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scarce as hen's teeth
(as) scarce as hens' teeth
Incredibly scarce or rare; extremely difficult or impossible to find. Support for the candidate is as scarce as hens' teeth in this part of the country.
*scarce as hen's teethand scarcer than hen's teeth
Cliché scarce; seldom found. (*Also: as ~.) I do declare, decent people are as scarce as hen's teeth in these chaotic times. Handmade lace is scarcer than hen's teeth; most lace is made by machine.
scarce as hen's teeth
Also, scarcer than hen's teeth. Exceptionally rare, as in On a rainy night, taxis are as scarce as hen's teeth. Since hens have no teeth, this term in effect says that something is so scarce as to be nonexistent. [Mid-1800s]
(as) rare/scarce as hen's ˈteeth(old-fashioned) extremely rare: Critics always complain that good movies that the whole family can see together are as scarce as hen's teeth.
This refers to the fact that hens do not have teeth.
scarce as hen's teeth
Singularly rare. Also put as scarcer than hen's teeth, this allusion to nonexistent dentition is an Americanism of the nineteenth century. It appeared in James Gilmore's My Southern Friends (1863): "Horses are scarcer than hen's teeth around here."
scarce as hen's teeth
Nonexistent. Hens have no teeth, so what could possibly be scarcer? (Stones in their gizzards act as teeth to grind their food).


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Yes, the Z8 also uses the Symbian UIQ interface - version 3.1, in point of fact - but nowhere does Motorola mention that this is a smartphone. UIQ is a pen-based interface that Motorola has used in the past - for the first Hutchison 3G phones - but the Z8 is the first phone to use the soft-key variant. There's no touchscreen, in other words. It soon becomes apparent that Motorola, like the Japanese manufacturers, has chosen Symbian as a base primarily for performance reasons. The Z8 is a top-class performer, with none of the performance lags experienced on many recent smartphones. And this is particularly true for video, which it handles with the grace and reliability of Christiano Ronaldo falling over in the opposition's penalty box unchallenged.
So we've figured out how to open the phone - what does it do?
In theory, UIQ also gives the Z8 application compatibility with third-party applications - but this is a new implementation of the UI, and so it's a rather more complicated picture. We'll go onto application compatibility further on.
Motorola bundles the Z8 with a Bluetooth stereo headset, a full-length movie... and Sky Anywhere, the remote control for your BSkyB box. The device is entirely focused around media playback and control, in other words, a focus that's reflected throughout.
Video playback is very impressive: at 30 frames per second it's a higher framerate, and a more fluid experience, than TV or DVD. The pin-sharp display means even subtitles are readable. Or put another way, you might even be able to recognise the features of Matt Damon, as the movie The Bourne Identity is bundled with the phone. Full-length movies pause and resume instantly after being dispatched to the background - although this does screw up the audio sync on the soundtrack. We found a couple of stop/starts were usually enough to resync video and audio.

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Vixen or Martyr to the Cult of Celebrity and Glamour?
On October 15th 1917 Mata Hari/agent H-21 faced execution by firing squad. A wretched way to go, made more poignant as she was not only a great beauty, but most likely not guilty.
ca. 1910
b. 7th Aug. 1876
d. 15th Oct. 1917
execution by firing squad.
Born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle in the Netherlands, wisely going by the far sexier stage name Mata Hari; the former Margaretha cultivated an image of mystery, glamour, and forbidden danger.
That and she was blessed with a very hot body.
During WW I , as a Dutch subject she was free to cross borders, from different sources she seemed to have kept lovers in enemy cities . If this were not the case, she certainly seems to have enjoyed cultivating the allure of her very own Dance of the Seven Veils.
This terpsichorean enchantment seems to have clouded her judgement, for when faced by French intelligence officers accusing her of being the German spy H-21, she ultimately confessed. Had the poor thing been broken down, or had her own perception of her seductive powers , a modern day Salome -narcissism, pushed her forward before the firing squad.
I don't know, I will leave that to the scholars. For now more lovely remembrances of this iconic femme fatale.
source for this image, and the following
No discussion pertaining to femme fatales is complete without mention of that grandest of vixens , Greta Garbo ,who somehow avoided the firing squad, yet seduced us all.
I include only a clip of her marvelous performance of the doomed Mata Hari, I think I am due a second viewing.
I suggest if you wish to see more images of this enchantress you follow this link, H-21 warrants further investigation : Mata Hari link .
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This year Food Truck Friday runs from June 7 until October 4 from 11 am till 2 pm at the Free Stamp in Willard Park, right next to City Hall. This annual event is part of Mayor Frank G. Jackson's Art in Everything Initiative. Great music and top local bands are featured every week.
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The following excerpts are from the Conclusion to Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Enjoy!
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that is one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so. As if that were important, and there were not enough to understand you without them. As if Nature could support but one order of understandings, could not sustain birds as well as quadrupeds, flying as well as creeping things . . .
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring. Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit. Some would find fault with the morning-red, if they ever got up early enough. "They pretend," as I hear, "that the verses of Kabir have four different senses; illusion, spirit, intellect, and the exoteric doctrine of the Vedas"; but in this part of the world it is considered a ground for complaint if a man's writings admit of more than one interpretation. While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?
Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or even the Elizabethan men. But what is that to the purpose? A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprise? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It isnot important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality. Shall we with pains erect a heaven of blue glass over ourselves, though when it is done we shall be sure to gaze still at the true ethereal heaven far above, as if the former were not?
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. . . . If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me. . . . It is life near the bone where it is sweetest. You are defended from being a trifler. . . . Superfluous wealth can buy superfluitites only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
. . . I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me; not hang by the beam of the scale and try to weigh less, not suppose a case, but take the case that is; to travel the only path I can, and that on which no power can resist me. It affords me no satisfaction to commence to spring an arch before I have got a solid foundation. Let us not play at kittybenders. There is a solid bottom everywhere. We read that the traveler asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The boy replied that it had. But presently the traveler's horse sank in up to the girths, and he observed to the boy, "I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom." "So it has," answered the latter, "but you have not got half way to it yet." So it is with the bogs and quicksands of society; but he is an old boy that knows it. . . .
. . . Every one has heard the story which has gone the rounds of New England, of a strong and beautiful bug which came out of the dry leaf of an old table of apple-tree wood, which had stood in a farmer's kitchen for sixty years, first in Connecticut, and afterward in Massachusetts - from an egg deposited in the living tree many years earlier still, as appeared by counting the annual layers beyond it; which was heard gnawing out for several weeks, hatched perchance by the heat of an urn. Who does not feel his faith in a resurrection and immortality strengthened by hearing of this? Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society, deposited at first in the alburnum of the green and living tree, which has been gradually converted into the semblance of its well-seasoned tomb - heard perchance gnawing out now for years by the astonished family of man, as they sat round the festive board - may unexpectedly come forth from amidst society's most trivial and handselled furniture, to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!
I do not say that John or Johnathan will realize all this; but such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn. The light which puts our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning-star. [end]
I may be going through a phase now, but as I read Thoreau's Walden I see again and again connections in his thinking with Eastern religious thought. Anyone who has learned anything at all worthwhile about Buddhism must know of the importance of attention a person gives to this or to that. It is an act of will to give attention to something. It may also be at the same time an act of love. Buddhism's talk of quieting the self is not nihilist talk conducive to self-loathing. It is a means of attaining a calm which enables clear vision, correct perceptions and wise choosing. The quiet, calm self can make choices based on the best information available. It is an act of will to calm oneself in the face of, for instance, repeated stories of the personal downfalls of leaders and the agendas which drew us to them initially but which now can no longer be pursued. It is an act of will to pursue that which one believes to be honest, good and true. It is an act of will to acknowledge beauty. It is an act of will to love the neighbor. It is an act of will to open one's heart wider. An open mind is a great thing. How much more so an open heart.


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Achieving sustainable operations is a major goal for Shangri-La International Hotel Management Ltd., which manages 78 hotels and will open 36 more over the next three years, including 23 hotels in mainland China.
Shangri-La International's President and CEO Greg Dogan, who also chairs the company's CSR Committee commented:
With ongoing expansion in China and elsewhere, it can be challenging to balance CSR and commercial responsibilities. Our China hotels have collectively shown it's possible to drive social development and environmental efficiency while maintaining commercial viability.
Issued last week, the 2012 Sustainability Report outlines achievements in the fiscal years 2011 and 2012 and future steps in the company's CSR Focus Areas of environment, supply chain, stakeholder relations, employees and health and safety. It's been five years since the Hong Kong-based hotel company launched Sustainability, Shangri-La's social responsibility campaign. Shangri-La aligned its hotels to common CSR goals in 2009 and issued its first sustainability report in 2010 with the commitment to issue one every two years in pursuit of transparency.
Well ahead of 2015 targets, environmental and conservation achievements in 2012 include a 20% reduction in potable water consumption per guest night and 13% reduction in energy consumption per guest night across the group compared with 2010 levels. Even with an increase in total number of hotels, Shangri-La reduced CO2 emissions by 16% per guest night over the two-year period. A number of Shangri-La hotels also achieved international certifications and a wider adoption of occupational health and safety protocols, moving closer to the group goal of a fully Integrated Management System.
Ownership of CSR and sustainability lies with each individual hotel and progress is tracked via a CSR scorecard. In 2012, the average overall CSR score for a mainland China hotel was 71.2% compared with the average score of 63.5% for the 40 hotels located outside of mainland China covered in the report*.
The 2012 report shows Shangri-La's mainland China hotels performed evenly and consistently across the group's five CSR focus areas. Despite just missing the target of two percent employment of people with disabilities (employing 1.98 percent), and 98% of Shangri-La's China hotel colleagues completed Shangri-La's new CSR training module, which was rolled out to 38,000 colleagues group-wide by 413 newly certified CSR ambassadors.
'Sanctuary', Shangri-La's Care for Nature Project, was expanded from international resorts to urban hotels in mainland China with water conservation projects in Shenyang, Qingdao and Beijing; a Nature Reserve project in Xian, and a Care for Panda Project in Chengdu. All Shangri-La hotels are implementing strategic 10- to 15-year local community programmes in Education and Health through 'Embrace', Shangri-La's Care for People Project. Shangri-La's hotel colleagues rendered 60,000 volunteer hours in 2012 in support of these and other CSR projects.
Major CSR initiatives put in place last year included Shangri-La's Sustainable Seafood Policy, which was issued in January 2012 with the commitment to immediately cease serving shark fin in all of its operated restaurants. The company also instituted a Responsible Procurement Programme and introduced the Shangri-La Supplier Code of Conduct incorporating criteria that align with Shangri-La's Core Values and the ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact, which Shangri-La has been reporting progress on since 2012.
"We are proud of our people who continue to reflect 'from the heart' commitment to CSR, and appreciate the support of our suppliers and other stakeholders," said Dogan. "We know we have a long journey ahead, and there is much work to be done. But we are in this for the long-term."
The 2012 Sustainability Report highlights the results of the first stakeholder engagement survey conducted by a third-party service provider. The primary focus was on internal stakeholders, and this was supplemented by input from a sample of key external stakeholders. Findings support the group's continued focus on improving energy and water efficiency and conservation; enhancing measurement of CSR programmes effectiveness, especially on local communities, and encouraging consistent uptake of CSR behavior across hotels. These will form part of Shangri-La's latest CSR strategy.
To read the full report online, visit www.shangri-la.com/sustainabilityreport
*The 2012 Sustainability Report (self-declared Level B report based on the www.globalreporting.org GRI Version 3.1 Guidelines) covers the activities of a marina club and 72 of the 78 hotels operated by Shangri-La in Asia Pacific, Europe, North America and the Middle East. Of the 72 hotels covered in the report, 32 are in mainland China. Outside the scope of the report are new developments, properties open less than one calendar year, and Shangri-La's business in property rentals, which are not directly managed by Shangri-La International Hotel Management Ltd.
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Back in October we were lucky enough to be invited to a lunch at The Agrarian Kitchen to celebrate the launch of Rodney Dunn's much anticipated first cookbook. The weather could not have been more perfect for the day...partly sunny, no wind and quite mild.
An extra long, beautifully decorated table was set up in the front garden of the cooking school, beneath large trees for shade. It was all so picture perfect I was so pleased I remembered to take the camera.
Delicious brioche buns supplied by Jay Patey, founder of Pigeon Hole Cafe and Pigeon Whole Bakers, were set up on a serving table
to accompany the delicious roast pig! I believe Rodney (pulling the meat apart, above) arose at some terribly early hour that day to get the pig roasting and cooked in time. Yummy coleslaw and relish made this a fabulous pork roll!
Iced tea was served in a mid-20th century drink dispenser alongside locally made (as in just down the road!) apple cider. Dessert consisted of a rhubarb, meringue and pistachio tart that Alistair Wise, of Sweet Envy, just "whipped up". I wish I could just "whip up" a creation like this!
And here is the cookbook itself! Obviously it is a pure delight, no tricks, just good food using seasonal and available produce. I have already made a few dishes from it and a list of the others that I would like to try. We supplied some of the props used through the book, I had a great time spotting bits and pieces from our store! You can buy your signed copy direct from The Agrarian Kitchen via their website.
Did I mention our sister store, Flywheel printed the letterpress invitations for the day? Simple and honest, no tricks here either.
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With this blog post, I am pleased to announce that A Few Guys Coding has created a service with a different twist. Wedding customs and traditions are changing all the time. Whether it is the customs, music, the attire or even certain colors such as a wedding I once went to that had black and purple as the main colors. I had even heard of online RSVPs. This software stack, WeddingWare, was born out of necessity. For my own wedding, 5 months away now, we needed a way for guests to RSVP. Since we didn't want to spend al the money on response cards, we are environmentally friendly (it saves trees!) and I am a software engineer, I suggested that we come up with online RSVPs (the guest will still receive a paper invitation with an invitation code). After a couple brain storming sessions later and much, much code, WeddingWare is officially available for license. While the primary focus is custom wedding RSVPs, the software can also handle shower invitations as well has bachelorette party invitations. Being highly customized is a main focus of this software because after all, who wants to go to a URL that looks like this: www.theknot.com/user/123456/mywedding/rsvp.html. Our software is simple and we will work with clients directly to setup a RSVP site where the look is clean and the URL is custom (for example, ours will be, eventually, at www.davidheartsrachel.com). The software has a full-featured backend that allows the party hosts to login and 1) create new parties and invitations 2) have multiple events 3) get metrics on guests that are attending (such as outstanding invitations vs. people who have responded). Guests will be directed to a friendly, intuitive site that the hosts have fully customized, down the color scheme even. After RSVPing, the guest will receive confirmation emails with hotels, driving directions, maps, etc. The site is mobile browser friendly and we are working on coming up with a matching iOS application. Pricing is still to be deteremined – yet will be affordable and based on the number of guests. A live demo is available at http://dhr.afewguyscoding.com.
Disclaimer: I am not a "web guy" by nature. I have recently start experimenting more and more with it because eventually I want to become proficient with web and design. Therefore, this may be a simple tips for "web people" but a typical "desktop application" person might struggle with this.
- RAILS_ENV != RACK_ENV in Rails 3: I was having a devil of a time getting my staging server to work with my staging database. Passenger and Apache would connect and use the proper staging files directory but it would constantly connect to the production database. The trick is that in Rails 3 (only!!!) you need to set ENV['RACK_ENV'] = "staging" or ENV['RACK_ENV'] = "production". In Rails 2.x.x, you still use the RAILS_ENV to tell it which environment to use.
- Having a good deployment strategy and capistrano recipe is key: Many months earlier, I had already put up a plain HTML site (no framworks, *gasp*) at www.davidheartsrachel.com at a really cheap host, iPage (they were $30 for the year and believe me, you get what you pay for but that was OK because it was just text and images). Everything was working there just fine there while I was developing this Rails app. Initially, (before I switched to Rails from Google App Engine), I thought that I would host the application at some place like Heroku, since their deployment looks dead simple. As it turned out, it would be much cheaper, by about $40/per month, to have my primary host (the one this site is using) and just buy some additional upgrades in RAM to my VM to suppose multiple Passenger instances.Anyways, I knew that I would need to start testing outside of a development environment. In addition to the standard development, test and production environments given to you in Rails, I converted the test environment into a local version of a production environment (cache classing, actual mail delivery, etc.), however I kept my database adapter as SQLite. I also created an additional environment called staging. The theory behind this is that I would run exactly as it would in production (using MySQL, class caching, session stored via :mem_cache, using delayed_job to deliver mail, etc.) with test fixtures and data in the database. Obviously production would be production environment with live data. This allowed me to iron out any bugs that might crop up during switching to a more production-like environment and catch any assumptions I had made in development that wouldn't be valid in production (when switching adapters, etc.). I dedicated a subdomian to deploying my staging environment and password protected it. If you are interested in my Capistrano file, environments file and Apache vhost file, they are here (with the obvious implementation and sensitive path/password redactions).
- Radio buttons: I was making some AJAX calls that should have selected radio buttons in the same group when the call returned based on :success or :error AJAX callback. I was having trouble getting this to happen but this code here is solid:
// this example had a yes/no. it can be extended to any number of radio buttons
var radios = $('input:radio[name=radio_group_name]');
radios.filter('[value=val1]').attr('checked', false);
radios.filter('[value=val2]').attr('checked', true);
- Rails UJS: Rails 3 embraces a more MVC way of thinking by abstracting the Javascript choice (whether it is jQuery, Prototype, etc.). Before the implementation was fairly specific and you sometimes had to mix specific JS code into your Ruby code. With UJS, implementation in Rails 3 takes benefit of the new HTML5 data-*@ attributes. So Rails doesn't spit out Prototype-based Javascript inline (the old helpers are still there). Rather, the helpers just define an appropriate data attribute in the tag, and that's where Javascript comes in. Obviously this is a more flexible and reusable pattern. You can also plug and play different frameworks without the headache of writing a lot of the same code over again (I swapped Prototype and jQuery in in several minutes – just remember to get the new rails framework Javascript files, such as rails.js, in jQuery or you'll have weird errors that are hard to track down. Check out jqueryrails.). Since I am far from a RoR or Javascript expert, this, this and this has a more expert breakdown (why re-invent the wheel).
- Remote form_for (AJAX) and :onsubmit(): In Rails 2? and at least 3, form_form, :remote => true overrides the :onsubmit => 'func();' method to do the actual form submission. If you want to bind something to your form before it gets submitted (or during or after!), bind the form using jQuery.bind() and then observe the AJAX callback functions to do what you need. <
script type="text/javascript">
function get_address_information() {
// check jquery for all the possible callbacks. there is also success and error. compete get calls after both success and error
var pars = 'param1=x&param2=y&param3=z';
$.ajax({ type: "POST",
url: "/get_invite_address",
data: pars, dataType: 'script',
beforeSend: function() {
// do your before send checking here
complete: function(data, status) {
// do some post processing ehre
- Rails is as good as everyone says (and other languages/frameworks are as bad as you think): Truly. The only drawback is the lack of internationalization. However, in terms of use, the language, setup, data access Rails is superior in every way. Rails setups up for testing (as well as performance testing) from the word go. The framework allows you to concentrate on coding while it does the heavy lifting.
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Some of the biggest celebrities these days seem to be chefs (I remain as yet undiscovered!). The Food Network seems to be one of the most popular channels and innovative cooking shows abound. Friends tell me how much their children enjoy watching.
Great, I thought, finally some harmless television programming, some family entertainment. They regale me with stories of The Cake Boss's creative masterpieces and Rachel Ray's simple entrées. I feel like I'm missing all the excitement.
So on a recent hotel stay, I took the opportunity to tune in. But instead of being thrilled and energized by what I viewed, I was dismayed and discouraged.
The program we watched was called "Chopped" (I think). It was a competition between chefs requiring the gradual elimination of contestants until the winner finally emerged.
This is not so new – and perhaps neither is the rest of the elements of the show. But what I found disturbing was the behavior of the judges. It seems to be de rigueur that the judges of these competitions display their nastiest sides, that they actually highlight this unpleasant aspect of their personalities. They seem compelled to attack the chefs with the most vicious verbal weapons in their arsenal. I don't want to contemplate what that does for their character.
But it gets worse. The Torah prohibits us from embarrassing someone in public. This type of shaming is akin to murder, we are told. Yet this appears to be the very essence of the show (and all similar popular talent contests). It's no longer enough to eliminate a contestant. It has to be done as cruelly as possible. It has to make them squirm. It has to thoroughly humiliate them on national TV.
There are certainly kinder ways of judging and even of offering constructive criticism, but I guess the powers that be at the networks – along with the viewing public – deem that less entertaining.
All of the sudden I am no longer sanguine about all the cooking shows children are watching. Their impact is not innocuous or benign as I had imagined. Instead they teach cruelty and meanness along with a destructive attitude.
These chefs create attractive and tasty concoctions but it is never enough. There always something slightly off, slightly imperfect. And so our children are taught to be dissatisfied instead of appreciative, to be negative rather than positive.
I found it painful to watch this show but I imagine that after a steady diet (bad pun), you become immune. You don't even notice. That is a tragedy in and of itself. Worse would be to begin imitating the behavior, to view the condescension of the judges as normal and appropriate, to think that cruel and sarcastic rebuke is normal social behavior (to assume, God forbid, that this is how we treat parents or spouses whose meals just don't measure up to some elusive standard.)
First these shows create an unachievable ideal of the perfect meal (using only three ingredients of course!) and unduly emphasize physical pleasures and perfection. Then they create a serious stumbling block to good character and kindness towards others in the spiritual realm.
It's just not worth turning that television on – although I still wonder whose cupcakes turned out the nicest (isn't war a strong word to apply to a cupcake competition?).


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Lewin was arrested and placed in the front seat of a patrol car. She is accused of escaping her handcuffs and driving away in the patrol car.
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TBS6284 PCI-E DVB-T2 Quad TV Tuner Card, as the name suggests, is a DVB-T2 PCIe Cards from TBS Technologies. It is a new product since October 2011, which is specially designed
for DVB T2 reception countries, such as UK, Sweden. It supports watching or recording four different channels .This DVB T2 PC TV card is ready with windows BDA driver and Linux driver. It's ideal for watching UK Freeview SD and HD channels on PC.
- 1 x PCI Express Interface
- Four DVB T/T2 Freeview SD& HD Channels Receiving
- DiSEqC 2.x Compliant
- Linux Support
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- NXP18272 X4(Tuner)
- SONY CXD2820(Demod)
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lspci -v | grep --after-context=9 7160
02:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Philips Semiconductors SAA7160 [1131:7160] (rev 02) Subsystem: Device [6284:0001] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 4 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18 Region 0: Memory at fdd00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: SAA716x TBS Kernel modules: saa716x_tbs-dvb
If the driver is not yet installed or loaded, then output will instead be
02:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors Device 7160 (rev 02) Subsystem: Device 6284:0001 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10 Memory at fe900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: [40] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/5 Enable- Capabilities: [50] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [74] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [80] Vendor Specific Information <?> Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Available here.
TurboSight Proprietary by Konstantin Dimitrov <email@example.com> for TurboSight TBS 62x0 DVBT/T2/C frontend driver module of www.turbosight.com
Making it work
1. Extract the ZIP file tbs-linux-drivers_v[VERSION NUMBER].zip. As of 5 October 2013, the latest version is 130927. You may want to do this in an empty directory as this archive does not extract into a single root directory of its own.
unp tbs-linux-drivers_v130927.zip
2. Extract linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2 archive
unp linux-tbs-drivers.tar.bz2
3. Change to driver package directory
cd linux-tbs-drivers
4. Select platform architecture
for x86 kernel 3.x (x86 32 bit installations of kernel 3.x)
or for x86 kernel 2.6.x (x86 32 bit installations of kernel 2.6.x)
or for any x86_64 kernel (x86 64 bit installations of Linux)
You should then receive a message along these lines:
TBS drivers configured for [NAME OF PLATFORM] platform.
5. Build the driver. Recompiles v4l for a wide range of cards, currently 485, will take many minutes.
If you get -bash: make: command not found, then sudo apt-get install build-essential
6. Install driver. Existing drivers for other v4l related hardware, such as lirc could also get updated.
sudo make install
7. Load newly installed driver
sudo modprobe -v tbs62x0fe
insmod /lib/modules/3.(your kernel version)-generic/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tbs62x0fe.ko
8. Check it loaded correctly
tail /var/log/syslog
You should get a message about tainting the kernel. This is fine.
kernel: tbs62x0fe: module license 'TurboSight Proprietary' taints kernel.
dmesg | tail should end with something along these lines:
[ 7330.361868] tbs62x0fe: module license 'TurboSight Proprietary' taints kernel. [ 7330.361875] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
dvb adaptor nodes should now exist
ls -al /dev/dvb
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Jul 9 21:12 adapter0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Jul 9 21:12 adapter1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Jul 9 21:12 adapter2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Jul 9 21:12 adapter3
Errors and troubleshooting
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `tbs8921ctrl.o', needed by `v4l/media.o'. Stop.
Did you select the correct platform in step 4 above?
Fighting with another tuner card in load order at boot time - http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=7747
During compilation:
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `.myconfig', needed by `config-compat.h'. Stop.
Make sure you have the right C header files installed for your Linux kernel version.
Some weeks later your /dev/dvb directory has disappeared?
Perhaps your kernel was updated, and your machine rebooted.
The driver needs to be recompiled.
If you just run make, it will try to compile against the old kernel headers, so first run
make distclean
Then go back to step 5.
Sample Kernel Output
[ 6.125838] tbs6928fe: module license 'TurboSight Proprietary: www.tbsdtv.com' taints kernel. [ 6.125842] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint [ 6.206009] Registered IR keymap rc-tbs-nec [ 6.206058] input: saa716x IR (TurboSight TBS 6284) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:04:00.0/rc/rc1/input5 [ 6.206081] rc1: saa716x IR (TurboSight TBS 6284) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:04:00.0/rc/rc1 [ 6.206141] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA716x dvb adapter) [ 6.261725] input: MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (saa716x) as /devices/virtual/input/input7 [ 6.277606] rc rc1: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (saa716x) registered at minor = 1 [ 7.092446] TurboSight TBS6284 DVB-T2 card port0 MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 7.092450] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (TurboSight TBS 62x0 DVBT/T2 frontend)... [ 7.092538] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA716x dvb adapter) [ 7.140415] TurboSight TBS6284 DVB-T2 card port1 MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 7.140418] DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (TurboSight TBS 62x0 DVBT/T2 frontend)... [ 7.140476] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA716x dvb adapter) [ 7.792511] TurboSight TBS6284 DVB-T2 card port2 MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 7.792515] DVB: registering adapter 2 frontend 0 (TurboSight TBS 62x0 DVBT/T2 frontend)... [ 7.792595] DVB: registering new adapter (SAA716x dvb adapter) [ 7.840515] TurboSight TBS6284 DVB-T2 card port3 MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [ 7.840517] DVB: registering adapter 3 frontend 0 (TurboSight TBS 62x0 DVBT/T2 frontend)...
External Links
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Schultz, Peter (1853-1930)
Peter Schultz: minister; born on 2 March 1853 in Gnadenheim, Molotschna settlement, South Russia. He was the seventh child of Heinrich and Helena (Fast) Schultz. He came to North America in 1874, settling at Mountain Lake, Minnesota. On 6 January 1878, he married Anna Klassen. Thirteen children were born to them, of whom one son and two daughters died in infancy. Four sons were ministers: G. P. Schultz, Chicago; H. P. Schultz, Saskatchewan; D. P. Schultz, South Dakota and Oregon; and Jacob P. Schultz, Saskatchewan. Peter Schultz was a member of the Bruderthal Mennonite Church (Evangelical Mennonite Brethren, now the Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches) of Mountain Lake until 1903, when he moved to Langham, Saskatchewan and became a charter member of the Bruderthal Church there. He was a minister of the Langham Bruderthal Mennonite Church from 1903, and elder from 1909 until 1930.
Peter Schultz's contribution to his community and conference was one of personal involvement, sound Biblical preaching, and loving church leadership. He was one of the ministers associated with the founding of the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Conference. He combined the work of ministry with his occupation of farming. He died on 13 April 1930 in Langham and was buried in the Bruderthal cemetery.
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Wiebe, Orlando H. "Schultz, Peter (1853-1930)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 10 Aug 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Schultz,_Peter_(1853-1930)&oldid=77650.
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Wiebe, Orlando H. (1959). Schultz, Peter (1853-1930). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 10 August 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Schultz,_Peter_(1853-1930)&oldid=77650.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 483. All rights reserved.
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Victims' lawyer: class-action settlement with Toyota won't halt NH crash case
PETERBOROUGH, N.H. (AP) � A New Hampshire lawyer says a suit against Toyota stemming from a fatal 2009 crash in Peterborough will go on, despite this week's announcement that the company will pay more than $1 billion to settle a class-action suit.
The New Hampshire suit says Toyota's problem with unintended acceleration caused an Oct. 2009 crash that killed four people.
One those killed, Stephen Lagakos, was driving a Toyota Highlander, and the lawsuit alleges the Route 202 crash was caused by unintended acceleration that Toyota could have prevented.
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4 medium potatoes, peeled & chopped into big pieces
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Pressure cook the potatoes and onions along with the chillies & curry leaves using as little water as possible, till the vegetables are soft (takes about 15 minutes or so.)
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25-Minute Recipe: Miso-Marinated Scallops on Soba Noodles
For your weeknight meals, offer this recipe as a heart-healthy gesture.
It might be difficult to buy white miso in small amounts, but it's the ingredient that really makes a difference in the marinade. It can be refrigerated for months, and The Post Recipe Finder database has 35 other ways to use it, including glazing salmon, marinating steak, and flavoring stir-fries, gravy and salad dressing.
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Miso-Marinated Scallops on Soba Noodles
2 or 3 servings
1/2-inch piece ginger root
1 medium clove garlic
1 teaspoon white miso paste (shiro miso; see headnote)
1 tablespoon mirin or dry sherry
1 tablespoon plain rice vinegar
6 ounces dry-pack scallops
2 scallions
6 ounces dried soba noodles, preferably thin
1/2 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
1/2 teaspoon canola oil or corn oil
Bring a deep pot of water to a boil over high heat, making sure it can hold at least 2 more cups of water than its current volume.
Meanwhile, peel the ginger, then finely grate it into a shallow glass dish. Mince the garlic and add to the dish. Whisk in the miso, the mirin or sherry and the vinegar. Add the scallops and turn them to coat. Marinate the scallops at room temperature for 10 to 15 minutes, turning them over a few times.
Trim the scallions, then cut into 2-inch pieces. Cut each piece lengthwise into very thin strips, placing them in a mixing bowl as you work.
Add the soba noodles to the boiling water, stirring to make sure they don't stick together. Once the water returns to a boil, add 1 cup of cool tap water. Cook just long enough for the water to return to a boil again, then add another cup of water. Once the water returns to a boil, check the noodles for doneness; they should be firm yet tender. Drain in a colander, then immediately transfer to the mixing bowl with the scallions. Drizzle with the toasted sesame oil and toss to coat and incorporate. Cover loosely to keep warm.
Heat the canola or corn oil in a medium nonstick skillet over medium heat. Remove the scallops from the marinade; use a paper towel to pat them dry, then add them to the skillet. (Discard any remaining marinade.) Cook for about 6 minutes total, turning the scallops over once as their edges brown and crisp and they become just opaque. Be careful not to overcook.
Divide the dressed soba noodles between bowls or plates. Top each portion with scallops. Serve right away.
Nutrition Per serving (based on 3): 280 calories, 18 g protein, 42 g carbohydrates, 4 g fat, 0 g saturated fat, 20 mg cholesterol, 150 mg sodium, 2 g dietary fiber, 0 g sugar
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The Seminary emphasizes the importance of the spiritual life in theological education. Active participation in the life of the monastery, on whose premises the seminary is located, allows students to experience firsthand the spiritual depth of the Orthodox Church and gives future clergy the rare opportunity of gaining a thorough foundation in and experience of the Orthodox liturgical life. The seminary strives to preserve the high scholarly standards, teaching, and traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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by Jody Kessler
LaSalle has been pained by slow starts recently, but they get there act together in the second half and win. This was the case Saturday against Easton in the first round of the state playoffs. A rematch of last year's game, it was played at Northeast, LaSalle trailed 7-3 at halftime. Penalties and bad tackling hurt the Explorers. But they shut out the Rovers in the second half and won 19-7 behind the offense and defense of Jamal Abdur-Rahman. Abdur-Rahman had a couple of big hits on defense, and also intercepted a pass on Easton's final chance, and returned it for a touchdown to seal the win. Number One LaSalle moves on to face number two North Penn next Saturday in the semifinals.
Easton started with the ball and produced a first down before having to punt. LaSalle then put together a good drive. Kevin Forster scored what would be a touchdown but it was called back for holding. They had to settle for a Kevin Winslow field goal. The teams then traded futile possessions. Easton then got on the board with a big drive. Quarterback Justin Paccioli was elusive all day, and started out the drive with two first downs. Lasalle's defense would get near the quarterback but he would outrun them. As LaSalle coach Drew Gordon said, "he was faster than our defensive line." Number seven looked a little like number seven for the Eagles (Michael Vick!). A swing pass to speedy running back James Middleton gained big yards. They then converted a big fourth down and two. Finally Paccioli was being chased again and got away again, and then found Tyles Holjes in the back of the endzone for a touchdown. It came with 3:11 left in the first half. After failing to move the ball on their drive Kevin Forster came in to punt for Winslow. He looked like he was thinking about a fake, maybe feeling the defense out. But he punted. Easton produced one first down before the clock ran out and the half ended. Easton had the lead 7-3.
Lineback Connor Daly said this about the locker room at halftime. "Everybody had something to say. A lot of leaders stepped. We have to play our ball, no one can beat us when we're on our game."
LaSalle came out from half time clearly motivated. They drove down the field powered by Forster and Abdur-Rahman, mostly wildcat plays (where the runner receives a direct snap). They had a first and goal form the nine. Time Wade ran down to the one. Then quarterback Matt Magarity tried to sneak it in. He was stopped. So they tried it again and it worked. Touchdown Explorers and a 10-7 lead. On the next Easton possession finally the Explorer defense got to Paccioli. He avoided a sack by throwing the ball away but intentional grounding was ruled. The penalty backed the Rovers up to the goal line. After a punt LaSalle had the ball at the Rover 33, but they couldn't capitalize, losing the ball on downs. The teams then traded punts. Then LaSalle got the ball back on a fumble by Easton. This time they took advantage, driving and scoring on another Winslow field goal. A good kicker, Winslow's father was an NFL kicker. They led 13-7 with only 2:23 left to play. Easton had the ball one more time and would have to drive and score to win. The first play was incomplete. Second play Cameron Cappo got the first sack on Paccioli. Then Paccioli made the biggest mistake, lobbing up a pass in the direction of Abdur-Rahman, who picked it off and scampered 37 yards for the winning touchdown. Abdur-Rahman also had 172 yards from scrimmage on offense. Easton would try to drive but time expired and LaSalle is moving on.
Magarity said of the game, "We came out we knew they were a good team. We just wanted a repeat of last year. Second half, we came out and stepped it up. First half we were getting knocked around a little bit, we had some key plays, Jamal's interception. The line stepped up played great." About next week's game against North Penn which is a rematch of the first game of the year in which LaSalle won Magarity said, "Should be a great rematch, they're a great team. They've come a long way but so have we."
Daly said of the defense, which was rock solid again, "Defense- we're a group of guys that will do anything for each other. We wanted to come to practice on Monday so we buckled down." About North Penn he said, "I say bring it on, let's rematch. North Penn they're not a very complicated team they're very good at what they do. I think we're just as good. I think we're going to come out on top."
When asked what they talked about at halftime coach Drew Gordon said, "Intensity. Defining yourself. You come to the point in the season where you have to define yourself and that was the point. We didn't play well at all in the first half. The defense couldn't get us the ball back. Easton takes that away with their defense, it would be a four and five yard game." About Pacciloi being a tough cover he said, "They were there and couldn't bring him down. He got tired at the end of the game. That touchdown pass was a great play. He's a great player. An intesntiy thing at halftime, they did it. If we do it against North Penn next week we don't have a shot. It's a matter of getting it done from the first play on."
About next week Abdur-Rahman said, "We beat them earlier in the season they'll come out and play us well. We'll give them a game like we did last time hopefully we'll come out with a victory."
LaSalle plays North Penn Saturday at Plymouth-Whitmarsh in the state semifinals at 1 p.m.


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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Amazon silk using webkit and SPDY
This is great news for developers as webkit is already well established and most of us won't be immediately impacted by SPDY (well actually, your ajax experience might be impacted, but that's another topic entirely). All told this isn't as big a technological change at the front end and is more of a story about amazon trying to use their infrastructure to make the mobile browsing experience better. Frankly, this is a scaled up and modernized version of what blackberry did years ago (are they still doing that?).
NOTE to Silk team -- please implement an HTML5 native datetime picker on your device that doesn't suck so everyone else will follow. This is a sore point for the mobile webkit experience right now and recurring problem that gets solved in a variety of "not so good" ways.
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- September 28, 2011 at 7:52 PM
I am going to ban it from my domains anyway, just like Opera Mini and any other browser that breaks HTTPS and is recording every move the user makes.
It will likely break JavaScript anyway, and I don't want users blaming the sites.
- September 28, 2011 at 9:47 PM
@Hamranhansenhansen: Ah, someone who's website I wouldn't visit anyway...
- September 29, 2011 at 4:04 AM
@Ben: If it is truly breaking HTTPS, then that means that your credit card numbers, your logins, your private messages, etc. that are supposed to be kept encrypted, end-to-end, will be shared with a man-in-the-middle...
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Bario Highlands
The Land of a Thousand Handshakes
Bario is an area with a collection of indigneous Kelabit longhouses located in the centre of the Kelabit Highlands in the northeast of Sarawak, Malaysia, very close to the international border with Indonesian Kalimantan. Situated at the eastern edge of the Taman Negara Pulong Tau national park, Bario sits approximately 1200 m (3937ft) above sea level. It is the main settlement for the indigenous Kelabit tribe in what is known locally as the Kelabit Highlands. There are regular flights between Bario Airport and Ba'kelalan, Marudi and Miri.
Rice Farming
Bario rice (small grain) is renowned for its texture and flavour. Grown locally in wet paddy fields throughout the Bario valley it is one of the main crops produced here.
Flora and fauna
The primary jungle around Bario is teaming with flora and fauna (including the famous Rafflesia pictured here), jungle birds, and wild animals such as wild boar, honey bears and mouse deer. The hills throughout the area also support wild orchids.
Natural Wonders
Batu Lawih, a giant limestone megalith, sits to the North West of Bario, and is a 3 day trek from Bario airport. One of many natural wonders to be found in the region.
Bario Highlands is also famous for its pineapples!
Getting There
There are regular flights to Bario International airport from Miri. You can see the current list of flights here.
There are numerous affordable homestays in the different longhouse areas for when you want to stay a while in the clear air of Bario valley. The list can be found on this site – check above!Bario Homestay CollectiveClick For More Informaiton


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Karen Armstrong discusses her latest book "The Bible: a Biography" with Andrew Marr on Start The Week BBC R4 1/10/07
She denies that the Torah is literal history and makes the interesting point that the early books of the OT represent a sort of polytheism, shading to "monolatory" before monotheism proper takes over. She goes on to say that nobody would have dreamed of taking Genesis literally until the 19th Century - people such as Calvin included.
She also says that the Koran was never read literally, each verse being described as a (Arabic word for) parable. This state of affairs, she says, came to an end and literalism took over because of Richard Dawkins et al. (Must post this on the RDF site too!)
Can be downloaded from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/stw/ 20MB mp3, starts about 20mins in. (My copy seems to be broken at about 13mins on Zinf, but plays ok on Windows Media Player, if rather quietly.)


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Debra Rosenberg <drosen at world.std.com> wrote: >Does anyone happen to know why citrus fruits like oranges and grapefruit >come in sections, while other fruits like apples and peaches do not? There are several major ways that plants have evolved for constructing fleshy fruits. Oranges etc. belong to the family Rutaceae, which is unique in filling its "locules" (the spaces in which seeds are produced) with "juice sacs" that are attached to the outer walls. Each of the locules probably represents a structure, known as a "carpel" that was at one time distinct, but now has fused together with its neighbors. The outer skin of most citrus fruits shows no sign that the interior is sectioned, but this is a result of the fusion occurring early in the development of each individual fruit (rather than early in the evolution of the Rutaceae). Apples belong to the family Rosaceae, along with the common rose; the apple that you buy at the store is in many ways essentially the same as a giant rose hip. The seeds are produced inside small locules that are air-filled at maturity, and the flesh of the apple is produced partly from the carpels (usually 4) but mostly from a "receptacle" that has grown over the carpels. Again, this happens early in development, so the division between the carpelary tissue and the receptacular tissue is generally invisible. If you bake apple pies often, you may have noticed that the core sometimes comes free from the flesh of quartered apples, without actually being cut through: this is where the two tissues meet. Fruits are thought to have evolved to take advantage of mammals and other animals that could be lured by tasty, high-quality food and might be used to disperse a plant's seeds. Most existing families of flowering plants are thought to have evolved *before* there were any small mammals or birds, and thus had already become committed to a number of other strategies. So fleshy fruits are an example of convergent evolution, as some members of many disparate families evolved to exploit the new resource that mammals offered. The Rutaceae used tissue inside the locule of their carpels, while the Rosaceae used tissue outside the locule, or even exterior to the carpels. >Does it have anything to do with keeping the fruit from drying out? The short answer is no. A better question would be why are these fruits (citrus) so wet in the first place. In part, it's because humans have exerted artificial selection on the plants, by breeding for more "desirable" traits, but we have only taken advantage of an existing trait. Why the Rutaceae have "juice sacs" is still a mystery, as the evolutionary history of the angiosperms (flowering plants) is still not well understood. Most botany textbooks touch on this, and they and more technical references are listed in the classic color atlas, "Flowering Plants of the World", which is in press again, by Oxford University Press. One of the best textbooks available is by Katherine Esau; look in used book stores or your library. Hope this helps, -- Una Smith smith-una at yale.edu Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8104 USA


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Tony Stewart isn't just chasing one NASCAR title over the next three weeks, he's got the chance to win two.
Stewart is second in the Chase for the Sprint Cup driver's standings, just eight points behind championship leader Carl Edwards heading into Sunday's AAA Texas 500. Since he's a co-owner of his No. 14 Office Depot Chevrolet along with Margaret Haas, he's also eight points behind Jack Roush in the owner's race.
As an owner-driver, Stewart has added responsibilities. For instance, this week he spent part of Wednesday announcing that Quicken Loans will be a partial sponsor for the team's No. 39 car driven by Ryan Newman.
"You can never put the business side of it on hold," he told the Charlotte Observer of the team's decision to make the announcement in the midst of his title chase. "We knew all that going into it. It's like I've always said, you surround yourself with good people and it makes that job a lot easier.
"But, it's still a lot of work."
Stewart, a two-time Sprint Cup champion, made the transition to ownership prior to the 2009 season, helping form Stewart-Haas racing. The team had immediate success qualifying two cars for the Chase in their first season. Last year only Stewart made the playoffs, but both cars were back in this year.
If Stewart wins the title, he'll be the first driver to own or co-own his championship car since Alan Kulwicki in 1992.
While the drivers get all the glory, NASCAR is a team sport and it's up to the owner to assemble the right group of talent from the crew chief on down and take care of the sponsorship deals to pay the bills.
Edwards, who had the chance to become a free agent after this season, decided to stick with Roush because he trusts his owner will do everything to get his car and team in tip-top shape.
He doesn't regret sticking with the team he's been associated with since he won rookie-of-the-year honours in the Craftsman Truck Series in 2003, rather than explore a possible lucrative deal with another team.
"I'm here because I'm fortunate enough that Jack Roush hired me and I choose to be here at Roush Fenway Racing," the driver of the No. 99 Aflac Ford said. "These last three races, the best way for me to put it, I wouldn't get in anyone else's car the last three races. I felt like I had the best engines, best crew, best crew chief, owner. I feel like I'm in the best position I can be in.
"That's why I'm here at Roush. So I guess for me it's really not worth revisiting and saying, 'Hey, what would have happened if I announced something else?' Because I didn't. I announced that I'm staying here at Roush for all those reasons."
Roush has been here before, winning owner titles in 2003 (Matt Kenseth's car) and 2004 (Kurt Busch's car). However he's coming off a rough 2010 when his top driver, Edwards, finished 11th in points and failed to win a race.
If Roush or the Stewart-Haas tandem do prevail when the season wraps up on Nov. 20 in Homestead, Florida, it will mark an end to a historic run by Rick Hendrick and Jeff Gordon.
The duo are the co-owners of the No. 48 car that Jimmie Johnson has piloted to five straight Sprint Cup titles. Johnson isn't mathematically out of it this season, but his 43-point deficit will be extremely difficult to overcome in three outings. Not only will he need three straight great results, Johnson needs the five drivers in front of him in the standings to falter.
Hendrick has owned or co-owned NASCAR's championship race car 10 times in the past 16 years. Although it's unlikely he'll add to that resume this year, he'll still have his fingerprints on the title if Stewart is victorious as Hendrick Motorsports provides engine and technical support to Stewart-Haas.
Meanwhile, the other two season-long points battles have long been determined.
Chevrolet ran away with the manufacturer's crown. With 16 wins to date, Chevy has just one fewer victory than Ford (seven), Toyota (five) and Dodge (five) combined. Chevy has 226 points, Ford has 177, Toyota 170 and Dodge 153.
Andy Lally with TRG Motorsports is the only contender for rookie of the year. His best finish this year was 19th in the Aaron's 499 at Talladega back in April.
• He said it: "This event is the crown jewel for the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Our drivers look forward to coming here. We, as a sanctioning body, look forward to coming here. It's a terrific event, great atmosphere, and the fans have been truly supportive." - Steve O'Donnell, NASCAR's senior vice-president of racing operations, speaking Montreal this week about the Nationwide Series' annual stop in Canada at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
• This week: The Nationwide Series returns to the track for the first time since Oct. 14 this weekend with the O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway (Saturday, 12:55 p.m. ET, TSN2). The first stage of the Edwards-Stewart showdown is Sunday with the AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway (3 p.m. ET, TSN).
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Today, a new accolade! For the first time, an article about the High Line made it to the "most-emailed" list on the New York Times web site.
The article, called "The High Line: A Railway Out of Manhattan", captures the special atmosphere up on the line– "almost a small town in the air… It even inspires crusty New Yorkers to behave as if they were strolling down Main Street."
As a park visitor explained in the article: "Here people tend to be more friendly… Those same people, you might see them someplace else and, you know," she broke off, raising her eyebrows, "they're kind of stressed."
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Cook the Book: Quick Marinated Mushrooms
For a while, Pravda, the Soviet-themed bar in New York's SoHo, was serving shots of horseradish vodka with a pickled mushroom "chaser." The sharp little mushroom was the perfect foil to the fiery liquor, and I was sad when they retired the pairing.
In How to Cook Everything, Mark Bittman offers a recipe for quick marinated mushrooms not unlike Pravda's. After a brief soak in lemon juice, the mushrooms are speared on toothpicks with shards of Parmesan cheese. The salty-tangy treat makes the perfect cocktail bite.
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- Yield:4 servings
- 1/2 pound white button mushrooms, trimmed and cut into chunks
- Juice of 1 lemon
- About 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
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Gently toss the mushrooms with the lemon juice, olive oil, and some salt and pepper. Taste and adjust the seasonings.
Break the Parmesan into small chunks. Use a toothpick to skewer a mushroom and a piece of cheese, repeating until all the mushrooms and cheese are used up. Serve immediately or refrigerate for up to an hour.
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Tonight's Shameless was a pivotal episode for me. Four episodes is a reasonable number of viewings to give a show that managed to pique your curiosity and squeeze a few laughs out of you. But I still wasn't quite sure what to make of Shameless following "Aunt Ginger," and if I hadn't connected with this episode, I'd obviously still watch, but my heart probably wouldn't have been in it. But "Casey Casden" is an episode of Shameless that makes sense to me. I disagree with the commenters who have said that the show is intended to put its viewers into an endless feeling of conflict and emotional ambiguity. I don't think it's the point of the show to make anyone feel confused about their impressions of the Gallaghers. I do think it's a show that, for a host of reasons, you either get or you don't, and the latter group really doesn't get it. "Casey Casden" made me think that, just maybe, I'm in the former group after all.
Most of the fundamental issues I had with the show (Steve's odiousness, Frank's repulsiveness) were missing entirely. After their donnybrook over Steve's Canada prank, Steve and Fiona are in a new couple-ish rhythm unlike anything we've seen between them yet. I thought that after Fiona fled dinner with Tony and his mother and tracked down Steve, there would be a reconciliation, but only after an acknowledgement from Steve that he'd been out of line. Either the writers have zipped us past it, or Steve and Fiona glossed over the issue to hasten a return to feelings of infatuation, and they can expect the same issues to pop back up. In any event, Steve was damn near likable in this episode. It feels like he's really integrated himself into the family now and is more willing to meet Fiona where she is rather than trying to drag her someplace else. His speech to Debbie about why it was okay to lie as "Nurse Debbie" was redeeming.
Frank, meanwhile, is still Frank but now has something he hasn't had before: boundaries. I don't want Frank to be an upstanding individual. I do want him to have some kind of criminal's code about himself, and apparently diddling Karen is a step over Frank's heretofore unseen line in the sand. It can be argued over what Frank's motives for resisting Karen's seduction actually were—self-preservation by keeping himself out of jail, in Sheila's good graces, or whatever. But whatever the primary motivation was, I felt like Frank felt like what he was doing was wrong. That makes Frank less like a cartoon and more like a person. Macy was terrific this week, and the script gave him some hilariously inappropriate monologues to play with.
But I'm sure the biggest reason I was so much more fond of this week's episode is that it pushed Debbie to the foreground. Even as I realize the reasons it couldn't work, there's part of me that wishes Shameless was a show about Debbie. Much like Shane Botwin on Weeds, she's the kid character who shouldn't be my favorite and yet is. The scenes of her interacting with, then saying goodbye to Aunt Ginger are probably my favorite we've seen so far. And I'm drawn to the idea of Debbie as the black sheep of the family for not being anti-social enough. She's sweeter than the other Gallaghers, sure, but she's definitely selfish in a way that befits her age. She wants some kind of normal family life or at least someone to pay attention to her for five full minutes, and she'll do anything to get it. But it broke my heart a little when she told Fiona and Steve her rationale for 'napping Casey: "Her dad was laughing and playing with them, and it just wasn't fair." Having "Ginger" around was a taste of normalcy, and she wanted more—plus the kids were having too nice a party with their awesome happy-go-lucky dad, so fuck them. Is it appropriate behavior? Not at all, but I understand why she did it, and I didn't feel manipulated by any of it.
Plus, I love a good caper, and I like when the characters on this show hustle together to fix whatever's broken. First, it was tracking down Frank, then the Aunt Ginger scheme, and now it's the return of Casey Casden that gets the whole gang together for a well-intentioned scheme. It was an A-story that had more momentum than what we've seen before. Much like "Aunt Ginger," there was a house crisis (this week's crisis was a dead water heater) and a family crisis (Casey) and the two dovetail nicely at the end. I especially loved seeing Debbie and Fiona showered with money after they returned Casey, and Lip and Ian preventing Frank from stealing it all. I'm not sure it's possible for the show to sustain the balance of awww and ewww that this episode had, but if it does, I'm going to grow to really dig this thing.
Stray observations:
- The Kev stuff worked for me too, because I loved Vanessa Bell Calloway as Veronica's mom and because the reveal that he's already married was a deft cliffhanger.
- "Gallaghers do not do therapy!"
- "Who the fuck are you?" is a funny line when spoken to a baby. Or by a baby, I suppose.
- It was a small thing, but I cracked up at the black woman who, during Frank's birther monologue, took a muffin, then left with a disgusted shake of her head. I can understand the logic: Wow, this guy's disgusting. But I mean… shit… free muffins.
- I was also tickled by the idea of having the owner of the bike Carl stole be a fat lady who stopped to get a pastry. Like we're supposed to think, Take the bike Carl, that big pastry-eatin' heifer don't need it!
- "My car's paid off!" is an amazing all-purpose retort.
- "Fiona… what a pleasant… surprise…" says Sheila, with the type of creeptastic delivery that only Joan Cusack could deliver.


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Spring Peepers Topiary Margot Potter for iLoveToCreate
Straw Flower Topiary Copyright 1963 Better Homes and Gardens Christmas Ideas Magazine
iLoveToCreate Retrofabulous Crafts
Spring Peepers Easter Topiary
Margot Potter
"These are your grandmother's crafts...ya gotta problem with that?"
I love topiaries. It's true, I do. Yet, inexplicably, this is my very first topiary craft! There are a plethora of handcrafted topiaries in my stash of vintage craft magazines, mostly Christmas themed like the one above. I've been meaning to make one and well, the time came. Two years ago Avalon and I bought these little Easter chicks on super sale at Michaels after Easter. We thought we had a lifetime supply, until this idea popped into my head. I ran out of chicks mid-project and had to make an emergency tiny chick run to Michaels, thankfully they had more. What made me want to put tiny chicks on a styrofoam ball? I can not say. But I love it so much it's staying in the living room until after Easter.
This is so easy and fun to do. Aleene's Tacky Glue Dots make super quick work of attaching the chicks.You can either use a pot that is already decorated or just mix up some fun colors with your Crafty Chica paints, add some fun trims, toss some Easter grass and either pre-made eggs or jelly beans on the top, add a bow and instant cute! I love this as a centerpiece for Easter, you could make a couple more smaller ones for either side to make a trio. I'm a big believer in the rule of threes.
Spring Peepers Topiary Materials
3" Styrofoam ball
8" Wooden dowel
Approx. 115-120 3/4" fuzzy chicks
4.5" Clay pot
Coordinating clay pot saucer
Easter grass
Glittered foam eggs or jelly beans
Styrofoam block for inside of pot
Decorative ribbon for pot rim
Ribbon to tie beneath topiary ball
Coordinating scrapbook papers
Coordinating button
Layered flower die-you could use a pre-made flower here if you prefer
Crafty Chica Paints (I used green and yellow mixed and red and white mixed)
Aleene's Acid Free Tacky Glue
Aleene's 3/8" Tacky Glue Dots
Die Cutting Machine
Foam brush
Paint the pot pink and the pot rim and dowel green. Allow to dry.
Use glue to adhere ribbon trim around rim of pot. I used super thick rick rack trim.
Die cut layered flower and adhere to conceal spot where ribbon ends meet using Aleene's Tacky Glue. Use a Tacky Glue Dot to adhere button to center of flower. Allow ribbon and flower to dry.
Take a chick and press it's feet on a Tacky Glue Dot. Press the chick on the styrofoam ball. Work from the center out, making a ring of chicks all facing the same direction. Work to the center on one side (this will be the top of the topiary) and the center on the other leaving a space for the painted dowel.
Once pot has dried, cut styrofoam to fit inside. Add some easter grass to hide foam. You'll insert the dowel into the bottom of your topiary ball and insert that into the center of the foam in the pot.
Tie a bow around the bottom of the topiary ball.
Make some coordinating decorations to dress up the table...and if you love carrot cake...get the recipe for these Easter Bunny Nest Coconut Carrot Cake Cupcakes today on Your Grandmother's Crafts!


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It's become conventional wisdom among pundits: Gov. Jerry Brown's legacy depends on whether his temporary tax initiative, Proposition 30, wins in November. The argument goes that a Prop 30 victory would show that Brown had tamed the budget monster -- and a defeat would be devastating.
These pundits are wrong.
The trouble with the argument is less with Brown, and more with Prop 30. Put simply, it's not consequential enough to determine anyone's legacy.
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Or to put it another way, whether Prop 30 wins or loses, the outcome is essentially the same. The state budget will still be broken. And California schools and other public services won't have a reliable source of funding to make necessary long-term improvements.
So: Why the confusion? Pundits are swallowing the rhetoric about Prop 30 being a big thing. It isn't.
Its tax increases are temporary and not particularly large; the sales tax piece is just a quarter-cent. The state's tax system is left in place; the measure doesn't change anything, except perhaps make a volatile tax system that much more volatile.
And the money generated by the measure isn't all that much: less than 10 percent of the budget by most estimates. That doesn't make up for a generation of under-investment in infrastructure and other public services. Indeed, much of the money goes to patch existing holes. There's no new money for schools in the measure -- the money instead makes up for money the schools were already owed.
So what's Brown's legacy? It's hard to care, given the size of the state's problems and the small nature of the governor's attempts to address it. Prop 30's existence -- and the emphasis Brown has put on it politically -- suggests that Brown's legacy will be meager, whether the measure wins or loses.
Indeed, if Brown is to have a legacy in this term, it's more likely to come from his push for high-speed rail and a water conveyance system. But only if those big things get built. And it's far from clear that either will make it.


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Breaking: Tina Belcher's ghost hoax creates havoc at school!
On Sunday's all-new episode of Bob's Burgers (8:30/7:30c, Fox), Tina (voiced by Dan Mintz) has big broadcast dreams and decides to try out for her school's news channel. Her newfound passion leads her to investigate the mysterious "Mad Pooper," who's been running amok at her middle school.
But first, she needs to audition to get the job of anchor. The competition is pretty fierce, and media teacher Mr. Grant (guest voice Will Forte) is looking for someone who can fulfill his specific idea of news. "Will plays a media teacher who almost couldn't be worse," creator Loren Bouchard tells TVGuide.com. "He wants to bring tabloid, TMZ-style journalism to middle school news. But Will's such a fundamentally funny, nice guy that he makes even that schmuck (almost) likable. He's a fantastic voice actor."
How does Tina do? And why does her audition frighten Andy and Ollie? Check out this exclusive sneak peek of "Broadcast Wagstaff School News":
Bob's Burgers airs Sundays at 8:30/7:30c on Fox.