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Child Bride Courtney Stodden and Creepy Old Husband Give Weirdest Interview Yet
Every time we try to look away from 51-year-old Lost actor Doug Hutchison and 16-year-old country singer Courtney Stodden, their freakshow antics suck us back in. In a new E! interview, they pass a Yorkie back and forth, rubbing noses and giggling about Courtney losing her virginity. "He's a tiger," Courtney teases, moving in for a hug. "You're so bad," Doug replies, burying his face in her chest.
Their marriage has "captivated the nation," Courtney says between obsessive-compulsive orgasm faces. "Lighted a match," Doug adds. "Inferno." His career is hot, too. The duo is shopping a reality show, "courted by producers, directors, agents, record executives—"
"Screenplays," the child bride interjects. "Publishers," her middle-aged husband concludes. "So, as far as a career-killer? No, I don't think love is a career killer." [E!]
Previously: Get to Know Courtney Stodden, Child Bride of That 51-Year-Old Guy from Lost

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By: Dine Benjamin
Start with this chart that recaps actual and projected tax receipts in the current budget:
PDF page 120 https://www.cityblm.org/home/showdocument?id=22149
The Local Motor Fuel Tax didn't exist before Tari. Since doubling the tax, the City expects to collect $4,630,000 this year.
The Amusement Tax didn't exist before Tari. The City expects to collect $1,000,000 this year. Note: 2019 receipts were under budget.
Video Gaming didn't exist before Tari. The City expects to collect $800,000 this year.
Home Rule Sales Tax was increased 1% in 2015. Before the increase, the City was collecting around $16 million. The City expects to collect $20 million this year. See the chart in this story: https://blnnews.com/2018/08/01/the-sales-tax-decline-in-bloomigton/
Immediately after the increase the City collected $24.2 million, it has been decreasing ever since.
In just this one year, the City of Bloomington is taking an additional $10,430,000 (4,630,000 + 1,000,000 + 800,000 + $4,000,000) away from local citizens. You have less money to spend because of taxes.
Your garbage fee has increased and will increase every year without a Council vote
Your sewer and storm water rates have increased.
Your water bill has increased.
Your utilities tax has increased – get rid of your home phone and it will drop.
Below is the total budget by year: https://www.cityblm.org/i-want-to-/advanced-components/hidden-pages/previous-annual-budget-reports/-folder-140
Just using General Fund spending isn't a valid comparison since spending that used to be paid from the GF has been segregated into enterprise and special funds.
2020 budget 227,542,262
+ 17,424,407
2019 budget 210,117,855
– 4,008,855
2018 budget 214,126,710
+ 6,506,157
2017 budget 207,620,553
+ 35,146,009
2016 budget 172,474,544
The budget increases since 2016 total $55,067,718.
The City carries over parts of the budget to the following year, so it distorts these numbers a little. It doesn't come close to $55 million.
What has Bloomington got to show for it?
Notice spending increased way beyond the inflation rate?


text: Bio Born in Västerås, Sweden. He had his first picture published when he 14 years old and started working as a photographer at the age of 16. After 12 years at various local newspapers in Sweden, he worked at Scandinavia's largest newspaper, Aftonbladet, where he worked for 10 years. Since 2000 he has been working as a freelance photojournalist. He has been working and travelling in many countries such as Russia, The Balkans, the Czech Republic, France, Slovakia and especially in the Kosovo region. He is affiliated with Redux Pictures in New York and his photography has been published in Time, CNN, The New Yorker, Paris Match, Le Figaro, Stern, Telerama and Le Monde.


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By Mohammad Hamid
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, April 17 (Reuters) - About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country's north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed to female education.
Since the 2001 toppling of the Taliban, which banned education for women and girls, females have returned to schools, especially in Kabul.
But periodic attacks still occur against girls, teachers and their school buildings, usually in the more conservative south and east of the country, from where the Taliban insurgency draws most support.
"We are 100 percent sure that the water they drunk inside their classes was poisoned. This is either the work of those who are against girls' education or irresponsible armed individuals," said Jan Mohammad Nabizada, a spokesman for education department in northern Takhar province.
Some of the 150 girls, who suffered from headaches and vomiting, were in critical condition, while others were able to go home after treatment in hospital, the officials said.
They said they knew the water had been poisoned because a larger tank used to fill the affected water jugs was not contaminated.
"This is not a natural illness. It's an intentional act to poison schoolgirls," said Haffizullah Safi, head of Takhar's public health department.
None of the officials blamed any particular group for the attack, fearing retribution from anyone named.
The Afghan government said last year that the Taliban, which has been trying to adopt a more moderate face to advance exploratory peace talks, had dropped its opposition to female education.
But the insurgency has never stated that explicitly and in the past acid has been thrown in the faces of women and girls by hardline Islamists while walking to school.
Education for women was outlawed by the Taliban government from 1996-2001 as un-Islamic.
(Reporting by Mohammad Hamid; Writing by Jack Kimball, Editing by Rob Taylor and Sanjeev Miglani)


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Shopper's Drug Mart will now sell its medical cannabis online in B.C.
In a Tuesday news release, the company said it will expand its online portal nationwide, just under a year after it launched for Ontario residents.
The service will ship cannabis from one of 12 licensed providers to customers in discreet packaging.
B.C. patients can get a prescription for medical cannabis online at www.shoppersdrugmart.ca/cannabis.
More than 800,000 people self-medicate with recreational or illegal cannabis without help from a health professional, the news release said with reference to Statistics Canada data.
In B.C., 18,326 people get their medical cannabis legally, but the company believes the real number of people taking the drug for medical purpose is higher.
"Canadians continue to use cannabis for medical purposes, but many have been left behind by traditional models," said president Jeff Leger. "Patients need more convenient access to their medicine with professional oversight and trusted support."
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The state's two largest utilities have signed preliminary agreements to transport additional supplies of natural gas on the principal interstate pipeline serving Boston, a crucial step in expanding a constrained gas delivery system and lowering energy costs in New England.
The agreements with Northeast Utilities and National Grid allow Spectra Energy Corp. of Houston to seek federal approval to expand the Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline in order to move abundant natural gas supplies from Pennsylvania and across the country. Meanwhile, another Houston firm, Kinder Morgan, is planning to add to another pipeline system that serves New England to bring even more natural gas here, where demand is growing.
If built, these expansions would allow the region to benefit from a drilling boom that has opened vast reserves of natural gas in shale formations through the use of a controversial technology known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Ultimately, it could mean lower energy bills for New England households and businesses, which increasingly rely on natural gas for both heating and electricity.
"It's an attractive opportunity for us to add capacity to the systems [and] allow customers to have more access to cheaper shale gas," said James Daly, Northeast Utilities' vice president of energy supply.
Spectra Energy's expansion, expected to cost roughly $850 million, would add 340 million cubic feet per day to the region's gas capacity, a 14 percent increase, on the Algonquin pipeline. It would replace or add approximately 40 miles of pipe along existing rights of way.
The additional gas would be nearly enough to supply all of the 300,000 Massachusetts customers of NStar Gas, a subsidiary of Northeast Utilities — though the supplies will ultimately be divided among several utilities.
Northeast Utilities' and National Grid's preliminary agreements with Spectra to move a total of 225 million cubic feet a day of gas have been submitted to the state Department of Public Utilities for approval. Spectra, meanwhile, has made a preliminary filing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and expects to submit a formal application in the first quarter of 2014.
If approved by FERC, the expansion could be completed by 2016, said Richard Kruse, vice president of regulatory affairs at Spectra.
National Grid and Northeast Utilities say they are interested in buying even more extra capacity. That could come from Kinder Morgan's proposed "Northeast Expansion Project" that would add a new line to the Tennessee Gas Pipeline system, which also serves the Northeast and New England. The plan is still in the early stages and has not been submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee.
The expansion would increase the system's capacity by as much as 15 percent, or up to 1.2 billion cubic feet per day, according to a Kinder Morgan document.
The projects come as New England struggles to address growing demand for natural gas and supply constraints created by tight pipeline capacity. Those constraints have led to shortages and price spikes during the peak demand periods, such as extended winter cold snaps, helping to drive the region's already high energy costs even higher.
Over the last decade, the amount of electricity in the region produced by natural gas has risen from about 15 percent to more than 50 percent, said Gordon van Welie, head of ISO New England, the region's grid operator. In Massachusetts, natural gas accounts for 67 percent of the state's electricity generation, and is also used to heat half the state's homes.
"Some days there just isn't spare gas to be sold," van Welie said.
Additional pipeline capacity, van Welie added, would help alleviate the issue and could also lead to lower energy costs in New England, though just how much is anyone's guess.
Other pipeline expansion projects, however, may hold clues. Collectively those projects would increase capacity by roughly 25 percent, or bring 3.5 billion cubic feet per day to New York, New Jersey, and other Middle Atlantic states by 2015. The largest of those is Spectra's New York-New Jersey expansion on the company's Texas Eastern Transmission and Algonquin pipelines, which went into service Friday.
Spectra forecasts show its project is expected to bring the price of natural gas in New York and New Jersey several cents below the national average. As in New England, energy costs in New York and New Jersey have historically ranked among the highest in the nation.
"Having this new infrastructure online likely has the potential to decrease the severity of price spikes during times of high demand for New York and New Jersey," said Michael Ford, an industrial economist for the US Energy Information Administration. Additional capacity in New England could have a similar impact, Ford added, but it is too early to tell.
Environmentalists, however, question whether additional pipeline capacity is necessary or prudent, given aggressive renewable-energy mandates that require several New England states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and use alternative-energy resources.
"Significant expansion of natural gas infrastructure that's going to last for 50 to 100 years is going to put us on a collision course with blowing past our climate mandates," said Shanna Cleveland, a senior attorney at the nonprofit Conservation Law Foundation in Boston. "Natural gas may be better than coal, but it's not close to what we need to get to the level of greenhouse-gas-emissions reductions that we need to hit."
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In Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the internment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. This policy constituted discrimination based on nationality and some of the victims sued to stop it. Three justices dissented from this decision, which is considered one of the Court's most embarrassing rulings. In 1948 Congress enacted the Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act to compensate for losing homes and businesses. Additional acts further compensated them for the relocation. In 1980, Congress held hearings to review some of the personal hardships, and issued a report in 1983 condemning President Roosevelt's removal order the Supreme Court decision.
In the United States during World War II there were thousands of American residents of Japanese descent, particularly in California. Shortly after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, over 120,000 Japanese residents (non-citizens) and Japanese-Americans, or Nisei, were ordered by the United States military to evacuate the West Coast area and report to Assembly Centers for indefinite internment. An Executive Order and Congressional Act in 1942 sanctioned a series of military proclamations, which were encompassed in a program intended to remove all of the people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. These proclamations effectively ordered a curfew, evacuation, exclusion and internment of any persons born of Japanese ancestry living in the areas of California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah and the southern portion of Arizona. The people of Japanese ancestry, mostly residing on the West Coast at the time, were considered a security risk for sabotage and espionage against the United States. They were given opportunities to sell or lease their property. Many of the internment camps were located away from the coasts in unfamiliar territories, such as near Indian reservations. Thousands of German and Italian Americans were also relocated.
Fred Korematsu, a United States-born citizen, was convicted of violating one of the military exclusion orders in California. He physically altered his appearance in order to disguise himself and avoid detention in an internment camp. Fred Korematsu followed neither the exclusion order to leave the area, nor the subsequent and mandatory order to relocate to a designated camp. He was found, arrested, and then detained by the military in an internment camp. Korematsu was charged and prosecuted only for violating the military exclusion order. He was not charged with violating the order to relocate to a camp, though it too was mandatory and had been issued before his arrest. He appealed the conviction, and the Supreme Court reviewed the case in Toyosaburo Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944). The Court upheld his conviction. The Court sided with the Government's arguments that the exclusion order was of military necessity because the U.S. was at war with Japan, and therefore those of Japanese ancestry were suspects of espionage and sabotage. The Court refused to rule on the question of the relocation camp, reasoning that the conviction stood only on the exclusion order.
Toyosaburo Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), is considered to be the most important of the Japanese-American cases because it upheld the forced exclusion of loyal citizens. The case was decided by a 6 to 3 majority vote by the Justices to sustain Korematsu's conviction for exclusion order violation. Justice Hugo Black authored the majority opinion.
Summary of Majority Opinion: Justice Black's opinion spoke to the argument of racism in consideration of the fact that there had been no evidence of Korematsu's disloyalty. Black denied that the order was based on racial prejudice. He implied a more complex situation, due to wartime, by stating that the Court's task would be "simple" and its "duty clear were this a case involving the imprisonment of a loyal citizen in a concentration camp because of racial prejudice." Black added that, "regardless of the true nature of the assembly and relocation centers...we are dealing specifically with nothing but an exclusion order." Finally, the majority opinion ended with the issue of military deference. Due to the military's fear of invasion, "they [the military] decided" that the situation demanded segregation of the citizens of Japanese ancestry, and Congress determined that "they should have the power to do this". Ironically Black stated that, "Korematsu was not excluded from the Military Area because of hostility to him or his race. He was excluded because we are at war with the Japanese Empire...". Black ended by asserting that from the "calm perspective of hindsight," the Court cannot "say that at that time these actions were unjustified".
To access the entire Supreme Court opinion:[1]


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Plastic Challenge: Rebecca M, Week 1
Name: Rebecca
Week: 1
Personal Info:
I live in Denver, Colorado. Full time members of my household include me and 3 indoor cats. Part time members include my boyfriend who visits about once a week and 2 stray/feral cats who I feed and care for as much as they will let me.
I work from home doing graphic design/database design and other computer related stuff.
I am a most of the time vegetarian which means that I eat chicken a few times a year, fish or seafood a few times a month and dairy and eggs daily.
I see reducing my plastic as a bit of a balancing act, and I've got a few challenges to deal with.
Challenge Number 1: I have severe food allergies and sensitivities. I'm allergic to almost all nuts and seeds, as well as a whole pile of other things, and I can only tolerate limited amounts of soy. All of this makes my protien choices severly limited, and pretty much necessitates the inclusion of some animal products in my diet.
Challenge Number 2: My business took a real hit during the economic downturn and I'm now living on about $17K per year. That's actually quite doable for me since I'm the queen of frugal, but it means that I'm often faced with tough decisions when it comes to spending more to get a greener option.
Challenge Number 3: My boyfriend is only mildly supportive of my green efforts. It's not that he doesn't see environmental issues as important, but he believes that the driving issue behind our environmental problems is population, and since we've chosen not to have kids he feels we've done our part. He also sees my "eco-guilt" as rather unhealthy, and at times it has become a real bone of contention in our relationship. Translation… I don't push it where my boyfriend is concerned.
Total items: about 56
Total weight: about 9 ounces
Items: Recyclable
1 Vitamin Bottle #2
1 Vitamin Bottle #1
1 Cat Treat Jar #3
1 Chinese Takeout Container #5
Items: Nonrecyclable
1 – styrofoam cup (I'll probably use this to start seeds for the garden)
3 – Lids from vitamin bottles & cat treats
2 – lids from styrofoam cup & Chinese takeout
1 – Birth Control Pills blister pack
7 – Breath Right Nasal Strips
1 – Plastic Q-Tip
3 – cheese wrappers
1 – frozen fish wrapper
1 – plastic seal from wine bottle
2 – plastic seals from vitamin bottles
1 – plastic piece from milk bottle top
1 – tag from broccoli
3 – takeout soy sauce packages
1 – fortune cookie wrapper
2 – plastic twist ties
1 – sticker from box for computer part
20 – plastic windows from bank statements (all the end of year stuff arrived this week)
I also didn't include the 4 cans of catfood per day which are lined in plastic…
What items can I easily replace with plastic free or less plastic alternatives?
Ummm… the Q-tip. I usually buy the kind with paper sticks instead of plastic, but I grabbed the wrong box.
What items would I be willing to give up if a plastic free alternative doesn't exist?
I'd LOVE to get rid of all of the bank statements, but I'm not sure how to do it for the year end stuff. I'll see what's possible.
What items are essential and seem to have no plastic-free alternative?
The birth control pills
The breath right strips – I'm sure that I could significantly reduce my impact if I were to stop breathing, but I'm not quite willing to go that far yet! :)
What lifestyle change(s) might be necessary to reduce my plastic consumption?
Spending more money! Or rather, earning more money so I'd have more to spend.
I might be able to find vitamins in glass bottles, but cost might be an issue. I'll have to see how the price compares.
I'm researching getting cheese from a local dairy, but holy moly is it expensive! We'll see…
I might be able to bring my own containers for the Chinese takeout…. but this is sort of a boyfriend issue. I fear it might go over like a fat juicy fart in church with him. The folks at this restaurant also speak very little English and I'm not sure if I would be able to explain it to them… they have a hard enough time understanding that I don't want their free egg rolls because they have pork in them… The truth is we only get take out once every few months… I dunno…
I could probably get fish in paper if I went to the seafood counter… but this is both a cost issue as well as a lesser of evils thing, since fresh salmon in Colorado has a HUGE carbon footprint, frozen is the better alternative.
I've thought about making home made catfood, but not sure I'm ready to go there yet. The cat treats might also be done away with if I could get Mr. Picky to eat without enticement…
What one plastic item am I willing to give up or replace this week?
Chinese Takeout
What other conclusions, if any, can I draw?
There are always tradeoffs!


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SiDiary for Blackberry 10Since the new operating system 10 of BlackBerry (especially since firmware version 10.2.1.x) it is possible to install Android apps and we would like to show you how to do so.
To check your BlackBerry version, please open the system settings on your BlackBerry and then open 'Info'. At 'Softwareversion' you can find the currently installed firmware version. If your software version is too old you can update it in your system settings.Installation instruction:
- Open the following link on your BlackBerry and save the file:
- After the download is finished, please select the file SiDiary.apk by tapping on it
- Select "Installation"
- Accept the claimed rights
- Ready!
We would like to thank our user Taurec a lot for his guidance and detailed descripton in this case.A Guide for the Android app is available here: (click me)
Diabetes App Blackberry
Now you can use SiDiary Online on your Blackberry with a great new user experience since we have redesigned the user interface from scratch for these mobile gadgets!
Even with an iPhone this solution can be used (as you can see in the screenshots below), but therefore we have a native app in the Apple App Store...
SiDiary Online (https://diabetes.sinovo.net) will recognize your device and sends you to the new user interface at https://diabetes.sinovo.net/iwk/ automatically.
There you can track all of your diabetes relevant data easily and it feels like a local app although it's a webapp.
The best thing is: You don't need to install anything!
SiDiary Online can be used without installing any tool and you can use it whereever you have an online connection. And of course you can synchronize your data to your SiDiary Windows PC version and do further analysis at home.
Here are some screenshots of the new user interface:
|BG-Grid landscape
|Single Data Mask
SiDiary Webapp was built with iWebKit.


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I was able to carve out some sewing time this past weekend and made up a really fun zipper pouch with Bright and Buzzy. And I LOVE my little pouch. So. Very. Much. But before I show it to you, let's get to that giveaway winner, shall we?
Via random number, the lucky winner is #139, Margaret who said:
I love this fabric. I have a kids quilt pattern that I have been wanting to make forever. It requires strips of bugs in a line for part of the design. Either of the bees or the birds will be perfect. Thanks for sharing your amazing talents with me. I can't wait to get my hands on this fabric. I also think I need a kitchen redo and bees could be buzzing all around while I cook. Pot holders, towels, new curtains, chair cushions and of course a mug rug or two.
And then because her comment made me laugh so hard I actually spit out my coffee, I'm also sending a set of fabric to #44 Michelle who said:
Seriously, I'm surprised there haven't been more growth charts in non-barf inducing children's fabrics. Hopefully you've started a trend!
Thanks so much to everyone for sharing your great ideas for the fabric, and for the great laughs and I hope Bright and Buzzy will be making its way onto your sewing tables soon!
And now onto my new pouch. Ta-da! I think its first job will be to be my supplies pouch for Quilt Con (which is right around the corner!) I'm going to be speaking on a panel on fabric design AND I am going to get to take some of the great classes so I'm getting geared up for that! A girls gotta have a cute supplies pouch, right?!
To figure out my sizing and for instructions on the contrast bottom, I loosely followed the Noodlehead Open Wide pouch tutorial. (Thanks Anna!)
Here's the front. For the top, I used the Z for Zipper from the Alphabet panel along with 2.5" squares of the cross hatch prints from the growth chart panel. Then the contrast bottom uses the darker of the two honeycomb prints. Bright and cheery, isn't it?!
And a shot with a pencil to show scale. The pouch measures 13" x 9" so its a great size for big goodies. I used mid weight interfacing so its got some substance but isn't too stiff.
The inside is also lined with the honeycomb print. I love opening a pouch and seeing a pretty lining.
And the back is made from my Modern Whimsy circles (which are a perfect match!) along with a few more cross hatch print squares from the growth chart panel.
Thanks again for participating in my giveaway and for all of your great comments about Bright and Buzzy. I'm so tickled that you are as excited about this new line as I am! I still have all of those fun bee prints to play with still and I can't wait to start cutting into them soon!


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January 25, 2013
42 comments:
I'm 24 and I also thought about this 'big birthday' thing. God, it's not evitable:))
I wish you could visit Paris, and Milan and Istanbul!
- January 25, 2013 at 6:45 PM
- Grandma G said...
Gee, I learned some things about you today!
Those simple recipes look yummy, too. Well, except for the blue cheese. ;)
- January 25, 2013 at 6:58 PM
- Grandma G said...
Hmmm... this loss of interest in cooking seems to strangely coincide with your decision to cook more healthy food! Uh huh!
- January 25, 2013 at 7:01 PM
- Cricket said...
I would KILL for that chocolate thing.
- January 25, 2013 at 7:16 PM
- Green Girl said...
it looks like a beautiful cookbook! thanks for sharing the pages and yes, you should definitely enjoy it!
- January 25, 2013 at 8:42 PM
- Jessica Jones said...
Mum, that is an astute observation. :) Cooking healthy stuff is not fun.
- January 25, 2013 at 10:24 PM
- Jessica Jones said...
StacySix. You are my kind of person.
- January 25, 2013 at 10:24 PM
- Unknown said...
Her TV series is just stunning. Have you seen how big the kitchen is?! It's the same size as her arm span. That's crazy!
I thought about getting her book but I know I'll never use any of the recipes so I just watch re-runs of her show lol.
Enjoy the inspiration!
Samantha x
- January 25, 2013 at 11:50 PM
- Little Old Goose said...
Oh I love Rachel Khoo! Her programme about her kitchen was just amazing, pretty inspiring too as she made all of these things in a kitchen the size of mine! Good luck, I hope it gets your creative cooking streak going again :)
- January 26, 2013 at 2:21 AM
Oh it looks amazing, especially the chocolate pud!
- January 26, 2013 at 2:27 AM
- Sophie said...
Welcome in Paris! I would like to read more of those so-called Parisian recepies I never heard about...
- January 26, 2013 at 5:50 AM
Oh wow, I love food photography and this looks like a book filled with beautiful food photographs!
- January 26, 2013 at 7:01 AM
- CT@Living Analog said...
When I grow up, I want to be French. That looks like an amazing cookbook! Cheers - CT
- January 26, 2013 at 8:12 AM
I had high expectations when I went to Paris and they were all exceeded because everything was more romantic than any photo I'd seen. Plus there are crepe stands all over the place so you are never far away from Nutella. A sandwich of baguette, ham and butter will transcend you.
- January 26, 2013 at 8:24 AM
- Jessica Jones said...
That's exactly the kind of thing I'm hoping for!
- January 26, 2013 at 8:41 AM
- joy said...
her programme was brilliant and made you feel able to cook what she was cooking - regular kitchen,pans,utenils etc. Oh and she is so cute. Great book,programme & food
- January 26, 2013 at 10:17 AM
- Liz said...
Love love love Rachel Khoo!! Her show and apartment and food are all delicious and delectable. I've had her book in my Amazon cart for months, just waiting to buy it.
- January 26, 2013 at 10:19 AM
- Momographica said...
This book surely looks good! I love French cuisine and Paris is a jewel. Everybody should love Paris.
- January 26, 2013 at 1:48 PM
- Marga said...
I have the book and it is one of the best I have ever bought! I already made the croque madame muffins, the citrus cake and the chicken in wine sauce... Delicious!... Have you seen the show? It is soooo lovely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hun_yj5u4S0
Enjoy the book!!!
- January 26, 2013 at 2:51 PM
- Jessica Jones said...
I know there's a show but haven't seen it yet. Thanks for the link!
- January 26, 2013 at 2:59 PM
ooooo, the "chocolate thing" looks to die for!!!
- January 26, 2013 at 4:00 PM
- Florence said...
Hi! I'm french, I was born and I live in Paris and I can tell you that you will have to search a lot to find a galette de pomme de terre au roquefort for lunch! You will probably have to cook this one yourself :) But for sure it's a french association in cooking even if I've never try that..now I know I should :))
- January 26, 2013 at 4:31 PM
- Kathy W said...
I just saw this TV show for the first time today. She made a WONDERFUL looking potato/cheese/bacon/caramelized onion 'thing' baked in a muffin tin. I could almost taste it. Have fun experimenting!
- January 26, 2013 at 7:26 PM
Rachel Khoo is English which is probably why your French commentators have not heard of her food! It was a fun programme though.
- January 27, 2013 at 2:52 AM
- Marilyn623 said...
Check out Carrie Brown of Marmalade & Mileposts... she develops great recipes that sync with the "Smarter Science of Slim" way of healthy eating... It might make the process more interesting for you!
- January 27, 2013 at 8:44 AM
- swisssidejewelleryetc said...
Yes, you MUST go to Paris for your birthday. We did just that in December, but it was quite cold, so hopefully your birthday falls in a warmer month??
- January 27, 2013 at 12:50 PM
I LOVE Rachel Khoo. Her TV series was totally inspiring---such a tiny kitchen and the most basic equipment, proving that you don't need fancy gadgets, professional ovens, or vast expanses of counter to turn out delicious meals.
- January 27, 2013 at 2:18 PM
- Sarah said...
I would love to go to ireland on mine! I still have family there!
- January 27, 2013 at 8:19 PM
- Larissa Holland said...
foux du fafa! it makes me want to wear a dress and bicycle with a baguette and flowers sticking out of my basket.
- January 27, 2013 at 8:52 PM
- Christine said...
I spent my 40th in Paris and it made for what could have been the worst day into one of the best days of my life. Highly recommend it!
- January 27, 2013 at 10:17 PM
- Unknown said...
I lived in France for a year and the last few weeks, it's calling to me something fierce.
Best friend while I lived in France stopped by on her way to Texas (She's American).
I wrote a mini-guide to France for Yes and Yes (it posts in April so check back!).
Memories have started flooding back and I want to return, if even just for a few weeks. *sigh*
- January 28, 2013 at 10:07 AM
- Angie at Home said...
I'm in love with Rachel Khoo and her TV show. And I can't wait for this book to come out. She has the life I've often dreamt about.
- January 28, 2013 at 12:10 PM
DO NOT wait until you're 40 to go to Paris. Start saving now and go in 12-18 months :-) Paris cannot wait!
- January 28, 2013 at 10:35 PM
- Jessica Jones said...
Well alright then! Thanks for the advice, Emily!
- January 28, 2013 at 10:41 PM
- Rachel S. said...
I've been looking for Rachel's book in Bangkok but, so far, no success. Finally had to order it. Can't wait till it arrives :)
BTW, you can see some of her videos on Youtube thru BBCFood's channel. They're only 5 minutes long but sooooo helpful. Check them out.
- January 28, 2013 at 11:53 PM
- Jessica said...
My housemate has this and had cooked for us from it a few times. She made the fishy dumpling things in tomato/creme friache sauce recently (sorry, can't remember the real name!) and they were really tasty. One warning - she also made the frangipane type recipe (I think it was plum or raspberry) and despite cooking it for 50% longer that stated it still hadn't set - either the stated cooking time is way too low, or liquid a bit high in the recipe.
- January 29, 2013 at 4:04 AM
- Jessica Jones said...
I made the croque madame muffins on Sunday. They were tasty, though I somehow expected the bread cup to be crispy instead of soggy. Makes sense that it was spongy, though, since most of the bread is baking next to raw egg, which is wet.
The nutmeg in the sauce was interesting. Would I make them again... not sure. But it was fun to try!
- January 29, 2013 at 3:34 PM
- Julia said...
Hi, thanks for sharing and make me want to check out this book. I know Paris pretty well and I hope you get to go there! Good quality food is everywhere and so accessible, let me know if you'd like some addresses...
- January 30, 2013 at 4:26 PM
- Bela said...
I too was born and lived in Paris, but I've heard of Rachel Khoo because I've lived in London for many years. Every American believes he/she has a special affinity with Paris and wants to be Ernest Hemingway or Gertrude Stein. It is indeed a beautiful city but also a very tough one, not really 'a moveable feast'. Tourists usually have a great time there, of course.
- January 31, 2013 at 7:42 PM
Definitely try the potatoes,pears and blue cheese recipe - its wonderful. I've tried lots of the recipes from the book and they're generally lovely. The meatballs are great! Go to Paris soon. We're lucky to be so close in England but you should go as soon as you can! Its amazing! Love your blog! Suzanne
- February 6, 2013 at 6:21 AM
- Jessica Jones said...
I tried the potatoes and pears last weekend, and we loved it!
- February 6, 2013 at 8:41 AM
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QUESNEL, FRÉDÉRIC-AUGUSTE, politician, lawyer, and businessman; b. 4 Feb. 1785 at Montreal, son of Joseph Quesnel*, musician and poet, and Marie-Josephte Deslandes; d. 28 July 1866 at Montreal.
Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel's family was prominent in the social and political life of Quebec for nearly a century. His father became a leading figure of Boucherville, then a centre of French society. Of Joseph's 13 children, Frédéric-Auguste, or Auguste as he called himself, and Jules-Maurice* achieved success in politics and commerce; Joseph-Timoléon was involved in the 1837 Rebellion; a sister Mélanie married successively Joseph-Michel Coursol, a fur-trader, and Côme-Séraphin Cherrier*, a leading Montreal advocate and cousin of Louis-Joseph Papineau*.
Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel was raised at Montreal by his mother's step-father, a fur-trader named Maurice-Régis Blondeau*. Like his brothers he was educated by the Sulpicians at the Collège de Montréal from 1796 to 1803. Frédéric-Auguste was noted for the purity of the French he learned there, but, unlike his fellow pupil, Louis-Joseph Papineau, he probably imbibed also the conservative principles that were apparent in other graduates.
He studied law in the office of Stephen Sewell*, a future solicitor general. By the time he was admitted to the bar in 1807, Quesnel could speak English with the same facility as French. He practised as an attorney at Montreal and by 1819 had offices on Rue Notre-Dame. In this period he laid the basis of his fortune, in the fur trade, with which his brother Jules-Maurice was deeply involved, and in various speculations that included land sales. When war broke out in 1812 he was already a captain in the 5th battalion of Montreal militia, which became the Chasseurs canadiens in 1814; in 1830 he was promoted major in the 4th battalion of Montreal.
Meanwhile Quesnel had entered the Legislative Assembly, representing Kent County (renamed Chambly in 1829) from 1820 to 1834. It was a two-member riding, and his co-members were first Denis-Benjamin Viger and then Louis-Michel Viger*. Quesnel, who was an elegant speaker, in the early years supported the Papineau and Denis-Benjamin Viger group. In 1822 he signed the petition against the bill which would have reunited Upper and Lower Canada and in 1823 spoke at the farewell dinner before Papineau left for England with John Neilson* to fight successfully against the bill.
In the 1820s Quesnel held many minor government positions: he was commissioner in 1821 for the commune of Boucherville, in 1829 to assist the judges of the King's Bench at Montreal, and in 1830 to erect a jail. He also appeared in 1830 on the board appointed to erect churches and parsonages at Montreal. During the 1829–30 session of the legislature he headed a committee to review the judicial system, which recommended a court of appeal and circuit courts. The measure passed the assembly, but was defeated in the Legislative Council. In 1831 he became a kc.
A moderate in politics, Quesnel found himself in increasing difficulties as Papineau became more radical. In 1832 he took the constitutionally correct position that Dominique Mondelet's seat in the house should not be declared vacant on his appointment to the Executive Council, an issue on which his side was defeated 32 to 27. The next year he, John Neilson, Augustin Cuvillier*, and other moderates refused to back a resolution in favour of an elected upper house. In January 1834 Quesnel was one of the minority who clashed with the radicals over the speech from the throne. The final break came over the 92 Resolutions. As he stated: "to say in a few words what I think of them, I approve a great many, I reject several, but taken as a whole and as a single unit, I cannot approve them." Other moderates, such as Cuvillier and Neilson, took the same stand, and Neilson attempted, without success, to introduce more moderate resolutions, which Quesnel backed. Both men were condemned at a public meeting at Saint-Athanase-d'Iberville (Iberville, Que.). In the ensuing elections Louis Lacoste*, with Papineau's backing, ousted Quesnel at Chambly. Neilson, Cuvillier, and other moderates also disappeared from the legislature.
Quesnel's political activity was not over, for in 1836 he was elected to the board regulating the affairs of the newly created Montreal Normal School, with both Catholics and Protestants voting. Since Papineau and Dr Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan* were also elected, the contest had political overtones. At the same time Quesnel was helping to secure various contested seigneurial rights of the Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice. Petitions to successive governors, which he played a leading role in formulating, led to confirmation of most of the Sulpicians' claims in 1840. Meanwhile, as the political situation worsened in 1837, Quesnel, George Moffatt, and Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury arranged a public meeting in support of the government on 6 July. In September Governor Lord Gosford [Acheson*] appointed Quesnel to the Executive Council.
When the rebellion broke out, Quesnel's brother, Joseph-Timoléon, was forced to flee to Montreal from his medical practice at L'Acadie and had to give up his magistrate's commission. By this time Frédéric-Auguste was condemned as a vendu by the Patriotes. He had not lost his authority however: in March 1840, at the head of a delegation of 300, he presented Governor Charles Edward Poulett Thomson* with a petition of 6,370 signatories opposing the union of Upper and Lower Canada.
In 1841 Quesnel was elected mla for Montmorency County, without a contest, on an anti-union platform. Thomson (now Lord Sydenham) listed him as one of the members who consistently opposed his policy. In the legislature Quesnel supported Neilson and Robert Baldwin* in protesting the union, and later Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine and Baldwin when they resigned in 1843. Yet in the following months some feared he might support the succeeding Tory government under pressure from Denis-Benjamin Viger. In the election of 1844 he was defeated in Montmorency County by another moderate, Joseph-Édouard Cauchon*.
Again, defeat did not end his political activities, for in 1845 Quesnel was appointed to the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning. In 1845–46 he was one of the commissioners investigating the Board of Works [see Hamilton Hartley Killaly*]; their report led to a reorganization of the department. His middle-of-the-road position is demonstrated by the fact that Tory leader William Henry Draper* recommended him for appointment to the Legislative Council in 1847, but La Fontaine and Baldwin actually appointed him in September 1848. He remained in the upper house until his death. There Quesnel strongly supported the Rebellion Losses Bill of 1849 and condemned the Annexation Manifesto which followed it. He always believed annexation to the United States would not be an improvement over British rule. In the battle for abolition of seigneurial tenure in 1854 Quesnel, closely connected with the Sulpicians and with the Hôtel-Dieu as tenant and then proprietor of the fief of Saint-Joseph, naturally fought for proper compensation of the seigneurs. Many of his suggestions were incorporated in the final legislation. For some years after 1857 he was a trustee on the commission settling the boundary between Canada East and Canada West.
Quesnel also had a highly successful business career. He became a director of the Banque du Peuple about 1848 and while he was its president, 1859–65, it knew steady growth and tranquillity. By 1864 he was apparently winding up his holdings, selling a property to William Workman* and Alexandre-Maurice Delisle* for $100,000; the town of Sainte-Cunégonde (later annexed to Montreal) grew up on this land. He had been active in the Saint-Jean-Baptiste society of Montreal, which elected him president in 1860.
With powerful features, flowing hair, and mutton-chop whiskers, Quesnel radiates authority from his portrait. He long maintained an extensive establishment on fashionable Rue Saint-Antoine, but his personal life was tragic. In 1813 he had married Marguerite Denaut at Boucherville. She died in 1820 and their two sons and three daughters also predeceased him. Quesnel's substantial estate largely passed to his nephew Charles-Joseph Coursol*.
Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel's political career exemplifies the problems faced by a moderate amid the tensions of the 1830s and 1840s. His later influence points up the often neglected fact that supporters of reform who nevertheless opposed Papineau frequently had successful political careers after the rebellion. Quesnel's achievements in commerce and finance demonstrate that a French Canadian could make his fortune in business. The respect which Quesnel achieved, and the possibility of old political feuds being forgiven in new circumstances, are evident in the list of mourners at his funeral, which included such diverse personalities as Charles Wilson*, Mayor Henry Starnes*, Jean-Baptiste Prat*, and Quesnel's sometime ally, sometime opponent, Louis-Joseph Papineau.
Côme-Séraphin Cherrier, Quesnel's brother-in-law, prepared a "Biographie de l'honorable F.-A. Quesnel," which was printed in La Minerve (Montréal), 5 Sept. 1866, and reprinted in L'Écho du cabinet de lecture paroissial, 15 Sept. 1866, in L'Opinion publique, 10 Oct. 1872, and as a pamphlet under the title L'honorable F.-A. Quesnel (Montréal, 1878).
PAC, MG 24, B126; RG 68, 1, General index, 1651–1841, pp.9, 225–26, 272, 393; 1841–67, pp.22, 89, 131, 338. F.-J. Audet, Les députés de Montréal, 381–82, 415. Political appointments, 1841–65 (J.-O. Coté), 56, 78, 85. Atherton, Montreal, II, 135, 149, 161. G.-É. Baillargeon, La survivance du régime seigneurial à Montréal; un régime qui ne veut pas mourir ([Montréal], 1968), 38, 45, 84. Chapais, Hist. du Canada, III, 123; IV, 11, 14, 32, 36, 38–39, 188; VI, 104. Cornell, Alignment of political groups, 5, 7, 16. R. S. Greenfield, "La Banque du Peuple, 1835–71, and its failure, 1895" (unpublished
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Say you are travelling, or are at a neighbourhood coffee shop, using whatever unsecured WiFi network they make available. You could either:
- trust that no one is sniffing your web traffic, capturing passwords, e-mails, IMs, etc.
- trust that no one is using more sophisticated methods to trick you into thinking that you are secure (i.e. man in the middle attack)
- route your Internet traffic through a secure tunnel to your home PC before going out onto the web, protecting you from everyone at your current location
which would you choose?
VPNs and SSH tunnels are actually a relatively easy means for you to be more secure while browsing the Internet from potentially dangerous locations.
Making use of an SSH tunnel on your PC
There are many, many different ways for you to do this but I find using a Linux PC that is running on your home network to be the easiest.
Step 1: Install SSH Server
Configure your home Linux PC. Install ssh (and sshd if it is separate). If you are using Ubuntu this is as easy as running the following command: sudo apt-get install ssh
Step 2: Make it easy to connect
Sign up for a free dynamic DNS service like DynDNS or No-IP so that you know of a web address that always points to your home Internet connection. To do this follow the instructions at the service you choose.
Step 3: Connect to tunnel
On your laptop (that you have taken with you to the hotel or coffee shop) connect to your home PC's ssh server. If you are on Windows you will need to get a program like PuTTY. See their documentation on how to forward ports. On Linux you can simply use the ssh command. The goal is to forward a dynamic port to the remote ssh server. For instance if you are using a Linux laptop and ssh then the command would look something like: ssh -D [dynamic port] [user]@[home server] -p [external port number – if not 22]. An example of one would be ssh -D 4096 firstname.lastname@example.com -p 4000
Step 4: Configure browser to use SSH tunnel proxy
In your browser open the networking options window. This will allow you to tell the browser to forward all of its traffic to a proxy, which in this case, will be our dynamic port that we set up in step 3. Here is an example of my configuration for the example above.
If you don't feel awesome enough doing the above graphically you can also browse to "about:config" (without quotes) and set the following values:
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- Change to "127.0.0.1" with no quotes
- network.proxy.socks_port
- Change to the SSH Tunnel Local Port set above (4096)
- network.proxy.socks_remote_dns
- Change to true
- Note: you cannot actually set this setting graphically but it is highly recommended to configure this as well!
- network.proxy.socks_version
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- network.proxy.type
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Step 5: Test and use
Browse normally – you are now browsing the Internet by routing all of your traffic (in Firefox) securely through your home PC. Note that this doesn't actually make web browsing any more secure beyond protecting you from people in your immediate vicinity (i.e. connected to the same insecure WiFi network).
What about Android?
Just like the PC you can also do it on Android even without root access. Please note that while I'm sure there are a few ways to accomplish this, the following is just one way that has worked for me. I'm also assuming that you already have an SSH server to tunnel your traffic through.
Step 1: Install SSH Tunnel
The first thing you'll want to do is install an application that will actually create the SSH tunnel for you. One such application is the aptly named SSH Tunnel which can be found on the Google Play Store here.
Step 2: Configure SSH Tunnel
Next you'll want to launch the application and configure it.
- Set the Host address (either a real domain name, dynamic DNS redirector or IP address of your SSH server) and port to connect on.
- You'll also want to configure the User and Password / Passphrase.
- Check the box that says Use socks proxy.
- Configure the Local Port that you'll connect to your tunnel on (perhaps 1984 for the paranoid?)
- I would recommend checking Auto Reconnect as well, especially if you are on a really poor WiFi connection like at a hotel or something.
- Finally check Enable DNS Proxy.
Step 3: Connect SSH Tunnel
To start the SSH tunnel simply check the box that says Tunnel Switch.
Step 4: Install Firefox
While you may have a preference for Google Chrome, Firefox is the browser I'm going to recommend setting up the tunnel with. Additionally this way if you do normally use Chrome you can simply leave Firefox configured to always use the SSH tunnel and only switch to it when you want the additional privacy. Firefox can be found on the Google Play store here.
Step 5: Configure Firefox to use SSH Tunnel
In order to make Firefox connect via the SSH tunnel you'll need to modify some settings. Once you are finished the browser will only work if the SSH tunnel is connected.
- In the Firefox address bar browse to "about:config" with no quotes.
- In the page that loads search and modify the following values:
- network.proxy.proxy_over_tls
- true
- network.proxy.socks
- Change to "127.0.0.1" with no quotes
- network.proxy.socks_port
- Change to the SSH Tunnel Local Port set above (1984?)
- network.proxy.socks_remote_dns
- Change to true
- network.proxy.socks_version
- Change to 5
- network.proxy.type
- Change to 1
- network.proxy.proxy_over_tls
Step 6: Test and browse normally
Now that you have configured the above you should be able to browse via the tunnel. How can you check if it is working? Simply turn off the SSH Tunnel and try browsing – you should get an error message. Or if you are on a different WiFi you could try using a service to find your IP address and make sure it is different from where you are. For example if you configured Firefox to work via the SSH tunnel but left Chrome as is then visiting a site like http://www.whatismyip.com/ should show different information in each browser.
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TEMPE, Ariz. ? Scientists at Arizona State University have developed an elegant method for significantly improving the memory capacity of electronic chips.
Led by Michael Kozicki, an ASU electrical engineering professor and director of the Center for Applied Nanoionics, the researchers have shown that they can build stackable memory based on "ionic memory technology," which could make them ideal candidates for storage cells in high-density memory. Best of all, the new method uses well-known electronics materials.
"This opens the door to inexpensive, high-density data storage by 'stacking' memory layers on top one another inside a single chip," Kozicki said. "This could lead to hard drive data storage capacity on a chip, which enables portable systems that are smaller, more rugged and able to go longer between battery charges."
"This is a significant improvement on the technology we developed two years ago where we made a new type of memory that could replace Flash, using materials common to the semiconductor industry (copper-doped silicon dioxide). What we have done now is add some critical functionality to the memory cell merely by involving another common material - silicon."
Kozicki outlined the new memory device in a technical presentation he made in November at the 2009 International Electron Devices and Materials Symposia in Taiwan. He worked with Sarath C. Puthen Thermadam, an ASU electrical engineering graduate student.
Kozicki said that given current technology, electronics researchers are fast reaching the physical limits of device memory. This fact has spurred research into new types of memory that can store more information into less and less physical space. One way of doing this is to stack memory cells.
The concept of stackable memory is akin to one's ability to store boxes in a small room. You can store more boxes (each representing a memory cell) if you stack them and take advantage of three dimensions of the room, rather than only putting each box on the floor.
Kozicki said stacking memory cells has not been achieved before because the cells could not be isolated. Each memory cell has a storage element and an access device; the latter allowing you to read, write or erase each storage cell individually.
"Before, if you joined several memory cells together you wouldn't be able to access one without accessing all of the others because they were all wired together," Kozicki said. "What we did was put in an access, or isolation device, that electrically splits all of them into individual cells."
Up until now, people built these access elements into the silicon substrate.
"But if you do that for one layer of memory and then you build another layer, where will you put the access device," Kozicki asked. "You already used up the silicon on the first layer and it's a single crystal, it is very difficult to have multiple layers of single crystal material."
The new approach does use silicon, but not single crystal silicon, which can be deposited in layers as part of the three-dimensional memory fabrication process. Kozicki said his team was wrestling with how find a way to build an electrical element, called a diode, into the memory cell. The diode would isolate the cells.
Kozicki said this idea usually involves several additional layers and processing steps when making the circuit, but his team found an elegant way of achieving diode capability by substituting one known material for another, in this case replacing a layer of metal with doped silicon.
"We can actually use a number of different types of silicon that can be layered," he explained. "We get away from using the substrate altogether for controlling the memory cells and put these access devices in the layers of memory above the silicon substrate."
"Rather than having one transistor in the substrate controlling each memory cell, we have a memory cell with a built-in diode (access device) and since it is built into the cell, it will allow us to put in as many layers as we can squeeze in there," Kozicki said. "We've shown that by replacing the bottom electrode with silicon it is feasible to go any number of layers above it.
With each layer applied, memory capacity significantly expands.
"Stackable memory is thought to be the only way of reaching the densities necessary for the type of solid state memory that can compete with hard drives on cost as well as information storage capacity," Kozicki said. "If you had eight layers of memory in a single chip, this would give you almost eight times the density without increasing the area."
Kozicki said the advance mimics an idea employed in early radios.
"We created a modern analog to the 'cat's whisker,' where we are growing a nanowire, a copper nanowire, right onto the silicon to create a diode," he said.
Cat's whisker radios, a product of the 1930s, were simple devices that employed a small wire to scratch the surface of a semiconductor material. The connection between the semiconductor and the wire created a diode that they could use as part of a radio.
"It turns out to be a ridiculously simple idea, but it works," Kozicki said of his stackable memory advance. "It works better than the complicated ideas work."
"The key was the diodes," he added, "and making a diode that was simple and essentially integrated in with the memory cell. Once you do that, the rest is pretty straightforward."


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Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects
(PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city could take a cell-phone photo of an unmarked monument and immediately find out what it was. And an Internet image search on, say, "Shakespeare" would pull up pictures of Shakespeare, not pictures of Gwyneth Paltrow in the movie Shakespeare in Love. Though object recognition is one of the major research topics in computer vision, MIT researchers may have found a way to make it much more practical.
Typically, object recognition algorithms need to be "trained" using digital images in which objects have been outlined and labeled by hand. By looking at a million pictures of cars labeled "car," an algorithm can learn to recognize features shared by images of cars. The problem is that for every new class of objects — trees, buildings, telephone poles — the algorithm has to be trained all over again.
But Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Antonio Torralba and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab graduate students Ce Liu, PhD '09, and Jenny Yuen have developed an object recognition system that doesn't require any training. Nonetheless, it still identifies objects with 50 percent greater accuracy than the best prior algorithm.
The system uses a modified version of a so-called motion estimation algorithm, a type of algorithm common in video processing. Since consecutive frames of video usually change very little, data compression schemes often store the unchanging aspects of a scene once, updating only the positions of moving objects. The motion estimation algorithm determines which objects have moved from one frame to the next. In a video, that's usually fairly easy to do: most objects don't move very far in one-30th of a second. Nor does the algorithm need to know what the object is; it just has to recognize, say, corners and edges, and how their appearance typically changes under different perspectives.
The MIT researchers' new system essentially treats unrelated images as if they were consecutive frames in a video sequence. When the modified motion estimation algorithm tries to determine which objects have "moved" between one image and the next, it usually picks out objects of the same type: it will guess, for instance, that the 2006 Infiniti in image two is the same object as the 1965 Chevy in image one.
If the first image comes from the type of database used to train computer vision systems, the Infiniti will already be labeled "car." The new system simply transfers the label to the Chevy.
The greater the resemblance of the labeled and unlabeled images, the better the algorithm works. Fortunately, Torralba's earlier work was largely directed toward amassing a huge database of labeled images. Torralba and his colleagues have developed a simple web-based system called LabelMe that lets online volunteers tag objects in digital images, and they also created a web site called 80 Million Tiny Images that sorts the images according to subject matter. When confronted with an unlabeled image, the new object recognition algorithm is likely to find something similar in Torralba's database. And as the database grows larger, that likelihood will only increase.
"It's a real commonsense solution to a fundamental problem in computer vision," says Marshall Tappen, a computer vision researcher at the University of Central Florida. "The results are great and better than you can get with much more complicated methods." Tappen adds that "a large database makes it possible to do lots of really interesting thing that no one's even envisioned. There are lots of interesting things it can do beyond just standard object recognition, so I think it's really going to enable a lot of innovation." Tappen points in particular to recent work on image editing and image completion done by Alyosha Efros at Carnegie Mellon University. "If you look at his last few Siggraph papers" — that is, papers presented at Siggraph, the major conference in the field of computer graphics — "they're all using LabelMe," Tappen says.
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Note: In 1989, Levi's, the jeans company, used the Ronettes' classic 1963
song "Be My Baby" as background music for a TV ad.
Ad story: A good Samaritan in the middle of nowhere, pulls his pick-up
truck over to the side of the road to help a distressed driver tow his over-
heated car to town for a repair. The flustered driver and his lady friend are
well-dressed, presumably heading out for dinner or a show.
The subplot in this tale, however, is the instant chemistry and eye contact
going on between the Good Samaritan and the distressed driver's lady com-
panion. A towing fix is made by the Good Samaritan who sheds his 501 Levi
jeans to make a jerry-rigged towing line with the distressed car. The lady,
meanwhile, is beckoned by the Good Samaritan to ride along with him in the
front seat of his truck on the ride to town.
The jerry-rigged, Levi's towing line, however, "unfortunately" gives out on
the way to town, setting the distressed car and its driver adrift, as the Good
Samaritan and his new lady friend ride off into the sunset….The ad's fade-
out tagline: "Levis 501: Separates the Men From The Boys." Cleverly done.
Ronettes & Be My Baby
See related story at this website on the history of the Ronettes, a 1960s
"girl group," and their song, "Be My Baby." Story also covers details about
the success and production of their music, biographical profiles, some of
their performance and personal history, and more — including background
on their producer, Phil Spector, who also married lead Ronettes' singer,
Ronnie Bennett, in what became a rocky marriage and later, a legal battle.
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006 The Functional Nerds
In the sixth episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the first recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army: Kate Sherrod! Together with Kate, we chat about: C2E2, Comic book conventions, Shakespeare, sonnets, Doctor Who, Netflix, Lost, the channel formerly known as SciFi, Wrestling, Wizard's of the Coast & the Anaheim comic con, Mile-High Con, Magic the Gathering, Cheyenne WY, The US Airforce, collecting comics, independent comics, Brandon Sanderson, Jordancon, pen & paper RPGs, Dungeons & Dragons, Risk, Warhammer, HP Lovecraft, Weezer, in the garage, X-Men, Nightcrawler, 20-sided die, KISS, Ace Freely, Avatar's upcoming Crossed motion picture, Zombie books, Garth Ennis, Jason Burrows, Richard Starkings, Elephantmen, Iron Man, Kevin Colden, Dan Dougherty, Beardo, Rotten, Moonstone, Raphael Nieves, the evil eye books crew, Joe Quesada, Marion Call, George Robb, Phil Rossi, the Geek Dad podcast, ladies apparel, Jinx, Think Geek, Chopshop Store, Blizzcon, women in comics, Kate learns not to ask Patrick for names of people because he doesn't remember names…, WebComics, Scott Kurtz, PVPOnline, David Malki, Wondermark, Dark Horse, Star Wars, Conan, Doctor Solar, Jim Schutter, Hellboy, Heir to the Empire, Dark Empire, Tales of the Jedi, Knights of the old Republic, Heroes Only comic books in Cheyenne, Migh High Comics, Chew, Image comics, Atomic Robo, the massive mega Marvel Crossover Events, Coupling, British television vs American television seasons, Christopher Eccleston, Heroes, Captain America, Chris Evans, Johnny Storm, Alex Ross, John Hamm (Don Draper), The Roger Corman Fantastic Four flick, Dolph Lundgren's Punisher movie, John's obsession/devotion to Jean-Claude Van Dam, The Mullet, Comixology, the iPad, Pulp Pixel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Angel After the Fall, Balticon 2010, Mur Lafferty, Ace of Cakes & DIA.
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It was nice to hear the first of the Third Nerds as your podcast takes off. Very surreal to hear my name at the end—Despite the fact that I've talked to Patrick considerably and to John a couple times on Twitter. Very strange how that works.
And now I know why my blog traffic spiked…yes, it must have jumped a whole two people after the airing of the podcast.
I hope Blogger won't start charging me.


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LUBBOCK, Texas – Kansas coach Bill Self felt more than a little fortunate that his No. 8 Jayhawks pulled out a 64-63 win against a very tough Texas Tech team.
Andrew Wiggins' layup with 2 seconds left lifted Kansas to victory on Tuesday night.
"I think sometimes you could say they were a little lucky," he said of the Red Raiders. "They threw some in at the end of the shot clock that maybe weren't the highest percentage shots, and we were a little lucky that the ball just happened to bounce to Wigs there at the end. That's part of it.
"We've been unlucky and we've been lucky before, and they usually balance out over time."
The freshman finished with 19 points, and Joel Embiid matched his career high with 18 to lead the Jayhawks (20-6, 11-2). Kansas reached 20 wins for the 25th consecutive season, and 11 conference victories for the 20th straight year.
Texas Tech's Robert Turner sank two free throws with 16 seconds left to put the Red Raiders up 63-62, but Kansas brought the ball up and got it inside to Wiggins for the win.
Jordan Tolbert scored 16 points and Dejan Kravic added 13 to lead Texas Tech (13-13, 5-8).
The Jayhawks own a two-game lead in the Big 12 after Texas fell 85-76 at Iowa State on Tuesday night.
"It's big, it's big, but it doesn't mean anything unless we win Saturday," Self said of Kansas' home game against the Longhorns. "That's the game that would give us some serious breathing room, although we've got a little bit now, and it was big tonight.
"I wasn't banking on them losing, all I wanted to do was win two games this week, and if we were able to do that then it would be a great week."
The score was tied nine times and the lead changed 13 times.
"I was impressed with Tubby (Smith's) team and how hard they played and how well they defended, how well they rebounded," Self said. "They're going to get better. The guy knows how to win. He's a proven winner. Those kids played hard."
Kansas held an early 10-point lead but Texas Tech started hammering the ball inside to make the game tight.
"There wasn't much to say," Smith said of his team. "They're down, they're despondent because it's a tough loss. They felt like they played well enough to get the win, but you've always have to finish the game the right way."
Tolbert made a bucket as the shot clock expired with 2:51 left to put the Red Raiders up 59-55. But Wayne Seldon, Jr. hit a clutch 3-pointer to pull within 59-58. Turner answered with a basket, and Embiid sank two free throws to make it 61-60 with 1:22 remaining.
On the Red Raiders' next possession, a scrum led to Kansas getting the ball. Embiid dunked it to put the Jayhawks up 62-61.
Turner then made his free throws, and Kansas called a timeout to draw up the play to Wiggins.
Kansas scored 22 points from the free throw line, and Texas Tech netted only nine.
Texas Tech came out after halftime and hit four of its first five shots. Kansas made only one basket in four attempts, allowing the Red Raiders to take their first lead since early in the game, 37-32.
Jordan Tolbert capped Texas Tech's 8-2 run.
But the Red Raiders' effective defense also created foul trouble. With more than 13 minutes remaining, Jaye Crockett, Kravic and Kader Tapsoba each had three fouls.
Texas Tech sent the Jayhawks to the line often in the second half. Five free throws — by Jamari Traylor and Wiggins — on three possessions pulled Kansas within 46-45 with about 11 minutes remaining. But the Jayhawks regained the lead for the first time in 11 minutes, 52-51, on a pair of free throws by Naadir Tharpe with 7:14 remaining.
But with Kravic back in, and after a turnover by Tharpe, the 7-foot senior tied the game at 53 on a layup with 5:34 left.


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Shoot two Elec Balls
Get two Elec ammo pieces (you can use one, but two is recommended), then take Danny's Slingshot and hold Shoot to fire two Elec Balls while only using one ammo piece. -From: efd581
Defeating the big robot
When fighting the first Boss (the big robot), go over to the side but do not fall off. Shoot his arms and lasers as quickly as possible on each side. You can save time and health. If you get hit by lasers, do not worry because you will only lose a small amount of health.


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Completing a triathlon takes strength, speed, endurance, and flexibility. Triathlon training is balanced, whole-body training. In other sports you may wind up building strength in some areas, while accruing weaknesses in others. Triathletes get body benefits from running, cycling, and swimming, and as a result are lean and fit from head to toe.
After the sprint-distance triathlon, many athletes have their sights set on an Olympic distance event. If that's your goal, then this comprehensive program is for you.
This Olympic distance triathlon plan starts with an assessment week to dial in your swim, bike, and run training parameters. You begin by building a solid base and move gradually into tempo and speed work. The program culminates with a peak week. As always, the key to success is your commitment to consistency.
Stay focused! Be healthy, train smart, and have fun.
Week 1, Day 6
Bike : foundation
Duration (P): 1:15:00
Workout Description:
PURPOSE: Build base endurance
Warm up:
10 minutes biking
Main set:
Steady bike ride. Maintain 95 RPM cadence throughout the ride.
Cool down:
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BETHESDA, MD—According to a new study released Monday by the National Institutes of Health, for the 25th straight year, violent wolf attacks remain the leading cause of death in the United States.
The human health agency's latest findings revealed that being viciously killed by a ravenous wolf resulted in more fatalities than any other malady, claiming the lives of more than 800,000 Americans in the last year alone. The NIH's annual mortality report also confirmed that one person in the United States dies every 40 seconds from a wolf attack.
"Despite efforts to combat this terrible affliction, research indicates Americans are far more likely to be ruthlessly slaughtered by one or more man-eating wolves than ever before," said the study's author, William Rhodes, adding that an estimated 1 in 3 Americans will suffer a wolf attack at some point in their lives. "Our knowledge about the savage encounters has improved, but we aren't any closer to reducing the unfortunate number of people who every day are stopped in their tracks by a deadly wolf."
"Far too many are being eviscerated and devoured before their time," Rhodes continued.
According to the NIH, a wolf attack most commonly occurs when an individual is abruptly seized by a powerful, aggressive wolf. The ensuing mutilation, doctors say, results in a forceful disruption of the circulatory system, cardiac arrest, and ultimately death, oftentimes within mere minutes.
Though the study emphasized that these brutal episodes threaten most demographics, the NIH report suggested men and women aged 65 and older with sedentary lifestyles faced the greatest risk of a debilitating wolf attack. The troubling statistics also confirmed that an increasing number of young children were too overweight to outrun a vicious wolf mercilessly bearing down on them.
"This is a devastating affliction that every day cuts down thousands of men and women from all walks of life," said Rhodes, noting that the mortality rate associated with wolf attacks easily outstrips the death toll of many other public health epidemics, including cancer, stroke, and chronic respiratory disease. "While automobile accidents dramatically rose by 4 percent in 2012, most of the fatal crashes in the U.S. were caused by a timber wolf unexpectedly appearing in the backseat of a vehicle and lunging at the driver."
"It's truly tragic," Rhodes continued.
Accounting for over $328 billion in health care expenditures and lost productivity, wolf attacks have ravaged American workplaces, and the number of victims in offices, factories, as well as bars and restaurants has tripled in recent years.
Medical professionals have long advised potential victims to remain vigilant of the early warning signs that often accompany a wolf attack in order to stave off the life-threatening risks associated with the predatory beasts and their razor-sharp teeth. The most common symptoms include rapid heartbeat, profuse sweating, lightheadedness, as well as sharp, stabbing pain, which many individuals fail to identify as an Alaskan tundra wolf sinking its teeth into their flesh.
"Early action is key," said Johns Hopkins Hospital Director of Lupinology Julia Goodwin, who urged victims to call for help the moment they suspect they're being ripped into by a 170-pound wolf. "Many people tend to ignore a small wolf attack, failing to realize that they can be very dangerous."
"When you're being torn to shreds by a wolf, every second counts," Goodwin added.
Glenn Everett, a Milwaukee native and father of three, told reporters that recently witnessing the tragic death of a longtime friend who suffered an unexpected wolf attack "was a real wake-up call."
"On his 45th birthday, my buddy drops dead on his back porch after being ambushed by a pack of wolves—I don't want that to be me," said Everett, who noted he has since followed his doctor's advice to exercise, quit smoking, and limit the amount of red meat he eats outside near wooded areas. "The fact is, I've got a family, and I want to watch my kids grow up, not have them look on in horror as a wolf disembowels me."
However, not everyone is convinced of the efficacy of such lifestyle changes, with some potential victims claiming that genetics plays a substantial role in the chances of an individual being messily devoured, making such a gory end inevitable.
"Honestly, I try not to think about it," said Cincinnati resident Paul Carney, 53. "My dad survived a couple of wolf attacks when he was my age. He made it all the way to 85 years old before peacefully having his throat torn out in his sleep."
"My doctor tells me that I have to change my bad habits, but if I want to go out every night covered in elk urine, that's my choice," Carney added.


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Mentally simulating the actions of others is thought to be a key component of empathy. Yet new research suggests that our so-called mirror neurons may also expose hidden divisions. A study published in October in the journal PLOS ONE reveals that these copycat neurons do not reflect all people equally.
Mirror neurons were discovered in the early 1990s, and their existence was a neuroscientific revelation: brain cells not only fire when we perform a given action, they also fire when we see someone else doing the deed. Much subsequent work has suggested that mirror neurons undergird social cognition. Now emerging research is finding that our mirror neuron system distinguishes between people who are physically and culturally similar and those who are not. The new work probed these differences further. In the study, investigators asked 17 young adult Jewish men to review the biographies and photographs of eight individuals who physically resembled the participants. Half these characters, portrayed by actors, were identified as neo-Nazis. The subjects reported they strongly disliked the anti-Semitic characters but not the others. Next, the participants underwent functional MRI scans while watching a video of each character drinking from a water bottle. The researchers focused on the ventral premotor cortex, a region typically active when we carry out an action or watch someone else do so. They found that neurons in this region activated differently when subjects viewed detestable and likable characters.
Because mirror neuron activity is thought to be a very basic part of brain function—and it can be seen in many animals besides humans—the new finding supports the notion that our brain is predisposed to distinguish "us versus them." This distinction can be beneficial, encouraging caution around those with harmful intentions, or dangerous, further entrenching prejudices. To weaken unwelcome biases, lead author Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, suggests that exposure and perspective taking could go a long way.