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Once in a while an email will come in from an ardent fan of Mark Strong and she'll be all indignant about why he's not featured all the time on this site. Example:
I don't doubt it. But, first of all, there's very little gossip out there about him other than the fact that you can often find him bro'ing down with Daniel Craig, and second, it's not like Mark Strong is photographed every day – I'm not even sure half the people reading this site would have made his face on name recognition alone in the title – and I'm not about to post old photos of him over and over again just to satisfy a minority need. As a consolation then, you can go 'round feeling elite and special that you're into an actor that isn't super mainstream.
Having said that, going forward, when there are new shots of Strong, I'll do what I can to get them up. Last night he was at the premiere of Attack The Block in London with wife Liza Marshall, a very well respected producer.
For those of you who aren't members (yet) of the Mark Strong fan club, you may recognise him from a series of villain roles – in Tristan & Isolde, Sherlock Holmes, Kick-Ass, and the upcoming Green Lantern. He does kind of have a dick face, non? It's working for him lately, obviously, although he doesn't look super dicky in these pictures. I think it softens him to see him with his spouse. Not sure if they double with Daniel and Rachel Weisz. Will start investigating.
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Syracuse teen Chelsea L. Kuss sentenced for aggravated vehicular manslaughter; tells victims' families 'I'm so sorry'
WAMPSVILLE -- The teen driver involved in a crash that killed a Liverpool High School student and critically injured a Bridgeport woman in May 2010 has been sentenced to 3 1/3 to 10 years in state prison Monday.
On May 24, 2010, Chelsea L. Kuss, 18, of Syracuse was driving 17-year-old Victoria Deverso's SUV on Route 31 in Sullivan, when it hit a minivan head-on. Deverso, a passenger in the SUV, was killed in the crash and the driver of the other vehicle, Peggy Blume, 38, of Bridgeport, was critically injured.
Following the crash, it was determined that Kuss had a blood alcohol content of .13 percent.
More than 70 people watched the sentencing, including Deverso's family and friends, who wore black T-shirts with a purple heart which read, "Live for today because tomorrow is never promised." Other friends wore a yellow T-shirt reading, "You are my sunshine."
Deverso's father, Christopher Deverso, wore her Wegmans name tag as he read a statement about his daughter to the court.
He said she was always there to help her friends and that she was "their backbone." Her death changed his life "in every way that life could possibly be altered," he said.
The dreams of seeing her graduate and some day walking her down the aisle at her wedding will never be possible now, he said, adding that all his memories of her growing up are now "shadowed by pain."
Madison County District Attorney Bill Gabor read a written statement by Deverso's mother, Elizabeth Deverso, who said "life is foggy every day" as she continues to grieve.
She hoped for the maximum sentence for Kuss because she made the choice to drive after drinking and is responsible for the results.
Elizabeth Deverso said she wanted Kuss "to serve enough time to impact her selfish character."
Gabor also read a written statement by Blume's husband, Steve, who called the day of the crash, "one of the blackest days" in his life.
He thinks about the tragedy every day and still recalls being unable to recognize her at the hospital because of her injuries.
In the same statement, Peggy Blume said the recovery has been "very slow and at times frustrating."
Blume endured multiple surgeries to repair her hip, legs, arm and ankle.
Kuss struggled to compose herself as she spoke before her sentencing.
"I'm so sorry for what I did," she said, adding that she thinks of Victoria Deverso every day and about the decision that she made to drive.
"I will regret May 24 for the rest of my life," she said.
Kuss admitted in court that the crash took place after she made a drive to Sylvan Beach while drinking cans of Four Loko, an alcoholic beverage with caffeine.
Kuss said that backing out of the parking space at Sylvan Beach was the last thing she remembered.
Police said the SUV was traveling at 84 miles per hour in a 55 mph zone with the vehicle weaving in and out of traffic. Blume was on her way to work when she saw the oncoming SUV and pulled onto the shoulder before the head-on collision.
Kuss' attorney Bob Durr told the judge that Kuss is "very sorry" for the victims and her own family because she let them all down. He said Kuss had wanted to reach out to the families of the victims but for legal reasons was advised against doing that.
She accepts responsibility for her actions, Durr said.
Kuss pleaded guilty to the three charges against her.
Before handing down the sentence, Madison County Judge Biagio DiStefano said to Kuss that there is something greater than her pain and that thing is death.
"No parent should outlive their child," he said.
He said the crash was the result of "selfish and reckless" actions, quoting witnesses who said Kuss was known to say, "I am a good drunk driver."
Kuss was given an indeterminate sentence of 3 1/3 to 10 years for aggravated vehicular homicide, a class B felony. She was also sentenced to a maximum of one year for driving while intoxicated and a maximum of 30 days for reckless driving, which will be served concurrently.
She was not granted youthful offender status. She waived her right to appeal the sentence.
Kuss will also have driver's license revoked, pay more than $300 in surcharges and in accordance with Leandra's Law, she will have to install an ignition interlock system in any car she drives after she's released.
Gabor said he was "more than satisfied" with the sentence.
He said it serves as a punishment and a message to the public about the consequences of driving while intoxicated.
"She's feeling terrible," said Durr about Kuss after the sentencing. He said she has always expressed "extreme remorse."
"It doesn't make up for eight months," said Christopher Deverso about the time since his daughter's death.
He said the day was not about the length of the sentence but that "reality gets to set in for Chelsea."
It made him angry to hear the defense say Kuss was remorseful when he believes she is not, Christopher Deverso said.
"I get to go visit my daughter at the cemetery today," he said, adding that six feet of dirt separate him from her while only two inches of Plexiglass will separate Chelsea from her family at prison.

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Already this year we've had the live tweeting marriage proposal and several jumbo-tron varieties, TV proposals and a botched food court serenade. Always they seem pretty coercive. Like, the dude is so insecure that he makes saying "no" an act of great public humiliation.
So I was delighted to see the very first truly charming public proposal. I would marry Isaac, if only because he has so many great friends. With his home-spun, down the driveway, Glee routine he seems less after glory than a beautiful sense of community.


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On January 1, 2014, NYU-Poly became the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. The New York Board of Regents approved the affiliation of Polytechnic and New York University on July 1, 2008, creating Polytechnic Institute of NYU. NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering is well on its way to fulfilling its remarkable potential. Its drive to push the boundaries of what it means to be a 21st century research institution, one founded on the principle of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship (i2e), led to numerous educational and research strides.


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Chromatouch Dome at Shambala festival
After the success of the Black Country Touring piece, Occasionally We Skype, I went back to my immersive engine research, bought a 10m geodesic dome from www.shelter-systems.com, (something that I've wanted since I finished my first piece for fulldome) and hunkered down in the studio to build a software engine to accomodate the various audio, video and control inputs from other artists,
This would entail a video server software like Resolume Arena to handle the content such as live cameras, laptop input, video files and to apply effects. it works in real time on many layers and you can pipe video around within the computer from app to app using a protocol called spout. Then you need a 3D engine to map those layers to a virtual model of the space you are going to project in/onto so they appear correctly in the cameras (which in turn go to the projectors) – a lot easier in a dome which intrinsically has no corners. Initially Unity 3D seemed like a good idea to do all the mapping for the realtime engine, but after what seemed like a month of a programming friend failing to get it to work (bad spout plugin mainly to blame – Unity is a gaming engine after all…) I decided to rebuild it in a proper VJ software – Touchdesigner which is essentialy a 3D engine made for realtime video work. It worked a treat and handled all the UV mappings beautifully and I can't wait to do more with it over the coming months.
I've been working at Shambala festival for coming up to ten years now and from running the visuals for the Gaia Nova dome back in the day and through to when it turned into the Kamikaze dance tent, I now always do the mainstage visuals – mixing the live cameras nightly and nursing the visuals for one of the days – usually Saturday. It is my fave UK festival because of it's size, friendliness and holistic attitude to qualitative fun and mutual respect. As a more sober individual in my forties than i was in my thirties I don't note any change in my enjoyment of Shambala from the early days to now. An experience I can't say carries across from your average pub.
So, having built the engine and bought the dome it was time to convince the festival to give me a slot and to decide what was going in it. My experience of working for Rejenr8 dome (the last guys to run a dome in the woods at shambala) was that a full on rave wasn't what the woodlands organisers wanted, so the perfect candidate to curate the Saturday night was long term fave of mine, my friends and the (now sadly defunct) Big Chill forums – the ambient supremo Mixmaster Morris who rules the mixcloud charts in many categories…
Also, now the woodland area is open in the daytimes it made sense to bring in the 8bit lounge gamning sessions as an aside from all the visuals when it wasn't possible to project. With this in mind it was only fitting to bring a selection of UK chiptune musicians for the Friday night such as GrayCFGK, Sam Wray and George Lazenbleep. My partner in crime at 8bit lounge Tony Grainger (DJ Subcitizen) has a vast collection of other worldly electro so this was also a good mix to introduce into the Friday blipfest. And finally to round off the first night I had a chance encounter with none other than Tony Culverville who i befirended on a trip to Brazil in 2012 – four times DMC DJ winner and current champion of the world, Mr Switch!
Friday and Saturday sorted I decided to take it down a notch in terms of popular culture and turn to some more academically minded sounds on Sunday night, combining electro-acoustic, live-coding, live AV and modular disciplines, namely BEAST, Shelley Knotts & Holger Ballweg, Diarmo & L'Aubaine and Dave Headcleaner, respectively. Thrown in for good measure and to utilise the 280 slices of vinyl he had brought, Tony Grainger soundly rounded it off with some suitably shuffly techno.
Visuals were taken care of by myself on the whole, but also Sam Wray with his self-programmed visualiser engine ModV – a bit like the dome engine i built, a very solid software creation but slightly unfathomable to anyone else but it's creator 😉 Also Laurie Bender (L'Aubaine – London based, Swiss born). George Lazenbleep, lastly, stepped in with his own projectors fed by the Gieskes 3trinsRGB+1c and they really made a nice addition to the darker corners…
I'll leave the exact tech to another post but suffice to say it all worked well on the whole. A great weekend with a weeks worth of time spent in the woods to make it happen. Special thanks to everyone who helped out like the Cliffords, Paul Kent, Liam & Arlene Burnett, all the daytime DJs like Jon Harris, Mark Smallman, Mach V, Olbi Iyah… And big big thanks to my old college buddy Sid Sharma for giving the thumbs up to the whole thing along with master man Morgan Robinson who drives buggies around and shouts at bridges a lot. 😀
Photo Credit: Laurie Bender
p.s. our neighbours in the Mexican Cantina were awesome, they had essentials like water, brooms and frozen margueritas at 1.30am when we were setting up cheers Lynne!!!


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About François Rabbath
François Rabbath has taken an incredibly
unusual course. He is without peer as a
double bass player and is one of the most
internationally distinguished string soloists.
This is all the more remarkable because he
taught himself to play the double bass and
has never had a lesson in his life.
Born in 1931 in Aleppo (Syria), at the age of 13 François Rabbath was already contributing to the income of his large family by appearing together with his siblings in the cabarets of Beirut. He moved to Paris in 1956 and earned his living as an accompanist to musicians such as Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour, Gilbert Becaud and Michel Legrand.
In 1963 Rabbath recorded his first solo record album which became one of the most sought after recordings of the time. From 1964 he began composing music for film and theatre. At the same time a singular solo career took off - starting in France via the music centres of Europe to the USA where he had his début in 1975 at New York's Carnegie Hall. As well as recitals at London's Wigmore Hall and the Salle Pleyel in Paris, he gave concerts with the orchestras of Cincinnati, Houston, Québec and Australian radio. From 1980 to 1996 François Rabbath was a member of the Paris Opera Orchestra.
As a very assiduous teacher, François Rabbath has been imparting his knowledge and skills to committed bassists round the world for over twenty years. But these are not the only instrumentalists who take part in his classes, other instrumen-
talists do too. A good number of professional musicians have taken temporary leave from their orchestras in order to discover their instrument afresh with the help of François Rabbath.
Rabbath has more recently added multimedia tutorials in the form of videos,
CD-ROMs and DVDs to his output of pedagogical print publications. Of these, the tutorial DVDs produced by the ISB President, Hans Sturm, the "Art of the Bow" and "Art of the Left Hand" are particularly distinguished and without exaggeration may be termed milestones in double bass tuition.
Despite his unparalleled career, François Rabbath has had little influence on double bass playing in German speaking and East European countries. This is presumably because of the fact that the French method of holding the bow, on which Rabbath's extraordinary bowing technique is based, is scarcely ever employed there.
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Was Good but JB killed it now LOL
Oh well was good until they updated from ICS to Jelly Bean and I truly think it was the update that ruined this cell.
Previously it was fine for me in midrange cells like the HTC ONE V but the Update made the cell MUCH SLOWER IN BENCHMARKS, USAGE AND NOW IT HAS RANDOM REBOOT ISSUES.
I sent it back to Virgin and got a New Boxed one with JB already formatted on it and it was still no good with reboots and occasional freezes.
So I figured send it to Samsung and they will take care of me LOL! After TWO CONSECUTIVE REPAIRS IT STILL HAS PROBLEMS and they claim its Virgin software add ons doing this. Nobody seems to care now especially Virgin. They should've stayed with ICS since it was stable but unless rooted good luck.
But the screen is fine and Benchmark for CPU is about 1650 and is IDENTICAL to Samsung Ring internally except for ram. Why do they always mess up your phone and then expect YOU to pay for a new one! Virgin serves the JB Update and Ring has the EXACT same problems now too.
Using Performance Benchmarks lets you see EXACTLY where these cells fit in the power and performance range. You can download the Passmark Test from Google Play yourself and run several for an average.
PASSMARK SYSTEM PERFORMANCE is as follows:
LG Optimus V @ 537
Old HTC One V @ 1100
Samsung Reverb/Ring @ 1324 (identical internals)
Samsung Victory (SPH-L300) @ 1608
LG Optimus F3 (LS720) @ 1784
Samsung Galaxy S2 (SPH-D710) @ 1788
Samsung Galaxy S3 (SPH-L710) @ 2074
Google LG Nexus 4 @ 2556
Google LG Nexus 5 @ 3768
IPhone 4S @ 1600
IPhone 5 @ 3612
CPU RATING is as follows:
LG Optimus V @ 564
Old HTC One V @ 1370
Samsung Reverb/Ring @ 1720 (identical internals)
Samsung Victory @ 3948
LG Optimus F3 (LS720) @ 4010
Samsung Galaxy S2 @ 4300
Samsung Galaxy S3 @ 4795
Google LG Nexus 4 @ 9757
Google LG Nexus 5 @ 13,996
IPhone 4S @ 8867
IPhone 5 @ 22,693
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This is my third 'Droid and it rocks! Has a high tech feel like iphone but without iphone problems. If you're service provider (Virgin for me) can use this phone & arent hyped bout oversized phone screen, Get It!
Great Display, Easy Navigation, Front facing camera takes great pics! Many apps available, Very customizable, Convenient "push in" Sd card holder on the side
Need to get bigger Gb card, Slippery Case (dropped few times but no scratches, dents)
Samsung, you did it again!
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Good Entry Level Samsung Phone
Despite the small size of this phone, it suits me just fine. The touchscreen is fairly responsive, though occasionlly the system gets stuck on a task and the 'back' and 'home' buttons become unresponsive until the phone can catch up. Occasionally (at least twice a day) the lock screen wouldn't respond and I'd have to reboot the phone. Apparently this was a common concern and I tried all of the online tips and tricks to get it to work. Nothing worked until I did a system update. Haven't had an issue with it since.
It's a little frustrating to not be able to move apps to the SD card without an app. This is something I'm just now experiencing as my phone has finally started to give me the "Memory Full" alert. The phone casing is also pretty slippery but I haven't had much trouble with it. A case probably wouldn't hurt. Another concern is the wi-fi. Occasionally I'll connect to wi-fi at a place and, when I leave, I'll shut the wi-fi feature off on my phone. Then later, while I'm driving, somehow wi-fi will kick back on again and alert me to signals in the area. It's more annoying than problematic.
I installed a swiftkey keyboard on my phone and it seems to work just fine. The only problem I would say there is with having a phone this "small" is when it comes to using the keyboard. On a screen like this, everytime the keyboard pops up, over half the screen is taken up. If you've got the phone sideways, the entire screen is taken up. Makes typing a pain when you can't see what you're typing.
I haven't rooted my phone, but there are times I consider it because there are too many apps on this phone I just never use. But overall, this is a good entry level smartphone. The bluetooth version is just about compatible with everything. The android version is compatible with almost every application. The call quality is fine, the notification tones are loud enough. It's a good phone, you just have to take care of it.
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bad phone
this phone has android 4.1.2 not 4.0
it it was out a the box like that. it restarts at least three times a day. and it's slow. 1.4GH processor has got to to be wrong it feels more like a 600MH also very small ram
585mb really? what a odd number why not 512. I really feel the hardware can't support the jellybean OS. please don't get this phone! I threw mine against the wall it frustrated me so bad


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It was his third mission trip to Honduras, an uplifting experience Barnesville Mayor Peter Banks has now shared with readers of "The Upper Room," an interdenominational devotional book. The devotional is featured today, Aug. 28.
Dr. Lee Woodall (left) and Barnesville Mayor Peter Banks were part of a recent mission team helping in the Honduran village of Las Flores. The horses became necessary transportation because the road to the village washed away in a hurricane. The Barnesville First United Methodist team poured concrete floors for 14 small homes. Banks wrote about the experience in The Upper Room devotional book.
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I dont generally do this, but if you want to pop over from the All-Star Game, Ill be joined by Joe Torre and Ken Burns to recall and reflect upon the life and death of George Steinbrenner – the two segments will begin about 40 minutes past the hour on Countdown.
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At 8:40 Fox will probably still be doing promos for its fall lineup or having its "American Idol" contestant sing the National Anthem (or in this case the star of one of its shows who is also a former "American Idol" contestant, natch). Too bad Keith isn't at the All-Star Game covering it. I seem to recall him being part of the coverage of the 1997 World Series on NBC. What I wouldn't give to have Bob Costas, Joe Morgan, Keith, and Bob Uecker doing these big time games again. I feel like it's a chore to sit through with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. Well, I'll flip back and forth because, just as I was eager to read Keith's words on this site, I wanted to see how he would cover on his show the passing of George Steinbrenner.
I heard you on the Ed Schultz show today. Good analysis on Steinbrenner. Can't wait to see the insight Burns and Torre provide. Jan
You estimated that almost perfectly jeterandiborn62674! Amber Riley was singing the anthem at 8:40!
I record Countdown no matter what so I shall check out the segment when the game ends.
I enjoy your blogs and the countdown podcast, but the Ken Burns & Joe Torre interview was not part of the podcast. Can you ask MSNBC to put it up on the Countdown homepage?
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SHE-RA is the alter ego of Princess Adora, the twin sister of He-Man. She first appears as Force Captain Adora, an agent of the Evil Horde that rules the planet Etheria. However, she then discovers that she is the long-lost twin sister of Prince Adam of Eternia, having been stolen by the Horde's leader, Hordak, as a baby. She is granted the Sword of Protection, which parallels He-Man's own Sword of Power, and gains the power to transform into She-Ra. As Princess Adora, she then joins the rebellion that seeks to free Etheria from the Horde. She-Ra is known as the Princess of Power. As such, she has superhuman strength and is highly resistant to damage. She also possesses superhuman speed and agility, a healing touch, as well as the ability to speak with animals telepathically. All her powers derive from the mystical Power of Grayskull. Together with Bow, Glimmer, Frosta, Angella, Castaspella, Mermista, Perfuma, Peekablue & Flutterina, She-Ra hopes to free Etheria from the tyrannical rule of Hordak & The Evil Horde.
BOW is one of the original Rebels. He often has to disguise his face when leaving The Whispering Woods, to prevent the Horde from identifying him. Bow is referred to as the best archer in all of Etheria. He is famed for the accuracy of his shot. Aside from his skill as an archer, Bow is also musically gifted. He often writes songs to serenade Adora; his instrument of choice is usually the harp and Adora seems to enjoy his songs. Like Glimmer, Bow is a rather impetuous member of the Rebellion. He is far too eager to rush into battle with the Horde, which more often than not gets him into trouble. He has also shown some ability as an illusionist. At different times he has made birds appear out of nowhere and made himself disappear. Bow is Etheria's most skillful archer, described as the best shot in all of Etheria. He is also a talented storyteller and has knowledge of old legends to entertain the children.
GLIMMER is a member of The Great Rebellion and was once its leader. She is the daughter of Queen Angella & King Micah of Bright Moon. She comes from a happy family, but her childhood is tinged with sadness. After the Horde arrived on Etheria, her father left to fight them, and was never seen again. Later, when her mother is in battle with the Horde, she too disappears. For many years Glimmer fears she will never see her parents again. One day, a spy discovers that Angella is being held prisoner by Hunga, leader of the Harpies. By this point Glimmer had established the Rebellion, but relinquishes her title to Adora, when her mother is rescued by He-Man and She-Ra. After she returns to her former role as Princess of Bright Moon, she travels to The Whispering Woods in disguise to prevent her from being identified by the Horde. Glimmer's powers, like her mother are associated with light and she is able to generate photonic energy blasts from her hands. This is her most utilized power, though she does display others, ranging from teleportation to the ability to fly by surrounding herself and others with an aura of light. One power which she only manifests once is the ability to render her and others invisible. She can also generate light on such a powerful scale that she can illuminate the entire area of the Whispering Woods for an hour. However this feat leaves her in a state of extreme exhaustion. Glimmer is a beautiful and hardworking young woman who sincerely believes in peace and justice and overthrowing the Horde to restore such ideals.
FROSTA is a valuable member of the Rebellion. She is the reigning Queen of Castle Chill in the Kingdom of Snows, an area located at the northernmost pole of Etheria. This area of Etheria has only been attacked once by the Horde, possibly because of the extreme temperature there. Frosta and her people hold a great hatred for the Selkies, a race of people who live in Galacia, near her own homeland. When the Horde arrived, these two races called a truce to their feud, to unite against them. She is depicted as being strongly attracted to He-Man, much to He-Man's discomfort. She becomes intensely jealous when He-Man seems attracted to Sweet Bee instead. Frosta, being the Queen of the ice realms, has power over ice. She is able to produce ice and snow even in warmer areas of Etheria. She can also fire ice from her hands enabling her to freeze objects or her enemies. She can also use her powers to give her a method of transportation similar to an ice bridge.
ANGELLA, the Queen of Bright Moon, is one of the most important members of the Great Rebellion. Some years ago Queen Angella and King Micah had a child they named Glimmer. They lived in peace for many years and then the Horde arrived. Micah left his wife and daughter so he could fight them. The Horde captured Bright Moon, when Angella went missing during battle. During Angella's absence Glimmer forms the Great Rebellion, hoping one day to see her parents again and rid Bright Moon of the Horde. It is only years later, when She-Ra and He-Man release Angella that she is reunited with her daughter and later with her husband. The Moonstone of Castle Bright Moon is the source of Angellas magical abilities and it enables her to use her wings to fly. Her powers are affected by the position of Etheria's moons, as she is severely weakened during a lunar eclipse induced by Shadow Weaver. Aside from She-Ra she is regarded as the most powerful of the Rebel leaders. When at her full strength, she alone is more than a match for the entire Horde. Angella has, like her daughter, the ability to fly and fire photonic energy from her hands, which can stun or disable her opponents as well as blinding light. She is capable of erecting nearly impenetrable force fields. By bathing herself in her own light, she can instantly heal any injuries she has sustained and even regenerate torn clothing or armor. Angella has the power to temporarily open portals to other worlds and she appears far more skilled and experienced in the use of mystic forces than does her daughter.


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The Adventures of a Curious Man
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Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.
Praise For Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man…
Praise for Birdseye:
"In the shadow of America's great inventors—Edison, Ford and Bell, to name a few—stands an unheralded giant: Clarence Birdseye, the father of the modern "fresh frozen" pea. Wander any supermarket and you'll find Birdseye's legacy.... [Kurlansky's] book is a delight—and a quiz bowl team's treasure-trove. Fabulous factoids abound."—Abigail Meisel, New York Times Book Review
"The first book-length biography of Clarence Birdseye…. [An] intriguing book that…coaxes readers to re-examine everyday miracles like frozen food, and to imagine where places with no indigenous produce would be without them."—Janet Maslin, New York Times
"There's a particular pleasure in being reminded that the most ordinary things can still be full of magic. Frogs may turn into princes. Lumps of dirt can hide sparkling gems. And having just read Mark Kurlansky's new biography of Clarence Birdseye, I now see the humble fish fillet in a whole new light. For as Kurlansky tells it, when Clarence Birdseye figured out how to pack and freeze haddock...he essentially changed the way we produce, preserve and distribute food forever."—NPR's The Salt
"Piecing together the first book-length biography of Birdseye was not easy. It's not just the episodic quality of Birdseye's life but the sparse and spotty nature of the surviving information about him. And there are many myths that surround his life, some perpetuated by the man himself.... [Yet] Kurlansky has pieced together a lively and readable biography about one of America's most unusual innovators."—Andrew F. Smith, Newsday
"Best known for his deliciously knowledgeable food histories (Cod, Salt, The Big Oyster), Kurlansky['s]...wide-ranging curiosity matches his subject's, and his narrative of Birdseye's life displays great feeling for a fellow adventurer.... [R]eaders will emerge from this breezy book with a fondness for its engagingly eccentric protagonist—and a much better understanding of the intricate interconnection of traditional practices, technical breakthroughs, business deals, and social change that put those frozen peas in our refrigerators."—Wendy Smith, Daily Beast
"Kurlansky brings Birdseye to life.... Covering the science behind Birdseye's... inventions along with intimate details of his family life, [he] skillfully weaves a fluid narrative of facts on products, packaging, and marketing into this rags-to-riches portrait of the man whose ingenuity brought revolutionary changes to 20th-century life."—Publishers Weekly (starred)
"Yes, the frozen-food guy really was named Clarence Birdseye (1886–1956), and the story of his adventures is another satisfying dish from the remarkable menu of the author of Cod (1997), Salt (2002) and other treats.
Kurlansky...places Birdseye in the same category as Thomas Edison: amateurs who got curious about a problem, played around with it (sometimes for years) and eventually figured it out. Birdseye had many more interests than frozen foods, writes the author; he invented, among other things, a kind of light bulb and even a whaling harpoon. He also grew up in a world that seemed to have limitless resources—no worries about plundering the planet. He killed creatures with abandon for decades, many of which he enjoyed eating, including field mice, chipmunks and porcupine. His curiosity also made him fearless. He conducted field research on Rocky Mountain spotted fever (collecting thousands of ticks), and he lived in the frigid Labrador region of Canada (and took his equally fearless wife and their infant). It was in the North that he began to wonder why foods frozen there—naturally—tasted so much better than the frozen foods back home. He discovered, of course, that it was quick-freezing at very cold temperatures that did the trick. He eventually invented the process that produced vast amounts of good frozen food, but then had to wait for the supporting infrastructure (transportation, storage, etc.). Kurlansky tells the exciting tale of Birdseye's adventures, failures and successes (he became a multi-millionaire) and his family, and he also offers engaging snippets about Velveeta, dehydration and Grape-Nuts.
The author notes that Birdseye knew that curiosity is "one essential ingredient" in a fulfilling life; it is a quality that grateful readers also discover in each of Kurlansky's books."—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"Kurlansky's narrative gifts shine through every chapter."—Booklist
Praise for Mark Kurlansky:
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
"Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining."
—William Grimes, The New York Times
"Fascinating stuff . . . Kurlansky has a keen eye for odd facts and natural detail."
—The Wall Street Journal
1968: The Year That Rocked the World
"Splendid . . . Evocative . . . No one before Kurlansky has managed to evoke so rich a set of experiences in so many different places—and to keep the story humming."
—Michael Kazin, Chicago Tribune
"Highly readable . . . A rich perspective . . . Kurlansky is a writer of remarkable talents and interests."
—Walter Truett Anderson, San Francisco Chronicle
"Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt . . . Fascination and surprise regularly erupt from the detail."
—Edward Rothstein, The New York Times Book Review
"Kurlansky continues to prove himself remarkably adept at taking a most unlikely candidate and telling its tale with epic grandeur."
—Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
"Every once in a while a writer of particular skill takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea and turns out a book of pure delight. Such is the case of Mark Kurlansky and the codfish."
—David McCullough
"An elegant brief history . . . Related with fast brio and wit."
—Anne Mendelson, Los Angeles Times
Doubleday Books, 9780385527057, 251pp.
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This informative map supplements the "Mideast in Turmoil" map and the article "Saudi Arabia: The Kingdom and Its Power" which were all published in the September 1980 issue of National Geographic. Four maps highlight the historical conflicts of the region while the largest section of this piece is devoted to showing the percentage of muslims amongst the various ethnicities of the region.
Coverage Area: The Middle East, northern Africa, India, Bangladesh, southwestern USSR, southwestern China, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Indonesia, Malaysia


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This article has been updated to correct an inaccurate reference to the 60 GHz band as 60 MHz.
As agencies continue to build out wireless networks and extend the use of mobile devices, a new spectrum specification, which will add a lot of speed and capacity, could become a key factor in how well those networks function.
In a recent article explaining the wireless spectrum allocation situation, we touched on the 60 GHz band that the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig) proposes to use for the next generation of wireless networking, IEEE 802.11ac.
But although the bandwidths are quite roomy up there in the 60 GHz band — more than 50 times as wide as in the current Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11n specification, enough to allow streaming of uncompressed video — there is an innate hurdle to working with higher frequencies: signal propagation loss over distance.
Since the air is made up of randomly-arranged molecules of matter, any waveform signal sent through them has a chance of being bounced off of whatever it runs into. Higher-frequency waves are more susceptible to signal loss than lower-frequency ones because of this.
A good example exists in everyday nature. Light on the blue end of the visible spectrum has a higher frequency than on the red end. When the sun's light hits the atmosphere, the blue light scatters more, so the sky looks blue. When the sun is low on the horizon, its light has to go through even more atmosphere to reach you, making the sun look more reddish. So now if your kids ask why the sky is blue, you'll know what to tell them.
WiGig proposes several ways to combat this innate problem. For one, the alliance is continuing to refine the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna configuration that was first implemented in 802.11n. With MIMO, several antennae are all talking to each other to determine the best path to the other station. The 802.11ac standard doubled the MIMO streams used in 'n' from 4 to 8, so what WiGig is working on will likely have at least that many.
But the area that will likely have the greatest impact on the practical range of WiGig-designed devices is in the precoding stage of the MIMO process. This is when the device will use what is called "beamforming" to focus the signal. This process, an example of which is illustrated in the accompanying graphic by Stephane Dedieu, uses the multiple antennae to combine into a phased array. The signal produced will experience constructive interference in one direction and destructive in other directions.
So the signal will go farther in the desired direction. This type of transmission is also sometimes called "unidirectional," meaning that a signal with beamforming will go much farther than it would without it. How far will depend upon the technological improvement that happen between now and when WiGig and the IEEE come out with the new specification based on WiGig's current research.
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New hard body H1 .. added axial wipers and mirrors and a rear antenna.. still gathering parts to add to it..
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heres what i thought wasa cool pic of my "project go anywhere " 1/16 summit. you can see the rest of the pics in my thread.
My Sons Mini Summit, but, he liked my mini ERevo, so we got some Frankenstein stuff going on..LOL
Check it out...
then he went a little further-
TO TAKING OVER MY BODY!! It's ok, cause I love Em'
Actually, I like his better, the setup looks cool together..
Rockin' the 3.3 REVO
it would be nice if you guys could post the name/brands of your mods so those of us who are new could know what to search for... especially tire/wheel info
here is my weaksauce VXL...I'm going to the RC shop at lunch today and will be upgrading it... not sure which wheels/tires to get but I know the ones on it here in this picture are way to sticky...I mean uber sticky. it flips instead iof turns lol. I would love to find some tires that make it slide around a good amount on wet pavement and dirt
'Life is for living, not living uptight'
new bodies...new pics!
Armory Decals on the White Body turned out cool looking:
'Life is for living, not living uptight'
And with the wing added...
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Only mods on my truck are Mud Thrashers. I got mine off of my old Wheely King.
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my little basher
she takes a beating!
All the way from the middle of the kuwait Desert during deployment! More to come, there is also a 2wd slash, Rustler and a bandit here and we built a track in the middle of the desert so i will def have more pics up. Enjoy the one. haha
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She used to be my girl/MERV:
Alt-248 on the number pad = °
ran the summit in the snow, its a good look.
Her`S my Mini Summit
Also have some picture of my Kenblock and mini e- revo 1/16 Traxxas forum
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Heres my summit. The big tires are from the tmaxx.
This is about after a year and a half of owning it.
Cars: erevo vxl, 1/16 summit, stampede vxl, tmaxx
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Here is mine..... Ram/summit
4.3 yokahamas, 2.2 rpm revolvers.
Sent from my VS920 4G
Mini Digger
No Limit RC of Maryland
My new summit , loving this truck
Modded to the Max
Drive it like its Hot
[QUOTE=Norway;5154633]Her`S my Mini Summit
Where did the light kit come from? that's a great look.
My 1/16th Summit VXL modded with HPI Jeep Rubicon Body. Dual Integy motor heatsink fans modded to esc and motor fan. More mods will come soon!
Heres mine,
just got this one used. put a raptor body on it and a second servo. and new velinion setup.
addicted much....
I made a video of my Mini Summit off road
my summit this winter with exceed tires wheels and 2S lipo
1/16 Summit VXL with exceed tires and 2S lipo
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New to the 1/16 summit world
My Summit with a Contour Roam mounted on the roof
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This is one of my old bodies
And this is my new body I just got finished with.
sent from my not so smart, smart phone
Rusty 2.5R,T-max 2.5 & 3.3,Summit VXL Nitro 4-tec


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Just saw this movie again last night with one of my good friends who had never seen it before. He's never seen any Shyamalan movie! Poor deprived soul! I couldn't let that continue! It was great to see it again!
I love the characters, the relationships and the way people interact with each other in M Nights films, and that is why I love this film.
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DOVER — The St. Thomas Aquinas High School boys soccer team thought it had found its scoring touch, but it was missing on Tuesday in a 2-0 Division II home loss to Goffstown.
"Having a no-score game is really frustrating," said St. Thomas junior midfielder Bryan King. "We just need to put it on the floor and pass it up. The energy wasn't there. The concentration wasn't there."
The Saints, who had experienced wins of 4-1 over Hollis/Brookline and 3-1 over Milford during a recent stretch, were shut out for the second time this season. Goffstown scored both of its goals in the first half, and King was stymied on a penalty kick in the 59th minute.
King lamented that he might have accidentally tipped off Goffstown goalie Henry Seidel just before making contact with the ball.
"I took a peek at the (right) bottom corner," King said. "He might have seen that. (I) put my head down, probably should have looked at him and see where he was going, but I picked right corner and went with it. It just didn't work out. He dove and blocked it. It was a good save though."
The Grizzlies got goals from Riley Ellis in the 15th minute and Ryan Sharby in the 26th.
"Once they gave up the first goal, they start trying too hard," St. Thomas coach Scott Suleski said. "They come off their game plan. We outshot them the second half but they just basically hung back and kicked it as far as they could.
In addition to King's missed penalty kick, the Saints missed out on a number of scoring opportunities in the second half. Jon Nartiff saw a shot go wide in the 61st minute. In the 65th minute, a high shot by King bounced off Seidel's hands and behind him, but the goalie scrambled in the nick of time to keep the ball on the right side of the goal line (even though his body was well inside the goal).
Goffstown outshot the Saints 9-7 and improved to 7-4.
"Our M.O. has been to score early and be smart the rest of the game," Grizzlies coach Randy Lovering said. "If you get chances, take them, but don't take unnecessary risks. And I think that's the same in all of Division II this year. The scores are all close. It is what it is. Anybody wins any day. Whoever comes out hard that day and has a good game is going to probably come out on top."
The loss left the Saints at 5-5-1 and scrambling to clinch a home game for the tournament which starts in a little more than two weeks.
Suleski noted that heavy rains over the past week have taken their toll on the Saints' home field. The same rain caused the St. Thomas football team to move its game against Lebanon last Saturday to the artificial turf of Exeter High School.
"Our field is falling apart on us," Suleski said. "I don't know how they're going to play a football game here on Friday night. There won't be much field left for the rest of the season."
St. Thomas visits Portsmouth on Friday. The Clippers beat the Saints 2-1 when the teams last met on Sept. 7 in Dover.
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DOVER — The St. Thomas Aquinas High School boys soccer team thought it had found its scoring touch, but it was missing on Tuesday in a 2-0 Division II home loss to Goffstown.


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Lifespan has doubled in the United States in the past 150 years. This ridiculously wonderful change in the nature of life and death is something we tend to take for granted.
When we do think about why we're still alive, some of the big, fairly obvious reasons that come to mind are vaccines, antibiotics, clean water, or drugs for
But the world is full of underappreciated people, innovations and ideas that also save lives. A round of applause, please, for some of the oddball reasons, in no particular order, why people are living longer and healthier lives than ever before.
Cotton. One of the major killers of human history was typhus, a bacterial disease spread by
Satellites. In 1900, a hurricane devastated Galveston, Texas. It killed 8,000 people, making it the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history. In 2008, Hurricane Ike hit Galveston. Its winds were less powerful at landfall than those of the 1900 storm, but its storm surge was higher, and that's usually what kills people. This time we saw it coming, thanks to a network of Earth-monitoring satellites and decades of ever-improving storm forecasting. More than 100 people died, but more than 1 million evacuated low-lying coastal areas and survived.
Fluoride. There were plenty of miserable ways to die before the mid-20th century, but dying of a tooth abscess had to be among the worst — a slow, painful infection that limits your ability to eat, causes your head to throb endlessly, and eventually colonizes the body and kills you of sepsis. Now it's a rare way to go, thanks to modern
Window screens. Houseflies are irritating today, but they used to be major vectors of deadly diarrheal disease. Clean water and treatment of sewage eliminated the most obvious means of transmitting these diseases, but pesky houseflies continued to spread deadly microbes. By the 1920s, according to James Riley in "Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History," a growing aversion to insects and the introduction of window screens reduced this risk.
The discovery of unconscious bias. The reason we trust double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials to tell us which medical treatments actually work is that we know we can't trust ourselves. If you take a sham drug that you think will alleviate your symptoms, it will — that's the placebo effect. If you think the drug will cause side effects, it will — that's the nocebo effect. If you're a clinician and think you're administering a real drug, you will send all kinds of signals, unintentionally, to tell the patient you think the treatment will work. If you've seen anecdotal evidence for a treatment, you notice confirmatory evidence rather than cases that make you revise your original hypothesis. When analyzing the data, it's all too easy to squint at the numbers in a way that confirms your expectations. Double-blind trials overcome these biases by preventing both patient and clinician from knowing whether a tested drug is real or not.
Botts' Dots. Those raised ceramic reflectors between road lanes were invented by Elbert Botts, a chemist who worked for the California Department of Transportation. The dots help motorists see the edge of their lane even in the dark or when it's raining. Botts died in 1962, four years before the first Botts' dots were installed on California highways.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. That's the no-nonsense name of one of the most important publications most people have never heard of. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been publishing it since 1952 to provide "timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations." When a new disease or danger emerges — such as AIDS or a new strain of influenza — the MMWR is often the first to identify it.
Air-conditioning. Heat is deadly and we don't respect it enough. A Chicago heat wave killed more than 700 people in one week in 1995. The National Weather Service issues heat alerts, and cities have started to offer air-conditioned cooling centers for people who would overheat at home. A recent study shows that air conditioning has cut the death rate on hot days by 80 percent since 1960.
The residents of Framingham, Mass. In 1948, researchers signed up more than 5,000 adults for a long-term study of heart disease. Nobody anticipated just how long-term the study would be — it's still going strong and now includes the children and grandchildren of the original cohort. It taught us much of what we know about heart disease. Before the study, high blood pressure was thought to be a sign of good health; now it's recognized as a risk factor for heart attacks and strokes. Thanks to the generosity and commitment of volunteers in Framingham and other studies, we know the dangers of high cholesterol, obesity, inactivity and smoking.
Pasteurization. This should be an obvious lifesaver, right up there with hand-washing and proper nutrition. But the rise of the raw milk movement suggests that a lot of people take safe dairy products for granted. Contaminated milk was one of the major killers of children, transmitting typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, tuberculosis and other diseases. One of the most successful public health campaigns of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was for pure and pasteurized milk — so successful that we don't really remember how deadly milk can be.
Shoes. Hookworms are parasites that enter the human body through bare feet — often by biting into the soft skin between the toes. The disease was common in the Southeast, spread when people walked barefoot across ground that was contaminated with feces of people who were already infected. Education initiatives at the beginning of the 20th century encouraged people to build sanitary outhouses and wear shoes.
Cows. The Midwest — including Michigan! — once had some of the worst malaria outbreaks in the country. Anopheles mosquitoes had always flourished in the damp lowlands around streams and melting snow, and when settlers came, some of them carried Plasmodium parasites that the mosquitoes spread widely. The settlers' farming practices made for even more stagnant water, and their sod and log houses were perfect habitat for biting pests. After farmers had exhausted the soil, they started raising cows rather than crops — and mosquitoes prefer to suck bovine blood even more than that of humans, helping break the malaria cycle. In the South and other parts of the country, larvicides, pesticides, better drainage, bug-proof housing, mechanized agriculture that replaced human labor, and fewer people living in lowlands helped eliminate malaria.
Oppressive, burdensome, over-reaching government regulations. People like to complain about the government, but when you start looking through the alphabet soup of agencies, you realize that most of them are there to save your life. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration runs the National Weather Service and warns you about hurricanes. The Environmental Protection Agency enforces the Clean Air Act and has dramatically reduced the amount of deadly pollutants in the air you breathe. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration keeps you safe at work. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and National Transportation Safety Board investigate vehicles and accidents and make recommendations so accidents don't happen again. The Food and Drug Administration keeps deadly microbes out of your food. The Consumer Product Safety Commission recalls toys that could kill your child. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracks and tries to cure or avert basically any health hazard, and the National Institutes of Health supports some of the most important biomedical research in the world.
Goodness. Philosopher Daniel Dennett had an epiphany after emergency surgery a few years ago. It wasn't a religious epiphany — instead of thanking God, he realized he should thank human goodness:
"To whom, then, do I owe a debt of gratitude? To the cardiologist who has kept me alive and ticking for years . . . the surgeons, neurologists, anesthesiologists, and the perfusionist, who kept my systems going for many hours under daunting circumstances. To the dozen or so physician assistants, and to nurses and physical therapists and x-ray technicians and a small army of phlebotomists so deft that you hardly know they are drawing your blood, and the people who brought the meals, kept my room clean. . . . I remember with gratitude my late friend and Tufts colleague, physicist Allan Cormack, who shared the Nobel Prize for his invention of the CT scanner. Allan — you have posthumously saved yet another life, but who's counting? The world is better for the work you did. Thank goodness. Then there is the whole system of medicine, both the science and the technology. . . . So I am grateful to the editorial boards and referees, past and present, of Science, Nature, Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, and all the other institutions of science and medicine that keep churning out improvements, detecting and correcting flaws."
These are just a few of the countless ways people have made life safer, healthier, less painful — and longer — than we ever could have imagined a few centuries ago. Thank goodness.
Laura Helmuth is Slate's science and health editor.


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The Parent Trap
Let me just play my cards right now...On a lazy Sunday morning I was lying on the couch watching something called "The Family Channel" and BAM I became completely absorbed watching the 1998 remake of Disney's 1961 sorta-classic, The Parent Trap. Wow. I was blown away by it. And even with this Family Channel berating me with commercials (a 127-minute movie shown in a three hour slot), I was completely sucked in and moved by it.
Yeah-yeah, you know the deal...Two long lost identical looking little girls run into each other at summer camp. After some minor conflicts they realize that they're related, twin sisters to be exact. And then they hatch a plan to switch places in an effort to get their estranged parents back together and live briefly in the other's shoes. Before you scoff, let me remind you Shakespeare toyed with these same kinds of plots all the time (no, really, he did).Continue Reading


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JILL PERTLER | Food rules our lives
When I walk into the kitchen first thing Monday morning and see the medicine cupboard ajar and an open box of cold tablets on the counter, I know we may be in for a long day and an even longer week.
This morning was a three-fer.
Son No. 1 complained of a sore throat. Son No. 2 didn't want breakfast because his stomach didn't feel right. My husband was the culprit with the cold pills. He was achy and stuffed. That's no one's favorite way to start a week.
Since I'm too ornery to get sick, I watched from the sidelines, as only a wife and mom can. I thought about what I could do to help, and my mind headed in one direction. I grabbed a large stockpot and set out to prepare my special cure-all remedy: chicken soup.
I had to. Rules dictated my actions. At our house we have food rules. Tenets to live by. Precepts that precede our tasting and chewing. Many of them are unspoken — unconscious even — but they guide our culinary habits and experiences nonetheless.
Rule 15 states homemade chicken soup is the weapon of choice for colds and the flu. Ice cream, on the other hand, fixes broken hearts (Rule 37). Hot fudge sauce atop ice cream is deployed in the gravest of emergencies (Rule 52).
Not all our rules involve illness or heartbreak. Most days we aren't sick or crying. Thank goodness. Still, even in the status quo, food rules find their place in our everyday lives.
Many rules are based on psychological principals aimed at manipulating my offspring into eating items they otherwise would not consume. For instance, never ask your children what they want for dinner (Rule 88). If you do, their answer will include things like cheese balls and cotton candy. They will not suggest green beans, lean protein or any of the healthy choices currently in your refrigerator.
Keep it simple. Keep it secret. Serve them up a platter of veggie-filled goodness and call it … chicken (Rule 119).
The Food and Drug Administration advises us to include a rainbow of foods in our diet — the more colorful the better. Kids love the idea of eating a rainbow. However, it is imperative parents are clear on the inherent makeup of the color scheme. Skittles and M & M's do not qualify for rainbow status (Rule 198). Nor can a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup serve as a legitimate substitute for carrots — even though it comes in an orange wrapper (Rule 223).
Be vigilant in your rule abidance. Do not let the children make unauthorized substitutions (Rule 256). Be prepared to hide the chocolate when necessary (Rule 2).
Some of my favorite rules pertain to healthy eating and calorie control. They are rooted in common sense. For instance, hidden chocolate contains only hidden calories (Rule 271). Go ahead, indulge — but only when the kids aren't looking (Rule 292).
Here's another classic I adore: if you eat the ice cream right out of the container, it does not count toward your daily calorie intake because it isn't considered a snack unless you put it in a bowl (Rule 315).
This same rule applies to nibbles eaten while standing versus sitting. Standing and eating cancel each other out because it takes more energy to stand (Rule 340). This is not based on any scientific evidence from the FDA, but on my own vast knowledge of the caloric universe. I've been eating for more years than I'll ever admit.
My experience has taught me this: two bites of cake, eaten while standing, do not count as a snack. Three bites do, however, so you're smart to stop at two and leave the kitchen for a short while before returning for another bite or two — but never three (Rule 389).
Food rules have been around for centuries and they aren't going anywhere anytime soon. They may ebb and flow and evolve with our culinary habits, but until someone invents a substitution for eating, food will be a constant in our lives. Forever.
Today my fodder of choice is chicken soup. The concept is generations in the making — feed a cold, starve a fever and all that jazz. Some experts believe I'm wasting my time. They say chicken soup does nothing to cure the common cold. The idea — they purport — is all in our heads.
I think they've got it wrong. The love and feel-good medicinal properties that come from homemade soup don't originate in our heads. They come from the heart — for the person stirring the stockpot as well as the one eating from it (Rule 1).
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Intellectual property is good. I consider it obvious that many intangible things are extremely valuable to our society and it's important that the act of their creation is proportionally valuable.
False advertising is bad. If a media company misrepresents what they are selling, this is a clear breach of ethics and should not be tolerated.
Fair use is good. A group of friends or family should be allowed to share media without penalty.
Where I draw the line on "fair use" is when that media is sold for profit by someone who does not own the IP contained on it.
The concept of IP exists because without it you can't own data-- you can't own words or sounds or pictures or programming code, because they are not physical things. You can own an optical disc, but any argument for "ownership" of the data on that disc relies on the concept of intellectual property, which dictates that the creator owns it and has the sole right to allow people to use it.
In the case of game software, what buying that disc gives you is use of the game data, which your hardware turns into a fun experience for you. Not ownership, use. The data on that disc does not and never did belong to you, and paying for access doesn't give you the right to on-sell that access, because it's not yours to sell.
Thinking in terms of "use" rather than ownership makes it easier to understand that buying a game or a movie or a book is and always has been a service-- the service of the creator having created that IP.
We humans like to own things, and when it comes to IP, the media companies are all too willing to market the illusion of ownership. "Own it now on Blu-ray" is a tag line I pass every day in the window of the rapidly shrinking Blockbuster Video store near my workplace. So to be honest I don't have a lot of sympathy for the companies who are surprised when consumers reject business models which restrict our access to something they have spent so many years training us to think we "own".


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These studies, published in advance online on June 14 in Structure and on July 15 in Nature Chemical Biology, could eventually lead to the development of drugs to treat malaria and other parasitic diseases.
"[It's] the first time we really understand the architectural logic behind the structure of the enzyme," says Sinisa Urban, Ph.D., an associate professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, who with his team has unlocked the mysteries of a special class of enzymes called rhomboid proteases.
Rhomboid proteases are present in many different organisms, and are a unique type of enzyme that resides in the cell's membrane where they cut proteins. Previously Urban and his colleagues demonstrated that the rhomboid enzyme is critical for Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria, to successfully invade red blood cells, a step that ultimately leads to infection. Urban says understanding the stability of rhomboid protease shape may impact the design of enzyme inhibitors – potential drugs. "These enzymes have no selective inhibitors," says Urban. "We really need to understand how [the enzyme] works – is it as stiff as a rock, or is it more gummy, like Jell-O?"
One challenge of studying rhomboid enzymes is that they are surrounded by membranes, making them more difficult to manipulate and work with. To address this, Urban's research team turned to a technique known as thermal light scattering, which heats enzyme samples to progressively higher temperatures while measuring the amount of light bouncing back off of the molecules. Enzymes that have broken from their normal shape will scatter light differently, and the temperature at which this occurs (in effect, the breaking point of the enzyme) indicates the inherent stability of the enzyme.
The researchers first precisely measured the stability of the rhomboid enzyme from E. coli bacteria. Surprisingly, says Urban, the rhomboid enzyme was more "Jell-O-like" than other membrane proteins with similar shapes. He guesses that this "jiggly shape" may help rhomboid proteases interact with other proteins that it cuts. To find which parts of the enzyme are most important for maintaining shape and which parts are more crucial for function, the researchers then made and tested 150 differently altered versions of the enzyme. They found four main regions important for maintaining shape and at least two regions important for function.
The researchers also took advantage of computer simulations to test their ideas about how the enzyme functions. Using a computer program model of the enzyme, they programmed in features of its natural membrane environment, which consists mostly of fats and is very limited in water. The computer program then simulated how this environment might influence the enzyme. Researchers found that the enzyme contains a special internal pocket for holding water molecules – a great advantage in its natural, water-limiting environment.
"We're very excited about our findings and are especially curious about the versions of the enzyme that lost function despite no obvious change in stability or shape," says Urban. Ultimately he hopes that a better understanding of rhomboid proteases will lead to new therapies for treating malaria and other parasitic diseases.
These studies were supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a National Institute of General Medical Sciences grant (GM079223), a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases grant (AI066025), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Other researchers who participated in this study include Rosanna Baker, Yanzi Zhou, Syed Moin and Yingkai Zhang.
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I have a bread maker, although it rarely sees the light of day and lives in the kitchen in a rather over crowded cupboard. Before Christmas you may remember I wrote about a programme called The Big Bread Experiment. Inspired by the programme, I made a conscious effort to make some bread using the said machine.
I limped around Sainsburys and purchased some yeast and a few bags of strong white flour. Then one day while Stuart was working, I decided to make some bread. Now, I am not able to stand or sit for huge periods of time due to my sciatica. The bread maker was the perfect assistant. It took about 10 minutes to read the recipe, gather the ingredients and a further 10 minutes to add the ingredients to the machine and set the timer.
After a couple of hours I heard the timer and descended the stairs, excited to see the bread. Well, all I will say is that England could have used the bread for the next test match. It was absolutely and completely rock hard. I checked the recipe. All was OK there. I then spotted the bread flour, recently purchased for the event completely unopened. What had I used? I checked the cupboard and finally the bin and there spotted an empty bag of flour that I have meant to throw away, as I had had it a few years. I checked the expiry date. I am embarrassed to confess the expiry was August 2000. As you may deduce, I don't make much bread.
I have not baked any bread since, but have stumbled across a couple of eBooks via Amazon on baking bread.
- Old Fashion bread recipes by Philip Holbrook – A small book with about 10 recipes in of different breads. Written for the American market going by the terminology – "A cake of yeast?" The book focuses on traditional bread making methods
- 30 Easy Flavoured bread popular recipes by Tellme More – Contains both recipes for traditional methods of baking and using a bread maker. Included a Gluten Free sun dried tomato bread. Each recipe presented in an easy to read format – indicating level of making difficulty, preparation and cooking time, ingredient, method in a detailed step by step format, Tip for recipe.
- Easy, fabulous bread making – A Collection of quick, no knead home made bread recipes by Barbara Mack – This is my favourite book out of the three. It is clear to follow, easily presented and some very interesting bread recipes. All made with a minimum of fuss!
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- Built between 1882 and 1884 for the banker William Greenlaw and with interior decoration by the Paterson Brothers, a number of elements of the the interior design scheme reference Greenlaw's Scottish origins. Following his death in 1895, from 1897 the house was leased and owned by a succession of owners including the Fripp family, the Royal Women's Hospital and the Mount Royal Hospital before being sold to the Society of Jesus for Xavier College. In 2004 the title was transferred to Villa Alba Museum Inc., and the western section of the garden leased to Xavier College for 99 years.
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Galactica 1980 is full of ridiculous things, including the Battlestar Galactica crew giving a small child a mind-control device. And trying to team up with the Nazis. But nothing is as ludicrous as this scene, where a Cylon centurion comes too close to its most deadly nemesis: a microwave oven.
This is a clip from "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part 2," the second part of a story where a Cylon ship crashes on Earth. Two Cylons survive: a human-looking one, and a single centurion. And somehow, they wind up at a costume party where they meet Wolfman Jack — playing himself. They strong-arm Wolfman Jack into helping them signal the Cylon fleet. And along the way, they face the peril of... someone microwaving meatballs.
You would think that after traveling through interstellar space, and visiting countless planets, the Cylons would be pretty well shielded against stray microwave radiation. (Of course, maybe the centurion was damaged in the crash. But they don't really offer that explanation.) In any case, the next time the Cylons attack a Battlestar, it turns out all they need to do is make some Pop Tarts.


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Motivation: Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Module (MLM) was designed for writing and sharing medical rules [1]. Several researchers have developed Arden engines to compile and execute MLMs [2], [3], [4]. The mentioned Arden engines translate the MLMs term by term into another program language. In the last few years, building the medical knowledge packages (MKPs) with hierarchical and nested MLMs is a popular research topic [5]. For processing the hierarchical and nested MLMs in MKPs, the mentioned Arden engines appear to be not efficient. Designing an Arden engine which can match the hierarchical and nested MLMs efficiently is our objective.
Method: Compare the mentioned Arden engines with business rule engines.
Results: Our comparison showed that the so-called RETE algorithm [6] is an efficient efficient pattern matching algorithm for interpreting production rules. This algorithm has been used in many rule based systems, including Drools, CLIPS, and iLogic, to speed up the rule matching. From these experiences, we think that it is possible to integrate the RETE algorithm with an Arden engine. Such Arden engine should be particular suitable for hierarchical and nested MLMs in MKPs. Although RETE algorithm is implicitly used in EGADSS framework [3], but it is not an Arden engine using RETE algorithm. The reason is that EGADSS converts the MLMs into CLIPS at first, and then the CLIPS will be converted into JAVA using RETE algorithm. We think that an Arden engine should convert MLMs into a goal program language using RETE algorithm directly.
Discussion: RETE algorithm is an effective way to accelerate rule matching, but its effectiveness is dependent on the scale of the knowledge base and the hardware system. However, we will implement an Arden engine including the RETE algorithm and evaluate its effectiveness.
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- ANSI/HL7 Arden V2.5-2005, Health Level Seven Arden Syntax, Version 2.5 (revision of ANSI/HL7 Arden V2.1-2002). 2005.
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- Medexter Healthcare. Available from: http://www.medexter.com. Accessed March 16th, 2009.
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- Evidence-based guidelines and decision support system. Available from: http://egadss.sourceforge.net. Accessed March 16th, 2009.
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- Tatsukawa A, Mitshuishi Y, Toda Y, Endo T, Kawazoe Y, Noguti T, Miyo K, Ohoe K. An implementation of a Web server with an Arden Syntax interpreter; 28th Joint Conference on Medical Informatics, Japan; 2008.
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- Adlassnig KH, Rappelsberger A. Medical Knowledge Packages and their Integration into Health-Care Information Systems and the World Wide Web. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2008;136:121-6.
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- Forgy CL. Rete: A fast algorithm for the many pattern/many object pattern match problem. Artificial Intelligence. 1982;19(1):17-37.