text: Show Hide image Culture 24 January 2013 An unremittingly dull history of World War Two World War Two: a Short History - review. Sign-up World War Two: a Short History Norman Stone Allen Lane, 272pp, £16.99 The more the Second World War recedes from memory, the greater the fascination it seems to exert. Recent blockbusters by Antony Beevor and Max Hastings have reached a wide readership through their vivid depiction of the human dimension of war. Narratives of individual battles, from Stalingrad to D-Day, along with studies of particular aspects of the war from the role of intelligence and deception to the importance of food supplies and economic factors, have similarly climbed up the bestseller lists. After this flood of publications, there is clearly room for a good, readable, short history of the war. Norman Stone has many of the qualifications needed to write one: he reads and speaks many languages, he can write entertainingly and he has written a great deal about 19th- and 20th-century European and world history, both east and west. He has a real gift for saying a lot in a small space and many sections of this book are masterpieces of compression. Yet overall, the book is a serious disappointment, satisfactory neither as a brief introduction to the war nor as a short summary. The main reason for this is its astonishing imbalance of coverage. The Second World War was a hugely complex set of interlocking conflicts, diverse in origin and global in scale. You would never guess so in reading this book. Stone barely casts a glance in the direction of the Far East, which is covered in a mere 10 per cent of the book, even though it is this dimension that made it a world war rather than just a European one. Stone's real interest is in the European theatre of the war – the American contribution is seriously under-represented, too – and in particular in the three states whose history he knows best: Britain, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (which he persists in calling "Russia", though he must know it contained, like the Red Army, also referred to as "Russian", many different nationalities). For Stone, the origins of the war lay overwhelmingly in the ambitions of Germany as they had developed since the country's unification in the late 19th century. Here his account is determinedly old-fashioned, ignoring a great deal of recent scholarship: thus he claims that Germany's naval programme was the major influence in driving Europe to war in 1914 (the naval arms race had clearly been won by the British well before this), that everyone thought the First World War would be short (they did not), that it was "only a matter of time before Germany once more asserted herself" after 1918 and so on. This is determinism with a vengeance. The book is old-fashioned in another way, too: it focuses far too much on "great men", most of all on Churchill and Hitler (Roosevelt gets barely a mention), to the neglect of wider influences. The experience of ordinary people, justly given so much prominence in recent large-scale general histories, is wholly absent. Stone gives a brisk, compact narrative of the rise of Nazism, which he regards as the overwhelmingly decisive cause of the war's outbreak. This is a deftly written summary, though he gets the name of the political party the army asked Hitler to observe in 1919 wrong (it was the German Workers' Party and only renamed itself the National Socialist German Workers' Party the following year). More seriously, he overestimates the extent of the support enjoyed by the Nazis once they had come to power. The concentration camps didn't have 6,000 inmates in 1935 but fewer than 4,000, though this was not evidence, as Stone claims, of the "limited" nature of Nazi repression, since at the same time there were no fewer than 23,000 political prisoners in Germany's state-run prisons. In 1943, he writes, "The mass of Germans were gripped by a surreal paroxysm" – but far from becoming ever more fanatical in their support for the war, ordinary Germans were becoming increasingly disillusioned, requiring the Nazis to ratchet up their murderous application of terror from the Gestapo and the SS both at home and at the front, to keep the Third Reich from collapsing from within. It's not just in his reduction of the two world wars to the product of German militarism and nationalism that Stone can be faulted. He gives a grossly inflated estimate – eight million – for deaths in the Ukrainian famine of the early 1930s (even the Ukrainians claim closer to 3.9 million people actually died). Similarly with the number of Poles deported from the east to Poland in its new, more westerly postwar borders at the end of the war, which was not five million as claimed but 1.5 million. Hitler's speech of January 1939, when he threatened the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe, did not express the idea of expelling them from Germany – no one who watches the newsreel film of the speech can be in any doubt that by "annihilation" he meant what he said. Even on British history, Stone's touch is sometimes unsure. He ransacks the historical record in support of his claim that the English Channel was an insuperable obstacle to an invading force in either direction, claiming that there had been only one successful invasion of England since 1066, namely in 1688; but he forgets the successful French invasion of 1216 and the rebel invasions of 1399, which overthrew Richard II, and 1485, which overthrew Richard III. Nor is it true that there were "not many English invasions of western Europe", as he might have realised if he had thought for a moment about the Hundred Years' War, the various Tudor expeditions, the war of the Spanish succession, the Seven Years' War, the Peninsular War or, for that matter, the First World War. Occasionally, irrelevant asides break into the text, as with his anecdote about Graham Greene's experience of the Blitz, where he confuses The Heart of the Matter, about his affair with Dorothy Glover, with The End of the Affair, about his relationship with Catherine Walston (who, far from being "rather ugly", was famously beautiful), and wrongly states that Greene's affair with Glover ended in the Blitz (it continued until the late 1940s). In a book as short as this one, every sentence has to count and every sentence has to be accurate. Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of this book is its unremitting dullness. Normally, one expects from a book by Stone outrageous expressions of bias, opinionated obiter dicta, pungently expressed prejudices, quirky judgements and entertaining oneliners. In nearly 300 pages, I could only find one piece of the old Stone, where he refers to the French soldiers defeated by the Germans in 1940 as "the very picture of the demoralisation of Third Republic France: dirty, sullen, cigarette-chewing, and smelling of cheap wine" (in reality, the French fought bravely: more than 90,000 were killed or went missing in action). If there had been more of this kind of thing, the book would have been a good deal more readable. Richard J Evans is Regius professor of history at the University of Cambridge Richard J Evans is regius professor emeritus of history at Cambridge University, and the author of The Third Reich in History and Memory (Abacus) Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! 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Here's a quick rainy day project I did for S, who loves a game called Minecraft.
We were looking at objects in the game and came across the Golden Apple. S remarked that it was a very rare but good find, as it restores all your health.
Doesn't that sound like something from a fairy tale? Find the Golden Apple, and all will be restored! I envisioned a little quilt block in the shape of a Golden Apple, something an ailing child could lie upon to feel better.
[Note to self: next time, learn about the game before making fairy tale assumptions. Partway through the pillow, I casually asked S, "Why would you need your health restored in a game?" He looked at me incredulously and said, in a tone one might use to explain why we wear coats in winter: "ZOMBIES, Mom."]
I thought this project might be useful to someone else who might also want to create a quilt block from a simple, pixelated icon. So here's how the Golden Apple was pieced.
I started by enlarging the icon to a size I could work with, like so:
This is how I diagrammed it. (Sorry about the sloppiness and water drops. It wasn't my intention to blog this when I started.) The block is divided into 6 rows, each row the height of its largest component. I changed how I pieced it as I went along. All that really matters is that it be divided into rows which are sewn together afterwards.
With each row in place, it soon looked like an apple, albeit a little elongated due to seam allowances not yet sewn.
inexpensive pillow form from Ikea. S can now use it in event of the zombie apocalypse.

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1. Re: jbpm5 inside my own applicationsalaboy21 May 2, 2012 3:46 AM (in response to barbosasalexand)
I'm not sure to fully understand your requirements correctly, but if you are asking if you can embed the process engine inside your application, the answer is yes, you can do that and then use the available tools to author and store the process diagrams.
2. Re: jbpm5 inside my own applicationbarbosasalexand May 2, 2012 4:47 AM (in response to salaboy21)
Thank you Mauricio for your answer.
What I mean is to provide the mechanism for sending and receiving tasks in my application and not in the jbpm-console. I do not intend to define or design new workflows or process in my application, or do not intend to integrate the designer bpm.
Take this opportunity to ask if I know how can I do this integration, there is some documentation or example which has already been made.
3. Re: jbpm5 inside my own applicationsalaboy21 May 2, 2012 4:53 AM (in response to barbosasalexand)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Yes you can, using the Human Task APis you can interact with your Human Tasks without using the jBPM console, take a look at the jbpm-examples directory and also to the human tasks module tests to see how you can use that. I will be improving the docs with examples on the following days.
4. Re: jbpm5 inside my own application08august Oct 1, 2012 4:41 AM (in response to salaboy21)
How can i embed the JBPM process engine 5.3 to my own application.I am trying to resolve this issue from past week, but no use.Please help regarding this step by step.
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Students are prompted to challenge their notion of synonyms being words that "mean the same" by investigating key words in Robert Frost's poem "Choose Something Like a Star." First they build an understanding of connotation and register by categorizing synonyms for the title word choose. Then they develop lists of synonyms for words of their choice elsewhere in the poem and collaborate on a full analysis, focusing on the relationship between word choice and the elements of speaker, subject, and tone.
Word Matrix: This interactive allows students to explore the similarities and differences among words typically considered synonyms.
In "Register and Charge: Using Synonym Maps to Explore Connotation," Darren Crovitz and Jessica A. Miller argue that students' typical understanding of the word synonym as meaning "'a word that means the same as another word'" is "at best an oversimplification and at worst a way to end thinking about what words actually signify" (49). They advocate for investigations into language and word groups to allow students to discover that "the subtlety of just how and to what extent [words are] similar makes all the difference when it comes to choosing the best word for a given purpose" (49). This lesson encourages students to explore the subtleties of shifting connotation and meaning effected by word choice.
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Crovitz, Darren, and Jessica A. Miller. "Register and Charge: Using Synonym Maps to Explore Connotation." English Journal 97:4. (March 2008): 49-55.


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LOS ANGELES, CA (November 14, 2012) – The Producers Guild of America (PGA) is pleased to announce that Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, co-chairmen of Working Title Films, will receive the 2013 David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures. The award recognizes a producer's, or a producing team's, outstanding body of work and is the PGA's highest honor for motion picture producers. Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will be presented the award at the 24th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday, January 26th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
"Tim and Eric's profound body of work includes many of the most beloved and critically-acclaimed films," said 2013 PGA Awards Chair Michael DeLuca. "Since the mid-1980s, they have produced more than 100 incredibly diverse feature film and documentary projects including timeless favorites such as SID AND NANCY, FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, DEAD MAN WALKING, FARGO, ELIZABETH, O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?, BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY, LOVE ACTUALLY, PRIDE & PREJUDICE, FROST/NIXON, SENNA, and the soon-to-be released ANNA KARENINA and LES MISERABLES. Both as individuals, and as a bona fide producing team, they have made contributions to the art and craft of storytelling, which are the envy of filmmakers the world over. We are so pleased to honor Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner with the David O. Selznick Award."
Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner stated, "We are delighted and honored to be receiving the David O. Selznick Award. When you look at the past recipients, it is very humbling to be in their company and we are very grateful for the recognition."
One of the awards season's marquee events, The Producers Guild Awards celebrates the finest producing work of the year, and gives the PGA an opportunity to honor some of the living legends who have shaped the profession. Past recipients include Stanley Kramer, Saul Zaentz, Clint Eastwood, Billy Wilder, Brian Grazer, Jerry Bruckheimer, Roger Corman, Laura Ziskin, Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall, John Lasseter, Scott Rudin and last year's recipient Steven Spielberg.
About Working Title Films, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner Working Title Films, co-chaired by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner since 1992, is one of the world's leading film production companies.
Founded in 1983, Working Title has made nearly 100 films that have grossed over $5 billion worldwide. Its films have won six Academy Awards (for Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking; Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo; Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age; and Joe Wright's Atonement), 30 BAFTA Awards, and prizes at the Cannes and Berlin International Film Festivals.
Mr. Bevan and Mr. Fellner have been accorded two of the highest film awards given to British filmmakers; the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, at the Orange British Academy Film [BAFTA] Awards, and the Alexander Walker Film Award at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. They have also both been honored with CBEs (Commanders of the Order of the British Empire).
Working Title enjoys ongoing and successful creative collaborations with filmmakers including the Coen Brothers, Richard Curtis, Stephen Daldry, Paul Greengrass, Edgar Wright, and Joe Wright; and actors Rowan Atkinson, Cate Blanchett, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Keira Knightley, Saorise Ronan, Gary Oldman and Emma Thompson, among others.
Its extensive and diverse productions (in addition to those mentioned above) have included Mike Newell's Four Weddings and a Funeral; Richard Curtis' Love Actually; Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot; Roger Michell's Notting Hill; both Bean movies (directed by Mel Smith and Steve Bendelack, respectively); Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz; Paul and Chris Weitz' About a Boy; Greg Mottola's Paul; Adam Brooks' Definitely, Maybe; Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter; both Bridget Jones movies (directed by Sharon Maguire and Beeban Kidron, respectively); Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice and Atonement; Baltasar Kormákur's Contraband, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale; both Nanny McPhee movies (directed by Kirk Jones and Susanna White, respectively); both Johnny English movies (directed by Peter Howitt and Oliver Parker, respectively); Asif Kapadia's Senna, the company's first documentary feature, about legendary race car driver Ayrton Senna; Paul Greengrass' United 93; and Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon.
The success of the film Billy Elliot, directed by Daldry, has continued on stage with Billy Elliot the Musical, directed by Mr. Daldry with book and lyrics by Lee Hall, and music by Elton John. The winner of 76 theatre awards internationally, the production is currently enjoying highly successful runs in London, Toronto, and on tour across America. It ran for over three years on Broadway, winning 10 Tony Awards in 2009 including Best Musical and Best Director. The show has previously played in London, Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne, Chicago, and Seoul, South Korea. It has been seen by over seven million people worldwide.
Working Title's 2012/2013 slate includes Anna Karenina, directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Aaron Taylor-Johnson; Les Misérables, directed by Tom Hooper and starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway; About Time, directed by Richard Curtis starring Rachel McAdams and Domhnall Gleeson; Edgar Wright's The World's End, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost; John Crowley's Closed Circuit, starring Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall; Hossein Amini's Two Faces of January, starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, and Oscar Isaac; Dan Mazer's I Give It a Year, starring Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall; the telefilm Mary and Martha, directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Richard Curtis, starring Hilary Swank and Brenda Blethyn; and Ron Howard's Rush, starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl.
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Finizio to invite developers to bid on Lighthouse Inn
New London - Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio will issue a formal invitation on Wednesday for developers to bid on the landmark Lighthouse Inn.
Interested parties will have until 2 p.m. May 28 to prepare and submit final bids to buy the 4.2-acre Guthrie Place property, which failed to garner any bids during a property-tax sale last June that asked for a minimum of $577,721 - enough to recoup unpaid taxes and fees. After the city took ownership of the inn, bidders passed again on a separate auction last fall.
Now, after investing $67,800 in cleaning up and repairing the inn, the city will begin the process of selling it "so it doesn't sit forever," Finizio said.
"Too many uncertainties" prevented the property's sale last year, he said, including outstanding bills, unpaid dues, and taxes the previous owner had defaulted on.
"People didn't know what they were buying," he said.
No legal questions remain, Finizio said, and thanks to the city's repairs, the inn is in "good condition" and won't fall into further disrepair.
"I think we caught it just in time," he said.
Aside from a minimum bid requirement of $500,000, Finizio said there are purposefully few restrictions on the property's sale. These include that the mansion - the main inn building comprising guest rooms, a restaurant and meeting rooms - be rehabilitated along historic building guidelines from the secretary of the Interior and opened to the public, and that these repairs be completed within two years.
These requirements, Finizio said, are "just enough restriction" to attract a quality developer.
The remaining plans for the inn's commercial future would be up to the developer. There could also be a tax abatement plan subject to council approval.
From there, how quickly renovations begin will depend on the City Council. Finizio said the city could transfer title to a developer within a month or two of the bid closing date.
The 1902 inn, which closed to the public in 2008, was once a cherished dining spot and drinking establishment and, most recently, a resort. Its three buildings - the mansion, the beauty salon and the carriage house - make up about 32,922 square feet of living space and 51 guest rooms.
Last fall, Finizio said that based on estimates from some developers, a rehabilitation could cost up to $2.5 million.
Finizio had planned to go over the bid invitation with city councilors at their meeting Monday night, but that meeting was canceled because of snow. Finizio emailed them the details instead, and while he did not need council permission to seek bids, it would be up to the council to accept a bid.
But he remains adamant that it is the city's responsibility to preserve the Lighthouse Inn, particularly after a history of tearing down some "amazing architecture," he said.
"There's hardly a New Londoner who doesn't have some real emotional connection to this place," he said.
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How to Wash Your Eyelids
An important part of controlling your blepharitis begins with treatment at home.
One of the most common forms of dry eye syndrome self-care is washing your eyelids with baby shampoo and warm water. Washing your eyelids can help clear them of oil buildup around the lashes or debris and can decrease bacteria around the eyelids. Help keep your eyelids clean and functioning properly with the following steps:
1. Wash your hands.
2. Dilute a small amount of non-irritating baby shampoo with warm water; use a commercially prepared lid scrub solution recommended by your optometrist.
3. Using a clean wash cloth, run the solution across the eyelashes and the edge of your closed eyelid. Again, make sure to use a clean cloth for each eye to prevent further irritation.
4. Rinse your eyes with clear water.
5. Repeat process with the other eye.
Studies show that dry eyes are one of the most common eye problems throughout the United States. Dry eyes are caused by a lack of quality tear production, and are most common in both men and women over the age of 50. Tear production can be limited by a variety of causes; one of the most common is a specific eye inflammation known as blepharitis. Here, we discuss ways to alleviate dry eye caused by blepharitis.
What Is Blepharitis?
Blepharitis is an inflammation of the eyelid that is often associated with an infection.
Dry eye is one of the most common symptoms of blepharitis. However, other symptoms may include red or swollen eyelids, sensitivity to light, blurry vision and crusting of the eyelashes.
Blepharitis is classified in two different types:
How Is It Treated?
Treatment for blepharitis varies depending on the specific type. Keeping your eyelids clean and free of crusts is typically the key to treating blepharitis. In addition, your doctor may recommend one or more of the following.
If you wear contact lenses, you may have to temporarily discontinue wearing them during treatment.
Want to Know More?
If you suffer from red or irritated eyes, discuss the problem with your eye doctor right away. He or she can provide self-care tips as well as share additional ways to prevent future eye infections and protect your eyes.


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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - The lush backyard of a small California eldercare home has turned out to be the source of the poisonous wild mushrooms a caretaker made into a soup and fed to residents, killing two women.
The caretaker had no idea the mushrooms that had sprouted after recent rains were toxic, law enforcement officials said Tuesday. She was among the four others who were hospitalized Friday after six people ate the toxic soup Thursday night.
"The caretaker just didn't know, and she went outside and picked these mushrooms and made dinner, and she ate some of it herself," said Lt. Mark Reed of the Placer County sheriff's office. "It's definitely a sad, sad thing."
Sheriff's investigators were quickly able to pinpoint the soup as the source of the poisonings, Reed said, because the only person living at the home who did not eat dinner that night did not fall ill.
"She didn't eat it. They said she was an ornery lady and didn't want to eat," Reed said.
Food regulations for the California Department of Social Services do not prohibit the use of foraged ingredients in food, though they do prevent the use of home-canned foods and things such as unpasteurized milk, and meat that isn't inspected by state or federal authorities.
Spokesman Michael Weston did not respond to emails asking whether the department is considering modifying its food service requirements in light of the poisonings.
Weston said the state has begun an investigation into the incident at the Gold Age Villa, a six-bed care facility in Loomis run since 2007 by Raisa Oselsky. A one-page complaint released Tuesday said "staff fed clients poisonous mushrooms" and "further investigation" is needed.
"The department is investigating the case to determine if any licensing regulations were violated," he said.
Repeated calls to Oselsky's cellphone were not returned, nor were messages left on the answering machine at Gold Age Villa, where potted plants line the backyard and colorful vines climbs trellises.
Meanwhile, the family that owns the senior care facility issued a statement expressing profound grief over the incident.
"We are asking God to comfort all of our residents and their loved ones through the difficulty of this unintentional tragic event," said Michael Borisov, the son-in-law of the care home's owners, in a prepared statement to News10 in Sacramento.
"Some of you have been a part of our family for years, and all of you are very dear to us. We are grieving with you and our prayers are for you," he said.
Investigators said the woman who prepared the soup is an immigrant, but they were unsure how recently she had come to the U.S.
"She just thought it was OK to use them," Reed said. "I don't know how long she has been in the country."
In Northern California, it is the season for wild chanterelle mushrooms, a highly sought variety - and also the amanita species of mushrooms, which includes the descriptively named "death cap" and "death angel" varieties. Young poisonous North American amanitas often look like an edible version of a wild mushroom popular in Asia.
The California Department of Public Health periodically issues warnings about consumption of wild mushrooms, especially after someone eats a poisonous variety and falls ill. The state recorded 1,700 cases of mushroom-related illnesses from 2009 to 2010, including two deaths.
Placer County sheriff's officials have called the deaths of Barbara Lopes, 86, and Teresa Olesniewicz, 73, an accident. Family members told the News10 that Olesniewicz was aware that she had been poisoned before she died.
The names of the other victims have not been released.
"It's quite a horrifying story," said Dena Erwin, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office.


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On the agenda for today: A Planning and Zoning meeting for Torrington, Kate Hartman will be covering the Stations of the Cross at St. Peter/St. Francis school, updates on the new Stop & Shop in Litchfield and the new Town Hall, and follow-up stories to the cyberbullying story.
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Can you bring the wolf, the goat, the cabbage, the hunter, the gun, the monkey and the washing machine on the other side !?
- You can only get one of them in the boat at a time.
- You can hide one object in the washing machine.
- When you re not around your folks will interract this way :
you can learn these rules by playing or read them by clicking the 'show' button
1 The goat will eat the cabbage.
2 The goat will eat the gun if the hunter is not there.
3 The wolf will eat the goat.
4 The wolf eat the monkey if he can't hide on the washing machine
5 The hunter will kill the wolf with the help of his gun
6 You need the gun to convince the hunter to come into the boat.
7 The monkey will turn on the washing machine and destroy its contents if not playing with the cabbage.
8 The monkey will throw the cabbage at the wolf if they're on opposite sides ( The wolf will flee )
9 You need help from the hunter to lift the washing machine.
<arrows> : move your character
<down> : grab or drop an item
<z> : fire with the gun
<x> : undo last move
Across the river is a remake of a game I made 2 years ago with Twine
My initial goal was to learn to make narrative games, but as you can see it was a failure ^_^
I was thinking the game deserve a more graphic version but was too lazy to do it, but now with pico-8 everything is possible in few hours :D
The whole #8 rule was broken. I posted a fix.
I won! 27 moves!
here's how:
gun,goat,cab(cabbage),monk(monkey),hunt(hunter),wolf,machine(washing machine)
hide gun, pick goat, go
drop goat,back
grab monk, go
drop monk, back
grab gun, go
drop gun, grab goat, back
hide cab, grab wolf, go
drop wolf, grab monkey, back
grab cab, drop monk, go
drop cab, back
grab machine, go
drop machine, grab gun, back
drop gun, grab monk, go
drop monk, grab cab, back
drop cab, grab goat, go
drop goat, grab wolf, back
grab gun, make hunt go to boat, drop gun, go
drop hunt, back
grab cab, go
hide cab, grab monk, back
drop monk, grab goat, back
drop wolf, grab goat, back
drop goat, grab gun, go
unhide cab, hide gun, back
grab monk, go
drop monk, back
grab goat, go
drop goat, unhide gun
it was hard, thank you for the game
(Here is my "PikaScript" program for solving it btw, including the 25 move solution if anyone cares. http://codepad.org/6ge6i6zi )
Lol I used a script myself to build the problem.
I was just changing small details in rules until I found a problem with a complexe solution.
I was not sure on how you could find a <27 moves solution so I went back to my old solver code and realize I forgot a part in both the Twine version and this one. The hunter must be "empty-handed" to lift the washing machine which means no gun on his side.
It seems difficult to implement a graphics feedback for this, as the hunter dont hold the gun when you're on the same side, so I guess I wont change the current version. I'll just set the new highscore to 25 :D
Ah. I did wonder how you came up with such a complex set of rules. Well it is definitely difficult enough already even without that last hunter rule. I probably sat over an hour altogether with my six year old trying to solve it before he got tired and I gave up and wrote that script. The animations are awesome. Pixel blood is fun! :)
A beginners version with a smaller set of rules would be a hit with the kids. I imagine one could even make up a longer story consisting of several stages, with more and more difficult tasks. That could ease players into it. Might make a nice phone app. But like all neat ideas, there probably are ten of those already. Ok, I am digressing. Again, good job, like with all your Pico-8 creations!
Geistvonpa, the solution works but MAN you have to really read it carefully. This kind of puzzle is MENSA quality ! Top notch difficulty ! Very challenging for the brain.
Excellent ability to rewind so you don't have to start all over.
I'll give you two hints (these are really needed to be known by everyone)
- You can put the RIFLE in the washing machine.
- The monkey HATES the wolf.
Other than that, it's common and comical sense. Think of cartoon logic and the laws of physics and there you have it.
Just wanted to mention how funny I thought this game was. As soon as I saw the title and then the boat, I knew it was goin to be a version of the old goat and wolf across the river riddle... then I saw the washing machine... the monkey, then I found out I could pick up the gun and shoot all the poor animals.
Great game, this was hilarious.
Found a glitch: if you put the washing machine in the boat,then scare the hunter in,the washing machine floats and doesn't move with you, yet you can still put things in it.I used it and did the game in 6 or 7 moves.(I'd put pic. but I did the glitch win in 6 or 7 when I had no account+I can't remember how I did it,try for yourself though)(also great puzzle game!!)
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There's no need to restate the high reverence (or pangs of envy, depending on where your loyalty lies) of Apple. They have innovated, floundered, and in recent years, risen from the ashes to make one hell of a run in computing and electronics devices. Love them or hate them, you can't deny that they are adored by their fans. Their brand has reached that highly sought-after place in the world of marketing: they can do no wrong.
So how did they get there? Is it dumb luck? Or are they just much smarter than the rest of us? The most common reason given is Apple's rabid devotion to design. That is, without a doubt, a key component of Apple's success. But I think there's more to it than that. Here are ten reasons why I think Apple is so successful today, and what we can learn from them:
- Understand The Total Experience. Apple is not a software company. It's also not a hardware company. It's an experience company. Software and hardware just play a part in the broader experience. Imagine your iPod without iTunes. Hardware and software are industry demarcations that the masses could care less about. By ignoring that separation and focusing on solving real problems in a cohesive way, they obliterated the portable music market.
- Less Is More. You see it in all of Apple's interfaces. That "clean" look. Sure, the power is there, but wherever possible it's hidden away. As for controls, there's hardly a single button on an iPod. Hell, there isn't even a power switch. It seems counter-intuitive to the engineering mind. Less features and less controls appeal to people more. But it makes sense. With less, there's less room for error. Less to digest. Less to learn. In other words, a shorter path to enjoyment.
- "He's Got His Father's Eyes." Take a look at an iPod. Then take a look at the Apple remote. Load up iTunes. Then visit apple.com. Nearly all of Apple's products share common genetic characteristics. One of the most striking examples is a previous version of the iMac that actually looks like an iPod. Why is this important? Two reasons. First, by reinforcing common conventions, the learning curve is flattened. Second, these familiar profiles reinforce Apple's signature. You could probably pick an Apple product out of a line-up that you've never seen before.
- "I'd Like To Introduce You To Some…Thing." How many other companies do you know of that introduce a product line personally? Rather than a press release. Or a meme that starts out among a collection of bloggers. Or some sort of email list. Apple personally introduces their products to their loyal fans. Often times, it seems like magically, their web presence is simultaneously updated – sometimes allowing for purchase of just-introduced products.
- Control The Hardware. This isn't even a secret. Steve Jobs said it bluntly at the iPhone introduction: if you want to build great software, you have to control the hardware. This is precisely why the iPhone feels four or five generations ahead of any portable device available today. Phone carriers like Sprint and T-Mobile fish around looking for sexy, powerful hardware from electronics manufacturers like Samsung and Motorola. Microsoft will go to bed with just about anybody to promote their software platform. Apple knows better. To create truly compelling experiences, you need to have a hand in all the pieces of the puzzle. The iPhone is a great example of that synergy.
- Hide The Screws. This is a classic Apple move. Mimic real world artifacts and make things feel less like technology devices and more like something you'd find in the real world. Pick up your iPod. It has no visible screws. It isn't even clear how the device comes together. Hiding the ugliness of technology makes these toys more endearing. Features like coverflow and the upcoming time machine further this notion of pulling design inspiration from the real world.
- "Go Ahead. Touch It." People are scratching their heads wondering why the Apple retail stores are so successful. Gateway tried it years ago and their stores are all gone now. Dell is trying to sell through retail as well…through Walmart. Somehow, I don't think finding Dell laptops across the aisle from 60 lb. bags of fertilizer will amount to the same shopping experience. Above all else, Apple stores are designed to allow you to touch, play with and interact with every one of their products. You're implicitly invited to approach an iPod or Macbook and just play with it. This evinces a confidence in the ease of use of their products, and more importantly, a confidence in you.
- Feeling & Thinking. Good functional design and thoughtful product management is a struggle to appeal to and connect with others at a cognitive level. While that's important, Apple understands there's more to it than that. Their products have a welcoming, anthropomorphic quality about them. They lack the rigid right angles and black tones that dominate so many computer devices. They appeal to our emotions as well as our intellect.
- Great Design = New Invention. The MP3 player was around for years before the iPod hit the scene. While others were vying to somehow coax consumers towards this new way of carrying and listening to music, the iPod reset everything. It was, for the great majority of people, the real invention of the portable music player. Apple understands that great design (not just good design) can have such a staggering impact that it can introduce a product to the uninitiated masses. Another example is Spaces, one of the new features on their upcoming operating system. Virtual desktops have been around for years, but one look at Spaces and it feels brand new.
- It's About People. The one over-arching theme that seems to penetrate everything Apple does is their basic understanding that every single thing they sell will be touched by a person. They don't build API's. They aren't integrating with back-end systems. They aren't making sure machines talk to machines. They're creating things that people are going to touch and, at the risk of sounding hokey, have relationships with. Every bit of their philosophy – from how a box is opened to how a clickwheel feels – reinforces this unavoidable fact.
Ultimately, the points listed above are really lessons about design. If we think through what makes a great design, it's something that someone else connects with – whether emotionally or intellectually or both. When they connect, it's a great feeling of achievement and connection with the creator. Never mind the features and wiring and CPU's underneath. They're all a means to that single, common end. Apple understands this better than any other company in the world. And we can all learn a lot from them.
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So there I was, sitting across from this "DBA" who had managed to impress me with the depth of his knowledge regarding MS SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase and Postgres. He chatted on about their various histories, performance tuning, strengths and weaknesses and the little quirks you should know when dealing with each. Now, I can't say that I am much of a database expert, but this guy clearly knew his stuff. Then I asked him about normalization:
Uh, well, I know about the first, second and third normal orders (sic), but I can't say I've done a lot of that stuff.
Now, this wasn't a job interview. It was just someone I happened to casually meet and we were chatting about this stuff. If this was an actual interview, that last comment would have sunk him.
In chatting with our CTO, he tells me that this is something that he has seen this quite a bit in older DBAs. He claims that they worked in a time when space and CPU time were at a premium and therefore they didn't focus as much on "esoteric" concepts such as normalization. Newer DBAs, he claims, have the luxury of throwing lots of high performance hardware at a problem and are therefore more likely to be able appreciate the benefits of normalization. Frankly, I don't know enough about the topic to weigh in on that debate, but I do know that poorly normalized databases make my life miserable as a programmer.
In another example, I was working on a program written before I was born (as of this writing, I am 34 -- no prizes for guessing the language). This program was an atrocious mess. The only subroutines that were used were ones that had been defined externally to the program. For flow control, a mass of goto statements had been used. I was complaining about this to another programmer (who was pushing 70) and he didn't understand my point. goto, in his opinion, was a wonderful tool to be used liberally.
Personally, I tend to mistrust younger programmers as many of them are hotshots who skipped college (confession time: I only have a two year degree). They often don't have a grasp that there are business considerations that have as much priority (if not more) than IT considerations. They sometimes think that using "$x=8;$y=$x+++ ++$x;print$y" in production code to set $y to 18 is okay because it's kewl¹. And testing? Testing is for wimps.
Contrasting that with older programmers, they are usually more experienced, have more patience and quite often are a ways behind the technology curve.
I don't mean to generalize too much. I've known older programmers who are always abreast of the latest technologies and younger programmers who truly care about putting out good production code. Unfortunately, while we search for a new DBA, the generalization seems to hold. Are my expectations too high? Is this frequently a problem with DBAs but less so with programmers or sys admins?
1. We had an IS director who used 404 errors to serve images out of a database. He thought this was so kewl, he changed out corporate intranet to use 404's instead of proper URLs. It worked silently and no one ever knew ... until the Web server crashed horribly and lost a lot of configuration information. It tooks quite a while to try and figure out what the hell was going on.
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The Chevrolet HHR is a car-based retro-wagon that celebrates its Chevy heritage with styling inspired by the iconic 1949 Suburban. HHR stands for Heritage High Roof, a reference to the early high-roofed Suburbans and panel trucks that inspired the design of the HHR.
Based on the same platform as the Chevrolet Cobalt, the HHR was first launched as a 2006 model. The HHR competes most closely with the Chrysler PT Cruiser, but also with Honda Element, Ford Escape, and Jeep Liberty.
For 2008, the HHR lineup gets a new high-performance SS model.
We found the Chevy HHR fun to drive. It isn't a sports car, but it's nimble and we were pleased with its acceleration. The HHR feels more responsive than its horsepower, torque, and transmission ratio numbers suggest. Plus, it gets decent fuel economy.
The HHR Panel Van features smooth, windowless side panels and rear cargo doors with no handles. The rear cargo doors open via an instrument panel button. While it's more Spartan inside and provides seating for only two, the Panel best exemplifies the early Suburban heritage.
The HHR SS is the most fun to drive, launching quickly off the line and offering sharp handling. On an autocross circuit, we found it handled like a sports car.
The HHR interior isn't as functional as we'd like, however. And the base cloth fabric left us wishing we'd ordered the optional leather.
The Chevrolet HHR remains relatively unchanged for 2007 with the exception of slightly more powerful engines and a few additional new color choices. New exterior color options for 2007 include Imperial Blue Metallic and Golden Teal Metallic; a new interior color option is Ebony.
The 2008 Chevy HHR comes in three distinctively different configurations: HHR, HHR Panel, and the new HHR SS. It comes in several trim levels, including the base LS and two LT grades. The standard engine is a 2.2-liter four cylinder, while a 2.4-liter engine is optional. Each comes with a five-speed manual or an optional four-speed automatic. The SS comes with a high-performance 2.0-liter turbocharged engine.
The LS ($16,515) comes with cloth upholstery, air conditioning, power windows and locks, and a substantial level of standard features and equipment. The LT ($17,175) adds an MP3 player with a jack for an iPod, eight ways to adjust the driver's seat, and satin chrome trim.
The 2LT package ($2,395) adds the 2.4-liter Ecotec engine, anti-lock brakes, traction control, fog lights, a 260-watt Pioneer sound system with seven speakers, 17-inch aluminum wheels, sport-tuned suspension and bright chrome trim.
The HHR Panel 2LT ($20,850) comes with the Satin Chrome exterior package, sports suspension, 17-inch painted aluminum wheels. The Pioneer sound system is optional. The base HHR Panel LS ($16,820) is equipped similarly to the five-passenger LS.
Safety features include optional front and rear side-curtain airbags ($395). ABS comes standard on the 2LT, and is optional for the LS and 1LT ($400). Stabilitrak electronic stability control is now standard across the entire HHR model range.
We like the retrospective styling treatment served up by the HHR across the model range. The closest comparison to the Chevy HHR is the Chrysler PT Cruiser. They don't look anything alike, but both are four-cylinder wagons on the retro side of the design equation. Both fill a respective need in their individual camps.
The rounded nose of the HHR is not unlike Chevy's SSR, which also reflects the brand's truck heritage. The HHR's fenders are well defined with flat side wheel well openings contrasting favorably with the vehicle's many curved, contemporary sculpted surfaces. Front and rear bumpers and fog lamps are integrated into seamless fascia, with integrated running boards offering another nostalgic touch. The flush glass all around, including the windshield is a nice touch, as are the headlights surrounded by body panels in old school fashion. The tail light treatment consists of two round vertically stacked lenses on each side. The large, prominent grille is chrome, (except on the SS model), and appears much like that of the 1949 Suburban.
Front and rear bumpers are molded from composite material, integrated as part of their respective fascia. The Chevy HHR offers a more traditional look than other vehicles in its competitive set. It provides lots of room and functionality without being boxy. When viewed from a distance, the HHR looks larger than it really is. Examined closely, it's compact. And you have to sit down into it upon entry and rise out of it when exiting.
The HHR Panel features steel inserts in place of side windows and cargo doors in place of conventional rear doors. The cargo doors open wide enabling cargo access from both sides of the vehicle, as well as from the rear lift gate. The cargo doors are smooth and don't have external handles; they are opened via a dashboard release button or the remote keyless entry fob. The large, continuous area created by the windowless cargo doors and rear panels is ideal for business logos, advertising or personalization. Side visibility is obviously limited due to the solid sides without windows; one must rely primarily on mirrors for backing maneuvers. The smooth, windowless sides on the Panel give it a cleaner, retro, more hot rod look than the standard models. The lack of windows adds security for contents inside.
The HHR SS sits 6 mm lower than it stable mates, but sports extended front and rear fascias that give it the appearance of riding much lower. The new front fascia features an air-dam design with integrated fog lights, and the chrome surround grille comes with mesh-style upper and lower grille inserts. The new rear fascia provides a cutout for single bright exhaust tip. New rocker moldings resemble accentuated running boards. Out back, a rear spoiler is mounted above rear glass. Body-color door handles, mirror caps and rear license plate surround, along with SS badging on the front doors and rear lift gate further differentiate the SS from its stable mates.
Inside, the Chevy HHR provides for the most part, comfortable and functional surroundings. Included are durable, easy-to-clean cargo surfaces, a front passenger seat that folds flat for more cargo space, a 60/40 split/fold-flat second-row seat, and a multi-position cargo package tray in the rear that provides cargo security.
Finding a comfortable seating position may require some effort, the problem seems to be with the contour of the seatback. Speaking of headroom, there isn't a lot of it, in spite of the high roof. Unless the seat was is in its lowest position, you mind find your head brushes the headliner and the windshield header is low for taller drivers. Also, the door lock button is positioned so that it interferes in driving and resting one's left arm on the window sill, a traditional and nostalgic pose.
Cubby storage is limited. There's a handy flip-up compartment on top of the dash and a small glovebox. The rear provides one cupholder and small door pockets. The front-passenger seatback offers a tight storage net.
Side windows are controlled on the console by buttons located just ahead of the gear shift lever, making them inconvenient to operate with ease; positioning them on the door would be much better.
Second-row passengers are afforded leg room, but not in large doses particularly behind taller drivers; kids will definitely be more comfortable.
The rear seat, split 60/40, folds flat very easily, as does the front passenger seat; and since the 60-percent side of the rear seat is on the left, a long item like a ladder can be slipped in diagonally, a nice feature. The rear cargo floor flips up to reveal a five-inch-deep tray useful for storage. The rear lift gate is one piece, and raises easily.
Solid rear quarter panels are available in place of the windows on all five-passenger models (via a window delete option).
The HHR Panel provides seating for two and a large, flat cargo floor, with tie-down points located strategically on the floor with available, floor mats that allow for easier movement of cargo. The HHR Panel features a flat load floor featuring a rubberized floor that provides utility and functionality for commercial or lifestyle activities.
The HHR Panel cargo area features a standard auxiliary power outlet, as well as a 40-amp auxiliary power connector to provide service for a variety of specialty equipment needs. Two large, storage compartments, with a lockable option, are located forward under the cargo floor (in place of the rear seats in the passenger models). The compartments offer security for things such as computer equipment, flashlights, service manuals and other valuables.
The HHR SS features a special interior with SS-embroidered sport seats with inserts, a specific gauge cluster, an A-pillar-mounted turbo boost gauge and a new shifter arrangement. Three interior color combinations are available: Ebony, Light Gray and Victory Red. A special GM Performance Driver's seat, providing added lateral support and spirited driving comfort is optional and we think it's a must.
The 2.4-liter Ecotec (an upgrade that comes as part of the 2LT package) is an impressive and versatile engine. It's an aluminum four-cylinder, with 16 valves, electronic fuel injection and variable valve timing, that delivers 175 horsepower and 165 pound-feet of torque at 5000 rpm. The torque peak figure at such high rpm suggests that the low-rpm pulling power might be weak, but quite to the contrary, it's not. We drive up a steep, slow hill every day, and the HHR plugged up the hill like a tractor, with no shifting-down or searching by the automatic transmission. This high-load, low-rpm driving is what many drivers demand.
Transmission ratios have a lot to do with the efficient delivery of power. Curiously, there's nothing in the ratios of the HHR four-speed automatic that indicate it should make this hill so easily. All we can say is that the pulling power of the HHR 2LT is excellent.
We have no complaints with the four-speed automatic. The automatic includes remote starting, and climbing into a toasty car on icy mornings after starting it from a warm house during morning coffee is a nice luxury. We liked the way the automatic could be easily manually downshifted, even though it doesn't feature a separate manual mode. And we liked how it held second gear going down that same steep, slow hill.
Acceleration was equally impressive. Onto the freeway, foot on the floor, and the HHR 2LT really scoots, making it a lot of fun. The 2.4-liter engine is quiet, thanks partly to specially laminated steel in the firewall.
The 2.4-liter engine is efficient. It gets an EPA-rated 22/28 mpg City/Highway with automatic transmission, 20/28 mpg with manual using Premium gas. Premium fuel is recommended but not required for the 2.4-liter. During one week in the 2LT, we averaged 23.4 miles per gallon, as indicated by the digital data on the dash. That included mostly around-town driving, plus about 120 freeway miles with a full load of passengers and the cruise control set at 70. The HHR got slightly better mileage at that freeway pace than it did light-footed around town.
The best fuel economy comes from the base 2.2-liter engine, which gets an EPA-rated 22/30 mpg City/Highway with an automatic, 21/30 mpg with the manual, all on Regular gas.
The 2LT has a sport-tuned suspension with 17-inch aluminum wheels, as well as anti-lock brakes. There is no harshness to the ride around town, or over freeway bumps for that matter. The HHR is nimble, though the suspension shows its limitations when driven like a sports car. Chevrolet said it put a lot of time into the calibration of the rack-and-pinion steering with power assist, and we would say it feels just right, around town.
Brakes are 11.65-inch discs up front, 10-inch drums aft, and have an easy feel. Electronic brake-force distribution, which electronically adjusts the braking so that the rear wheels don't lock up, is not available.
We also drove a Chevy HHR Panel 2LT with the Preferred Equipment Group and, as expected, found its performance mirrored that of the standard five-passenger models.
The HHR SS features a 260-hp, 2.0-liter turbocharged and intercooled Ecotec coupled to either an F23 5-speed Swedish manual or Hydra-Matic 4T45 4-speed automatic transmission. The SS rides on Michelin Pilot Sport performance rubber, mounted on forged, 18-inch polished alloy wheels, and the Nurburgring-tuned FE5 sport suspension delivered 0.86 g grip in testing (with manual transmission). The suspension includes specific stabilizer bars, spring rates and damper tuning, all of which were designed to complement the turbocharged powertrain.
A couple of unique features have been incorporated into the 2008 HHR SS to instill greater driving fun and excitement: Launch Assist and No Lift Shift. Pushing the Traction Control button once to turn it off, and pushing it a second time places the SS in Competition Mode, which automatically sets up in Launch Control when stopped
All in all, the Chevy HHR is a pretty slick ride that lends itself to personalizing and customization regardless of the configuration chosen. It is a nostalgic hauler for people who want something different, and who appreciate the classic looks of the 1949 Chevy Suburban. It's available with three different Ecotec engines, depending upon the model. It's not designed for off-road driving or even serious winter weather, however. Its 55.6 cubic feet of cargo space doesn't lead the class, but the fact that the seats may be folded flat increases the utility. In the end, it's all about styling preferences. Obviously, the HHR Panel is a lot roomier with its lack of rear seats.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Sam Moses reported on the HHR from the Columbia River Valley; Arv Voss test drove the HHR SS around Phoenix and at Firebird International Raceway, and test drove the HHR Panel in the San Francisco Bay Area.


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Wine is most fun when it's not relegated to special occasions or built up into a phobia. It should be part of your daily life. And now insert here the usual disclaimer about how there's something here for everyone to appreciate, from the wine novice to expert. It seems like any wine writing must include that.
Wine enthusiast is a perfect term because these are people who tend to get inordinately excited when the subject of fermented grape juice arises. Give them a whiff of another person interested in wine, and settling them down is like trying to hold back a dog on a leash after it has picked up the scent of a hotdog. It's hard to stop them, which leads to inevitable lapses into wine jargon and incomprehensibility.
But it is important to dispel the snotty attitude a lot of winos have. It's also important to dispel the notion that writing about wine needs to be condescending. No jargon. No attitude. Just some simple, real information on wine that might be able to help you out in a liquor store sometime to impress the girl you're cooking dinner for. (You do cook, right?)
Anyway, so the most basic question is, "Why wine?" Why not beer? Or vodka? Or rum? Or some other liquor? Why not mixed drinks?
There are five fundamental reasons wine is the ideal beverage. None of them will include flowery, complex descriptions that will mean nothing to you. If you want to start drinking wine, these are reasons you'll stumble across all on your own. This isn't to say there won't be a place for Milwaukee's Best in your lifestyle, but you might start to consider pushing aside grain alcohol punch, at least from time to time.
1. Flavor
This is obvious. Wine most likely won't taste good or complex or compelling to you at first. It'll probably taste like alcohol. What booze doesn't? You have to show a certain amount of persistence to get beyond the alcohol taste, whether you're drinking beer, liquor, or wine. As a society, we tend to manage this aversion through an ends-based approach: we want to end up drunk. But once you begin to discern a bit, you can realize the breadth of flavor available in even simple wines. There are five main types of wine: red, white, sparkling, sweet, and fortified. Yet within each of those five types are a variety of different styles because each comes from different grapes.
Wine stands out because of how closely the finished product winds up being to its source. It really is fermented grape juice, nothing more. You don't have to go through complex chemistry to turn grape juice into wine. It's a natural process that doesn't even need the addition of yeast and, more importantly, one that changes the nature of the grapes very little. You can't say the same thing about beer or spirits. In beer, the barley, hops, and other ingredients go through a heavy cooking process that changes their flavors dramatically. Distillation changes the fundamental chemical makeup of potatoes, grains, etc. to produce spirits. You don't get nearly as pure a product in beer or liquor as you do with wine, which allows the characteristics of each grape variety — be it red or white — to shine through.
Good winemaking, as opposed to brewing or distilling, is largely a hands-off undertaking. You want the grapes to shine through on their own as much as possible. Beer and liquor, however, require a vigorous production process that tends to deaden flavor nuances.
2. Creation and variation
Beer and spirits are revered for their uniformity. This is a product of the processes used to create them, which is somewhat like a successful chemistry experiment replicated over and over again. It is admirable that Jack Daniels, for instance, can crank out barrels of whiskey with such consistency. The same can be said for beers, from microbrews to Budweiser. It's comforting to know that, if you've tasted Absolut vodka once, it will taste the same two years down the road, but it's not very interesting.
Wine, on the other hand, is admired for its variation. It is most frequently made from grapes grown in a single year (a "vintage"). A particular producer of wine may have a recognizable style or qualities in certain wines — like the minty smell often found in Heitz Cellars' Martha's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (that's no bull; it really can smell like a fresh mint leaf) — but even wines made from the same vineyard in different years will vary is flavor and style.
There's also the aging of wine, another variable that will change its taste and qualities. Hard liquor can go for years in the bottle and still be very much the same as it was the day it was packaged. Beer, after long enough, will spoil and is prized for its freshness. Without belaboring the point with too much detail, wine is like a favored pet: it has a precocious youth, steady period of maturity, and then moves past its prime.
Certain liquors are coveted for being aged, particularly whiskeys and rums, but that aging takes place in oak casks, not the bottle. Once capped off, liquor holds at a plateau indefinitely. And there is another way aged liquors are made: distillers simply change the chemical makeup of them and age them artificially. This is particularly common among rums, and tasters say the flavor of naturally aged spirits and their artificially aged counterparts is indistinguishable.
For wine, there's no faking it. (Or maybe there is, as this excellent piece discusses.) Aging can be a good or bad thing. You never quite know what's in store for you when you open a bottle that has been in the cellar for ten or more years. There's a certain risk when you deal with variation, but the rewards can be so terrific it becomes part of the fun.
3. Moderate alcohol, light weight
Relatively speaking, wine tends to have moderate alcohol, ranging from eight-percent in lighter wines, such as Riesling (a white grape), to about twenty-percent in fortified wines, such as Port. More alcohol than that would destroy the balance of flavor. Less alcohol would give it a heavier, more fruit-juice-like quality.
Spirits, obviously, have much higher alcohol levels, generally in the range of forty to fifty percent. Alcohol itself is heavy; it weighs you down. That's why a martini, for example, isn't the ideal dinner accompaniment. Most mixers — such as fruit juices and carbonated waters — are heavier still because of their high sugar contents. Mixed drinks, without a doubt, can be deliciously refreshing. Who would say no to a good margarita at Hugo's? But drink three or four, and you're going to feel anything but light on your feet. Beer, on the other hand, has carbonation that makes it filling. It expands in your stomach and quickly gives you a somewhat bloated feeling.
4. Food companion
You're going to be hard-pressed to find a beverage, other than water, that goes well with as many kinds of food as wine. Beer has its place, most definitely. Pizza and burgers and chili are great with a cold beer, and sometimes it just hits the spot. Even liquor, at times, does the trick as a food accompaniment. For example, rumjungle, at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, does an admirable job pairing rum drinks with Brazilian pit barbecue.
On the whole, however, beer and spirits don't complement food as completely as wine does. The range of flavors found within a single glass of Pinot Noir can enhance you're the full range of flavors on your plate. Enjoying a good food and wine pairing brings out all the best elements in wine — its range of flavors and its unique expression of the grape and place of origin. Plus, with wine's balance, relatively low alcohol, and light weight, you can enjoy it throughout a meal.
It's hard to describe in general terms why you should drink wine with food. The best thing is to experiment for yourself. Bordeaux with good lamb? It's a magical fusion of tastes and textures that cannot be duplicated with any other beverage. The pairings don't have to be fancy, though. Try Champagne with popcorn or macaroni and cheese -- these have become common "odd" pairings over the last decade. The guide just has to be what pleases your mouth. There is such a range of styles with wine that, chances are, you can find something that matches your taste and your food. It is with food that beer and liquor seem the most one-dimensional.
5. Wine, my buddy
You might not think about this, but if you get into wine, one of the most rewarding aspects is the relationship you build with certain bottles. If you decide you like wine enough to start building a cellar for yourself, you'll wind up with bottles that will stay on your racks for years.
You will learn the pain and pleasure of agonizing over when to drink one prized bottle — will it be too young? Too old? You'll probably end up talking to it from time to time, wishing it could pipe up and give you some wisdom about the development of the wine within. This is all part of the fun. It's a somewhat similar rush to gambling. You hope you pull the cork at the right time, that your investment of time, money, and space will pay off. You'll feel exhilaration and disappointment.
You can get intimate with a wine, if you really want. Go see the vineyards. When was the last time you felt the urge to check out the potato farm or corn field that feeds into your favorite vodka distillery? There's something tremendously organic about wine, and I don't mean that exclusively as a method of farming. It's a unique aspect to a beverage that actually takes on a life of its own. Not to mention the fact that wine has held a romantic place in the human condition for centuries. Wine in parts is hedonistic, sacramental, exhilarating, and depressing, and it is never without passion.
But perhaps the most important realization to make about wine is the easiest to grasp. Ignore wine enthusiasts, no matter how well-intentioned, who fill beginners with jargon and complexity, which they love to flash like it's a membership card to some secret club. Having a good bottle of wine is always better with friends, but a tongue-lashing from a wine snob is the easiest way to ruin it. All you need to know is what you like, and drink that.


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Several recent elections in Europe were seen as a referendum on fiscal austerity (and fiscal discipline) and their results were presented as a mood shift in favor of more government spending and economic stimulus. If true, this should help Barack Obama's re-election bid in the United States. However, over the past three years, electoral results the world over suggest not so much a leftward drift as disgust with all incumbents, regardless of their political stripe. This, on the contrary, could sink Obama in November, but it also bodes ill for his successor.
In a parliamentary election in May, Greek voters overwhelmingly rejected public spending cuts and tax increases agreed upon by their government as part of the bailout deal. Both main political parties, which backed austerity measures, got a drumming at the polls. French voters delivered a similar verdict, voting for a Socialist for the first time since the 1980s. Winner François Hollande had campaigned on a platform of tax hikes on the wealthy, more bank regulations and more government spending. At the same time, the governing coalition in the Netherlands fell apart because its members couldn't agree on budget cuts.
Recent European data have been bleak. Greece is sinking deeper into depression, a severe downturn is now affecting Spain and Italy, and GDP in the euro area is forecast to shrink 0.5% in 2012. Britain, too, slipped into a double-dip recession in early 2012. Unemployment across Europe is severe. Spain takes the cake with a jobless rate of nearly 25%, followed closely by Greece with over 20% and Ireland with 15%. France is suffering from 10% unemployment.
Such performance has given plenty of ammunition to modern-day Keynesians who blame euro-zone deficit-cutting policies, initiated by Germany, for ushering in the second leg of a European economic downturn. An assault on austerity has been led by two Nobel Prize-winning U.S. economists, Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman. Stiglitz, noting the lack of successful austerity programs in large economies, says Europe is headed toward "suicide" with public-sector spending cuts.
Budget cuts, especially at the state level, are slowing the U.S. economic recovery as well. Since bottoming out in early 2010, the private sector created over 4 million jobs through April 2012. Public-sector employment has declined by 1 million from a stimulus-induced peak in May 2010. The U.S. jobless rate remains over 8%, at levels close to those of the mid-1980s.
Nevertheless, it is far from clear that voters want more government spending or put much trust in left-wing solutions. In 2010, the right-of-center party scored an overwhelming victory in Hungary, and a month later the Conservatives in the U.K. ousted the Labour Party after 15 years in office by promising harsh fiscal medicine. In November 2010 the GOP scored one of the greatest mid-term electoral victories in U.S. history. They not only took the House of Representatives in Washington, but devastated the Democrats in many state capitals.
In early 2011, though, the Irish doubled the seats of their Labour Party as they kicked out the center-right Fianna Fáil, and then in November 2011, months before the supposed Europe-wide rejection of austerity, the conservative Popular Party threw out the ruling Socialists in Spain.
The trend is clear: rather than showing preference for any one party or ideology, voters have been systematically punishing those who held power before the election. It so happens that leftist parties were up for reelection first, and then rightist and centrist ones were. Even in Germany, where austerity measures remain popular and where the economy is Europe's bright spot, the incumbent Christian Democrats went down in defeat in the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's industrial heartland and most populous state.
This is a grim conclusion for the Obama campaign. The president is facing the voters when the mood seems to be "plague on both your houses," with those who happen to be in office bearing the brunt of popular anger and frustration.
Debt and Growth
Voters are angry and frustrated because in reality austerity versus stimulus is a false dilemma. Keynes' successors point out that the United States emerged from World War II with debt at well over 100% of GDP, but that economic growth cut it to less than 40% of GDP by the mid-1970s. They claim, therefore, that the current debt level is not alarming and that the spike will prove temporary if economic growth returns.
It is a rather big if. After 1945, the U.S. was the world's only industrial power at a time when in Western Europe and Japan there was a huge rebuilding campaign. The U.S. had no meaningful competitors and it was the largest creditor nation in the world. Now, the situation is exactly the opposite. A bout of deficit spending, therefore, may saddle the nation with a crippling debt burden without stimulating growth. As turmoil in Europe shows, slow growth may then lead to a spike in bond yields and a major debt crisis.
Nor is it clear how economic growth can be spurred. Over the past four years, the U.S. economy has suffered adverse structural developments at the demographic edges of its labor force, which will have repercussions for many years to come.
At one end are recent college graduates. The average debt of a 2010 college graduate was over $25,000 in 2010, the highest on record. The debt burden is growing at an accelerated pace as financial aid is cut and tuition and fees are raised. In Iowa and Minnesota, the average debt is closer to $30,000, and many individuals across the country routinely come out of college with debts of $100,000 and more. Yet, the unemployment rate among college graduates is also at a record, rising to over 9%. While according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, graduates' starting salaries rose last year for the first time since 2008, a large pool of unemployed suggests that wages for recent graduates will stagnate.
Meanwhile, there is trouble for older workers. The U.S. labor force, after expanding by nearly 10 million 2003 to 2008, has been flat in recent years. Laid-off workers have been discouraged from looking for work, with a large number of adults over 55 taking early retirement or retiring earlier, and on less money, than they had expected.
These two trends create a vicious cycle. Younger Americans will delay having families and buying homes, preventing a full recovery in the housing market. Meanwhile, older Americans, the traditional dis-savers, will spend less in retirement and run out of retirement savings earlier, saddling Social Security and Medicare — ultimately, the taxpayers — with the huge bill for their final years.
Ideological Sclerosis
The voters seem to understand the problems of the economy much better than politicians. The level of pessimism in the U.S. is now unprecedented in a normally resilient nation, cutting across the ideological divide. As The Economist reported recently, some 83% of Americans believe that the country is still in a recession and nearly three quarters are convinced that the nation is on a wrong track. A solid majority fear that their children will be worse off than they are and a third think America's best days are behind it.
There is a pressing need for a technocratic, non-ideological analysis of the economic situation and the development of a set of programs to spur private sector growth. However, the trend in Washington has been exactly the opposite: in the two mainstream parties, ideological positions have become hardened. Each side takes turns implementing its own unworkable solution as voters systematically bring down one incumbent after another.
If such ideological wrangling continues, the anti-incumbent mood will grow and evolve. Stephen King, the chief economist at HSBC, recently wrote a piece worthy of Stephen King, the horror author. He pointed out that recent European elections have seen a strong showing by radical right-wing movements. He then went on to compare the current situation in Europe with that of the 1930s, when a debt crisis and lack of economic growth translated into an ideological divide, in which extreme, radical movements became the winners with tragic consequences for all.


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Searching for maths tutors online finds people willing to teach up to A-level. I'm looking for help at a more advanced level.
At the moment I'm trying to teach myself category theory from downloaded lecture notes, but I have my eye on other mathematical fields including having another go at algebraic geometry once my category theory is better. However, because I'm teaching myself, if I get stuck I have nowhere to turn. By the same token, I'm doing the exercises but it's frustrating when there's no-one to tell me if I'm getting the answers right or approaching it at the right level of rigor; I find myself missing being able to submit work and get it marked.
How might one go about hiring someone who might be able to give occasional help, either online or in person (I'm in London) at this level? I'm sure university maths departments have plenty of people doing postgrad maths who might like occasional work like this, but how might I go about reaching them?


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The National Pork Producers Council is rolling out a pest management program to educate producers on getting rid of rats and mice to preserve animal health, food safety and building integrity.
As you start winterizing your hog facilities this fall, you may discover some unpleasant changes - damage to insulation, wood, curtains and other building materials.
That damage is a sure sign of rodent infestation and a strong indicator to make rodent control a priority.
You're not alone in this regard, says Michelle Michalak, DVM, member of the National Pork Producers Council's (NPPC) Rodent Control Working Group.
"Most pork producers are fairly apathetic when it comes to rodent control," states Michalak, Maria Stein, OH. "They think the rodents have been there forever, and they've become part of the furnishings of the building."
But, once producers roll up a curtain, for example, and see lots of holes, they want to take action right away, she says.
Tackling a Rodent 'Outbreak' Besides curtain damage, burrows, gnaw marks, droppings and smear (grease) marks are solid signs buildings have a major rodent infestation, says John Beller, Pest Tech Inc., Columbus, NE.
Beller has been in the pest management business for 23 years and started Pest Tech in 1992. He is also part of the rodent control working group developing educational materials for pork producers. "Our goal is to take the producer beyond the concept of making bait placements and calling it good enough," he explains.
Beller suggests using a four-step program called Integrated Pest Management (IPM):
* Thoroughly inspect building sites for signs of rodent activity;
* Exclude rodents by "engineering" them out of the buildings;
* Work on sanitation - feed spills around feed bins, carts and wagons can be a "tremendous feed source not only for rodents but for birds and other pests," Beller says; and,
* Apply rodenticides or mechanical means to control rodents.
"Most producers throw out bait around the barns and hope for the best. They harvest rodents like they do crops, " says rodent control team member Robert Corrigan, RMC Pest Management Consulting, Richmond, IN.
"The new program will be designed so instead of reacting to rodents, we can work to stay ahead of them," he adds. Corrigan is devising a barn chart producers can use to match up their problems with the right bait, bait formulation and application period.
Zero Tolerance Pest control experts Corrigan and Beller agree the pork industry needs to adopt a zero tolerance policy for rodent control. "There will always be new mice trying to move in," says Corrigan. "When there are just a few new ones, you can take care of them pretty easily. It's this business of tolerating up to hundreds of mice and rats on a chronic basis that we need to educate producers about."
Get the Facts Another part of the NPPC program that will help producers is a double-sided rodent control fact sheet to be released soon. It tells the damage rodents can do, explains their reproductive capabilities and behavior and how to be proactive in looking for them. For instance, if rodents can be seen during the day, the level of infestation is high because rodents are nocturnal.
The fact sheet explains how to design a practical rodent control program. Besides cleaning up feed spills, producers need to eliminate harborage areas about buildings and control weeds. "By maintaining an uncluttered, 3-ft.-wide, weed-free, graveled perimeter around buildings, rodents cannot use these areas. Gravel should be at least 1 in. in diameter and be laid in a band at least 3-ft. wide and 6-in. deep," the fact sheet states.
The fact sheet also provides detailed information on the best use of baits and bait stations inside and outside hog barns. For instance, casual placement of bait stations in and around barns won't have much impact on rodent populations. The fact sheet offers three suggestions:
* Install fresh bait in the rodent's high activity areas as determined by inspections and/or rodent signs;
* Put out enough bait points to ensure the rodents easily encounter bait during nightly trips for food; and,
* Match the right bait formulation to the specific area to be baited. A guide chart to the use of rodenticide baits is available from the NPPC ordering department at (515) 223-2621.
While dogs and cats occasionally kill rodents around buildings, they can't stop an established infestation. They also pose an additional threat of disease transmission, the fact sheet explains.
Economic Evaluation Next spring, results of an economic analysis of an integrated rodent control program will be available, according to David Pyburn, DVM, NPPC director of veterinary science and rodent control team coordinator.
Economic variables will be put into a model to provide producers with a decision-making tool, notes project leader Scott Hygnstrom, University of Nebraska.
"They can look at their situation, plug in their variables and then determine whether it's worth it or not to exercise rodent control and at what level, and whether they should do rodent control themselves or hire it done professionally," he says.


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March 4, 2013 — The Arkansas Legislature has overturned Gov. Mike Beebe's (D) veto of a bill (HB 1037) that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, Reuters reports.
The Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday voted 19-14 to override Beebe's veto, following a successful override vote in the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday. In Arkansas, legislators can override a veto with a simple majority.
The measure includes exceptions for cases of rape, incest or to save a woman's life. It does not include exemptions for fatal fetal disorders (Parker, Reuters, 2/28).
Arkansas is the eighth state to ban abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy, following Alaska, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska and North Carolina (Blake, Washington Post, 2/28).
Rita Sklar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas, said the law is unconstitutional. "The Supreme Court has upheld voluntary abortions up to the point of viability -- 20 weeks is pre-viability," she said (Reuters, 2/28).
Legislature Passes 12-Week Ban
Also on Thursday, the Arkansas Senate gave final approval to a measure (SB 134) that would ban abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy if a fetal heartbeat is detectable, Politico reports. The bill now goes to Beebe for his consideration.
If the measure becomes law, Arkansas would have the earliest abortion ban in the country. The measure would allow exceptions for rape, incest, to save the life of the woman and for fatal fetal disorders.
Abortion-rights groups urged Beebe to reject the bill. Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said, "This extreme legislation would insert politics into women's personal medical decisions, and we urge Gov. Beebe to veto it immediately."
Talcott Camp, deputy director of ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, added, "Lawmakers in Arkansas are placing women's lives on the line by passing the most severe ban on access to safe, legal medical care this country has seen in recent years" (Smith, Politico, 2/28).


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Research is a substantial ingredient of Provimi's strategy for maintaining and further expanding its worldwide market leadership. To constantly keep abreast with short and long range trends in animal production, our researchers continuously research and develop new programs, feeds and specialties.
Our own research centre the "Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Center" in the Netherlands caters for feeding trials with pigs, poultry, calves and dairy cows. The findings of research are translated into marketable products and programs.
Results of our research activities not only lead to enhance efficacy of our products at the highest possible safety standards, but also improve the health status and welfare of the animals and reduce environmental pollution, and overall help to satisfy consumer demands.


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David Taylor discusses Florida's move to a private cloud.
David Taylor became CIO of Florida and executive director of the state's Agency for Enterprise Information Technology in 2008. One of his first tasks was to lead a state-mandated consolidation of email for executive branch agencies, which at the time operated more than 30 separate systems. Migration to the enterprise email system was scheduled to start in late 2011.
We put together work groups of the customer agency participants to do a study, and then we told the Legislature that we saw consolidation as an opportunity to save some money. We took the same approach to the procurement. Agencies that would be the customers participated in designing the business requirements and the procurement instrument.
The best price and value was an Exchange 2010 system — a private cloud solution. The awardee was ACS, and Microsoft is a subcontractor. They will run it in an ACS data center in Florida using their staff in a private-cage environment. All state employees are doing is managing the contract. The project is roughly 115,000 Exchange mailboxes to start; we expect cities and counties to join within the next couple of years. The contract also was written so other states can join.
Since the Legislature didn't provide an exemption for public safety, they had to be included. That changed the business requirements dramatically. The system had to be architected to meet their security concerns. We needed to provide a system that [Criminal Justice Information Services]-type data could live in for years. That involves the technical aspect, and also background checks of all [vendor] employees.
Our initial estimate is that this will save about $2 million a year over the seven-year contract. That won't save the state budget, but it's significant. Putting everyone on the same platform also means all of the state's archives will be in a central repository, which will make us better at responding to legal discovery or public records requests.
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Hem: Half Acre
There is a term I see every now and again in articles about music: chamber pop. I grew up in a household where my parents had friends over every Saturday evening to play classical chamber music, so I relate the term to that. Chamber pop, to me, involves small ensembles that include instruments associated with classical music, such as violin, clarinet, and cello. My introduction to chamber pop was the music of Hem, and this song was the first thing I ever heard by them. Half Acre certainly isn't a classical work, but it does take me back, in some ways, to those lullabies of my childhood. In the lyric, the narrator works her way through mixed feelings over the concept of "home", and that also seems appropriate to me.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
For a Song: Half Acre
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