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Scarpetta's Spaghetti with Fresh Tomato Sauce and Garlic Basil Oil
Scarpetta in New York City is most famous for its Spaghetti with Tomato and Basil.
People pay $24 for a serving.
Yes, that's right: twenty-four dollars.
And we're not talking about the family-style mound you'd find in a sticky-floored Italian joint. This is one of those fancy-restaurant, daintily plated serving sizes. If you twirl your fork three times, you'd get it all. Don't believe me?
But people love it. Although I haven't been to the restaurant myself, I've read the endless rave reviews and since there were too many variations for the recipe online, I just had to call the restaurant directly for the recipe.
And the secret to their famous pasta its simplicity.
Oh, and butter.
To make Scarpetta's Spaghetti with Fresh Tomato Sauce and Garlic Basil Oil, you'll first work the tomato. Cut each tomato in half and scoop out the seeds with your fingers. You can use plum tomatoes or regular tomatoes, whichever is freshest. You want a smooth, intensely flavored sauce…and watery seeds don't belong.
The Garlic Basil Oil has just a few ingredients – fresh basil, sliced garlic and chili flakes.
Infuse the ingredients in hot olive oil and let sit on stove for 20 minutes or more: 10 minutes on low-low-low heat and then 10 minutes off the heat. The longer you let it steep, the more flavorful the oil will be. You won't use all of the oil – strain, discard the solids and refrigerate for a few days and use in other recipes. Do not store the garlic in oil at room temperature.
Just before serving, drizzle or toss the pasta with the Garlic Basil Oil.
Scarpetta's Spaghetti with Fresh Tomato Sauce and Garlic Basil Oil
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adapted from Scott Conant and Scarpetta
Chef Conant likes to use 20 ripe plum tomatoes (no canned). My adaptation includes canned tomatoes as well because I find it works better. Tomatoes used for canning are picked at the peak of ripeness, and many times the fresh tomatoes I find at the market are just so-so. Feel free to use all fresh, all canned or a combination. Don't expect the usual sauce-heavy spaghetti. Conant's recipe is light; the barely there sauce combined with the basil-garlic oil is so full of intense flavors, you don't need to drown your pasta.
One 12-ounce can of San Marzano or organic whole tomatoes
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Pinch of crushed red chili pepper flakes
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 ounce freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano (about 1/2 cup)
6 to 8 fresh basil leaves, well washed and dried, stacked and rolled into a cylinder and sliced thinly crosswise into a chiffonade
1 pound spaghetti, either high-quality dry or homemade
For the Basil-Garlic Oil:
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
6-8 whole cloves garlic
10 whole fresh basil leaves
Generous pinch crushed red chili pepper flakes
1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Have a large bowl of ice water nearby. Cut a small X on the bottom of each tomato. Ease the tomatoes into the pot and boil for about 15 seconds, then promptly move them to the waiting ice water. (Continue with the remaining tomatoes.) Pull off the skin with the tip of a paring knife. If the skin sticks, try a vegetable peeler using a gentle sawing motion. Cut the tomatoes in half and use your finger to flick out the seeds.
2. In a wide pan, heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil over medium-high heat until quite hot. Add the fresh and canned tomatoes, red pepper flakes, and season lightly with the salt and pepper. (I always start with a light hand with the salt and pepper because as the tomatoes reduce, the salt will become concentrated.) Let the tomatoes cook for a few minutes to soften. Then, using a potato masher, chop the tomatoes finely. Cook the tomatoes for 20 to 25 minutes, until the tomatoes are tender and the sauce has thickened. (You can make the sauce, which yields about 2-3 cups, ahead of time. Refrigerate it for up to two days or freeze it for longer storage.)
3. While the tomatoes are cooking, make the basil-garlic oil. Heat a small saucepan over low heat with 1/4 cup olive oil, garlic cloves, basil leaves and pepper flakes. Keep the heat on low to allow the ingredients to warm slowly and release their flavors. When the garlic is lightly browned, turn heat off and let cool for 10 minutes. The longer you let the oil sit, the more infused the oil. Strain the oil, discarding the solids.
4. To cook the spaghetti, bring a large pot of amply salted water to a boil. Cook the spaghetti until just shy of al dente and drain, reserve a little of the pasta cooking water.
5. Add the cooked pasta to the sauce and cook over medium-high heat, gently tossing the pasta and the sauce together with a couple of wooden spoons and a lot of exaggerated movement (you can even shake the pan) until the pasta is just tender and the sauce, if any oil had separated from it, now looks cohesive. (If the sauce seems too thick, add a little pasta cooking liquid to adjust it.) Remove the pan from the heat and toss the butter, basil and cheese with the pasta in the same manner (the pasta should take on an orange hue). Drizzle with just a bit of the basil-garlic oil on each plate (you might not use all of it).


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One of my buddies just recently asked, "what do I need to have to be able to homebrew?" He actually brewed his first batch of beer tonight after he got his starter kit in the mail. I thought that I would take a few moments to go over the very basic things that you need to have as a new homebrewer. I am going to leave out a few things that typically come in a beer kit, becasue, as a new brewer you simply don't need or shouldn't be worrying about them. If you don't want to read my explanations, simply scroll to the bottom of the page for the final list of necessary equipment.
Boil Pot
The first thing that you are going to need is a pot to boil your wort in. A basic definition for wort is the liquid that contains all of the sugars that the yeast will eat. Your pot can really be any size, most people will say that you need to have something big enough to boil a few gallons and I would agree with that. I started with, and still use my 20 quart pot, and have had great success with it. You can find a stainless steel, 5 gallon pot for 20-50 bucks depending on where you shop. My local Big Lots has them on sale right now for $20. You can read my entry on brew pots here as there are a few other (aka cheaper) options out there, but I am going to stick with stainless.
The next thing you have to have is something to ferment in. Most beers are brewed in a closed fermenter. What this means is that once the wort and yeast are combined, there is no other air introduced to the container. Just think of a water bottle, once you put the lid on no extra air can come in. Some brewers do open fermentation where the beer is put into a container with no lid or cap, and is left alone. This is fine as long as nothing falls into the beer, there is minimal air movement, and you are willing to risk airborne critters entering your beer. In either case, the beer needs to be in something rated food safe. If it is a glass carboy you have no problems, and if it is a plastic bucket, just double check to make sure it is food safe.
So we have something to boil the wort in and somewhere to put it once it is done boiling. Now we need a way to get it out of there once the fermentation is complete. Actually, let me back up for a second. Most brewers like moving their beer from one fermenter to another after the fermentation has completed. This does a lot of things for you if you are going to be storing the beer for a long time, but if you are ready to go right to the bottle, you don't need to worry about a second fermenter. Remember I am going for a basic list here, so no secondary.
Siphon and bottling equipment
Getting back to moving that beer out of the fermenter and into the bottle, we need something to do that with. There are two options a siphon (aka a racking cane) or an auto-siphon. What both of these devices use is basic physics (pressure) to move liquids from a high pressure to a lower one. There is a little more to it, but that is the general gist. A siphon you must start and then work it into your beer. To be honest I've never used one. An auto-siphon is slightly more expensive (about $5 more), but well worth your time and effort. You simply pump it and the liquid starts flowing. Pretty easy. Along with your siphon or auto-siphon you are going to need a tube to transport the beer to where you want it.
Our next few things kind of go hand in hand. At the end of the tube from your siphon you want to have a bottle filler. A bottle filler has a spring loaded tip that only allows your precious beer to flow out of it if the tip of it is depressed (on the bottom of a bottle). They run in the 2-5 dollar range. Just make sure that you are getting one that is spring-loaded. Obviously we are going to need some bottles as well. To top off the bottles we need to have bottle caps and also a capper that crimps the caps onto the top of the bottle.
Sanitize brother, Sanitize
There is the equipment side of things. The other necessary thing that you have to have, repeat HAVE TO HAVE, is some type of sanitizer. It can be as simple as bleach or as cool as a non-rinse sanitizer. In any case it is absolutely necessary. You can have the best equipment in the world, but without sanitation, you can't make good beer (and possibly not even drinkable beer). Yikes. This is because there are tons of microscopic critters out there that like beer as much as we do. If they get into your fresh wort, they will compete with your yeast in eating the sugars. These critters can make some terrible smells and tastes if given the chance. So just kill them when you have the chance, all of them.
So a quick recap of things absolutely necessary to homebrew:
- Boil kettle: size doesn't matter but a 3-5 gallon one will serve you well
- Fermenter: because you need somewhere for your yeasts to live
- Siphon: so you can get your yummy beer into a bottle
- Bottle filler: you need to fill those bottles in some controlled fashion
- Bottles: what else would you drink your beer out of?
- Bottle caps: you want your beer to be carbonated don't you?
- Bottle capper: those caps need to stay on the bottle somehow
- Sanitizer: other little critters like beer as much as we do, don't give them a chance to have it
Well there you go, all of the stuff you need to make beer, other than the ingredients of course. I'll cover that in our next into to brewing post. Thanks for reading and let me know if there are any questions that you have. This is in no way a complete list of things that you could have, but this is the necessary list of things. There are plenty of other products out there that will make your homebrewing experience easier and more satisfying.

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Maen Kal Naheen Rahina - Poem by Shiv Kumar Batalvi
Listen, O my life,
I will not be here tomorrow.
Tonight, let us clutch a song tightly,
And claim its kiss.
Listen, O my life
I will not be here tomorrow.
The moonlight will not flower tomorrow,
Nor will bloom the champak.
Perfumes will not roam the garden
With uncovered head.
Nor like today
Will yielding branches
Bend to touch the earth,
Listen, O my life
I will not be here tomorrow.
The cranes will have scattered,
Flown far away.
By tomorrow, time, like a husband,
Will have carried off my pain.
No longer will flowers lie like jewels
Around the throat
Of the season tomorrow.
Listen, O my life
I will not be here tomorrow.
By daybreak the footprints on paths
Will not be traceable.
No longer will my songs sew a robe
True to separation.
Never will tears collect like this again,
Beneath the shadows of the past.
Listen, O my life
I will not be here tomorrow.
Not, like today, will we sit together again
You and I.
Not, like this, will will the sun rise tomorrow,
Nor, like this, will it set.
The bird of time
Will have collected
Every single grain of my breath.
Listen, O my life.
I will not be here tomorrow.
Tonight let us clutch a song tightly
And claim its kiss.
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VVCC Alpha Phi Gamma Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society to Receive "Five Star" Award from National Organization
February 12, 2009 - [ download pdf of this press release ]
The atmosphere in the room grew incrementally with each new arrival. Soon, all seven
members of leadership council took a seat and waited patiently for someone to begin the
meeting and get down to business. It was a typical board room atmosphere with one
small exception, these were students and they had come together to tell their story about
an organization in which they all had a passionate belief, the local chapter of Alpha Phi
Gamma of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society at Victor Valley Community College.
Sitting around the table were seven women, ranging in age from 16 to 45, who had
volunteered their time to revitalize an honor society that in recent times had fallen into
disarray and neglect. They all had an air of excitement because they couldn't wait to tell
their story of reaching "Five Star" status for their chapter, a feat accomplished only one
time before in the 17-year history of the chapter.
At the head of the table sat Christina Zambrano, President of the ASB and Chapter
President of Alpha Phi Gamma. "I recruited all my friends to help me achieve one of my
principal ASB goals and that was to revitalize our honor society here on campus. I didn't
give them a choice. They were all told they would become officers and that they would
help remake this organization," she said.
"We were in line at a movie premiere in Los Angeles when we received a text message
from Christina who said we were now officers on the board of the honor society. We
didn't have a choice," said Maggie Langdon and April Langdon, a mother and daughter
team. "When Christina wants something, she usually gets it but it is always in a loving
way," they added. "As a member of the society, we were able to create a curriculum
guide for the VVCC production of "The King's New Clothes" that related to this year's
theme of the national honor society, "The Paradox of Affluence." This curriculum guide
was used by teachers to fulfill the performing arts standard established by the State of
California for all grade school teachers. We feel we are making a difference," they both
Another member of the team Stacy Nerkowski commented, "I was recruited with no
explanation and then found out what Phi Theta Kappa stood for and decided that I would
continue to take classes, even though I graduated, just to keep the club going.
The same circumstance existed for her friend Liane Greaver. "This organization helps
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fellowship, "Ms. Greaver acknowledged. "I think about all the opportunities we have
been given to go out and help the community such as preparing and delivering food
baskets at Thanksgiving to people who have very little next to nothing," she said. "We
also organized an event called the "Flamingo Follies" that raised funds for the American
Cancer Society. We would go to a person's desk with a bunch of paper flamingos and
wouldn't leave until the target made a contribution to the fund. We also called people
and offered insurance that they wouldn't be flocked if they make a pledge prior to us
showing up. We raised a lot of money in this campaign," she added proudly.
In other activities, members of the society traveled to middle school classrooms to talk
future VVCC attendees about the importance of science and the opportunities that are
available in related fields. Members also started a recycling program and community
cleanup project. These are just a few of leadership and life experiences that members of
the society have had an opportunity in which to participate.
Any outsider could tell in an instant that these women were more than just friends, they
were motivated confidantes and they all lived their guiding principals of leadership,
scholarship, fellowship, and service to the campus and the community.
In April, members of the Victor Valley Community College Alpha Phi Gamma chapter of
Phi Theta Kappa will travel to Texas to receive their "Five Star" award that is given to
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By Alexey Sukachev
The undercard for one of the biggest boxing events in Russian history is slowly shaping up. The "Not a Step Back!" event, penciled in to take place at the Khodynka Palace of sports on November 4 and headlined by a local mega-fight between WBO #2 ranked cruiserweight Denis Lebedev (22-1, 17 KOs) and three-time / three-division world champion James Toney (73-6-3, 44 KOs). The main event will be supported by several quality match-ups with Russian, Ukrainian and foreign standouts.
In what seems to be the second most important fight of the night, WBC #3 ranked Russian Alexander "Knight" Bakhtin (27-0, 11 KOs) collides with lanky Guyanese hitter Leon Moore (28-2, 22 KOs) for the vacant WBC Silver super bantamweight crown.
Bakhtin is known outside of Russia for being… the national record breaker in Japan. In 2003-2006, he retained his Japanese (national) bantamweight title record nine times before being taken away from boxing by legal proceedings. Bakhtin, 30, came back in style by scoring four stoppages in a row (including Filipino veteran Jess Maca and former world title challenger Hidenobu Honda), then defended his OPBF title twice before making a comeback move to his Homeland. In his latest fight, Bakhtin scored a lopsided victory over upset artist Jose Angel Beranza.
Southpaw Moore, 32, is a quality boxer as well. He has lost only twice in his career – both times via questionable road decisions against former flyweight king Irene Pacheco and world-ranked Kyrgyz Timur Shailezov. He is undefeated in his last ten fights since the last loss in 2007.
"This fight has already been signed", commented Vladimir Hryunov.
Another world-ranked participant on the show is Ukrainian light heavyweight hope and the NABF beltholder Ismayl Sillakh (16-0, 13 KOs), who shined in May in the third-round blowout of Ugandan Hamza Wandera. The opponent of WBC #3 and IBF #7 Sillakh, 26, is still uncertain despite chains of rumors around the Web.
Sillakh was one of the best Ukrainian amateur fighters in history. The same can also be said about 2008 Beijing Olympics super heavyweight bronze medalist Vyacheslav Glazkov (9-0, 6 KOs). Glazkov, 26, won big in March of this year on the Dmitry Pirog vs. Javier Maciel undercard against powerful Russian slugger Denis Bakhtov. Now the Ukrainian giant is preparing for another quantum leap up in class.
"We've made an offer to Samuel Peter", said Hryunov to this reporter. "The fight is still not done. Right now we are waiting for a reply of Team Peter". The Nigerian Nightmare (34-5, 27 KOs), who is still relatively young at 31, is coming off two consecutive crushing defeats to Wladimir Klitschko and Robert Helenius.
James Toney will not be the only former world champion to populate the show. Another one is comebacking former cruiserweight king Wayne Braithwaite (24-4, 20 KOs). The Big Truck was fairly inactive in recent years and hasn't fought since March 2010 but took part mostly in important match-ups before that, sandwiching his stunning upset of reigning IBF champion Yoan Hernandez between one-sided losses to Enzo Maccarinelli and Steve Cunningham. The Guyanese, 36, takes on fellow veteran Ali Ismailov (18-7-1, 13 KOs) of Azerbaijan.
Ismailov, 37, is known for a controversial loss to WBO champion Victor Ramirez in May 2009. He's been on a huge downslide since then, losing four his last fights in a row – all by the way of knockout. This fight was also confirmed by Vladimir Hryunov.
The card will also feature two foreigners against yet undefined opponents. One of them is 39-year old Bahamian Sherman "Tank" Williams (34-11-2, 19 KOs), 39, who is currently helping Lebedev to prepare himself for James Toney. Another one is undefeated 27-year old Montenegrin lightweight Dejan Zlaticanin (13-0, 10 KOs).
Finally, there will be two quality domestic match-ups. Light heavyweight Igor Mikhalkin (11-1, 7 KOs), 26, comes back after a year of inactivity against durable Sergey Ekimov (6-0, 2 KOs), 25. And in a return bout of their 2010 October collision, bantamweight crowd-pleaser Nikolay Potapov (4-0, 4 KOs), 21, battles Rauf Aghayev (4-1, 1 KO), 28.


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Synergistic Enhancement of Cancer Therapy Using a Combination of Ceramide and Docetaxel
AbstractCeramide (CE)-based combination therapy (CE combination) as a novel therapeutic strategy has attracted great attention in the field of anti-cancer therapy. The principal purposes of this study were to investigate the synergistic effect of CE in combination with docetaxel (DTX) (CE + DTX) and to explore the synergy mechanisms of CE + DTX. The 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) and combination index (CI) assay showed that simultaneous administration of CE and DTX with a molar ratio of 0.5:1 could generate the optimal synergistic effect on murine malignant melanoma cell (B16, CI = 0.31) and human breast carcinoma cell (MCF-7, CI = 0.48). The apoptosis, cell cycle, and cytoskeleton destruction study demonstrated that CE could target and destruct the microfilament actin, subsequently activate Caspase-3 and induce apoptosis. Meanwhile, DTX could target and disrupt the microtubules cytoskeleton, leading to a high proportion of cancer cells in G2/M-phase arrest. Moreover, CE plus DTX could cause a synergistic destruction of cytoskeleton, which resulted in a significantly higher apoptosis and a significantly higher arrest in G2/M arrest comparing with either agent alone (p < 0.01). The in vivo antitumor study evaluated in B16 tumor-bearing mice also validated the synergistic effects. All these results suggested that CE could enhance the antitumor activity of DTX in a synergistic manner, which suggest promising application prospects of CE + DTX combination treatment. View Full-Text
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A cute couple hands down!
Actress Jennifer Garner, 39, and her husband Ben Affleck, 39, were spotted having some alone time as they stepped out for a bite to eat in Brentwood, Calif. on Thursday (October 27).
The adorable couple – who are also parents to daughters Violet, 5, and Seraphina, 2 – walked hand-in-hand as they enjoyed their time together.
Ben has recently teamed up with his pal Matt Damon in a flick about notorious New England gangster Whitey Bulger.
"Matt and I have been looking for something to do together for some time," Ben says. "We've heard about Whitey Bulger since we were kids, and we are excited by the prospect of putting it on screen."
Ben will be directing, starring and producing the movie alongside Matt while his younger brother Casey Affleck will also play a supporting role.


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Hydraulic sinus condensing (HSC) is today's premiere technique for sinus augmentation. Less invasive than prior sinus augmentation techniques, HSC uses water and air pressure to prevent membrane perforation, with condensers to gently build up the sinus floor. This presentation will demonstrate how to perform HSC in any situation, including cases with a severely atrophic maxilla, a septum presence, and a steeply sloping sinus floor. In addition, HSC with immediate implant placement and platform switching for initial stabilization will be discussed.
Leon Chen, DDS, MS, is founder of the Dental Implant Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada, and an inventor of several implant and surgical instruments associated with the surgical procedure he developed for vertical and horizontal ridge augmentation. He is also a visiting clinical instructor for the Implant Department of the Harvard University School of Dental Medicine. Dr Chen serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Oral Implantology and recently received the Rear Admiral Kevin F. Delaney "Keeping America Strong" award. He lectures both nationally and internationally.


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Atari 2600Electronic Fun with Computers & Games (Dec, 1982)
Pitfall! is an extremely colorful game with graphics so good you'll really feel like you're in the jungle. The burning fires, slithering cobras and swinging vines are incredibly detailed. And effects like the wild Tarzan yell when you swing your vine across the snapping crocodiles makes this the best game from Activision yet.
Atari 2600Le Geek (2011)
While not my absolute favorite – that honor goes to Seaquest – Pitfall is one of the best games released by Activision, probably the highest praise one can give a VCS game. It was the only Activision title to get a direct sequel before the industry crashed in '84, and it is also a notable precursor to the platformer genre, later epitomized by Super Mario Bros.
ColecoVisionTeleMatch (Feb, 1984)
Pitfall!, für das Atari VCS und Intellivision ja seit langem auf dem Markt, fordert nun auch Coleco-Besitzer in system-adäquater Ausstattung, wobei sich inhaltlich nichts geändert hat.
Atari 2600Techtite (1999)
The premise sounds simple but it was actually very addictive. It helped of course that the music and vibrant color schemes made it one of the most visually stunning games on the system back in those days. The original game would lead to a less played sequel, which may have lost a little bit of the original game's charm, but it even had its own theme song, which was actually very toe-tapping. Yet no sequel could overshadow a game that to this day is one of the irrefutable classics in home video gaming.
Atari 2600All Game Guide (1998)
Although Atari released a cartridge based on Raiders of the Lost Ark themselves, Activision's game is more action-packed and closer in "spirit" to an Indy-like adventure. The only thing missing is a giant boulder to run away from (although I suppose rolling logs will do just fine).
IntellivisionThe Video Game Critic (Mar 12, 2000)
I prefer the 2600 version because of the joystick controller, but there's certainly nothing wrong with this one.
Atari 2600The Atari Times (Sep 01, 2003)
A guy named Pitfall. Deadly pits that open and close (for some reason unbeknown to science) at will. "Cobra rattlers". Logs that continuously roll for no reason at all. Fires that somehow stay lit when no one's around, and crocodiles that let you jump onto their heads. If you think about the above elements for a minute -- and being taken out of context -- you might realize how ridiculous it all sounds, not to mention how unlikely it could (somehow) be combined into not only a good video game, but one of the most highly revered classics of video game history as well.
ColecoVisionThe Video Game Critic (Apr 13, 2000)
This is basically the same game as the classic Atari 2600 version, a few subtle differences aside. First of all, the sound effects are slightly improved. The trees and bushes in the background are more detailed, but the treasures actually look worse (what the heck IS that thing??). But the most noticeable change is Pitfall Harry himself! He definitely looks "thicker" in this version. Apparently he got lazy after his Atari success and let himself go a little. I'm not saying that the guy is overweight, but he's picked up at least 20 pounds! Otherwise, the game plays like every other version of Pitfall. Too bad they couldn't improve upon the graphics for this Colecovision edition. Even the scorpion looks exactly the same.
Commodore 64Commodore Horizons (Oct, 1984)
This one really is a classic, though it sets no new highs for graphics or sound. Strategy and timing is all, and there isn't a proton accelerating hyper-blaster in sight, thank goodness.
Atari 2600Game Freaks 365 (Jul 05, 2009)
As you memorize the game and the order of the screens, it will become easier. Still, this game is going to take a long time for anybody to master, and it is one that many people are going to be entertained enough to pursue. If you have an Atari 2600 and you have never played this game, shame on you. It is relatively common so it will not be too hard to find or too expensive to buy, so, if you own an Atari 2600, you owe it to yourself to try this game.
Atari 2600HonestGamers (Jun 30, 2011)
The end result of this was that I was perfectly happy to test my ability to see how many screens I could cover while staying alive for 20 minutes. There were benefits to this. I was able to get some Pitfall Harry patch from Activision for sending a picture of my recording a score over 20,000. And I had a ton of fun playing the game. While I never reached the ultimate reward of a true victory due to my issues with scorpion-jumping, I found more than enough fun in that Pitfall! cartridge to keep me playing it for years after most of my Atari games were relegated to a box.
IntellivisionAll Game Guide (1998)
Pitfall! is an above average game. Run around picking up treasure and avoid traps around every corner. The problem with this game is that you feel like you are going in circles and there is no way of knowing where you are because everything looks the same.
Atari 2600neXGam (Jun 27, 2013)
Auch wenn die Grafik im Vergleich zu heutigen Jump'n'Run Perlen mickrig wirken mag, so verbreitet Pitfall! doch auch heute noch einen großen Charme und kann sogar noch völlige VCS-Newbies in ihren Bann ziehen. Das fordernde, aber niemals unfaire Spieldesign und das einfache, aber unterhaltsame Gameplay lassen euch ohne Probleme mal eben eine vergnügsame Stunde vor dem heimischen TV verbringen. Auch der Sound verfügt für die damalige Zeit über eine hochwertige Qualität und wer zu Zweit vor der Glotze abhängt, darf sogar abwechselnd ran. Retroherz, was willst du mehr?
Atari 2600Retroage (May 21, 2009)
Dla posiadaczy Atari 2600, Pitfall! - Pitfall Harry's Jungle Adventure jest tytułem absolutnie obowiązkowym. Ten niemalże kamień milowy w dziejach elektronicznej rozrywki do dziś urzeka i potrafi przykuć do konsolki na kilka dłuższych chwil.
Atari 2600Retro4Ever (Sep 18, 2012)
Overall, Pitfall! is an excellent game that deserves my strong recommendation. Not only is the game pleasing to the eye, but it packs a punch when it comes to early home console gameplay. Each time I went through Pitfall!, I found myself trying to beat my previous high score. If you were talented enough back when this game was released, and were able to obtain a minimum of 20,000 points during your gameplay, players could send a picture of them by the television screen in order to receive a Pitfall Harry patch. Alas, due to the selected time frame of the offer, the reward eluded me. Fortunately for players, if you own an Atari 2600, you can pick up a copy of the game for just a few bucks.
Atari 2600The Video Game Critic (Aug 05, 2011)
Pitfall is challenging at first, but eventually the action becomes monotonous - even mind-numbing. It seems like you're doing the same three things over and over again. Also, I've never been sold on the idea of those scorpion-infested underground routes. They're supposed to provide strategic shortcuts through the game, but there's no treasure down there and some lead to dead ends. Unless you map out the screens or have an excellent memory, you're better off staying the hell out of there. Pitfall is not as great as some of my friends remember it to be, but its classic status was never in doubt.
Atari 26008-bit Central Retro Gaming (2011)
Pitfall! is a timeless classic that can and should be enjoyed on the 2600.
Atari 2600RetroGames.cz (Oct 23, 2011)
Jen málokterá hra originálně vyvinutá pro konzoli Atari 2600 se stala tak slavnou jako legendární Pitfall! z roku 1982. Ve své době jej znal téměř každý fanda počítačových her a ten, kdo jej měl doma, byl mezi kamarády stejně populární jako ten, kdo v téže době vlastnil závodní kolo Favorit. Není divu, že společnost Activision, která hru vyvinula, prodala po celém světě více jak 4 milióny kopií této legendy a Pitfall! se stal druhou nejprodávanější hrou pro Atari 2600.
IntellivisionneXGam (Jul 27, 2012)
Technisch gleicht Pitfall exakt der Version auf dem Atari 2600, sogar die Soundeffekte wurden 1:1 übernommen. Dies ist schaden denn eigentlich wäre deutlich mehr möglich gewesen. Einzige Veränderung gibt es bei der Steuerung: Gesteuert wird die Figur per Disc, Feuerknopf 1 wird zum Springen benutzt und der zweite Feuerknopf um von einer Liane abzuspringen.
Commodore 64Popular Computing Weekly (Aug 30, 1984)
Although the range of hazards is small, variety is produced by changing their distribution on the different screens as harry runs through the jungle. The graphics are nicely done, and the overall presentation better than the otherwise almost identical Cuthbert in the Jungle. Like Cuthbert the game is good fun for a while, but it soon becomes rather repetitive.
Commodore 64Your Commodore (Nov, 1984)
Could this be the old Atari game converted for the 64, you may ask? The answer is yes and it is a little surprising how sedentary it now appears. Perhaps it is now finally beginning to show its age.
Atari 2600VideoGame (Mar, 1991)
Neste jogo, você deve encontrar o caminho em um labirinto para achar um tesouro perdido.
Atari 5200The Video Game Critic (Nov 04, 2001)
It always surprises me just how little effort Activision put into the Atari 5200 versions of their games. For the most part, they are nearly identical to their Atari 2600 counterparts. In the case of Pitfall, only the trees and bushes in the background are enhanced - and only slightly at that! All other objects including Pitfall Harry, the scorpions, and the crocodiles look exactly the same as those in the 2600 version! And if you thought this would be as fun to play as the Atari 2600 version, think again! The control absolutely sucks, thanks to the lousy non-centering joystick. You can imagine how frustrating it is to jump across the crocodile heads. Then there's the problem with letting go the vines. That's right, you'll actually need to wrestle with the joystick just to release yourself. Control problems really hamper this game, so stick with the Atari 2600 version. NOTE: This cartridge will not run on the two-port Atari 5200 models.
Atari 5200The Atari Times (Jan 29, 2007)
The bottomline is Pitfall! was years ahead of its time in terms of game play but adventure games have come a long way since, especially in terms of options. The 5200 version could have easily added meat to the bones to spice things up but like most of their 5200 games they hardly did anything here. The graphics and sounds are not really upgraded, the game play is still challenging but it isn't any better, and the controls just stink worse then year old milk. Perhaps the worse part about this game is that it won't work on the 2 port Atari 5200 system, but may be this can be seen as a positive since it means you don't have to play it. I don't know how Activision could screw one of their best known games but they taking a fun and Action/Adventure titles and turned it into this turd.


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Help with KA stand mixer
I tried making Jasons Ciabatta today and 15 minutes into the knead (speed 6) on my Kitchenaid, the pin that holds the head onto the stand vibrated loose .. actually came all the way off. I have tried in vain to put it back in but can't get it lined up .. it only goes halfway and then hits a "wall". Has anyone had this problem .. or can someone give me any tips on how to fix it ? I live in Las Vegas and talents here just don't run to small appliance repairs, I guess, as there are NO small appliance repair shops in the phone book ..
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Are Minnesotans friendly to newcomers?
The Daily Circuit live chat for March 12, 2012
Why should friendship be an instantaneous thing?
We can be polite to newcomers, but the trust that true friendship requires takes time.
I've lived in the same neighborhood for ten years and only recently have become friends with some of the neighbors; with one woman in particular because when she fell down and injured herself, she called out to me for help, rather than calling an ambulance.
Minnesota nice always jumps in in situations like that--and so a friendship was forged--you see, out of circumstance, out of everyday life--not out of egotistical longing to enlarge one's social circle.
I am a semi transplant, lived just north of the cities in 5th-9th grade at which time moved to MI(1984), I moved back in 2000 and in that time have only been able to make a few real friends (other than "work" friends).
I have always felt "apart" from people who have grown up here and never quite able to penetrate that tight knit shell of people who have already established their group of friends, whom it seems most have been with since elementary school.
In MN's defense however, I have seen this where I lived in MI as well, even starting school there in 10th grade and living there until the age of 32, there was still a feeling of being an outsider if you were not born and raised there.
My husband & I moved here with our young son in the summer of 2009.
It is now the Winter of 2012, and we have finally made a couple of very close friends. We struggled to meet new people, and found that the people most willing to be our friends were transplants as well. By & large, the people who grew up here had already established their group of friends, and did not see a need to increase the size of that group.
Comment on the live chat, not topic: I wish there was a better way to interact on here. It's a tiny window that does not allow you to "pop-out" and also when you are reading a comment, it automatically moves the page when you are trying to read and then you lose your place! It's super frustrating and hard to interact. It would be great to see this more user friendly. Thx!
(Ed note: Holly, I'll see what we can do, if anything, about the size of the comment box. we want people to have the room they need to write.)
After years of trying I was finally invited to a "friend's" house for coffee.
When I got there she was having a party selling handbags.
Of course, she didn't mention this fact beforehand. The same thing happened to me a few years ago. I was invited to someone's house for wine and found myself being sold scrapbooking supplies.
I would also like to add to my previous comment by noting that my husband & I were the ones to invite other people out for "friend dates" or host events in our homes. We both joined clubs and spent as much time out about at parks & events to meet other people.
Even with the little family we have here it was difficult to break in with them. (This is connecting to someone else's previous comment about their experience with their MN family.)
No where does anyone care about where you're from than in New England.
I was born in MN but now live in MA and I've made about 2 friends. I think it has to do with the fact that lots towns here were settled before the Revolutionary War. Also, the odd obsession with Ivy league schools makes it a chilly place.
You don't HAVE to be nice, no, but just because you CAN be cleverly anti-social, doesn't mean you SHOULD be. Just because it isn't illegal, doesn't mean you should do so.
Some behaviors just aren't right, and I think if these Minnesotans moved to some place where the behaviors were even worse (and it inconvenienced THEM), they would take quick notice, and be embaressed to be like that, and then go OUT OF THEIR WAY to never want to even appear like that ever again.
I moved here almost two years ago because of my husband's work. He's originally from the West Coast, I'm from the East Coast, but we had lived in Hawaii for the past six years.
It was really hard moving here from Hawaii (and not just because of the weather :) - because Hawaii is naturally a transient place and so the folks there (both native and transplants) are welcome to everyone. They don't care where you're from or how long you plan on staying, they are happy just to meet you and spend the time they can with you.
Here, our only friends are other transplants.
There's several people from MN that I have connected with from work or other places, but they just don't have the time or see the need for new friendships because they already have their friends and family.
I'm sure we will continue to slowly make friends, but I have no doubt that it will be with other transplants as we seem to have more in common with them. I found leahpold's comment to be really troubling but consistent with what I've found here...people think you need to know someone for so many years to be good friends with them.
That's not the attitude in other places across the country and I think that's why transplants in MN struggle. I don't need to build up my friends list to boost my own ego as was suggested in that post, I like to have friends to spend time with, make memories with and to broaden my own life.
I'm from Washington, DC - moved here 5 years ago.
This conversation is very true - and very depressing.
I've lived in Ohio, Colorado, California, Maryland, and Virginia - no place has been tougher to make friends than here.
I've done it all- meetups, church, volunteering, hosting parties, etc. I finally bought a home in a community with a lot of retirees - very nice people - neighbors who look out for each other. No deep friendships there yet - still working on that. I started a book club meetup - have met some great people that way. As the sang goes, Be the change you wish to see... Good luck all!
Moved here 19 years ago with my husband.
Our first friends were all from out-of-state and from our university alumni club. Having children and moving into an urban neighborhood which at the time was just beginning to see the first clues of gentrification, helped us make more friends, many of whom were natives. We now have some good friends who grew up here (it took about 15 years), but still feel like second-tier friends.
I am wondering, though, if moving into a city neighborhood and not a suburban one makes it easier to make friends. We all sit on our front porches, and urban people tend to be a little less conventional and more open to the new (experiences and people). Anyway, I'm happy, but still a little lonely.
We've been here 5 years and still have no close friends.
Someone here asked me what my heritage was.
I was reminded I was an outside with my answer for I was told in a condescending tone, "We're mainly Scandinavian around here." I was asked by another what denomination of church I attend. I was reminded I was an outsider by this person as well for I was told in a condescending tone, "We're mainly Lutheran and Catholic around here."
One thing that does seem to work is persistence - go to the same place at the same time and see the same people - and keep being friendly no matter what.
Keep inviting people over and don't keep score.
The fact that they come over means they like you - don't look for reciprocity as you'll be disappointed. I started a website and do free workshops for those looking for meaningful connections here - www.planbconnections.com.
My goals is to help others connect in meaningful ways and I do free workshops here in the Twin Cities on this topic. Just keep at it. :) This is a great place to live - once it feels like home!
I spent my 1st 18 years living in Lake St Croix Beach, MN. It was a great place to grow up being close to the Twin Cities but we could still leave our doors unlocked.
Since then I have moved around the country working on various public lands in Wyoming, Idaho, Alaska, Illinois, Wisconsin, Washington etc. My husband grew up near me and made most of the same moves.
We moved back to MN (central MN) over a year ago, and have found it extremely hard to make new friends. I have brought cookies to all of my neighbors, inviting people to parties, had families over for dinner. Many of these have gone unreciprocated. It's a stark contrast from living in NAtional PArks like we have been with small like minded communities. There are good people scattered here and there though and when we lived in Ely, MN, it felt much warmer.
We moved here from Atlanta, Ga. in 2003.
I'm originally from Austin, Mn. Grew up there and went to Mankato State before moving to live in the south for 32 years. We decided to return here after retiring and I SO regret it! I have NEVER felt SO lonely in my life!!! We want out, but with the housing issues it won't be easy or soon.
I have invited people here for supper dozens upon dozens of times and they always say they had a great time, but rarely reciprocate. It has made me feel worthless. Everyone is "nice" but there is NO substance there. The weathr is what they will talk about. I was the Queen of the Red Hatters in Moose Lake when I first got here thinking I could make new friends. After 1 1/2 years I thought it would be good to share something other than the prices at Alco so I asked if everyone wanted to watch Al Gores environmental movie. Afterwards I wanted to discuss it and look at things we could do as a group in educating others. They all went into the kitchen to eat and talke about Alco again.
I left and NOT ONE PERSON called to see if I was even alive!!! I then joined a church, played cello there for 1 1/2 years and again hoped to find some friendshops of substance, but we left and NOT ONE PERSON has called to see if we are still around and alive. I would virtually have NO ONE if I had an emergency to call. It is a puzzle and very SAD!!! I am SO LONELY. We really hate it up here.
I have to agree with leahpold, we are NOT being intentionally rude...native Minnesotans are indeed NICE. Why should friendship be an instantaneous thing?
We can be polite to newcomers, but the trust that true friendship requires takes time.
I've lived in the same neighborhood for ten years and only recently have become friends with some of the neighbors; with one woman in particular because when she fell down and injured herself, she called out to me for help, rather than calling an ambulance.
Minnesota nice always jumps in in situations like that--and so a friendship was forged--you see, out of circumstance, out of everyday life--not out of egotistical longing to enlarge one's social circle.
Point being, everyone in the world is very busy nowadays, and if you really have been here your entire life, you DO have an established, TRUSTED circle.
Likely very little time to run up to every stranger you meet with open arms looking for friendship and validation.
TRUE friendship takes time and TRUST.
So while we Minnesotans are kind, helpful and NICE folks, we are not particularly TRUSTING. If you are a transplant, sorry, you'll have to earn our trust and friendship. I would expect no less if I moved elsewhere (and why would I want to?! all my friends and family are HERE!!)
I grew up here in MN and I suppose I share the regional identity, whatever that may be. "Insular" seems not to be intended in a positive way so I think I'll refrain from claiming that trait.
This is such a common theme that there must be a fair amount of truth to it, but to be fair some people seem to be bringing a bit of their own baggage to the party. It seems to be considered acceptable for people who are not from MN smile at me and say, "Minnesotans are so passive aggressive!" (It has happened more than once, on one occasion coming from an instructor in a meditation class.) Calling someone passive aggressive is not a compliment or a conversation-starter. It is an insult (I believe that is true anywhere in the world where people understand what it means to be passive aggressive) and insulting people while you are smiling at them is in itself passive aggressive behavior.
My family and I have moved around a lot my whole life. We've lived in several different states/countries and have friends and family all over the world.
We moved to MN nearly 3 years ago, around the time I was starting high school. I'm a theater major at a performing arts school (so obviously I'm not shy) and I've had such a hard time making friends. It's a very small school of performers, you'd think there'd be more outgoing people.
I have a boyfriend who's from here, but as far as girl friends no such luck. Of course there are the friendly acquaintances but the most I've really gotten is "MAYBE we could hang out sometime" All I can hope for now is to go to college out of state.
I moved here from Pennsylvania a more than two decades ago. When I first moved here people actually turned and walked away when I tried to start a casual conversation. I mean EVERYONE, not just a notable few. Every conversation at work went to 'you don't know what you're talking about, your from the East Coast.'
My experience has been that it's not hard to have a conversation or make a connection with people from MN, but when you if you try to make plans with them they have enough friends that they aren't really interested in making time.
My husband is honestly one of the worst. We counted up friends he had made since college and realized he has only made one friend since then! When I try to make plans with a new couple it is like pulling teeth!
I moved to Duluth from Los Angeles 20 years ago. What I discovered is that most people here have extended families in the area, many people grow up and stay here, so they are busy and in no need of other relationships.
I didn't make one friend until about 8 years ago when I started to attend a Vineyard Church where they encourage people to reach out to others.
Literally, Thank God.
So, while I can say that people act nice, they really are not that warm or friendly as a whole.


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Fearless senior takes on D.C., alternative energy and oil spill cleanup
WILMORE, KY— Amy Lesperance, a senior political science major from Maitland Fla., is spending the summer working with Congressman John Mica's office of the 7th District of Florida. She is helping constituents in her home state, and building her resume with new skills and experience.
After applying for more than 40 internships, Lesperance landed a spot among the interns in her congressman's office. When she first arrived in early July, her duties ranged from recording the needs of constituents to writing a research paper about turning coal and natural gas into liquid fuel as an alternative energy.
After a few weeks, she transferred to the Coast Guard subcommittee. This subcommittee is concerned with maritime transportation laws and how the Coast Guard can legally address issues such as the Oil Spill. Lesperance attends daily conference calls and researches past bills to help the committee write new legislation to aid Floridians whose businesses are suffering as a result of the spill. The legislation will also put measures in place that will prevent future spills.
Lesperance, who expects to graduate in December, credits her liberal arts education and Asbury connections for preparing her for this position. "Have a general knowledge of the U.S. Constitution has helped," she said. "I am now applying the theories and learning how the legislation process works."
In addition, she met with Asbury alumnus Murray Kenyon '79 who works for the National Security Agency. He talked with her about the environment working in Washington and helped answer many of her questions. Lesperance has plans to have dinner with Kenyon and his wife, Penny Ritchey '79 Kenyon, before she returns to Asbury. "Asbury is a really small school, which helps with networking and camaraderie among alumni," she said.
Lesperance is excited to see how her improved writing skills and experience working in a high pressure environment will help her as she prepares for graduate school and the job search. Her dream job is to work as an intelligence analyst for the National Security Agency.
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The craft of social anthropology
A. L. Epstein, editor; with an introduction by Max Gluckman
New Brunswick [N.J.]: Transaction Publishers
Call Number: GN346 .C69 2012
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The creation of inequality:how our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery, and empire
Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press
Call Number: GN740 .F54 2012
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New directions in dental anthropology paradigms, methodologies, and outcomes
Grant Townsend; Eisaku Kanazawa; Hiroshi Takayama
Adelaide, S. Aust.: University of Adelaide, 2012.
Resources on the study of anthropology.
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This collection includes sources such as dictionaries, encyclopedias and directories to help you find brief explanations and general information about terms and concepts in anthropology.
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Kiadis Pharma Appoints Dr. Maarten Egeler, MD PhD as Chief Medical Officer
Jan 06, 2009, 04:59 ET from Kiadis Pharma
The appointment of Dr. Egeler is an important milestone in the development of Kiadis Pharma's lead product ATIR(TM) as a revolutionary approach to provide safe and potentially life-saving mismatched bone marrow transplantations as a treatment option for end-stage leukemia patients. Dr. Egeler's appointment will strongly support the upcoming multi-center pivotal study on ATIR(TM) early 2009.
Dr. Egeler will join Kiadis Pharma part time next to his position as Head of the Pediatric Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation division of the University of Leiden. As Kiadis Pharma's CMO, he will oversee all medical affairs of the company and he will work closely with the company's global network of key opinion leaders in the transplantation community on the development of the company's products.
"Maarten has been acting as a medical advisor for Kiadis Pharma over the
last year and we are very pleased that he agreed to become our CMO", says
"I am very excited to join Kiadis Pharma in the role of CMO. I look
forward to participate in the development of its programs. I am particularly
excited to work on the ATIR(TM) product, which is aimed at preventing acute
Graft versus Host Disease and thus enables severe mismatched bone marrow
transplantation (so-called 'haplo-identical transplantation') and is entering
a pivotal study in early 2009", says
For the complete press release please go to: http://www.kiadis.com/news For more information please contact: Kiadis Pharma B.V. Eefje Simpelaar Director Communications Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Tel: +31-20-3140250 Mob: +31-6-10829344
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Last year, we had quite a few curvy cuties putting their best curve forward, and this year we have two major and two on the smaller side of plus, but curvy none the less. After watching the golden globes last night, I was quite tickled with the mirage of fashion that sashayed down the red carpet, especially with the three Curvy actresses who represented. Rain or Shine, the red carpet didn't stop the stars from shining bright!
Gabby, Mo'Nique, and Christina were working the red carpet, with no tickets to be had (or maybe one) to the fashion police!
Gabby left us Green with Envy
Christina Hendricks looked Haute
Meryl Streep kept it Classy and Chic
Amber Riley in Tadashi Shoji
Mo'Nique showed us all that glitter is gold, especially after winning her Golden Globe for Best SUpporting Actress. While her dress was beautiful and breathtaking, what I did have an issue with was with her unshaven legs, proudly put on display…. Um… no.
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Perception of Economic Distributive Justice: Exploring Leading Theories
Ng, Sik Hung, Allen, Michael W., Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal
This study assessed the power of four theories in predicting individuals' perception of economic distributive justice: Self-interest Theory, Belief in a Just World, Attribution Theory, and Ideology. On the basis of a community survey of 487 adults, regression analyses showed that Self-interest Theory and Belief in a Just World provided moderate predictions of economic distributive justice perception; and Attribution Theory and Ideology yielded the strongest predictions. This finding has implications for future theoretical development.
A chief concern of governments and other policy makers is the extent to which the economy distributes resources fairly, and how the electorate perceives the distribution. With respect to the perception of economic distributive justice, theorists have provided different explanations of how individuals judge the fairness of distributions in the general economy. Four leading theories emerge from the extensive literature, of which a representative sample would include Cohen (1982), Diekmann, Ross, Samuels and Bazerman (1997), Furnham and Gunter (1984), Greenberg (1990), Kravitz (1995), Messick and Sends (1979, 1993), Pratto, Tatar and Conway-Lanz (1999), Rubin and Peplau (1975), Summers (1995), and Truxillo and Bauer (1999). The four theories are: Self-interest Theory, Belief in a Just World, Attribution Theory, and Ideology. According to Self-interest Theory, individuals' perception of economic distributive justice depends on how much they personally benefit from the allocation. Belief in a Just World Theory contends that some people need to believe the world is stable, orderly and just, and this need entices them to perceive greater economic distributive justice. Attribution Theory suggests that a distributive justice perception relies on whether the individual attributes the economic outcome to an internal or external cause. According to the Ideology perspective, people are socialized into ideologies that prescribe values, attitudes and behavior in various content domains, including justice judgments.
Previous research has not compared the predictive powers of these four theories. Hence, the present study examines each theory's prediction of individuals' distributive justice perception. As will be reviewed in the next section, each theory provides insights and has robust empirical support. Each theory is likely to explain and predict individuals' distributive-justice perception, and so the aim of the present study is not to endorse one theory over another. Instead, the more modest aim is to explore two questions. Do any two (or more) theories overlap in the portion of economic distributive-justice variance for which they can account? Can all four theories when combined fully account for individuals' perception of economic distributive justice? The answers could guide future theoretical development by showing which two theories share conceptual overlap, and - just as important - by indicating whether or not alternative theories and constructs are needed in order to more fully account for individuals' perception of economic distributive justice.
Proponents of Self-interest Theory suggest that people are materialistic, pursue self-centered goals, and make choices to maximize expected utilities (e.g., Sears & Funk, 1991). That is, individuals would rank all possible alternatives according to how much personal benefit they will bring, and then choose the alternative with the greatest benefit. According to this theory, the reproduction of one's genes and the evolutionary imperative for survival motivate self-interested action. The position that self-interest drives behavior forms the basis of many theories, including neoclassical models of economic behaviour (e.g., Ng, 1984; Smith, 1776/1937), theories of political party preference (e.g., Mansbridge, 1990), classical conditioning principles in which organisms prefer objects that reward over those that punish (e. …


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Is there any significant overhead with individual SQL2000 connection requests, when connections are shared?
Given that there are a limited number of active clients, no contention for shared connections, memory, etc., and that there are no problems with clients releasing connections when they are not active for a reasonable period.
All general guidelines say to release connections as soon as possible, but common sense says not to do anything that is not required or useful.
asked Mar 17, 2011 at 08:45 AM in Default
I understand the arguments regarding use of 'pooled' or shared connections to avoid overhead, which are well documented.
My question was that if (for example) I have only one active client with a queue of transactions to process, is there any significant overhead if that client releases the connection after every transaction. The key word is "significant" - another way is to ask whether my transaction processing is significantly slower because I am unnecessarily releasing and requesting a connection.
Mar 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM rixandy
It depends on what a "queue of transactions to process" means. If these are a bunch of transactions which need to be performed one after another on all or none basis then no, you should not close the connection, and in fact, you cannot. If these are independent and it is OK for one to succeed and another to rollback then the connection should be closed and disposed every time unless all the work needs to be performed one task immediately after another. In other words, if you have a UI screen which needs to populate a bunch of dropdowns from the catalog and then populate some grid with data based on initial default values in the dropdowns then it could be OK to use just one connection for this unit of work (though I would personally still segregate the tasks). It would be definitely not OK to "keep the connection warm" for the next request from UI, such as when the user picks other values in the dropdowns and now wants to refresh the data in the grid. This action needs to be done on the brand new connection (which will be served by SQL Server from its pool considerably faster than the first one). Once the data is served, the connection should be then immediately closed and disposed.
Mar 17, 2011 at 11:10 AM Oleg
You should generally release connections as soon as possible, especially if using connection pooling. By releasing the connection earlier, you release it to the pool, meaning the next connection can then pick up that connection from the pool, rather than creating a new one.
That's not to say you should not keep connections open during the scope of useful work, however.
It does depend what you mean by 'shared connection' though. I have assumed you mean pooling, but maybe I have the wrong end of the stick.
answered Mar 17, 2011 at 09:02 AM
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You are correct, I should have said "pooled".
Refining my question - how can I (relatively easily) determine the 'scope of useful work' where it is reasonable to keep the connection open. If overhead is practically zero, the question is moot. If overhead is relatively significant, the connection release could be delayed until there is no work (or we take a scheduled tea break).
Mar 17, 2011 at 10:58 AM rixandy
Releasing connections as soon as possible is a must, and is very useful. This way, SQL Server will manage the connection pool by itself, and will always have available connections which are served to the client faster. Back in the dark days of last millennium it was common for applications to open a global connection and keep it open for the duration of the application, but these days are long gone. In nowadays, the best way to do it is to release connections as soon as possible. It enables front ends to release the resources as soon as they are no longer in use and allows SQL Server a complete freedom in managing its own connection pool.
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There is a cost to memory for each connection, one of the reasons connection pooling was created. It's relatively trivial, but it can add up if you're not managing your code well. To see the details of how it works, read this link.
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@Grant Fritchey I still cannot believe that Ken is gone. It was such a tremendous loss to the community when he passed away.
Mar 17, 2011 at 11:19 AM Oleg
Tell me about it. And I never ever got to meet him or hear him talk. And now his EXCELLENT books are starting to age. Sucks.
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Senator John McCain draws an avalanche of criticismSeptember 14th, 2008 - 10:02 am ICT by ANI
New York, Sept.14 (ANI): Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain has drawn an avalanche of criticism for regularly stretching the truth in attacking Senator Barack Obamas record and positions. According to the New York Times, McCain has found himself under particularly heavy fire for a pair of headline-grabbing attacks. First, his campaign twisted Obamas words to suggest that he had compared Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, to a pig with You can put lipstick on a pig; its still a pig. In the second instance, the paper claims that McCain falsely claimed that Obama supported comprehensive sex education for kindergartners. Those attacks followed weeks in which Mr. McCain repeatedly, and incorrectly, asserted that Mr. Obama would raise taxes on the middle class, even though analysts say he would cut taxes on the middle class more than Mr. McCain would, and misrepresented Mr. Obamas positions on energy and health care, the paper says. It also claims that a McCain advertisement called Fact Check was itself found to be less than honest by FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan group. In an interview Friday on the NY1 cable news channel, a McCain supporter, Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, called as ridiculous the implication that Obamas lipstick on a pig comment was a reference to Palin, whom he also defended as coming under unfair attack. The paper says that in recent days, McCain has been increasingly called out by news organizations, editorial boards and independent analysts like FactCheck.org., and most have cried foul on McCain penchant for blowing issues and comments out of proportion. The paper believes that McCains Straight Talk image is taking a hammering, and could prove detrimental to his White House bid. I think the McCain folks realize if they can get this thing down in the mud, drag Obama into the mud, thats where they have the best advantage to win, says Matthew Dowd, who worked with many top McCain campaign advisers when he was President Bushs chief strategist in the 2004 campaign, but who has since had a falling out with the White House. If they stay up at 10,000 feet, they dont, he added. Some who have criticized McCain, have accused him of blatant untruths and of failing to correct himself when errors were pointed out. McCain, for his part, stoutly defends his ads, saying: Actually they are not lies, and and have you seen some of the ads that are running against me? Obama too has been criticized for advertisements that have distorted McCains record on schools financing and incorrectly accused him of not supporting loan guarantees for the auto industry. But it is clear that John McCain would rather lose his integrity than lose an election, says Hari Sevugan, a spokesman for the Obama campaign. The NYT believes the McCain advertisements are devised to draw the interest of bloggers and cable news producers, but not necessarily always intended for wide, actual use on television stations. It also says that the campaign has been selective in its portrayal of Sarah Palin. (ANI)
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Good Tuesday to you! I titled this post "Using What I Have" because while I was inspired by Linda Heller's card from her blog "Where the Rubber Hits the Road," I used a different stamp set. She used the beautiful set called Touches of Texture on her card. I don't have that set yet, but I loved the layout and the colors and I wanted to try it using something I already have. Out of the retired cupboard came Flowering Fields. I know many of you got this set during Sale-a-Bration. I don't think I'll be letting go of it anytime soon. It is a favorite of mine!
The base color is Dapper Denim. I stamped tone-on-tone along the left edge with one of the stamps from Timeless Textures (page 120 of the Annual Catalog.) The Designer Series Paper is Delightful Dijon from the Moroccan Series.
I used my Blender Pen with Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Dapper Denim, Garden Green, and Delightful Dijon to color the flowers and the butterfly. The little splotches are on purpose (ha!) and are also from Timeless Textures. A little strip of some Cajun Craze Washi Tape, one of Crumb Cake for the sentiment from Happy Happenings, and Linen thread finishes it off.
This is what I did on the inside ~ the sentiment is from Happy Happenings (love that set!) and the same little butterfly as on the front, with a strip of the same DSP.
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Terra-Petra has been contracted with ET Environmental, Inc. to design the methane gas mitigation systems for the new Azusa Landfill Material Recovery Facility, Bale Storage and Scale House. ET Environmental is contracted directly with the owner, Waste Management.
Waste Management is proposing to improve its waste management and recycling capabilities at its existing operations at the Azusa Land and Reclamation Landfill. This proposed project plan is set to remove the existing recycling buildings and re-build a state of the art material recovery facility, waste transfer station and add a household hazardous waste facility.
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- Includes a community room available for educational tours and meetings
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Forgive the wording in the picture. It was saved as so before I even knew about Epilogue.
However, I must admit this piece was a challenge. I wanted shadowing for the butterflies, which took some time to accomplish. Although, my favorite aspect of the piece is the transparent wings.
December 9th, 2002
This is wonderful, it reminds me of my childhood and dark evenings full of moths in car headlights! I know these are butterflies but it still reminds me of them
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Wow, simply beautiful. I have no idea how managed to do such a piece; I am truly in awe. Keep up the good work; perhaps we'll see some Delfae in here sometime? ~KM Mika of Garr
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The light translucency of the wings does give the composition a light, delicate feel...I like the way you used only a couple of colors to make the picture..it gives it a calming appeal
March 22nd, 2002
I like this. It certainly does give me the sense of what you described in your reply to camille. The transparancy of the wings and the "lacy" texture is great. Good detail. So yeah, it's not just you. Very nice stuff. more more more!


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3M's Futuristic New ePrivacy Filter Software, and Some Fascinating Facts About 3M
Do you work at a job where for security reasons, you need to make sure no one can see what's on your screen but you? Or maybe you just get really annoyed when the local office snoop tries to read your emails while you're reading or writing them? If so, 3M's just come out with a pretty clever little lightweight ePrivacy Filter application that uses your webcam to make sure this sort of thing can't happen.
While you can tweak the settings to your liking, how it generally works is the software starts by using your webcam to scan your face. Once it's got a good look at your decidedly attractive visage, it then works like this. First, if someone else tries to sit down at your computer, the software won't recognize their face and your screen will be all blurred out for them, making it impossible for them to access anything on your machine.
Second, if you are the one sitting down at your computer, it notices this via the facial recognition software and automatically unblurs your screen, so long as you are looking at the screen. If you get up to use the bathroom or something, or just look away from your screen, blurry-city automatically comes back.
The other cool thing this software does is if some person sneaks up behind you, the software lets you know they are there with a pop-up of their face on your screen. If you don't want them seeing what you're working on, you can then just quickly look away from the screen, perhaps at the snooper, and the auto-blur action will instantly engage. Once Snooper McSnooperton is gone, simply look back at your screen and everything instantly goes back to normal, so you can continue working.
You can also combine this ePrivacy Filter software with 3M's Privacy Filter, which makes it so people sitting next to you can't see what you're working on either; so with the two combined you get total 180 degree visual privacy of your screen.
If you want to give their ePrivacy software a try and have a Windows-based system (and, of course, a webcam installed on your computer), you can do so for free, via a 30 day free trial they're offering TodayIFoundOut visitors.
Simply download the software here: Download a 30-day free trial of 3M™ ePrivacy Filter Software
Once you've downloaded it, use the activation code: VX7J-3CVJ-AyW2-X4PQ and enjoy not having to worry about snoopers anymore. You can also Learn more about 3M™ ePrivacy Filter Software here.
Bonus 3M Facts:
- One of 3M's most successful products, Post-It Notes, were actually generally rejected when first released. In 1977, 3M began running test sale runs of the Post-It note, then called "Press 'n Peel," in a certain areas in four different cities to see if people would buy and use the product. It turned out, no one much did, which confirmed in the minds of many 3M executives that it wasn't a good commercial product, as they'd generally thought before. Luckily for offices the world over, Vice President of Technical Operations for 3M Geoff Nicholson and Joe Ramey, Nicholson's boss, didn't feel like giving up yet. They felt the marketing department had dropped the ball in that they hadn't given businesses and people samples of the product to use to let them see for themselves how useful these sticky notes could be. So a year after the initial flop, 3M tried again to introduce the Post-It note to the world, this time giving huge amounts of free sample Post-It note pads away in Boise, Idaho, with the campaign deemed "The Boise Blitz." This time, the re-order rate went from almost nothing, in the previous attempt, to 90% of the people and businesses that had received the free samples. For reference, this was double the best initial rate 3M had ever seen for any other product they'd introduced. Two years later, the Post-It note was released throughout the United States and quickly became an office-staple.
- Ever wonder why the standard color for Post-It notes is yellow? It turns out this was kind of an accident. The official story from some at 3M is that it was because it created a "good emotional connection with users" and that it would "contrast well stuck to white paper." However, according to the aforementioned former Vice President of Technical Operations for 3M, Geoff Nicholson, there was no such thought given to the color. The real reason Post-It notes were yellow was simply because the lab next door to where they were working on the Post-It note "had some scrap yellow paper – that's why they were yellow; and when we went back and said 'hey guys, you got any more scrap yellow paper?' they said 'you want any more go buy it yourself', and that's what we did, and that's why they were yellow. To me it was another one of those incredible accidents. It was not thought out; nobody said they'd better be yellow rather than white because they would blend in – it was a pure accident."
- Scotch tape is another office staple we have 3M to thank for. Despite the name, Scotch tape wasn't invented by the Scottish. It was invented by a college dropout named Richard Drew from Minnesota who worked for 3M. As for why it's called "Scotch," in the 1920s the term "Scotch" was a slang term that meant someone or something that was cheap or stingy. Drew and his bosses thought this "cheap" name worked well for the tape, so went with it.
- Ever wonder what the company name "3M" stands for? Well, wonder no more. It stands for "The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company." If this seems strange given the types of products they typically make today, such as medical, office supplies, and the security software talked about above, among many other things, in 1902 they started out as a mining company, who, as it turned out, wasn't very good at mining. Specifically, they started out with the intention of mining the necessary types of stone for making grinding wheels and sand paper.
- So what happened then? 3M nearly was a failed business almost as quickly as they began. The stone they first mined and sold for making grinding wheels, which was supposed to be corundum, was rather a low grade anorthosite, which was useless for making those products. Not to be deterred, they decided to close down their mining operation and to just purchase the necessary materials for making sand paper and grinding wheels from somebody else. This didn't work out either.
- What happened? The shipment of the mineral abrasive garnet they purchased was sent from Europe along with a shipment of olive oil packed next to it. The result of this was that some of the olive oil had seeped into the stones. This was not discovered until after 3M had made and sold the sandpaper with this stone as the abrasive. Customers complained that the abrasive kept falling off the sandpaper they had purchased from 3M, making it quite useless. At this point, 3M discovered the problem with the olive oil in the mineral and subsequently thought of a way to fix the rest of the stone they had purchased. They fixed the problem by heating the garnet over a fire to remove the olive oil and then made new sandpaper from it to sell.
- The company narrowly survived and soon became stronger because of this second disaster. How? Following this, they decided to start a small laboratory for quality control testing and researching new innovative product, the latter of which is why the company has such diverse and innovative product today.
- The first product to result from their lab was "Three-M-ite" developed in 1914, which was an abrasive cloth good for metal cutting and which was extremely flexible. They also soon after developed the world's first waterproof sandpaper. These products quickly became hugely popular and helped make 3M a profitable company by 1916 and one year later sales reached over $1 million for the first time. And the rest is history.
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