Muffin recipe so I could justify having it for breakfast. It's pointless to resist carrot cake goodness in it's new quick bread form so don't even try. A dollop of almond butter on top contrasts nicely with carrot cake flavor and adds extra nutritious oomph to power your day of world domination.
This Vegan Blueberry Beetnik Muffin recipe takes advantage of baked beets which harbor wonderful butter caramel flavors when their sugars caramelize. The vegan muffins are then complimented by the tartness of blueberries and just the right ratio of whole wheat flour and all-purpose flour. Lemon juice enhances flavor while allowing the beet purée to retain its vibrant reddish color during baking. This is because acids reduce the oxidation of plant-based compounds called anthocyanins, which are responsible for the red color in foods like beets and raspberries.
This Vegan English Muffin recipe features just a touch of lemon juice and sugar to enhance its yeast-induced flavors. They're awesome fresh out of the toaster with a little Vegan Butter, jam or whatever your preferred muffin topping is. I've been known to use these as burger buns too. They're not loaded with preservatives and dough conditioners like their store-bought cousins but they'll still keep in the freezer stored in a plastic freezer bag for several months.
The subtle buttery flavor of zucchini and intensely sweet flavors of pineapple collide with delicious chaos in this Vegan Zucchini Pineapple Muffin recipe. Flavors are further enhanced by the addition of vanilla extract, cinnamon and nutmeg. Just the right ratio of whole wheat flour and all-purpose flour is used to give these vegan muffins the optimum level of fluffiness.
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This Vegan Pumpkin Spice Muffin recipe has a wonderful warm, buttery flavor that is enhanced by barley malt syrup, lemon juice, cinnamon, ginger and a touch of cloves. Pecans add flavor complexity and a delightful crunch. These vegan muffins are equally good with baked sweet potato purée substituted for the pumpkin as well.
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This Vegan Carrot Bran Muffin recipe features carrots which lend sweet, buttery notes. These flavors are further enhanced by just the right amount of molasses and your choice of wheat germ, wheat bran or oat bran. Raisins are added for additional sweetness and flavor depth and a touch of vanilla extract ties the flavors together into a dense and hearty muffin.
This Hearty Vegan Breakfast Muffin recipe was created because I wanted a healthy, hearty vegan muffin that provided good energy for the first meal of the day without giving me a mega-dose of sugar like most other muffins often do. These fruit sweetened muffins contain no refined sugar, more protein, complex carbs and fiber than most other muffins because they feature ingredients like dates, raisins, walnuts, rolled oats, hemp protein powder or soy flour, maple syrup and molasses. These ingredients lend a delightfully complex taste and contribute to a dense hearty texture. They're easy to make and provide about one week of breakfasts. Try them topped with almond butter.
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These Vegan Blueberry Muffins feature a buttery flavor and smooth texture thanks to the combined efforts of non-dairy milk, lemon juice and lemon extract. This compliments the tartness of the blueberries, making a delectable snack for breakfast or any other occasion. The combination of lemon juice and lemon extract in this recipe is so the lemon flavor can be brought up to tasty levels without excessive acidity, which in large amounts can negatively affect gluten's ability to bind.
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This Vegan Apple Pecan Muffin recipe has a wonderful apple notes enhanced by maple syrup, lemon juice, allspice and cinnamon. The addition of pecans adds a welcome flavor and texture contrast and a touch of unrefined coconut oil makes you not miss the fact that they don't contain any butter. Using tart apples like Granny Smith is preferred for maximum apple flavor.
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In what's being called a first-of-a-kind operation, surgeons implant an entire titanium jaw made with a precision 3D printing technique.
An elderly woman has received a replacement titanium jaw, an operation participants say demonstrates the potential of patient-specific body implants.
Belgian company LayerWise today said that it produced an entire jaw using additive manufacturing, a technique that allows fabricators to make an item directly from a CAD drawing. The transplant demonstrates that precision 3D printing can be effective for both bones and organ implants, the company said.
The method selectively heats metal powder particles with a laser to construct an object layer by layer. Using this method allows LayerWise to create complex shapes that a custom made for patients and don't require glue or multiple parts.
"It used a laser beam to melt successive thin layers of titanium powder together to build the part," Ruben Wauthle, LayerWise's medical applications engineer, told the BBC. "This was repeated with each cross section melted to the previous layer. It took 33 layers to build 1mm of height, so you can imagine there were many thousand layers necessary to build this jawbone."
The woman who received the titanium jaw suffered from progressive osteomyelitis, which led to the decision to replace the entire bone. The operation was a success. The implant returned the woman's jaw line and allowed her to speak and swallow normally again, according to LayerWise.
"The new treatment method is a world premiere because it concerns the first patient-specific implant in replacement of the entire lower jaw," Professor Dr. Jules Poukens, who was part of a team that worked on the implant, said in a statement.
The implant, which is coated with a bioceramic coating over the metal, is made with cavities to promote muscle and nerve attachment.


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STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Their motto is "shock the world." So far, so good for the Stony Brook Seawolves.
Stony Brook University, which began playing a Division I schedule only in 2000, is headed to the College World Series after pulling off a stunning upset of perennial baseball powerhouse LSU before 10,000 Tigers supporters in Baton Rouge, La.
The Seawolves, who won the last two games of a best-of-three series from LSU, including a 7-2 clincher Sunday night, are the first team from New York state to reach the College World Series since 1980 and the first team from the Northeast since Maine in 1986.
But before heading to Omaha, Neb., where they take on UCLA on Friday, the Seawolves received a heroes' welcome Monday on their campus 60 miles east of New York City. The crowd included mostly university staff and a smattering of students since the university is on a summer vacation.
Long Island Congressman Timothy Bishop was also among the dignitaries greeting the team as it got off a bus after a landing at nearby Islip-MacArthur Airport.
As they had in the games against LSU, many players flashed an "O'' hand signal, signifying their goal of making it to Omaha for the College World Series.
The brief rally rivaled a miniature version of the atmosphere of a World Series or Super Bowl celebration thrown for New York's professional teams at City Hall.
"It's unbelievable," said first baseman and outfielder Kevin Courtney of Lindenhurst, N.Y. "This is really unexpected. We had friends and family come and support us at the airport, and then we came back here and see all these people. It's tremendous support. It's really what keeps us motivated and going."
Stony Brook coach Matt Senk, who was hired in 1991 to lead the then-Division III team, said the brief respite at home will benefit his players who have been on the road for two weeks, first competing in regional competition in Miami before advancing to Baton Rouge.
"It will be nice to get back here and take it easy for a day and a half and then get back to business," he said.
The team, which usually plays before only several hundred on its home field on Long Island, was not intimidated by the raucous LSU crowd, he said. "We were called Tiger bait by LSU fans, and in a good way. Their fan base is unbelievable from 6 year olds to 90 year olds. A lot of teams they say go in there and are intimidated and we wanted to make sure we enjoyed the experience and fed off of it in a positive way, and that's exactly what we did."
Although the team may be little known on the national stage, baseball scouts have taken notice. Senk said he has a quality group of players; seven have been drafted by Major League Baseball teams, including center fielder Travis Jankowski, the Seawolves' leading hitter at .422 and the 44th overall selection in last week's amateur draft.
Joe Nathan, a Major League veteran who pitches for the Texas Rangers, is a Stony Brook alumnus.
Starting pitcher Frankie Vanderka, who threw a complete-game three-hitter in the series clincher on Sunday night, insisted the team is not satisfied with its accomplishments so far.
"We love the whole Cinderella story, you know," he said surrounded by news microphones and cameras on Monday afternoon. "Everyone underestimating us and then showing what a Northeast team can do? We just played how we played all year. We didn't change a thing."
He conceded all the attention will not go unnoticed once the squad arrives in Omaha later this week.
"People are going know; it's going to be a great time," he said.
And how does he size up UCLA, the Seawolves' first opponent?
"It's just another game."


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EPA told to reconsider California ethanol waiver request
Byline: Harry Cline Farm Press Editorial Staff
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has told the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its denial of California's request to waive a federal mandate to add ethanol to gasoline to fight air pollution.
California contends its refineries can make clean-burning gasoline without oxygenates such as ethanol or MTBE. In fact, California's Sen. Diane Feinstein contends ethanol's volatility may be the cause for increasing smog levels in Southern California since the waiver was denied and more ethanol was added to the state's gasoline supply.
However, the director of the Renewable Energy Action Project contends it was the weather and not ethanol that was the cause of a sharp increase in Southern California smog levels this year.
The court ruling and Feinstein's call for a study of ethanol's impact on smog set off more volleys between Feinstein and others in California and Midwest corn interest over whether Californians should be required to burn ethanol made from corn in their cars and light trucks.
The Bush administration cited the Clean Air Act in rejecting California's request for an oxygenate waiver in June 2001. The most liberal appeals court in the nation said recently it was the Bush administration that violated the clean air act when "the EPA abused its discretion by refusing to evaluate the effect that an oxygen waiver would have on California's efforts to comply. We accordingly remand this case to the EPA with instructions to give full consideration to the effect of a waiver on both the ozone and pollutant standards."
Called heartening
Feinstein said it is "heartening" for the court to make the EPA reconsider its denial of California's requested waiver from requirements that call for 2 percent of its reformulated gasoline to include an oxygenate. Since MTBE is soon to be banned, the only viable oxygenate is ethanol.
California produces only miniscule amounts of ethanol. There have been propositions to increase ethanol production from non-corn byproducts in the wake of the EPA denial of the California's waiver, but to date the majority of California's ethanol supplies continue to be imported, mostly from corn producing Midwestern states.
California farmers generally favor ethanol production because it would reduce Midwest corn supplies and bolster prices for California corn and other commodities that compete with corn. However, California fuel prices are among the highest in the nation and anything to cause them to go higher is not popular.
An EPA reversal to approve the California waiver request would be a setback to the ethanol/renewable fuel industry since California represents the biggest ethanol market in the nation.
However, the National Corn Growers Association says the court ruling by the San Francisco court of appeals substantiating EPA's actions supporting ethanol is not a setback for renewable fuels.
Decision reaffirmation
"While some may see this decision as a loss for ethanol, in reality, the EPA's original decision was reaffirmed," said Jon Doggett, the NCGA's vice president of public policy. "The court said EPA should also have looked at the impact on national ambient air quality standards. We are comfortable with the issues being remanded back to EPA. We are on the verge of obtaining a national renewable fuels standard, and we don't view this as a setback.
"The ruling furthers the ethanol industry's ability to move into a new market without disruption of supply," says Doggett. "It will also provide for a healthier environment in California."
Not necessarily, according to Feinstein who said the waiver denial not only sent pump prices skyrocketing to record levels it also worsened air quality as California refineries transition to ethanol from MTBE. MTBE will be banned after June 1 next year because it has been found in groundwater.
Ethanol is now blended into almost 70 percent of California's gasoline supply and the "transition continues without significant problems," according to the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA).
A study earlier this year by the California Energy Commission said unexpected refinery outages and longer than expected refinery maintenance – both unrelated to the switch to ethanol – combined with tight gasoline supplies and high world crude oil prices to produce record high retail gasoline prices in California. RFA says the cost of ethanol had nothing to do with record prices averaging more than $2 per gallon.
Price down, but…
California gasoline prices have declined from an average of $2.15 per gallon in March to about $1.75 in July. However, that is still 23 cents higher than the national average. Most of that is added California taxes.
Recently, Feinstein asked the EPA and the California Air Resources Board to investigate the impact of ethanol-blended gasoline on California's air quality.
She said air quality in the South Coast Air Quality Management Zone has gotten worse this year compared to last and "the switch to ethanol-blended gasoline is considered one of the main culprits in increased ozone."
So far this summer, she said the district has already experienced 35 days above the federal ozone standard in 2003.
"This is worrisome because there were only 21 days exceeding the federal ozone standard in 2002. So far in 2003 the maximum ozone measured was 216 parts per billion (ppb) while in 2002 the maximum was 169 ppb. Moreover, for the first time in five years, Southern California experienced a Stage 1 smog alert on Friday June 11, 2003."
"Since ethanol's volatility increases smog, particularly in the summer, I believe we need to look carefully at its impact on air quality," said the senator.
The issue has already been addressed, according to Brooke Coleman, director of the Renewal Energy Action Project, a national coalition of environmentalists, private foundations, government agencies and renewable energy advocates.
'Way off base'
In a sharply worded response to Feinstein's anti-ethanol comments, Coleman said the senator was "way off base in targeting the renewable fuel industry."
Coleman said ethanol does not impact gasoline volatility and the main culprit in the ozone increases has been "meteorological changes," according to the South Coast Air Quality Management District's model. Other factors, added Coleman, include an "unanticipated increase in the number of SUVs and miles driven."
Coleman accused the senator of skewing the debate toward Midwestern wealth and alleged pump price increases while ignoring the fact ethanol is cheaper than gasoline; safer than other alternatives to MTBE and reduces "California's alarming consumption of fossil fuels."
Coleman said Feinstein's "attacks on ethanol" are doing the oil and automobile industries "a great favor by distracting Californians from the true source of smog in urban areas; increased auto emissions.
"The problem with California's air is not ethanol. Ethanol is part of the solution," Coleman charged.
With energy bills in the House and Senate including an ethanol mandate almost tripling the amount of ethanol used in the nation's gas supply, Feinstein "strongly believe that we should know more about ethanol's impact on air quality in California."
Feinstein is seeking an investigation by the state of California to find what role increased ethanol use is having on current higher smog levels.
Under the provisions contained in the Senate energy bill, the U.S. would be required to use 5 billion gallons of ethanol by 2012.
Feinstein reiterated that California can meet clean air standards without ethanol or MTBE.
"California's own clean air and reformulated gasoline requirements are the most stringent in the nation and would continue to be in effect, even if a waiver were granted," Feinstein said.
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YouTube launches new iPhone app ahead of iOS 6 release
New version will include access to thousands of additional videos, notably major-label music videos, which is made possible with now-allowed advertising.
Days before iOS 6 lands on iPhones without the familiar pre-installed YouTube app, Google has released a new version with some significant upgrades. (Grab the app here.)
Tens of thousands of additional videos can now be played through the iOS app, notably major-label music videos. That will be made possible by advertising, which was forbidden in the original Apple-designed app. The new YouTube also includes an easier way to browse any channels you've subscribed to -- just swipe right from the left side of the screen to see a list of them -- and new options for sharing videos with friends, including Facebook and Google+.
Last month, a new beta release of iOS removed the YouTube app, which has been a part of Apple's mobile operating system since the original iPhone launch. Apple said at the time that its license to include YouTube had ended and that users would be free to access YouTube via the mobile Web or a forthcoming app that YouTube was building itself. That app arrives today.
For YouTube, breaking with Apple meant a chance to bring the slick, modern experience it built for Android devices to hundreds of millions of current and future iPhone owners. YouTube had little control over the app that bore its name for the past five years; Apple built the app itself according to YouTube's instructions but updated it infrequently. The ban on advertising made it difficult to access copyrighted content inside the app; many a music fan went looking for a Lady Gaga video over the years on iOS and came up empty.
"Over the years that resulted in a more limited experience for our users, and lots of frustration," said Francisco Varela, global director of platform partnerships at YouTube. "We're going to get rid of that."
Varela then put it another way: "You're now going to be able to watch your Lady Gaga video on your phone."
A changing relationship
The original deal between Apple and Google on the YouTube app helped remake video for the mobile world, as the iPhone's lack of support for Adobe Flash meant YouTube's catalog had to be re-formatted to work in HTML5. The iPhone's popularity helped make MP4 format the standard format for mobile video. Over the years, it became less important for Apple to have a dedicated app for finding videos that would play on its phone.
At the same time, the Apple-Google relationship has soured considerably since the launch of the first iPhone. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs took Google's development of its own mobile operating system, Android, as a great affront -- and an infringement on Apple's intellectual property. Patent lawsuits are now playing out around the world, and Apple has made a series of moves this year to push Google out of its operating system.
At its Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple showcased a new maps application that will replace the Google-powered app now in use on iOS devices. Removing YouTube from the list of pre-installed apps marked the next step.
But for Google, the YouTube break could represent a significant revenue opportunity. The company says its users watch 1 billion videos a day on mobile devices; enabling ads on their iOS app will help the company reach a large new audience.
How much advertising should users expect? Varela said it will be roughly similar to using YouTube on the Web.
"It's really up to our content owners what they want to do," he said. "But we're not looking to overwhelm."
Not done yet
What's next for the YouTube app? The company is already hinting at some big new features to come. For starters, an iPad version is in the works. YouTube also wants to make movies and TV shows purchased through the Google Play store available on the iOS app.
For now, though, YouTube needs to educate its users that they can no longer rely on Apple to put its app on their iPhones for them. For now, they don't seem worried about it.
"We fundamentally changed the mobile ecosystem with our original partnership," Varela said. "This is just the next phase of it."
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