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Tracer dynamics in single-file system with absorbing boundary
The paper addresses the single-file diffusion in the presence of an absorbing boundary. The emphasis is on an interplay between the hard-core interparticle interaction and the absorption process. The resulting dynamics exhibits several qualitatively new features. First, starting with the exact probability density function for a given particle (a tracer), we study the long-time asymptotics of its moments. Both the mean position and the mean square displacement are controlled by dynamical exponents which depend on the initial order of the particle in the file. Secondly, conditioning on non-absorption, we study the distribution of long-living particles. In the conditioned framework, the dynamical exponents are the same for all particles, however, a given particle possesses an effective diffusion coefficient which depends on its initial order. After performing the thermodynamic limit, the conditioned dynamics of the tracer is subdiffusive, the generalized diffusion coefficient being different from that reported for the system without absorbing boundary.
I Introduction
Consider a single particle diffusing in the semi-infinite one-dimensional channel. The particle escapes from the channel only if it hits the channel boundary situated at the origin. Assuming normal diffusion without any external drift, the mean particle position remains constant in time, its mean escape time is infinite, nevertheless the particle eventually escapes with the probability one. At a given time , starting with an ensemble of all possible particle trajectories, it is interesting to restrict the attention on the subensemble of those paths which have not hit the boundary up to the time . The subensemble is described by the conditional probability density functions (PDFs), the condition being the non-absorption up to the time . The conditioned dynamics exhibits qualitatively different features comparing with the unconditioned one. For instance, the conditioned mean particle position is no longer constant, it growths as . The longer one waits the further from the origin is the typical surviving trajectory. One can say that the conditioning implies an effective force which drags the particle away from the absorbing boundary.
In the present paper we shall investigate the system of hard-core interacting particles diffusing in the semi-infinite one-dimensional channel with the absorbing boundary at the origin. We have three main objectives. First, the hard-core interaction implies an entropic interparticle repulsion and we analyze its effect on the dynamics of the individual particle (a tracer). Second, we are interested in the dynamics of the long-living particles, that is, in the tracer dynamics conditioned on non-absorption. Third, we shall compare the dynamics of the system of particles with that of the corresponding system in thermodynamic limit.
Single particle stochastic dynamics conditioned on non-absorption has been explored extensively in probability theory. A regularly updated bibliography is available in Ref. Pollett (2012). Usually, the conditioning suggests itself in the frame of a biological Hastings (2004), demographic Steinsaltz and Evans (2004) or epidemiological Nåsell (1995) context, where the absorbed diffusion process models the populations undergoing extinction. By the conditioning on non-absorption the focus is shifted on the behavior of the long-surviving paths of the process. It may happen that thus conditioned process converges towards a time-invariant distribution, the so called quasi-stationary distribution. The study of quasi-stationary distributions began with the seminal work of Yaglom on sub-critical Galton-Watson processes Yaglom (1947). For various stochastic processes, the results on existence, uniqueness and other properties of quasi-stationary distributions are reviewed in Cattiaux et al. (2009). Examples of solvable quasi-stationary distributions are the Brownian motion with constant drift absorbed at the origin Mandl (1961); Ferrari et al. (1997), the absorbed logistic Feller diffusion Méléard (2012), and the Wright-Fisher diffusion Huillet (2007). In the demographic context, one specific consequence of the conditioning on non-extinction is the deceleration of the instantaneous mortality rates (mortality rate plateaus) Steinsaltz and Evans (2004).
Many-particle diffusion in one-dimensional channels where the particles are not able to pass each other (the single-file diffusion, SFD) occurs in many systems such as narrow biological pores Hodgkin and Keynes (1955), the channel systems of zeolites Hahn et al. (1996); Kärger and Ruthven (1992), or during the sliding of proteins along the DNA Li et al. (2009); Berg et al. (1981); Bressloff and Newby (2013). In these systems, the diffusion of the tracer is slowed down due to the interparticle interactions. The mean-square displacement of the tracer increases with time as in contrast to its linear increase for the free particle. This was first proved by Harris Harris (1965). Since then, the single-file diffusion was analytically investigated in many different settings including systems in thermodynamic limit Jepsen (1965); Lebowitz and Percus (1967); Levitt (1973), infinite line with a finite number of particles Rödenbeck et al. (1998); Kumar (2008); Aslangul (1998), finite interval Lizana and Ambjörnsson (2008, 2009); Ryabov (2013), particles under the action of external force field Barkai and Silbey (2009); Ryabov and Chvosta (2011). The first-passage problem for a tracer in an infinite system was studied in Sanders and Ambjörnsson (2012). The present paper addresses a different setting: in Ref. Sanders and Ambjörnsson (2012) only the tracer feels the absorbing boundary whereas, in the present paper, each particle can be absorbed. Numerically, the first-passage problem in a driven SFD system was studied in Barma and Ramaswamy (1986).
The present paper continues the study of the model introduced in Ref. Ryabov and Chvosta (2012), where we have investigated the single-file diffusion model including an absorbing boundary. In that paper, we were interested in the time of absorption of the individual particles. In the present paper the central issue is the tracer dynamics. The two prerequisites, i.e., the hard-core interaction and the absorption, are essential for a proper understanding of kinetics of diffusion-limited chemical reactions in crowded environments Liu et al. (2011); Dorsaz et al. (2010); Park et al. (2003); Seki et al. (2011).
The paper is organized as follows. Sec. II contains the definition of the model. In Sec. III, in order to keep the paper self-contained, we present the complete solution of the underlying single-particle case. Secs. IV, V comprise our main results. We first study the unconditioned dynamics of the tracer (Subsecs. IV.1, V.1) and then we condition this dynamics on non-absorption (Subsecs. IV.2, V.2).
Ii Definition of the model
Consider the diffusion of hard-core interacting Brownian particles in a semi-infinite one-dimensional interval with the absorbing boundary at the origin. Initially, particles are distributed along the half-line . During the time evolution, each particle diffuses with the same diffusion constant, . The particles cannot enter the interval from the outside and they are allowed to leave it only through the boundary at the origin. The boundary is perfectly absorbing, i.e., if any particle hits the origin it is absorbed with the probability one. At the initial time , let us label the particles according to ordering of their positions from the left to the right (cf. Fig. 1). We have
where the random variable denotes the position of the -th particle at . The hard-core interaction guarantees that the initial ordering of particles is conserved over time. Notice that the particle No. is the first one that might be absorbed. It is only after this event that the particle No. can approach the origin and be absorbed. Let us denote as the (random) time of the absorption of the -th particle. Then we have
The last inequality, , means that the rightmost particle (and hence any particle) is eventually absorbed with the probability one Ryabov and Chvosta (2012). At the same time, the mean value is infinite Ryabov and Chvosta (2012).
Iii Single diffusing particle
iii.1 Brownian motion absorbed at the origin
Let us take . Suppose that at the initial time the particle is located at the position , . The PDF of the particle's position at the time conditioned on its initial position is determined by solving the diffusion equation
subject to the absorbing boundary condition at the origin,
and to the initial condition
This problem is readily solved by the method of images Chandrasekhar (1943). The result reads
Having this Green's function, the time evolution of an arbitrary initial PDF, say , is given by
As for the initial PDF , we only assume that all its moments exist. For the sake of illustrations, we take the particular initial condition
The spatial integral of PDF (7) over the interval equals the survival probability, that is, the probability that the particle has not been absorbed by the time . If we denote by the time of the absorption, we can write
where the last expression stands for the average of the error function Abramowitz and Stegun (1972) with respect to the initial PDF . At the time , the survival probability equals to one. The long-time behavior of may be derived by inserting the power series representation of the the error function into Eq. (9). The expansion is given in Eq. (57) and its first term yields the power-law decay
The prefactor depends on the diffusion constant and on the average initial position of the particle. The sign "" means "is asymptotically equal".
iii.2 Brownian motion conditioned on non-absorption
According to Eq. (10) the particle will ultimately hit the absorbing boundary at the origin with probability one. Let us now focus on the dynamics of the particle conditioned on non-absorption. By definition
is the PDF for the particle's position at the time under the condition that the particle has not been absorbed by the time . The power series representation of PDF is given in Eq. (60). It follows that
where "" stands for all terms of the series (60) that tend to zero at least as when . Therefore, in the long-time limit, the PDF (11) can be represented by
Notice that this asymptotic representation is non-negative and it is normalized to one on . The distribution with PDF (13) is known as the Rayleigh distribution Krishnamoorthy (2006). Further, the asymptotic PDF (13) is independent of the initial condition and there remains just one length scale associated with the dynamics, the diffusion length . All other length scales which have been introduced by the initial condition are already forgotten.
The first and the second moment of the asymptotic PDF (13) read
The mean position of the surviving trajectories should be compared with the corresponding result for the unconditioned dynamics, that is, with . Provided a trajectory has avoided absorption by the time , it is typically found far from the origin and its typical position growths as . The first-order correction to asymptotic result (14) vanishes as and it depends on the initial condition. Using again Eq. (60), we get
Iv interacting particles
iv.1 Tracer dynamics with absorption
Considering a general number of particles, , the model setting must be completed by the specification of an initial state. We assume the initial joint probability density function for the positions of the particles vanishes outside the domain , and, inside this domain, it is given by
Throughout the paper, all PDFs that have originated in the single-particle problem are denoted by the letter "". On the other hand, the PDFs in the present -particle problem will be designated by "". It is a simple consequence of the assumed hard-core interaction that all -particle quantities can be expressed solely through the single-particle PDFs.
The exact PDF for the position of the -th particle, , reads 111See Eq. (35) in Ref. Ryabov and Chvosta (2012)
Apart from the particle labeling, space-time trajectories of hard-core interacting particles are the same as trajectories of noninteracting particles. Hence the probabilistic interpretation behind Eq. (IV.1) can be based on the noninteracting picture. In this picture, the right-hand side (multiplied by ) gives the probability of finding a particle in the interval and, simultaneously, having particles to the right of and particles to the left (including those already absorbed by the boundary). The combinatorial factor accounts for all possible labelings of noninteracting particles.
Notice that
which can be proved by the direct summation of the expressions (IV.1). In consequence, this equation tells us that the density of particles for the system of interacting particles is the same as that for the system of noninteracting particles. This holds true for all collective properties. However, the dynamics of the individual particles in the two problems is substantially different.
Let us now derive the long-time asymptotics of the PDFs (IV.1). The right-most particle is special. In the long-time limit it behaves in a similar way as the single-diffusing particle Ryabov and Chvosta (2012). In particular, for , the binomial theorem yields
where the remaining terms of the binomial expansion vanish at least as . The integral in (IV.1) has been estimated in Eq. (61). On the whole, we obtain
The expression has been written in a way which shows the main asymptotics,
and the first correction, the second term in (IV.1). The correction describes the relaxation towards the main asymptotics and it is negative.
We proceed to the long-time behavior of the -th particle with . We start again with Eq. (IV.1) and rewrite it in the form
The first bracket is again expanded according to the binomial theorem, the second bracket is treated using Eq. (61). Using further Eq. (12), the main asymptotics assumes the form
If we introduce the renormalized diffusion coefficient,
an important conclusion emerges. On the right-hand side of Eq. (24), one recognizes the asymptotic single-particle PDF (13) conditioned on non-absorption:
The only difference is that here we have instead of in (13). The initial order of the particle, , controls, in a decisive way, the main asymptotics. The smaller , the faster is the decay of PDF (for a given ). As a consequence, in the long-time limit, the sum (19) is dominated by the PDF .
Our next goal is analysis of the mean positions of the individual particles. For the rightmost particle, the calculation is based on Eq. (IV.1). We obtain
The main asymptotics is covered by the first term on the right hand side, that is, apart from the multiplication by , the main asymptotics coincides with that for the single particle where we have . The second term describes corrections. As for the remaining particles, the interaction changes the mean-position dynamics. The evaluation of the first moments of the densities (26) yields the main asymptotics
with the prefactor
Thus the initial condition and the total number of particles enters the asymptotics only through the prefactor. Notice that the asymptotics for the -th particle for , differs from that for the rightmost particle (and therefore also from that for the single particle), its mean position asymptotically approaches zero.
In a similar way, we readily obtain the second moments. The results are
with the prefactors
For the rightmost particle, the main asymptotics is proportional to . Interestingly, for , the second moment approaches the nonzero value whereas, for , the second moment decreases towards zero.
The first and the second moments for the individual particles are illustrated in Fig. 2. After multiplying Eq. (19) by and integrating, we get the relationship
valid for any time. In the asymptotic domain, the main asymptotic of the left hand side is covered by the term on the right hand side. Differently speaking, the main asymptotics of the remaining terms in the sum is subdominant with respect to the main asymptotics of the term.
iv.2 Tracer dynamics conditioned on non-absorption
If denotes the time of absorption of the -th particle, its survival probability at the time is defined by
In Ryabov and Chvosta (2012) we have shown that the above integral can be expressed solely through the survival probability of the single-diffusing particle, i.e., through the expression (9). The leading term in the long-time limit is
Being interested in the long-time dynamics of the individual surviving particles, we introduce the conditional PDFs
On the right hand side, the numerator is given in Eq. (IV.1) and the denominator in Eq. (35). In the long-time limit, the fraction greatly simplifies. Dividing the main asymptotics (26) by the leading term in (35) yields
This result is remarkable for its simplicity. The asymptotic dynamics of the -th tracer is the same as the dynamics of a single-diffusing particle with the diffusion coefficients . In other words, the only implication of the hard-core interaction is the renormalization of the diffusion coefficient. The left-most particle diffuses with the smallest effective diffusion coefficients . On the other hand the right-most particle has the same effective diffusion coefficient as a single-diffusing particle, .
The above asymptotic relation means that also the moments of the conditioned dynamics are (except of the value of the diffusion coefficient) simply the moments of the single-diffusing particle. More precisely, using Eq. (37), we get
Thus the interparticle interaction does not imply new -dependent dynamical exponents which is the case in the unconditioned dynamics, cf. Eqs. (28), (30), and (31).
Finally, notice that in the present conditioned description there exists no simple relationship similar to Eq. (33). The -average of the conditioned -th moments is no more equal to the -th conditioned moment for the single-particle diffusion, i.e.,
V Tracer dynamics in thermodynamic limit
v.1 Tracer dynamics with absorption
We now wish to focus on the dynamics of the tracer in a system of infinite number of particles. First, at the initial time , the particles are distributed randomly on the half-line with a constant density . At the initial instant we activate the absorbing boundary at the origin. Next, the SFD system evolves in time and we are again interested in the dynamics of the -th tagged particle.
Similarly to the previous finite- case, the analysis is based on the exact PDF for the position of the -th particles. The analytical expression which, in the present context, replaces the formula (IV.1) reads
Notice a straightforward probabilistic interpretation of these formulas. The first term on the right-hand side of Eq. (42), , is simply the mean number of the particles absorbed in the time interval . The second term on the right-hand side represents the mean number of particles which are, at the time , diffusing in the space interval . Hence, at the time , stands for the mean number of particles located to the left of the coordinate , including those which were absorbed. In Eq. (41) one recognizes the probability of finding a noninteracting particle in the interval multiplied by the probability that there are particles to the left of (including those already absorbed by the boundary).
The formal derivation of Eq. (41) from Eq. (IV.1) proceeds as follows. At the initial time we assume that particles are homogenously distributed within a finite spatial interval . For a large , the probability of finding a single particle to the right of behaves as
where . We insert this estimation into Eq. (IV.1). The final result (41) follows after performing the thermodynamic limit: , , fixed. Interestingly enough, the passage from Eq. (IV.1) to Eq. (41) is similar in spirit to the well known passage from binomial to the Poisson distribution (the law of rare events).
We are again primarily interested in the long-time dynamics of the tracer. After employing an expansion of the integral of the error function in (42), the main asymptotics of PDF (41) reads
As for the first two moments of the tracer position we get the asymptotics formulas
Contrary to the finite- case (cf. Eqs. (27), (28), (30), and (31)), the moments vanish for any . The decrease is controlled by a stretched exponential.
v.2 Tracer dynamics conditioned on non-absorption
In the thermodynamic limit, the survival probability of the -th tagged particle still depends on its order and, asymptotically, it assumes the form
which is derived by the spatial integration of PDF (41).
Let us now focus on the dynamics of the tracer which has survived by the time . In the large-time limit, the trace PDF conditioned on non-absorption is given by the ratio of asymptotic expressions (44) and (47):
where we have introduced the generalized diffusion coefficient
The asymptotics (48) should be contrasted against the single-particle PDF (13), and the tracer PDF (37) for the finite- case. The first two moments of PDF (48) are
Thus the average position of the tracer increases as in contrast to -law as observed for a finite (cf. Eq. (38)). The second moment growths as and hence the tracer dynamics is subdiffusive.
Finally notice that the generalized diffusion coefficient is different as compared to the that obtained in a system without the absorbing boundary Levitt (1973); Leibovich and Barkai (2013). As it was pointed out in Refs. Lizana et al. (2010); Leibovich and Barkai (2013), the coefficient is sensitive to the way the system is prepared. In fact our result (49) indicates that it also depends on boundary conditions used.
Vi Concluding remarks
Returning to the objectives which were outlined in the Introduction, in the long-time limit the following overall picture emerges. First, due to the hard-core repulsion, the particle which possesses a right-hand neighbor feels the (moving) reflecting barrier to the right. The barrier restricts its motion, it reflects the right-moving paths and hence increases the number of left-moving paths. This left-pushing tendency is illustrated by the asymptotic formulae (28), (30), and (31). The mean position and the mean square displacement of the tracer exhibit new dynamical exponents which depend on its initial order. Of course, the rightmost particle has no right-hand neighbor and hence it behaves differently. In the transient regime, its left-hand neighbors still exist and the first particle is pushed to the right. In the asymptotic regime, all other particles have already disappeared and the first one simply undergoes the free diffusion. Second, the conditioning on non-absorption removes a part of the left-moving trajectories from the unconditioned ensemble. Hence it imposes, effectively, the right-oriented drift. Surprisingly enough, the conditioning significantly reduces the effect of the hard-core interaction. The co-operative impact of the both tendencies is behind the asymptotic formulas (38), (39). The conditioned mean position of the tracer growths as regardless its order. The interparticle repulsion manifests itself only through the order-dependent tracer diffusion coefficient. The closer the relative particle position to the boundary the less mobile should that particle be in order to survive for the long times.
The above reasoning holds for the system which initially contains a finite number of particles . In the thermodynamic limit (i.e., assuming initially an infinite number of particles randomly distributed along a half-line with a constant density ), the long-time dynamics of a tracer is rather different. The new features are based on a simple observation that, for any tracer, there are infinite number of particles to the right of it. This implies the -independent exponential damping of the unconditioned moments (45), (46); the initial order appears only in the pre-exponential factor. The conditioned dynamics of a tracer is subdiffusive and independent of (see Eqs. (48), (50), and (51)). This is in parallel to what has been observed in the SFD without an absorbing boundary. Namely, for a finite , Aslangul Aslangul (1998) has shown that, in the long-time limit, the tracer diffusion is normal with the effective diffusion coefficient dependent both on and on . On the other hand, for an infinite , one observes an anomalous diffusion and no -dependence Levitt (1973). The present paper detects the same features in the SFD with an absorbing boundary.
Acknowledgements.This work was supported by the grant SVV-2014-267-305, and by the Charles University Grant Agency (project No. 301311).
Appendix A Asymptotic expansion of the single-particle PDF conditioned on non-absorption
First we insert the explicit expression (6) into the mean value in Eq. (7). This yields
Using the power series representation for the functions inside the averaging brackets, we obtain
The above double sum is treated by the substitution :
where the time-independent coefficients carry all the information concerning the initial condition. Explicitly, they read
We now prepare similar expansion for the survival probability as defined in Eq. (9). Inserting the power series Abramowitz and Stegun (1972)
into the averaging in (9), we immediately obtain
Interestingly, the numerical factors in the denominators of individual terms of (57) form a sequence (for ), which is A167558 sequence in Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences Sloane (). This sequence originally emerged in a completely different situation without any obvious connection to the expansion of the error function (see also A167546).
One can arrive at an equivalent expansion of the function by staring with the first equality in Eq. (9) from the main text. The series (54) is integrated term by term and it assumes the form
By term by term comparison of the series (57) and (58) one obtains a non-trivial identity
Returning to the main goal of the Appendix, we divide the series (54) by (57). Notice that the prefactor appears in both (54) and (57), therefore it cancels. Representing the fraction by the geometrical series, we finally obtain the sought asymptotic expansion
The asymptotic expansion of the corresponding distribution function, i.e.,
has been employed in steps leading from Eq. (IV.1) to Eq. (IV.1), and from Eq. (23) to Eq. (24).
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And it's become commonplace during college basketball games for officials to confer after a play, to view replays and then to walk over to the scorer's table to explain what's just happened. It's also commonplace for one of the officials to walk over to the opposite side of the court where the broadcasters are, where they'll give a quick explanation of why the clock's being reset, why a flagrant foul has been called or why the bucket didn't count. Unless, of course, there are no broadcasters, in which case viewers are left puzzled by what just happened.
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This is not the worst thing in the world. Fans still get the score. Fans still see the basics of the game. But what the fans don't get is the atmospherics: What's the crowd like; is there a problem with the playing surface? People who watch Formula One are often left wondering what's going on for most of the course as the announcers can only talk about what they see on the monitors, and those images are controlled by Formula One.
Nothing's happening anytime soon with the big events. Fans are still stuck with Jim Nantz being on site and putting viewers to sleep with the Final Four this weekend. NFL games will have full-on broadcasting crews as will the NBA and probably Major League Baseball for the foreseeable future. But with subscriber rates dropping and broadcast costs rising, the use of remote broadcasts will grow, and it's not hard to believe that at some point in the future, cheaply produced remote broadcasts will be the norm for even the Super Bowl.
It might end up getting worse in other ways. There's talk that with the rights fees that college conferences and professional sports could start dropping — this is already happening with Conference USA, where it is reported that rights fees for conference schools will drop about $500,000 for this upcoming season — that could mean less money for the schools. It also means a continuing situation like the one with Rice in which a large number of the school's televised games can't even be seen in Houston because one of the rights holders, the American Sports Network, does not have an affiliate in this city.
In the short term, this is probably all nothing. But subscriber costs are not going to drop, no matter how cheaply the games are produced, no matter how much money the networks save by doing games remotely. And eventually, something's going to happen at one of the remote events and because there is no reporter or analysis on site, nobody is going to have any idea what happened.


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By AMBROSE CLANCY //
You know cider, right?
That's the stuff in plastic jugs you buy at a supermarket or a roadside stand out east when the leaves begin turning in October. When you're home, you take a taste and begin wondering how to spell "hyperglycemia" so you can immediately Google it. It goes in the refrigerator, and before Thanksgiving has turned cloudy and vile. Right?
No, you don't know anything about cider.
Americans are just getting around to the fact that cider, in its low-alcohol form known as "hard" cider, has been a mainstay in Europe since the time someone figured out how to ferment apple juice – a very long time ago – and create a soft, not-too-sweet drink that pairs perfectly with food and provides a gentle buzz.
It's also available year-round, and many cidermakers are springing up around the country – and here on Long Island.
Summer is a good time to get acquainted with cider, to drink on hot days as a beer substitute, pack for picnics at the beach and have with a meal. These days, drink it cold, but not icy, since you want the flavor to speak to you, not be silenced by permafrost. Never add ice cubes, which weakens the hit and spoils the bold taste, and plus you'll be taken for a hick.
Hot cider is also a treat, but I'll circle back to you at the beginning of autumn for that one.
If today's Americans are just beginning to recognize the joys of lightly boozed cider, we haven't always been that way. In America, cider was once a drink of choice for everyone, right along with beer and ale, because we were once a mostly rural country and orchards were everywhere.
Also, brewed and distilled drinks were the safe choice when public sanitation was an iffy thing, and well water could easily go bad.
Hard ciders usually have about 4 to 6 percent alcohol content, similar to beer. With a taste for the stuff growing in the States, the big-boy American brewers are turning it out in a big way, with Anheuser-Busch, MillerCoors and others tapping into what has become a $500 million industry.
Like beer, there is a booming craft cider industry, with several crafters on Long Island, including the Riverhead Cider House and Woodside Orchards in Aquebogue. The Riverhead operation is worth a visit, if you're lucky to get there when it's not besieged by buses or wedding parties on a vineyard tour.
The Cider House, located in Calverton, has its own orchard with more than 200 trees producing 15 varieties of apples. Their cider is sold in a large space, formerly a warehouse, that now has several small restaurants, cafés and tasting rooms. There are also game rooms to keep the kids busy while you're expanding your knowledge of what the humble apple can do for your taste buds.
It's a perfect place to get a taste of different ciders, decide what you like and fill some bottles for home.
Woodside Orchards also has several ciders for sampling, with less glitz and more of a feel of a clean, well-kept barn. They also have their own orchards and offer a flight of ciders that includes several choices, including apple-raspberry, apple-lemon and ginger-apple. All will wake up your palate with clean, vivid tastes.
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Cheese and apples make another perfect pair, and cider is often a better choice than red wine to savor with almost any kind of cheese. Guests at your table will be delighted by a crisp and bright glass of cider to go with an after-dinner cheese course, or before the meal instead of a cocktail.
Now you have a bit more cred when someone asks you if you'd like to have some cider. And the pleasure will be all yours.
Ambrose Clancy is an award-winning writer/editor and veteran Long Island journalist. He currently serves as the editor of The Shelter Island Reporter.


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I'm struggling to think of a good reason for continuing to eat meat
the only reasons I can think of are ultimately selfish ones (i.e. it tastes really good and I'm weak).
I don't think I subscribe to the whole "meat is murder" thing (for instance, if I needed to eat meat in order to survive, I'd do so) but I guess I'm feeling increasingly uncomfortable about the whole process.
I dunno. I blame my daughter - she keeps asking where chicken comes from.
(0 days since) (CRICKET)
It would mean that you don't get hassled
by chippy meat eaters every time you go somewhere for dinner.
That's the only down-side, if you're sensible about your diet.
can you expand on "sensible about your diet"?
(i could probably just look this up on the internet but hey)
As in, making sure that you get all the nutrition you need,
rather than just omitting meat.
yeah I get that.
Top tips for doing so?
I suppose the big one is protein,
so cook dishes with pulses and beans and the like.
I think it basically boils down to getting used to cooking tasty dishes, and getting out of the habit of just cooking a couple of vegetables with meat acting as the only flavour. If all you cook now, and all you want to cook is meat and potatoes with a couple of veg, you might have a problem.
I have a few friends who are terrible at being vegetarians
they always seem ill. I think it's because they don't bother to balance out what the eat and just eat like a tub of hummus for dinner or something.
I'm trying to cut down on my meat consumption, as in only really using it if that's what a dish is based around. I think it's been beneficial. Plus it's harder/more interesting trying to come up with veggie meals
I have many more meat-eating friends
who are suffering from obesity, heart disease and cancer, so, you know, it cuts both ways.
There is something to be said for your second paragraph. Vegetarians, on the whole, are healthier than meat-eaters. Not necessarily because the diet is inherently healthier, but because vegetarians tend to have to think about their diet and what they consume more.marilyninthesky this'd this
Some incredible generalisations there.
My ex-TV and sister both don't eat meat and I care a lot more about what I eat than both of those.
'On the whole'
'Tend to'
Cheersjapes this'd this
I think my perma-ill veggie friends
suffer because they haven't adequately worked out how to replicate or replace what they would have got from the meat and end up just kind of grazing. So yeah, it's probably more just a bad diet issue on all sides, meat eating or veggie.
I'd have thought that the issue in restaurants is less chippy meat eaters being all judgey, and more the ridiculous lack of vegetarian options. I went for dinner with my GFs family in some kind of twatty gastropub and her Aunt literally had one salad from a menu of 12 items to pick. Some places are really lazy. I can't imagine how sick I'd get of roasted mediterranean veg or goat's cheese.
Depends where you are, really.
I've never had a problem in London and I think only the Clarkson/Gill-esque MEAT PORN places like Hawksmoor, Meatliquor and Bodean's would be an issue.
Newcastle used to be a bit restrictive, but it's a lot better now, and I've not had too much of an issue in other UK cities. Outside of cities, yeah, it can be difficult, and other countries can be surprisingly oblivious to vegetarianism.
Yeah I don't think I'll struggle with making it taste good
I think your image of a meat-eater is pretty dated. Sounds like something my dad would have wanted on the table when he got home from work.
Which is why I said 'if'.
Unless you're one of those people, you'll probably not have a problem.
Given that all of my family and just about everyone I know from back home is like that though, I wouldn't necessarily rule it out as being completely outdated.
I thought eating things with pulses
was a no-no for vegetarians
Surely God put them on the earth to be eaten?
(I'm not sure there needs to be a reason beyond you liking to eat meat. It's more about how compelling the reason is not to.)robluvsnic this'd this
I've actually been mulling it over from a theological point of view
God said that he gave 'man' 'dominion' over the animals, but then 'dominion' and 'breeding and killing them just because' don't seem to be the same things. Like I said, I wouldn't have an ethical problem with eating meat per se (for instance, if you relied on meat for sustenance because of a lack of alternative), but it just seems a bit decadent I guess.
I don't know. I'm unconvinced. At present I'm eating less meat until I make a proper decision.
i'd say that "dominion" certainly covers breeding and killing
and absolutely anything else that takes our fancy. cos "dominion"
but the bible cant really be taken seriously for anything other than fundamental principles, can it?
I think how you treat animals and the world around you is a fundamental principle
I can't imagine God being too happy with, say, pumping a chicken full of hormones.
I dunno.
i agree that it's quite fundamental
but that dominion really does mean "full control" so i dont think the bible's phrasing, in that quote, is really saying either way
Full control doesn't imply a moral right to abuse though
Who knows. I don't think there's any imperative *to* eat meat, even if there was dominion in that sense. I have dominion (in a sense) over my children but I treat them with love and respect.
no, sure
i mean, other parts of the bible would be needed to interpret "dominion". i guess the story of noah would a half decent way of looking at the need for intelligent conservationist approaches at the very least
oh yeah, definitely
it was just the first text that sprang to mind; can't necessarily base a principle on one verse. Good point re: Noah!
they were put there as a test
if you don't eat them: you're good
all the cave people ate all the dinosaurs
You have chosen...
Tastes good
Simple really.sadpunk, justanothersheeldz, badmanreturns, Epimer, and jontosh2001 this'd this
I'm veggie because I'd feel bad if I wasn't
I don't exactly do it 'well' because I don't care about my health.
Whatever helps you sleep at night right?
This barely helps at all mind.
"it tastes really good".
that is a good reason.
I'm with you, I can think of no logical, ethical, or any other reason to carry on eating meat.
I only do so because I love the taste and I'm used to it and I so far ignore the guilt. I've cut down a lot, I probably have more days not eating meat than eating it (due to cost more than anything else), but one day I guess I'm going to have to stop.colon_closed_bracket this'd this
Like, on Gogglebox the other day they watched something about Easter food,
with footage of hunting and killing rabbits, and then farming rabbits, and people were cooing over the cute bunnies and how they could never eat them... But what, lamb is totally different? They're not cute enough, so it's fair game to boltgun them in the head and eat their flesh? People are fucked up hypocrites.badmanreturns this'd this
lambs are pretty cute tbf
(awaits bestiality joke)
That footage
Showed rabbits in cages where they couldn't even stand, they were all just kept in a cage for a couple of years and then killed.
Human beings are so cruel sometimes. This happens with animals all over the world.
David Chang, Chef:
'That's the special requests. Don't even get me started. I'm not against all vegetarians. But if you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you may be causing more harm. I use this example: I was at a wedding, and at the reception everyone was eating local lobster and clams, but a couple of my friends were like, "No, we want the vegetarian option." And it's fucking vegetables from every corner of the fucking planet. Really? They don't want to pollute the earth, they don't want to support factory farming, but factory commodity farming is fucking awful. And not only that, it's almost slave labor. That poor fucking person who harvested your asparagus from Peru might have died because you wanted a fucking goddamn asparagus in August. Which doesn't happen. If you're going to be a vegetarian, limit yourself to food from a place you can go to in two hours and just eat that. Do it, or shut the fuck up.'
hmmm.... interesting.
this argument is all over the fuckin shopjapes, umlaut_ampersand, Gorkys_Forever, and RFWare this'd this
He is a very angry man
if you find more interviews he's quite entertaining. His food does look pretty good though.
Who decided what the vegetarian option was?
That guy sounds like an utter dick.PickledOeuf this'd this
Mediocre point, poorly made - he's drawing attention to something that is an issue
in a bullish, over the top, ridiculous way. Mind you, LA is full of hypocrites when it comes to that kind of thing, so maybe it does make you really mad after a while.
There's so much bullshit around farming and environmentalism,
from so many interested parties. I read Jay Rayner's book on it, A Greedy Man in a Hungry World, which was really interesting, but I didn't know what to think by the end of it. Huge agri-businesses can produce food with economies of scale that make their greenhouse emissions per tonne tiny compared to locally grown stuff driven down to the farmers market. But at the same time, it's full of issues about land use, fair employment, and so on. You know meat has to be even worse though, just for the sheer fact of all the food it eats in the first place.colon_closed_bracket this'd this
I live in Norfolk, vegetable capital of the UK
I'll be fine :D
whoever picked the veg option
should have sourced it locally, whic is easy to do if you 'eat the seasons' or whatever it's called. I try to do this but occasionally I do succumb to a epuvian lime for my rum or an out of season box of cherried form chile. More often than not though you can source local vegetarian produce very easily and unless you're a total cretin.
I don't agree with him and think his argument probably applies to 1% of vegetarians, but he has a chip on his shoulder about it.
On balance though, LA is full of smug and hypocrisy around these things, so maybe it pushed him over the edge as a chef? Idk.
I can't think of one.
Meat tastes good, but then so do many things which aren't meat. Plus you have the whole issue of an animal having to be killed to provide this tasty treat.
i'm really bad at not eating meat
basically only buy it now when it's on its expiry date and reduced in supermarkets though, feels like that's a moral victory but maybe it isn't
The only reason I can think of to not eat meat is
that is easier and i'm quite lazy.
I reckon you have to really THINK about dinner rather than grabbing anything meaty out of the freezer like I do.
an accelerationist argument would be that, by currently eating meat, you are speeding up the downfall of the capitalist system by helping to make global warming worse, degrading farmers and making closer the point at which the meat industry hits the fundamental limits of growth (so that it then collapses, as it is unable to grow anymore)
Why do people feel that they always have to have meat, that's what I don't get
If I pick a dish with no meat at a restaurant, unless they know me people always ask if I'm a vegetarian, even people who do know me sometimes ask if I'm going veggie. No, the food just sounds really good and happens to have no meat in it.
I don't eat very much meat at all. My fitra is more vegetarian, if I chew properly I'm not sure I really like the texture of meat in my mouth, same with bread.
How much of the flavour your enjoy is actually the meat or the way it's been cooked?
a lot of ^this
was at a big family do last week and had a meal with no meat, lots of peopel said they didn't realise I was vegetarian. One meal without meal should not imply I never eat meat. weird how single-minded peopel can be about meat.
Your last point though - a lot of the good flavour of dishes probably does come from the meat juices. depending on meat/dish, the flesh plays a much larger role than just giving you something to chew on.
Now when we look back at the past and judge people for being so uncivilised I think one day today's level of meat consumption and methods in the same way, yet I can't give it up.
What do you tell your daughter about chicken? In my house as a child meat was referred to as 'dead animal'
What's the point
Toast is the best anyway
if you only eat ethically reared stuff
then, as a universalised action, humans eating chickens (for example) is beneficial to chickens from a species survival perspective. they'd be an endangered species within weeks if we stopped farming them
- japes this'd this
- deadwrong this'd this
It is quite sick if you think about it
the cows, pigs and chickens etc we eat are far removed from their wild cousins. We have deliberately created a subspecies of animal for our own pleasure with the sole purpose of breeding them, raising their young, then killing them and eating their muscle tissue. There are alternatives, yet we continue to do this because it tastes nice. Thing is, that is just how things are so we don't really question it too much.
It has a lot of parallels with slavery really, many didn't question it back then either. Some even said the slaves should be grateful as without slavery, they wouldn't exist.fellover this'd this
it's kind of ugly to compare anything to the slave trade, holocaust etc tbhno-class, georgiabeth, and Jordan_229_2 this'd this
Look you're right that there's a lot of suffering involved, but it's out of order think less of people specifically for eating meat. Some veggies I know are unquestioning people, as much part of the establishment as anyone else.
As long as it helps you that's all that counts.
At least until we move out of a capitalist system.
Does it have to be all or nothing?
I cannot give up meat. It sounds stupid, but there are reasons why I can't apply prescriptive rules to my diet like that. I need to eat what I want when I want according to what my body tells me it wants or needs (and sometimes this is MEAT. At the weekend I had a craving like this for hotdogs- arguably not really meat. Mainly it is CHEESE and crisps.)
Without even realising it though, i've defnitely cut down a lot. cutting down is better than nothing at all, yes? I had fish and chips last ngiht instead of a king rib supper btw. AND I DIDN'T HAVE OVERFARMED COD.Elaina_Casoolare this'd this
there isnt one
If I wasn't so weak I would definitely stop entirely. I've cut down to just having it at weekends / restaurants. We have / eat no meat at home. I feel a lot better and healthier and energetic having cut back too.
i don't really think i need to eat meat.
i like it, but i have had weeks where i don't eat meat and don't miss it. burgers made from beans and mushrooms and even seitan work really well, and that's about the only issue.
vegetarianism isn't a big dela for me. vegan ism, though, is batshit insane.
veganism is not 'batshit insane'
Human beings are in general. Why are we drinking milk from an animal when it is meant for their offspring? What other beings in this world does that?
I think many vegans see it as ongoing cruelty - if you think about cows who have to constantly produce milk, that's fucking cruel. I wouldn't want to breastfeed all year around. Not to mention slaughtering the the male calves, there's loads of reasons for being a vegan.
There's many reasons for veganism but calling vegans 'batshit insane' is a really poor excuse.
I am a vegetarian and I don't generally drink milk. I'm not a vegan because I fail when it comes to cheese and chocolate (which i try not to each much of). my uncle is a farmer so from a young age I've bottle fed lambs, knowing in a couple of months time they're going to be transported live to a slaughterhouse to be killed in front of other lambs.
Generally I find it pointless to even argue about these issues and just get on with it, but calling people who want to minimise cruelty to animals as 'bats hit insane' really fucks me off.PickledOeuf, Antelope, Jordan_229_2, foppyish, RFWare, and fuck_this_band this'd this
i am sorry
batshit insane was the iritated tired version of me being a dick.
plus batshit probably counts as animal produce
"Human beings are in general. Why are we drinking milk from an animal when it is meant for their offspring? What other beings in this world does that?"
A very large proportion of the other beings in the world eat the offspring of other beings, never mind their milk. They do it for the obvious reason: nutrition. Why do we eat potatoes when a potato isn't "meant" for us to eat either?
Do you have to cut out meat completely to minimize animal cruelty?
Wouldn't it be better/more productive to be a consumer of free range meats and only buy make up not tested on animals...etc. That way, if you're part of buying it, you're part of the need for it therefore it'll become more common practice.justanothersheeldz and PickledOeuf this'd this
It might reduce animal cruelty, but wouldn't minimise it.
You're still helping to normalise the consumption of meat.
It depends why you want to turn vegetarian/vegan. For some, it's animal welfare, for some it's because they disagree with eating other animals full-stop, and for others, it's because it's one of the best, and certainly the cheapest, ways of minimising your carbon footprint.
Buying free range products etc would minimise your contribution to the first of these, but wouldn't really do anything about the latter two.
because it is one thing to not eat meat
but to rule out any animal product can be not a very healthy way of living. unless you are 100% committed to aiming for nutritional replacement in all other sources, you're going to be unhealthy.
all the vegan friends i know (in real life) they are all quite unhealthy. they snack on crap. some of the most nutritious foods that you can use as replacements when being veggie are ruled out when vegan.
and yeah, batshit insane was me trolling a bit, but i'm tired. sorry.
Why would you become vegan, or even vegetarian,
If you weren't 100% commited to aiming for nutritional replacement?
Because not everyone is concerned by nutrition
Some people can get by on junk food and not feel crap/put on weight.
I have a vegan friend
who plays for the England roller derby team, and is well buff. She seems to live entirely on bananas and avocados though.
This isn't reddit, pal.
Not yet anyway.
i'd hope asda would be on the ball with their stock
i'm annoyed at the paleo lot, though. bloody buying all the food i have no choice but to eat (allergies) and leaving me without milk and (gluten, dairy and wheat free) bread for weeks at a time.
i don't consume any dairy at all, but i eat chicken and fish. i'm not supposed to eat soy, also, it will never taste as good as chicken. chicken.
I had this a few months ago
so I stopped. I don't really miss it. Can't be arsed explaining all the reasons why I'm veggie because for the last two months I've had to explain them at pretty much every dinner, social occasion and office lunchtime. That's the only downside.ethricdouble this'd this
I was waiting for you to see this - no problem with friends making interesting conversation, just got problems with the oddly judgmental way most people ask me about it. You're cool, alcxxk.
DiS should do a veggie week
for all those tempted to dip their toes in but need a non-leather boot up the bum. Have a thread, post your experiences, recipes, trials and tribulations, whatever.
- Jordan_229_2 and PickledOeuf this'd this
think about it mannnnnnnn
if all life like started in one place, then it's totally eating itself and that's not cool
can't or won't?
s'healthy in moderation
inconvenient to avoid
and also animals are bullshit
- deadwrong this'd this
Tried to go veggie a while ago
Still ate fish. Lasted a week. Less than. My body is so used to meat, it's a need. A proper need. Also, I was working out and it was like WHERE'S THE PROTEIN BRO?
But I have a serious moral dilemma with eating meat. I hate it. Trying not to eat pork at all as I love pigs. Won't eat duck or any other meat that isn't your basic three (chicken, cow, pork).
I thought I was missing one. Lamb too.
Went to the highlands a few years ago during lambing season. To see them all running around and calling their mothers was too much. I couldn't hack it.
I also owned a pet chicken at uni (long story, but rescued from certain death in an incinerator) - The bond it developed with us was surprising. Once, when we opened the shed door (it would go in the shed at night with hay and a perch and stuff) and the sun was out and it sat down, spread it's wings out and just basked in the sun like a fucking human or something.
Then cunts like me eat them.
I had lamb on sunday night (curry)
and monday night (kleftiko) but I think I was maybe a bit anaemic as I skipped a few dinners over the weekend because Dancing Is More Fun. Oh yeah, I had leftover lamb on Tuesday too. I basically eat baby sheep for fun.
And now I've said that I'm going back to paneer curries because I hate myself.
Here's a solution we can all get behind
Think about selling it instead of animals. Nutritious.
Have you ever been close to turkey,
or close to folks who ham?
*can't think of a vegetable substitute here. Nothing works
As in cous cous?
yeah, that'll do.moker this'd this
Just realised I could have had beef instead of been
everybody out, shut it down, etc.moker this'd this
i've started referring to myself as an 'aspiring vegetarian' lol
stopped eating meat at home a couple of months ago (still buy fish occasionally) and don't really miss it at all... it helps that i properly love quorn products (in some cases more than actual meat products) so it's easy to bulk things up and add a slightly meat-esque texture with that. generally feel a bit healthier and also my chronic stomach problems/possible IBS seems to have improved quite a lot
however i will eat meat if someone puts it in front of me, and sometimes when eating out/getting takeaways. it's easy to be veggie when i have full control over everything that i'm putting in a dish but i'm still quite fussy about certain vegetables and how they're cooked and usually the vegetarian options are just so much less appealing and if i'm spending money on eating out i hate to compromise... this isn't ideal, but it's better than nothing. reckon there should be a lot more emphasis on the ethical and health benefits of getting people to cut down on meat as much as they feel able to, rather than the antagonistic all-or-nothing meat-eater/vegetarian binary
other benefits: save money, basically never have to worry about food poisoning...
i think i was always a bit rubbish at cooking meat anyway
see, this is an approach I could get behind
One thing I'm definite on is that (for health and ethical reasons) I eat far too much meat. I've not eaten any now since Sunday. Maybe I'm better off doing this a bit at a time - cutting down first and aspiring to be meat-free one day.
yeah i mean i know people who have tried to GO VEGGIE
and lasted about a week before eating a kebab while drunk or something and then just giving up and being like 'oh well, guess i'm not cut out for being a veggie!' (i used to do this too)
which to me seems like a much less productive attitude than just trying your best to pay more attention to what you eat, regularly making an effort to learn good veggie recipes, trying out some meat alternatives and not just automatically buying meat for the sake of it etc, without giving yourself this ABSOLUTE IMPERATIVE that if you imbibe a mouthful of meat you have FAILED and might as well go back to your previous meat-consuming ways. obv i still think that proper vegetarianism is a good endgoal aspiration, but you're probably more likely to achieve that by a gradual process of getting to enjoy vegetarian food and becoming less dependent on meat and - in my case anyway - realising you're not even actually that bothered about most meat in itselfJordan_229_2, colon_closed_bracket, and nice_squirrel this'd this
you know what?
if the government* were to ban meat, i'd probably be on board with that
*not this government
It gives you much needed iron and protien
which can be hard to replace in a vegetarian diet, at least cost efficiently, just eat less of it... you don't need meat every day of the week.
Naw it's surprisingly easy.
Nuts and beans of any kind are ludicrously good sources of protein, leafy greens too. A weightlifting friend of mine is veggie and having a plate of beans on wholemeal toast gives him about the same amount of protein as a rump steak.marckee this'd this
- shrewbie this'd this
I grew up vegetarian
I never ate any meat until I was 25. Now for the last six years or so, I've eaten organic/free range meat about once a week/fortnight. I'm enjoying it. I decided to eat meat because it was never my choice not to in the first place (although I'm sure I'd have become a teenage vegetarian anyway) and I like food and I was sick of having crap choices in restaurants and I was really inspired by Hugh F-W's books and tv shows. I've eaten some good things and I'm learning to cook meat more confidently now and I've even been on a lamb butchery course!
I read one good argument recently which was that if you just don't buy meat, then supermarkets don't care about you, you're not their meat customer. But if you make a choice to buy organic meat, then that's sending a message to supermarkets that this is what people want, and will make them up their game, which could be ultimately helpful to the welfare of meat animals. That makes sense to me, not sure if it does work out like that though.
When I eat meat I always think about it having been an animal that died, not in a morbid way but just to be kind of thankful and appreciative of it I guess? I would bring up kids eating meat in the same way I reckon, and obviously I'd know how to cook well for them if they did choose to be vegetarian.
"if you just don't buy meat, then supermarkets don't care about you, you're not their meat customer. But if you make a choice to buy organic meat, then that's sending a message to supermarkets that this is what people want"
As mentioned above to meowington,
it's an argument that stands up if your primary concern is the treatment (or mistreatment) of animals when farmed for meat. It won't make any difference if you're vegetarian on philosophical or environmental grounds.
This is also an argument to say that switching to organic/free range meat normalises the consumption of it across society, in the same way as, say, buying a more fuel efficient car doesn't in itself do anything for public transport or cycling.
that is my only concern yep
not bothered about the other two reasons, otherwise I wouldn't have started eating meat.
I haven't eaten meat for nearly 30 years
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HAZELWOOD, Mo. – A Hazelwood police officer is hailed as a hero after rescuing a toddler and her grandmother from a house fire.
Last Friday morning, Officer Daniel Rodriguez was on patrol when a call came for a house one block over on Becker Drive.
"The initial call was for a house fire. I know on the radio they said the house is fully engulfed," he said.
The dramatic moments were caught on his body camera. The one-story brick home was, as described to Rodriguez, "engulfed in flames," and cries could be heard from the inside.
"I didn't think there was anybody in the house and then I heard the yells," Rodriguez said.
The child and grandmother were trapped in the basement.
"First I could hear the little girl. And then I could hear the grandmother. She was just yelling, 'Help, help,'" he said.
Officer Rodriguez kicked open the basement window and pulled out the child.
The body camera footage shows him carrying the girl to a neighbor. He then ran right back and, with the assistance of another neighbor, helped the grandmother through the basement window.
It happened in less than two minutes, he said.
The home is a total loss but the two lives were saved, thanks to Officer Rodriguez.
"I've been told by a lot of people just do what you think is right. And that's what I was just doing in the moment. And it worked out," he said. "I think people would be surprised, the different calls that we have every day that are on this level. Luckily, I was able to just be part of a good story and get the recognition for it."


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Friday, May 1, 2009
"This bag is a disaster", comments from a TSA agent
Back in March I even posted my 100 mile packing list to the dismay of a friend who was running the 50 mile at Umstead (I would never suggest my 100 mile list is appropriate for a 50 miler because I could probably jettison 2 or 3 items from my 50+ item list!!!!).
Well, on my way to Denver my carry on bag was identically packed with electronic gadgets, more power cords then the average Home Depot and lots of stuff that I really have no idea when or where I might need it but I am too lazy to jettison it.
In fact other then knowing the items in my bag do not include sharp objects or liquids (and all items were placed in the bag by me), I would be pretty hard pressed to know exactly what is in my bag. What is even worse is that it is a triathlon back pack with about 7 side pockets, pockets within pockets, dry pockets and did I mention I have two gallon ziploc bags filled with electronics items including power cords (hey when you take as many pictures as I do you need multiple docking stations for different camera's, of course for running I need my Garmins, a spare alarm clock is good, several powercords are essential so I can challenge the circuit breakers in hotels by plugging all my electronics in, etc.)
My carry on bag may be the bane of TSA personnel's existance. In fact many times my bag gets X-rayed several times from several different angles. This is fine by me because many time it has food so hopefully it is irradiating any potential e-coli or samonella! But usually the TSA agent just send it back through somewhat discretely.
Well this time the TSA agent loudly exclaims "THIS BAG IS A DISASTER!" Now it is obvious to all around me it is my bag for several reasons.
1) the guy in front of my got snagged for wearing a belt and he and his stuff got taken to the closer scrutiny section.
2) the guy behind me got snagged for carrying keys and change in his pocket so had to head back through the person scanner
3) my bag is mostly pink with a little black so clearly belonged to a female.
My bag takes it's next spin around the Xray and the lady continues maligning my poor bag. It's not my bags fault I really stink at packing. She again exclaims, "This bag is a disaster". And my bag takes one more spin through the Xray. Finally it makes it through and no contraband is identified and we are reunited.
As this is going down, I recall last summer when my husband and I had gone through TSA together with the same bag and same issues. Sadly my bag headed back to the Xray for a second time, and in that case the polite TSA screener asked if he could just look through. I said this was fine with me. After about 5 minutes (and only about halfway through the various pockets), Tristan speculates I broke this poor guys spirit and the TSA agent suggested he did not see anything. So I was free to move on with my stuff.
A few months later at BWI they have started playing a little movie about how to pack and seamlessly get through security. Tristan suggested this movie was made for my benefit. It uses as a counterexample a person with a bag that is bursting at the seams and is in dissarray. In my defense since I broke the guy's spirit last summer, I have ziploc'd most of my stuff in my backpack so they can easily grab the clear plastic bag and take a glance at all the stuff inside about 6 times and by the end have only a few items and extra pockets to search.
I wish in my position I could blurt out, "This is a disaster", when someone did something poorly. But in my position we are clearly instructed that we must be diplomatic.
4 comments:
- Glaven Q. Heisenberg said...
HAHAHAHAHAHA! You own the only terrorist bag that had to be put on the "Do Not Fly" list.
Careful - next time they're gonna waterboard your bag!
- May 1, 2009 at 7:59 AM
- Runner Tammy said...
My bag is a triathlon bag... thus, it won't be deterred by waterboarding.
Well, perhaps it will be deterred considering it does not have the floaties my camera has.... (http://tammymassie.blogspot.com/2008/08/adventures-during-irongirl-tri.html).
- May 1, 2009 at 3:27 PM
- Jimbo said...
Hi ya Tammy - as scary as your 100 mile list was when I first saw it, I have since copied and pasted it into a word document and saved it on my laptop. Maybe everything is not needed everytime, but it is certainly a really good check list that I plan to use in my future endeavors - so thank you for posting it!
I travel a fair amount for work, and it became easier getting through the TSA check points for some reason when I started packing all my electronic gizmos, power chords, and chargers etc in a seperate "man-purse" within my backpack.
- May 1, 2009 at 4:39 PM
- A Plain Observer said...
that wouldn't be considered motivational speaking, would it? I keep a wine cork remover in my purse, hey a girl gotta be prepared and the sharp object has never been stopped, go figure
- May 2, 2009 at 2:53 PM


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Happy Monday! How was the weekend?!
Over MLK weekend, I visited some girlfriends in NYC. A handful of my friends from high school and college moved to the Big Apple after college, and I figured that the long weekend would be a perfect time to make a trip!
After an early work day, I went straight to the airport and hopped on my flight. Once I got to LGA, I took an Uber Pool to the Upper West Side to my friend Katharine's apartment. Has anyone taken an Uber Pool before? Charlotte doesn't have it, but it allows you to share a ride with someone and split the cost! Katharine told me to do that instead of ordering the regular Uber, and I am so glad I did because I didn't end up sharing a ride with someone and still paid the discounted price!
Once I got to her apartment, we relaxed for a little until our other friend, Elisabeth, arrived. Once we all got ready, we took an Uber to Rosie's.
The ambiance was very relaxed, yet crazy busy, and the decor was beautiful. I want my future home to look like the inside of this restaurant. Unfortunately, the restaurant legitimately had no lights on, so my pictures are super dark.
The general consensus of the food was alright. The drinks, chips, and guac were great (it's hard to mess those up), but the vegetarian enchiladas weren't the best I've had. I would definitely give this restaurant another go though!
After, we went to Mr. Fong's in Chinatown and Hotel Chantelle for drinks. This night was so fun to be able to catch up with dear friends, it was so worth being up for nearly 23 hours!
After being up until nearly 4am, sleeping in was definitely in order. Once we all got some rest, we went to brunch at Miss Lily's in SoHo.
They have a boozy brunch for $30 and it includes one entree and bottomless mimosas or spicy bloody mary's. I opted out of the boozy brunch (was still recovering from being sick all week) and had just one bloody mary. It was so spicy that it took me nearly our whole 2.5 hours there to finish it!
Many of us got the chicken and waffles, and they were so dreamy. It was seasoned fried chicken on top of a coconut pancake with spicy maple syrup. It was so worth the calories.
After brunch, we walked around SoHo. First things first: more coffee.
After coffee, we went to Warby Parker (am I the only who has never heard of this store?!) and had some fun trying on glasses. They have a photo booth in the back of the store and had way too much fun being silly.
We then went to the Biergarten at the Standard. This place was super cool and really reminded me of OMB here in Charlotte.
Before heading back to Katharine's place, we went to the Rag & Bone sample sale. It was packed and everything was still at least $85, so no one left with anything.
The night started off with a party in Brooklyn hosted by Vans:
After, we had a dinner reservation at Alta, a Mediterranean tapas restaurant in Greenwich Village. There were 10 people in our party, so we decided to go with "The Whole Shebang":
It was such an awesome experience ordering the whole menu. I mean, when can you really do that?! The food was unreal, my favorites being the chestnut fettuccine, sea bass carpaccio, beef sliders, and the grilled octopus.
I highly recommend this place to eat! This photo perfectly sums up how we felt after sampling FORTY dishes:
After a meal like that, there was no way we were going out and drinking. We rolled ourselves home and onto the couch 🙂
We kicked off the morning by going to a class at Pure Yoga.
Surprisingly, we did not walk as much as you would think from being in the city. It felt so good to sweat and stretch it out after two days of eating and staying up late. The studio was HUGE, it reminded me of a hotel, with a large check in area, clothing store, and yoga advisor offices.
They had 8 (I think?) studio rooms in the whole place, which is huge compared to the yoga studios in Charlotte. Next time I am in the city, I will definitely be heading back there for a class.
Later, we had brunch reservations at Flex Mussels in downtown. I was so happy that three of my friends from college were able to join us!
We started with an order of the savory everything donuts:
And boy, were these everything. These donuts were filled with scallion whipped cream cheese and coated in an everything bagel seasoning. We scoped out this restaurant on Instagram prior to going, and these donuts were everywhere, we just knew we had to get them.
For my entree, I stuck with something basic: the pancakes topped with strawberries:
Everyone loved their food; I'd love to go back to this place for dinner!
After, it started snowing! We were shocked and excited, considering the whole weekend had been fairly "warm" for this time of year.
After, we went to City Bakery to get hot chocolates. Something about snow in NYC screams decadent hot chocolates and delicious marshmallows.
Obligatory attempt at a hot chocolate-sipping picture:
The rest of our afternoon was spent at The Whitney Museum of American Art. Honestly, this was one of my favorite museums I have ever visited. My friend Katharine is a member and has guest passes. There are 7 (?) floors with different exhibits and each one was so different.
After, we walked to grab a drink at THE CUTEST restaurant called Santina. I know I said earlier I wanted my future house to look like the inside of Rosie's, but I instantly changed my mind the second I walked into this place. The whole restaurant is GORGEOUS. We stopped in for basil bellinis.
Dinner that night was at Parm on the Upper West Side. We just had to get some Italian food while in the city!
The chicken parmesan was probably the best I've ever had:
I've been dreaming about this pasta ever since.
The night ended with bites of Levain Bakery cookies and the Amy Winehouse documentary.
All in all, the weekend was a total success! We ate delicious food, sweat a little, and saw a lot of different areas of the city. The flight from Charlotte is reasonably priced and quick; another trip is definitely in order soon!
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Government whistleblower Louis Robert returns to work
Published Tuesday, August 6, 2019 7:04PM EDT
The whistleblower who was fired by the Ministry of Agriculture in January returned to work on Tuesday.
Louis Robert lost his job for denouncing the influence of the pesticide lobby, and is pledging to "not pay for the mistakes of others."
Robert was fired in January after providing information to Radio-Canada about the influence of private industry in supposedly independent public research on pesticide use.
Documents provided by Robert said the pesticide industry was interfering with board members at the publically funded CEROM agricultural research agency.
Quebec's Ombudsman delivered a scathing report on Robert's dismissal in June, saying it was a direct violation of the government's own rules on whistleblowers which are meant to instill a sense of freedom for government workers to sound the alarm about wrongdoing without being afraid of losing their jobs.
Now back at work, with six months of back-pay, Robert said the problems with the pesticide industry are not resolved but there is at least an acknowledgment that there was inapropriate interference.
He said his mission is the same as it was before: to complete his research projects at the Agriculture Ministry.
Meanwhile the government has authorized Robert to organize public hearings on the impact of pesticides.
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An Ontario PC Government will immediately begin work to bring back the Slots at Racetracks Program Much-needed support for Ontario Racing
Today, Ray Ferraro announced that an Ontario PC government will immediately begin work to bring back the Slots-at-Racetracks Program (SARP), benefitting the local tracks, Grand River, Mohawk and Flamboro
"Without warning, Kathleen Wynne and the Liberals killed the Slots-at-Racetrack Program, destroying the horse racing industry. Andrea Horwath and the NDP sat on their hands and allowed this to happen," said Ray Ferraro. "An Ontario PC government is going to work to bring this program back, and help horse racing and horse people in our surrounding areas, many of whom are residents of Guelph thrive and grow."
In 2012, the minority Liberal Government rammed their budget through the Legislature - which included slashing SARP. Rather than voting against the budget, and stopping the gutting of the horse racing industry, the NDP industry abstained and propped up the government.
"While the Ontario PCs stood up for the horse racing industry, and voted against this cut, Andrea Horwath and the NDP chose to prop up the Liberals. They could have stopped this," added Ray Ferraro.
The government is currently under a civil lawsuit regarding their changes to the horse racing industry. Court documents reveal the government anticipated the changes would lead to "23,000 job losses and 27,000 dead horses," and that part of the rationale \ behind the decision was to wedge the PCs and NDP in a by-election.
The Ontario PCs will launch a working group to consult with the horse racing community and gaming proponents to bring slots back to racetracks as quickly possible.
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Short-term prophylaxis (STP) with plasma derived human C1 inhibitor concentrate (pdhC1-INH) in two pregnant women with hereditary angioedema (HAE): an experience in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
World Allergy Organization Journal volume 8, pagesA127–A128(2015)
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HAE is an inherited disease characterized by sudden, recurrent episodes of edema involving the skin, gastrointestinal, respiratory tract and other organs. Pregnancy can mitigate, aggravate or have no effect on HAE C1-INH edematous attacks. Short term prophylaxis is recommended before labor and delivery when HAE C1-INH symptoms have recurred frequently during the third trimester of pregnancy. The administration of pdhC1-INH in HAE is recommended as the first line therapy in pregnancy. It is effective and safe. However, pdhC1-INH is not available in many countries, such as in Brazil. In these cases fresh frozen plasma might serve as an alternative for STP (evidence level III). We describe our experience with pdh C1-INH in two pregnant patients with HAE followed up in a Reference Center in Rio de Janeiro, who received the medicine by means of Justice.
CASE 1- DFT, a 29-year-old pregnant woman, with HAE Type I (C4 = 5,0 mg/dL e C1-INH = 9,0 mg/dL) and recurrent edema of hands, feets, lips, larynge and abdominal pain. She received 1000 units of pdh C1-INH, intravenously (IV), on the day of delivery. CASE 2 - RSS, a 30 year-old pregnant woman, with HAE Type I (C4 = 5,0 mg/dL e C1-INH = 5,0 mg/dL) and episodes of swelling in the hands, feet and abdominal pain. She also received 1000 units of pdh C1-INH, IV, on the day of delivery.
Both of them had uncomplicated labor under pdh C1-INH prophylaxis. Healthy infants were born.
Our patients could experience uncomplicated labors while being administered prophylactic pdhC1-INH, despite having some attacks of HAE during pregnancy. Short-term prophylaxis is important in individuals with known HAE who are undergoing procedures which can potentially precipitate an attack, as labor. pdhC1-INH concentrate should be always available to be used, if necessary.
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