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Finding Free Range Eggs
Our chicken flock is now up to 14 (2 roosters, 12 hens). I had been letting the roosters free range, just cause it was cheaper than letting them eat the laying mash/corn mixture that we feed the hens. The hens, however, were kept in their coops. I was afraid that if I let them out I would lose my eggs.
Every day I would go out and fill the hens' dishes twice a day. And every day I felt bad that they were just stuck in their little cages. I really wanted to let them out!!
Finally one day I went out to feed them and decided, I'm gonna let them all out! I went to each cage and opened the door, freeing each little girl inside. It was a liberating moment! And it made my heart happy to watch them pecking around and taking dirt baths! Finally free… until the deprived Roosters got a hold of them! Oh well. (I would love to have some babies!)
I crossed my fingers that I hadn't just totally sabotaged our egg production by letting them loose. Later that evening I went out to check on everybody. Imagine my surprise when I found three eggs in the boxes in the coops! Good girls!! They were going back in to lay their eggs!
Since we switched their food and messed up their laying, we were averaging about 3 eggs/day. We put them back on laying mash, so we thought they should begin producing more eggs soon. I hoped that they would continue laying in their boxes, and not off in the woods somewhere as I have read they will do.
For the past week I've let all of them free range during the day. In the evenings, I go out and fill their food bowls and put them in the cages, and all of the little hens come running up to me, and jump in their coops to eat. I simply close them in for the night for safe keeping.
Here's Big Mama laying an egg in her box like a good girl.
I've happily continued finding 2-4 eggs per day in the boxes. But I couldn't help wondering if there were any eggs hiding in the woods somewhere. Jada and I went walking through the trees twice to see if we could find any stray eggs, but we never could find any.
Then yesterday we got a big surprise.
Jerry went outside to get something for me. When he didn't come back as quickly as he normally would have, I went out to see what was taking so long. When I stepped out onto the back steps I found Jerry walking back to the house… with an armful of little white eggs!
I said, "Oh my goodness! Where did those come from?"
He said, "I saw the chickens over at the waterstove eating an egg. When I got closer I saw another egg in the grass, then another, then another… there are a ton under the waterstove!" I went out and looked and sure enough there was a nice cluster of eggs in the fallen insulation under the stove.
So, that's where they've been hiding them!
Imagine my surprise, and delight! Yay! Jada and I went out and collected the rest of the eggs. Two were already cracked and the chickens had eaten them. One had a broken shell, so I tossed it. But all in all we collected ten more eggs.
I have no idea if these eggs are any good still. I'll definitely be using the "float or sink" test!
I was afraid I'd now have a problem with them eating all of the eggs. But today I've collected 7 eggs so far, all from in their boxes. I haven't found any more underneath the waterstove… yet.
What have I learned? If you give them a cozy place to lay, chances are they'll use it. And I've found that where one lays, the others will follow.
I'm really glad our production is back up again! Now, what to do with all of these eggs…?!
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We had a terrible time with egg eating, though it was our own fault. Last winter we had a new little baby and didn't get around to collecting the eggs regularly. But it was awful for months. I was collecting eggs like 10 times a day, sometimes waiting outside the coop while a chicken was in a nest so she wouldn't eat her own egg once she was done!
Anyways we've gotten it all under control now and it's nice to know that even the worst egg eaters are able to be rehabilitated!
what fun, I wish I had a good place to have some chickens, but I dont. do the roosters stay out all night? I didnt know chickens would eat eggs, wonder why?
Sounds like quiche for dinner tonight and eggs for breakfast!
Those sneaky hens! I know they were happy to get on the ground and be free! I wish I could let mine free range again, but I'm scared they'll be killed again.
hmmm…I have been letting my hen free range about 4 days a week. They havent started laying yet, or have they? Now I am going to have to check out the woods soon to see if they are laying there…argh! lol. How long will those buggers keep eggs in them until they just have to lay them? Maybe I will keep them in the coop until then and see if they have started laying.
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The former Foreign Secretary is not a man given to flights of rhetorical fancy; if he was right in the words he used in Parliament in April, Hong Kong should be front-page news, the subject of thundering editorials and the venue for multi-disciplinary fact-finding missions. But who in Britain gives much of a thought to Hong Kong these days?
A few years ago, when Chris Patten was getting colonial governorship a good name in the liberal press and the names of Hong Kong politicians edged their way into British newspapers for the first time, Britain's awareness of its territory on the South China Sea rose sharply. In the process, people in the UK who had previously had but a dim image of Hong Kong, as a place where taipan traders made a lot of money in a concrete and glass jungle amid a bustling Chinese population, suddenly became aware that their country's last Asian possession was only British by virtue of an arrangement that would run out as surely as any of London's ducal leases just before the end of the century.
Mr Patten's arrival set up an easily understood confrontation: the last governor promoting democratic values against the authoritarianism of China. Here, in simple terms, was Britain doing the right thing in the twilight of empire, while Peking remained the last great bastion of Communist party rule, unrepentant for the killings in Tiananmen Square and facing the uncertainties of the post-Deng era.
It looked like a straightforward David-and-Goliath struggle, to be fought out with words rather than slings. Not even the most ardent supporters of the governor's democratisation policies actually proposed that Britain should use force to defend the values it was now propagating, but there was a strong feeling in proper-thinking circles in London that somehow right would win the day, that Hong Kong should move through the transition back to Chinese rule at midnight on 30 June 1997 as a new-found bastion of Western political values in a region that marches to a different drumbeat. At the same time, middle-class children of refugees from China, who had come to Hong Kong and rebuilt their lives in the 1950s and 1960s, looked with hope to the governor as a man who offered an escape from an anachronistic colonial administration that jarred with what they had been taught in their Western-influenced education and observed on their travels.
With just under two years to go until the Union flag comes down the pole at Government House, the interest in Hong Kong appears to have largely dissipated in Britain, and the democracy-seekers realise that they have a long way still to go, with little time left. The Chinese will next year name a chief executive to run the territory in 1997, a shadow legislature to take over from the Legislative Council and a shadow administration. Pragmatically, Hong Kong will increasingly look over its shoulder at the men and women of the future, rather than those exercising executive and legislative functions in a system with its sell-by date marked for all to see.
As for Britain, Mr Hurd may be stimulated, and the new Foreign Office minister for Hong Kong, Jeremy Hanley, may strike an upbeat note about the territory's future. But the finest port between Singapore and Shanghai, the world's sea container capital, the city founded to ensure Britons were free to trade opium into China, appears to have gone off the Westminster political radar. This may be partly in the short-term nature of the British political attention span, but it is - more deeply - a reflection of the way in which the last main imperial page has already been turned.
On paper, little may appear to have changed. The governor remains a mixture of pro-consul and big city mayor running a formidable machine. Hong Kong may now be called a territory rather than a colony, and there may be an elected Legislative Council, but so long as Mr Patten is in Government House and the civil servants hold the upper hand, it retains essential elements of a colonial system of government. Civil servants still hold sway and decide, for instance, that it would be dangerous to let legislators have detailed data on water purity because it might fall into the hands of the media, which would, presumably, pass it on to the people who actually use the water.
Some things do not change. Expatriates head home to escape the summer humidity, Scottish tones burr in boardrooms, income tax is 15 per cent, and British managers put enough aside to buy comfortable houses from the pages of Country Life which they would never had dreamt of if they had kept commuting from Surrey. At another extreme, a pro-Peking weekly has just run a cover story warning "Beware of the Brits", by which it means not the colonial administrators but young people coming to Hong Kong for "a quick buck and an easy life".
But the reality is that, in its own mind, Hong Kong has already declared its independence from Britain. As the summer rains pour down and thick clouds envelop the luxury homes on the Peak, it is a Chinese city that sprawls below. Visitors from Britain can compare prices with Oxford Street in Marks & Spencer outlets and sign up for Anita Roddick's latest crusade in Body Shops in the gleaming malls. But, outside these havens, they are surprised at how little English is spoken by the ordinary shop assistants - not to mention taxi drivers - and how few signs of Britishness there are.
Even among the expatriate population, the British position is not what it used to be. A count at the end of last year showed that the 26,000 British were outnumbered by 31,000 Americans. Hong Kong people worried about their future nationality position look to Canada and Singapore for passports, given Britain's restrictive policy. The total of expatriates living in Hong Kong from India, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia outnumbers the combined total of British and Americans - not counting 150,000 Filipino and Thai domestic workers. Some 40 per cent of visitors to Hong Kong in June were from mainland China and Taiwan.
Old British attitudes and influence can still be felt in some quaint corners. There are proud knights and political contributors to Conservative Party funds (the new model Labour Party has yet to make its mark). The monarch's official birthday is a public holiday, and Hong Kong has a body to make Mary Whitehouse swoon with jealousy - the Obscene Articles Tribunal, which recently banned an advertising photograph of Michelangelo's David as indecent.
But the mother country is China, not Britain. Some 98 per cent of the population is ethnic Chinese. From this month, all civil service applicants will have to sit a Chinese-language examination. A mainland Chinese company has just put in the winning bid to develop a plum former British military site on the harbour. The governor's 55.5 per cent approval rating is eclipsed by the 64 per cent scored by his chief secretary, Anson Chan, a leading candidate to become Hong Kong's chief executive in 1997.
This, inevitably, affects the position of John Major's best friend east of Southend. Chris Patten's reforming zeal may have cooled under the pressure of events, but he remains a non-person for Peking. One architectural pointer that has been much noted is the way in which the IM Pei-designed Bank of China Tower in the middle of town aims its sharp edge up the hill at the governor's mansion. Asked about Mr Patten's role in the transition of the next two years, a Hong Kong Chinese tycoon replied, as if gently instructing a child in the ways of the world: "But we are handling the transition."
"Put politics aside," said another Hong Kong-born Chinese businessman. "Whatever you think of the regime in Beijing, the fact is that, as Chinese, we are going home in 1997. We may not like what we find, but then who asked us if we liked what the British brought?"
We may be going into the most crucial period in the territory's history since Britain seized the island of Hong Kong in 1842 and then signed the lease that granted it the far larger New Territories across the harbour. But the die for what is happening now was cast in 1984 with the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong's future and the drawing up by China of the Basic Law, which will serve as the territory's future constitution. The pill was sweetened by Peking's assurances that after 1997 it would adopt a "one country, two systems" approach, with the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong given particular status and freedoms for another 50 years. But once reversion to China had been signed and sealed, what remained to be worked out were the modalities of the process.
That is a reality which many in London, and some in Hong Kong itself, seek either to deny or to conceal. This is not a late imperial situation in which the burning question is independence. The sovereignty of Hong Kong will change, come what may, at midnight on June 30 1997, and the question then will be how China behaves towards the territory.
If Chris Patten had come to Hong Kong and launched his democratic reforms before the vital Sino-British agreement and the Basic Law, things might have been different. But, while they found the governor's style refreshing and did not doubt his commitment, Hong Kong in 1995 is not a place where people can be expected to rush to the barricades to defend freedoms denied to them for nearly a century of British rule.
The leading anti-Peking politician, Martin Lee, leader of the Democratic Party, feels deeply let down by the governor. He asks how Mr Patten can sleep soundly at night after British concessions to reach agreement with the Chinese this summer on the vital issue of the Court of Final Appeal, which will oversee the continuation, or otherwise, of the rule of law in Hong Kong post-1997.
Mr Lee has high hopes of the elections next month, which will produce the first fully elected Council without the traditional appointed members. But some fellow-thinking legislators conclude unhappily that because half its members will be elected by professional "functional" constituencies, where business and established interests can make themselves powerfully felt, the new majority is bound to be a conservative one that will not want to make any serious waves with Peking.
At the end of conversations about 1997, the Democrats and their sympathisers tend to fall back on the argument that Hong Kong's best hope is to refuse to make any compromise of basic principles and to dare Peking to do its worst - betting that it will back off in the face of local and world opinion. That could amount to the ultimate in gesture politics. It may have nobility on its side, leading Mr Patten to dub Mr Lee "a lay saint", but, if translated from rhetoric into reality, it is not a course that seems in keeping with the mentality of Hong Kong or with the colonial civil service-cum- business environment.
This is, after all, a city that adorns its central square beside the Legislative Council building with a memorial to the Victorian-era chief manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. This is a society in which a recent opinion poll picked a property tycoon as the territory's most creative person. This is a community in which only a third of those eligible to vote in the September legislative elections have registered to do so. Western liberals may regret that it is not more like the democracies they spring from, but there is an element in their well-meaning warnings of the right-wing attitude to Africa of the 1960s turned on its head: what a pity the natives aren't British, can they really be trusted with the place?
The return to China naturally hangs over everything, but the coming election campaign appears likely to be concerned with everyday issues rather than the geopolitics of 1997. In part, this may be because people are confused about what to think. A poll in May showed 48 per cent of respondents saying they believed the territory would be better served if Britain withdrew immediately and let the people of Hong Kong manage their own affairs. The only future actually on offer - becoming a Special Administrative Region of China - was welcomed by 25 per cent, while 22 per cent wanted independence and 31 per cent supported remaining part of Britain.
While from one point of view the territory's future is set in stone, from another it is infinitely malleable, provided that "one country, two systems" has any meaning. Despite the current slump in the vital property sector, some leading business figures expect a boom in the run-up to the transfer of sovereignty and another bigger and longer boom as mainland Chinese move into Hong Kong and go native. If that happens, 1997 may not live up to the titles of a stream of books predicting the death of Hong Kong. What has already died is the British era, but it is the final flick of the colonial fan to assume that the passing of imperial power is automatically fatal.
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Yaoyun ShiCurriculum Vitae |
... you may want to climb a mountain. You don't climb the Everest; your sights are not so ambitious. But when you do reach the top of the mountain, you see the valley below; and that gives you a sense of contentment. --- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
Quantum Technology: Challenges and Opportunities for Cyber SecurityThis is a presentation at the 2015 North American International Cyber Summit. Quantum Information Technology is becoming real. The implication for information security is far-reaching. A crisis is looming as the very foundation of cryptography is being challenged. Much of today's public key cryptography will be defeated by large scale quantum computers. If a secret needs to stay secret for many years to come, encrypting it using current technologies is inadequate. To overcome these challenges, "Post-Quantum Cryptography" has emerged as an active area of research for searching for alternatives that are quantum resilient and at the same time practical. While threatening today's cryptography, quantum information on the other hand enables unbreakable quantum cryptography. Most remarkably, some quantum cryptographic methods are "trustworthy," i.e., the hardware will prove its integrity to the user. This is in contrast to the current solutions, which are "trusted," i.e., require the user's faith on their integrity. In this talk, I will outline these challenges and opportunities without assuming any prior knowledge of the field. |
Trustworthy Quantum Information Workshop, June 28 - July 2, 2015, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAThis was an international workshop that I co-organized with Roger Colbeck (York), Xiongfeng Ma (Tsinghua), and Stefano Pirandola (York). The Second Workshop will be in Shanghai. |
Randomness: Between Faith and RealityRandomness is a faith: it is impossible to test directly. In fact, we can't even know for sure its existence. Yet randomness is also indispensable in reality: it is the mother secret that gives life to the security of modern cryptography. When blind faith is not virtuous, how much of it is necessary for ensuring true randomness? In this general-audience talk at the Randomness in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond conference, I argued that it is not too much. |
This is a weekly seminar/reading group open to UM faculty and students. If you'd like to participate, you can join our Ctools site "Quantum Information" or if you are not at UM, contact Mike Newman or me.
Research Interests:
quantum information processing and theory of computation. My research aims to understand the inherent power and limitations of various information processing technologies, especially these based on the principles of quantum mechanics.I have worked on several topics in quantum information processing: query complexity, computational complexity, communication complexity, universality, classical simulations, quantum channels, and quantum cryptography. One topic that I find particularly fascinating in recent years is quantum cryptography using untrusted devices (see my tutorial talk "Untrusted Quantum Devices"). It is usually referred to as "device-independent," or "untrusted-device" quantum cryptography, but it may be more intuitive to call it "Trustworthy Quantum Cryptography." Here "trustworthiness" means that it never fails. The beauty of this area is that by quantum magic, we can achieve provable and unconditional security using completely untrusted hardware. I am interested in working with experimentalists to prototype protocols that my co-authors and I studied. I'd welcome collaborations with information security, especially hardware security, researchers to explore together quantum approaches for solving security problems.
I am also interested in learning and exploring "post-quantum" cryptography, or classical cryptography secure against
a quantum adversary. Most, if not all, widely used public key cryptography systems (such as RSA)
are not secure under quantum attack.
Thus as quantum computing becomes a reality, the subject of post-quantum cryptography will be
more and more important.
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Modern Bride Magazine Reveals Winners of Its 8th Annual World's Best Honeymoons Survey
Jun 03, 2004, 01:00 ET from Modern Bride Magazine
NEW YORK, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Modern Bride magazine unveils the World's 50 Best Honeymoons, as featured in the August/September issue's eighth annual honeymoon survey of 3,000 of America's top travel agents. Travel agents ranked good value, cruise lines, sports/adventure, over-the-top luxury, and resorts with spas as the main trends honeymooners seek. The overall top ten honeymoon destinations in 2004 are: 1. Hawaii continues to rank as the number one honeymoon spot for the 8th year in a row. 2. Jamaica is now in second place (3rd in 2003) as the sexiest honeymoon destination in the Caribbean. 3. Mexico is in the top 3 offering affordability and new hotels and resorts. 4. Tahiti including Moorea and Bora Bora seduce newlyweds to the seclusion of the South Pacific. 5. St. Lucia in the Caribbean is secluded and sexy. 6. Italy tops the list in food and culture. 7. U.S. Virgin Islands give honeymooners 3-for-1 with beautiful St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John. 8. Aruba's sunny weather ensures it a top spot for beaches and water sport lovers. 9. Las Vegas and its 130,000 hotel rooms and titillating nightlife make it a top hotspot. 10. Bermuda with all its British refinement beckons honeymooners seeking true serenity. Travel experts also named places with the most luxurious amenities, including: Ultimate honeymoon suite: Overwater bungalow, Bora Bora Lagoon Resort, French Polynesia Ultimate resort for seclusion: Bora Bora Lagoon Resort, French Polynesia Most luxurious bathroom: Four Seasons Resort, Hualalai, Hawaii Best resort spa: Grand Wailea Resort & Spa in Maui The most popular major honeymoon cities (ranked in order) are: Paris, Honolulu, Venice, San Francisco, and Sydney, Australia. The top destination wedding locations (ranked in order) include: Hawaii, Jamaica, Fiji, Bermuda, and Las Vegas. The following research compiled by the Fairchild Bridal Infobank summarizes the economic impact newlyweds have on the travel industry: > Average honeymoon costs $3,700 > Average length of honeymoon is eight days > 10% of newlyweds take cruises > 10% of marriages are destination for their honeymoon weddings > 40% of honeymooners will stay at a resort vs. 27% at a large hotel vs. 10% at a small hotel The August/September issue of Modern Bride is available on newsstands June 15, 2004. For more information visit http://www.modernbride.com.
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text: The Cast of Lost as Game CharactersBrian Crecente5/26/10 8:00pmFiled to: LostArtDavid stonecipherTop1351EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink What if the cast of Lost didn't stop entertaining us when the show wrapped up earlier this week? What if they went on to try their hand at video games? Artist extraordinaire and friend of Kotaku David Stonecipher shows us what could have happened in such a world. How the Cast of Lost Would Fit Into the World of Gaming [Console Game Examiner, thanks David!]Reply135 repliesLeave a reply


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Let Leftovers Be Leftovers
That turkey samosa won't bring your Thanksgiving dinner back to life.
The morning after a Thanksgiving feast, you might be tempted to turn that picked-over carcass into, say, a turkey dinner muffin or a turkey samosa. But don't be taken in by those turkey-leftover recipes and their promises of culinary regeneration. Last Thanksgiving, Jill Hunter Pellettieri made the case for enjoying leftovers as they are. The article is reprinted below.
Turkey fried rice. Turkey-mushroom casserole. Turkey dinner muffins. Turkey samosas. Turkey hash. Strawberry-turkey spinach salad. Turkey and veggie lasagna. Turkey chowder with wild rice, crimini, and pancetta. Turkey quesadilla suiza.
Reading this list of recipes—and trust me, there are plenty more—is enough to make you want to go cold turkey on turkey. Every November, magazine editors and food writers, cooking gurus and TV personalities, foist turkey leftover recipes upon us. Unless we put our tired, picked-over turkey carcass to good use, they tell us, we're wasting some precious opportunity. But don't be fooled. Do not be tempted by that recipe for turkey and leek risotto. Those stringy last bits of gristle and meat that cling to your bird are better suited to the raccoons who rummage through your garbage. Do you really want to morph the centerpiece of your most ceremonial meal of the year into turkey bundles (stuffed with turkey, cream cheese, dill weed, and water chestnuts, among other things)?
But I don't want to be wasteful! Now, of all times of the year, I'm supposed to be thankful for my food, you might think. I'm not saying to abandon leftovers entirely. On the contrary: Embrace them. Just don't turn them into some bastardized concoction. Enjoy them for what they are.
Turkey leftover recipes are, essentially, a sham—an invention of food entertainment providers hard-up for new holiday ideas. There are only so many variations on the traditional Thanksgiving dinner (this year, try making Indian-spiced turkey breast!), and leftover recipes offer a seemingly appropriate way of filling pages and air time. (Few are brave enough to leave the leftovers alone; kudos to Food and Wine for doing so this year.)
But even the purveyors of these recipes recognize the absurdity of what they're presenting—they don't really expect any of them to become mainstays in your repertoire. (Perhaps the only exception is turkey stock made from your carcass—for the truly ambitious.) Of its turkey pot pie, Gourmet disclaims, "I can't guarantee this pie will make it onto your list of classics, but I'm pretty certain it will be a strong contender." Not if you make it with turkey, though. "This recipe could easily become a year-round favorite—simply substitute supermarket rotisserie chicken for the turkey."
Due to its taste and size, turkey has long played second fiddle to its poultry brethren. Turkey meat, especially the breast, is often dried out, and it's not as rich as that of more exotic birds, like guinea hen or capon. Its heft makes it more difficult to cook than the more flavorful, more manageable, and more common chicken. On Thanksgiving, we're willing to overlook these flaws for the sake of tradition. Still, many try to compensate for turkey's shortcomings by getting creative in the kitchen: We'll deep-fry, grill, brine, even spatchcock in an effort to zest up this bird. But I challenge you to count on more than one hand all the times you've made a turkey entrée since last Thanksgiving that wasn't a sandwich or a burger. (For that matter, when was the last time you ordered turkey tetrazzini at a restaurant? How about turkey pho?)
Turkey recipes in The Joy of Cookingare outnumbered by chicken recipes by about four to one. In specialty cookbooks, turkey often goes the way of the dodo—it's absent entirely. Mark Bittman is the sole cook I've found who takes an honest approach. In his encyclopedic cookbook How To Cook Everything, he limits his turkey recipes to a handful of staples, most revolving around Thanksgiving. He's brutally forthcoming about its flaws: "I know no one who prefers turkey to other birds," he writes. "It's my belief that most of us would eat turkey less frequently than we would eat capon, a much tastier big bird, were it not for the traditions around Thanksgiving and Christmas."
Poor turkeys. They weren't always such a lackluster fowl. According to Andrew F. Smith's excellent history The Turkey: An American Story, many of the European colonists who explored and settled in North America praised the prevalent native wild turkeys, describing them as "a splendid dish, boiled or roasted," and "a delicate and highly prized article of food." As turkeys were hunted (and as their food sources diminished with the development of land), however, they became more and more scarce. Domesticated (though still flavorful) turkeys brought over from Europe began to replace wild ones, and by the mid-1800s, turkey breeding had caught on.
While many turkeys were bred for things like notable plumage, according to Smith, one breeder, Jesse Throssel, began to focus on augmenting the quantity of the bird's breast meat, in the late 1920s. His efforts paid off, resulting in a turkey with a puffed-up chest that captivated Americans with its majesty. Breeders, as a result, crossbred Throssel's toms with plump hens to create turkeys with even larger breasts, and soon we had the turkey equivalent of Dolly Parton—the Broad-Breasted White. By the 1960s, Broad-Breasted Whites "had become the commercial standard." As Smith puts it, "The modern commercial turkey has been bred for various characteristics—docility, early maturity, maximum growth, and color of the carcass. Flavor isn't one of those traits."
Perhaps if we had a tastier bird today, we'd relish the opportunity to cook with turkey more often. These "leftover" recipes would not be tagged as such, but would have their own legitimacy—sought out year-round, not just the fourth week of November.
The reality, however, is that you'd never consider making curried turkey salad on greens at any other time of year. So why make it this Friday? We spend weeks planning for Thanksgiving dinner. We travel great distances to enjoy it with loved ones. We postpone diets to gorge ourselves. We may even fast all day to make room for one more slice of pumpkin pie. Why not enjoy the leftovers for what they are, a delicious continuation of that feast?
In some ways, the leftover feast is as sacred as the meal itself. The guests have left, you've cozied up in your PJs, and the only remaining company is your closest family, the people you love most. There's the huddling around the Tupperware as you all seek the perfect bite of cold stuffing; the soft hum of the microwave in the otherwise quiet house as it warms the mashed potatoes; the smell of toasted bread slathered with mayo for the perfect turkey sandwich (sandwiches are, in my mind, the only acceptable use of leftovers).
Why replace these rituals with recipes that are not only ridiculous, but create more work? Let Thanksgiving live out its natural life—you'll know when it's time to move on. When you're sick of turkey, you're sick of it. The sight of that Tupperware, once the source of so much joy, will become grim and unappetizing. Forcing yourself to eke out one more meal, even in a new incarnation, will not make you feel more thankful or more resourceful—it will replace your lingering memories of a lovely holiday dinner with flashbacks of that wretched moo shu turkey. This holiday, let your turkey retain what dignity it has.


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YouTube Show and Tell!
Come join us in the Children's Activity Space for YouTube Show and Tell! Have an awesome YouTube video that you're just dying to show everyone? Pull it up on our iPads and Laptops and if approved we'll bring it up on the big screen for everyone to see! It's happening March 8th from 4-5pm in the Children's Activity Space.


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Some travelers claim they don't mind getting lost on the highways; they even enjoy it. It's a way of discovering new places, they say, of finding new paths. No one, however, enjoys getting lost when she's reading. And the possibilities for getting lost, the potential sources of confusion, are in every sentence, every turn of phrase. There is the large scale to consider: an essay's organization and the transitions from one idea to the next, the way ideas are introduced and matters concluded. (See the section on Coherence for help with such matters.) Within the sentence itself, however, there are many places where our readers can get lost.
The problem is thatunlike rereading our own essays for misplaced commas and misspelled wordswe often can't see where a reader can get lost. We know where our sentence was headed, we know what we had in mind, so we're not apt to understand someone else's confusion. This section of the Guide to Grammar and Writing addresses the sources of and remedies for confusion at the level of sentence structure. (At the level of individual wordswords that we often confuse because they sound like other wordsplease review another section, the Notorious Confusables.)
Think of a sentence as a kind of mathematical structure, an equation requiring two parts: the subject, which is what any sentence is about, and the predicate, which is what we're going to say about this subject. Sometimes we set up both in ways that are perfectly reasonable, separately, but when we put the two together, they just don't fit.
Confusion | Although the season has not yet begun has caused the public to get over anxious for information about the team. |
Repair Work | Although the season has not yet begun, the public is overly anxious for information about the team. |
This sentence begins with an adverb clause, which is a legitimate way to begin a sentence, but an adverb clause can't act as a noun; it can't be a subject. In the repaired sentence, we've allowed the adverb clause to do its normal modifying work and made "public" the subject of the independent clause. This can happen with structures other than adverb clauseslike prepositional phrases.
Confusion | In its attempt to spark sales of season tickets broke several rules about pre-season publicity. |
Repair Work | In its attempt to spark sales of season tickets, the basketball program broke several rules about pre-season publicity. |
Repair Work | The basketball program's attempt to spark sales of season tickets broke several rules about pre-season publicity. |
It is not impossible for a prepositional phrase to serve as the subject, but it's quite rare in formal prose, and quite unlikely for this sentence. We can either allow the prepositional phrase to modify the independent clause or allow a new subject, the "basketball program," to own the information in the prepositional phrase.
It is sometimes tempting to allow what we could call a "double start," a sentence which actually has two subjects in a situation that calls for one.
Confusion | The new system of student registration, we began to use it in the fall. |
Repair Work | We began to use the new system of student registration in the fall. |
A similar source of confusion occurs with another kind of mixed construction, when we allow a complete sentence to act as the subject of another sentence.
Confusion | Beginning in the fall of 1997, we began to use the system called Banner, was the responsibility of the registrar's office. |
Repair Work | Beginning in the fall of 1997, we began to use the system called Banner. The Registrar's office was responsible for this initial project. |
Another mixed construction is the result of an adverbial phrase (frequently the combination of a preposition and a gerund) acting as the subject of a sentence.
Confusion | By devising carefully worded forms ahead of time made the registrar's job much easier. |
Repair Work | Devising carefully worded forms ahead of time made the Registrar's job much easier. |
Adverbial clauses cannot be allowed to act as subjects, either.
Confusion | Even if students' records are lost in the shuffle of registration does not mean they will have to start the process over. |
Repair Work | Even if students' records are lost in the shuffle of registration, they will not necessarily have to start the process over. |
Repair Work | Students do not have to start the process over if their records are lost in the registration shuffle. |
If the subject-predicate equation hinges on a to be verb, we must be careful that the elements on either side of the verb are equal in kind and that they can, in fact, be equated.
Confusion | Those who want the new fieldhouse on campus and those who want it in the city would be an unlikely place at this time. |
Repair Work | Those who want the new fieldhouse on campus and those who want it in the city will have to agree on the best place for it to be built. |
The phrases "the reason is because" and "the reason why is because" have crept into our language in spite of their inherent redundancy. The word reason means why or because, so to create a subject-predicate equation in which the subject means the same thing as itself is redundant. Think "the reason that" and the problem is solved.
Confusion | The reason they were so eager to sell tickets is because they're trying to refurbish the old fieldhouse. |
Repair Work | They reason they were so eager to sell tickets is that they're trying to refurbish the old fieldhouse. |
Repair Work | They were so eager to sell tickets because they're trying to refurbish the old fieldhouse. |
Two more phrases that create subject-predicate difficulty are is when and is where, especially when we're trying to create our own definitions. A definition must consist of nouns on both sides of the equation represented by the to be verb, not a noun and an adverb clause.
Confusion | Libel is when you print something that can ruin someone else's reputation. |
Confusion | Libel is where you've printed something that can ruin someone else's reputation. |
Repair Work | Libel is the publication of material that can ruin someone else's reputation. |
You might want to review the section on Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement and take the first two quizzes at the end of that section before reading this section. When pronouns do not agree with their antecedents or when it is not clear what the pronouns refer to, confusion will follow. Do not allow a pronoun to refer to more than one thing at once. In the sentence below, does "them" refer to the recruits or the veteran players or both?Problems with Pronouns
Confusion | To encourage the recruits to blend in with veteran players, the coaches let them play in summer leagues. |
Repair Work | The coaches let the recruits play in summer leagues so they'd be able to blend in with veteran players. |
Be careful not to allow too much text between a pronoun and its antecedent; your reader will have difficulty, again, figuring out what the pronoun is supposed to refer to. Does the "who" below refer to the recruits, the friends, the team?
Confusion | The recruits seemed to blend in with the team's master strategies and make friends on the team who played during the summer months. |
Repair Work | The recruits who played during the summer months seemed to blend in with the team's master strategies and make friends on the team. |
Be careful of clauses beginning with which, that, it and this as relative pronouns or demonstrative pronouns. Make sure it is perfectly clear what these pronouns refer to. In certain situations, a pronoun might refer to a specific word in a preceding clause or the entire preceding clause. In the sentence below, does the "which clause" (the adjective clause) tell you that the reporters knew about the team's history or that they discovered that the coach was ignorant?
Confusion | The new coach seemed to know nothing about his team's recent history, which reporters seem to pick up on quickly. |
Repair Work | Reporters quickly picked up on the fact that the new coach knew nothing about his team's recent history. |
In the next sentence, does "it" refer to spending extra hours or to the strategy?
Confusion | The coaching staff agreed to spend extra hours devising strategy, but it wasn't necessary. |
Repair Work | It wasn't necessary for the coaching staff to spend those extra hours devising strategy. |
And what does "this" refer to?
Confusion | The assistant coaches and the head coach seemed to know nothing about drawing up plays, and they couldn't agree on what their master strategy should be. This seemed to bother the press more than the players. |
Repair Work | The fact that the assistant coaches and the head coach seemed to know nothing about drawing up plays and couldn't agree on a master strategy bothered the press more than the players. |
Make sure that "it" always has a clearly defined, sensible antecedent.
Confusion | Coach Espinoza made several recruiting trips around the country, but it came to no avail. |
Repair Work | Coach Espinoza made several recruiting trips around the country, but her efforts were not successful. |
When we're speaking among friends, we can get along saying something like "Michigan wants this game more than Indiana" and everyone knows what we mean. But when we're writing, we should say that Michigan wants this game more than Indiana does; otherwise, someone is left wondering why Michigan would want Indiana at all. Comparisons must be stated fully to avoid confusion.
Confusion | Coach Calhoun tends to analyze games more than his assistant coaches. |
Repair Work | Coach Calhoun tends to analyze games more than his assistant coaches do. |
At the risk of exploiting a cliché, compare oranges to oranges, apples to apples.
Confusion | The stress of getting ready for a big basketball game is worse than a wedding. |
Repair Work | The stress of getting ready for a big basketball game is worse than the stress of getting ready for a wedding. |
Repair Work | The stress of getting ready for a big basketball game is worse than that of getting ready for a wedding. |
Be careful when you're comparing things of the same class. We can't say that Michael Jordan was better than any basketball player because Michael Jordan was a basketball player. To make such a comparison logical, we'd have to say that Michael Jordan was better than any other basketball player. And, finally, finish your comparisons. We're all aware of automobile advertisements claiming that "Car X is better and faster!" Better and faster than what?
Be careful, also, not to mix metaphors. We often use metaphors or analogies to make things more vivid for our readers:
If you refer to the students as "ants," however, don't turn them into penguins in the next sentence. The manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Davey Johnson, was quoted as saying this about a temperamental player: "He's probably got a lot on his plate. We've turned the page. I don't have a doghouse." (Hartford Courant: 8/13/99) Any one of those metaphorical phrases might be fine, in informal speech at least, but to mix them this way creates confusion.
Review the appropriate sections on Misplaced Modifiers and Dangling Modifiers, two major sources of confusion. Also, take the quiz on Modifier Placement at the end of that section.
Review the section on Consistency of Verb Tense and Pronoun Reference. Shifts in verb tense and pronoun reference can be a major, if temporary, cause of confusion. If there's anything worse than not knowing where you are, it's not knowing when you are. Paragraphs that begin with a dominant present tense should stay in the present; paragraphs that begin with a dominant past should stay in the past. It's that simple. When logic demands, you can shift tense, and your reader will stay with you; when you shift tense without reason, however, you're going to lose your reader. Shifts in pronoun reference often leave readers wondering whether you're clear about whom you are addressing. An abrupt shift from third-person reference or first-person reference to "you" can leave a reader wondering, "Hey, how'd I get dragged into this?" Recent attempts to demonstrate that double negatives have a respected place in our language's history and to show how double negatives function in other languages and in English dialects to emphasize the negative are not enough to redeem this Bad Boy of Standard English. A double negative results when one uses more than one negative word or construction to express a single negative thought. The parallel with algebrahowever faulty it may be in terms of linguistic theoryhas a powerful hold on the popular attitude toward double negatives. Two negatives, people say, make a positive. That surely isn't always true: there is no way that the line of the popular song "Can't get no satisfaction" can be read as a positive. Still, using a double negative in formal prose is a definite no-no (!) and will lead only to confusion for most readers, who will try to reconfigure the double negative into something algebraically positive. Remember, too, that words such as hardly, barely, and scarcely are negative in effect, as is n't, the contraction of not.Shifts in Verb Tense and Pronoun Reference
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Confusion | The coach was unable to offer no reasons for his team's behavior. |
Confusion | In fact, he was hardly able to say nothing at all. |
Repair Work | The coach was unable to offer any reasons for his team's behavior. |
Repair Work | In fact, he was hardly able to say anything at all. |
Review the section on Using Concise Language for tips on avoiding redundancies and clichés. Although these writing pitfalls will not necessarily lead to confusion, they will eventually annoy your readersor, worse yet, bore them. One further item: in our section on Vocabulary Building, we have a section on Using Five Dollar Words (where a fifty-cent word will do) that warrants your attention. Eschew obfuscation.
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Anakin's Jedi Starfighter
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Obi-Wan's Jedi Starfighter
As yet, it is unclear what color Jedi Starfighters these are.
There are no plans to make new vehicles. Mostly due to cost of new molds.
What crap I say. Fans have been desperately clamoring for AT-TEs, Sith Infiltrator, etc., for some years now. If they don't make them by the end of 2007, I'd venture to say that tere will NEVER be a new SW ship made by Hasbro EVER again.
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LSU, Alabama, Georgia … congratulations, you just made a top 100 prospect's top five. Of course, that's nothing new for this trio of SEC schools.
Derrius Guice, a 5-foot-10, 195-pound running back out of Baton Rouge (La.), told Rivals.com that he has a top five. The aforementioned SEC schools join Texas and Southern Miss at the top of his list. LSU is expected to be the ultimate winner in this battle, but it could go on for awhile. He did attend Alabama's junior day, so the Crimson Tide should be considered a threat too.
Guice is rated the No. 68 overall prospect in America and the No. 3 prospect in talent-rich Louisiana. LSU has the No. 5 ranked class in the country and already has nine commitments on board. Running back Nick Brossette is one of those nine players, as is fullback David Ducre. How their commitments would affect Guice's decision could come into play.
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There are some bargains out there if you know what to look for. The thing is on these 6n23ps - they almost never come in matched pairs from the Russian/former Soviet block dealers. So you have buy batch after batch and make matched sets yourself. I hope one day they get wise.
Spoke to a US tube dealer and one in the UK. I asked them why they don't carry these '70s 6n23p. The answer - they only want large blocks of tubes (say 500) - and those are just not available in the '70s. Where as they can find blocks of Siemens, Amperexs, Mullards, and Telefunkens - except the rarest kinds.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin wants the West Virginia facility that caused a chemical spill torn to the ground.
The Democratic senator said in a Thursday news release that Freedom Industries' Charleston site should be destroyed and cleaned. On Jan. 9, chemicals oozed out of a tank, through a cracked wall and into the Elk River. It spurred a water-use ban for 300,000 people for days.
Manchin said demolishing the facility and its tanks is the only way to restore confidence in the water system.
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FRANKFURT/HELSINKI (Reuters) - One day in March 2000, just days before the dot-com bubble began its journey back to earth, German engineer Thomas Alt first glimpsed the future of technology.
"Do you know augmented reality?" his boss at Volkswagen asked.
He did not.
"Neither do I, but you are about to, because this will be your project," he said, dropping a stack of papers on his desk.
For the next three years, Alt developed a technology that overlays text or graphics on real-life images and objects. The resulting hybrid can be viewed on a smartphone, tablet or PC screen, and soon - the tech geek's fantasy - through dedicated specs.
Today, 37-year-old Alt partly owns Munich-based Metaio, one of the leading companies in the rapidly growing augmented reality (AR) industry. Along with dozens of other products, Alt has created an AR manual for Audi cars.
No more leafing through a crumpled manual to find out why the aircon's blowing hot in August. Point your phone at the offending gadget, and instructions pop up on the screen.
Augmented reality has been called the eighth mass medium, after print, recordings, cinema, radio, television, Internet and mobile phones.
By reaching out to media companies, the industry, which was a collection of smartphone apps generating less than $2 million in 2010, is on the verge of becoming a real business worth perhaps $1.5 billion in 2015.
"In the early days, we were talking about visionary ideas for the future. Today we come up with business models and products," said Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, co-founder and general manager at Layar, a Dutch start-up.
Layar, whose software has been downloaded more than 20 million times, hooking 3 million active users, has the world's most used consumer AR application, a reality browser that helps find services nearby, acquiring info on anything from favorite restaurants to networking opportunities via a mobile camera.
"We are actually making money and are becoming a little boring. But that is what the industry needs right now," said Lens-FitzGerald. "We actually try to hold back on visionary ideas. We are getting out of the gimmicky stuff."
Layar's demonstration video went viral in 2009. It showed period houses as seen from a boat on Amsterdam's canals. By pointing a camera at the houses, information about which were for sale and their prices is layered on the camera image.
Not for the faint-hearted, but another eye-opener for the house hunter, SpotCrime, by Popvox, will people the scene with the stylized muggers, murderers and burglars that have graced the neighborhood, too.
Sector executives speaking at the Reuters Media and Technology summit said most interest for their products came from the publishing industry and e-commerce.
Sweden's Ikea, famed for its low-price flat-pack furniture, has an app that lets you point a camera at a spot in your room and overlays an image of the furniture you are thinking of buying. Assembly is still down to you.
Heavy hitters are now throwing their weight behind the concept. Qualcomm, the top wireless chip maker, has bought up AR assets and opened its platform for software developers in 2010. ARM is also adding AR features to the chips it designs.
Chipmaker Intel has invested $14 million in Layar through its venture arm and is looking to add AR features to its chips.
Intel anticipated that ways of controlling a phone without touching it, such as by voice or by gesture, would be the next big developments.
The challenge is to make money out of those features.
"We would certainly anticipate a sharp rise in service adoption, although we would suggest that, given the continued uncertainty surrounding optimal monetization models, 2015 revenues are unlikely to exceed the $1.5 billion," said Juniper Research director Windsor Holden.
Laurence Tetrel Poupart, chief operating officer at Total Immersion, one of AR's front runners, agrees.
The company has been around since 1999 and expects to double sales next year to 20 million euros, but Tetrel Poupart said the technology has a little further to go to become a reliable moneyspinner.
"We would definitely like to go for the virtual trying on of clothes, but some technical issues need to be resolved," she said, adding that the company needed faster chips to make the 'virtual dressing room' take off.
"We don't want you to see whether the clothing suits you but that it actually fits. We don't want it to be a gimmick, we want to have true usage, to reduce the return rate for the e-commerce merchants."
Simpler applications have found their way to consumers, and businesses are very keen to use them.
Thomas Alt's Audi manual is one example. Another is a Layar application that helps publishers more easily link print and digital content. By pointing their smartphones at a magazine, readers can get information about products featured in articles, and go on to buy them.
"At the same time, companies get loads of feedback about consumer behavior, which they can use for marketing purposes," said Alt, who has also developed a similar product for German magazine Stern, owned by Bertelsmann's Gruner + Jahr publishers.
Currently more than 10 million German magazines with AR features hit the shelves every month, including titles from publisher Axel Springer.
Companies are lining up to use the technology, said Tetrel Poupart. "But we are now in a phase that we need to discourage companies from going for another gimmick."
Total Immersion has seen strong interest in its software, which allows consumers to try on glasses without physically touching them.
There is still a long way to go before augmented reality catches up with the movies, however; it is nearly three decades since Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator viewed mission-critical data and images projected on the inside of his aviator shades.
Google has launched what it has dubbed "Project Glass" to develop such features, but it is viewed as a long shot.
"Since I started, this has been the ultimate dream in the industry. I don't buy it so much," Tetrel Poupart said.
"It makes you dizzy. I think we should use augmented reality in a more simple way and use the tablet. The tablet is a key device. It is here."
Eventually she expects traditional television screens - connected to the Internet with a built-in camera - to be a significant driver for both AR and the e-commerce industry.
"You use your television set as a mirror, trying on and ordering your clothes from your home."
Buyer beware - if the trend continues, you'll have nowhere to go to wear them.
(Editing by Will Waterman)
(This story corrects the 23rd paragraph to show that the sales target is for the next year, not 2012)


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This is an early recording from the mid 1990's I made of myself playing Guardame Las Vacas, an early piece of music from the 16th century, which translates as "Guarding the Cows".
It was originally recorded onto cassette tape - a Teac CDX60 and I rediscovered it whilst going through all my old cassette tapes, inspired by the latest Freesound Dare project to utilise old tape recordings. It has been played back through a 1980's vintage Walkman Cassette Player with the output going through a Focusrite Saffire and re-recorded using no effects or noise reduction into 24bit digital.
It appeals to my sense of irony to use this which is an old antique piece of music on an old and now antiquated medium!
this is beautiful man thank you for sharing!
Wow! is the word that comes to mind :)
Yes, yes, yes... Do you remember the sound of a walkman when the batteries are almost gone? - priceless!
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Medal of Honor: Rising Sun Cheats :
Cheats - Cheat Codes
by Unregistered Apr 25, 2005
Enter these on the passcode screen: |
Cheats - Codes
by Unregistered Apr 26, 2005
Unlockable - Infinite ammo cheat in Day Of Infamy.
by SharinganMasta17 Oct 02, 2008
Follow How to unlock.
Glitch - Dissapearing Soldier.
by SharinganMasta17 Oct 02, 2008
When doing the 4th mission, Midnight attack on Guadacanal, when the second soldier leaves you and and the other character to ''cover you'' from behind, go in front of him and push him through the level by walking into him. You will have to angle some pushes too. After pushing him a bit, he will vanish and never be seen again, even if you go back to the spot he was originally at. |
Secret - How to find the Trench tool.
by SharinganMasta17 Oct 02, 2008
The trench tool digs up dirt for in game secrets. To find the tool you must get to the level named Search of yamashitakas gold and find the lotus flower on a statue inside the palace. Walk up to the front of it and you'll pick it up. After you fall down the hole, go down to the end of the hall into a room with a gold statue. There is a pedsetal. Press X on it and it should say, "YOU HAVE REACHED ENLIGHTENMENT." Then a door will appear to the right and in there is a hammer-like tool. |
Secret - Immortality.
by SharinganMasta17 Oct 02, 2008
(You need the entrenching tool in order for this to work.) |
Cheats - Every level
by Unregistered Apr 27, 2005
Type these cheats in the password screen |
Cheats - CheatCodes
by Unregistered Apr 25, 2005
On the fall of the phillipenes level on two player co-operative mode if you go to the part where you first get on a mounted machinegun just before you go into the stadium if one of you gos on the gun and the otherstands behind then you can see a scary face on the back of the gunners head but only if you go up close.to find the golden buddah on the same level then all you have to do iswhen you come out of the sewers from tyhe satdium you will be in a collapsed building on your left there will be a jap ,kill him and the carry on untill you get to the part (still inside the building)where there is a hole at the bottom of the wall in front of you dont go though yet .on your right there is a box smash it with your gun,it is like a russian doll,the boxes will get smaller three times until the final time when a big golden buddah pops out of a box that is way to big to fit in the box,walk into it and you will have completed a bonus objective. |
Code - Unlimited Health
by MrSeanyman Feb 15, 2010
Please note that this is hard to do!
Secret - How To Type Cheat Code In And Activate
by MrSeanyman Feb 15, 2010
Ok, first you want to go onto the "Main Menu". Then you go onto "Options". Then press "Password". Then you type the password in. Ok, you have done that. All you have to do now is go back to "Options" and go onto "Bonus" then the cheat name should be on the screen with a box next to it! Click on the box so there is a red X on it! (The red X means cheat has been activated) Then your done! |
Secret - A bridge on the river Kwai tool usage.
by codplayer006 Nov 16, 2009
Once you start the game immediatly turn around there will be some bushes use your machete and go up the hill there is a film canister ammo and a few enemys take them out and you have a good sniper position. and also after the men the will be somme vines you can swing on. |
Cheats - Mission select
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
Now that the last grapes have been gathered off the vines in Bordeaux and are currently fermenting into what looks like an extremely promising 2009 vintage, this is the busiest time of the year for the most important father and son in wine of whom you have probably never heard. According to one of their 150 clients, Bruno Eynard of Château Lagrange in St-Julien, Jacques Boissenot, 71, and his 40-year-old son Eric,'make the greatest wines of the world'. They are the Médoc's leading consultant winemakers, responsible for the great majority of the region's famous classed growths, and all the first growths, yet they never court publicity and rarely receive it, so entrenched are they in this, the greatest concentration of fine red wine estates in the world.
Yet Frédéric Engerer, director of first growth Château Latour and not known for his humility, admits, 'I can honestly say that in my view, after working 10 years with them, their value in optimising the selection of our lots in order to make the best possible assemblage [blend] is very clear.'
The Boissenots operate from a modest house on the main street – the street – in the sleepy village of Lamarque in the viticultural buffer zone between Margaux and St-Julien, where Jacques' wife was the village teacher. Like the much more famous wine consultant Michel Rolland in Pomerol across the Gironde, they also run a laboratory whose two full-time employees run the vital analyses of all those tanks, vats and barrels full of purple liquid.
Jacques Boissenot became an oenologist by accident. Born in the Lebanon to a pilot who went on bombing raids from London during the second world war, he ended up in Bordeaux and failed in his initial attempt to become a vet. A friend recommended the oenology course at Bordeaux university and his initial job was looking after the official lab for the Bergerac region. In the 1960s he was invited to set up an official lab in Pauillac, where he did a bit of teaching and consulting. In 1971 he set up on his own and met up again with the late, great Professor Émile Peynaud, 'the father of modern oenology', who had taught him at university. Peynaud already had some clients in the Médoc and recruited Jacques to act as his right-hand man until he retired in the 1990s. There could hardly have been a better training, nor a better calling card.
As Corinne Mentzelopoulos of first growth Château Margaux explains, 'when Émile Peynaud told me he was going to retire, it was only natural for us to start working with his "disciple"Jacques Boissenot. We feel it is very important to have an outsider's objective point of view for the blending process. After many tastings, the final blend is decided together with Jacques and Eric. I have known Jacques for quite some time now, and I appreciate his low-key attitude and his respect for the terroir: there is no "Boissenot" style, just like there was no "Peynaud" style - although there was much talk about it.'
Listening to Eric talking about their work in his small, paper-strewn office, I was struck by his unusual combination of sensitivity and humility. He too qualified in oenology at Bordeaux, but from the age of 14 he had been helping his father make wine on their two hectares of vines near Lamarque, sold as Château Les Vimières, Haut-Médoc, and, for the vines that qualify for the Margaux appellation, Le Tronquéra. They would be the first to admit that, however great their winemaking skills, the quality of their wine is forever marked by the limitations of the land that produces it.
'Our philosophy is difficult to explain but it's first of all to understand the cru. I need two years to understand a new property. You must capture what there is in that cru, its terroir, its expression, its faults and qualities, and then handle it delicately, to guide it to its most beautiful expression. We keep stressing finesse rather than power. We concentrate on the quality of the tannins. Sometimes you can accentuate the faults by having too low a yield; balanced vines are more important.'
The Boissenots do far more than zoom in and out at fermentation time. 'First we look at the vines and decide when to pick with the director, or regisseur. We discuss a lot and then we agree on the best date, taking into account not just the state of the vines and the weather forecast but the picking team, the equipment and so on. Then we go and taste all of the cuves [fermentation vats] just after fermentation. We advise especially on exactly how the extractions are done, temperatures and so on.' I asked him whether they did any of this work electronically, for I have seen flying winemakers advising on fermentations in another hemisphere via their laptops. 'No, we're very available for our clients, but we are pretty busy from September to April. Mainly our work involves lots of tasting. We decide on date and order of the écoulages [when the new wine is transferred from cuve to barrel], which is a very, very important part of strategy – and one of our very important roles. Then we oversee the [second, softening] malolactic fermentations. Then from December to the end of February there are all the tastings for the final assemblages. And then we re-taste at the end of March for the primeurs season.'
Some days they will taste from 8 am until 10 pm, 'but it's so interesting it passes very quickly. There's a new story at each place'. Eric takes notes but says in any case he has a good memory. Tasting brutal young wine all day, I assumed meant that he didn't want wine in the evening? 'Oh yes I do. I spit, after all. Wine is my great pleasure with a good meal', he assured me. But it would seem that the Boissenots are so wedded to the Médoc (they have only a handful of clients across the Gironde in St-Émilion and Pomerol, but are conveniently close to the Lamarque ferry) that as well as working locally and modestly, this is also how they drink. According to Eric, they typically drink second wines of their grander clients, or wines from Bordeaux's more modest vintages. I asked him, probably stupidly, what proportion of white wine he drank. 'Not much', he said evasively. 'Ermmm, I like tannin [found much more in red wines than whites], I think that's it.' (They also consult on the white wines made at such Médoc properties as Châteaux Lagrange, Talbot, Chasse-Spleen, Margaux and Mouton-Rothschild.) 'I exchange wines with properties in Burgundy, but I don't drink them', he admitted with a self-deprecating chuckle.
I wondered whether he had travelled much outside Bordeaux? 'Oh yes', he assured me. 'As a student I went to Alsace and Roussillon.'
They calculate their charges on the basis of the area of vines they supervise, and their time. It is apparently rare that anyone hires a second oenologist and although Roederer already had Denis Dubourdieu at Ch de Pez when they bought Ch Pichon Lalande, the Boissenots work with him at Pichon, 'but otherwise we don't really like it. It's complicated to have two opinions.' I wondered what happened when there were disagreements. 'At first we respect the work that's done at a property. We give advice which they may not always follow. We have to understand why people want to do what they want to do and then explain why we don't agree. But most people fully understand our philosophy and so they're at ease with ours.'
Even in his much shorter working life than his father's, Eric Boissenot has seen evolutions in wine-making in the Médoc. Fashions have included an excess of wood, tannins, over-extraction, malolactic fermentation in barrel, the so-called '200% new oak' whereby a wine is matured in successive new barrels. 'We've always reined them in over tannin and over-extraction. This century people talk a lot about fruit. People tend to concentrate on a single criterion and stress it, but it's much better to go for balance.'
Here he is on various wine-making techniques. Reverse osmosis: 'It's not negative but it's not indispensable.' Micro-oxygenation: 'No, I don't advise it. I'm not against it. If a client has the equipment, I'll help them, but I've never been convinced - especially in the Médoc. It works in some places but it's not really extraordinary in terms of results for Cabernet Sauvignon. People do it to have more colour. I don't really understand why they'd want more colour.'
I asked him what was the sign of success for them, wondering whether it was something as quantifiable as prices or points, but it would seem not. 'We're not the only actors, it's a team thing. Perhaps we're more important than some others – but you can never attribute a wine to one person. But the fact that we see so many properties means that we have more of a vision than someone who knows only their property.
'Sometimes I come across wines where I know they didn't follow my advice; they're usually over-extracted. I sense it and tease them. Eventually they learn. You can't go against Nature.'
1999 - can be very good, especially in Margaux. It rained during the vintage. Lots of alcohol.
2001 - undervalued. People are discovering it now.
2002 – undervalued. There are some good wines too.
2003 - too hot. It's evolved rapidly.
2004 - a very classic year; people were prejudiced because of the high yields. Not exuberant.
2006 - very firm.
2008 - very fruity, surprising. Very long season.


text: Great, Official Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon Artwork Justifies New Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon PreviewStephen Totilo6/27/12 10:40amFiled to: 3dsLuigi's mansion dark moonLuigi's Mansion 2NintendoPreview55EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink I played Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon yesterday. I think the game will be good, but then I thought that a year ago and yet today scientists are still trying to determine the difference between the game's E3 2011 demo and the game's E3 2012 demo. 2011. 2012. Advertisement What a difference a year doesn't make! Or maybe that snow part's new for 2012?Surely it's a good thing that Luigi's Mansion 2 Dark Moon has very deep 3D effects, lets you suck up ghosts with a vacuum and manages to control pretty well despite the 3DS lacking a second analog circle pad. (You move and aim simultaneously with the left circle pad and use the top and bottom face buttons to tilt the vacuum up and down.) I had missed the game at this year's E3 but played it yesterday in New York. I was pleased, as I was with New Super Mario Bros. 2 at an even briefer play-through of that game at E3. Nintendo's flagship 2012 3DS games don't feel like radical deviations from the games that preceded them, but they feel like well-made successors with familiar, yet specific gameplay. Advertisement It's been too long (11 years) since we got to play as a frightened Luigi in a mansion full of ghosts. Dark Moon will let us do it again this year through a series of mansions. I was impressed. Just release the game, already, Nintendo. Surely you're not going to bring the same demo to a third E3? Hopefully not. The game is currently slated for a late 2012 release.Reply55 repliesLeave a reply


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FXStreet (Guatemala) - USD/JPY is trading at 101.37, up 0.12% on the day, having posted a daily high at 101.43 and low at 101.32.
USD/JPY remains in its sideways formation at the start of the week which much in the background priced in. It is steady today ahead of Japan releasing the final reading on May industrial production. From last week, the JPY was strengthened on the back of risk aversion and in respect of the greenback, we are reminded by Sean Callow, analyst at Westpac Banking Corporation ABN, that Fed speeches from Lockhart (centrist) and Plosser (hawk) offset each other, the former expecting a rate hike in Q2 2015, the latter expecting it earlier than the market expects. "But SF Fed president Williams was a little more confident than previously, suggesting higher rates could come "a touch earlier".
USD/JPY technically bearish
Valeria Bednarik, chief analyst at FXStreet explained that the yen maintains its strength against the greenback, with the USD/JPY trading some 50 pips above the year low, contained in a tight range for most of last Friday. "The hourly chart shows 100 SMA with a strong bearish slope crossing below 200 one both well above current price, with indicators aiming slightly higher in positive territory". However, she noted that in the 4 hours chart, indicators present a mild bearish tone below their midlines, with moving averages also well above current price which keeps the pressure to the downside. "Immediate support stands in the 101.20 level, and if below, the pair will likely extend its slide down to 100.60/70 price zone".
USD/JPY and political risk
USD/JPY may fall under further pressure in risk aversion with Sunday being the deadline for the US and Iran to strike a nuclear deal. "That presents some degree of political risk for markets, but given that we are already shrugging off open civil war in Iraq and Syria, along with fighting between Gaza and Israel, the likelihood of a major market impact seems low", as noted by Rabobank analysts.
USD/JPY Levels
Spot is presently trading at 101.39, and next resistance can be seen at 101.39 (Daily Open), 101.40 (Yesterday's High), 101.43 (Daily High), 101.48 (Daily Classic R2) and 101.52 (Weekly Classic PP). Next support to the downside can be found at 101.37 (Daily Classic R1), 101.34 (Hourly 20 EMA), 101.32 (Daily Low), 101.29 (Daily Classic PP) and 101.26 (Monthly Low).