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Download the authoritative guide: Cloud Computing 2018: Using the Cloud to Transform Your BusinessFor many years, India has been the poster child of the offshore software development industry. Many of the Fortune 500 have been quietly beating a path to Indian vendors to reduce software development costs and speed up time to market. As well as their much-publicized work on Y2K and mainframe maintenance, these companies also take on Java and Oracle assignments.
But a serious rival now is emerging, one with the resources and determination to take on India -- Russia.
The technology sector in Russia achieved $3 billion in revenue last year, up 19% from the previous year. Offshore software development now is a large slice of that total, growing at an estimated rate of 50% a year.
U.S. giants like Dell, Intel, Siemens and Motorola have huge Russian development centers. And Boeing, GE, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Citibank, the U.S. Department of Energy and many others now are turning to Russia for all manner of complex software tasks.
Carrillo pinpoints the Russian education system as offering high-tech workers there a competitive advantage. In Indian universities, students learn generic development and mass-produced coding for Java and C++.
''Russia takes a higher-level approach, picking individuals more carefully in a similar manner to MIT,'' said Carrillo. ''As a result, Russian programmers and developers are more schooled on advanced math and computing techniques than their Indian counterparts.''
Not surprisingly, Russia is earning a reputation as the place to go for development work that involves sophisticated algorithms and complex coding. Last month, for instance, Dell established a Moscow-based Software Engineering Center. It utilizes the Moscow production facilities and manpower capacity of Luxoft, probably the largest of the new breed of Russian offshore firms.
''Having delegated some projects to the Luxoft center, we intend to free up the time and energy of our IT departments, while keeping the scale of IT deliverables at the current and even higher pace,'' said J.R. Carter, a senior manager of EMEA technologies at Dell Computer Corp.
The choice of Moscow had a lot to do with the sheer quantity and quality of science and computing graduates -- 50% of Russian graduates major in science -- 55 out of every 10,000 people in Russia are engineers, one of the highest ratios in the world -- 4% of programmers working in the world today are Russian.
''Russia possesses a unique intellectual capital that should translate into existing investment opportunities in the years to come,'' said Alexander Andreev, a financial analyst at Brunswick UBS Warburg.
Due to this wealth of resources, Luxoft was easily able to comply with Dell's stringent conditions. Dell demanded a scalable-on-request team of software engineers. Every team member was selected by Dell based on experience, domain knowledge and educational background.
''As a result of the educational system and culture, Russian code expertise is married up with a quality that American companies find highly desirable -- the ability to innovate and be creative in their approach to solving customer problems,'' said Luxoft CEO Dmitry Loschinin. ''I believe that this gives Russia a distinct advantage as we go beyond code writing competence into the realm of resolving the complex IT challenges of the modern enterprise.''
Loschinin cites Boeing Company's experience. After starting on a few smaller projects some years back, Boeing now trusts Luxoft with many high-level development tasks, such as:
''The old drawing/blueprint system was of high quality but out of date,'' said Scott Griffin, vice president and CIO of Boeing. ''Luxoft converted our drawing system to a modern Web-based platform, while preserving existing business logic and retaining full functionality. This improved system stability, reliability, and access. It also reduced cycle-time and increased flexibility, allowing for the support of new requirements and thereby lowering maintenance costs.''
While customers, such as Boeing, begin small, most quickly grew into large-scale contracts. This tendency to retain clients and expand their dependence on Russian resources is explained when you take a closer look at the pains some of the top offshore vendors take to validate the quality of their development processes.
With Boeing being a big supporter of the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM), an industry-standard benchmark to assess an organization's software development process and methodologies, it demanded a partner that could match its own standards. Several divisions of Boeing, in fact, operate at CMM Level 5. Among the elite corps of about 200 companies that have achieved Level 4 or 5 CMM are dozens of offshore software developers. Only one U.S.-based software company made the grade. Luxoft, on the other hand, is Level 4 CMM, the highest rating in Russia. That makes it on a par with the big Indian developers.
Many analysts use SEIs model to advise clients about potential offshore vendors.
''I recommend to clients that they only deal with companies who are CMM Level 3 at least,'' said Gartner Group Research Director Rita Terdiman.
Buggy software, of course, isn't big news in America. What isn't well known, though, is the extent of the problem. According to the SEI, one third of IT development projects are cancelled before completion. The average budget overrun is 189%. The average schedule overrun for 'difficult projects' is 222%. And the delivered product generally only contains 61% of originally specified features.
Only 16% of software projects, in fact, are completed on time and one budget. On the other side of the coin, SEI figures reveal that organizations operating at CMM levels 3-5 operate at or close to budget and time line targets, and achieve an average of 5:1 ROI on development projects.
With so many offshore companies dominating the ranks of the highest CMM levels, it's no surprise that more than half the Fortune 500 currently use overseas software talent. Forrester Research reports that they save an average of 25% on development costs and that U.S. companies are expected to spend $17.6 billion on offshore outsourcing by 2005.
Russia is planning to take a large slice of that total. As well as having a well-educated talent pool, the Russian offshore industry offers distinct price advantages over India.
''With outsourcing to offshore development firms becoming a mainstream practice, competition is definitely growing from Russia in high-end, as well as low-end work,'' said AMR's Carrillo. ''Further, we are beginning to see offshore firms successfully go up against the big American consulting and integration firms for development and integration jobs.''
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The world recently mourned the passing of Muhammad Ali, who is considered one of the greatest boxers of all time, if not the greatest boxer of all time. At the very least, we know that Ali considered himself the greatest, if you don't believe me, watch the video below and ask him for yourself.
Now, I want to ask the question, "Are you a great fighter?"
We are all fighting for something. Which means that we are also fighting against something. Any time you choose to devote yourself to something, you are fighting for that thing. When you devote yourself to something, you are saying "yes" to that thing. And every time you say "yes" to something, you are saying "no" to something else.
I believe that most people who call themselves Christians most of the time do not fight in a conscious state. I mean that Christians simply live their lives, saying "yes" to some things and "no" to other things without ever really asking "why?" Most of us simply don't sit still long enough to consider if we are fighting the right fight, on the right side, according to God's will for our lives.
1 Timothy 2:4 says that God "desires all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth."
Boom. There it is. There you have the answer to the most pressing question every Christian asks: "What is God's will?"
We too often cripple ourselves trying to ask this question in the wrong way. We get caught up in details, getting angry with God because he won't tell us the next step in our lives or when he won't give answers to our pointed questions.
But, God has made his will crystal clear. His will is for lost people to be saved.
So, God's will for your life is that you live your life to see people be saved. The details of your life really aren't that important. Sorry, they're just not. God will take care of the details, just trust him. Just fully take hold of what he has made clear: His will for your life is that you live to make disciples.
God desires for all people to be saved. God decided to use Christians in his plan to save people. God has commanded you to spend your life making disciples. Period. No wiggling out of this one. Either you obey or you disobey. No Christian is excluded from this. If you think you can just call yourself a Christian but not be a disciple-maker, then you're deceived. Wake up. Actually read what Jesus said and get on board with what he wants for your life.
So, are you fighting the right fight?
In other words, Are you making disciples?
Are people getting saved through your disciple-making efforts? Are believers becoming more like Christ through your disciple making efforts?
If not, then I'd bet my car that you're probably fighting against God instead of for God.
Here's some scary logic to consider:
God's will is for all people to be saved.
God is sovereign and able to accomplish his will as he sees fit.
If people are not being saved through our efforts.
Then we must be fighting against God's will.
If God's desire is for people to be saved, and if our church is not seeing people get saved, then we must not be working with God. We need to take a deep look in the mirror and see what idols we have allowed to slip in and take priority over the Great Commission.
Simply put: If people are not being saved through our church, then it is OUR fault. God is able to do whatever he pleases, yet he has decided to accomplish his mission of saving the lost through US. So if we are not seeing people saved, then we are not working according to God's desires. We are not co-laboring with God in his endeavor to see lost people saved. God will not bless our disobedience. In fact, I believe that God often sends trials to break us in our disobedience to lead us to repentance.
We have to be willing to do whatever it takes to obey Christ's Great Commission. If anything is hindering us from impacting lostness, then we must change it or remove it. If we are missing something necessary for disciple-making, then we must be willing to add new things. If we are failing to speak the gospel in the cultural language of the people around us, then we must be willing to learn a new language.
If there is anything that we are unwilling to give up for the sake of the lost, the we are idolaters and are living in disobedience to God.
I believe that 1 Timothy 2:4 should provide us with great confidence. God desires to save the lost. God is working in the world for the purpose of saving the lost. This means that we are not alone in our efforts to make disciples. God wills and God works to save the lost. Our job is simply to work with him according to his will.
I love being in the middle of a river fly-fishing. There is nothing that helps me to clear my mind better than fly-fishing. Here's something I've learned from fishing: It is much easier to walk with the flow of the river than it is to walk against the flow of the river. It's also easier to float down the river than it is to stand still against the current.
Why do churches plateau, stagnate, and fail to grow? Why do churches lose people?
Because those churches are either trying to stand still against the current or they're trying to walk against the current.
God desires to SAVE THE LOST. I've repeated myself so many times, and I'll repeat myself again: God desires to SAVE THE LOST.
Disciple-making is what God is working for in the world. In 1 Tim 2:4, God shows us the contents of his heart! God's heart beats for the nations! God's heart beats to see the lost people saved and to become disciples of Jesus.
So, if your heart does not beat for that same thing, then you are FIGHTING AGAINST GOD!
Now, it is easy to give lip-service to this. It's easy to say, "I love Jesus and I am living to make disciples." But, if there is no fruit in your life to back up what you're saying, then you're just lying. You're just fooling yourself. But you won't fool God.
If you really want to see the church grow, then start fighting on God's side and not against him.
Here is some really hopeful logic:
God desires for lost people to be saved.
If we work and pray according to God's desires,
he will work through us, and lost people will be saved.
It's easy to overthink church growth strategy. In reality, church growth is pretty simple: work with God to accomplish his will.
But simple does not mean easy. Our sinful flesh makes us want to stand in the middle of the river or even try to walk up stream. Our flesh makes us cling to our own preferences. Our flesh makes us love ourselves more than God. Our flesh leads us to place our own preferences and comfort at a higher priority than the eternal status of lost people. Are we willing, for the sake of our own traditions, to let the thousands of lost people around us to spend an eternity of torment in hell? Seriously? We make a big deal out of so many things that are simply not a big deal.
If you have made a big deal out of anything other than the gospel, then you are fighting against God. So I say this with love: Get over it.
Spend enough time with Jesus so that his desires will become your desires. Let him change your heart and align your heart with his plan for the universe. Be willing to change. When he points out an idol, surrender it. Give it up. Otherwise, you will live your life trying to swim upstream or stand in the middle of a current. Do not waste your life by fighting against God's will.
Here are a few signs that you may be fighting against God:
I look at lost people with judgement instead of compassion and grace.
I never share the gospel with people.
I do not spend much time with Jesus.
I determine if something is good based on my own opinion instead of God's Word.
I do not spend time praying for lost people.
I would rather my church stay the same size.
I get mad when people try to change things about my church.
Here is the sign that you are fighting with God.
You will do anything or give up anything to see lost people saved and to help them become mature disciples of Jesus.
So, what is YOUR greatest desire? If your greatest desire is not for people to be saved, then your heart is not in line with God's. You are fighting against God, which is never a good idea. He really is 'the greatest.'
God desires to save the lost. He is able to save the lost. He has called us to have a part in reaching the lost. If we will work according to his desires, he will use us to reach the lost! What a glorious truth. What a glorious life: to make your life count for God's eternal purpose.
In Christ,
Quentin Self

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Project Engineer - Site Preparation & Roads Jubail
معلومات الشركة
- الدولة : المملكة العربية السعودية
المهام الوظيفية
Supervises the engineering activity (all disciplines) on a project, or designated portions of a project, for a global business unit.
Plans and directs engineering assignments on the project.
Has technical responsibilities for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating these assignments.
A. Supervision Received
- Receives operational supervision from a Project Manager or senior Project Engineer.
- Receives administrative and technical supervision from an Engineering Manager, Manager of Engineering or a senior Project Engineer.
- Assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.
B. Contacts
- As the point of Bechtel-Client contact on engineering aspects of assigned project or portions of a project, maintains regular client contact for progress of work, exchange of information, advice.
- Directs and coordinates engineering activities for the project or assigned portion including supervision of engineers of all disciplines within a global business unit.
- Establishes or assists in establishing the detailed project execution plan and the development of the overall project engineering budget and schedule.
- Inputs to and owns the engineering elements of a project capital estimate (proposals and execution) quantities and budgets.
- Develops design and procurement schedules for approval.
- When assigned directs engineering activities in preparation of project proposals, including estimates for engineering staffing, quantities, scope reviews, schedules and coordination with Business Development and other functional groups.
- Reviews and approves design documents, change orders, material requisitions and specifications for construction or procurement use.
- Resolves field initiated questions on engineering.
- Visits jobsite as required for exchange of information.
- Coordinates activities among the design groups on the project.
- Reviews project engineering progress against approved schedules, evaluates changes and takes corrective action when required.
- Manages the flow of information required from third parties to assure the timely progress of the engineering work.
- Prepares or directs the preparation of project studies, reports, forecasts, special engineering reports and plant data book.
- Ensures that Technical Risk Assessments are comprehensive and complete, safety practices and procedures are implemented, and engineering design and corresponding design documentation are in compliance with project Quality Assurance plan and procedures.
- Communicates complex technical issues and recommends solutions to client, project and functional management as directed and as appropriate.
- Champions the creation of a project work environment, supported by leadership on the project/program, which fosters openness, trust, communication, teamwork, empowerment, innovation, and satisfaction.
- The Project Engineer is responsible for supporting the Area Engineering Manager to monitor and coordinate the design process for all Engineer-Procure-Construct (EPC) Contracts. The work will require close coordination and direct interfacing with Construction staff and Contractor's design team.
Position Skills:
- College Graduate with a BS degree in an engineering discipline with experience in design and experience in planning (i.e. master planning, utility network system planning or industrial modeling, or related /similar) and in coordinating of multi-discipline design and teams.
- Technical knowledge of related engineering systems, engineering calculations, applications of engineering and construction methods and materials, and engineering application of computers.
- Proficient knowledge of project engineering processes and procedures.
- Knowledge of related construction practices and the economics involved and current knowledge of new methods of design and construction.
- Proficient knowledge on planning, application and coordination of 2-D and/or 3-D Computer Aided Design (CAD) design processes on a project.
- Knowledge of industry/regulatory codes and standards and design criteria pertinent to the particular discipline.
- Skill in oral and written communication.
- Demonstrated skill in supervision.
Bechtel employees in Jubail receive free furnished housing and basic utilities, work transport, free health care (on site in Saudi Arabia), eligible participation in Bechtel group/private health care plan options, retirement benefit plan participation, life insurance options for you and qualified dependents, a base of 24 days of paid leave, 11 paid holidays, airfare coverage plus additional paid time off for R&Rs and Home Leave, and local private schooling tuition coverage for up to two school-aged dependent children.
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Discussion in 'Internet Marketing' started by 3dwaffle1, Feb 12, 2013.
What are alternative to adsense? Which pay decent without pop-up and cost per impression?
I would have said Adbrite but that shut down now, So I would say to use BuyandSellAds because that is the only other one I have used other than Adsense.
In my experience, there isn't really an equal alternative to adsense unfortunately. Possibly try either:
I'm trying to remember another network I used but can't remember the name. If I can think of it, I'll let you know.
Just out of interest, is there a reason you'd prefer not to use adsense?
Agree with Jay - nothing else really comes close to adsense. In my experience the biggest earner can be privately sold links (if you have a high PR).
There is a helpful list of "Ad Networks (Most Pay via PayPal)" in our Useful Online Business Resources thread.


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Terra Firma / Odeon Equity Co. Ltd
OFT closed case: Completed acquisition by Terra Firma Capital Partners II Fund of Odeon Equity co. Limited.
Affected market: Cinema exhibition
No. ME/1321/04
The OFT's decision on reference under section 22 given on 23 November 2004.
Terra Firma Investments (GP) 2 Ltd (Terra Firma) manages a number of private equity funds.
Odeon Equity Co. Limited (Odeon) is a cinema exhibitor, operating 95 cinemas within the UK. Its UK turnover for the last financial year amounted to [ ] (see [note 1]).
On 2 September 2004, Terra Firma acquired the entire issued share capital of Odeon through various wholly owned subsidiaries. The four month statutory deadline expires on 1 January 2005.
As a result of this transaction, Terra Firma and Odeon have ceased to be distinct. As Odeon's turnover exceeds £70 million, the turnover test in section 23(1)(b) of the Enterprise Act 2002 (the Act) is satisfied. A relevant merger situation has been created.
As at the acquisition date, Terra Firma neither owned nor controlled any business active in cinema exhibition, or upstream or downstream from cinema exhibition. The merger does not, therefore, appear to raise any horizontal or vertical issues.
Odeon is active in the cinema exhibition sector. Due to the lack of overlap between the activities of the parties as at the date of the acquisition, no horizontal or vertical issues appear to be raised by the merger.
Consequently, the OFT does not believe that it is or may be the case that the merger has resulted or may be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition within a market or markets in the United Kingdom.
This merger will therefore not be referred to the Competition Commission under section 22(1) of the Act.
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Federal law forbids the sale, import, or export of endangered animals. But there are loopholes in that law that rankle wildlife and legal experts.
IN LATE OCTOBER, an SUV hauling a trailer bearing seven cages marked "live animal" pulled into Wingham Wildlife Park, a zoo in Kent, England. The cages had been loaded off a plane that flew across the Atlantic from Atlanta and were "carrying a very precious cargo, one the park has been working on for more than three years," according to a press release issued soon after.
The cargo: seven chimpanzees, aged 21 to 39, all of whom had been the subject of behavioral research for decades at Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta. Their usefulness in that regard ended last year, when the federal government stopped funding experiments involving the primates, and listedcaptive chimpanzees as an endangered species.
Their arrival in the U.K. signaled the end of a drawn-out battle pitting animal rights groups, legal scholars, and many scientists against both the Yerkes lab and Wingham park — a saga that reached its climax in September when a federal judge struck down the final challenge of activists who had sued to block the shipment of the chimpanzees abroad. That cleared the way for the journey to Wingham — but in issuing her decision, the judge also delivered a stinging rebuke of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal agency that issued the original permit to Yerkes for shipping the animals, and whose mandate includes enforcing the Endangered Species Act.
The agency's broad interpretation of the act, U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson declared, "appears to thwart the dynamic of environmental protection that Congress plainly intended when it mandated that no export of endangered species be allowed."


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Changes forced on 'Salon des Refusés'
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The popular "Salon des Refusés," which for nearly two decades has shown artworks rejected by the official Eugene "Mayor's Art Show" held during the Eugene Celebration, will be absorbed this year into a larger nonjuried art show at the New Zone Gallery.
The new show, titled "Salon du Peuple" (Salon of the People), will accept all works submitted, whether or not they were rejected by the mayor's show.
That's in contrast to the practice of past years and comes as a result of a change in the way the mayor's show is juried this year. For the first time, the works in the mayor's show will be selected based on digital images rather than having the jury look at actual artworks.
That change was forced by a shift in the dates of the Eugene Celebration, organizers have said. The new schedule did not allow time for the in-person jurying.
Salon organizer Steve La Riccia has, in the past, solicited entries for the salon by standing outside the Hult Center's Jacobs Gallery, where the mayor's show takes place, on the day that rejected artists arrive to pick up their works. A large percentage of them would then take their artwork directly to the salon.
That's not possible this year, and La Riccia said it could diminish the number of rejected artists who show their work at the salon.
"We have decided to (combine) two shows, the 'Salon des Refusés' and New Zone's popular event, the 'Zone 4 ALL' ... into one event to allow ... all local artists to exhibit their work ... during the Eugene Celebration and though the First Friday Art Walk of October," La Riccia said.
Submissions will be accepted at the New Zone Gallery, 164 W. Broadway, from noon to 6 p.m. Aug. 21. A fee of $10 per artwork is required. The salon's opening will be from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Aug. 26, the same evening as the opening of the official mayor's show at the Jacobs Gallery.


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What can I say? ...I am completely blown away by your warmth and kindness. As I collected my email messages earlier today I was taken aback by your well wishes, your kind words about Jenny, and thanking me for sharing with you (oh my! I should be thanking you!) I had a big lump in my throat as I read your comments (I didn't mean for you to reach for the tissues as well, I'm so moved that you did though) and I've been trying to figure how to respond... In the end I thought it best to be plain: Thank you so much for being a such lovely human being in taking the time to reach out to another human being. I feel both humbled and elevated at the same time. I am genuinely (daftly) happy most of the time, but it was wonderful to able be this honest with you about a vulnerability. You all came up trumps for me and you all knew how to say the right thing. I'm very lucky.
::UPDATE:: I just wanted to add that I'm sorry I can't reply to all of your comments on that post, I do feel bad about that because your comments were so meaningful and they would have taken emotion to write. All I can do is to thank every single one of you again for sharing with me, and for being so open yourselves. It will remain my most favourite and important post of all time...


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Paul McCartney - Temporary Secretary
Good electronic riffage from Sir Paul McCartney. I don't know much about solo electro Paul McCartney so this was a bit of surprise. The lyrics and accent are daft but still! He might have made this to try and keep up with the times or something but regardless it's cool.
and here is a re-edit
While Paul was writing amazing tunes like this,
John was writing shit like Imagine. Penis.
a couple of years after Temporary Secretary
was Ebony & Ivory though, which is maybe worse?
Ringo Starr's All Starr Band are the best.
It was ahead of the times if anything
i like it a lot
You're right!
doesn't sound dated or anything.
well it is from 1980
1980 isn't now
I have the vinyl album this is on
I used to sing this song a while ago when we had a temporary secretary at work I had the hots for.
This song
and his Christmas one invented the idea of guilty pleasure.
I still can't get behind the xmas one
but maybe this song will help me start liking it. I'm scared.
Released on a 1993 Rupert VHS. Mint.
yeah I hear this in clubs quite regularly now
I quite enjoy it, both the original and the re-edit.
Also check this out, the bass/cowbell reminds me of LCD Soundsystem
there are some other really good trax on McCartney II
I like Coming Up & Darkroom the best
solo Paul is Great.
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Goodbye 2015
Preparing for the last day of the year, I can't help but feel that there are only two major differences between me before and after baby: How I prepare for a night out, and the contents of my hand bag.
Preparing for the last day of the year, I can't help but feel that there are only two major differences between me before and after baby: How I prepare for a night out, and the contents of my hand bag.
I am a winter-holic for so many reasons, but one of my absolute favourite things about the colder months is the clothes. This winter some seriously gorgeous trends have sparked my interest, warming me from the double-down socks up, and so I have compiled a list of the top 5 wintery wonders to follow.
They told me not to buy anything till after the first trimester. They, in all their wisdom, told me not to worry about maternity clothes until I didn't fit into any of my usual every-day ones.
But did I listen? Of course not.
There is this gorgeous little maternity wear boutique down the road from my house. […]
Secrets are only dirty when we hide them, and embarrassing moments are only embarrassing when we try to pretend they never happened. So I believe, for the style-wellbeing of all of us, we need somewhere to air those dirty little bits of chic-less laundry. La Confessional is a place of solitude, somewhere to go to confess our fashion (or other) sins in a safe and loving environment. The Fashion Priestess will offer her suggested penance, forgive, and then we can all be on our swanky way.
When it comes to choosing a pair of jeans that will flatter and highlight your most voluptuously volatile asset – so many factors come into play that it can feel like trying to trick the speed of light by using quantum physics. Actually, that's kind of exactly what it is. Or in a word - Science. Don't worry, I am here to help figure out exactly what it is that makes your butt look big in those jeans...
Whatever the reason, be it Capitol inspired couture from The Hunger Games or Japanese pop culture, sugar-spun locks have taken the world's stage in a whoosh of Care Bear colours. This latest craze in hair has been around the block a few times before, but never till now did we see so many iridescent heads bobbing around in our every day crowds. The mainstream runs thick with a tapestry of hues and it's here to stay.


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Hi everyone,
Dgs started this discussion several days ago in an obscure part of this forum.
I have moved it to this list where more people are likely to read it and reply.
Originally posted by Dgs-
Just how important is it to dry biodiesel to less than 500ppm?
For the last few years I have used an IMB Turbo Dryer to dry my biodiesel. It is very efficient and can dry biodiesel to less than 200ppm water in a few hours.
Here in the UK most home brewers bubble and settle their biodiesel and do not dry it. I have tested many samples finished this way and the water level is always around the 600ppm region.
I have taken Johns (IMB's) lead as regards drying and will continue to dry my biodiesel to less than 200ppm simply because it is my way to get as good quality bio as possible, but this begs the question is this really essential.
The reason I ask is that to my knowledge the several hundred members on the UK forums that are using their settled and undried bio have never had a problem that can be directly connected to excess water. Some of these brewers have been using bio finished this way for around 15 years.
Hi Dgs,
From the early days of biodiesel production before there were many national biodiesel standards, the accepted standard for dryness that most people worked to was "the biodiesel had to remain bright and clear at the lowest temperature the biodiesel is likely to experience."
In other words, dissolved water/ water in solution is not a problem.
For the last 15 years the "bright and clear" standard is the ONLY test I routinely perform on the biodiesel I use in my diesel engines.
I have no water or biodiesel related problems with any of the diesel engines I have used my biodiesel in.
My method of drying has changed over the years. I used to leave the biodiesel sit in 20 litre open top pails in the sun until the biodiesel was "bright and clear". I then put a top on the pail of biodiesel and placed it in storage until use.
I now pump my biodiesel into 200 litre open top drums and bubble air through it for around 24 hours and then pump the biodiesel into 200 litre closed top drums where it sits sealed until it is used.
I am currently using biodiesel that was produced about 2 years ago.
The other thing you need to keep in mind is that the ASTM and the European EN standard for dryness is quite different.
The ASTM method of testing only tests for "Free" water while the EN standard tests for both free and dissolved water.
Tilly; You are using biodiesel that was manufactured two years ago. As far as dryness of biodiesel , there is a chemical reaction called hydrolysis in esters, where water can in a way, adds itself between the methanol and the fatty acid of a biodiesel molecule. A product of this hydrolysis reaction is 1 biodiesel fatty acid ester molecule + 1 water molecule yields 1 fatty acid molecule plus one methanol alcohol molecule. Free fatty acids being present in the liquid fuel might be a problem at some level, their boiling point and vaporization temperature is much higher. Minimizing the presence of free fatty acids would be a positive quality control thing to do. So minimizing the water present especially if the biodiesel is stored a long time would be good for best quality fuel. The hydrolysis reaction is much slower without catalyst present but two years storage is a long time even for some slow reactions like hydrolysis.
Hi WesleyB,
Is the advice you are giving from your own personal experience?
Hi Wesley, still looking for you on TV.
You mean to say, that the water molecule donates OH- to the methyl group to reform MeOH, and the residual proton goes to the fatty acid to balance that off? I tried looking for scholarly papers on this, and the Royal Society for Chemistry had one but I could not download it.
Hi Tilly,
I also use the IMB turbo dryer and have achieved very good results. Less than 200ppm if I remember correctly (DGS kindly tested it for me).
As for whether it's necessary, I'm not sure, and it is quite a faff getting it to that stage of dryness. The common rail engine is reputed to be very sensitive to any impurities, so I don't want to give mine any excuses to fail on me.
The climate here in the mother country is much more humid than where you are, so I expect that's why you can achieve a useable product just by exposing the top of your fuel to air whilst it's sitting in the pail or drum.
I'm not so sure whether just being bright and clear is sufficient. I've had bio like that in my processor that does a fair old amount of popping when I turn the elements on to warm it up as drying proceeds.
Best wishes
Tilly; I made esters via the Fisher Esterification procedure where an alcohol plus a carboxilic acid plus a catalytic quantity of strong inorganic acid produces an ester plus one molecule of water. I did make biodiesel from stearic acid ( a carboxylic acid ) plus 99.5% ethyl alcohol plus a little concentrated sulfuric acid 95-98% as a catalyist. The acid and the alcohol bond to each other by losing one water molecule during the reaction. In that reaction there is an equilibrium a forwards reaction to the right of the equation occurs while a reverse, slower reaction to the left (reactants) also occurs at the same time. The reverse reaction might qualify as being named hydrolysis. If I recall correctly the Fischer Esterification allows using anhydrous isopropyl alcohol as the alcohol to produce the biodiesel ester with different viscosity and flow properties than biodiesel made with methanol. Anhydrous isopropyl alcohol will not transesterify with vegetable oil to produce an ester product, but it will form an ester with the free fatty acid as a starting material. The general formula for the forwards and reverse equilibrium reaction for the Fischer Esterification does apply. Weak carboxilic acid (ffa's) plus dry alcohol plus strong mineral acid catalyst (H2SO4?) yields the ester (biodiesel) plus one water molecule and it's an equilibrium reaction so it goes in reverse also. Wet biodiesel stored a long time can have water add to the molecule producing a free fatty acid and an alcohol. In practical terms it might not make any difference, but on paper at least it occurs. The factor I don't know is reaction rate. So it might take a month at room temperature to break down/decompose significantly or it might take 100 years, but it does happen. In the absence of a catalyst the hydrolysis reaction rate is slower. The dryer the better (in theory) The purer the better ( catalyst has been removed).
All points taken and noted David. That is the way we were tought and we have just carried on from that thinking, but now I'm not so sure.
Bubble and settle with water content around the 600ppm for as long as some have done this method and the vehicle never shows signs of running anything but normal.
I have certainly cut down on my drying times lately.
Hi Wesley,
So does this mean that the possibility exists that when we have re-tested a batch of finished bio and we note an increase in the water reading that we thought was due to the hygroscopic nature of the bio it could be actually due to the reaction you are describing.
Dgs In the hydrolysis reaction , water plus fatty acid methyl esters yields free fatty acids plus methanol but the water content decreases rather than increases. Two molecules, water and a fatty acid methyl ester react with each other to produce two different molecules, fatty acid and the alcohol (methanol). The water ceases to exist. Water is two atoms of hydrogen bonded to one atom of oxygen. If you add up the total number of atoms in octadecanoic acid methyl ester then hydroyse it with water to yield methanol plus the free fatty acid octadecanoic acid, then add up the number of atoms present in the 1 methanol molecule and one molecule of octadecanoic acid, you will see there are two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom extra in the products yielded and the water no longer exists. The atoms in the water in a way broke apart and reconnected or bonded to another molecular structure, the water changed into two other materials. The water is consumed in the reaction. In chemistry, except for nuclear reactions, mass is not destroyed. The three atoms that formed the water still exist but they are bonded to other atoms/elements that are not water, they are bonded to the alcohol, methanol and a free fatty acid. So the observed tested water content would decrease. The reaction is slow in the absence of a catalyst, it's faster in the presence of a strong acid and at higer temperature. Generally speaking the higher the temperature, for organic reactions like hydrolysis a ten degree celcius increase in temperature doubles the reaction rate. Without catalyst at room temperature hydolysis probably would be slow but storing wet impure biodiesel for two years might make the water a factor in causing breakdown of fatty acid methyl esters to fatty acids and methanol, the starting materials. I made ethyl biodiesel years ago. I think hydroysis might have been a factor in the contents of that small ethyl biodiesel storage bottle today. Some solid has precipated out in that bottle at room temperature.This message has been edited. Last edited by: WesleyB,
Thanks Wesley,
I now understand.
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I've lived in various places in the US over the last 20 years. In areas where you have high humidity like the Pacific Northwest and the Sandhills along the coast in the Southeast, (similar environments to IMB's) your biodiesel can absorb water out of the air and getting it dry to start with can be difficult. I currently live in North Texas and I have no problems getting it dry enough just letting it sit in a open drum (covered with window screen to keep the bugs out).
Water in your biodiesel can affect storage.
There are a couple of articles in Make-Biodiesel.org that apply here:
Biodiesel Stability
Drum Vent Desiccant
Thanks Rick.
Thanks for all the interesting pointers and info. I have another little problem and hope somebody can advise me what to do> Smell of fries and russian s when I drive. Is ther a way one can loose these odours? surely would appreciate any sugestions.
Hi Braam,
A catalytic converter does wonders for removing the "burnt cooking oil" smell of running biodiesel.
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Robin Wright attended the 2016 Emmy Awards held at the Microsoft Theater on Sunday (September 18) in Los Angeles.
Robin was nominated for the fourth time as Best Leading Actress in a Drama Series for her role on 'House of Cards' as Claire Underwood. At the end, Tatiana Maslany won this category. The other contenders were Keri Russell, Taraji P. Henson, Claire Danes & Viola Davis.
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When Junior Wins, So Do His Fans
Dale Earnhardt Jr. was no stranger to victory lane. After all, he'd been 18 times before. But that 18th win came four years ago – June 15, 2008 to be exact, and that's why finally getting No. 19 this past Sunday victory at Michigan International Speedway was so special to him.
So, to celebrate Junior's Father's Day victory in the Quicken Loans 400, New Hampshire Motor Speedway has put together a special ticket package to commemorate the win. "The Magic Mile" has released the "Earnhardt Special: 3 for $88 Ticket Package," which gives fans a significantly discounted rate on grandstand tickets for the LENOX Industrial Tools 301 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on July 15.
"Whether you have a certain driver that you follow or not, you can't help but root for a guy like that," said Jerry Gappens, executive vice president and general manager of New Hampshire Motor Speedway. "Week in and week out he has to answer questions about when he's going to break that streak. Now that he's snapped it, he can focus on that next win. I hope it comes right here at 'The Magic Mile.' "
That is a much more real possibility than it might look when quickly glancing over his career statistics at NHMS. Although he's failed to find victory lane in 25 starts, Junior is no stranger to the front. He has 10 top 10s, six top fives and has led 351 of the 6,882 laps (7 percent) he's completed at the 1.058-mile oval.
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Hi Francisco
The OutSystems Platform (either the editions) allows you to integrate through Web Services directly with Service Studio, that generally comply with the WSDL 1.1 specification (SOAP 1.1 or SOAP 1.2).
There are a few scenarios where these web services are not supported for Service Studio direct consumption, but are always able to be imported through custom development with an Integration Studio extension. These rare scenarios may involve multi-port listening, multiple namespaces and name clashing across namespaces, external dependencies, overloaded methods and recursive data, or "any" type objects definition.
From the stacks you've provided, in this case, it seams that the Java web service is expecting method arguments that don't comply with the provided signature.
Can you tell us what framework is generating these web services, and provide us with the WSDL (Web Service definition file) of that web service for analysis?
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1998: Jacob Wright served in Zambia in Lusaka, Usaga beginning in 1998
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Problems on D go all the way back to OSU 2006
No one is happy with the state of the D. Okay. But this is not a recent phenomenon. Go back to the 2006 OSU game, that D gave up 503 yards and 42 points. The next game, USC played it conservative in the first half until they started throwing the ball at which point they completed @ 12 straight (not attempted, completed). The following fall brought us "The Horror" which yielded 34 points to a 1AA tam. And then came a lovely 39 point, 624 yard game to Oregon. Later that year Wisconsin topped it off with a 37 point, 477 yard performance. And that was all under Lloyd's watch (a Defense minded, conservative coach). We all know the early RichRod era results.
My point is, the D has been susceptible to passing AND running attacks since the end of the 2006 season. There are many reasons but one key one is: Michigan has traditionally had LB's that were geared to stop the run and hopefully not hurt you in passing situations. That doesn't cut it anymore. Obi Ezeh (bless his run stopping heart), even in his interviews speaks to the fact that he comes off the field in passing downs now. Jonas Mouton is the best coverage LB (remember he was a safety in high school). If you blitz Mouton, who do you have left in the LB group to play coverage (Ezeh, Roh, Leach, Demens, Fitzgerald). All of them are run stopping LB's.
It's easy to argue a 4-2 would be better, but that would assume you have 5 DB's who would count as your best 11 players. Maybe next year or the year after.
Sadly, I think this adds up to the coaches are doing the best with what they have. If you want to blame the coaches for lack of recruiting, fine, but start where it all began, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
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I'm certain that there are some fine manuals out there that explain this somewhere, but I have not found them.
After having listened to a few vids on opencl I'm growing a bit confused on a few things.
1. What is a non standard C99 header?
2. How do you use qsort or such if function pointers are forbidden?
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Their grey ships, fly over head. Noiseless and somewhat clean looking.
A year back, it was like, OH MY GOD! AN ALIEN SHIP…but now it wouldn't freaking matter. Your so use to it now. You haven't cared for it for awhile too.
What matters now is getting to work, getting chores done and trying to find time to sit back and enjoy a ice cold one.
But, hell things seem to be too quite. Too civilized, and you know some one out there is getting restless.
Its old school time, as a letter is left at your doorstep. There is no stamp and no return to sender address.
Though you do know, it wouldn't matter…The L.O.S.T's stamp of approval is staring at your face.
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Night out in downtown
Dooh wanted to buy a belated birthday present for a friend in Ottawa so we went to the Pacific Mall. He bought a black school bag for her, some DVDs, and $200+ authentic sunglasses. Lunato bought a pair of hair clips for Harry's niece, Kayla, whose birthday was coming up in about a week's time.
Later in the evening we went downtown to our favourite restaurant, Spring Rolls, for dinner. Good food, good times.
The memory card was running out so I made a very short video of the lights display. The music + lights mix was pretty well done.
Valentine's Day 2007
on Valentine's Day we had an excellent dinner at Spring Rolls restaurant in downtown Toronto. it surpassed all my previous favourite restaurants and became my new favourite.
later in the evening, i almost tripped and fell on the floor because of sikander's present. he had hidden a Passion Fruit Bath set from The Body Shop somewhere in the apartment. i told him i don't celebrate Valentine's Day. I told him! he never listens (smart husband!) and then he put it on the floor in front of the washroom. when i came out i almost tripped over it haha :):)


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In Little Ossies this week we have taken our learning all over the school.
We started the week in our classroom reflecting about what happened on the long weekend. We all came up with our own stories which we drew at our easel and then painted over the black marks later in the week.
Then after recess we went on a walk around the school to see what has been changing in our garden. We were lucky enough to find our Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Gardening Expert, Simone, out there. Simone spent some time showing us what is currently growing in the gardens at school. She even let us taste some of the edible leaves and flowers which were growing in the gardens.
We took the lovely lettuce back to our classroom and we all had a try of the lettuce leaves. Some of us even added it into our sandwiches – delicious!
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I know there are tons of helpful posts on packing a safe lunch and I've tried to read them all, however I would really appreciate some more personal help since, well, maybe I'm spoiled! To get to the point, I'm a college student, and come the start of the semester on Tuesday I will be stuck at school four days of the week for 7-12 hours depending (I finish packing my bento at 9 then hit the road to make it to class by 10, then on most days I'm at the college until 10 at night) on the day. I will not have access to a microwave or a fridge. I figure that I'll need to pack at least two bento's to keep me sustained throughout the day. Is it necessary I keep everything absolutely cold, like with an ice pack, until I eat it? I'm not really a huge fan of cold rice or tofu, or anything, (heck, I heat up fruit in the microwave before I eat it) so would it be safe to keep them at room temperature for several hours (sometimes 8)? One thought I had was that I could pack one bento, the one I eat later in the day, completely with my frozen stash like Maki's mini-meatloaves made vegetarian, rice, and frozen vegetables, perhaps it will be defrosted by the time I'm ready to chow down? Any suggestions or information would be really appreciated and I'm sorry if these are silly questions.
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Maybe you could have something that doesn't spoil so easily for the later bento? It might be harder to come up with balanced and very filling bento but how about slices of bread (wholegrain etc that will keep the hunger away longer than white bread) and some vegetables like a tomato, some cucumber, lettuce etc , maybe prepacked hard cheese too so you can fill the sandwich with fresh ingredients only just before you eat? And if you have access to a kettle or can keep hot water in thermal bottle you could bring maybe some miso soup or other soup base (ready made certainly won't get bad although they're often not so delicious as homemade bases) and some prepacked udon, nori etc that you can mix in the soup to go with that. Or tomato soup that you enhance with diced fresh tomato or bread croutons etc.
I know prepacked stuff has all kind of added artificial substances and are not as good as homemade stuff but if you combine them with fresh ingredients you might be able to find a good balance and even have enjoy your meal :)
Your idea of putting frozen things from your stash into the later bento is a good one. You could also put in things like cheese and fruit that don't need to be kept cold. It probably depends on what the weather is like too - I pack mine the night before, and mostly don't put it in the fridge overnight. But it's been winter here and I don't keep the room where I leave my bento heated.
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Egwana, you might search out possible microwave locations around campus. On my campus, there is a microwave in the small convenience store across from the main building I'm in, and there's usually ones near the food court in the student center, student lounges in libraries, etc. That way, you could keep food cold with a cold pack/insulated lunch box, and still eat hot food!
ETA: just be sure your bento container is microwave safe :) I've warped my bento box to where it doesn't close nicely anymore due to microwaving...
Oh, that sucks! I've had that happen before and that's probably why I'm not too interested in the microwave even if I do manage to find one. What's the point of having all those pretty bento boxes (*cough* twelve *cough*) if I can't use them?
In fall/winter in Michigan, you probably don't have to bother with an ice pack unless you are in overheated rooms indoors all the time. If you follow general bento safety principles - not closing the lid until everything has cooled down properly, etc - you shouldn't have to worry too much. The number one cause of bento spoilage is condensation inside the box, which keeps the contents too moist = creates a perfect breeding ground for bacteria.
There are some food items that will keep for longer, in general: dry food, salty food, vinegary or sour food, and sugary foods. So for your evening bentos, you could carry things like dried nuts and fruits, crackers and cheese, even pickles and things. Fresh unpeeled fruit keeps for some time at room temperature of course.
At the moment I'm having to go back and forth between two locations that are a 7-8 hour drive apart, and I usually pack things like onigiri (well salted on the outside), hardboiled eggs in their shells, boxes of marinated veg, cheese, raw almonds, and so on for snacks, plus a regular bento each.
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You answered one of the questions I had in the back of my mind, "Will my onigiri survive?!"
Eggs will last if hard boiled and kept in it's shell?
If the eggs are fresh to begin with I find that they last fine for a day with the shells kept on. Don't keep then in a place that's too warm though!
Raw eggs from healthy chickens are proven to have intrinsic antibacterial qualities, but all those qualities cease to be active the moment they are cooked. Hard cooked eggs are questionable without refrigeration for any length of time, but I have found an egg carrier and a microwave egg cooker which I love on the road; it's a funny looking thing shaped like an egg with a face and feet, which works wonderfully. The microwave might be a worthwhile goal for some searching… Best of luck.
Anecdotally, while eggs are usually sold/displayed in refrigerated cases in US supermarkets, in Europe and Japan eggs are sold at regular room temperature. Keeping in mind of course that Japanese people eat eggs raw all the time. Also, in Switzerland and other European countries, they sell hard boiled eggs (usually dyed a brilliant color for the current holiday season, e.g. red with a white cross for Swiss National Day around August 1, Easter colors around Easter, etc), again at room temperature.
Given the scary reports about salmonella-contaminated eggs in the US I may be a bit wary of eggs in general there, unless the source is known and reliable. In any case, it really pays to verify the sell-by dates or laid-on-this-day dates (depending on where you are I think one or the other is stamped on) for eggs. (I often see Japanese bento boxes that have fried eggs with soft-set yolks; in Japan that might be ok but I would never do that for a worldwide audience.)
Our eggs are sold at room temp, and I keep them like that too. I think if you put them in the fridge the innards get colder and shrink, sucking any badness from the outside of the shell in. But we don't have salmonella issues with our eggs. Once there are bugs in the eggs you'd definitely want to keep them cold to stop the bugs from multiplying.
I am not sure about hardboiled eggs, this is why I found this forum. If I hardboiled them and then salted the shell, would it keep for a few hours at ambient temperature? (read: 70-80 F [FL weather]) Probably not, I am vegetarian so it would be my only protein source, or tofu, but have no time to cook that in the morning. This far nuts are probably my only option. I have found a good site for veggie bentos: Were rabbits on Wordpress.com
But from what I can tell of what I've read so far tonight, the US needs to refrigerate its eggs because they thoroughly wash them before shipping. While this may seem like common sense to you, keep in mind that eggs keep under chickens for weeks for a reason. When a healthy chicken lays an egg, they have an outer membrane around the shell that keeps microbes out but lets O2 in. Once washed, it is destroyed. So if the Japanese and Europeans do not wash their eggs, this membrane is still intact. Obviously once boiled, this does not exist any longer.
I guess I would have to make do with pickled eggs once I figure out how to do it. I apologize for such a long post, but I thought it would be more polite explaining than just linking something and say there you go.
Hard boiled eggs keep OK until lunchtime in my office, which is quite warm. Remember that the process of boiling them kills whatever bacteria were on them in the first place, so for them to go off they have to first pick up new bacteria and then they need to multiply.
Instead of salting the eggs or pickling them, why not carry along an ice pack and pack your lunch in an insulated bag when the weather is hot? I've been to Florida several times, and the weather there is comparable to the weather in Tokyo. Keep in mind that tofu can also spoil easily in hot/humid conditions, so I'd definitely consider going the ice pack/insulated carrier route.
my grandma used to pack boiled eggs when we went hiking or swimming. they survived a day in a rucksack just fine and none of us ever got sick from eating them. the only hazard was that sometimes, we forgot to pack salt.
i keep my raw eggs at room temperature , but i generally cool boiled eggs if i have access to a fridge and want t keep some for the next day. not sure why, maybe it's one of those "because this is how it's DONE" things.
i buy eggs from happy chickens and they are definitely unwashed. i wash my hands after handling them raw in the kitchen, just like with meat or fish. once they are cooked, the shells are clean anyway and every possible bug should be dead for the time being. washing raw eggs before sale? oh, america. you're weird. and, apparently, american fridges are laaarge.
The U.S. has some serious problems with egg safety (esp. recently) unfortunately, unlike Europe and elsewhere, which is why people are concerned.
we (America) have problems with all of our food, our food standards are ATROCIOUS and Americans are largely unaware of it, or think that our food safety issue is intrinsically true of all other countries, for example the raw egg thing. Most Americans would never think to eat raw eggs because they are "unsafe" and would be horrified to learn that people eat them raw all the time, or store them on a shelf, because we have been taught that raw eggs are inherently bad and full of germs and doom about to spoil.
and our milk takes 2 months to expire. Seriously that's really weird >.>
what's up with their chickins then? you can't get bad eggs from healthy birds..
Yes well, from all accounts, the less said about that the better. They feed them antibiotics all the time and keep them in cages.
Actually, they say that chickens are immune to salmonella. So, a chicken can have salmonella and be healthy...
Hmmm I've eaten hardboiled egs as far as a week old without any probs. Usually around easter. So I wouldn't really be worried about eggs. But then this is Europe we're talking about. And I buy non-battery eggs.
Is it alright to have hard-boiled eggs for a few hours in your bento with an ice pack? Or even with no ice pack?
I'm really hungry! x__X
Yes. Even without an ice pack. When I was a child hard boiled eggs were a standard component of picnics at the beach on hot sunny days, and ice packs hadn't even been invented then.
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Black and White or shades of gray: Individual differences in automatic race categorization
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This dissertation focuses on automatic race categorization (ARC), or the tendency for people to perceive others as falling into discrete racial groups rather than perceiving more continuous racial variation. Traditional research approaches treat race categorization as a binary process and assume that people perceive race as falling into discrete categories. In contrast, this research conceives of race categorization as a continuum where a person can perceive the boundary between races as strong and distinct, weak and non- existent, or anything in-between. First, I introduce a new method of measuring ARC (Sedlins, Malahy, Plaks, & Shoda, 2012). The data support the idea that people tend to see racial continua as falling into discrete categories (chapter 1: studies 1-3) and provide evidence that there are significant individual differences in how strongly people tend to perceive discrete race boundaries (chapter 1: study 1). The present research then examines several individual difference predictors of ARC strength: political ideology (Chapter 2: studies 1-2), beliefs about genetic variation (Chapter 3: studies 1-2), and multiracial salience (Chapter 4: studies 1-2). Finally, the present research provides evidence that strength of ARC predicts race bias. Those with strong ARC (i.e., perceiving races as highly discrete; strong race categorizers) show greater racial bias than weaker race categorizers (Chapter 3: study 2). Together these studies provide a new approach and method to research race categorization and suggest new ways to approach prejudice and discrimination in intergroup contexts. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for psychological science and social policy.
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France earned three points from the opening game of Euro 2016, beating Romania 2-1 on a wonderful late goal from Dimitri Payet.
The competition kicked off on Friday when the host, France took on Group A opponents Romania at the Stade de France amid an unprecedented security operation.
A draw had looked likely after Bogdan Stancu's penalty had cancelled out Olivier Giroud's header for Les Bleus, following a reckless Patrice Evra challenge.
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Antoine Griezmann also hit the post with a header for France, who were indebted to keeper Hugo Lloris for a superb save to deny Stancu early on.
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