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may not have been so speedy after all. Turns out the surprising result might be attributed to a loose wire. So Einstein was apparently right after all. Nothing travels faster than light.
Big surprise (he said facetiously). I don't know of anyone who took the original experiment at face value. Such a revolutionary result requires a high standard of independent confirmation.
But it made good press. Take that, Mr. Einstein!
Which is not to say that I wasn't thrilled with the original reports. Not because the neutrinos made the journey from CERN on the French-Swiss border to the underground lab at Gran Sasso in Italy slightly quicker than expected, but rather that they made the journey at all.
Think about it. The accelerator at CERN shoots a beam of neutrinos under the Alps and the spine of the Apennines, through 700 kilometers of solid rock. The vast majority are unimpeded in their flight. Of those that reach Gran Sasso, only the rare particle is caught and recorded. The rest continue on their way, eventually exiting the Earth somewhere to the south, and on across the universe.
That's the real story. That scientists have discovered the existence of such elusive particles, can shoot beams of them through the Earth, and snag a few in a deep underground chamber.
And while I'm thinking about it, 100 trillion neutrinos from the center of the Sun are passing through my body every second as I write.
Neutrinos, they are very small.Cosmic Gall, by John Updike.
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.
The earth is just a silly ball
To them, through which they simply pass,
Like dustmaids through a drafty hall
Or photons through a sheet of glass.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Ignore the most substantial wall,
Cold-shoulder steel and sounding brass,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
And scorning barriers of class,
Infiltrate you and me! Like tall
And painless guillotines, they fall
Down through our heads into the grass.
At night, they enter at Nepal
And pierce the lover and his lass
From underneath the bed-you call
It wonderful; I call it crass.


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Coral Frames
These Coral Frames are instrumental in enhancing the biodiversity of existing reef habitats as well as generating new ones. They provide a suitable substrate for coral fragments to grow on and help to avoid sedimentation as well as reducing coral predation.
The frames are produced on a local island in Baa atoll and provide an alternative livelihood to the 250 inhabitants whose only previous source of employment was fishing.


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"It is normal for a man, whilst sailing and observing the shore, to think that the shore is moving instead of the boat but, should he look carefully, he will find that it is the boat that is doing the actual moving: in the same way as this, it is because man observes everything from a mistaken viewpoint of his body and mind that he comes to the conclusion that they are eternal however, should he learn to observe them correctly, as a result of penetrating truth, he will discover that no form whatsoever attaches itself substantially to anything."
-Dogen, Genjo-Koan
"Yeah, It was but a moment
Yeah, Wonder where it all went"
-Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Just Like In The Movies
I sometimes wonder what Dogen, the thirteenth century Japanese monk credited as the person behind our specific Zen sect would think about the movies. Having read a lot of his work lately, I imagine it might go something like this:
"A person might say, "that movie was so realistic," while another says "it's only a movie" and that movies have nothing to do with real life. Such people are chumps. Ha! I pity the fools. Movies are not like reality, and movies are not like not-reality. A person in real life watches a movie, and a person also watches a movie in real life. People are real; movies are real; real life is real. Thus, while watching a movie is real life, real life is also watching the movie. It is also true that people are not real, movies are not real, and real life is not real."
Imaginary-Dogen raises a good point, but I'm not going there for now. I'm also not going to talk about the differences between life and movies, such as life's tendency to leave in the boring, difficult parts instead of condensing them into an inspiring montage set to an ass-kicking rock song. Instead, I'm going to talk about a couple things a think movies can teach us.
1. Nothing in a movie is real. At the same time, everything we see and experience is due to countless people, many of whom we don't actually see.
The characters are actors pretending to be someone they aren't, delivering lines that another person wrote, wearing costumes someone else designed, sometimes enhanced with computer technology that means they are often performing with things that are not actually in front of the camera with them.
But is that so different from real life? We wear clothes other people made. We travel in vehicles that were invented, designed, and built by multitudes of others. The people we see are products of their parents genetics, mixed with their social upbringing. Even some of our most cherished ideas and favorite spoken lines and catchphrases...so many of those things we learned with others.
We think we're the stars of our own story, but there is much more than what we see in front of us.
2. Commitment
Even though movies are not real, the people making them treat them as if they are. Even if movies are simple entertainment, movie workers devote themselves to as though it were the most serious thing on Earth. Good actors, good writers, good directors, good make-up or special effects artists...all of them devote 100% to their work even if the thing they are working on is--in their opinion--stupid, pointless, boring, or unbelievable. Robert Downey Jr. doesn't look at the camera and go: "Look at me! I'm a-pretendin' to be a Super Hero!" Whether they are saving the world from aliens, involving themselves in the world's most improbable love story, growing space-potatoes on Mars, none of them are winking at the audience going, "Can you believe this here bullshit?"
But maybe my five year old self had the best lesson of all: Look at the projector, not the projection.
When things happen to us in our lives, our brains interpret those things, come up with a story about them, and very often we act on the story instead of the thing that actually happened. We forget about our brain's involvement.
Sometimes it's valuable to look at that brain and notice those stories.
When I find myself getting frustrated doing my taxes, instead of thinking the problem is the tax forms or the computer or the son-of-a-bitch government, I can take a look at that frustration. Maybe I'll notice that frustration is hiding something else--the fear of not having enough, the fear of doing things wrong, the fear of being asked for more than I believe I can afford to give.
When I find myself frustrated with the demands of monastery life, instead of thinking the problem is the schedule or the monks or my own inability to find out what people want and to deliver it to them perfectly, I can take a look at that. Maybe I'll notice that frustration is hiding something else--the fear of not having enough, the fear of doing things wrong, the fear of being asked for more than I believe I can afford to give.
Maybe I'll notice that whether I'm dealing with taxes, other people, or situations I feel beyond my control--even if they seem vastly different for one another--there are some common themes in my brain.
This doesn't need to just apply to external things like people and situations. Sometimes even my own internal reactions and behavior are based on a story that I am too distracted to notice.
For example, during an awkward moment at breakfast, instead of wondering whether the self-deprecating joke that springs to my lips is funny enough, maybe I could notice instead what combination of feeling and circumstance leads me to feeling the need to make a joke in the first place.
I can only write for myself, but what I notice when I look, is that often behind my actions, there is an impulse or plan.
When I look behind that plan or impulse, I find a thought or a belief about myself or about the way the world is or should be.
If I look behind that, then I frequently notice a feeling, often one that is barely perceptible.
And behind that?
Well. That's the question, isn't it? I don't know if I can give an answer--after all, I promised earlier to only write about my self.
Our lives are not about our stories. The beginning, middle, and end is not nearly as important as the thing that is happening right now, right in front of us. Right here, in our personal theatre of the mind.


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Clotted cream
Clotted cream (sometimes called scalded, clouted, Devonshire or Cornish cream) is a thick cream made by indirectly heating full-cream cow's milk using steam or a water bath and then leaving it in shallow pans to cool slowly. During this time, the cream content rises to the surface and forms "clots" or "clouts".[1] It forms an essential part of a cream tea.
A tub of clotted cream, showing top crust.
|Alternative names
|Clouted cream, Cornish cream, Devonshire cream
|Place of origin
|United Kingdom
|Region or state
|Cornwall, Devon
Although its origin is uncertain, the cream's production is commonly associated with dairy farms in southwest England and in particular the counties of Cornwall and Devon. The current largest commercial producer in the United Kingdom is Rodda's at Scorrier, Redruth, Cornwall, which can produce up to 25 tonnes (25,000 kg; 55,000 lbs.) of clotted cream a day.[2] In 1998 the term Cornish clotted cream became a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) by European Union directive, as long as the milk is produced in Cornwall and the minimum fat content is 55%.
"Its orient tinge, like spring-time morn,
Or baby-buttercups newly-born;
Its balmy perfume, delicate pulp,
One longs to swallow it all at a gulp,
Sure man had ne'er such gifts or theme
As your melt-in-mouthy Devonshire cream."
"An eulogy on a can of cream sent from a lady in Exeter". (extract)
—William Barry Peacock, Manchester, 1853[3]
Clotted cream has been described as having a "nutty, cooked milk" flavour,[4] and a "rich sweet flavour" with a texture that is grainy, sometimes with oily globules on the crusted surface.[5][6] It is a thick cream, with a very high fat content (a minimum of 55 percent, but an average of 64 percent). Though often compared to butter, in the United States it would not be classified as butter, as butter is required to have at least 80% butterfat.[7] For comparison, the fat content of single cream is only 18 percent.[8]
Due to its high saturated fat content, the regular consumption of clotted cream was, until recently, thought to be bad for health,[9] though now dairy fat in the diet, in moderation, is considered beneficial by some researchers.[10] A 2006 survey of nutrition professionals ranked clotted cream as the least healthy of 120 foods selected to be representative of the British diet.[11] According to the United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency, a 100-gram (3.5 oz) tub of clotted cream provides 586 kilocalories (2,450 kJ), roughly equivalent to a 200-gram (7.1 oz) cheeseburger.[12]
Originally made by farmers to reduce the amount of waste from their milk, clotted cream has become so deep-rooted in the culture of southwest Britain that it is embedded as part of the region's tourist attraction.[13] While there is no doubt of its strong and long association with Cornwall and Devon, it is not clear of its actual antiquity, or more recent development.
The Oxford Companion to Food follows traditional folklore by suggesting it may have been introduced to Cornwall by Phoenician traders in search of tin.[14] It is similar to kaymak (or kajmak), a Near Eastern delicacy that is made throughout the Middle East, southeast Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Turkey. A similar clotted cream known as 'urum'(өрөм) is also made in Mongolia.
Contemporary ancient food experts,[15] noting Strabo's commentaries on Britain[Note 1] have proposed that the early Britons would probably have clotted cream to preserve its freshness.
More recently, regional archaeologists [15][16] have associated the stone fogou (dial. 'fuggy-hole'), or souterrains, found across Atlantic Britain, France, and Ireland as a possible form of "cold store" for dairy production of milk, cream, and cheese in particular. Similar functions are ascribed to the linhay (or 'linney') stone-built form, often used as a dairy in later medieval longhouses in the same regions.[17]
It has long been disputed whether clotted cream originated in Devon or Cornwall,[3] and which county makes it the best.[18] There is evidence that the monks of Tavistock Abbey were making clotted cream in the early 14th century.[19] After their abbey had been ransacked by Vikings in 997 AD, the monks rebuilt it with the help of Ordulf, Earl of Devon. Local workers were drafted in to help with the repairs, and the monks rewarded them with bread, clotted cream, and strawberry preserves.[20] The 1658 cookery book The Compleat Cook had a recipe for "clouted cream".[21]
In the 19th century it was regarded as better nourishment than "raw" cream because that cream was liable to go sour and be difficult to digest, causing illness.[22] An article from 1853 calculates that creating clotted cream will produce 25 percent more cream than regular methods.[23] In Devon, it was so common that in the mid-19th century it was used in the formative processes of butter, instead of churning cream or milk. The butter made in this way had a longer lifespan and was free from any negative flavours added by the churning.[24]
It has long been the practice for local residents in southwest England, or those on holiday, to send small tins or tubs of clotted cream by post to friends and relations in other parts of the British Isles.[6]
EU directivesEdit
In 1993, an application was made for the name Cornish clotted cream to have a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) in the European Union for cream produced by the traditional recipe in Cornwall. This was accepted in 1998.[25] Cornish clotted cream must be made from milk produced in Cornwall and have a minimum butterfat content of 55 percent.[26] The unique, slightly yellow, Cornish clotted cream colour is due to the high carotene levels in the grass.[26]
Traditionally, clotted cream was created by straining fresh cow's milk, letting it stand in a shallow pan in a cool place for several hours to allow the cream to rise to the surface, then heating it either over hot cinders or in a water bath, before a slow cooling.[5][27] The clots that formed on the top were then skimmed off with a long-handled cream-skimmer, known in Devon as a reamer or raimer.[27] By the mid-1930s, the traditional way of using milk brought straight from the dairy was becoming a rarity in Devon because using a cream separator actively separated the cream from the milk using centrifugal force, which produced far more clotted cream than the traditional method from the same amount of milk. As a farmer's wife in Poundsgate said, "the separator saves a whole cow!"[27]
Today, there are two distinct modern methods for making clotted cream. The "float cream method" includes scalding a floating layer of double cream in milk (skimmed or whole) in shallow trays. To scald, the trays are heated using steam or very hot water. After the mixture has been heated for up to an hour it is slowly cooled for 12 hours or more, before the cream is separated and packaged.[5] The "scald cream method" is similar, but the milk layer is removed and a layer of cream which has been mechanically separated to a minimum fat level is used. This cream is then heated in a similar manner, but at a lower temperature and after a set amount of time it is then chilled and packaged.[5] In the United Kingdom the resultant cream is deemed to be equivalent to pasteurised for legal purposes. Unlike pasteurisation, however, there is no requirement for the temperatures to be recorded on thermograph charts.[28] As the temperatures are lower than used in standard pasteurisation, much care is needed in ensuring high standards of hygiene.
The largest manufacturer in the United Kingdom is Rodda's, a family-owned business based in Scorrier, Cornwall.[29] Founded in 1890,[2] the company was producing over 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) per year in 1985,[30] and in 2010 the managing director said that they might produce as little as 5 or 6 tons (5,000 or 6,000 kg) a day in January, but up to 25 tons (25,000 kg) a day as Christmas approached.[2] In the early 1980s, Rodda's signed deals with international airlines to serve small tubs of clotted cream with the in-flight desserts.[30] The company considers the annual Wimbledon tennis championships one of their peak selling periods. As a by-product, for every 100 imperial gallons (450 l; 120 US gal) of milk used, 94 imperial gallons (430 l; 113 US gal) of skimmed milk is produced, which is then used in food manufacture.[2]
One Devon manufacturer, Definitely Devon was purchased by Robert Wiseman Dairies in March 2006, closing one of the two Devon dairies and moving all production to Okehampton.[31] However, in 2011 Robert Wiseman sold the Definitely Devon Brand to Rodda's, who moved the production of Definitely Devon to Cornwall, which caused some controversy as the name was not changed,[32] prompting an investigation by Trading Standards.[33]
Throughout Cornwall and southwest England, clotted cream manufacture is a cottage industry, with many farms and dairies producing cream for sale in local outlets. Clotted cream is also produced in Somerset,[34] Dorset,[35] Herefordshire,[36] Pembrokeshire,[37] and the Isle of Wight.[38]
When authentic clotted cream is not available, there are ways to create a substitute product, such as by mixing mascarpone with whipped cream, a little sugar, and vanilla extract.[39]
Cream teaEdit
Clotted cream is an essential part of a cream tea, a favourite with tourists particularly in Cornwall and Devon. It is served on scones—or the more traditional "splits" in Cornwall[40]—with strawberry jam (other flavours are generally less acceptable),[41] along with a pot of tea. Traditionally, there are differences in the way it is eaten in each county: in Devon, the cream is traditionally spread first on the scone, with the jam dolloped on top. In Cornwall the jam is spread first with a dollop of cream.[42] Cream teas, known as Devonshire teas, spread to southern Australia as early immigrants from Cornwall and Devon took their traditional recipes with them.[43] In 2010, Langage Farm in Devon started a campaign for "Devon cream tea" to have protected designation of origin similar to "Cornish clotted cream".[44][45] One variation on a cream tea is called "Thunder and Lightning" which consists of a round of bread topped with clotted cream and golden syrup, honey, or treacle.[46]
Clotted cream can be used as an accompaniment to hot or cold desserts. Clotted cream, especially clotted cream from Devon, where it is less yellow due to lower carotene levels in the grass, is regularly used in baking. It is used throughout southwest England in the production of ice cream and fudge.
Savoury dishesEdit
Clotted cream is used in some savoury dishes,[47] and can be incorporated into mashed potato, risotto or scrambled eggs.[48]
Cabbage cream (which does not contain cabbage) was a delicacy in the mid-17th century: layers of clotted cream were interspersed with sugar and rosewater, creating a cabbage effect when served.[49] It was a common accompaniment to junket, a milk-based dessert which went out of fashion in the mid-20th century.
Literature and folkloreEdit
Clotted cream was mentioned in The Shepheardes Calendar, a poem by Edmund Spenser in 1579:
Ne would she scorn the simple shepherd swain,
For she would call him often heam,
And give him curds and clouted cream.[3]
As with many Cornish and Devonian icons, clotted cream has become entrenched in local folklore. For example, one myth tells of Jenny who enticed the giant Blunderbore (sometimes called Moran) by feeding him clotted cream. He eventually fell in love with her and made her his fourth wife.[50] Another myth, from Dartmoor, tells of a princess who wanted to marry an elven prince, but according to tradition had to bathe in pure cream first. Unfortunately, a witch who wanted the prince for her daughter kept souring the cream. Eventually, the prince offered the princess clotted cream, which the witch was unable to sour.[51]
Clotted cream is also mentioned as one of the staple foods of the hobbits in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books.[52]
See alsoEdit
- ^ "They live off their herds ... As they have mines of tin and lead, they give these metals and hides from their cattle to the sea traders ... instead of olive oil they use butter."
- ^ "BBC - Devon Great Outdoors - Tony Beard's Dartmoor Diary".
- ^ a b c d "Interview with Nicholas Rodda". Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
- ^ a b c Hawker, Rev. J. M. (1881), "Clouted Cream", Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 13: 317–323
- ^ Figioni, Paula (2010). How Baking Works: Exploring the Fundamentals of Baking Science. John Wiley and Sons. p. 363. ISBN 0-470-39267-3.
- ^ a b c d Early, Ralph (1998). The technology of dairy products. Springer. pp. 45–49. ISBN 0-7514-0344-X.
- ^ a b Spencer, Nikki (30 May 1998). "The tartars of cream". The Independent. London. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
- ^ "Butter Grades and Standards | Agricultural Marketing Service". www.ams.usda.gov. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
- ^ Barnett, Anne (1998). Understanding Ingredients. Heinemann. p. 26. ISBN 0-435-42827-6.
- ^ Clay, Xanthe (13 July 2007). "Full fat takes the cream". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
No one is suggesting that eating clotted cream for breakfast every day is life-prolonging, but a moderate amount of dairy fat in your diet is not only not going to do you harm, it's actually healthy, as well as life-enhancing.
- ^ "The science of saturated fat: A big fat surprise about nutrition?". The Independent. 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
- ^ Scarborough, P.; Rayner, M.; Stockley, L.; Black, A. (2007). "Nutrition professionals' perception of the 'healthiness' of individual foods" (PDF). Public Health Nutrition. 10 (4): 346–353. doi:10.1017/S1368980007666683. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
- ^ Food Standards Agency: Manual of Nutrition. HMSO London. 2008.
- ^ Terry Marsden; Jonathan Murdoch (2006). Between the local and the global: confronting complexity in the contemporary agri-food sector. Emerald Group Publishing. pp. 306–309. ISBN 0-7623-1317-X. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
- ^ Alan Davidson; Tom Jaine (2006). The Oxford companion to food. Oxford University Press. p. 225. ISBN 0-19-280681-5.
- ^ a b Wood, Jacqui. Prehistoric Cooking. Stroud: Tempus, 2001. ISBN 0-752-41943-9
- ^ Medieval Decon & Cornwall: Shaping an Ancient Countryside, Ed. Sam Turner, 2006
- ^ "The Pre-Norman Landscape". Flyingpast.org.
- ^ See for instance: A tour through Cornwall, in the autumn of 1808. Wilkie and Robinson. 1809. pp. 360–361. and Spencer, Nikki (30 May 1998). "The tartars of cream". The Independent. London. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
- ^ Lane, John (1998). In Praise of Devon: A Guide to Its People, Places and Character. Dundurn Press Ltd. ISBN 1-870098-75-7.
- ^ "Did cream teas originate in Tavistock in 997AD". BBC News. 17 January 2004. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
- ^ "To make Clouted Cream - Vintage Recipes".
- ^ Sinclair, Sir John (1807). The code of health and longevity: or, A concise view, of the principles calculated for the preservation of health, and the attainment of long life. Printed for A. Constable & co. pp. 272–273.
- ^ "Rural economy: The dairy" (PDF). New York Times. 21 January 1853. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
- ^ The transactions of the Provincial medical and surgical association. Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, Worcester,. 1839. pp. 203–204.
- ^ "Directive 98". 30 September 1998.
supplementing the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2400/96 on the entry of certain names in the Register of protected designation of origin and protected geographical indications
- ^ a b "EU Protected Food Names Scheme — UK registered names — National application No: 03514: Cornish clotted cream". Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ a b c Fielden, Marjory Eckett (1934). "Old-time survivals in Devon". Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association. Torquay: The Devonshire Press. LXVI: 367.
- ^ A. H. Varnam; Jane P. Sutherland (2001). Milk and milk products: technology, chemistry and microbiology. Springer. pp. 204–205. ISBN 0-8342-1955-7.
- ^ "Rodda's clotted cream boss whips up a media frenzy". The Observer. London. 22 May 2011. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- ^ a b Anderson, Lisa (23 January 1985). "'Clotted cream' caviar of dairy". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
- ^ "Forty-five jobs go in dairy close". BBC News. 23 October 2006. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
- ^ "Fury as 'Definitely Devon' clotted cream is made in Cornwall and label says add jam first". This Is Devon. 21 April 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
- ^ "Trading probe into 'Definitely Devon' claims". This Is Cornwall. 26 May 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
- ^ "Restaurants in UK - Book UK Restaurants - Bookatable". Archived from the original on 2012-03-26.
- ^ "Dorset Afternoon Teas at Heights Hotel on Portland". Heights Hotel.
- ^ The Teashop, Ross-on-Wye Archived June 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Welsh Icons: Welsh Dairy Products Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Calbourne Classics Isle of Wight clotted cream
- ^ "Devonshire (Clotted) or Devon Cream Recipe". Joy of Baking. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
- ^ "Nigel Slater's Devonshire cream tea recipes". The Guardian. London. 22 August 2010.
- ^ "The History of Devonshire Tea".
- ^ "How do you do take your cream tea?". BBC News Online. 9 June 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
- ^ Wilfrid Prest; Kerrie Round; Carol S. Fort (2001). Wakefield Companion to South Australian History. Wakefield Press. p. 210. ISBN 1-86254-558-8.
- ^ Savill, Richard (20 May 2010). "Cream teas battle rages between Devon and Cornwall". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
- ^ "Devon cream tea campaign put to government". BBC News. 8 June 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
- ^ "Britain's Best at Teatime". The New York Times. 5 September 1982. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
- ^ "BBC - Food - Clotted cream recipes".
- ^ "Clotted cream: the perfect summer treat". The Guardian. London. 22 June 2011.
- ^ A gift to young housewives. Indiana University Press. 1998. pp. 368–369. ISBN 0-253-21210-3.
- ^ Viccars, Sue (2011). Frommer's Devon and Cornwall With Your Family. Frommer. p. 238. ISBN 0-470-74947-4.
- ^ Sandles, Tim. "Dartmoor Clotted Cream". Legendary Dartmoor. Retrieved 2010-12-03.
- ^ Smith, Noble (2012-10-30). "The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life". books.google.com. p. 13. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
Further readingEdit
- Jolley, S. (2003). "Clotted Cream". Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition. pp. 1692–1697. doi:10.1016/B0-12-227055-X/00309-6. ISBN 978-0-12-227055-0.
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"Women can achieve a full reproductive life as long as the injury occurs when the woman is still in her early twenties," said Ghasak Mahmood, M.D., an endocrinology fellow at the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey, Calif.
Moreover, reproductive ability is not related to the type of injury, she said. "Even women with complete injury-women who are quadriplegic-can conceive and carry to term."
She presented the results of a 50-patient study of women with transient amenorrhea following injury as a poster at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists meeting. She will discuss the results Saturday at an oral abstract session.
"In our study 10 of 50 women who reported transient amenorrhea following injury did achieve pregnancy," she said. Six of the pregnancies were full term and four were terminated at the woman's request, she said. Two of the six women who carried to term delivered vaginally.
Spinal cord injury often results in transient hypothalamic pituitary hypogonadism, which is associated with amenorrhea, she said. In a retrospective analysis of 128 women who had spinal cord injury, 53 women had amenorrhea following injury. The amenorrhea lasted an average of 7.96 months, but ranged from two months to 18 months.
Three women were injured after age 40 and had no return of menses following the spinal cord injury. "These women were considered perimenopausal and are not included in our analysis of women with transient amenorrhea," she said.
The mean age of the 128 women was 42 and the mean age at time of injury was 27. "Age at time of injury did not influence duration of injury nor did extent of injury," she said.
However there was trend toward an association between duration of amenorrhea and fertility. "Women who had successful pregnancies, on average, had had amenorrhea for about six months," Dr. Mahmood said. "Women who were unable to conceive reported amenorrhea averaging 15 months but this was not significant (P=0.33)."
The take home message, she said, "is that physicians who are treating women who have survived spinal cord injury should offer them appropriate counseling about reproductive options, rather than assuming that the women are unable to conceive."
In this study, almost half of the women (47%) were injured in car accidents and 38% had damage from gunshot wounds. The rest were injured by falls or had injuries related to spinal surgery. Two-thirds of the women had injuries to the thoracic spine, 30% to the cervical spine, and 3% to lumbar spine.
Fifty-eight percent of the women had complete neurological deficit as a result of the injury.
- Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Endocrine PracticeSource Reference: Mahmood G et al Abstract #316
"Reproductive Life Following Spinal Cord Injury: A Retrospective Study" Abstract #316 Endocr Practice 2006; 12 (No2):65


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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Assistant Professor & Charles H. McIlwain University Preceptor
- Department of African American Studies
- Ph.D, African American Studies
- Northwestern University
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2016), an examination of the history and politics of Black America and the development of the social movement Black Lives Matter in response to police violence in the United States. Taylor has received the Lannan Foundation's Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book.
Taylor's most recent book, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, also with Haymarket Books (2017) won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction.
Taylor's research examines race and public policy including American housing policies. Dr. Taylor is currently completing a manuscript titled Race for Profit: Black Homeownership and the End of the Urban Crisis, which looks at the federal government's promotion of single-family homeownership in Black communities after the urban rebellions of the 1960s. Taylor looks at how the federal government's turn to market-based solutions in its low-income housing programs in the 1970s impacted Black neighborhoods, Black women on welfare, and emergent discourses on the urban "underclass". Taylor is interested in the role of private sector forces, typically hidden in public policy making and execution, in the "urban crisis" of the 1970s.
Taylor's research has been supported, in part, by a multiyear Northwestern University Presidential Fellowship, the Ford Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. Taylor was the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013-2014. Taylor received her Ph.D from the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University in 2013.
AAS 350/SOC 362 Rats, Riots, and Revolution: Housing in the Metropolitan United States
This course examines the history of urban and suburban housing in the twentieth century U. S. We will examine the relationship between postwar suburban development as a corollary to the "underdevelopment" of American cities contributing to what scholars have described as the "urban crisis" of the 1960s. Housing choice and location were largely shaped by discriminatory practices in the real estate market, thus, the course explores the consequences of the relationship between public policy and private institutions in shaping the metropolitan area including after the passage of federal anti-housing discrimination legislation in the late 1960s.
AAS 366 / HIS 386 African American History to 1863
This course explores African-American history from the Atlantic slave trade up to the Civil War. It is centrally concerned with the rise of and overthrow of human bondage and how they shaped the modern world. Africans were central to the largest and most profitable forced migration in world history. They shaped new identities and influenced the contours of American politics, law, economics, culture and society. The course considers the diversity of experiences in this formative period of nation-making. Race, class, gender, region, religion, labor, and resistance animate important themes in the course.
AAS 380/AMS 382 Public Policy in the U.S. Racial State
This course explores how ideas and discourses about race shape how public policy is debated, adopted, and implemented. Black social movements and geopolitical considerations prompted multiple public policy responses to racial discrimination throughout the twentieth century. Despite these policy responses, discrimination persists, raising theoretical concerns about the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, political representation, the role of the state (meaning government or law) in promoting social justice, and the role of social movements and civil society in democratizing policymaking and addressing group oppression.


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Most of us have someone in our past that we have lost contact with.
In the United States - a country with a high mobility factor - it's easy to fall out of touch, whether it's a high school heartthrob or a former neighbor. Fortunately, the Internet offers several resources to help you find missing acquaintances.
Good places to start are electronic equivalents of the good old phone book. Online directories such as www.superpages.com and www.switchboard.com conduct searches using pretty much the same databases, the only difference might be slight variations in the techniques used to search them.
Most online directories now allow nationwide searches, so if a person you want to find has an unusual name, you may be able to locate him or her quickly.
Of course, if your friend is named George Jones, this probably isn't going to be a practical way to go.
In such cases, think about any specific skills or interests that the person has, and head to a general Web search engine. I personally like using AltaVista because of its good Boolean search capacities. For example, if George Jones was a professional flute player, I'd click on advanced searches, and then enter "George near Jones near flute."
If that returned nothing, I might open it up a bit by saying "George near Jones and flute" ("near" means the words are found very close together, "and" means the words are on the same Web page).
A similar search of the discussion archives at Deja.com will locate anyone who has ever posted to, or been mentioned on, Internet bulletin boards. It's almost scary to see words you typed (perhaps in the heat of discussion) come back to bite you years later.
If these methods fail, a final option is a fee-based online search. With so many of these services available on the Internet, it's impossible to list them all.
Just go to Yahoo! and search for the term "background verification."
Most fee-based search sites charge between $25 and $100 to hunt someone down. They take basic information about the person (name, approximate age, prior addresses). In return, customers get a virtual cornucopia of information, including the history of every place that person has lived, phone numbers of neighbors, and (disturbingly) their Social Security number.
These searches are based on public records, so there is little chance the search will come up empty.
On the flip side of the coin, there's almost no way, short of becoming a total hermit, to keep yourself from being located by someone else. The same tools that are used to find high school sweethearts are also used to stalk people, or to engage in identity theft, where people can obtain your credit-card numbers and other personal information. Like everything on the Internet, there are good and bad points - it's all in how you choose to use it.
James Turner is a computer consultant and avid Web surfer.
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Monday, November 22, 2010
Quezon City: Pipino Vegetarian in Teachers Village
After discovering many vegetarian restaurants in Metro Manila, I can truly say that vegetarian food need not be bland. And the newly-opened Pipino Vegetarian pushes that statement forward. I was most definitely wowed by the vegetarian and vegan food they serve there.
They don't have a fixed menu so the dishes are different everyday. You'd see them listed on the blackboard in the counter area. The regular entrees are Php80 for single serving. But you'll get a really good deal with their Combo Meal at Php150 which includes two entrees and brown rice.
The day I was there, they had Gatang Sitaw and Kalabasa (string beans and squash with coconut milk), Tofu and Eggplant Miso, Lumpiang Shanghai (vegetarian spring rolls) and Taro Chips. I'm also giving a two thumbs up to their Vegan Lasagna which is really rich and flavorful. Who said pasta needs meat and eggs?
For dessert, they have a lot of vegan offerings too. It's definitely worth a visit!
Pipino Vegetarian by Pino
39 Malingap Street, Teachers Village
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Everyone is trying to cash in on the next Harry Potter. Everything from Spiderwick to Golden Compass to Berenstein Bears Wear Witch Hats is an attempt to capture the imaginations of millions of impressionable children. The Spiderwick Chronicles is the latest cinematic attempt and while the movie itself at least tries, its mobile counterpart fails miserably.
Following the movie's story (I never read the books), you take turns playing as the three Grace children: Jared, Simon and Mallory. Your quest is to protect the Spiderwick Chronicles from being seized by trolls. Most of the game takes place inside the house where the book is kept. Controlling one of three characters at any time, you solve riddles in a very linear attempt at advancing the storyline. The game's tasks range from finding honey in the kitchen to picking up a baseball bat and hitting trolls with it.
Each character can hold up to four items. Anything extra will have to be stored in a chest. The inventory management system is extremely confusing and cumbersome for such a simple game. Only certain characters use certain items. Click the right soft key and then press left to bring up your backpack. It's here where you can choose your item by pressing 5 to equip it. Then press the left soft key to exit. You can only use one item at a time. For instance, you receive a fencing medal that adds life to people wearing it, but it doesn't do you much good if you can't arm yourself with a bat as well so there's really no reason to ever wear the medal.
Press the right soft key and up and you look around with the game giving you a clue or merely telling you what's happening on screen. Press Right for the talk icon, and you receive information as to what you're supposed to be doing next. I used this feature quite a bit because I always forgot what I was supposed to be doing when I had to come back to the game later.
Control the kids using the directional pad and pressing 5 or the center key lets you swing your bat or stick or whatever other weapon you pick up. You're only going to be using your weapon when trolls are around -- with the only exception being in the beginning of the game when you need to break down a wall. You probably have to use a weapon to beat the last guy, but since the game refuses to give me any sort of clue or hint as to how to beat him, I hit the end boss with a baseball bat about 50 times before giving up on the game.
And that's a big problem with Spiderwick. A lot of times you're not sure what it is you're really supposed to be doing. Sure, the game will tell you that you need to find honey or some other sort of mundane task, but if you're not paying attention, you'll run over the item you need to pick up without ever realizing it. Luckily, the game does say 'pick up item' or something along those lines when you do run over the thing you're looking for.
But Spiderwick's shortcoming cannot compare to its biggest fault and that's the loading screen. Every five seconds it seems a loading screen will pop up. Every single time you enter a new room, you get to look at a loading screen. EVERY SINGLE TIME. And since the rooms and environments are so small you're not standing in one for a very long time. Walking to the front yard if you're in a bedroom nets your around four loading screens before you get there. It's perhaps the most annoying thing I've ever seen in a mobile game. Even if Chronicles was a perfect game, I'd knock it down about a million points because my patience ran so thin having to look at loading screens more than I was looking at the actual game.
Storyline follows the movie closely, even hinting at the kids' displeasure at their father for leaving them, but it was unnecessary for the game. The graphics were done very well and the kids, trolls and environment were very colorful and nicely detailed. The music was whimsical but you'll turn it off in about five seconds once you realize whimsical music is for sissies.
The Verdict
I just can't recommend Spiderwick even for fans of the books and movie. The tedious nature of having to sit through loading screens will tax even the most patient gamer. Even though it looks nice, the adventure itself isn't exciting and the game play is very generic and boring. Skip this one and look for your mobile fantasy fix elsewhere.


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When I got married and finished my Ph.D. in psychology, I wanted to start a family. My plan was to work part-time. I really thought it was the perfect plan. At least until I had a baby.
I couldn't fathom turning my baby over to someone else. I cried when I was on maternity leave and told my husband, "He doesn't want me to go back to work." My husband was scared of me from the pregnancy/childbirth ordeal, so he just said, "OK." I felt sick when I left my 8-week-old baby with a woman I barely knew. Everyone told me I would get over it.
It was nice to get back to the job I enjoyed and to see my colleagues. But it wasn't long before my perfect plan didn't seem so perfect. On my work days, I had time to bathe and feed my baby after I picked him up, but then it was time for him to go to sleep. I felt like I didn't even get to see him. I loved my off-days with him, but as I saw him change in new and exciting ways on those days, I wondered what I was missing on the days I worked.
Things were okay until we were finally off the waiting list to get our son into a daycare within a nursing home. There were only three other babies and several toddlers in the daycare. I liked that it was small and that he would be around older people. I didn't have to wait long for him to get sick, however. The daycare called and said my baby had a fever and I would have to come get him. I had to cancel appointments, pick up my son, and take him to the doctor. My pediatrician examined him, said he had an ear infection, and pronounced, "It's because he's in daycare."
I don't remember what I thought when my pediatrician said that. I was a brand-new mom and a brand-new psychologist. I was making a lot of adjustments. I probably thought that this was just part of being a working mom that I would have to adjust to. My baby got better and I took him back to daycare. I got another phone call. He had a fever, so I cancelled my appointments and took him back to the doctor. The doctor diagnosed another ear infection and said, "It's because he's in daycare."
This became a script for my life and my poor baby's life that we replayed every week or two. During one doctor's visit, my pediatrician warned that if he got another ear infection, we would have to consider tubes. Once again, the doctor said, "It's because he's in daycare." I went home that day and sat at the kitchen table with my head in my hands and cried. I needed a new plan.
My husband and my boss agreed that I could cut back to working two evenings a week. When my husband was out of town those nights, his sister-in-law agreed to take care of the baby. From the day that I decided to stay home, my son never had another ear infection. I, however, continued to have some pain. I faced the disdain of people who thought I was wasting my education staying home and the pain of loneliness and a confused identity. I went through several months of depression. I eventually invited several mom acquaintances from church to join me for a Bible study. I made friends and peace with who I was. My baby and I were both feeling better.
Today I marvel that God used a pediatrician who wasn't politically correct to call me home. My first baby will be 15 on Monday.
4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God. (Titus 2:4-5)


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If you are looking for a great social event where you can have a good time and meet people then Wine Tasting and Live Music should be right up your alley. This Friday, February the 11th of 2011 the Wine Maestro Mooresville will be hosting a wine tasting event. There will be at least 6 wines available for you to taste. The tasting begins at 6:PM and the music will start around 7:PM. This will be a great opportunity to socialize with some of your other Mooresville neighbors and friends.
If you've been a wine lover for years or you have just began to drink ad enjoy the stories behind the wine it doesn't matter. You can also learn about some of the other social wine events that Wine Maestro has coming up this month.
Remember to have a designated driver tag along with you. Drinking and driving is not allowed no matter how responsible you think you might be.
For more information on this wine tasting event visit WineMaestro.com
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Dr. Mohamed Khodr
Tragically, in today?s world, humanity has surrendered its faculty of reason and independent thought to the monopolizers of images, sound bytes, and crass commercialism. Materialism for the "me" has supplanted the morality for the "us". As the philosopher Bertrand Russell eloquently stated: "Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do."
So many of us waste our lives on superficial pleasures, wilfully blind to the crimes we commit and the lies we use to sustain our indulgences.
Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, taught that "God hath not created anything better than Reason, or anything more perfect, or more beautiful than Reason. God?s wrath is caused by disregard of it." Yet, ignorance of one?s faith, as well as the faith of the "other", blankets the majority of the followers of the three Abrahamic faiths. Religious scholarship, like political policies, have been left in the hands of the "few".
God?s final revelation to humanity, the Qur?an, was revealed through the angel Gabriel to Islam?s Blessed Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, during the final twenty-three years of his life in seventh century Arabia. Unlike the Bible, which was written over a period of 1600 years, and usually centuries past the events it records, the Qur'an was written as it was revealed during the Prophet's lifetime.
Islam was the universal message to all of humanity, comprehensive in scope, merciful in its doctrines, peaceful in nature, and all inclusive of previous revelations that emanated from the same, single, unified source ? God. The Qur?an reaffirmed that the single message throughout all time and all previous revelations was the same: "Worship the One God, Creator and Master of the Universe". Yet in his arrogance, selfish desire, and lust for power and the world?s wealth, man continued to stray from this message with the audacity to even pervert and corrupt God?s revelations for self interest.
Throughout history, religions have been corrupted, and their teachings distorted, to serve racist aggression, exploitation, and colonisation.
Despite its inclusion and recognition of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, Islam was attacked, demonized, rejected, and blasphemed against with lies, myths, and accusations of falsehood and plagiarism by the very "People of the Book" ? Jews and Christians. The Qur'an came to return man to the "Straight Path" of "submission and surrender to the One God". That is the meaning of Islam, and thus all who submit themselves to the One God throughout all time are called "Muslims", including all Prophets from Adam, Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Jesus, and finally, the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon them all. One God is the only reasoned explanation acceptable to the human mind for the perfectly created ordered universe, singular in purpose and function.
The sum of mankind's scientific endeavours have failed to account for life and the universe, as convincingly as does a belief in one God.
Tragically, the animosity of the Jews and Christians to Islam, the Qur?an, and the Prophet, that began in seventh century Arabia during the Prophet?s lifetime continues to this day unabated. Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, became the "Devil Incarnate", the Son of the Devil, a false prophet, a fornicator, a "terrorist", a "demonic possessed pedophile". Islam became a "false religion", a sect of Christianity taught to Muhammad by Jews and Christians, an "evil religion". The God of Islam was a "false God", an invention of Muhammad?s, peace and blessings be upon him. To explain the lightning spread of Islam, out of a desert no less, Muslims were called "primitive, backward, tribal, nomadic, blood thirsty terrorists." Such prejudicial words, accompanied by the "smart swords" of old and the "smart bombs" of today, are not new to Islam.
Both Jews and Christians claimed that Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, plagiarized and modified the Qur?an from their own Scriptures. Here?s what the Jewish Babylonian Talmud says of Islam ? and Christianity:
Islam was not only perceived as a theological threat to both Judaism and Christianity, but as a political, economic, and military threat to Europe as well.
The white northern hemisphere?s creators and justifiers of western civilization?s afflictions upon the dark uncivilized inhabitants of the 'southern' hemisphere historically marketed their actions as a form of "humanitarian colonialism". However, in reality what permeates the words and actions of the civilized west ? crowned with political correctness since WWII as the "Judeo-Christian" tradition ? upon the indigenous inhabitants of far away lands, are the uncivilized traits of Ignorance, Arrogance, Racism, and Denial.
Instead of glorifying our supposed 'superiority', a humble recognition is in order, of the barbarity upon which our present dominance is built.
The "white man's burden" was blessed with a divine "Manifest Destiny" to civilize the dark ignorant heathen by greedy expansionism, with force, if necessary. Such "manifest destiny" saw light in European colonialism, in America's expansionism westward, and finally in the biblical epitome/political ideology of such a doctrine ? Zionism. Such a humanitarian and civilizing destiny was "altruistically" implemented for the basic human lust for land and wealth. The western Judeo-Christian conscience was eased by claiming that "God" demanded such imperialism, along with the hollow motto: "It's a land without People, for People without a Land."
Throughout their history, indeed, the "benign Judeo-Christian" world found in their biblical scriptures and beliefs a "manifest destiny", whereby the Bible itself was the instrument of justification for a "God-mandated" colonialism of the dark world, beginning with the "ethnic cleansing" demanded by Yahweh (God) of His own personal "Chosen People", the Hebrews, upon the inhabitants of Canaan.
If the Scriptural truths didn?t suit this "manifest destiny?, then the religious elite simply "perverted", "corrupted", "lied", and "re-wrote" the suitable justifications for unending western crusades upon the hapless dark natives. Truth was simply an obstacle in the path of genocides, war crimes, plundering and raping the lands and treasures of the dehumanized dark heathen, infidel, and barbaric "other." Today?s truth emanates from the real so-called "Judeo-Christian" religion, i.e. the media and money that finances political campaigns to ensure genocidal policies upon the new "enemy du jour" - Islam.
The universal God became the "exclusive" property of the "Chosen Peoples", both Jews and Christians, each claiming their "chosenness" to the exclusion of the other and all humanity. Jesus, the Semitic "God" from Palestine, was re-painted in the west as a white man, blonde and blue eyed - after all, God forbid, he should look like "them." Image, not substance, is everything in the western mind.
Why Do "They" hate "Us"?
Although the west discovered this question post-9/11, millions of victims across time and the geography of the 'southern' hemisphere, from Mexico, to Indonesia, and to Australia, have been asking this question with their last dying breath at the hands of their western "civilized" victimizers. Today the question still resounds in the hearts and minds of the impoverished, the weak, the sick, and occupied masses, whose lives are shot by the missiles and bullets, the cigarettes, the alcohol, the defective drugs, the polluted air and water, the slave wages, the trafficking of women and children, and the child labor ? all enriching the pockets of the "Judeo-Christian" masters of today's world.
'Manifest Destiny' sustains itself on the creation and exploitation of a class called 'them', which must of necessity grow ever larger and poorer.
The world has ceased to see, hear, or feel for the down-trodden victims of their own corrupt governments, the liberating observers of human rights in western capitals, the rapers of land, wealth, resources, and lastly of cultures and faiths. Only in such a "civilized" world do the possessors of guns and bombs, of words and vetoes, of money and votes, indoctrinate their masses to believe they are the hapless victims of "Muslim rage." It all boils down to historical prejudice.
In today?s world, ?he who controls the news, controls the views." Given the overwhelming dominance of the western media, the uninformed western mind is more concerned with pets and the latest "sale", with a demoralized empty soul indoctrinated with worldly pleasures and an inherent prejudice of the "other". It?s easy to comprehend why Muslim lands from Palestine, Iraq, to Afghanistan, are occupied by the "Judeo-Christian" world; despite Bush?s denial that Iraq was involved in 9/11, 69% of Americans still believe Iraq was behind 9/11.
That?s the power of the media. That?s total indoctrination of an otherwise na?ve, uninformed, generous population. The western media must be considered the "mirror of the mind? that reflects societal norms, priorities, and intellectual laziness. The western material and technological advancements at the expense of the moral soul prove that such progress is accompanied with moral degeneration. Henry Miller captured this sense of degeneracy into which civilization can fall when he wrote in 1939: "Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, and insanity".
The terrorism of 9-11 didn?t initiate Islamophobia, it merely legitimized it. Bush?s crusadic response to that repulsive un-Islamic attack was taken literally out of the Bible. His September 24th 2001 speech was replete with Biblical images and passages, from his characterization of history as a struggle between "good and evil", to America?s crusade against the "evildoers" who seek to destroy western civilization, to his famed quote of "You are either with us or against us" paraphrasing Jesus: "He who is not with me is against me" (Matthew: 12: 30). A Christian fundamentalist President launched his "Judeo-Christian" re-election crusade against Islamic fundamentalism. Iraq was the scapegoat, the victim for Bush and his mostly Jewish Neo-cons.
Since its founding in 1948, Israeli lies have meant Americans and Muslims die. Islam became America's enemy only after Israel's founding and it's ethnic cleansing and atrocities against Palestinian Muslims and Christians. The Holocaust victimized millions of Jews, and tens of thousands of Palestinians and Arabs, the truth, and ultimately America's foreign policy ? which has provided Israel with $3 Trillion (2) in aid since 1948, the latest weapons, and automatic vetoes at the United Nations that have made the "Chosen People" rise above international law and legitimacy.
Peace in the Middle East ? in fact with the entire Muslim world ? depends on America's courage and willingness to seek independence from Israel's hegemony upon Congress and its foreign policy. America?s arrogance and ignorance is the real threat to humanity?s future.
(1) "The History of the Talmud", Chapter 8, by Michael Rodkinson, 1903.
(2) "The Costs to American Taxpayers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: $3 Trillion" by Thomas R. Stauffer, June 2003; pg. 20-23, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
This article was kindly submitted to the World Crisis Web by the author.
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Discussion in 'Community Discussion' started by lu0s3r322, Jul 12, 2006.
sell people's crap on ebay with customized pages
sell drugs.
club promoter.
the eBay idea works.
you could help neighbors compile slideshows of their vacations and stuff like that.
join the circus.
sorry, that's all i got.
if you can play an instrument (preferably guitar unless you want to share the profits with someone else) you can sit at a busy area and play for $$.


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0 Tentacles Untapped. Castle Stahleck, Bacharach, Germany.
Friday 25th - Monday 28th May 2007.
I am running a game based on the series FireFly and the film Serenity by Buffy's Joss Whedon. The crew will be the crew of The Betty from Alien: Resurrection; Joss Whedon's first stab at a misfit crew of smugglers onboard an old, broken-down ship. The first game, 'Echoes in the Black', has been ran sixteen times now at various conventions and has always been over-subscribed. The sequel, 'The Quick and the Dead', has only been ran six times and has now been extended with extra dilemmas especially for tentacles Untapped. 'Dead Reckoning' is the third in the series of Serenity:HeroQuest games and is completely brand new [though certain parts of the plot my be similar to the other games!]. It still uses the crew of The Betty but puts them in more perilous and immoral situations. Included with more silly props! Due to the popular demand of these games a seventh player character has been added to all three games. The games can be played in order to experience the full epic narrative arc but each game is also complete in itself and can be played as a one-off.
'Echoes in the Black' by Darran Sims narrated by Darran Sims.
Serenity: HeroQuest adventure for 7 players.
Newcomers very welcome. Maturity preferred.
"Ta Ma Duh! Why can't we stick to the gorram plan!
I wanted simple, in and out and everything shiny. The job was good, the idents were perfect and the feds were away from the Skyplex. Then everything has gone south.
Something has been following The Betty. They are keeping their distance, so they aint purple bellies and everytime time we avert course they disappear like echoes in the black.
The question is who are they, what do they want and why are they messing up my gorram job?"
'The Quick and the Dead' by Darran Sims narrated by Darran Sims.
Serenity: HeroQuest adventure for 7 players.
Newcomers very welcome. Maturity preferred.
"Emergency! Emergency! This is the Passenger Liner 'BHS Orisis'. We have lost all power, our engineering team is incapacitated and we are adrift in space. Any available craft please respond. Emergency! Emergency! This is the Passenger Liner 'BHS Orisis' ... ... ..."
[Sometime later]
"Oh thank the gods! How shiny you look. Civilian vessel, ... err? ... 'The Betty' please dock in our main hanger deck, you may be able to assist us in restoring power to our engines. Do you have an engineer on board?
"It is fortunate that you are in this empty, quiet sector of the black, we thought we were lost for good. Hello? Hello? Are you there?"
'Dead Reckoning' by Darran Sims narrated by Darran Sims.
Serenity: HeroQuest adventure for 7 players.
Newcomers very welcome. Maturity preferred.
"Feh Feh Pi Goh! This job should have been shiny!
Here we are floating in the black about to make a move on the 'verse's easiest mark, a Research & Rescue vessel doing 'science' well away from civilisation. The Guay Tuh Guay Nown patron said it would be like taking candy from a baby.
"Just don't use sensors as you approach," he said, "use dead reckoning to get in close." Not only have we just seen what they are actually doing the 'science' on but we have just learnt who the Lao Buhn is who is bankrolling this caper.
A certain Crime Lord with his own Skyplex and a very nasty rep.
Dead Reckoning indeed!"
Gloranthan HeroQuest.
Here is another game I will be running at Tentacles Untapped. A HeroQuest game set in Glorantha, a first for me in two years at a convention.
'Winters Warriors' written & narrated by Darran Sims.
HeroQuest adventure for up to 6 players.
As initiates of Inora, Goddess of the Mountain Snow, normally you are on the fringes of society as solitary hunters or warriors of the mountains.
But now Orlanth is Dead! The land is locked in winter. Suddenly the Winter Warriors are require to save the clan and its tula in the mountains. The dangers of winter are magnified as ice demons roam the peaks, snowfall cuts off all the lodges and the food stocks are running low. On top of that vast columns of smoke rise from the flat lands and they are getting closer and closer. Villages are being burnt down and destroyed.
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Ceiling lamp
We were able to find the tools for these general-purpose lamp that was once used everywhere. It has always been commonly referred to as cellar lamp, and we have decided to stick with the name, even though it can be used for a much wider range of applications. Whether originally found in the cellar, the laundry room, in the attic, on the staircase or in the garage, this lamp has now worked their way up to the kitchen and into the living spaces.
The tools, which are more than 70 years old, have been slightly reworked so as to make it possible to continue producing these practical and beautiful lamps. Hands are more important than machines when it comes to producing these lamps, as the pressing (baking) of the housing alone involves time-consuming manual work.
Round Bakelite cellar lamp
Housing made of black Bakelite. With pressed-glass lampshade with wire guard. E27 porcelain socket, max. 60W / 100W, IP 54


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Formed in June of 2011, a wave of good omens and overwhelming responses continues to follow the band's steady and sincere work. Only four months after their formation they gathered in the studio to record their debut, self-titled album, with a live approach and minimal overdubs. The album proved a success with seven straight weeks in the Top 10 of KEXP's Americana and Pacific Northwest Charts following its release, and the record was selected as one of KEXP's Top Albums of 2012. Don Yates of KEXP says of St. Paul de Vence, "The band's dynamic, acoustic-oriented sound includes guitars, accordion, ukulele, autoharp, banjo, mandolin, assorted percussion and more, fleshing out well-crafted songs with warm, soulful harmonies and occasional anthemic choruses."
Farther Than Light, released in 2014, is St. Paul de Vence's second album. Driven by a love of strong harmonies, varied instrumentation, and a narrative at once adventurous and relatable, the band continues to explore sonic landscape possibilities, bringing a great dynamic with them from the record to the stage.
Having built their sound - and indeed their entire experience - organically, they continue to find themselves in inspiring performance opportunities ranging from festivals to living rooms. At the heart of the process is the never ending re-discovery of the human condition.
The creation of the band was originally inspired by the life story of lead-singer, Benjamin Doerr's grandfather – who grew up in the south of France, came of age under the Nazi Occupation, and went on to fight with the Free French, liberating France at the end of WWII.


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Where should I send my EP for review?
I'm an unsigned singer/songwriter type with a new 4 track EP, looking for places to send it for review and exposure. I realise this is a funny thing to post on DIS, but I expect they'll just be happy I'm not bothering them with it! So far have submitted to: Dots and Dashes, Live Music Scene, Fake DIY and Bearded Magazine. not expecting replies from many. Cheers in advance!
you could start
with posting a link here?ma0sm this'd this
Find reviewers who have positively reviewed stuff which is in some way similar to what you're doing
Many writers write for multiple zines / blogs or whatever you want to call them. If you contact the source itself, then there's an outside chance that someone who writes for them will browse a list of hundreds of unsolicited demos etc (if they're that organised that is) and pick one, but then again you may also win the lottery.
Give us an idea of style and I can make a few suggestions. Also, Google is your friend here. Do you know about the related: qualifier in Google? If not, take a look at these (based on your current suggestions):
Post the link here too.mr_alex_head this'd this
Thanks, I didn't know about
related searches. I'll have a nose about on those. Here's a link to the EP on Bandcamp http://alexparkersongs.bandcamp.com/ and my site http://www.alexparkersongs.com. I guess the style is acoustic British pop music, but I always struggle to pin it down. As you say, the odds of reputable sites giving me the time of day are fairly low, which is why I'd like to send it to as many places as possible.
Contact the journalists directly, get a dialogue going with them
Don't lie about what you're doing, but just being human about it all helps distinguish you. Everyone who's sent me a personal email who evidently is talking to me and not just part of some giant copy/paste chain I've ended up reviewing.


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I have a confession to make. I am not a hair person. Not that I don't appreciate good hair - I do - it's just that I have no skills. I go to a stylist (not a junior one, either) at a fairly pricey salon, and the day she cuts and styles my hair, it looks great. Then, every day after that until I visit her again, it's a hair disaster. That profile pic over there? Taken immediately after a salon visit.
It's not that I don't try. I do! Honest. (I mean, sometimes I do. Sometimes I just stick it in a pony tail and be done with it.) But no amount of blow-drying with a vented round brush will convince my hair to curl under on both sides instead of in on one and out on the other. No curlers will leave my locks in pretty ringlets - it reverts to a strange wave in the back and random flips at the front.
It's a problem. Okay, not a huge one (I do have a global frame of reference here), but really... there are times when I'd actually like to look put together. I'd love to look like I took control of this crazy hair and it submitted to my whims.
Now I have a new tool in my arsenal. Misikko has sent me a Corioliss Classic Pro Flat Iron (1") to review. Misikko, if you haven't heard of it already, is the site for professional hair straighteners. These are the brands that the salons use. I don't know if you've noticed, but when they straighten my hair at the salon, the iron gets hot faster, and works better, than the one I had at home. Ha! No more.
They also carry some of the best hair dryers out there. I personally love travel hair dryers for how little space they take up in my bathroom cabinet. I mean, who has room to store a giant hair dryer with all its accessories? This one's cute - the T3 Tourmaline Overnight Hair Dryer. And it has a pile of 5-star reviews from customers! Always a good sign.
And of course, they have curling irons too. Check out the HAI Digital Ceramic Styling Rod - it's pretty cool. I've seen stylists use these tools on tv. They don't have the spring arm like regular curling irons, they're just a heated rod (please don't let me end up in some weird google category because I just wrote "heated rod"...) that you wrap the hair around for more natural looking curls.
Okay, back to the Corioliss Classic Pro. I did before and after pics so you can imagine me on some awesome makeover show on tv. Of course, nobody fixed my makeup or wardrobe, or gave me a free shopping spree in New York City (sigh). So here is the before...As you can tell, I didn't have a professional photographer with flattering lighting, either. Anyway, you can see what I mean... Random waves. And I look kind of resigned and sad. That's how I usually feel about my hair. Like, "come ON! really? do you have to look like that, hair?" Now on to the after, once I'd spent some time with the Corioliss Classic Pro.Now I'm going to be honest - it took me a while. Like, maybe, 40 minutes. It heated up fast but I'm slow and despite having fine hair, I have a lot of it so it took a while to do all the sections of hair. That said, I only had to do each section ONCE, not twice like my old hair iron. And the result is nice straight hair with a slight curve under, just like my stylist does it. No, really! Compare this to my profile pic! YAY! See, I look happy! And I swear it made me look skinnier (and bustier!). Straight hair gives me cheekbones and boobs! (disclaimer: YMMV) Okay, it's not plastic surgery. But it was good times at our house when I saw the results.
And it will be good times at one of my lucky readers' houses when one of you wins the same awesome flat iron that I reviewed! Eeeeks! Let me just share a photo of the package I received - check the extra touches - packed with pretty lightly scented roses AND a pouch to store it in! And ps, it has a really long cord which I love!
The giveaway:
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King Munmu the Great of Silla (Hangul/Hanja: 문무대왕/文武大王; Born: 626 – Died: 681) (reigned: 661–681) whose born as Kim Beop-min (김법민/金法敏) was the thirtieth king of Silla and First King of Post-Sillan Unification. He is usually considered to have been the first ruler of the Unified Silla period. Munmu was the son of King Taejong-Muyeol the Great and Queen Munmyeong of Gimhae Kim Clan, who was the younger sister of Kim Yu-shin. Under his father's reign, he held the office of pajinchan, who apparently was responsible for maritime affairs, and played a key role in developing the country's diplomatic links with Tang China.
King Munmu took the throne in the midst of a long conflict against Baekje and Goguryeo, shortly after General Gyebaek and Baekje had been defeated at Sabi by General Kim Yu-shin in 660. In these struggles, Silla was heavily aided by the Tang. The first years of his reign were spent trying to defeat Goguryeo, following an abortive attempt in 661. Finally, in 667, he ordered another attack which led to the defeat of Goguryeo in 668. After the small isolated pockets of resistance were eliminated, Munmu was the first ruler ever to see the Korean peninsula completely unified.
King Munmu then faced the challenge of freeing his country from Tang domination. After the fall of Goguryeo, Tang created the Protectorate General to Pacify the East and attempted to place the entire Korean peninsula, including Silla, under its rule. To prevent this, Munmu forged alliances with Goguryeo resistance leaders such as Geom Mojam and Anseung, and launched a frontal attack on the Tang forces occupying former Baekje territories. The struggle lasted through the early 670s.
In 674, Tang and its former ally, Silla, were in constant battle, as King Munmu had taken over much of former Baekje and Goguryeo territory from the T'ang and fostered resistance against them. Emperor Gaozong, in anger, arbitrarily declared King Munmu's brother Kim Inmun the king Munmu and commissioned Liu Rengui with an army to attack Silla. However, King Munmu formally apologized and offered tribute, Emperor Gaozong ordered a withdrawal and recalled Kim Inmun.
In 675, Li Jinxing (李謹行) reached Silla territory with Mohe forces that submitted to Tang. However, the Tang forces were defeated by the Silla army at the Maeso fortress (Tang sources claim that the Tang forces won this and other battles in Silla).
Emperor Gaozong ordered withdrawal of Tang forces from the Korean Peninsula entirely and moved the Protectorate General to Pacify the East to Liaodong, allowing Silla to eventually expel Tang out of the Korean Peninsula and unify the parts of the peninsula south of the Taedong River. This victory, and the maintenance of Silla's independence, is generally regarded as a critical turning point in Korean history.
Munmu ruled over unified Silla for twenty years, until he fell ill in 681. On his deathbed, he left his last will and testament, and abdicated to his son, Prince Sinmun. Before he died he said: "A country should not be without a king at any time. Let the Prince have my crown before he has my coffin. Cremate my remains and scatter the ashes in the sea where the whales live. I will become a dragon and thwart foreign invasion." King Sinmun did as his father asked, and scattered his ashes over Daewangam (the Rock of the Great King), a small rocky islet a hundred metres or so off the Korean coast. Moreover, King Sinmun built the Gomun Temple (the Temple of Appreciated Blessing) and dedicated it to his father, he built a waterway for the sea dragon to come to and from the sea and land, and he built a pavilion, Eegun, overlooking the islet so that future kings could pay their respects to the great King Munmu.
In a dream, King Munmu and the famous general Kim Yu-shin appeared to King Sinmun and said to him: "Blowing on a bamboo flute will calm the heavens and the earth." King Sinmun awoke from the dream, rode out to the sea and received the bamboo flute Monposikjuk. It was said that the blowing of the bamboo flute invoked the spirits of King Munmu and General Kim Yu-shin and would push back enemy troops, cure illnesses, bring rain during drought and halt the rains in floods.
On the bus from Gyeongju to Bonggil-ri 26-beonji, Yangbuk-myeon, the sight of the vast blue sea spread before your eyes will leave you breathless. As you gaze at the glittering blue sea from Bonggil Beach, a small but particularly beautiful islet catches your eye. This little rocky islet is the Royal Underwater Tomb of King Munmu the Great, a Sillan King who unified the three kingdoms and became the 30th ruler of the Silla Kingdom. The king gave specific instructions to Kim Jeong-myeong (the future King Sinmun) to be buried in the East Sea after his death so that he would become a dragon and protect Silla from Japanese intruders.
The rocky island, about 200m in circumference, is divided by a cross-shaped waterway, forming a pool at the center, at the bottom of which is a granite 3.6 meters long, 2.9 meters wide and 0.9 meters thick. Legend has it that the remains of King Munmu's cremated body are buried under this rock. Historians still debate whether the ashes of the King Munmu were scattered or stored in an urn and placed under the granite. The beauty of the landscape of the underwater tomb reaches its peak in autumn.


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Also known as glycogen synthase deficiency.
The enzyme glycogen synthase is needed for the body to make glycogen. A deficiency results in very low amounts of glycogen stored in the liver. A person between meals can develop very low blood sugar levels, known as hypoglycemia.
Early in infancy children usually have no symptoms. The hypoglycemia typically develops once night feeding stops. Before breakfast children may have drowsiness, look pale, have vomiting, fatigue and sometimes convulsions. If a GP investigates a child lacking energy, hypoglycemia is often discovered through morning urine samples.
Children may become tired more quickly than their peers. There may be muscle cramps from accumulated lactic acid. Children may have a mild growth delay, but in general will develop normally, with normal appearance and liver size.
A history of needing frequent meals or snacks, tiring quickly and hypoglycemia may suggest GSD Type 0. Detailed blood and urine tests may show patterns that are unique to GSD 0 and a liver biopsy will show very little glycogen. DNA testing is now available, the condition being caused by a change in the glycogen synthase-2 (GYS2) gene. It is inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion.
Treatment aims to prevent hypoglycemia by taking snacks every 3-4 hours. Uncooked cornstarch can act as a 'slow release' form of glucose and may prevent hypoglycemia overnight. A diet higher than normal in protein may help with the cramping, tiredness and fatigue.
GSD Type 0 is very rare but the recent availability of better testing may show it to be less rare. The condition affects both males and females and cases have been seen all around the world.
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- n. A lacunar.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A ceiling which consists of sunk or hollowed compartments having bands or spaces between. See lacunar.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
As Prof. Nettleship has pointed out, this seems to indicate that there are two words, _laquear_ from _laqueus_, meaning chain or network, and _lacuar_ or _lacunar_ from _lacus_, meaning sunk work.
The sunk or hollow compartments, which form the laquear of this depressed vault, differ considerably in shape and arrangement from those which were adopted when it was finally rejected.