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The UK NSC recommendation on Congenital hypothyroidism screening in newborns (currently under review)
Find general information about population health screening.
More about Congenital hypothyroidism
Underactivity of the thyroid gland (hypothyroidism) can arise for a number of reasons. Hypothyroidism can occur in newborn infants (Congenital Hypothyroidism, CHT) as well as later on in childhood (acquired Hypothyroidism, AHT). Affected newborns look, and usually act, normal for the first few days and the national screening programme for CHT, by blood spot collection, ensures that affected infants are identified and treated as early as possible. The commonest cause of CHT is a poorly developed or absent thyroid gland; the underlying basis to this abnormality is only clear in a small proportion of cases. CHT can also occur if there is a defect in thyroxine production within the gland. These defects may be permanent or transient. Although every child with CHT should be started on thyroxine promptly, they should be evaluated at some time later to exclude a transient problem. Children with CHT do very well as adults in the long-term, as long as they receive adequate thyroxine replacement.
Screening in the UK
Compare how screening is offered across the UK.
• British Association of Perinatal Medicine
The stakeholder groups will be involved when the recommendation is next reviewed. If you think your organisation should be added, please contact us. More information for stakeholders can be found in appendix C of the UK NSC evidence review process.
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Maine Four Corners EXPERIENCE Tour
The Maine Four Corners EXPERIENCE Tour
, is open to motorcycles of all sizes and makes, cars, trucks or any over the road registered
Before leaving for the Tour :
Registration Fee: (each participant $50.00 U.S. Funds) All tour participants must send in, a check or money order, and a signed
notarized waiver, also the Registration Form, (located at the bottom of this sheet) for each participant.
Registration forms have to be sent to the Madawaska Four Corners Park Association, P.O. Box 261 , Madawaska, Maine 04756,
Included in your registration fee , and to commemorate your achievement for completing the tour, you'll receive a free tee shirt with
the Maine Four Corners EXPERIENCE Tour (LOGO) , a document certificate , signed by the Governor of Maine, verifying that you
completed the tour. Your name, where you live, and make and year of your motorcycle, car, truck, will be added to a Maine finisher
page on our website, along with the year of completion. Participants not completing the tour will not be on the finisher page, and not
eligible for the free Tour tee shirt, and not be eligible for a registration refund.
This Tour is about 630 miles (NOT COUNTING YOUR TRIP BACK HOME) depending on the route you take. Make sure to make your
motel and hotel reservations in advance so that you will be guaranteed a place to stay. You may take any desired road, to the
designated check points. Participants can do the tour on their own, at their own pace and during any time of the year. You may also
take multiple years to complete the Tour, as long as you keep the proper receipts, which will include gas receipts at all four corners,
with the date, a photo at
the four check
point landmarks of you, with your motorcycle, car, or truck. For your gas receipt, at Grafton
Notch State Park ,gas up in Bethel.
After finishing the Tour , you may purchase a finisher gray granite paver, which will be installed in the Madawaska Four Corners
Park. The cost of the paver, will include, written on the granite paver "Maine Four Corners EXPERIENCE Tour". If you would like to
have the Tour crest logo on the paver, this would be an extra $150.00 , plus the cost of the paver.. The mode of transportation ,while
you were doing the tour, will be added to the bottom of the gray granite paver, car, motorcycle, truck etc.
Maine Four Corners Park EXPERIENCE Tour check points include :
Madawaska ( Four Corners Park), Lubec (post office), Kittery (trading post) and,
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You can contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com PLEASE PRINT clearly
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NOTE:Before leaving for the tour: Send:check or money order,the signed notarized waiver and
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The Gateway Motel
Only two miles from the Madawaska Four Corners Park,
Mention that you are doing the Maine Four Corners
EXPERIENCE Tour
and get 10% discount on a one night stay
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There are some signatures that are so recognizable wouldn't you say?
Since we pay so much of our expenses on-line now we don't get to practice our cursive as much but I do believe it is a beautiful art.
Linking with ABC WEDNESDAY
Fascinating Ann.
What a treasure to having all that Civil War history from your family.
Yes, it is as beautiful art, and I have read how it contributes to our intelligence. Sadly I have also read that teaching cursive writing is being discontinued in schools, - so sad.
what a lovely and surprising choise for this weeks letter.... and now you say it... indeed there are countless and some of them are recognized by everyone.
Have a nice ABC-Wednes-day / - week
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It is fascinating to have a handwriting analysis done. I went to a "course" on a cruise one time and at the end, we had to give a sample to be analyzed. I turned out to be creative and a good writer! Great...I love to write!
abcw team
I mourn the loss of cursive. My 12 y.o. has difficulty reading it.
John Hancock's signature is almost a work of art, and I am sad that cursive is no longer required or taught at many schools in the USA. Will our signatures be printed in future? Ugh. Easy to forge printing too!
I love the Picasso signature. I think you can frame the signature of his by itself.
My ABC WEDNESDAY
It is nice you have the old records. I have some that belonged to my grandparents when they had to try and get a loan from the bank. They put up everything they had to borrow $100.This was going back beyond the depression days.
What a creative and delightful post for S ~ thanks!
Happy Week to you ~ ^_^
thats an interesting post...And may I ask which game did you try? You know even I wanted to check! Just for fun..There are a lot in internet, I Know, but still something reliable is always good. Isn't it??
Penmanship was an art back then. I wonder when rounded letters and flairs in forming letters started going out the window.
Penmanship is slowly becoming extinct. Although I know calligraphy, I have to admit that with my busy life I don't use it on a daily basis. Blessings!


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The four skilful brothers
老大和弟弟们分手后便抓紧时间赶路。 在路上,他遇到一个人问他准备到哪里去,想干什么。 他回答说:"我想在这个世界闯荡闯荡,学一门手艺来充实自己。"那人说道:"你就跟着我吧,我将教你如何成为一名前所未有的最精明的小偷。"老大说道:"不!这不是正当的职业,靠这种本事谋生最终都免不了要被绞死。"那人解释说:"嗨!你不必担心什么绞刑架,因为我只是教你如何找出最适合的方式方法和对象,取到别人得不到的东西,来无影,去无踪,让别人找不着你的踪迹。"听完之后,年青人被说服了,他跟着这位师傅学习,很快表现了他的天赋,只要是他想得到的东西,没有一样能逃过他的手心。
老二在路上也遇到一个人,当那人了解到他此行的目的之后,就问他想学什么本领,老二回答说:"我心里还没有底哩。"那人说道:"你就跟着我学做一名占星学家吧,这是一种崇高的职业 ,因为当你了解了星象后,就没有什么事情能够瞒过你了。 "一席话令他非常高兴,老二便在他那位老师的教导下,成了一名非常出色的占星学家。他学业有成后,他准备告别老师回家去。老师给了他一个望远镜,说道:"用这架望远镜,你能看清天上和地上所有的东西,没有什么事物能瞒过你。 "
老三遇到的是一个猎人,他跟着猎人学到了各种打猎的本领,成为一个极有能耐的猎手。 当他离开师傅时,师傅给了他一付弓箭,并告诉他说:"用这付弓箭,无论你想射什么,就一定能射中它。"
同样,小儿子也遇到一个人,这人问他想做什么,并问他说:"你愿意做一个裁缝吗?"小儿子回答说:"不,不!裁缝一天到晚都盘腿坐在那儿,拿着针穿来穿去,提着熨斗推来推去。那工作不适合我来做。"那人解释说道:"嗨!我可不是那种裁缝,跟我学吧,你会学到一种完全不同于普通做服装的裁缝手艺。"尽管他还没有完全了解这人的手艺有什么特别之处,好奇心与求学心促使他还是答应跟他去学,而且,学会了他的全部本领。 离别师傅之时,师傅送给他一根针说:"用这根针,你能把任何东西缝合起来,从软的鸡蛋到坚硬的钢铁,被缝合后真可以说是天衣无缝,毫无破绽。"
四年以后,到了他们约定的日子,四个兄弟在十字路口相会了,他们欢欢喜喜地互道离别之情,一起回到了父亲的家里 ,将各自分别后的经历,学到了什么手艺,都告诉了父亲,一家人非常高兴。 一天,他们一起坐在屋前的一棵非常高大的树下,父亲说:"我想考考你们每一个人所学到的本领。"说着他抬头向树上望去,对第二个儿子说道:"在这棵树顶上,有一个苍头燕雀的巢,你告诉我鸟巢里有几个鸟蛋。"占星学家拿出他的望远镜向上一看,说道:"五个。"父亲转过头对大儿子说:"现在你去把蛋拿下来,但不能惊动趴在鸟蛋上正在孵化的雌鸟。"于是精明灵巧的小偷爬上树从鸟的身子下面把五个鸟蛋掏下来给了他父亲,那只雌鸟既没有看见,也没有感觉到鸟蛋给人掏走了,仍然静静地趴在巢内。 父亲拿着五个鸟蛋在桌子的每个角上放了一个,余下的一个放在了桌子的中间,对猎手说:"你要一箭把所有的鸟蛋都击成两半。"猎手取弓在手,只一箭就把所有的鸟蛋按他父亲的要求射成了两半。 最后,父亲对最小的裁缝儿子说:"你把鸟蛋和蛋里面的小鸟都缝好,不要让它们有任何受到伤害的痕迹留下。"裁缝拿出针,按父亲的要求把蛋都缝好了。 接着,妙手神偷把鸟蛋又放回鸟巢内雌鸟的下面,那鸟竟毫不知晓,好像它腹下的蛋不曾被动过一般,仍在继续孵着那些蛋。 几天以后,小鸟出壳时,它们的脖颈由裁缝缝合的地方仅只有一点点淡红色的条纹。
过了不久,这个国家出了一个大乱子。 国王的女儿被一条巨龙抓走了,国王为失去女儿日夜悲伤不已,发出通告说:无论谁把他的女儿救了回来,就将女儿许配给他作为妻子。
四个兄弟互相一商量,说道:"我们的机会来了,让我们各展所能吧。"他们都愿意试一试,看自己是否能够把公主救回来。 占星学家老二说:"我很快就能找出她在哪儿了。"说着,他拿起望远镜一看 ,叫道:"我看到她了,她正坐在很远的大海中的一块礁石上,我还看见那条龙就在她身边守卫着。"为了他们兄弟能到达那儿,他找国王配备了一条船出海了。 按照老二的指点,船在海上航行很久之后,到达了礁石旁。 正和老二说的一样,他们发现公主正坐在礁石上,那条龙躺在她身边睡觉,龙头就枕在公主的大腿上。 猎人说:"我不敢射杀那条龙,因为我怕会把年青美丽的公主也一起射死。"神偷说道:"就让我来试一试我的技能吧!"说完,他跳上礁石,从龙的头下把公主偷偷移了出来。 他的手法又快又轻,龙一点也不知道,仍然在那里鼾声大作。
救出公主后,他们非常高兴,急忙带着她上船返航。 不久那条龙醒来发现公主不见了,马上腾在空中,在他们的后面大声咆哮追了过来。 当飞到船的上空时,它张牙舞爪向他们猛扑了下来。 说时迟那时快,猎人举起弓箭,一箭射去,正好射中它的心脏,龙掉下来死去了。 可他们仍未摆脱危险,因为那条巨龙的庞大尸体正好落在船上,把整条船给打碎了。 他们全都掉到了无边无际的大海里,不得不抓着几块船板茫然地漂游。 这时,裁缝拿出他的针,只几下就把一些船板缝在一起了,他爬在上面,把四下漂浮的碎块统统捞起来,将它们全部缝合在一起,很快使船恢复了原貌。 接着,他们兄弟几个和公主都上了船,有说有笑地继续向目的地航行,一路顺风,他们很快就安全地回到了自己的家园。
当他们把公主带回王宫交给她父亲时,国王大喜过望,对他们四兄弟说:"你们中的一个将和公主结婚,但必须由你们自己确定是哪一位。"这一来,他们兄弟之间引起了一场争论。 占星学家说:"如果不是我找出公主在哪里,你们的本领都毫无用处,因此,公主应该属于我。"妙手神偷说:"如果不是我把公主从龙头下偷出来,你看到她又有什么用呢?所以说,公主应该是属于我的。"猎手说:"不对,她应该是我的,如果不是我把龙射死,它就会把你们和公主都撕成碎块。"裁缝说:"如果不是我把船再缝好的话,你们都会被淹死,因此,她应该是我的人了。"国王听了他们的争论说道:"你们每一个人都有道理,但你们不能够都娶我的女儿,最好的办法是你们谁也不娶我的女儿。作为对你们的回报,我就把王国的一部分划给你们。"四个兄弟都认为这比互相争斗要好得多,就同意了这个方案。
于是,国王履行了他自己的诺言,划给了他们每人一部分土地。 四个兄弟过上了幸福的生活,他们对自己的父亲非常孝顺,使他也享受到了晚年的快乐。
There was once a poor man who had four sons, and when they were grown up, he said to them, "My dear children, you must now go out into the world, for I have nothing to give you, so set out, and go to some distance and learn a trade, and see how you can make your way." So the four brothers took their sticks, bade their father farewell, and went through the town-gate together. When they had travelled about for some time, they came to a cross-way which branched off in four different directions. Then said the eldest, "Here we must separate, but on this day four years, we will meet each other again at this spot, and in the meantime we will seek our fortunes."
Then each of them went his way, and the eldest met a man who asked him where he was going, and what he was intending to do? "I want to learn a trade," he replied. Then the other said, "Come with me, and be a thief." - "No," he answered, "that is no longer regarded as a reputable trade, and the end of it is that one has to swing on the gallows." - "Oh," said the man, "you need not be afraid of the gallows; I will only teach you to get such things as no other man could ever lay hold of, and no one will ever detect you." So he allowed himself to be talked into it, and while with the man became an accomplished thief, and so dexterous that nothing was safe from him, if he once desired to have it. The second brother met a man who put the same question to him what he wanted to learn in the world. "I don't know yet," he replied. "Then come with me, and be an astronomer; there is nothing better than that, for nothing is hid from you." He liked the idea, and became such a skillful astronomer that when he had learnt everything, and was about to travel onwards, his master gave him a telescope and said to him, "With that you canst thou see whatsoever takes place either on earth or in heaven, and nothing can remain concealed from thee." A huntsman took the third brother into training, and gave him such excellent instruction in everything which related to huntsmanship, that he became an experienced hunter. When he went away, his master gave him a gun and said, "It will never fail you; whatsoever you aim at, you are certain to hit." The youngest brother also met a man who spoke to him, and inquired what his intentions were. "Would you not like to be a tailor?" said he. "Not that I know of," said the youth; "sitting doubled up from morning till night, driving the needle and the goose backwards and forwards, is not to my taste." - "Oh, but you are speaking in ignorance," answered the man; "with me you would learn a very different kind of tailoring, which is respectable and proper, and for the most part very honorable." So he let himself be persuaded, and went with the man, and learnt his art from the very beginning. When they parted, the man gave the youth a needle, and said, "With this you can sew together whatever is given you, whether it is as soft as an egg or as hard as steel; and it will all become one piece of stuff, so that no seam will be visible."
When the appointed four years were over, the four brothers arrived at the same time at the cross-roads, embraced and kissed each other, and returned home to their father. "So now," said he, quite delighted, "the wind has blown you back again to me." They told him of all that had happened to them, and that each had learnt his own trade. Now they were sitting just in front of the house under a large tree, and the father said, "I will put you all to the test, and see what you can do." Then he looked up and said to his second son, "Between two branches up at the top of this tree, there is a chaffinch's nest, tell me how many eggs there are in it?" The astronomer took his glass, looked up, and said, "There are five." Then the father said to the eldest, "Fetch the eggs down without disturbing the bird which is sitting hatching them." The skillful thief climbed up, and took the five eggs from beneath the bird, which never observed what he was doing, and remained quietly sitting where she was, and brought them down to his father. The father took them, and put one of them on each corner of the table, and the fifth in the middle, and said to the huntsman, "With one shot thou shalt shoot me the five eggs in two, through the middle." The huntsman aimed, and shot the eggs, all five as the father had desired, and that at one shot. He certainly must have had some of the powder for shooting round corners. "Now it's your turn," said the father to the fourth son; "you shall sew the eggs together again, and the young birds that are inside them as well, and you must do it so that they are not hurt by the shot." The tailor brought his needle, and sewed them as his father wished. When he had done this the thief had to climb up the tree again, and carry them to the nest, and put them back again under the bird without her being aware of it. The bird sat her full time, and after a few days the young ones crept out, and they had a red line round their necks where they had been sewn together by the tailor.
"Well," said the old man to his sons, "I begin to think you are worth more than breen clover; you have used your time well, and learnt something good. I can't say which of you deserves the most praise. That will be proved if you have but an early opportunity of using your talents." Not long after this, there was a great uproar in the country, for the King's daughter was carried off by a dragon. The King was full of trouble about it, both by day and night, and caused it to be proclaimed that whosoever brought her back should have her to wife. The four brothers said to each other, "This would be a fine opportunity for us to show what we can do!" and resolved to go forth together and liberate the King's daughter. "I will soon know where she is," said the astronomer, and looked through his telescope and said, "I see her already, she is far away from here on a rock in the sea, and the dragon is beside her watching her." Then he went to the King, and asked for a ship for himself and his brothers, and sailed with them over the sea until they came to the rock. There the King's daughter was sitting, and the dragon was lying asleep on her lap. The huntsman said, "I dare not fire, I should kill the beautiful maiden at the same time." - "Then I will try my art," said the thief, and he crept thither and stole her away from under the dragon, so quietly and dexterously, that the monster never remarked it, but went on snoring. Full of joy, they hurried off with her on board ship, and steered out into the open sea; but the dragon, who when he awoke had found no princess there, followed them, and came snorting angrily through the air. Just as he was circling above the ship, and about to descend on it, the huntsman shouldered his gun, and shot him to the heart. The monster fell down dead, but was so large and powerful that his fall shattered the whole ship. Fortunately, however, they laid hold of a couple of planks, and swam about the wide sea. Then again they were in great peril, but the tailor, who was not idle, took his wondrous needle, and with a few stitches sewed the planks together, and they seated themselves upon them, and collected together all the fragments of the vessel. Then he sewed these so skilfully together, that in a very short time the ship was once more seaworthy, and they could go home again in safety.
When the King once more saw his daughter, there were great rejoicings. He said to the four brothers, "One of you shall have her to wife, but which of you it is to be you must settle among yourselves." Then a warm contest arose among them, for each of them preferred his own claim. The astronomer said, "If I had not seen the princess, all your arts would have been useless, so she is mine." The thief said, "What would have been the use of your seeing, if I had not got her away from the dragon? so she is mine." The huntsman said, "You and the princess, and all of you, would have been torn to pieces by the dragon if my ball had not hit him, so she is mine." The tailor said, "And if I, by my art, had not sewn the ship together again, you would all of you have been miserably drowned, so she is mine." Then the King uttered this saying, "Each of you has an equal right, and as all of you cannot have the maiden, none of you shall have her, but I will give to each of you, as a reward, half a kingdom." The brothers were pleased with this decision, and said, "It is better thus than that we should be at variance with each other." Then each of them received half a kingdom, and they lived with their father in the greatest happiness as long as it pleased God.
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January 6, 2012
Last week it emerged that Gabino Zavala, the auxiliary bishop of the Catholic archdiocese of Los Angeles for nearly 18 years, has a secret family. The existence of his two teenage children has been deemed a sufficiently "grave cause", as defined by Canon 401 of the code of canon law, that he has been obliged to resign. Memories of other notable cases resurface: the Eamon Casey scandal of the early 90s, when revelations that he fathered a child two years before his episcopal appointment led to his resignation as Bishop of Galway; the more recent case of the founder of the Legionaries of Christ, Father Marcial Maciel, who had as many as six children (although accusations of paedophilia and incest make this alleged offence pale into insignificance). Zavala is hardly the first priest to break his vow of celibacy in such spectacular fashion, and in fact the church has struggled with the problem of "Fathers who are fathers" for centuries.
The children of Catholic priests have historically presented a double problem to the Latin Rite church: clearly they give the game away about dad's lack of conformity to the requirement for celibacy, but they also put a financial burden on his employer....
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How was everyone's holidays? I had so much fun with my loved ones that I am so energetic to start the 2017. Yesterday I was playing around with some of my Indie Boheme Fabrics strike offs and decided to created this wonderful Notenbook covers. I have a few that are so simple that I wanted to add some personality to them. I use lots of notebooks because I am constantly jotting down ideas, and that's even better to do in a pretty notebook.
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As part of an NICHD funded project, the Social Science Data Analysis Network at the University of Michigan will host a workshop to enable college and university professors to develop class modules using topics from the American Community Survey for courses they will teach during the 2017-2018 academic year. The workshop will be held Thursday through Saturday, June 15-17, 2017 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Not even the best legal minds in the Confederate South seem to be able to stem the tide of anti-Confederate flag legislation and sentiment.
Even the flags that once adorned Maurice Bessinger's chain of barbecue restaurants in South Carolina fly no more.
The elder Bessinger, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in the '70s, has not been involved in running the business for several years. Most of the flags at the restaurants quietly came down more than a year ago, Lloyd Bessinger said.
The family-run operation wants to stay neutral politically, appealing to Republicans and Democrats, Bessinger said. "Dad liked politics," he said. "That's not something we're interested in doing. We want to serve great barbecue. "We want to get past that."
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Barrett's Back on the Brough
The site now has a blog, which it is promised will be updated weekly. There, you can read about the most recent finds, including, very excitingly, a stone gaming board. Readers who know of my love for the Lewis playing-pieces (and who doesn't love them?), will know that this sets the imagination racing!
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- Chris Gabb3 August 2011 at 12:56
I cannot work out how else to contact you but thought you might be interested to know that DC comics are producing a series called Northlanders under their Vertigo imprint.
I have only just discovered it although it has been running a couple of years. It depicts the colonisation of Iceland and other aspects of Viking society as a dramatised portrayal of everyday life. A bit different from the sci-fi Marvel version of Thor.
I have pasted an Amazon link below but if you call into Page 45 on Market Street or Forbidden Planet you will undoubtedly be able to have a look at the collections.
The link to what looks like the first collection is http://www.amazon.co.uk/Northlanders-Sven-Returned-v/dp/1845769929/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312372269&sr=1-2 .
Take care. Chris
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- Chris Gabb4 August 2011 at 16:49
Completely forgot to say that my original Professor, when when I read history a loooong time ago, in Cardiff, was H.R. Loyn. I imagine thta would be a blast from the past for you. I recall he was very tall and we were all encouraged to buy his book!!!
That dates you a bit, as Prof. Loyn died in 2000. Of his book, all I'll say is, it was of its time...but hope you did buy it (and keep it?).ReplyDelete
- Chris Gabb9 August 2011 at 08:48
Indeed it does, as I left Cardiff in 1979 - before you were a gleaming in your mother's eye I'll warrant!! I did buy the book but it wasn't quite my area of interest. I still have it.ReplyDelete
I arrived (at Uni sans any linguistic ability) intrigued by Habsurg early Europe and ended as a continental High Middle-agist - ahem - altho even then I had concentrated on Byzantine history - rather molloxed up my Crusades paper when I could literally only answer two questions. Sigh.
Incidentally, can you recommend a good and readable (for someone who now reads history for pleasure not work) book on the Norse myths? I picked up the Abrams book but am utterly becalmed half way through as its a bit of a travelogue for me.
Try R.I. Page's Norse Myths.ReplyDelete


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Have you ever been on a family road trip competing against DVD players, iThings, and video games for you kids' attention? Now, you actually have some ammunition to take onto the attention-grabbing battlefield. A guide to some well-known and not-so-well known attractions, historical places, and interstate highway hi-jinks along Interstate 70 (I-70) from Baltimore, MD to Cove Fort, UT and points in between.
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Zig Zag Café - Hot Buttered Rum
Now that you have chilled your batter grab some dark rum and let Kacy Fitch of Zig Zag Café in Seattle show you how to mix up a molten Hot Buttered Rum.
2 to 3 Tbsp. batter
2 oz Dark Rum
4 oz hot water
Stir batter and rum together in a pre-warmed glass until combined.
Add hot water and stir to combine.
Top with whipped cream and fresh grated nutmeg.
Blair Frodelius 18 Dec 2008
5:44 am
It looks good, only I will not be making 100 of these in the next few months! Is there anyway to redact the recipe to make say, 10 drinks?
DJ HawaiianShirt 18 Dec 2008
6:20 am
I feel obligated to let everyone know that the rum he used is no ordinary dark rum; it's Cruzan Black Strap rum. Black Strap is a black-colored rum that is sweet and tastes overwhelmingly (in a good way) of molasses and brown sugar. Quite wonderful, but I'm not sure I would call it "any old dark rum".
Robert Hess 19 Dec 2008
7:17 am
Blair… A recipe like this is usually one that is more general than specific. I took the recipe as Kasy dictated, and scaled it down by about a factor of 10, which makes it more manageable:
- 1/2 cup vanilla ice cream
- 3 Tbs butter
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 2 dashes vanilla
- 6 Tbs powdered sugar
- 4 Tbs brown sugar
Hope that helps!
Robert Hess 19 Dec 2008
7:20 am
Yes, the Cruzan "Black Strap" is a great rum. I find that basically all of the various "Dark Rums" you find on the market are different enough from one another to make each of them bring something a little special to the drinks you make with them. So while this drink will taste different with any other rum besides Cruzan Black Strap, any old dark rum will produce a great drink, and in fact any old rum dark, golden, light, whatever, will also work here as well… even if again the drink will come out different.
Christian 19 Dec 2008
8:11 am
This recipe looks pretty good.
Here is my Easy Hot Buttered Rum batter recipe:
1 pound brown sugar
2 sticks unsalted butter
2 teaspoons each of vanilla extract, nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice.
combine it with a blender and spoon 2.5oz into individual containers (tupperware or whatever).
Stored like this you can keep it for 2 months in the freezer.
for the actual drink put one serving of the batter in a coffee mug, add 2oz of rum (I use gold) and top with hot water. It's a great late night-in-front-of-the-tv kinda drink.
Christian 19 Dec 2008
8:13 am
Forgot to mention that my recipe makes 10 ~2.5oz servings
Mark Blackhart 8 Jan 2009
12:09 pm
You mention that, "A recipe like this is usually one that is more general than specific." Is there something about the nature of the drink that makes minimal measuring an acceptable or maybe even beneficial practice? If so, would this hold up for other warm drinks? Other homemade recipe drinks? (You get the idea).
Trevor 13 Jan 2009
6:56 pm
This version looks interesting and I'm curious to try that batter mixture, but I think I prefer a more traditional method. I transcribed this recipe from one of Chris McMillan's youtube video's:
THE HOT BUTTERED RUM Colonial Classic
Warm coffee glass with hot water
Pour out water and add 3 Heaping bar spoons of Demerara sugar
Splash hot water and mix to dissolve sugar
2 oz Jamaican rum ( Appleton 's)
2 cloves
1 cinnamon stick
Dash of Allspice
Top with hot water and mix
Add orange peel zest
Add pat of butter
Stir to melt butter
This was a huge hit with all my family and friends over the holidays!
The Scribe 19 Jan 2009
1:31 pm
Hey there,
I think that what Mr. Hess means is that the recipe is x parts, y parts. Also, while this is not to knock hot buttered rum, but none of the ingredients are particularly distinctive. If you taste a whiskey sour with, say, half an ounce of lemon juice, and then taste one with a third of an ounce of lemon juice, and then one with two thirds of an ounce (assuming a tolerance of .5 oz +/- .167oz.), you'll notice that those three drinks are each fairly distinct, and if you are expecting a third of an ounce of citrus and get twice that, it changes the drink dramatically. Unlike citrus juice (or many other commonly used ingredients in cocktails), vanilla ice cream, butter, and spices don't have such a distinctive taste.
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Monday, 26 April 2010
Its all in the rig!
(photograph courtesy of Thierry Martinez)
I thought I'd write down some notes on how I handle my rig. It's kind of hard to shout to people on the water as we fly past each other so I hope this helps. Andrew has added a piece on the bottom for MSL13 users too.
With 19 of the top 20 Moths at the recent World Championships being Mach 2's, the latest Moth to be designed by Andrew McDougall and built by McConaghy, one might assume that all the top Moth sailors now go the same speed.
However nothing could have been further from the truth. In fact there were big differences in speed, and these differences can be attributed to one thing only:
I won the event and I thought I'd take time to explain my rig, because although other people were fast, I think I was the fastest for most of the time and right now, with all of our other equipment being so similar, optimising your rig is critical as it is your only differentiator.
Someone once said that "boat speed makes you a tactical genius" and no one believes that more than me. A fast Moth can make up for an average start, mediocre race craft or in my case indifferent fitness after a knee operation.
So we all agree boats speed is import, and given the above it's kind of surprising that people still make rig purchase decisions based on emotion rather than fact. I have observed this and I sympathise. I have found one of the hardest things to do is to make balanced impartial calls when you choose kit, but this you must. Friendships, colours, new things and advertising sway us all but spending lots of money to go slower is to me a sign that Darwins Theory of Evolution is clearly not right.
You have to look at what's fast, and to do that you have to look at historical results for the conditions you anticipate at your target event.
In Moths a lot of people use KA sails, and I do so for a several reasons. Let me share these with you so you can understand my thinking.
Firstly when we talk about the rig we are referring to the sail and the mast. In the Moth world few suppliers have a collaborative relationship here but I do know that the Mach 2 series of masts are the same ones you can buy from KA and it's these masts that fit the KA sails. To me that makes sense as they both come from the same designer.
But in Moths a minor change in wind conditions can change boat speed dramatically. That's because it doesn't take much before 25 knots of wind (gradient plus apparent) is coming over the deck, where previously, in a few of knots of less wind, we were low riding. This means that to win a championship you need a sail that changes gears easily. Very easily. You cannot be out for a day's racing knowing that you have a weak spot if the conditions change. There are plenty of sails I know to be fast in one mode but they then slow up as the conditions change.
Of course you can't have everything, and clearly something's must change to maintain a fast pace as the breeze builds or fades. I do not change sails, but I do change masts as I believe that this minimises the degree of risk because the difference of change is less than the difference that occurs when you change sails.
At the worlds I used the KA MSL10 sail. In less than 12 knots I used the KA/Mach2 stiff mast, and over 12 knots the KA/Mach2 soft mast. One day I got confused and used the soft mast in light winds and still went OK. You see what I'm getting at here? Winning Moth Championships is about staying fast and managing risk. The sail fits both masts really well.
So if you agree that the rig needs to work through a number of conditions let's talk about those gear changes when using a KA MSL10 or KA MSL13 Sail
1st Gear. We have "traditional" conditions where the wind is light, the windage is low and the sail must produce maximum power to get you on the foils. The outhaul is off with about an 8 inch gap between the sail and the boom. The cunningham is on just enough to take the creases out and the kicker is on to keep the leech straight. At the first scent of foiling I let the kicker off in order to generate the twist needed to get on the foils early, In first gear your primary control is the kicker.
2nd Gear. The boat is now foiling in marginal conditions. Boat speed has risen from a low riding 4 knots to a foiling 12knots. In this gear you need to manage the power and drag ratio of the rig. Pull the kicker on and Cunningham on until you can sail with the boom on the centreline (mainsheet block to block) without spilling wind. Your drag will be at its minimum and the power will be the maximum you will need. However no wind is so constant that you can just set it and forget it and if you do find yourself falling off the foils after sailing into a light patch then ease the outhaul straight away .If the wind is dying you wont have time to do anything else and the KA MSL10 powers up well like this. In second gear your primary control is the outhaul
3rd Gear. In a medium breeze upwind the fastest Moths to the windward mark are the highest ones. Pointing comes from the winward "push" developed by your hydrofoils as you heel the boat to windward but it also comes from that lower leach of your sail. You should be looking at that bit of leach between the bottom batten and the third one up and try to get that perfectly straight. You do this by alternately pulling the kicker on, then the cunnigham on. The head will be bladed and loose like a birds wing or the head of a fast windsurfer sail because the centre of effort has moved and the power is coming from lower down the sail. In 3rd gear your primary control is the Cunningham for managing variations in the wind speed..
"Cruise control" .This applies to downwind work which most people think is just the same as upwind. It isn't, you may still have the boom on the centreline but you don't generally heal to windward and you get to make gains by bearing away. I find a small easing of the kicker on the final approach to the windward mark is all that's needed to get the head to "self work" and that gives me time to forget about the rig and plan my approach to the leeward mark. I've often seen people needing to constantly fiddle with controls, a sign that the mast and rig dont work well together. I use consistently high kicker loads down wind and in a breeze when I move to a softer mast this is where I see the real speed gains. It improves my downwind speed as much as my upwind. Primary control here is the cunnigham which is used to control mast bend and move the fullness forward if you need to sail low. Useful if you have to sink low to get through a finish or round a mark.
These are the wind ranges and points of sailing your rig need to take you through. My rig does, and that's why I think I'm so consistent. If you can achieve the same with whatever equipment you have then you are on the right road too.
Finally I have a habit of not changing sails if I can help it. I like to get to get to know a sail intimately and that's because I believe the last 10% of performance is basically hidden and is only revealed after you've both spent some time together. If the above makes sense then just like me you're going to have to find it to. You won't do that by having a random multi make sail programme.
Here are some additional observations from Andrew McDougall, who always uses the MSL 13.
"The physical difference between MSL13 and MSL10B is ridiculously small, but the difference on the water is huge.
The MSL10B is an easy sail, smooth and efficient, utilising the 8 m² of sail area in a way that is not extreme considering the speeds we are foiling at. The MSL13 on the other hand, requires more tuning between modes. For me this is a small price to pay for the extra power of the 13 has. I am a little heavier than the average moth sailor, and certainly not smooth moving around the boat, so the extra power is worth the extra work, allowing me to make boat handling errors and be able to get quickly back on the foils.
Like Simon, I only use one sail: the MSL13 and normally I try to only use one mast, the KA/Mach2 soft mast, so that I can rig and forget. (And forget to de rig! - Si)
This rig can be a handful at times, requiring lots of vang and Cunningham to blade it out for efficient upwind work, or to get rid of power at the top of the sail when sailing downwind in extreme conditions.
Upwind it works quite similarly to the MSL10B, but it is downwind where the technique can be completely different. The trick of sailing downwind fast is getting the balance of low drag and right power correct. Too little vang will knuckle up the front of the sail causing high drag, too much vang will not allow the sail to twist enough to get the top working. The MSL10B does not like having little vang, so both upwind and downwind modes are similar. I.e. sail fast and get the apparent forward. The MSL13 on the other hand, with its fuller head, can work well with low vang tensions allowing a low 'soak' mode that is not as available to the MSL10B. I sail in this mode most of the time, particularly if the wind is strong or if the wind is very light. In strong winds because going high won't make you any faster, in light winds because the angles are so bad that any depth you can get gives very big gains.
The important thing to understand with the Moth is that the range of speeds and power requirements are more varied than almost any other boat, and not necessarily just because the conditions change. This means that any rig that is too far outside the middle ground is not going to work. This is why we have two sails that are very similar, right in the middle of the extremes.
I get reminded every time I sail these boats that adjustments generally need to be very small. It is tempting to make large adjustments when you feel you are not on the pace, but it's highly possible that you are only slightly off with your tuning but causing many knots of boat speed difference. A large adjustment will often end up on the other side of the setting you need. You need to be disciplined when other boats around you are going faster: knowing that you must make small and considered adjustments to get yourself back up to speed."
And by the way, I was the fastest, not Simon ;)
13 comments:
- Graham Simmonds said...
Enormously helpful, Simon. No wonder you could not tell me all of that on the water last Saturday!
- 26 April 2010 at 10:55
Dear Dr Rig,
I have recently changed boats and this one is determined to ditch me into windward, unlike the previous boat. No amount of bearing away, sheeting super hard or shuffling off the wing will stop the torture of being slowly tea-bagged once past the point of no return. The range between slightly to windward and dumped in the water is very slight.
I think my rig is to blame, can you help me out?
Ringing Wet.
- 26 April 2010 at 14:09
"1st gear: ... At the first scent of foiling I let the kicker off in order to generate the twist needed to get on the foils early..."
I'm puzzled by this. If adding twist is needed to get on the foils early then does adding twist add power? If so then surely you could usefully use that power when you're low-riding with no hope of getting on the foils. So there must be another reason that adding twist helps you to get on the foils early?
- 26 April 2010 at 19:35
- Simon Payne said...
Hi Mike
Adding twist adds acceleration, particularly in light winds where the wind shere is quite pronounced. It is at the expense of pointing however which is important in a low riding race.
- 26 April 2010 at 19:44
- andrew said...
nice to see that extra 10% cropping up again....!
- 26 April 2010 at 20:54
- Foiler Town USA said...
Hi Simon,
This is incredibly useful. Thanks for taking time to post. What is your 3rd and 4th gear outhaul setting look like up wind. My sense is it goes better with slight belly on boom i.e 2 inches off? This is for the 13,
- 27 April 2010 at 03:10
- James said...
Quite useful Simon. Only thing I have a question is rig rake. Haven't really seen anything on this and wonder if this is another piece of jigsaw.
- 27 April 2010 at 06:21
- Simon Payne said...
Mast rake:| I generally have my mast in line with the king post with the sail on but not the boom or cunningham. Rig tension tends to pull this forward a bit but not much. I wil measure this for you today though so you have a more accurate setting! Sorry it was vague. Si
- 27 April 2010 at 08:00
- Doug Culnane said...
Great info Thanks Si.
- 27 April 2010 at 09:32
Si / Amac,
Getting such a de-brief on the set up of the KA's is indeed a useful blog, and a great pre-curser to the coaching for those of us at Foil Fest this May.
However, like Amac, I am in the same slightly heavier Moth camp, yet unlike Amac, my Mach2 and MSL 13 only came with the stiffer mast, so I would welcome hearing what the comparable requirement for tuning between the modes would be for that, bearing in mind that Amac states he finds the rig a handful at times with just using the soft mast! Or is the stiff mast now proving to difficult tuning performance wise for the MSL13?
- 27 April 2010 at 18:47
- Simon Payne said...
Yes. Pull the outhaul on until the foot of the 13 is about 2" moving to 1" from the boom and just at the point where its not loosing shape through being "stretched" when the breeze is really up. In the lighter stuff you can sail with it eased a bit more
- 27 April 2010 at 22:21
Thanks a lot to all of you!
Very very helpfull!
- 28 April 2010 at 11:15
- Foiler Town USA said...
hi Si,
thanks that helps a lot and gives me a datum point to reference. On Day 2 of our recent Cal Sate champs it was really cranking at 20+ with 25 knots gusts, is tehre such a thin as too much cunno? What I saw at max was the cams having a hard time flicking through on the tacks unless I eased cunno a touch from max,
Cheers Richard
- 28 April 2010 at 18:36


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Hello peeps! Welcome to day 3 of Mama Elephant Stamp Highlight! Today we are showcasing Cub Cuddles stamp set along with the coordinating dies. I love this tamp set so much! I must say, Bear Hugs and Cub Cuddles are must have stamp set ♥♥♥
I used Hillside Cover CC to make a frame of my card combined with Cherry blossoms from Lunar Extras stamp set. Here, I lay down the bears to create this sweet scene ♥
I stamped the bears on watercolor paper and colored with Zig Clean Color. You can also check out my video how I colored using Zig Clean Color on my Youtube channel at here. The Cherry blossoms are stamped on bristol paper and colored with copics. For the sentiment I use "I love you" from Bear Hugs stamp set.
I hope you like it and get some inspiration
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Friday, 23 March 2012
How much would it cost to rent a TARDIS for a year?
I just came across this funny, yet informative(I say informative very lightly), article on io9.com that was posted on the 3rd, but I didn't see it posted on here, so I did it!
Bottom line is to rent a TARDIS for a year, according to io9.com and centives.net, costs "£15,140,064 or $23,930,385 or 504,668,800 jelly babies."
But I highly recommend reading the article to see how they got that number, and it's a short and a interesting read.
Read it here(if you missed the above link)
So only $23,929,305 to go till I can rent a TARDIS for a year!.... This make take awhile....
Thanks to io9.com for the "informative" article!
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She hasn't contacted me since Wednesday. Never before she kept quite for this long...I wonder if I've made mistakes somewhere? I've checked my words of writing for her...I don't think it was too strongly worded. It's moderately emotional, not too hard...I'm at a loss to explain what's really going on in her mind. Did she despise me now?
I've watched a movie in which the lead actor did everything possible to save his relationship by doing nothing. Yes...he did everything by NOT doing anything. He basically did nothing. Sometimes we are better off by not what we did, but by what we didn't.
I pray everything will turn out just fine.