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I've been catching the reports that the drought in the western United States is the worst to hit the region since the Dust Bowl years; how farmers are struggling; how livestock is suffering. The situation is similar where I've been traveling: in the Indian state of Gujarat, where some places are drier than they've been in decades.
The monsoon season, which usually soaks Gujarat with rain from mid-June through August, is a key element of the rhythm of life here: it waters farms, grasslands, and forests, fills cisterns and lakes, and cultural traditions and social rituals are timed to sync with it. But this year, it's simply failed to materialize in some regions, causing inconvenience for some, panic for others - especially those who rely on agriculture.
Among those hardest hit are families from the Maldhari tribes, some 5 million people including the Rabaris and Bharwads, who herd cattle, camels, sheep, and goats. Though many Maldharis migrate for half the year or more, moving from place to place in search of fodder for their animals, most return to their home villages for a few months (from about July to November) during and after the annual monsoon, as the grasses grow lush from the rain.
Traveling in August through the Saurashtra region, which has received less than 20 percent of its average annual rainfall, I could easily see the impact of the drought. Along the asphalt roads that traverse a flat patchwork of fields and open spaces, dotted occasionally with trees, thousands of cows and water buffaloes were marching, steered by men in turbans who wore thick silver bracelets, gold earrings, and carried large bamboo sticks. And they were heading away from their villages. There was simply no fodder for their animals near their homes.
I was with Lalji Desai, a member of the Rabari tribe who works with the non-profit Maldhari Rural Action Group (MARAG) and is secretary general of the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples, an international organization that promotes pastoralists' rights and supports their cultures. He wanted to see the drought situation for himself, and how these organizations might help. Not long before sunset one day, when we saw a small Maldhari camp in a patch of land off the side of the road, we stopped to talk.
At a glance, it was hard to believe this was a camp. There were no tents or shelters of any kind, just a few of the typical woven cots known as charpais, out in the open, covered with quilted cotton blankets. Beside them were a clutter of brass and steel pots, jugs and bowls, and a stack of rice sacks filled with other belongings. Eight cute calves hovered around the charpais, looking like they were trying to figure out if they could rest on them.
Only five women were in the camp, plus a child of about two years old. The men who'd accompanied them were still out with their herd of cows.
About 50 miles from their village, they were heading away from it as slowly as possible. They'd tarried here for about a week, hoping that the rains would start so they could turn around and go home. But the grass here was running out, and they thought they'd probably have to move again in the next few days.
Friendly and eager to chat, the women insisted we sit and have tea, and we gladly obliged.
The women all wore lehenga cholis – long skirts with halter tops and headscarves. Three looked to be in their 20s, one in her late 30s, and another in her 50s. All had gold nose rings and earrings, silver rings on their toes, and flip-flops on their feet. A couple of them wore the Hindu bindi on their foreheads, and the forearms and hands of the eldest two were covered with geometric tattoos.
A pot was balanced atop three stones, with twigs ignited beneath it to cook the tea.
They were no strangers to the road, usually migrating for more than half the year, they told us, settling into an easy banter in Gujarati with Lalji, who translated.
"Every day a new village; every day a new fire hearth; every day a new well," said Puriben Rozia, who was dressed in vivid orange and spoke in animated tones. Though they are nomadic, she said, they always look forward to going home.
Jivanben, from the same family as Puriben, laughed and said, "For most of the year I live with my husband's family, but I always return to my parents' village during monsoon – and look where I am instead, sleeping in a field!"
She was in charge of the tea, which was classic Indian chai, made with milk from their own cows and dosed with plenty of sugar. It was served in typical Maldhari fashion – in saucers, which are easier to pack and travel with than cups.
Meanwhile, the patriarch of the family, Amrabhai Rozia, who was father-in-law of three of the women, arrived, just in time for chai. Puriben, along with her sisters-in-law Lavuben and Rajuben, held their headscarves out and at an angle, like gauzy walls between them and Amrabhai. In this region, social custom demands that women Maldharis hide their faces from their husband's fathers, uncles, and older brothers, as a show of respect. But they kept on talking while Amrabhai sat silently sipping his chai.
Lavuben, who looked to be in her late 20s, said that this was the first time in her life that there had been a "special migration" due to drought during monsoon season. On their usual migration, the whole family travels together, but this time she'd only brought her two-year-old and left her three other children – ages 4, 6, and 7 – back in the village; one was with her mother, one with her mother-in-law, and one with her brother-in-law.
"We took the cattle, they kept the kids," she said.
Life on the road is tough, and they'd already traveled for eight months solid "which is why they don't go to school," Lavuben added. It was better for them to have some time to rest and stay in one place.
Puriben agreed. She had left two children behind.
Lalji, sympathetic, said it must be difficult to be without them.
It was, Lavuben nodded, but she knew it was better for them to be home.
"And maybe we'll get to go back soon," she said. "We call every day on our mobile phones to check in. And the first thing we ask is, 'Is there rain?'"


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(**) Determine whether a given integer number is prime.
isPrime :: Integral a => a -> Bool
isPrime p = p > 1 && (all (\n -> p `mod` n /= 0 ) $ takeWhile (\n -> n*n <= p) [2..])
Well, a natural number p is a prime number iff it is larger than 1 and no natural number n with n >= 2 and n^2 <= p is a divisor of p. That's exactly what is implemented: we take the list of all integral numbers starting with 2 as long as their square is at most p and check that for all these n there is a remainder concerning the division of p by n.
However, we don't actually need to check all natural numbers <= sqrt P. We need only check the all natural primes <= sqrt P.
-- Infinite list of all prime numbers
allPrimes :: [Int]
allPrimes = filter (isPrime) [2..]
isPrime :: Int -> Bool
isPrime p
| p < 2 = error "Number too small"
| p == 2 = True
| p > 2 = all (\n -> p `mod` n /= 0) (getPrimes sqrtp)
where getPrimes z = takeWhile (<= z) allPrimes
sqrtp = floor . sqrt $ fromIntegral p
Note that the mutual dependency of allPrimes and isPrime would result in an infinite loop if we weren't careful. But since we limit our observation of allPrimes to <= sqrt x, we avoid infinite recursion.
While the mutual dependency is interesting, this second version is not necessarily more efficient than the first. Though we avoid checking all natural numbers <= sqrt P in the isPrime method, we instead check the primality of all natural numbers <= sqrt P in the allPrimes definition.


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Besides the DT Mall, what's cool about Charlottesville's infrastructure?
Rob Wolman: "Is there one? I think the Downtown Mall is pretty much it.
Lisa Young: "The city parks. I like the way they help the children in the community.
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1131 K Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
The Sacramento Bee has brief blurb about Ella in their dining section:
"In the heart of Downtown, the family behind The Kitchen and Selland's Market Café brings you the region's most anticipated new dining destination, Ella Dining Room and Bar. Ella offers warm, welcoming ambiance in an inspiring space that evokes effortless European rustic luxury. Our design team from Amsterdam has created an environment that is visionary yet timeless, dramatic yet comforting. Ella brings together the finest quality ingredients from this bountiful region and all over the world to create authentic and honest fine food that will nourish body and soul. Celebrated Chef and Owner Randall Selland welcomes you into his home, where you can savor the joys of friends, family, and great food and wine. Service is earnest, gracious and refined. Ella has signature handcrafted cocktails, an eclectic and impressive wine list, and a fresh seafood Raw Bar. Perfect for business lunches, celebrations, and everyday. Walking distance from Convention Center, Capital, theaters, and hotels.
Executive chef: Randall Selland"
The concept is the sharing of small and large plates family style so everyone gets to taste a wider array of the deliciousness. There are so many wonderful things on the menu it is tough to know where to start, and a first time diner should be willing to take some guidance from their server.
The Friday after Thanksgiving we decided to reward my hard-working, hard-cooking mom for all her efforts by treating her to Ella.
Now among her peers, Ella has a reputation for poor service for some reason. Most of her co-workers go here for lunch on a work day, her office being just a few blocks away, walking distance really. We, however, had an amazing experience here last spring on the night of out 10th anniversary. I have been dying to go back ever since. Fortunately for us, who should greet us as we walked in the door but Steven our waiter from last time. One of the best servers I have had the pleasure of spending time with. He treated us well and made sure we had everything we needed, that our courses came in the right order and the food pairings were well balanced.
We started with the oysters! D, the oyster newb, has fallen head first down the oyster rabbit hole. He now wants to start with oysters everywhere we go. Tonight Ella was featuring Beau Soleil, tiny beautiful oysters, and even Mom tucked into to a few of these. I am so proud.
We sipped at a half bottle of pink champagne with our oysters and starters. Nicolas Feuillate Brut Rose, one of my faves.
I love the attention to detail at Ella. From the pics it seems really fancy-pants. But you would be equally comfy here in jeans and a nice top as you would be hosting a formal event.
Next out were the meatballs. Probably my favorite dish of the night. Beef, pork and prosciutto meatballs with garlic herbs and crushed rec chili pepper flakes.
The perfect balance of meats, herbs and spices with just a little tomato sauce to add some wetness to the texture. These were roasted in the oven to give the balls a nice crustiness, and a sheep's milk ricotta balanced out the acidity of the sauce.
Next we shared a pasta course. Typically D prefers a red sauce, but Steven heartily endorsed the papparedelle with a poached egg, crispy prosciutto and a lemon butter sauce.
He hand mixed the wide housemade ribbons right at out table.
This was truly sublime. Buttery and rich, yet split between three people did not overpower the senses nor our appetites.
For the next course we shared a short rib on pureed sweet potatoes.
I always love a short rib, and I loved sharing this one with three people so we had plenty of room to indulge in the chef's veggies. Steven suggested we pair the luxurious fattiness of the meat and the richness of the sweet potatoes with the bitterness of a broccoli rabe.
Again, we taste crushed red chili pepper flakes, garlic and Parmesan cheese, a classic preparation.
After we finished the champagne we moved onto a Pinot Noir. The boys chose one from the Santa Lucia Highlands that was perfect. With such a run on overly cold red wines recently, it was refreshing to be served a red wine at the correct just slightly cooler than room temperature temp.
I asked for it to be decanted because I am just that god damned fancy.
The last course of the evening was a cod special. I think that is what it was, and since it is not on the menu I cannot reference. However, it was stuffed with crab and accompanied by a few hearty gnocchi.
Just beautiful.
And the last veg was Brussels sprouts with bacon. Oven roasted to perfection, soft on the outside with maybe a trace of caramelization, and firm on the inside.
I have become fascinated with taking pics of bathrooms. I think this started with the bathroom pics last summer in the chaotic Cha Cha room in Echo-Lake.
I have even considered starting a second blog, a bathroom blog.
I toy with the idea.
We had a lovely time and a perfect end to a perfect holiday. Thank you Steve and Ella.


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Nerd at the Movies: Anchorman 2, American Hustle, and Saving Mr. Banks
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Top 25 romantic movies
Top 25 romantic movies
We've compiled our list of the top 25 movies to cuddle up to when you're in a romantic mood. Find out where previous chapters in the "Before'' trilogy (pictured: "Before Midnight'') landed on our list.
"Just breathe''
This 1998 Cinderella re-telling imagines the title role (played by Drew Barrymore) as an egalitarian-minded peasant — living with her brutal step-mother (Anjelica Huston) of course — who reads "Utopia'' and pals around with Leonardo DaVinci. It's all the more ironic then that while mimicking a courtier, the Prince (Dougray Scott) falls for her. As you can imagine, he's a bit put off when he discovers the truth. But don't worry, the glass slipper fits in the end. It always does.
"This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime''
The four days Francesca (Meryl Streep) spends with photographer Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood) while her husband and children are away at the Iowa State Fair are the most significant in her life. But she's torn between her familial obligations and the special connection with this man she's met. Ultimately, she decides to stay in Iowa. It's only years later after her death that her children discover her diaries and learn about this time in their mother's life.
"Eeeee… va?''
Though we wouldn't classify "WALL-E'' as a "romantic'' film per se, the story line between WALL-E, a Waste Allocation Lift Loader, and EVE, an Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, is particularly heartwarming. WALL-E is in awe of EVE — sleek, shining, New Age — a counterpoint to his version 1.0 technology. It all comes together for the pair when, mimicking a scene from "Hello, Dolly!'' he's watched (presumably) hundreds of times, WALL-E reaches out to hold EVE's "hand.''
"This is our destiny''
From the time they were children living in the slums of India, Jamal (Dev Patel) has always felt compelled to protect Latika (Freida Pinto.) After they get separated, Jamal spends the rest of his life searching for her and finally appears on a "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' type game show as a way to bring her to him. It is their destiny, after all.
"Did I tell you how divinely and utterly happy I am?''
For all her fancy clothes and parties, beneath the facade of her Upper East Side lifestyle, effervescent socialite Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is lonely. When the writer Paul Varjak (George Peppard) moves in to her building, they find in each other what they've been looking for. Perhaps the most romantic scene is at the film's closing, when Paul arrives in a cab to pick up Holly from prison, her nameless cat in tow.
"Like a sickness and its cure together''
Like a storyline out of one of the Bard's plays, Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) disguises herself as a man so she can act in a William Shakespeare production (back then, women weren't allowed to act in plays.) In the meantime, the real Viola falls for "Will'' (Joseph Fiennes), as he's referred to throughout, and their story bleeds into his scripts. The film won seven Academy Award nominations, garnering Paltrow her first Oscar nomination and subsequent win.
"I wish I knew how to quit you''
Set in the 1960s, Ennis (Heath Ledger) and Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) are sheep herders who spend months of the year living in isolation atop the rugged Brokeback Mountain. When they develop feelings for each other, it's something neither of them can ignore and each will spend decades torn between what society expects from them and their passion for each other. Based on the short story by Annie Proulx, the film won three Academy Awards.
"I'll wait for you. However long it takes. I'll wait for you forever''
This sprawling epic set in Montana tells the story of the Ludlow family's heartbreak and sacrifice in the early 1900s. Tristan (Brad Pitt) is tortured and distraught after his brother Samuel is killed in WWI. Soon after Tristan's return, he begins a relationship with Samuel's fiancee, Susannah (Julia Ormond). But Tristan is restless and leaves, ending their relationship in a letter. When back again, he discovers that Susannah has married his other brother, Alfred, so Tristan marries Isabel, and with her builds the life that Susannah always wanted.
"To me, you are perfect''
This 2003 holiday film is laced with all different stories of love: puppy love, lost love, unrequited love, and great big declarations of feelings. The most romantic scene (for us) is perhaps also the most heartbreaking. Mark (Andrew Lincoln), long smitten with his best friend's girl (Keira Knightley), appears at her door with a series of hand written posters expressing what he's always wanted to say: "To me, you are perfect.'' He gets us every time.
"You had me at 'Hello''
Is there anything as heartbreaking and frustrating and yet at the same time completely fulfilling and joyous as the relationship we have with sports? At least that's the case for football agent Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise), who's trying to rebuild his career after getting fired for pointing out the moral corruption in his company. Along the way he falls for Dorothy (Renee Zellweger) and is forced to admit — to himself and to her — that there's more than just one love in his life. "You complete me,'' he tells her, and boy, do we believe him.
"I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen''
Admit it: if the person you were crushing on stood outside your window blasting Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes'' like Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) does in "Say Anything,'' you'd be smitten too. Not only is this one of the best expressions of love on film, but it's also become an icon in its own right, spoofed by countless TV shows and movies. It's a brazen, unabashedly romantic display of affection and it's the perfect way to kick off our countdown.
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn''
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Margaret Mitchel, "Gone With the Wind'' tells the story of the selfish Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and the hardships she must endure — the Civil War, loss, dead husbands. She's rather opportunistic, but so is Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), her third husband and the first man who won't play her games. It's a sprawling, epic story about love and loss, disappointment and heartache.
"I'll never let go, Jack''
She was upperclass, well-bred, and educated, while he rode in steerage with the rest of the poor. James Cameron's 1997 epic about Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) was a tearjerker for sure: these two were doomed from the start. Any obstacles their polarizing life stations may have incurred were null and void as soon as the ship hit that iceberg.
"There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean''
Leaving it all up to fate is a dangerous gamble, especially when it comes to matters of the heart. Though they're both involved with other people, Nicky (Cary Grant) and Terry (Deborah Kerr) can't help but fall for each other aboard a cruise bound for New York City. Is it their destiny to be together? They plan to meet six months later at the top of the Empire State Building — if it's meant to be, then both will be single by then. But fate has other plans.
"You're playing with my mind''
A pitcher, a catcher, and one adoring fan … a little too adoring. The game of baseball turns into a love triangle when Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) goes after two players on the same minor league team, the Durham Bulls: Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) and Ebby Calvin "Nuke'' LaLoosh (Tim Robbins). Romance, and comedy, ensue.
"You kiss by the book''
There's a moment during Baz Luhrmann's 1996 adaptation of William Shakespeare's play about star-crossed lovers where we hope (in vain) that it just might work out. In the film's final moments, Juliet lays comatose, having swallowed a potion to fake her own death. But Romeo missed the message and presumes her dead, ending his own life just as his love wakes. The two lock eyes knowing the huge mistake that's been made, leaving Juliet with only one option: to follow suit.
"You're the best time I've ever had''
What's more romantic than getting lost in your own love story? Romance novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) embarks on a journey to Colombia to save her kidnapped sister. She winds up in her own action-adventure tale packed with danger. But when she gets lost in a jungle, she meets Jack Colton (Michael Douglas), the alluring adventurer who says he'll get her out of harms way — a passionate reality for one fiction writer and her daring companion.
"I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away''
What if you only had one day to spend with a stranger you just met who you can't stop thinking about? Carpe diem! American tourist Jesse (Ethan Hawke) meets French student Celine (Julie Delpy) on a train to Vienna. Sparks fly, so they decide to spend the day in the city before Jesse leaves the next morning. A kiss, intimate glances, shared laughs — and an intensity caused by the shortage of time. Can they tear themselves away? That's the hook that draws us in and doesn't let go (oh to be on such a trip ourselves).
"You and I are such similar creatures Vivian. We both screw people for money''
Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) is handsome, charming, rich — and alone. Vivian Ward, a pretty prostitute with a loud mouth, walks the streets in tatters, wears a wig, is broke, and never kisses on the lips. Edward picks her up one lonely night, and to Vivian's surprise and delight, he asks her to spend the week with him in his luxury hotel for money. She eventually transforms into a beauty, both outside and in. And Edward, the ruthless businessman, finds his softer side. While this appears a Cinderella story, they really save each other.
"I love you, Molly. I've always loved you''
Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) loves Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) so much that he just can't seem to leave her side — even after death. When a mugging goes wrong, Sam is killed, and Molly is devastated. An unsuspecting stranger, Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg), can communicate with Sam's ghost, leading her to find Molly at Sam's beckoning. Molly's in danger, and Sam will do anything to save the woman he loves. When Molly is safe and Sam goes toward the light, they finally say good-bye. The duo may let each other go, but their passion (remember the pottery scene?) can never be forgotten.
"Nobody puts Baby in a corner''
Is there anything more romantic than a guy who will go to bat for the girl he adores? Despite a class division laden with socioeconomic tension, Johnny (Patrick Swayze) sums up what we've all been thinking with his famous line. He escorts Baby (Jennifer Grey) away from her mother and father and onto the stage for one last dance as a celebration of their summer together and as an acknowledgment that what they had was real. Cue that Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes song.
"As you wish''
After Westley's one true love — Buttercup — is nabbed by Prince Humperdink, he sets out to rescue her. It's your typical fairytale framework: sword fights, royals, dungeons, and wizards all factor into this 1987 flick. But it's Westley's tenacity in the face of endless difficulty and his sheer will to rescue the woman he loves that bumps "The Princess Bride'' toward the top of our list. As you wish, indeed.
Pictured: Robin Wright Penn as Buttercup and Cary Elwes as Westley.
"It wasn't over – it still isn't over''
Just try not to cry while watching this 2004 flick based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. It's a tearjerker for sure, but there's an underlying sentimentality that rings true. What really does us in is the juxtaposition of Noah (Ryan Gosling) and Allie's (Rachel McAdams) story of young love set against the modern reality of Allie's deteriorating health.
"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible''
The thing that puts this 1989 film (written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner) so high on our list is that its story is true to life. The romance here is in the waiting. It takes Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) years — filled with broken hearts, false starts, and other people's weddings — before they realize what they've needed all along is each other.
"Here's looking at you, kid''
Recipe for a perfect romance film: take one part war-torn Europe, add in a torrid romance in Paris, sprinkle in some Humphrey Bogart and a dash of Ingrid Bergman and whisk it all together to the sounds of a Moroccan nightclub. Let it simmer until an awkward love triangle develops and someone must ultimately sacrifice their own happiness for love. Top it off with one of the most iconic movie lines of all time and voila: "Casablanca.'' In our first annual romantic movie competition, readers chose "Casablanca'' as their favorite. Who are we to ignore your wishes? Not to mention — we happen to love it, too.
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For this, you may possibly think I am a bad mother:
I really do not enjoy giving my sons baths.
I always hear about people having these wonderfully serene routines at night with their children, and most of the time, the routines sound something like this: "I cook dinner and we eat together as a family, then we play together for a while, then I give them a bath, brush their teeth, read them a book or two, and then it is lights out!"
I do all of that, too. I cook dinner almost every night, and we sit down together to eat as a family. It is usually eventful, and always loud. But, we manage to fill our bellies and enjoy each other all at the same time, which is the ultimate goal. Shane and I usually play or take a bike ride with the boys (or something else they find fun) after dinner, and then the child cleanup portion of the evening begins. Cameron eats at least three meals a day, and generally after every meal, he looks something like this:
That was lunch, which ended with chocolate pudding. Yes, he feeds himself.
Colin is nowhere near as bad (see above), and neither is Ethan, but between all of the events of the day, they all usually need a good end-of-the-day hose down.
Maybe it is because I have boys, and they are ultra rowdy in the tub. I end up wearing 3/4 of the bath water by the time I have managed to thoroughly clean all three boys. I always feel like I am never letting them have any fun in the tub, and I know the tub should be a fun place for them....but I can't help it. Here is a sampling of one minute of giving them a bath:
"Colin, please don't pour water over Cameron's head. Cami, don't splash so hard, please! Watch out for Ethan, guys. Cami, please don't splash SO HARD! Colin, stand up so I can wash you." Colin: "But Mommy, I am cold!" Me: "I know you are cold, just stand up for just a second so I can wash you really quickly, and then you can sit down in the warm water again. Guys, watch out for Ethan! Cameron, STOP splashing so hard!! The water is going all over the floor! Here, Colin, let me rinse you. Okay, sit down and let me wash Cameron. Cami, please stand up so Mommy can wash you.......stand up, Cameron........Cameron, stand up!!! Okay, now hold still a second. Colin, please don't splash Ethan! Cameron, don't sit yet, you aren't clean! Okay, all clean, let me rinse you. Okay, sit down, all done! Your turn again, Colin, let me wash your hair please....I know you are cold, you can get back under the water in a second. Cameron--if you don't stop splashing so hard you are in big trouble!!"
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They really do enjoy the showers......more importantly, SO do I!! I finally enjoy the end of the night clean up time again. It is so cute to watch all three of them playing under the running water. Thank the Lord for those wonderful glass doors that keep all of that water inside the tub and not on the floor--splash all you want, boys!!!


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Even the Curiosity rover turns out to be somewhat of a litter bug.
About 10 minutes before the one-ton robot dropped through the Martian atmosphere, it got rid of its cruise stage and two 165-pound blocks of tungsten, which had kept the rover stable during its journey to Mars.
The cruise stage includes all the equipment, like solar panels for energy and thrusters, needed to get Curiosity from Earth to Mars.
New images beamed down from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the impact scars from the two tungsten counter-weights and the cruise stage, which broke apart and landed about 50 miles from where Curiosity hunkered down at its landing site, later named Bradbury Landing, in Gale Crater on Aug. 5.
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John Riepenhoff's Recursive Pizza
A few weeks ago, Slice'r Tim Harrington emailed me the photo you see below, having found it on Reddit. "I can't stop looking at it," Tim said. Neither can I. After doing some digging, I found it was the work of Milwaukee-based artist John Riepenhoff. You know I had to get him in the hot seat on this one. Here's a quick Q&A with him. —The Mgmt.
I can't stop staring at that photo. At first I thought it was some sort of Photoshop magic. But then I see the photo of people interacting with it and eating(?) it. Did you make it yourself? It's mini pizzas on a large pizza, right? I googled around but couldn't find any documentation or artist's statement about the work. I think I get it just by looking at it and reading the title and materials list. But would you care to enlighten us?
Physical Pizza Networking Theory is meant to address the ontology of the social as material in art. Using mise en abyme to illuminate a relationship between the layers of material and our experience, and meta symbolic experience of pizza as a hearth, as meeting point, as cultural convergence, as party, as sculpture, as gift, as collage, as pie, and individuals as ingredients within pieces of a social pie adding up to something greater than their whole in a deliciously simple way. This work of art celebrates the event and temporal moments of art-as-happening, document, and experience. Take a slice, be a part of Physical Pizza Networking Theory.
What was your inspiration for the work?
A new gallery was opening in Milwaukee several months ago, Small Space, and their inaugural show was a collage group show. Collage to me is a pretty broad category so I wanted to make a bonus statement in my work by making a delicious and fun interactive temporary sculpture that could be offered as a gift to anyone visiting this new conceptual art space. My work is typically about the structure of an art environment so pizza was a perfect template to exercise visceral enjoyment mashed with layers of intellect in a way to start talking about the social as material in a shared art experience.
How did people react to it?
They ate it up.
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Ah, both literally and figuratively, I suppose.... Did you cook the mini pizzas first and place them on the large pizza?
The pizza was fabricated by Jason Todd, the head pizza chef at Classic Slice. I think he precooked the little pizza doughs a bit and separately cooked the massive pizza dough then cooked them together with all the additional toppings. Jason could make the pizza larger than what commercial pizza box companies manufacture so I made a mega-sized pizza box to fit his peak output.
The mini pizzas look like they're all topped differently. I think I see pineapple pizza, olive pizza, onion pizza, ground-beef(?) topping pizza. How many different kinds of mini pizzas are there?
The final piece was a collage of different cultures' food (Hawaiian, vegan, meat lovers, macaroni, pepperoni, pesto pine nut, etc.), a collage of the actual pizza itself in an attempt at providing some perspective to the viewer of the levels of experience they might be having outside of the pizza, and finally a collage of the people attending the opening and participating in the piece by putting it inside of them.
It seems that PPNT is by definition a temporary piece and now exists only in photos and memory, but do you have plans to re-create it for future exhibitions?
The original Physical Pizza Networking Theory exists in the bellies of the Small Space visitors, but there are plans for it to be in another show in Milwaukee this fall at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Union Art Gallery. If that plan goes through, people will get several chances to participate in this piece in late September and October of this year in Milwaukee.
What's your favorite pizza place in Milwaukee?
I'm a fan of Classic Slice for their gigantic fresh pizza by the slice and their chill attitude.
Thanks for the rec, John, and thanks for playing along here.... Slice'rs, if you want to see more of John's work, his website is here: johnriepenhoff.com
UPDATE: Now you can eat the recursive pizza!
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BOONE COUNTY - The Boone County Sheriff's Department confirmed Friday the draining of a pond near route J and EE is related to the homicide investigation of Charles Bell.
Officials brought in two more trucks of pallets Friday to support another hose to pump water out of the pond. The second hose was put into the water around 2 p.m.
Boone County sheriffs deputies continued draining and searching the pond into Friday evening. Crews spent the day draining water using two large pumps.
Bell's family came to watch the deputies work and left around 5 p.m. Shortly after 6 p.m., deputies shut off the pumps and the pond appeared mostly drained. Deputies then started removing their waders and appeared to be packing up equipment. By 7:30, most people involved had left the site leaving only four unmarked trucks and a deputy at the scene.
Remaining crew members then started combing the eastern shallow portion of the pond with metal detectors. Deputies marked the area earlier in the day with several pink flags but were unable to confirm what those flags indicate.
Deputies did not say if their work at the pond is over or if it will continue into the weekend.
Authorities arrested Jennifer Freeman and Patrick Curl Wednesday in connection with Bell's disappearance and homicide. Freeman admitted to involvement in the case in court documents obtained Thursday.
Authorities believe Bell traveled from Harrisburg to Columbia, and returned home on September 15, 2011, before being killed in his home.
Deputies said Thursday Freeman admitted to concealing blood evidence and assisting several others in cleaning the crime scene following Bell's death.
Freeman and Curl appeared in Boone County court Friday. They appeared for initial arraignment and were charged with tampering with physical evidence and hindering prosecution.
[Editor's note: this story has been updated to include the latest information available in the investigation.]


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NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Unemployment and poverty in the United States is setting the stage for riots, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned on a weekly radio show.
Speaking on WOR Radio Friday, the Independent mayor made the unusually negative warning, but avoided direct criticism of Democratic President Barack Obama for a 9.1 percent national unemployment rate, saying Obama had inherited it "over long periods of time," the New York Daily News reported.
Referring to riots earlier this year in Cairo and Madrid by tens of thousands of people unable to find jobs, Bloomberg said "You don't want those kinds of riots here."
Census data released Tuesday showed the U.S. poverty rate rose to 15.1 percent in 2010, its highest level since 1993, CNNMoney reported.
Bloomberg said joblessness and poverty made for a potential powder keg.
"The public is not happy," he said. "The public knows there is something wrong in this country, and there is. The bottom line is that they're upset."
The mayor said the sharp political divide in Washington needs to be curtailed to get job creation working and that Obama's jobs plan was at least a starting point.
"At least he's got some ideas on the table, whether you like those or not," he said. "The only way you solve this problem is that everybody pays a little more and everybody gets a little less."


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She told about her book, The Mitten. She did a little illustration lesson and demonstration. She said that she spends at least an hour per inch of artwork in her books!
She talked about how she got the idea, where some of the characters came from and how she did her research.
When we were almost up to meet her, I went to get everybody their book and ticket ready and one of the tickets was lost! We had 4 books to be signed and only 3 tickets. I search and search with no luck. It must have been dropped and picked up by someone else. I grabbed Bee's hand and walked over to the kind person who helped us earlier. I was hoping that having a sad child in tow would help our cause. She said she had one emergency ticket on her and we got it. What luck again.
Jan (because we are on a first name basis) was so sweet as she met with each person. She talked with the kids and let them help stamp little pictures in the books by where she signed her name and did a little personalization. She even had pre-signed stickers if you had more than one book, since she was only doing one book per ticket.
I think tonight was the most fun for me, but Bee did seem excited to have her book signed. Lou was pretty excited about a large poster all the kids received. It was rolled up like a weapon. Hubby was just happy to have his favorite people enjoying themselves, and was pretty pleased with the inscription he asked Jan for. But, that's a secret.


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Agreeing to appear at the Insane Clown Posse's "Gathering of the Juggalos" pseudo-music festival pretty much means you're signing up to be booed, abused, and frequently pelted with garbage.
Charlie Sheen, however, is kind of used to that by now after his "Violent Torpedo of Truth" nationwide tour, so this pairing seemed like a natural.
And for the most part, Sheen was received with relative warmth during the three-day, Detroit-based festival. Boos were mixed with some cheers and many in the crowd played along with Sheen's catchphrase-driven banter - and although beer cans and other items were chucked at the 45 year-old actor, the crowds cheered when he calmly and good-naturedly caught them. (two videos have been posted from separate nights, one clearly positive and the other more ambiguous. Both feature language that is not safe for work, so be warned).
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A low chorus of boos and a few launched beer cans is as close as Juggalos - the nickname fans of the musical train wreck Insane Clown Posse gave themselves - come to a standing ovation.
The "Gathering of the Juggalos" show is a notoriously raucous and violent affair - last year, singer and reality TV star Tila Tequila was hit with rocks, bottles, firecrackers, feces, and other debris and suffered some minor injuries. So at least Sheen walked away unbloodied.
The Insane Clown Posse's Violent J took to the band's web site to support Sheen's appearance.
"My personal thinking is if everybody's making fun of Charlie Sheen , he's welcome with us. He can speak his mind, say what he wants to say and I don't think anybody's gonna make fun of him," said J.
"We never intentionally book anybody to be set up or get booed. Our intentions are nothing but to put on the greatest, best show possible," added fellow Clown Shaggy 2 Dope.
The Detroit-based hip hop duo formed in 1989, and have dabbled in video games, pro wrestling, and other endeavors. They are also confused by magnets.
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"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is like a more caustic, slightly younger version of "Seinfeld." You have three men and a woman who selfish, petty, and vindictive, who consider themselves friends yet who would sell any of the others out in a heartbeat. They're reprobates and narcissists. And they're also hilarious.
The show premiered on FX in 2005, did seven episodes that summer, then returned for a 10-episode second season in 2006. Now all 17 episodes have been released in one DVD package, and while the extras are lacking (see below), the show itself is well worth owning. You can watch these repeatedly and still find something to laugh at.
IASIP was the brainchild of its three male stars, Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day, who also serve as executive producers and write every episode. They play Mac, Dennis, and Charlie, three guys in their late 20s who, along with Dennis' sister Dee (Kaitlin Olson), own an Irish bar in Philly. All four are single and unattached. A more vain group of people you've never seen.
Dennis is faux-intellectual, suave, and well dressed. You get the impression his ideal sexual partner would be himself. Mac is more of a ladies' man, a little more blunt and physical. Charlie is the dumb one whose plans most often come to naught, the butt of everyone's jokes. (Cleaning the bathroom at the bar is known as "Charlie work.") Dee is shallow and petty like everyone else, her character not quite as distinctly defined.
The series is shot in a verite style, with dialogue that sounds natural and improvised despite being scripted. The plots read like a list of taboo subjects. Episode 1: Charlie and Mac try to prove they're not racist; meanwhile, the bar accidentally becomes Philly's hottest new gay bar. Episode 2: Mac and Dennis use anti-abortion and pro-choice rallies to pick up women. (They figure the gals on the pro-choice side are going to be, you know, "easier.")
Elsewhere: The bar becomes a hit with underage drinkers; Charlie thinks he has cancer and his friends use it to get sympathy for themselves; Dennis and Dee seek to defraud the welfare system ("Hi. I'm a recovering crack head. This is my retarded sister that I take care of. I'd like some welfare, please") and in the process become crack addicts; when it's revealed the guys' childhood gym teacher molested students, Mac gets jealous that the coach didn't abuse him, too. ("I was cute! I was energetic! I was fun!... Why didn't I get blown?!")
Fake patriotism, terrorist threats, the exploitation of supposed miracles, pretending to be wheelchair-bound, sleeping with your friend's mom, Nazis, gun control, it's all here.
You can imagine they sit in the writers' room and think, "OK, what supposedly taboo subject can be make jokes about?" But what I love about the show is that it never seems to be trying to be outrageous. It has a casual effortlessness about it, and it's always funny. It's never shocking just for the sake of being shocking.
Season 2 introduces Danny DeVito as Dennis and Dee's father -- a completely unnecessary addition, but one that was "suggested" by FX suits who wanted a famous name to draw in more viewers. Luckily, DeVito fits right in with the gang, playing Frank as a horny, shallow jerk just like his children and their friends.
FRANK: Look, I didn't go to Vietnam just to have pansies like you take my freedom away from me.
DEE: You went to Vietnam in 1993 to open up a sweatshop!
FRANK: And a lot of good men died in that sweatshop.
I also love this rapid-fire exchange, the day after Frank and dumb Charlie went out on the town and Frank wound up locking Charlie out of his own apartment.
FRANK: I want to live like you again, Charlie! I want to be pathetic and desperate and ugly and hopeless!
CHARLIE: I am not ugly.
FRANK: This is the change I've been looking for! I want to move in with you!
CHARLIE: Are you out of your damn mind, dude? You made me sleep out in the hall! You ignored my cries for help in the middle of the night!
FRANK: I'll pay for your rent for six months.
CHARLIE: Twelve.
FRANK: Six.
CHARLIE: Ten.
FRANK: Six.
CHARLIE: Nine.
FRANK: Six.
CHARLIE: Ten.
FRANK: Six.
CHARLIE: Twelve.
FRANK: Four.
CHARLIE: Six.
FRANK: Deal!
CHARLIE: All right, no more sleeping out in the hall, though.
FRANK: I can't promise that.
There really aren't any bad episodes in the bunch. "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom" is one of my favorites, if only for the very last shot of Charlie's crestfallen face as his latest plan has backfired.
The rest all have their highlights, too, like the moment in "The Gang Runs for Office" where Dennis films a commercial using the script written by Charlie, whose reading and writing skills are somewhat lacking: "Hello, fellow American. This you should vote me. I leave power good. Thank you. Thank you. If you vote me, I'm hot. (What?) Taxes, they'll be lower. Sun. The democratic vote for me is right thing to do, Philadelphia, so do."
The show is the right thing to do, viewers. So do.
The three discs come in two thin digipaks (two in one; one in the other), all encased in a glossy cardboard slipcover. Amusingly, it's DeVito'e head that appears the largest on the cover, and his name is the only one shown -- despite the fact that he doesn't appear until Season 2. Kudos to Danny DeVito's agent!
The episodes are divided over the three discs 7:6:4. The episodes appear in their proper production order, which occasionally (in Season 2) differs slightly from the order in which they were aired.
There are no alternate language tracks. There are optional subtitles in English, French, and Spanish.
VIDEO: Presented in its original full-screen (1:33) format and shot on digital video, the picture is sharp and crisp.
AUDIO: Dolby Digital Surround. The show aims for a natural feel, including ambient noise and natural sound effects. Everything sounds almost perfect, with the focus where it belongs: on the dialogue.
EXTRAS: Disc 1 has two scenes (5:30 total) from the original pilot, which served as a demo tape. Both eventually wound up, in slightly different form, in the "Charlie Gets Cancer" episode.
Disc 2 has an audio commentary on "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom" featuring the three male leads and Danny DeVito. Disc 3 has another audio commentary (for "Hundred Dollar Baby"), this time featuring the three guys and a girl who constitute the core cast. Both commentaries are breezy and funny and well worth listening to.
Also on Disc 3 are the rest of the extras:
"Sunny Side Up" (17:00) uses cast and crew interviews to tell the basic story of how the show originated and how it operates. It's pretty enjoyable behind-the-scenes stuff.
Another featurette (5:45) shows Kaitlin Olson's audition for the role of Dee, prefaced by an amusing story of how the producer/creators chose which scene to have her do. (The shenanigans involved there almost sound like one of the show's plots.) Olson, you'll notice, is the only cast member who had to audition, as the other three leads were being played by the show's writers.
"The Gang F***s Up" (4:00) is an outtake reel, and is funny enough as far as it goes. It's hard to believe that after 17 episodes there were only four minutes' worth of amusing outtakes.
Finally, there's a Fox Movie Channel segment (8:49) about the making of the show's second season. Very intriguing: DeVito only had 20 days in which to shoot all his scenes for the entire season. That meant having to do his stuff first, which meant cracking open all 10 shows, rather than shooting each episode in its entirety before moving on to the next one. You can imagine the logistical and continuity nightmare involved in shooting scenes that aren't just out of order, but that aren't even in the same episodes.
The show itself is highly recommendable. It's about as funny and smart a series as anything you'll find on TV today, and I eagerly await the start of Season 3 on Sept. 13. The DVD set is slightly disappointing, though. Only two commentaries for 17 episodes? Only four minutes of outtakes? The commentaries refer to a couple of alternate versions and deleted scenes -- so where are they? Why show a couple scenes from the unaired pilot but not the whole thing? It feels like they're skimping on us for no good reason.
But the show itself? Classic.


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It is assumed that Anne Dudley Bradstreet was buried in this cemetery, and the memorial stone was placed here on September 16, 2000. It was in honor of her 350 yr. anniversary of her birth. I was invited to attend, by the No. Andover Historical Commission, and there were about 50 of us there.


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Thanks to AndersBech for the tip on this one. Pictures are starting to leak as expected for the upcoming Garmin Edge 1030 and Vector 3 pedals. With Eurobike weeks away it's likely these will drop any time. Garmin seems to have learned not to launch at events as it gives them more time on the front pages so we may see it sooner.
Screenshots taken of site https://www.cyclerepublic.com/garmin which seems a legitimate enough source as it's an actual shop rather than a rumour site. The new devices look pretty much as imagined, with the Edge 1030 being a larger version of the Edge 820 (3.5″ screen rather than 2.3″) and the Vector 3 pedals looking like…well…pedals. But the pod is gone and hopefully the price will be competetive, and the installation as easy as the P1 pedals. If that's the case then these may be the smallest and lightest power pedals around. The Edge 1030 seems to have two physical buttons at least and even looks nice and slim with a 16 hour battery life. It seems to be a similar case size to the Edge 1000 which had a 3″ screen, but with smaller bezels to accomodate the 3.5″ screen. Personally I'd have liked to see the device shrink a bit rather than a larger screen, but I know many people wanted bigger screens so this seems a reasonable compromise. It's possible there will be something between the Edge 820 and the Edge 1030 too now that the 8xx series has become smaller.
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Updated on July 31, 2017 By lusty 38 Comments
Thanks to AndersBech for the tip on this one. Pictures are starting to leak as expected for the upcoming Garmin Edge 1030 and Vector 3 pedals. With Eurobike weeks away it's likely these will drop any time. Garmin seems to have learned not to launch at events as it gives them more time on the front pages so we may see it sooner.
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Mk July 31, 2017
kwayac August 1, 2017
Great news!
Let's see if we have some more 'official' news soon.
JeffF August 1, 2017
Popularity based routing sounds good, it's about time they updated the routing engine, I wonder if it's in partnership with Strava or if they're leveraging data from Garmin Connect.
The screen looks lovely, hopefully that's not just an artists impression 🙂
The connected features are intriguing, you can already see others with livetrack, be cool to be able to click on them and plan a route, or send your location and a canned message.
If they get the price right I'm in (subject to the DCR review he's probably halfway through right now).
lusty August 2, 2017
I'd have thought they would just use their own data. A very large portion of the data on Strava started life in a Garmin unit and flowed through Connect so there is no real reason to pay for data they have.
JeffF August 2, 2017
Yes you'd expect so. Makes sense to use their own data and yesterdays multiple outages on Garmin Connect make it look like they're making updates there. Route planning on GC really needs some attention so fingers crossed.
Accio August 1, 2017
I Hope Vector3 compatibile with Shimano cleaps.
lusty August 2, 2017
More likely Look cleats
Pauli August 1, 2017
New form factor perhaps but is the hardware inside any different to the Edge 1000? If not, hopefully at least some of these features will trickle down into new software for the 1000 (having bought one recently!).
lusty August 2, 2017
After three years I would expect much improved internals. It will support Bluetooth sensors for a start! Unlikely that many features will go to the Edge 1000 after launch, a few might but Garmin usually cut off the old platform once a new one is released.
JeffF August 3, 2017
It'd be great to see teardowns of these devices like we get for new iphones. I'd be really interested to know which socs are being used. Would let us know just how underpowered the 820 really is and how improved kthe 1030 is over the 1000.
JeffF August 3, 2017
This connct iq benchmark app was the best performance indicator i could find. 520 and 820 quite close in performance with 1000 roughly 5x faster. Considering the 820 came out 2 years after the 1000 thats some seriously messed up design decision, but its also surprising just how powerful the 1000 is compared to other garmin devices.
Eli August 3, 2017
Garmin has to balance battery life and the 1000 has a bigger battery. Hopefully the replacement has a newer CPU so it more efficient and gets a longer battery life even if it isn't much faster.
The other thing to look at is Garmin tends to share base hardware between devices even if the case, software/functionality on them is different. Currently the 1000, oregon7xx and rino7xx seem to share base hardware. Are they about to release a new base hardware platform with the 1030 leading the way? Or is this a more minor update like the 810 was to the 800?
Eli August 3, 2017
Looking at it that way the last major platform change Garmin had was awhile ago. (The F5 seems to be based on the fr735, the Edge 820 was based on the 520)
So if they have a team dedicated to the very lower level of the devices (ie cpu level) then they haven't switched to a new platform in awhile so it may be time for something new.
lusty August 4, 2017
I wouldn't put too much stock in that app as a relative measure of device performance. It's likely that the app is designed as single threaded so if the 820 has a multiple core part but with lower clock speed you'd get a lower score even if the overall platform performs better than the 1000. We'll see when the 1030 arrives as I'd expect that to have a lower score too, which will no doubt cause huge debated in forums. Ultimately though, it's a reflection of modern processor design which is all about power and efficiency. The only question is whether the device has sufficient power to run the firmware, and even then that often needs a year from Garmin to refine.
Eli August 4, 2017
That app is singlethreaded. Connect IQ doesn't deal with threads
You think the garmin's are multicore? Going multicore from the hardware side may be easy as lots of multicore chips exist that would still require garmin to make their core OS to support multicore. Why would they? They don't really need that much processing power.
lusty August 5, 2017
Most modern chips are multithreaded for power reasons. Shutting down cores is the best way to save power.
JeffF August 7, 2017
What would really work for a bike computer like the 1030 is big.little, pairing a larger powerful core with a small, very energy efficient core. Reading sensor data and updating the screen takes very little CPU effort, but route planning needs a much more powerful CPU.
Only powering up the big CPU when routing or doing other complex calcs, and running on the small low power core otherwise (probably 99% of the time) could give some really long battery life, with the excellent response time that's currently lacking on devices like the 820. Whether Garmin thinks the development effort is worth it is another question but seems logical enough to me.
Eli August 7, 2017
lusty, software hardware, all you're talking about is the hardware side. If Garmin decided to move to an Android core of the OS, sure.
You know the other way of saving power? Enter sleep as fast as you can. These devices aren't that CPU intensive that a speed oriented chip is even needed
JeffF August 8, 2017
The edge 820 is very underpowered. I've not tried the 1000. Maybe its just bad software and it could be optimised but its been 2 years now. Agreed we aren't looking at smartphone levels of throughput but every new feature ups the cpu load and the device needs to be responsive or the user gets frustrated. If Garmin don't make the best device possible there are others that will, Wahoo, Karoo, maybe Yahoo are planning something too 😉
Matthew August 2, 2017
Unimportant aspect, but aesthetics do matter.
From the above pictures it looks like the Out-Front mount has finally had a 'make-over' and has placed the 1030 more in front and lower, which is much better in-line position than before.
Does that mean the 1030 will come with this improved mount, or was this just a marketing picture, and the 1030 will sit in an awkward angle, half hanging over the stem?
lusty August 4, 2017
That's the Varia mount which has been available for a while. It might be a new one, but I'd assume it's not. DCRainmaker wrote about this one recently although I've no recollection of what post it was in.
lusty August 4, 2017
Could be this one https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/04/garmin-varia-ut800-smart-bike-light-in-depth-review.html
Matthew August 28, 2017
So it seems there is a new 'flush' mount included
ugl August 3, 2017
Bluetooth…and wifi.
lusty August 4, 2017
Well spotted, that would indicate it's either today or later next week 🙂
Matthew August 4, 2017
is there an update expected on the Garmin out front mount. Pictures above show the 1030 is lower more in line position?
lusty August 4, 2017
Answered above – it's probably just the varia mount. You can see the light in one of the pics.
nutz August 4, 2017
The 1000 has BLE too.
Will it connect to BLE sensors though? That's what we want to know.
Andy August 7, 2017
thank goodness, I was beginning to wonder if we would ever see a successor to the edge 1000
Bill Mck August 25, 2017
I was in a reputable local bike shop last night and was told the 1030 was going on sale on Tuesday, 8/29.
Pinin August 26, 2017
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Mk August 27, 2017
found this
Bill Mck August 29, 2017
Here are two reviews of the 1030, one very positive (DC), one more critical (Bike Radar):
DC Rainmaker:
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ugl August 30, 2017
yes dc never experienced touchscreen issues with the 820, but I think it says in the review of the 1030 that the issues are improved. confusing.
garmin edge January 8, 2018
This was an upgrade to my 510. Paired with new Vecror 3, the first ride was excellent. Enjoyed the screen size and clarity of the activity pages. Mapping looks like it will be awesome; notified me that I was on unpaved rodes…. was able to use current mounting hardware and integrated with my Garmin Connect account without issue.
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Ph.D. Program
The Ph.D. degree in history is offered with concentrations in Medieval History, Early Modern European History, Modern European History, American History, and Latin American History. The department also offers coursework in Middle Eastern History and Asian History.
During the first semester of full-time study, doctoral students choose a faculty advisor, who oversees the student's progress in preparing for comprehensive exams and in developing a dissertation topic.
The Ph.D. is a research degree and requires special commitment and skills. While the degree is not granted for routine adherence to certain regulations, or for the successful completion of a specified number of courses, there are certain basic requirements.
- Course Requirements
- Plan of Study
- Fields of Study
- Language Requirement
- The Comprehensive Exam
- Dissertation Proposal
- The Dissertation
Course Requirements
Students in the Ph.D. program must complete a minimum of 39 credits (13 courses). Thirty-six credits must be completed before the oral comprehensive exam. All students in the Ph.D. program are required to pursue full-time study in the first year. Students must take at least one seminar in each of their first two years and at least three colloquia (the Introduction to Doctoral Studies, one in a major area, and one in a minor area) before the comprehensive exam.
Only history courses numbered 4000 or above count towards the doctoral requirements. In the first year, students take three courses per semester; in the second, two courses per semester. In the third year, students take two courses in the fall, complete their comprehensive exam, and then take the Dissertation Seminar in the spring. By the end of the third year, Ph.D. students should have completed all 39 credits. After the Dissertation Proposal is signed and filed, students officially enter into doctoral candidacy (informally known as All But Dissertation or ABD).
Plan of Study
At the start of each academic year, students meet with the Director of Graduate Studies to go over their plan of study, which is a schedule of courses that will prepare students for the comprehensive examination. For the comprehensive exam students must prepare three areas of concentration or fields, typically two major and one minor. In exceptional circumstances students may pick four areas of concentration, two major and two minor. For each area of concentration, students must identify a faculty member who will serve as an examiner.
In consultation with the examiner for each area students develop a reading list of important books and articles. Most faculty members require students to undertake formal coursework in preparation for the comprehensive exam. With the approval of the advisor and the Director of Graduate Studies, students may offer for their minor field a discipline related to history or a historical topic that cuts across traditional geographical or chronological boundaries. If necessary to a student's program, the department may require advanced-level study in a related discipline, either as a minor field or as supplemental work. This plan of study may be reviewed, evaluated and revised as necessary. However, changes must be approved by the faculty advisor and the Director of Graduate Studies.
Fields of Study
|American History
|Modern European
|U.S. to 1877
|Europe, 1789-1914
|U.S. Since 1860
|Europe, 1870-1945
|Intellectual and Cultural
|Contemporary Europe
|Social, Economic, and Labor
|Intellectual and Cultural
|Social, Economic, and Labor
|Race and Ethnicity
|Gender and Women
|Modern Britain
|Modern France
|Latin American
|Modern Germany
|Colonial Latin America
|Modern Ireland
|Modern Latin America
|Central America/Caribbean
|Social and Economic
|Middle East
|Religious and Cultural
|India and South Asia
|Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman
|East Asia
|Early Medieval France and Flanders
|Early Modern European
|Intellectual and Cultural
|Social and Economic
|Gender and Women
|Atlantic World
|Early Modern France
Language Requirement
Ph.D. candidates, with the exception of medievalists, must pass exams in two languages before taking the oral comprehensive examination. Students will pass one language exam during the first year in the program, and the second exam before taking the oral comprehensive examination. Students concentrating in US History may substitute competency in a field of particular methodological or theoretical relevance to their program of study for competency in a second foreign language. To do so, students must petition the Graduate Committee and explain the nature of the field and its importance to the plan of study, particularly the dissertation. The student's faculty advisor is responsible for certifying that the student has satisfactorily acquired the appropriate skills and knowledge. Medievalists must pass three language exams, one of which must be in Latin or Greek.
The Comprehensive Exam
An oral comprehensive examination for Ph.D. students is conducted by an examining board composed of three faculty members, two from the student's major area and one each from the minor area. (Students preparing four areas will be examined by four faculty members.) A written examination may be substituted for an oral exam at the discretion of the student and the examining board.
Students must take their oral comprehensive exam before the start of the spring semester in their third year of study. As preparation for the comprehensive exam, students select three areas for study and complete the necessary coursework for those areas. They must ask three different faculty members to serve as examiners and in consultation with the faculty prepare a reading list for each area. Students are advised to constitute their orals committee by the end of their second year so that they can prepare for orals during the summer before their third year. Each student is responsible for setting an exam date and time in consultation with the faculty examiners. After doing this, student should contact the Graduate Assistant who will reserve a room and prepare the necessary paperwork. The exam itself will last two hours, and each professor will have a chance to ask a number of questions regarding their field.
Dissertation Proposal
In the spring semester of the third year, students enroll in the dissertation seminar in which they draft a dissertation proposal. The proposal is an overview of the dissertation question, research agenda, methodology, likely source base, relevant historiography, and a timeline for research and writing. The proposal will be graded by the faculty member teaching the dissertation seminar. During this semester, students should also assemble a dissertation committee, which typically will consist of their academic advisor, who will serve as chairand at least two other faculty members. With the permission of their advisor and the Director of Graduate Studies, students may select committee members from outside the department. The proposal must be approved by the student's dissertation committee. The proposal and the signed proposal approval form must be submitted to the Graduate Assistant who will add it to the student's file.
The Dissertation
Upon admission to doctoral candidacy, students research and write their dissertation, which is an original contribution to knowledge based on extensive primary and secondary research. The completed dissertation must be approved by a committee of three readers - the faculty advisor and two other faculty members - and approved by the Director of Graduate Studies. It must also be defended at a public oral defense.


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Yeah I tried to watch it because I like hbo shows and try to check them out but it was just not my thing. I'm sure others love it. Oh well.
It has also been confirmed that Star Wars: Episode VII is set about 30 years after the events of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, and will star a trio of new young leads along with some very familiar faces. No further details on casting or plot are available at this time.
30 years, eh? Nice knowing you Han.
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Back in 2009 I created a visual resource for GCSE students to illustrate the urban redevelopment of part of Exeter's CBD. The case study perfectly fitted the AQA GCSE syllabus and proved very popular, but a recent change in the Google Maps API broke the linked maps.
Now that Google have helpfully provided the Google Views service that supports photospheres I've been able to improve the resource. I've also taken the opportunity to go through the pages updating links and trimming the student task. The panoramas are not as high quality as the originals and they lack the embedded hotspots but at least they now work with Google maps again. Click the image below to go directly to the linked photospheres of Princesshay or head over to Juicy Geography to find the updated resource in its entirety.
For AQA spec A the relevant parts of the Changing Urban Environments syllabus are:
Housing – the attempts to satisfy the increased housing needs of the population in different parts of the city.
Traffic – impact of increased use of road transport on the environment and solutions aimed at reducing the impact.
Revitalising the image of the CBD by improving the physical environment.
Recently I have used the presentation below to introduce and recap the case study…


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Volcano fallout hits Minnesota cultural events
Flight cancellations caused by the Icelandic volcano has led to the cancellation of one big Minnesota cultural event - and the addition of a few more.
The highest profile Minnesota event to fall victim to the flying restrictions from the ash cloud is the upcoming lecture by writer Alexander McCall Smith.
McCall Smith, author of the best-selling "Number One Ladies Detective Agency" books was scheduled to read at the State Theater on Monday April 26th. But he is unable to leave his home in Scotland because of the flight ban. Refunds are available at point of purchase.
The return of former Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Music Director Denis Russell Davis has also been postponed because he cannot leave Europe. Davis had been scheduled to lead two weeks of concerts at the SPCO, but is now unable to come for the first week. SPCO artistic partner Thomas Zehetmair will replace him.
The Minnesota Orchestra reports that Music Director Osmo Vanska made it out on the last flight from Paris before the flight ban hit, so he will be able to lead the Orchestra later this week.
Ukranian conductor Kirill Karabits. who led the Minnesota Orchestra last weekend, cannot return to Europe as planned. However he has signed up to conduct the Huston Symphony this coming Thursday, replacing a conductor who was stuck in Europe.
Another person stuck on this side of the Atlantic is former Norwegian resistance fighter Gunnar Sonsteby. He was the guest of honor on Thursday at two sold out screenings of "Max Manus" on the opening night at the Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival. It's the story of his group known as the Oslo Gang which fought against the German occupation in World War II.
As he is stuck in town, he has added an extra appearance tomorrow night at the film festival at 7 pm.
A check of other venues in the Twin Cities found few other problems. However if the disruptions continue into next week, promoters recommend checking to make sure shows with performers from Europe are going ahead.


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Professional race car driver Brian Olatunji and the Leadfoot Motorsports team are revving up the 2014 racing season with a big announcement! Hit reality series "Dreams To Champions" has joined Discovery Communications' Velocity network, set to debut this Saturday.
"Dreams To Champions" is back by popular demand. The fast paced ten episode reality series follows motorsports young guns on the fast track. Featuring racers Brian O, Juan Carlos Blum and Jonathan Castro the show was a success when initially shown on SPEED last year. After a massive network overhaul Fox Sports Media Group broadened the channel's focus to including a vast array of live sporting events. When SPEED was rebranded as Fox Sports 1 the decision was made to drop motorsports oriented reality programming. Discovery Communications seized the opportunity to incorporate "Dreams To Champions" into its programming portfolio on their high octane, male targeted network Velocity.
"We are elated Velocity chose to pick-up Dreams To Champions and grateful to SPEED for giving us the initial platform to let the world know who we are. This opportunity is like being born again and excitement is an understatement!" stated Brian O.
"Dreams To Champions" is racing to debut on Velocity, Saturday March 15, 2014 at 3 pm eastern / noon pacific. Be sure to catch each episode and follow Brian O, Juan Carlos Blum and Jonathan Castro as they chase their dreams of winning a professional championship.
Check your local listing for further programming details.
Stay tuned for news of a second heart-pounding season and information on how you could appear on "Dreams To Champions" alongside Brian O.


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Iceland in February!
This past winter, Suzie and I went to Iceland to see the Northern lights. We stayed in the Northern Light Inn on a lava field in Southwestern Iceland, very close to the Blue Lagoon. We toured around our corner of the country and spent a few days in Reykjavik as well.
The Blue Lagoon was formed by the runoff from a geo-thermal electricity plant set in a lava field. The runoff contained so much white silica mud that it clogged the pores of the lava and created a shallow warm lagoon. Now it's a spa and heaven to soak in. As you can see, it's baby blue set in a landscape of black lava – very dramatic.
The weather at the Blue Lagoon changed every fifteen minutes or so. The sky would be bright blue, then huge hail would fall for a few minutes. Then the sky would be blue again, the rain. Then blue, then snow. All within a couple of hours.
We hired a car and driver who took us on a tour around the Reykyanes peninsula, that is Southwestern Iceland. We visited Gulfoss – a huge waterfall about a third the size of Niagara.
Iceland also has the oldest parliament in the world, running for a thousand years. This is the site of the original parliament – the Althing – where Vikings came together to vote.
Geyser is one of the few words in English that comes from Icelandic. The original Geyser is dormant now, but only a few yards away is Strokkur, which erupts every few minutes.
Reykjavik is the country's only city, and its historic district resembles a more urban version of Cape May. It's all Victorian with very similar buildings and gingerbread, only in Iceland the traditional siding is not clapboard by corrugated iron.


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Congressional members charged with overseeing the interests of former American service members have asked the Department of Veterans Affairs for a briefing to explain why its "work study" program is often months late paying many of its employees: college students who served in the military.
Kami Fluetsch
Iraq and Afghanistan veteran Ashley Metcalf, now a student at the University of Colorado Denver, says he and other students employed by the VA to help fellow vets transition into college frequently wait months for VA wages to arrive.
The House Committee on Veterans Affairs issued that request of VA officials on Wednesday, one day after NBC News reported student veterans hired by the VA to help fellow ex-service members transition into college have routinely waited one to two months — and, in one case, four months — for unpaid wages. Delayed compensation from the VA has caused eviction worries and mounting debt among some of those student veterans.
A call by NBC News to VA media relations officials Wednesday seeking comment on the Congressional briefing was not returned by Thursday morning.
Rep. Jeff Miller, R. Fla., chairman of the committee on veterans affairs, said the VA's sluggish payment-pipeline seems to be "just another example" of a federal agency purposely sticking to outmoded practices versus modernizing its approach in order to help veterans. He also called for a wholesale streamlining in the way student veterans who work for the VA on campuses across the nation are reimbursed for their hours logged on the job.
"It is my understanding that VA's policy is to have student veterans accumulate 50 to 100 hours of work before submitting their claim for payment to VA. That payment schedule is counterintuitive to how people pay their living expenses," Miller said.
"Therefore, GI Bill work study participants should be able to verify their working hours on a calendar basis, similar to the way Montgomery GI Bill students verify their enrollment on a monthly basis, as they have for decades," Miller added. "VA has the technology to set up the system in this way already. So, this problem appears to be just another example of government bureaucracy being satisfied with business as usual instead of evolving to serve veterans more efficiently."
Ashley Metcalf, a student veteran — and a "work study" employee who uncovered the scope of the payment snags via a survey of 18 colleges — said Miller's plan to fix the issue would solve the VA's payment snags.
"He's absolutely correct," said Metcalf, an Air Force veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I started school under the Montgomery GI bill in 2007 and used that online system to verify my school attendance. This option seems like a solution that simply requires reallocating resources and tweaking the system a bit to fit work study requirements."
Metcalf, a student at the University of Colorado Denver, told NBC News he's been living on credit cards since June and was forced to obtain an emergency loan because the VA has failed to compensate him for about 100 hours he's logged in the VA work study program.
According to the VA website, the "work-study allowance" is available through the post-9/11 GI Bill. Student veterans employed by the program earn the minimum wage from the VA for devoting hours to specified, on-campus jobs such as "providing assistance to veteran students with general inquiries about veteran benefits," the site says, adding: "VA will pay you each time you complete 50 hours of service."
But Metcalf's survey earlier this year found VA work-study employees at five campuses who reported waiting one month to two months for payments — and a student in North Dakota who was not compensated for four months. (Among the 18 schools represented in the survey were Texas A&M, Florida State and the University of Kentucky). Survey participants also revealed that a number of student veterans have quit their work-study jobs due to the chronic payment delays, hamstringing veteran-services departments at some campuses.
On Wednesday, a VA spokesperson offered an e-mailed reaction to Metcalf's survey results, in part putting the onus back on colleges where work-study employees have been hired to help fellow vets: "VA will review any issues with the work-study to ensure payments are delivered in a timely manner. To allow more timely payments to work-study students, our regional processing offices recommend that employers submit time records to the work-study coordinator once 50 work hours have been accrued. In some cases, time records are submitted after a student has accrued 100 or more hours."
The same e-mail from VA added: "VA regional processing offices for work-study typically process time cards quickly, on average less than a week."
"The word 'typically' would suggest that we are an anomaly. And that's not by any means the case," Metcalf responded.
Beyond finding delayed VA payments to student veterans at more than a dozen campuses covered by his survey, Metcalf said student veterans in two additional states — Michigan and Washington — contacted him after NBC News reported the glitches and added their late-payment complaints to the growing list.
"If we were an anomaly, it would only be happening to us," Metcalf said. "Before we even sent out the survey, we called different schools and different organizations. We went online to find out if other schools are having the same issue. That's the reason we started the survey — we were talking to student veterans who were all having the same problems in different states."
He also responded to the VA's claim of "typically" processing time cards in less than a week with one word: "preposterous."
According to Metcalf and many of the students he surveyed at the 18 other colleges, the VA has frequently failed to respond to calls and e-mails from student veterans seeking to learn when their owed wages would be arriving and asking for explanations for the compensation holdups.
"We've been trying to tell them," Metcalf said, "and no one there is listening."
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why werent these used with airman's butler robot, as opposed to his choice of wheelchair motors?
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Quote from: airman00 on December 30, 2008, 05:41:13 PM...( when the time comes.... )Judgement Day???
True, they are geared heavily, run on 12 VDC, and the works...a typical windshield wiper motor can handle up to about 17 lbs-foot at forty rotations per minute. I was originally going to use them for my robot NINA, but she was getting to be a big robot! (Bigger than I intended), and I was really beginning to doubt that 17 lb-foot was going to move her. I happened to have wheelchair motors I bought from ebay earlier, so I move her to those. (I'm saving those two windshield wiper motors for another project. Maybe a lightweight trashcan rover thingie, once I find something useful for it to do.)But I did hear they're not very power efficient. And they're expensive, (unless you get them from a auto junk shop for $20 each). Plus, I think the wiring is really confusing for some of them...But sure! They're be great for small, to medium weight robots. Maybe even some heavy-medium robots. Just not the one I'm building right now.


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Taylor Swift And One Direction Lead 2013 Kids' Choice Awards Nominations
Posted by imoviezone in Music Awards & Nominations on April 18, 2013
Taylor Swift is preparing to do battle with her rumored ex-boyfriend Harry Styles As she goes head-to-head with his band One Direction at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.
Swift, who reportedly split from Styles last month after a brief romance, is nominated for three trophies at the upcoming ceremony, including Favorite Song for her break-up hit We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.
Ironically, the song puts her in direct competition with Styles, who is nominated in the same category with One Direction for their track What Makes You Beautiful. The singer and the boy band will face competition from Psy's megahit Gangnam Style and Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen.
A statement from Styles reads, "We are delighted with our nominations for the Kids' Choice Awards… Thank you as always to our incredible fans and supporters!"
Swift is also competing for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie for The Lorax and Favorite Female Singer, while One Direction are also up for Favorite Musical Group alongside Bon Jovi, Maroon 5 and Big Time Rush.
In the Hollywood categories, the contenders for the Favorite Movie award are The Amazing Spider-Man, The Avengers, The Hunger Games, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days.
The Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence will do battle with The Avengers' Scarlett Johansson for the Favorite Movie Actress trophy alongside Vanessa Hudgens (Journey 2: Mysterious Island) and Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2).
Johnny Depp (Dark Shadows), Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man), Zachary Gordon (Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days) and Will Smith (Men in Black 3) are in the running for Favorite Movie Actor.
Nickelodeon's 26th Annual Kids' Choice Awards, hosted by actor Josh Duhamel, will take place at the University of Southern California's Galen Center in Los Angeles on March 23rd.


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Cook the Book: Butterscotch Pudding with Sautéed Pears
The first time I ventured into Tyler Kord's No. 7 in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood, I can say that my mind was truly blown. Combining fried broccoli, dill, grapefruit, and black beans didn't seem like it'd work, but somehow on the plate they mesh beautifully. Same goes for the sandwiches at No. 7 Sub, Kord's new sandwich shop in Manhattan, where our own Carey Jones agreed there was a mad scientist at play.
When it comes time for dessert, No. 7's pastry chef Amanda Clarke, an alumna of Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Perry Street (Amanda used to have her own baking column here) introduces exciting flavors and textures that are still sweet enough to satisfy.
This recipe for Butterscotch Pudding with Sautéed Pears joins sweetly caramelized pears with a rum-spiked butterscotch pudding. Cooking the pears down in a combination of olive oil, sugar, and lemon and orange juices renders them sweet with a welcome hit of citrus, perfect for cutting through the rich creaminess of the butterscotch pudding. At No. 7, Clarke serves her puddings with a dollop of freshly whipped cream and a few crisp shortbread cookies flavored with finely ground Turkish coffee. But at home, spooning through the pudding for the bits of caramelized pears at the bottom of the dish is more than enough to make for a wonderfully comforting fall dessert.
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of The New Brooklyn Cookbook to give away this week.
Adapted from The New Brooklyn Cookbook by Melissa Vaughan and Brendan Vaughan. Copyright © 2010. Published by William Morrow. Available wherever books are sold. All Rights Reserved.
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- Yield:6
- For the sautéed pears:
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 firm bartlett pears, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch dice (about 2 1/2 cups)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice
- For the butterscotch pudding:
- 3 large egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon dark molasses
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 vanilla bean, split, scraped, seeds discarded
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons dark rum
- 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces
- Whipped cream
- Freshly grated nutmeg
To make the pears, heat the oil in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add the pears and sugar and sauté until the sugar begins to caramelize and the pears begin to soften, 6 or 7 minutes. Add the lemon and orange juices and cook until the liquid is reduced to a glaze, about 7 minutes. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper and spread the pears in a single layer to cool. Place a heaping tablespoon of pears in the bottom of 6 individual serving bowls. Set aside.
To make the pudding, in a medium bowl, whisk the egg yolks and cornstarch until smooth. Add the molasses and salt and whisk to incorporate. Slowly whisk in 1/2 cup of the milk until the mixture is smooth; set aside.
Combine the heavy cream, the remaining 1 cup milk, and the vanilla bean in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat until the liquid begins to steam. Remove the vanilla bean and keep the mixture warm.
Spread the sugar evenly over the bottom of a heavy medium saucepan and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons water; place over medium heat and cook, without stirring, until the sugar has caramelized to an amber color, about 15 minutes. Slowly add the cream mixture in a thin
stream. Stir well with a wooden spoon to thoroughly combine. Remove from the heat.
Prepare an ice bath in a large bowl and place a clean metal bowl atop the ice.
Stir the egg yolk–cornstarch mixture, then temper by slowly pouring 1/4 cup of the hot caramel-milk mixture into the eggs, whisking constantly. Whisk in another 1/4 cup of the hot mixture. Pour the egg mixture into the pot with the remaining caramel milk and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture boils, 6 to 8 minutes. Cook for 1 more minute, stirring, until the mixture thickens. Immediately pour the pudding into the bowl over the ice bath. Stir in the rum. When the mixture has cooled slightly, transfer to a food processor or blender. Add the butter, 1 tablespoon at a time, and blend until smooth and emulsified. Pour into serving dishes over the sautéed pears to within 1/4 inch of the top. Wrap tightly with plastic. Chill for at least 4 hours, or up to 3 days.
To serve, top the pudding with whipped cream and sprinkle with freshly grated nutmeg. Serve 3 shortbread cookies with each bowl of pudding.
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