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The gorgeous cover of the July 12 issue, by Dan's Papers artist at large, Mickey Paraskevas, depicted the prophetic scene at Taste of Two Forks in Bridgehampton. The event held on Saturday, July 14, was filled with nattily and coolly dressed folk with wide happy smiles as colorful as the artist's painting.
Happy indeed to fill their tummies with an awesome round of delectably prepared dishes from our talented local East End chefs and to sip award-winning wines from the Two Forks. With more than 40 restaurants represented, here is a brief capsule of some of the "Tastes:" rock shrimp ceviche with Thai chili and green papaya emulsion from the North Fork Table and Inn; duck confit with local baby spinach and Shitake mushrooms with raspberry vinaigrette from Fresh Hamptons; watermelon gazpacho with Jonah crab basil and sea salt from Navy Beach; rillettes of duck confit on crostini with pickled onion garnish from The Bell & Anchor; basil panna cotta with heirloom tomatoes and crispy prosciutto from Nick & Toni's; and Cretan pasta with pan-seared scallops and herbed tomatoes from Nammos Lounge.
While there was more deliciousness throughout the evening than one could hope for, the latter two recipes were unusual and guaranteed to give you a new taste thrill.
The Cretan pasta dough, made with yoghurt, may be a challenge, but it's worth the effort.
Nammos Lounge restaurant executive chef Emmanouil Aslanoglou's grandmother from the island of Crete inspired this unusual but delectable yogurt pasta.
Serves 6 as appetizer
For the pasta
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons truffle or sea salt
1/2 cup water
2 cups plain Greek yoghurt
1 extra-large egg, beaten
2 teaspoons black truffle cream or truffle oil
Kosher salt for the pasta water
For the sauce
4 tablespoons heavy cream
4 tablespoons yoghurt
2 to 2 1/2 tablespoons water
For the tomato mixture
3 vine-ripened tomatoes, diced
1 bunch scallion, trimmed and thinly sliced white
and light green parts
3 to 4 tablespoons thinly sliced chives
Truffle or sea salt and freshly ground pepper
For the scallops
12 dry scallops, side muscle discarded
Sea salt and generous grinding of fresh black
2 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1. Put flour in a bowl and make a well. Mix remaining ingredients in the well and, with a wooden spoon, gradually stir the flour into the mixture until a ball of dough forms. Wrap in wax paper and refrigerate for 10 minutes. Spread the pasta dough on a board and spread with a flat spatula to about 1/2-inch thickness.
2. Bring a pot of water to the boil and add salt. Place teaspoons of pasta directly into the boiling water. When the pasta floats it is done. Drain and reserve. The pasta may be prepared a day before and refrigerated in a suitable container.
3. Prepare the sauce: Place heavy cream, yoghurt and water in a bowl and stir to mix. Add the pasta pieces and the ingredients for the tomato mixture, season to taste and simmer over very low heat for a couple of minutes to warm.
4. When ready to serve season the scallops on both sides with salt and pepper. Put olive oil in a heavy skillet, such as cast-iron over medium-high heat. When pan is hot, add the scallops and sear them until golden brown, about one minute on each side.
5. To serve: Divide the pasta tomato mixture on serving plates and top each serving with two seared scallops. Drizzle each serving with a bit of extra-virgin olive oil, sea or truffle salt, and a generous grinding of fresh pepper.
Please note: For the Cretan Pasta recipe I used sea salt and truffle oil, as these ingredients were on hand when testing the recipe, with very good results.
Jessica Craig, the pastry chef of Nick & Toni's (Honest Man Restaurant Group) prepared this savory panna cotta for Dan's Taste of Two Forks.
Yields six 4 oz. servings
For the panna cotta
1 1/2 teaspoon powdered gelatin
2 tablespoons cold water
2 1/2 cups heavy cream
1 cup Crème fraiche
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoons honey
10 fresh basil leaves
For the garnish
1 heirloom tomato, diced
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
Salt and pepper
2 thin slices prosciutto
Small basil leaves for garnish. Optional
1. Place the gelatin in a small dish and pour over the water. Set aside to bloom.
2. Place the cream, crème fraiche, salt and homey in a saucepan. Cook the mixture over medium heat, stirring occasionally until it starts to bubble. Remove from heat and add the bloomed gelatin. Stir mixture until the gelatin is completely dissolved. Add the basil leaves and mix with an immersion blender to chop the basil and infuse into the mixture. Allow to stand for 10 to 15 minutes.
3. With a wooden spoon push the mixture through a strainer to remove basil solids. Pour the cream mixture into individual cups or a large serving bowl. Cover and refrigerate until set.
4. Halve the tomato and gently squeeze out the seeds, then slice, stack and cut into small dice. Place the tomato in a bowl with the oil, balsamic, salt and pepper to taste and set aside to marinate.
5. Stack the prosciutto slices and cut into thin strips. Heat the oil in a small non-stick skillet and sauté the prosciutto julienne until crispy. Transfer to a paper towel to drain excess oil.
To serve: Place a tablespoon of the tomato mixture over each serving of panna cotta. Top with a sprinkle of crispy prosciutto and a basil leaf, if desired.

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Earlier this year, Jeremy spoke for a group of invited guests at Lehigh University about his whirlwind journey in the craft beer business. He'Brew beer flowed freely for guests 21 and over, while Jeremy read from Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah. The response was tremendous and we thank Rabbi Seth Goren for these kind words:
"In addition to opening up about his fascinating professional journey, Jeremy humorously and humbly shared his breathtaking range of knowledge about craft beer. He was personable, gracious and warm, and all present highly enjoyed themselves."


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While you've been pretending to read the fine print on everything from your cell phone contract to your Starbucks card, companies have been slipping in legalese that robs you of your rights. A little-understood but rapidly expanding practice called "mandatory arbitration" is replacing your right to sue a company in court — a right many of us probably never even realized was vanishing.
On Tuesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced an inquiry into arbitration clauses in contracts for financial products and services. These clauses have become ubiquitous and lurk in contracts and in the terms and conditions for all types of products and services, from credit cards to retirement account agreements to nursing home admission forms, and even show up in some employment contracts.
"Consumers may not realize that they have waived their right to a trial because of an arbitration clause," the CFPB says in its release about the inquiry.
For the time being, however, even if people do realize that they're being asked to sign away their right to a day in court, there's little they can do about it. When you open a credit card, sign up for cell phone service or any other commercial activity, you don't get to write the contract terms: the company does. In some cases, you don't even have to sign a contract to give up your rights. The terms and conditions on the Starbucks website, for instance, says that customers are agreeing to arbitration automatically when they buy a gift card from the coffee giant.
So what is arbitration? It's basically a substitute for a court case, but it's skewed heavily in favor of the companies that mandate it. Instead of going in front of a judge, you present your side of the story to an arbitrator — one the company gets to pick. "Arbitration companies treat large corporations as their clients," Public Citizen says. They don't have to take legal precedent into account when deliberating, and their decisions aren't made public. Public Citizen has calculated that 94% of all arbitration disputes get resolved in favor of the company. Unlike the court system, there's no way to appeal a ruling.
The proliferation of these clauses stems from a Supreme Court ruling last year which said, essentially, that companies can legally prohibit customers from joining forces and filing class-action lawsuits against them. Instead, companies could mandate that customers have to submit to arbitration if that's what the contract says. Not surprisingly, companies have been rewriting their contracts to include these clauses at breakneck speed, say consumer advocates.
"The net effect of all this is American consumers' right to hold a company accountable in the courts is basically gone," says Harvey Rosenfield, of counsel with nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog.
At this point, the CFPB says specifically that it's not looking to rein in or prohibit the use of arbitration or arbitration clauses. But it wants to get a handle on how prevalent they are and how they affect consumers. It's also just focusing on financial contracts, but its findings could be useful for extrapolating how widely used these clauses are in other industries.
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Given the rather odd casting choice, I feel the need to preface this story with the assertion that this is not an April Fools' Day joke; this story is (as reported) 100% real. With that in mind, Mr. Ashton Kutcher is apparently readying to play the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in a biopic called Jobs. The notion of a Jobs-centric biopic isn't exactly new, as Sony began developing such a film merely days after the innovator's passing. Last we heard, The Social Network scribe Aaron Sorkin was considering penning the studio project, but Jobs is an entirely separate film. Hit the jump for more.
Per Variety, Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote) is set to direct Jobs from a script by Matt Whiteley. The film will chronicle Jobs' life "from a wayward hippie to co-founder of Apple." Despite Kutcher's fairly heavy comedic background, I have to admit he does look a great deal like Jobs. Nevertheless, appearance isn't the highest item on my list when looking at the casting of a biopic, and Kutcher's dramatic resume doesn't exactly lead me to believe that he'll knock the Jobs role out of the park.
Production on Jobs is slated to get underway in May, casting some doubt over the necessity of Sony's project. I'd be thrilled to see a Sorkin-penned biopic of Jobs' life, but the studio has to decide whether or not they want to be the second Jobs film out of the gate by a longshot. Though I don't necessarily think Kutcher's the right choice to take on the Jobs role, it's nice to see him willing to stretch his acting chops; he could easily fall into a lapse of complacency with his high profile role on Two and a Half Men. That said, I'd like nothing more than to be pleasantly surprised by his performance so we'll see how things shake out.


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Fiamma Nirenstein rushes into her kitchen to brew some Italian coffee before we sit down to discuss her latest best-seller, Israele Siamo Noi [Israel Is Us; Rizzoli Publishers, not yet been translated into English], which sold out in its first week and is already on its second printing. On the table, amid a mound of newspapers, is a laptop with at least three documents on which she is working simultaneously: one, an article she needs to finish by evening to meet her deadline for the Milan-based daily, Il Giornale; another, a lecture she is preparing for her upcoming trip to Rome; yet another an entry for her popular blog, www.fiammanirenstein.com.
The music of the bubbling espresso pot is accompanied by the repeated Outlook Express jingle signaling she has new mail and the ring of her home and mobile phones.
"Pronto," she answers each, practically simultaneously, talking to one caller in Italian and the other in Hebrew. This she does while ushering me into the salon and gesturing that I take a seat on the couch. The spacious, sunny living-and-dining room may as well be a multilingual Mideast studies library, for all the books on the subject lining the walls, and the dozens more piled high on other surfaces -- a number of which she herself has either authored, co-authored or contributed to.
Given the room's decor, it may as well be located in Florence, where Nirenstein was born and raised; in Rome, where she lives and works (and visits her 25-year-old son, Binyamin) half of every month; or in Tuscany, where she spends her summers. The panoramic view of the Holy City from the floor-to-ceiling windows is the only give-away to the location of Nirenstein's home in Jerusalem -- which she shares with her Israeli husband, Ofer Eshed, a TV news cameraman.
Nirenstein dissects what she calls the "sick words" that have infiltrated the language and consciousness of an increasingly anti-Semitic Europe.
"Israel is a country of heroes," Nirenstein says in Italian-accented English. "My book tries to destroy the vile myths perpetrated about its being 'colonialist' or an 'apartheid state' on the one hand, and about terrorists 'being militiamen fighting for freedom' on the other."
Nirenstein does this, she explains, by dissecting what she calls the "sick words" that have infiltrated the language and consciousness of an increasingly anti-Semitic Europe -- terms she and a group of Italian academics plan on collecting for a glossary, "because such word abuse prevents even the possibility of understanding what Israel is all about."
She comes by her passion for Israel -- and familiarity with the conceptual distortions characteristic of "autocratic ideologies" -- honestly. The daughter of Holocaust historian and long-time Al Hamishmar correspondent Aharon "Nir" Nirenstein (who came to Palestine in 1936 from Poland, and went to Italy in 1945 with the Jewish Brigade) and Corriere della Sera journalist Wanda Lattes, Nirenstein was an ardent communist in her youth. And, just as Zionism was part and parcel of her upbringing, so too, she says, was she caught up in the "mental corruption" that caused her generation to look to the likes of Che Guevara for inspiration, while attributing the world's ills to "capitalist imperialism."
Nirenstein, who has been reporting from Israel for the Italian print and broadcast media for nearly two decades, after years of being an international columnist, is a European version of a neocon. Her journey across the political spectrum -- like that of her American counterparts -- began as a response to the radical climate of the 1960s in her own country. Unlike theirs, however, Nirenstein's was paved with an added complication: To side with anything resembling the right wing in post-World War II Italy meant aligning with the fascists.
Still, Nirenstein asserts, "You cannot run away from reality indefinitely. Ultimately, you have to know what's right in terms of values, and be courageous about standing up for them."
For her, this endeavor has taken the form of examining, reporting on and writing extensively about terrorism -- and defending Israel in the face of it. "This costs something, of course," she says, alluding to the bodyguards who pick her up from the airport every time she lands in Italy, and shuttle her from place to place throughout her stay there.
During her most recent stint to promote her book -- an appeal to Europeans to emulate Israeli democracy -- Nirenstein says she was pleased about the positive reception it received, but stops short of being optimistic. Shrugging and smiling wryly, she sighs: "I'm afraid Europe will only wake up if terrible things happen that none of us would wish on ourselves or on anybody else."
Ruthie Blum (RB): Why is it significant that your book has received so much attention in the mainstream Italian press?
Fiamma Nirenstein (FN): My previous eight books have also been given extensive coverage, but what's significant in this case are the headlines. "Israel: A model for all of us," and "Israel: A model for democracy." I got the sense that this book released a cork in European public opinion. Many people have approached me and whispered in my ear, "I am with you."
RB: Does this mean that the general attitude in Europe is changing?
FN: The attitude in Europe is terrible. It is a public who admires [EU Secretary-General Javier] Solana for telling the Americans that we must be ready to make an agreement with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Americans and Israelis may know that the world is unsympathetic to them. But they don't understand how deep the lack of European understanding of terrorism goes, nor how deep the rejection of the word "war."
War to Europeans, regardless of the context, is anathema and has been since World War II. For Europeans, whoever wages a war is a criminal. Even those with a more sophisticated point of view always start from this point. You see, Israel is the country in the world most covered by the press, yet about which the least is known. This is why I wrote the book. In it, I try to describe what Israel is; what its war is all about; how it is possible to be at war and a democracy at the same time; and most importantly, how Israel is the avant-garde of the Western countries. These are crucial points to convey to Europeans, for whom democracy and war simply do not go together.
RB: Even though World War II saved European democracy?
FN: There is a lot of revisionism going on now in Europe about the American intervention in WWII -- even as far as to view it as imperialistic. Europeans consider democracy to be their invention, but history has demonstrated how they betray her all the time. Let's face it: Europe is the cradle of all the autocratic ideologies of our time -- fascism, communism. There is a real fascination in Europe with assertive autocracies and ideologies.
"I see the dangerous seeds of a culture of violence in Europe being inspired by the Islamic model."
I see the dangerous seeds of a culture of violence in Europe being inspired by the Islamic model -- exactly the way that my generation was inspired by [Marxist guerrilla leader] Che Guevara.
RB: Are you saying, then, that Nazism was a natural or logical product of Europe?
FN: What I'm saying is that there is an illness in Europe that's always been there -- one whose main symptom is anti-Semitism.
RB: Has the post-WWII taboo against expressing it expired?
FN: Well, anti-Semitism in Europe today is very high, and has taken an even sharper rise since the Second War in Lebanon. According to statistics, anti-Semitic incidents all over Europe have multiplied.
RB: Not only those perpetrated by Muslims?
FN: Not only by Muslims. There are neo-Nazi, neo-Fascist and also leftist global movements that are very anti- Semitic -- though they would never acknowledge it. They call it anti-imperialism, and say it's simply criticism of the State of Israel. But if you look at the double standards with regard to civil rights, you know they are being false. We come from a culture of civil rights, which became totally distorted by the communists, who took all of the civil rights for themselves and denied them to others. During the Cold War, civil rights became the medal you received for being on your way to communism. That was the way the communists saw the Third World and Arab countries. So terrorist, autocratic, fascist governments, like the Arab ones, became recipients of civil rights, though they were not upholding them at all.
RB: You were also a feminist. [When you witnessed the reconstruction of Europe after World War II] did you not see forms of freedom for women being allowed to blossom?
Yes, but it's more complicated than that. I remember an incredible confusion that created the impossibility of living a happy couple life, and much divorce. We thought that love and passion were exactly the same thing. So, when passion became pale, we simply got divorced. We had children here and there from different marriages. We created situations that were very hard to manage. We made our lives very difficult. And what emerged from all that was a terrible selfishness. Couples in Europe now, particularly in Italy, rarely have more than one child. Meanwhile, the immigrants are having many.
RB: Which brings us to the issue of demography -- the buzz-word in Israel that has been framing the debate since 1967. What about the demographics in Europe?
FN: I read that Austria -- one of the most conservative countries in terms of public life and behavior -- in a few years will have a white Christian minority. Incredible.
RB: You say that people whisper in your ear about being on your side. The book must have touched a nerve.
FN: The Italians are much milder than other Europeans in the way they express their views. This is something that makes the discussion at least possible. On the other hand, don't forget that a third of European Jewry was deported during the war, and Italy was no exception. It had racial laws exactly like those of Germany. Furthermore, today Italy has a large, opportunistic, politically correct petit bourgeoisie.
Hegemony is something that still almost completely reigns. In Italy, as in the rest of Europe, what dominates is a politically correct media. So maybe the Italians are not aggressive in an argument; maybe they are polite and civilized. But when you sit at a dinner party with them, their basic assumption is that Israel is wrong and the Palestinians are right. And that terrorism is a minor phenomenon which pales in comparison to the domination of capitalism.
RB: In spite of their witnessing the carnage produced by radical Islamic violence? And in spite of their seeing certain behavior on the part of immigrants to their countries? Has this not created a racist backlash on the part of many Europeans?
FN: Of course, there is a quiet tendency to what I call "democratic racism." In fact, I wrote a book with this title when this dangerous phenomenon started. And it is dangerous because the intellectual elite have not been elaborating the issue properly, since political correctness forbids them from doing so. So, what they say is, "These immigrants are welcome here. We need to have a multicultural society. Terrorism and the madrassas that educate to it are a minor phenomenon. Islam is one of the three monotheistic religions."
On the other hand, there is mumbling on the part of ordinary people to the effect that, "We can't stand them any more. Our streets aren't safe. They steal our money. They take our jobs." Which is unjust, of course. And which is why the absence of an intellectual bridge between these two positions is dangerous. It's about time that we created one, because if we don't, the mumbling will become a violent mob shout.
RB: How can this intellectual void be filled?
FN: For example, by telling immigrants, "If you come to our country, you won't marry four women; you will marry only one."
I mean, you know, Italy is a country in which women have been fighting for centuries for freedom -- and now you have women living in homes with other wives, and subject to honor killings and female circumcisions. Which is all due to this ill idea of multiculturalism.
RB: The aim of your book is to tell anybody who believes in liberal values that Israel is a model to identify with and emulate?
FN: Yes. And to stop paying so much heed to all the corruption allegations and other assaults against Israel. Democracy involves the circulation of information that exposes everybody. In Israel, as everywhere else, human nature is what it is. When I'm asked which errors I admit to Israel's having committed, I say that Israel has made many mistakes, but for the most part, they are political ones. One can argue about whether it was right or wrong to withdraw from Gaza. My own opinion on that has changed, by the way, because originally I thought it was a good idea, but now that I have seen the results, I say, "Mea culpa, mea culpa." I think I'm not alone in that.
RB: Isn't the response to your book an indication that Europeans are beginning to grasp what you're talking about?
"I'm afraid they'll only wake up if terrible things happen."
FN: No. I'm afraid they'll only wake up if terrible things happen that none of us would wish on ourselves or on anybody else. Having said that, there is some level of awareness that the Islamist jihadists hate not only Israel, but also the rest of the Western world. Ahmadinejad has his Shihab-3 missiles pointed at European capitals -- which they realize to some extent. But still, things are not really getting better.
What has dominated European life is laziness on the one hand, and loneliness on the other. There isn't the kind of solidarity that exists in Israel -- where everybody has something to say to everybody else -- even if it's done in a hutzpadik manner. In Israel, there is a sense of communication -- and of being in the same boat. This is something not found anywhere else. It is a country full of solidarity.
On the one hand it's true that people are starting to sense that radical Islam is against democracy. On the other, it's not clear whether this feeling will develop any further. You see, there is a complete disconnect going on. Using my students as an example: They say, "It's true that we are a superior culture because of civil rights and women's rights and freedom and democracy. But, precisely because we are superior, it is we who have to find a way to an agreement."
When you tell them, "But they don't want an agreement. They are a revolution. Think about Ahmadinejad. He doesn't want an agreement. He's a revolutionary. It's his revolution," they say, "This is impossible!"
But it's not only Europe that doesn't understand this. I fear that Israel doesn't understand this about itself the way it should. Israel is at the heart of the greatest adventure not only of this century, but of this millennium.
Reprinted with permission from the Jerusalem Post.


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On January 13, 2013, Chevrolet will unveil the long awaited C7 Corvette, which is the next generation of America's greatest sports car.
But we couldn't wait until 2013 to get behind the wheel, so we said pish tosh to GM for making us wait and snuck in a (virtual) test drive last night. So is the 'Vette still raucous and scary, or is it calm and sedate? Yes and yes.
(Full Disclosure: Chevy wanted me to drive the new C7 Corvette so bad that they let me download a version of it and travel the globe to wherever I pleased. We went to Germany, Belgium, and Italy together, and the dress code said I just needed to wear my underwear and could eat a Falafel while I drove. It was nice.)
As we told you yesterday, the C7 'Vette was announced as a free download in Gran Turismo 5 from the Playstation Store at the LA Auto Show. As GT5 creators Polyphony Digital have done in the past with the Nissan GT-R, the Corvette Prototype is wearing the camouflage that has been on all the test cars we've seen running around.
In the styling department, the front end looks quite similar to renders some random car blog on the internet (READ: It was us) showed a year ago. Headlights look longer and more pronounced, and there is definitely a hood scoop. But around back, the styling may have changed slightly.
The 'Vette in the game definitely has four circular LED taillights, not the square Camaro-esque tails that we saw a year ago. Hey, things change!
But who cares about all that, what's it like to drive? Not too shabby. I found a bit of understeer on corner entry at Spa and the Nurburgring, along with a tendency to wiggle its hips on corner exit. It can be a bit of a handful as weight transfers over crests and rises, which made for some 'oh shit' moments coming out of Eau Rouge. Instead of being super aggressive, smooth, gentle inputs on my Logitech steering wheel were the best way to tame the beast.
I ran one very sloppy full lap at the 'Ring and had a time of about 7:50. If I didn't go off into the gravel trap and overdrive it, I'm betting a time in the 7:30 range is within grasp. To put that into perspective, the Corvette ZR1 I have in the game has run a 6:59 at the 'Ring with slightly stickier tires, and the new C7 feels more composed than that car without sacrificing that rawness that makes the Vette so appealing.
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The new weight loss tricks
Weight-loss research is always sure to grab headlines as we seek the tips and tricks to help us achieve that ever-elusive weight goal.
Here are a few of the latest diets, supported by scientific research and with a little insight into whether they may be right for you.
A couple of low-kilojoule days
Whether you are a fan of the 5:2, The Fast Diet or the Alternate Day Diet, all of these approaches are based on a similar principle: that significantly cutting back on kilojoules for a day or two a week kick-starts the body metabolically, which supports weight loss.
While there is some evidence that individuals using this approach did drop a few kilograms during the research interventions, more significant was the reduction in their health-related risk factors – including high blood-glucose levels, high cholesterol and anti-inflammatory markers – in the short term.
So, if you are keen to try this approach, a day or two each week of low-kilojoule eating – which includes soups, salads and a small meal each day – may give you a weight-loss kick-start, but in isolation there is little evidence to show it will support you in losing large amounts of weight (>10kg) and keeping it off in the long term.
Add ½ an avocado
Who does not love avocado? And this nutrient-rich food that is packed with vitamin E and monounsaturated fats may even support weight loss.
Research published in the journal Nutrition found that when dieters included ½ an avocado with their lunch, they reported feeling fuller throughout the afternoon and were less likely to snack. It is thought that the fat content of avocados helps to slow down digestion and reduce blood-glucose levels, which in turn helps to control appetite.
So, if you regularly suffer from the 3pm sugars cravings, perhaps it is time to add a little more avo to your lunch.
Eat more at breakfast
You know the drill: a quick coffee and slice of toast for breakfast, lunch on the run before a sweet afternoon snack and a proper meal at night. While this may be a pattern that many of us get into, when it comes to the proportions of kilojoules we consume at different times of the day, it does appear that the more we can consume at breakfast, the better.
Research from the University of Tel Aviv found that dieters who consumed 2929 kilojoules at breakfast, 2092 kilojoules at lunchtime and just 836 kilojoules at dinner were significantly more likely to lose weight and waist circumference than dieters who consumed just 836 kilojoules at breakfast and 2925 at dinner.
The moral of the story: the bigger the breakfast and the smaller the dinner, the better it is if your ultimate goal is weight loss.
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Everyone meet Bridget Finn: member of the U.S. synchronized swimming team that took fifth at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, seven-time member of the national team, assistant coach on Stanford's national championship-winning squad in 2006-07. (She's currently the website editor at strategy + business.) Bridget's in the discussion below, ready to answer all your questions about hair products, nose plugs, sinister dolls, fainting, and all the various physical agonies hiding behind that grin.
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Ex-38 Studios staffer Steve Danuser has rejoined Sony Online Entertainment. Danuser was part of the Everquest fold before jumping ship to become lead developer on Project Copernicus, the ill-fated MMO based on the Kingdoms of Amalur IP. Happily, SOE seems pleased to have Danuser back following 38 Studios' closure, as he's now taken on the […]
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Former 38 Studios employee Steve "Moorgard" Danuser has released a video showing a look at the firm's cancelled MMO, Project Copernicus. Watch it on YouTube as embedding has been disabled. Thanks, Massively.
Leaked Project Copernicus trailer gives a look at shelved Amalur MMO
A leaked trailer gives us our best glimpse at Project Copernicus, the Kingdoms of Amalur MMO in production at 38 Studios when it was shuttered.
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you probably know donald glover as the ever amusing troy barnes on community… which is where i admittedly got to know about him too. what i didn't know was that he is a multi-talented individual who also does stand up comedy, makes music under the name childish gambino and writes comedy (he used to be a writer for 30 rock.) i first realised these things when i discovered a remix he did of sufjan steven's illinoise album under one of his musical monikers, mc DJ – which he called illin-noise (!) – if that doesn't make you fall head over heels for this guy perhaps these photos will.
taken by ariel rosenbloom for the spring issue of bullett magazine.
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A recent conversation in our house started like this:
Why don't you do an exhibition on dancing?
Ooh not a bad idea, must admit I have not thought of such broad themes like this before and start imagining how this exhibition might look and feel. But what really gets me thinking, from this conversation, is how to bring audiences up into the beginning of the selection process around themes and narratives. I see this as slightly different to crowd-sourcing content for exhibitions, which has been happening successfully by museums already. The Brooklyn Museum has used this model with several exhibitions such as Split Second: Indian Paintings-framed as on online experiment and the recently launched Go-a community-curated open studio project.
We put on exhibitions for our communities and yet there is rarely the opportunity to engage them in the initial decision-making using our collections with the traditional exhibition development model. What do you want to see here? Are we putting on exhibitions that you are really interested in? These questions may be asked buried deep down in an evaluation questionnaire but are they upfront on our home pages? Would doing this narrow the gap between curators museological interpretation and visitors experiences?
What if we had a simple tool on the home page of our websites that allowed our audiences to get involved in this process?
This is one that we prepared earlier (disclaimer: it is made by the teenager)
Be upfront about what themes you should be targeting. They can obviously be steered towards collections, narratives and topics relevant to the organisation, but put it out there. Be open and transparent about the decision-making. Ask the question: What exhibition themes inspire you?
Ed Rodley is reflecting on the radically transparent museum in his series Making a museum from scratch and proposes:
that our museum be radically transparent, that we organize it around the notion that everything should be transparent unless it needs to be otherwise.
If we do this, then why not start at the beginning. Be transparent from end to end.
Audiences have a far greater choice nowadays to be entertained due to the vast amount of accessible content that exists in this networked environment. Do our exhibition models need to change much like the newspaper model has needed too?
Audiences are getting used to sharing processes and getting access to content through social media and online tools. Providing audiences with the opportunity to have meaningful and engaging ways to connect with museums, exhibitions and collections is becoming even more prevalent today.
If the exhibition model is too problematic to facilitate then the question could be relevant to the collection to engage an audience not familiar with it or not heading over to search.
What object would you like to see in our foyer this month?
Keep it on a smaller scale, sometimes the more scalable model can have impact. With the large proportion of collections not being on display or accessible to the public it is overdue that audiences be able to converse more deeply on their existence. Collections like menus:
What would you like?
Obviously then we have to think about and be agile enough to deliver the new model. As Mia Ridge points out on her post Museums and the audience comment paradox that it can be a big challenge to provide a quality experience when implementing 'have your say' interactives.
But worth taking some risks I say. We need the 'What's on' in our sites but we should be adding the 'What would you like us to put on' too.
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New Hunter
Thank you so much Antman... I followed your steps and mine is almost done.... (I removed few things like the complicated ears)
Sorry guys, I doubt he'll be back soon.
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Great work antman!Hi there!
I haven't finished the paint job on my first scratch build yet, but I already started on my second build of which I might be tempted to make a casting :rolleyes.... if I figure out how to do that!
Anyway, since I got so many inquiries about how to actually deal with Alan's templates, here's is my approach. With plenty pics o'course.
First of all, I start out by taping the biggest parts of the W[emoji106]F templates (pages 15+19 and 16+20) together as shown in these pics:
Then I transfer them onto the cardboard (2 mm thickness here in metric Europe) and cut out one big piece which forms the "Outer Layer".
I do the same for the 4 parts ( pages 13+17 and 14+18 ) forming the "Inner Surface" and bend this large piece into shape very slowly and carefully.
I do this by moistening the cardboard first with a misting bottle (for spraying plants) or wet spunge. Don't soak it though!
I bend it around the shape that is formed by pages 9 and 10 called the "Dome Base Right/Left side":
I join the two ends of the cylinder shape by glueing them together with an extra piece of cardboard, as such:
Phew! Let's leave that to dry for like 12 hours at least.
Back soon. Now I'm going to check out that HOT thread about the 1986 Fett helmet by Banzai88! Very exciting stuff!
"With great power comes great responsibility"


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Ascent Trip Report
NEO40, Shawn, Paulo, and Beth.
We left from the trailhead at 6:30am.
Trailhead is at the end of Haystack Road (FR304) off Route 3. Haystack is a dirt road that is 2.3 miles west of the town of Twin Mountain.
Start Day1: The North Twin Trail leaves the parking area, makes 3 stream crossings and ascends to North Twin Mountain in 4.3 miles. Stream crossings were tough due to icy slippery rocks. We put on our microspikes to get across.
Took the North Twin Spur trail, 1.3 miles to South Twin Summit and the junction of the Twinway. Weather and visibility were excellent.
Followed the Twinway trail for 2 miles to the Bondcliff Trail Junction.
Took Boncliff trail for 1.3 miles to Mt Bond.
From Mt Bond to Bondcliff 1.2 miles Unbelievable views.
Return from Bondcliff to Mt Bond 1.2 miles
From Mt Bond back North to the West Bond Spur Trail approx 1.2 miles. Mt Bond Spur Trail 0.5 miles out and back for a total of 1.0 miles Sun was starting to set so we headed back to
Guyout Campsite spur to spend the night. We had to stop and watch the sunset on Bondcliff trail. Setup tent in darkness.
Total mileage day 1: 13.6 miles (about 10 hours)
Sunrise: 6:30am Sunset: 4:30pm
10 hours of hiking, 10 hours of daylight what a coincidence.
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Very windy. Gusts in exposed areas almost blew you over. You had to brace your poles and walk low. Return via Bondcliff trail to the Twinway 0.6 miles.
Twinway to North Twin Trail 2.0 miles.
North Twin Trail to Trailhead 5.6 miles. After the first river crossing we stopped for lunch by the river in the beautiful sunshine. Big difference from top. We took a bushwhack to avoid two stream crossings.
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We got up and went to church as usual.
We came home and had lunch as usual.
Then Doug and I did something UNusual.
We hugged and kissed our kids good bye,
left them with friends,
and went to the airport.
And flew to Tokyo.
And then flew to Hawaii.
Where we arrived at 9 a.m....Sunday morning.
(No. We did not go to church again.)
And now it's Sunday night late here in Hawaii. But it's Monday evening in Japan.
And we're all confused and out of sync.
But still happy to be here because, duh...it's Hawaii.
And not only is it Hawaii, but it's America.
And that means that when Doug roared out of Alamo's parking lot behind the wheel of our sporty red Mustang Convertible, (thank you for the great deal Priceline!) I had no problem cranking the rock station full blast, sticking my feet on the dash, and singing loudly to the music with my hand hanging out the window surfing the air currents.
Something I would never, ever do in Japan...
where I try my best to be civilized and quiet and polite and give a good impression of Americans.
And although we really do love Japan and we love the adventures we're having there...
I also really love America.
I didn't realize just how much I missed it until I got here!
If we had to turn around and go right back I'd be happy because at least I
1) Have eaten some DEEEEEEEE-Licious Sweet Bread French Toast with Mangos, whipped cream and Macadamia nuts on top.
2) Listened to some excellent radio at top volume.
3) Shared a Virgin Pina Colada with Doug
4) Seen and laughed with 3 other awesome couples, all from Doug's residency in Rhode Island. (And with whom we're now sharing a beach house.)
Sometimes unusual is really, really good.
(case in point --->)


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For a similar discussion of Amazon Web Services, consult Getting Started with the Cloud: Amazon Web Services.
A friend recently reported a conversation he had with one of those wide-eyed, gee-golly developers who's half Techie and half Moonie. When asked what he was working on, the speaker came back with, "cloud cloud cloud cloud cloud cloud," and my friend said, "but, what if ...," to which the speaker replied, "cloud cloud cloud cloud cloud," to which my friend said, "but that won't work because...," to which the developer responded, "cloud cloud cloud cloud cloud" — and so it went. Many use "cloud" as a synonym for "good." Cloud architectures indeed have a lot going for them, but they're not a panacea, and you need to know what you're doing to jump to the cloud successfully.
This article discusses general cloud-related issues and looks specifically at the Amazon and Google cloud architectures. Subsequent articles will be more practical, delving deeply into code that comprises cloud-based applications, but let's start with some background.
What Is The Cloud?
First, what exactly does "cloud computing" mean? The term "cloud" dates to the early days of the Internet; back before domains existed (yes, there was such a time). An email address was essentially a route specified in what was called "bang notation." To send an email, you needed to know the name of every machine between you and the recipient. Here's a particularly nasty example that I pulled out of an old newsgroup post:
The "dog" and "msb" are the sending and receiving machines. The rest is the route from one machine to the other. The routes didn't have to be fully specified — most email systems knew about a handful of major hubs, so a minimum-length address just specified a route from that hub to you — but there was zero flexibility.
Things changed with the introduction of domains. Instead of an explicit route, you sent an email to a gateway machine, and the email's recipient got the mail from a different gateway machine. The servers through which the mail passed on the way from one gateway to the other were anonymous, and the network topology was unknown. The word "cloud" was coined to describe that amorphous network. You didn't know what went on inside the cloud (and believe me, you didn't want to). As long as the mail ended up at the right place, everything was copacetic.
So, here's my rather strict definition of "cloud": A network of computers in an unknown topology, arranged in such a way that you don't need to know anything about this network except how to talk to a machine at the edge.
A "cloud application" is then an application deployed to the cloud itself, not to a specific machine. The application could be running on one or more machines that may or may not be physically collocated. Its data store could also be distributed, and may not be on the same machine as the application.
Web 2.0 applications are typically implemented using a traditional client-server architecture (one server hosted on an ISP talking to multiple browser-based clients). However, there's no reason why you can't have Web 2.0 cloud applications. In fact, that's most likely the way that all applications will work five years from now. It's useful, however, to separate the concepts in your head. Most current Web 2.0 applications are not cloud based.
What Difference Does It Make?
So, why would you want a cloud application instead of a simple client/server arrangement? Consider the following ping times:
> ping www.google.cn PING www.google.cn (126.96.36.199): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 22.214.171.124: icmp_seq=0 ttl=239 time=273.340 ms 64 bytes from 184.108.40.206: icmp_seq=1 ttl=239 time=478.394 ms 64 bytes from 126.96.36.199: icmp_seq=2 ttl=239 time=421.920 ms 64 bytes from 188.8.131.52: icmp_seq=3 ttl=239 time=343.003 ms 64 bytes from 126.96.36.199: icmp_seq=4 ttl=239 time=263.843 ms 64 bytes from 18.104.22.168: icmp_seq=5 ttl=239 time=482.231 ms ...
The round-trip time between my desk in Berkeley, California, and one of Google's servers in Hong Kong ranges from a bit over a quarter to almost half a second, and we're sending only 56 bytes. There's essentially no server overhead, but we're hostage to both distance and the speed of the routers through which the data is passing. (A tracert reports only 17 hops, so the latency is probably all distance.) The picture is different when the server is close by. Here are the results from Berkeley to San Jose (12 hops):
> ping google.com PING google.com (188.8.131.52): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 220.127.116.11: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=19.815 ms 64 bytes from 220.127.116.11: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=20.466 ms 64 bytes from 126.96.36.199: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=35.547 ms ...
A cloud application (or at least the instance of the application that we're talking to), would ideally be running on the machine with the best access time. That's the main advantage — the cloud can effectively reconfigure itself to take care of pesky details like network latency.
However, there's actually no way to guarantee that this reconfiguration will actually happen, which brings us to the dark underbelly of a cloud app: We need to program for the worst case.
Imagine a cloud app that's doing some kind of word completion. Every time you type a character, it's sent off to a server, which finds words prefixed with whatever you've typed. The server sends back a list of possible matches, and your program displays these. Most of the cloud books, in fact, demonstrate this sort of thing in exactly that way — the local application talks to the server with literally every keystroke. Given the look-up times, etc., your user isn't going to be particularly happy with your worst-case response time. You can, however, rethink your strategy. When the first few characters are typed, the server could send you a large, perhaps exhaustive, list of every word that could possibly start with those characters. Thereafter, the application can use that list to update its display rather than going back to the server with every key press. By eliminating the redundant network queries, we make the application much more responsive.
On the plus side, the cloud is amorphous and can indeed reconfigure itself based on observed load. If Google notices that there is a lot of traffic between Berkeley and Hong Kong, it may well replicate the Hong Kong server somewhere in California, and the latency would suddenly improve. The same applies to your cloud application: It will, ideally, be running on several geographically distributed servers, with the topology scaling to accommodate actual requests. In other words, the size of the network (and your cloud-services provider) matters. For cloud services to be effective, the provider has to be large. If you deploy to the Google or Amazon infrastructure, you're effectively leveraging the flexibility inherent in a very large network. By my rather strict definition, an application running on a single server, whether it's an ISP or so-called cloud host, isn't a cloud application at all because it looses the scalability and flexible topology of a true cloud infrastructure.


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I2P dev meeting, March 6, 2016 @ 15:00 UTC
Quick recap
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EinMByte, sadie, str4d, z3r0fox, zzz
Pełny protokół IRC
<zzz> 1) VRP/H1/1119
<zzz> 2) 0.9.26 carryover
<zzz> 3) Summer of X
<zzz> 4) 27-29 deferred to next meeting
<zzz> 0) hi
<zzz> hi
<str4d> hi
<zzz> I'll explain 3) when we get there
<EinMByte> Hi
<zzz> 1) VRP/H1/1119
<zzz> http://trac.i2p2.i2p/ticket/1119
<zzz> has everybody had a chance to catch up and review this ticket?
* str4d is about to post his comments
<zzz> str4d overall thoughts?
<str4d> Overall I think it is pretty good. I like the positive feedback we have had from people who do this kind of thing for a living :)
<zzz> I think we're on the right track more or less
<zzz> this ticket has been around for 2 years. you brought up H1 14 months ago. we've had anonimal's vrp process drafts since september
<zzz> i think over that time, h1 has become pretty legit
<str4d> I agree with zzz that the later points are overspecified, but I think the process and response sections (sections III and IV) are about the right level of specification
<zzz> i have no remaining doubts about using h1
<EinMByte> Yes, although I've only followed the discussion from a distance, vuln. response should follow stricter procedures then now. H1 might be a good options for that.
<EinMByte> s/options/option
<str4d> I am also +1 on h1, for the reasons I have already outlined in the ticket.
<zzz> str4d, you met katie of h1 a while back right? can you fill us in on that meeting?
<z3r0fox> Hi
<str4d> Yeah! I met her at Kiwicon 9
<str4d> I asked her about the tweet I posted, that arice responded to in the ticket
<str4d> Turns out that arice actually emailed her a link to our ticket asking if his response was adequate, and she ended up reviewing the ticket on her phone while in another meeting :P
<str4d> She also liked it :P
<zzz> and what about the funded stuff and what tor's doing with them?
<str4d> She mentioned that it was going to happen, and did indicate that we may be able to get in the same program
<zzz> also, overall impressions of h1 the company after meeting katie?
<str4d> I have yet to follow up on this, because 1) thesis, and 2) there is no point in going in any program if we don't then use h1
<str4d> zzz, very positive
<zzz> anybody have any objections to using h1?
<str4d> They appear to know their stuff, and Katie is certainly thriving there
<zzz> can we flip the switch on h1 now to go live or what has to happen first?
<str4d> If we go for h1, this is what I think needs to happen:
<str4d> - We finish up the VRP and get it on the website
<str4d> - We tidy up the copy text front page of the h1 page
<str4d> (things like how we respond, what we consider in-scope etc.)
<zzz> vrp must be before h1 live?
<str4d> - We decide on the response team
<str4d> - We move the sandbox into closed beta, where we have a few researchers invited
<str4d> - Once we have had some time to get used to the platform, response volumes etc. we take it to open
<zzz> you really think responses are going to start rolling in the day we flip the switch?
<str4d> They could
<str4d> Katie indicated to me there were a number of researchers who were very interested in helping open-source projects, if they could find them
<zzz> can't imagine we need to have everything lined up. not like the researchers are going to start hacking on day one
<zzz> especially if no money involved
<zzz> closed beta means they have to let the in?
<str4d> Yes
<str4d> Essentially h1 invites maybe 10 researchers to be able to use our page
<EinMByte> Do you have any idea who would be invited?
<zzz> so putting the VRP and our response team aside for the moment, who's going to fix up our h1 page to get ready? str4d?
<str4d> I don't recall the exact specifics
<str4d> (whether we invite people ourselves through h1 or whether they find the researchers from the existing registered pool)
<str4d> The idea is that then we don't get inundated with crappy tickets before getting used to how to respond to them
<str4d> But IMHO it also helps us start to directly build relationships with a few researchers
<zzz> do you have a sense of whether everybody is chasing after bounties on h1 or are the free ones getting a lot of reports too?
<EinMByte> Sure, or at least with those that are using h1
<str4d> I don't personally have a sense of that
<EinMByte> zzz: Is there a possibility of eventually oferring bounties?
<str4d> But Katie indicated that there were definitely researchers who wanted to help FOSS projects if they could identify them
<zzz> somebody is funding tor bounties now, so yes
<sadie> I can help str4d on the h1 mainpage
<str4d> thx sadie
<EinMByte> I2P has reasonable savings, why not spend some of them on bounties
<zzz> ok great, so sadie and str4d will work on getting the h1 side ready
<str4d> EinMByte, yes we could go to bounties, but not initially IMHO
<zzz> 1mb we certainly can if we want
<zzz> anything else on h1 or can we move onto the vrp itself?
<EinMByte> Let's see how it works out without bounties
<str4d> And as mentioned above, there is now a program on h1 for funding bounties for FOSS projects
<z3r0fox> Beta sounds like a good opportunity for team to develop public facing responses for if a really serious bug is publically disclosed
<str4d> which we may be able to get into
<zzz> last call for h1
<zzz> ok, lets look at the vrp itself in the ticket
* str4d posts his comments
<zzz> we're reviewing anonimal's draft from november
<zzz> let's not go thru point by point though
<zzz> overall impressions on the november draft and where we go from here?
<str4d> <str4d> I agree with zzz that the later points are overspecified, but I think the process and response sections (sections III and IV) are about the right level of specification
* zzz takes a minute to read str4d's comments
<zzz> ok it seems like we are in general agreement that the november draft is a great start and we have rough agreements on the edits necessary
<zzz> what I'd like to do is take the final stage of this from anonimal, that str4d and I will finish the edits and get it posted on the website, and round up a team
<str4d> Sounds good
<zzz> what do you guys think?
<str4d> There are also the necessary tweaks now we are going for h1 instead of private Trac
<zzz> any volunteers to help us work on the final version?
<zzz> we don't want to get overly tool-specific (mtn, h1, etc) in the process. It should be high level enough to avoid most of that
<str4d> True
<str4d> And we will be iterating on it anyway
<zzz> doesnt need to be perfect out of the gate
<str4d> That is another reason for a private beta initially
<zzz> ok str4d when are we going to have that done by?
<sadie> vrp draft looks good
<zzz> end of march?
<str4d> sounds good
<zzz> ok anything else on 1) ??
<zzz> moving on to 2) 0.9.26 revisited
<zzz> any other comments? unfortunately I haven't updated the roadmap on the website yet
<zzz> so i could hold up my notes to the camera
<zzz> sorry i should have done the website.
<zzz> I did get the last 3 meeting logs, including last thurs and fri., up on the website though
<zzz> guess i will be doing that until kytv reappears
<zzz> whenever our next meeting is, I will put .26 on the agenda to look at it then
<zzz> anything else on 2) ?
<zzz> ok moving on to 3) summer of x
<zzz> str4d can you explain our idea please
<str4d> The idea is that we focus development for three months on user- and developer-facing elements of I2P
<str4d> ie. things that people might actually care about, rather than streaming tweaks ;P
<str4d> And therefore things that are easier to do publicity on
<str4d> The rough idea is:
<str4d> - Summer of APIs: spend a month working on updating our libraries etc
<str4d> - Summer of Apps: spend a month working on helping other projects use those libraries
<str4d> - Summer of Plugins: spend a month working on our own apps and plugins
<zzz> right, this is about growing the network through outreach and making apps (ours and other people's) better
<str4d> Yep
<zzz> my idea was, if we can get 5 more Vuze's, we'll be 5 times bigger
<EinMByte> You might also want to add documentation to that
<str4d> Plus there's the whole Summer of Code ethos that we can hook into online
<EinMByte> no good API without decent documentation
<zzz> a lot of times we see some project thinking about i2p but they dont know much and dont get any help
<str4d> EinMByte, to the API parts, yes
<zzz> agreed 1mb
<str4d> ie. that would be on making our libraries and APIs as easy for devs to use as possible
<z3r0fox> Sounds like a good campaign idea! Worth a shot
<str4d> so e.g. updating txi2p, libsam etc. with SAMv3.3
<EinMByte> Supporting more languages?
<EinMByte> More interfacing through existing libraries
<str4d> Potentially, if we have the developers to help :)
<str4d> EinMByte, yah
<zzz> I'd like to sadie involved in this too with branding and outreach
<EinMByte> I think str4d's work with twisted is great, would be nice to do more stuff like that
<str4d> Fix the libtorrent support, try and get something into libp2p, etc.
<zzz> summer of i2p, or i2p summer of fun, etc
<EinMByte> i;e. do not write our own API from scratch but offer plugins for whatever framework people are using
<str4d> EinMByte, exactly.
<zzz> pushing sam 3.3, bringing all the various bridge libs up to date, documented, etc
<str4d> Or if we do offer our own API, make it as simple as possible. That's what I like about libsam, it is two files that any project can bundle (or ideally, any existing library)
<zzz> there's python and go and c and c++ and twisted and libtorrent and libsockets and and and...
<zzz> we fix up other people's stuff and do pull requests to them
<EinMByte> str4d: Agreed, APIs should be easy to bundle. It's a common problem for me
<str4d> While that is ongoing, we can ask other projects if they want help getting I2P into their apps
<zzz> why the heck doesn't libtorrent work? who can figure that out and get it fixed?
<zzz> ^^ as an example
<str4d> Then in the next phase of SoX, we then work on educating them and helping them use the newly-updated libraries and APIs
<EinMByte> sounds good
<str4d> It would be great to have buy-in with this from i2pd and kovri too, at least for the API part
<str4d> since we want to end up with apps being able to use whatever I2P backend they want
<zzz> i think we could get a lot of people excited here. I know psi is working on various libs
<zzz> we need a list of all the messaging apps we want to target
<str4d> And this is good for tying in with our existing outreach
<EinMByte> If we get the right PR it might be a success
<EinMByte> I want to create a simple C++ API for kovri, at some point
<zzz> great 1mb
<EinMByte> Then that API could be used from various programming languages. But this is a core API, not a client API (so use-case is somewhat different)
<EinMByte> Pretty much it should allow any application to bundle the kovri core.
<zzz> this would be a nice wholistic project to get everybody involved
<EinMByte> Agreed
<str4d> In my outreach todo list I have Tahoe-LAFS, IPFS, Tox, OpenBazaar, Zeronet...
<zzz> ok how do we move forward with this
<zzz> maybe sadie can give it a cool name
<str4d> We essentially have until the end of May to plan this
<str4d> (while .25 and .26 are released)
<zzz> so after .26
<zzz> lets put this on the april 4 meeting agenda
<EinMByte> Ok.
<EinMByte> PR would have to attend, though
<zzz> june: APIs july: apps aug: plugins
<EinMByte> (so I think that's sadie, now?)
<zzz> also could wrap this around HOPE
<z3r0fox> I don't know many of the details obviously yet, but I'm not a terrible tech writer if anyone wants to assign me some grunt work
<zzz> ok let's ask sadie to flesh this out a little on april 4
<sadie> zzz - I can take care of graphics/ content with str4d for outreach
<zzz> ok
<zzz> anything else on summer of x?
<sadie> also, I will at Hope with stickers ..
<str4d> Nothing from me :)
<amnesia> Call it something other than Summer of X so it doesn't sound either non-descript, or like porn?
<str4d> amnesia, X is a placeholder
<str4d> (until we think of something better)
<zzz> ok. as I said at the top of the meeting, I'd like to defer discussion of 27-29 and the bigger roadmap and goals for 2nd half '16
<amnesia> Summer of Targetted Development?
<zzz> do we like these roadmap-specific meetings or not? should we do this again?
<str4d> amnesia, a little long IMHO
<str4d> We will think of something for the April meeting
<zzz> send your ideas for 'X' to sadie or post somewhere
<str4d> zzz, I like them
<str4d> And speaking of
<zzz> do we want another roadmap mtg in march?
<sadie> zzz , can we put something on forum where people can leave suggestions for the "summer of" name?
<zzz> yes sadie
<str4d> The other thing I wanted to bring up was the longer-term roadmapping
<EinMByte> zzz: Yes. We need more long-term
<zzz> we got our .25 release next weekend so that will keep us occupied
<zzz> maybe about 2 weeks from now for another roadmap meeting
<EinMByte> Unless we plan that for later, but at some point it will need discussion
<str4d> Sounds good
<z3r0fox> zzz: I think they're good. Keeps focus
<str4d> I want to suggest something for people to mull over
<EinMByte> zzz: sure
<zzz> want to go back to a tuesday 8 PM or do it on the weekend?
<str4d> In parallel with the SoX, I would like to have another two parallel streams of development work
<str4d> - Crypto migration
<str4d> - UI overhaul
<str4d> The blocker on both of these is research and design, not implementatino
<EinMByte> Does crypto migration include NTCP2?
<str4d> Yes
<str4d> So while we are doing SoX implementation stuff, we are also doing reviews of the various proposals etc.
<zzz> how is saturday March 19th
<z3r0fox> +1 Weekends
<zzz> 8 PM UTC Saturday March 19
<str4d> With a goal of having a plan ready to implement either during or after SoX
<EinMByte> March 19 seems good
<str4d> Likewise with UI, we need to start planning design work on that ASAP, because it will take a long time
<sadie> march 19th works for me
<zzz> ok sox == summer of x, got it
<str4d> Yes (until we change it :P )
<str4d> Design stuff can happen in parallel with everything else, and then implementation could happen after SoX
<str4d> It would be *so* nice if we could have a new UI in place for CCC
<zzz> ok I will get an agenda up on zzz.i2p, plus the notes, plus the logs from todays meeting on the website
<str4d> Anyway, stuff to think about
<zzz> anything else for today's meeting?
* zzz grabs the baffer
<str4d> We can discuss more at next roadmap
<sadie> baff it
<str4d> March 19 works for me :)
* zzz *baffs* it
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Ending Coronation Cord & Tatting Patterns
Handling the ends for Coronation Cord and Tatting Patterns
A recent article here on BellaOnline.com's tatting column featured information about the combination of tatted lace with coronation cord. https://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art50888.asp Anita Barry had some experience using the coronation cord and had a few comments and questions.
Anita wrote: "Years ago my mother gave me bundles of Coronation Cord. She knew I'd
use it. However, she never bothered to tell me what it was or what I should do with it. I figured it had something to do with tatting. Tatting was the only passion I had involving threads at the time. I guessed my mother bought it at a garage sale and knew exactly what it was, what a treasure she'd found and how it was used in crocheting and tatting. Like I said, she never shared her information with me. Guess she knew I'd figure it out.
Years later I saw a tatting book with patterns incorporating tatting and Coronation Cord. (An "ah-ha!" moment.) I have made several items with it, but have found it baffling to sew the Coronation Cord ends together. It's bulky to overlap the ends, but I haven't discovered another way. Do you know others who have added Coronation Cord to their tatting? I'd love to hear how they managed sewing the ends together."
Anita shares this doily which uses coronation cord. Note the many sets of three rings which were tatted separately. So many ends to hide. The photo below shows a spot where the ends of the coronation cord were joined together. A bit of raveling highlights the spot.
Anita also tatted the Priscilla Tatting Book #2 1919 pg. 8 fig 19 pattern with coronation cord. This was originally intended for a purse but could easily be a jabot or blouse insert. (This book is available for free download. The link is listed here: https://www.bellaonline.com/subjects/3137.asp)
Here Anita shows the ends in the new piece. Still a bit rough in the join and perhaps there are two joins to it? I asked embroidery artist Mary Corbet for advice on handling the ends but she had little experience with coronation cord. Her best guess was to tuck the ends and over stitch them in a similar colored thread to hide them. So it sounds like we overlap the ends and then whip stitch them.
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Romantic opportunities appear to influence women's sexual identities — but not men's, suggests a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
"This indicates that women's sexuality may be more flexible and adaptive than men's," said study author Elizabeth Aura McClintock, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame.
Why do unmarried women tend to be more liberal and Democratic than their married counterparts? A key reason is because unmarried women — those who have never been married and those who are divorced — are more concerned about the status of women as a collective group, suggests a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Rights and rhetoric clash in abortion politics, with Susan Markens, Katrina Kimport, Drew Halfmann, Kimala Price, and Deana A. Rohlinger.
LGBT educators struggle to balance professionalism and pride in the classroom, splittling, knitting, or quittting, in the words of the authors.
All sociologists recognize that social constraints affect individuals' outcomes. These effects are sometimes relatively direct. Other times constraints affect outcomes indirectly, first influencing individuals' personal characteristics, which then affect their outcomes. In the latter case, the social becomes personal, and personal characteristics that are carried across situations (e.g., skills, habits, identities, worldviews, preferences, or values) affect individuals' outcomes. I argue here for the importance of both direct and indirect effects of constraints on outcomes.
Multiple chronic conditions (i.e., multimorbidity) increase a person's depressive symptoms more than having one chronic condition. Little is known regarding whether multimorbidity similarly increases the depressive symptoms of one's spouse and whether this depends on type of condition, gender, or both spouses' health status. Analysis of multiple waves of the Health and Retirement Study reveals husband's number of chronic conditions is positively related to wife's depressive symptoms when both spouses are chronically ill.