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The Secret Ingredient (Mango Chutney): Sweet-Hot Chutney-Grilled Chicken Recipe
Every month we highlight a different ingredient and share weekly recipes that showcase its uses.
One cooking technique I've really fallen hard for is using jams (including spreads and chutneys) and cooking them, so that they caramelize and bubble up. I did it with last month's Ginger Jam, and I'm doing it here, again, with Mango Chutney. What I love about these ingredients is they add the requisite sweetness and stickiness, but they also come, as free-standing jarred products, pretty well-balanced in terms of sweetness and acidity. So they add this phenomenal tang, and deep flavor, while providing the perfect already-sweet vehicle for caramelization.
Because the summer is all about grilling, I decided to grill my chutney. I made a spice rub of chili powder, smoky cumin, cinnamon, and salt, and let a few whole chicken legs sit and absorb all of those flavors. Slightly hot, slightly smoky, slightly exotic and almost sweet from the cinnamon. I grilled the chicken until the spicy skin was charred, and then I painted the skin with mango chutney. Another couple of minutes on the hottest part of the grill, and the chutney had melded together inseparably from the skin, bubbled up and caramelized almost like a barbecue sauce—and added all that sweetness and tartness to contrast with and balance the hot, salty skin. It's so unusual, it just works.
- Yield:4
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:30 minutes, plus 2 hours marinating
- Rated:
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons Kosher salt
- 4 chicken legs, preferably organic
- 1/2 cup good mango chutney
- Torn cilantro for garnish
In a large plastic food storage bag, mix together the chili powder, cumin, cinnamon, and salt until well combined. Place the chicken legs in the bag, seal, and toss until the chicken is coated in the spice rub. Put the chicken in the fridge to absorb all those flavors for about 2 hours.
Take the chicken out of the fridge to take the chill off. Light your grill—wood burning, charcoal, or gas. Place the chicken on the grill, slightly away from the hottest part. Cook the chicken about 8 to 10 minutes on each side until cooked through. Then, brush both sides of the chicken with mango chutney, and sear an additional 1 minute per side on the hottest part of the grill. Arrange the chicken legs on a platter, and top with torn cilantro. Serve.
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IPWSO Scholarships
IPWSO offers educational scholarships to its international conferences when finances allow. A recipient becomes a Fellow after his or her report from the conference has been received outlining how the information will affect his or her continued development and understanding of Prader-Willi syndrome.
Augustina D'Cunte (Argentina) Scholarship to the PPCB Conference, Munich, August 2018
Augustina is a psychologist working for the Spine Foundation. She writes: Being part of the 5th Caregivers' Conference was a great experience for me, both personally and professionally. . Travel to a country so far to meet such lovely people that do not only the same job, but similar to what we do, gives great strength and comfort in learning and perfecting the work we do. (read her report)
Do Thuy Lan (Vietnam) Scholarship to the PPCB Conference, Munich August 2018
Lan writes: In 2017, I knew about IPWSO and Morning Star Center also had a 10 year old student with PWS. Therefore, I started learning about PWS. I was very happy to receive the grant of IPWSO to attend the conference on PWS in Munich because I am very interested in deepening my knowledge on PWS and the methods of detection and intervention for this syndrome. My utmost goal is to use my learned knowledge in cooperation with Morning Star Center's therapists and teachers to build up effective intervention programs to reduce the stigmas caused by PWS for children affected by this syndrome, to create chances for them to integrate into society and raise community awareness about PWS so that PWS community will receive more support from society and the discrimination against them will be reduced. Besides, the knowledge learned from the conference will help me a lot in providing useful consultancy to parents of children affected by PWS, enabling them get involved in intervention process. However, many families of children with PWS are facing financial difficulties. They have to work hard to earn a living and support their family, therefore, they have very little time spent on their children. (Read more)
Gabriella Lemmers (Brazil)
I am mother to a 4 yr old boy. I have a group Cardápio da vida (Menu of Life) to support families around Brazil, I have a website and I promote some walkings. We are in the process of forming an association. I also have a blog about nutrition and tips of meals and diets. I also got patients together to be treated in one place in Rio and in São Paulo so professionals could have more knowledge and patients better treatment. We try to help patients with treatments or exams not covered by the government program, gathering money to pay for them. When I have a chance I try to visit other families here in Brazil and already happened in Holland, EU to visit a Prader-Willi House always bringing news to my group.
Gloria Queipo (Mexico)
I am MDPhD Human Genetist, molecular biology I have been working with PWS since 10 years, 2 years ago I am the delegate from Mexico, I work with Maria Jose Foundation. I perform the molecular diagnosis and work close with the nutrition professional. I try to get medical attention for all the patients around the country, If the patient live near to Mexico City I made all the arrangements in my hospital to received the medical attention. Every year I work with the Dr. Angulo with the Mexican patients who is great for me.
Marta López (USA/Spain)
I am a M.A student of Developmental Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University and I have been collaborating with the Prader-Willi Foundation in Spain (Fundación Síndrome de Prader Willi) for which I am currently the caregivers delegate. I have collaborated with them for five years in leisure time activities with people with PWS, participated in support groups for parents, and I am part of the multidisciplinary team for supporting families with PWS. I have participated as a speaker in the last two Symposiums about the Syndrome celebrated in Pachuca, Mexico in 2014 and 2015. I am planning in keep working with the syndrome back in Spain when I finish my master's degree at Columbia. (Marta's report - Espagnol - can be seen here)
Asmaa Chakkour (Morocco)
Sister to a young man with PWS. Asmaa has organised meetings in Morocco of families with children/adults with PWS and very recently formed the first PWS Association there. Working under the guidance of Professor Ahmed Gaouzi, she is working towards holding a PWS conference in conjunction with PWSA (France) later in 2016.
Fernando Briones (Spain)
I have a son with PWS. I have been speaker in some PWS Conferences around the world; at schools or other institutions when asked for. I give online support to Spanish speaking families. I have been a coach for PWS support groups for parents of young children and toddlers. I have assisted at all IPWSO Conferences since Romania, particularly with our Spanish speaking families, and tried to transfer all knowledge in Spanish via Youtube, and through social media.
Simone Ito (Brazil)
I am a paediatric endocrinologist and I work in Sao Paulo University – Brazil. In the beginning of 2015, we started a PWS outpatient clinic in our hospital because of the lack of good control in our PWS patients in our general paediatric endocrinology clinic (with 60 patients) and I was invited to help organizing the clinic and collect our patients' data.. Nowadays we have a multidisciplinary team with 3 paediatric endocrinologists fellows, dietician, neurologist, psychiatric, physiotherapist and nursery. But we think there's much more we can do for them and there's much more we have to learn about them. Our aim is to be the pilot clinic in our country to help diffuse an adequate management to our patients, their parents and other endocrinologists.
Neil Gumley (Australia)
Neil lives and works in Melbourne, Australia and manages the only PWS-specific home there. He wishes to work on the development of future homes and continue working with people with PWS. He has been a caregiver for 15 years.

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SEATTLE – The US men's national team entered its busy summer stretch with plenty of questions about their defense, but came up with answers once again on Tuesday.
The Americans picked up their latest clean sheet in World Cup qualifying as they defeated Panama 2-0 in front of a rowdy pro-US crowd at CenturyLink Field. The defense's impressive outing in the dominant victory gave the US their second shutout in the last three qualifiers – having only conceded once in that span – signs that the largely inexperienced backline is maturing right before the team's very eyes.
"It's not easy, there's been some bumps and bruises, there's been some yelling and some curse words back there but that's how you learn," said goalkeeper Tim Howard. "I've played the game a long time and I've been on both ends of it. I've been the young guy and I'm the old guy now and I've seen it, that's how you grow.
OPTA Chalkboard: US backline stands firm with help from Cameron, Howard
"You grow from mistakes and getting a talking to and adjusting and coming back and doing better and tonight was really good. We caught them offside a few times which, to me as a goalkeeper, tells that our line is really tight and we're dictating the line, so that's always good."
The players comprising the US back four – Brad Evans, Omar Gonzalez, Matt Besler and DaMarcus Beasley – are all still developing a chemistry with one another, but their collective outing against Panama showed just how much progress is being made in that regard.
Gonzalez and Besler went largely untested and Beasley helped close down the left side of the field so well that he was able to aggressively push forward and join the attack. Evans was the player who struggled the most out of the four defenders, with Panamanian midfielder Alberto Quintero using his pace to test the makeshift right back in the first half, but even that was not enough for Panama to create a real quality chance on goal until late.
"They're growing into that role, they fine-tune things, more playing time means a better understanding developed," said USMNT head coach Jurgen Klinsmann. "But you don't know what the next game will bring you. Question marks will be always there, it's just normal. Important is that on this road towards Brazil we get the job done and we get the points and qualify and then we can start another period to plan."
Though the defense delivered the type of strong showing that will help instill confidence in US fans, they also benefited from the play of Geoff Cameron. The versatile Cameron, who has played mostly as a defender under Klinsmann and at English club side Stoke City, started alongside Michael Bradley in central midfield and provided the type of defensive bite that was needed with usual starter Jermaine Jones out due to a concussion.
READ: Armchair Anaylst: Three things we learned as the US moved top of the Hex
Cameron, who also delivered a sublime assist on Eddie Johnson's second-half insurance goal, thwarted several Panama attacks, using his lanky body and ability to read the game to prevent the visitors from penetrating the US defense too often.
"The amount of plays he broke up, where he stuck his long leg in there and got a toe on the ball and went the other way, there was probably five, six, seven of those, which is key," said Howard. "We did it without giving away fouls, I think that was a key tonight, and he was very, very calm in there, which helped kind of dictate the tempo."
The US players admitted after the win that there is still work to be done and that chemistry is still improving. But once again, the US defense showed that they are headed in the right direction, something that few could have predicted as recently as a month ago and a source of motivation for the unit going forward.
"Tonight, we got a shutout," said Gonzalez. "That's an amazing step forward for us. I think each game, the confidence gets better. I think everyone gets more comfortable with each other. For most of the night, I thought that we did pretty well. There was that chance at the end, but that's why you have Tim Howard to make those saves in case they do get behind.
"On the night, everything was really impressive. These were good building blocks to go from. Hopefully, we go to Salt Lake and put together another performance."
Franco Panizo covers the New York Red Bulls for MLSsoccer.com. He can be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Louisiana's Maurepas Swamp WMA Small Game and Waterfowl Hunting Will Be Open Nov. 23-25
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced today that small game and waterfowl hunting on Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management Area will be open Nov. 23-25, 2012.
Small game and waterfowl hunting is usually closed on the WMA during the three days after Thanksgiving each year for the first segment of the either-sex modern firearm deer season. However, the 2012-13 deer season on Maurepas Swamp WMA was revised due to Hurricane Isaac impacts, and all firearm deer hunting on the WMA will be bucks only.
The Maurepas Swamp WMA deer season, revised by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission on Oct. 4, is as follows:
- Archery Season – no change
- Youth, Bucks only: Nov. 3-4 (2 days)
- Bucks only, modern firearms, mandatory check: Nov. 23 (1 day)
- Bucks only, modern firearms: Nov. 24 – 25 (2 days)
- Bucks only, modern firearms: Dec. 22 – 28 (7 days)
- Bucks only, primitive: Jan. 14 – 20 (7 days)
For more information, contact Christian Winslow at 985-543-4777 or [email protected].


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I was going to write about letting go; instead say; letting go into Gods hands; for I am not just letting go, I have a higher power next to me; meaning, I let go and jump into Gods arms!
Im of the understanding that when young, very young, I watched TV and learned from the sitcoms what I wanted to be when I grew up or what excited me! I found aspects of the sitcoms to be of favor to me. The TV set was my mother and father and sisters and brothers and cousins and school systems and way of life and house and neighborhood. I created good thoughts about many things; wholesome things; I assumed Id head toward these things in my life! What I did not know; I was already being thrown away; I was being thrown away when born; that is why I was in front of the TV set; I had nothing else and no one else to show me anything! I was alone; completely alone in many respects; to many respects!
Im seeing that I spend most of my life trying to fight for the development of a childhood that was never developed! My goal is to develop from the age of 4 on up! and I spend my life trying to have the world re create or finding a re created place to start my journey as a child; regardless of my chronicle logic age! My physical age! My mental age is of a 3 year old just starting life and Im looking for the directions; the new directions to start my life; where are they; where are the directions!
Im looking for the directions of my life! I spend all my times trying to work through resistance to start my life; my childhood life that I missed! I missed all of it; I was robbed of all of it; everything! At the time as a small child, I thought I had a life; little did I know I was being exploited from every angle; I had no idea; I was being led on as if everything was fine! The monsters that were leading me on; I did not know they were monsters; I knew one of them to be bad and not safe; but not the other; and they both turned out to be monsters! I was never safe nor would I ever get a life; I would be destroyed out of a life; my life!
So, Im constantly working with God to have a life; and one aspect is to let go into Gods hands; Im afraid; for is it or was it not God that allow my life to be destroyed! and so, it is very confusing on what to believe! I believe the Universe will help me when I let down the resistance! So, Im trying! I have to ask the universe for journeys that allow me to learn to trust God! and thats where Im headed, asking for these journeys! I know; when I start on a journey with the universe, Im letting go of the past; and Im letting go of the dream of anyone come back from the past to rescue me! and this is a very hard thing! I have to work with God and let God do his work; his work on me!
Trusting and allowing God; this is where the work is; can I let go and actually believe that God has got my back and everything is going to be OK?, I would like to work with God to believe this; to m are this happen!


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80 GHz radar measurement
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The high-accuracy Micropilot NMR81 is the world's first radar instrument measuring levels in liquids using a transmitting frequency of 80 GHz. The device was developed for high-accuracy measurement of levels in custody transfer applications and is certified for this purpose by independent test authorities. The 80 GHz technology features an array of advantages.
Micropilot NMR81 uses a sharply focused beam angle of 3°. A 10 GHz radar instrument with an antenna of the same size has a beam angle of 21°. Measurement is very reliable because the radar beam avoids objects such as pipes or baffles on tank walls.
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This technology helps to reduce engineering efforts due to easier integration of 80 GHz radar device into tanks without taking care of objects in the tank. It also increases plant availability and productivity due to highly reliable measuring results.


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Baptiste Yoga was founded in the 1940′s by Walt Baptiste and through his son Baron, it has evolved into a practice that holds true to the spirit of its creation while remaining accessible to anyone today. The physical aspects of Baptiste Yoga style are inspired by the hatha yoga teachings of Krishnamacharya and his students Iyengar and Desikachar, whom Baron Baptiste studied with personally from a young age.
The Baptiste Yoga practice and programs are designed to empower you with the focus, training and insight you need to achieve consistent results in the most important areas of your life. A potent physical yoga practice, meditation practice and active self inquiry are used as tools of transformation – encouraging participants to reclaim their full potential, discover creativity, awaken passion, create authenticity, confidence and new possibilities.
Baron Baptiste and the Baptiste Power Yoga Institute (BPYI) offer world-class yoga instruction adapting the practices and processes to individual needs and talents – placing emphasis on clear language and a strategic technique that makes Baptiste Yoga accessible to everyone regardless of fitness level, age, experience or background.
The Baptiste Yoga practice supports you to raise your vitality and physical power and empower you to create accelerated results in your overall body strength and confidence. The Baptiste Yoga practice will challenge and support you in attaining the results you desire and deserve in your life.
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The Baptiste training methodology turns out high impact yoga teachers who become empowered leaders in their communities and who live inspired lives of contribution. Upon engaging in the Baptiste practice and methodology you enter a partnership that will give you your true growing edge, but you must step up as well. The Baptiste practice inspires a commitment, a passion and a focus that your life deserves. Baptiste yoga teachers, programs and Affiliate Studio communities bring you extraordinary resources for powerfully improving the quality of your personal and professional life.
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The Baptiste Methodology allows for real results in an astonishingly short amount of time. People often notice and comment that they are amazed that such potent and concrete results can be produced in so quickly. In addition to its teachers, Baptiste Yoga is known for the quality of its students, the illustriousness and significant contributions to society and community of its program alumni.
All Baptiste teachers, programs and Affiliate studios promise an experience that will not only stretch, strengthen and empower you in body and being, but that will be more FUN than you have ever imagined possible. We don't pretend that our partnership in your empowerment will be effortless—but it will be extraordinarily rewarding.
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Virgil, also spelled Vergil, Latin in full Publius Vergilius Maro, (born October 15, 70 bce, Andes, near Mantua [Italy]—died September 21, 19 bce, Brundisium), Roman poet, best known for his national epic, the Aeneid (from c. 30 bce; unfinished at his death).
Virgil was regarded by the Romans as their greatest poet, an estimation that subsequent generations have upheld. His fame rests chiefly upon the Aeneid, which tells the story of Rome's legendary founder and proclaims the Roman mission to civilize the world under divine guidance. His reputation as a poet endures not only for the music and diction of his verse and for his skill in constructing an intricate work on the grand scale but also because he embodied in his poetry aspects of experience and behaviour of permanent significance.
Virgil was born of peasant stock, and his love of the Italian countryside and of the people who cultivated it colours all his poetry. He was educated at Cremona, at Milan, and finally at Rome, acquiring a thorough knowledge of Greek and Roman authors, especially of the poets, and receiving a detailed training in rhetoric and philosophy. It is known that one of his teachers was the Epicurean Siro, and the Epicurean philosophy is substantially reflected in his early poetry but gradually gives way to attitudes more akin to Stoicism.
During Virgil's youth, as the Roman Republic neared its end, the political and military situation in Italy was confused and often calamitous. The civil war between Marius and Sulla had been succeeded by conflict between Pompey and Julius Caesar for supreme power. When Virgil was 20, Caesar with his armies swooped south from Gaul, crossed the Rubicon, and began the series of civil wars that were not to end until Augustus' victory at Actium in 31 bce. Hatred and fear of civil war is powerfully expressed by both Virgil and his contemporary Horace. The key to a proper understanding of the Augustan Age and its poets lies, indeed, in a proper understanding of the turmoil that had preceded the Augustan peace.
Virgil's life was devoted entirely to his poetry and to studies connected with it; his health was never robust, and he played no part in military or political life. It is said that he spoke once in the lawcourts without distinction and that his shy and retiring nature caused him to give up any ideas he might have had of taking part in the world of affairs. He never married, and the first half of his life was that of a scholar and near recluse. But, as his poetry won him fame, he gradually won the friendship of many important men in the Roman world. Gradually, also, he became a Roman as well as a provincial. (The area in which he had spent his youth, the area around the Po River known as the province of Cisalpine Gaul, was not finally incorporated into Italy until 42 bce. Thus Virgil came, as it were, to Rome from the outside. The enthusiasm of a provincial for Rome is seen in the first eclogue, one of his earliest poems, in which the shepherd Tityrus tells of his recent visit to the capital and his amazement at its splendours.)
Some of Virgil's earliest poetry may have survived in a collection of poems attributed to him and known as the Appendix Vergiliana, but it is unlikely that many of these are genuine. His earliest certain work is the Eclogues, a collection of 10 pastoral poems composed between 42 and 37 bce. Some of them are escapist, literary excursions to the idyllic pastoral world of Arcadia based on the Greek poet Theocritus (flourished c. 280 bce) but more unreal and stylized. They convey in liquid song the idealized situations of an imaginary world in which shepherds sing in the sunshine of their simple joys and mute their sorrows (whether for unhappy love or untimely death) in a formalized pathos. But some bring the pastoral mode into touch with the real world, either directly or by means of allegory, and thus gave a new direction to the genre. The fifth eclogue, on the death of Daphnis, king of the shepherds, clearly has some relationship with the recent death of Julius Caesar; the 10th brings Gallus, a fellow poet who also held high office as a statesman, into the pastoral world; the first and ninth are lamentations over the expulsion of shepherds from their farms. (It was widely believed in antiquity that these poems expressed allegorically Virgil's own loss of his family farm when the veteran soldiers of Antony and Octavian—later the emperor Augustus—were resettled after the Battle of Philippi in 42 bce. It was thought that he subsequently recovered his property through the intervention of his powerful friends. However that may be, it is certain that the poems are based on Virgil's own experience, whether in connection with his own farm or with those of his friends; and they express, with a poignant pathos that has come to be regarded as specially Virgilian, the sorrow of the dispossessed.)
But one eclogue in particular stands out as having relevance to the contemporary situation, and this is the fourth (sometimes called the Messianic, because it was later regarded as prophetic of Christianity). It is an elevated poem, prophesying in sonorous and mystic terms the birth of a child who will bring back the Golden Age, banish sin, and restore peace. It was clearly written at a time when the clouds of civil war seemed to be lifting; it can be dated firmly to 41–40 bce, and it seems most likely that Virgil refers to an expected child of the triumvir Antony and his wife Octavia, sister of Octavian. But, though a specific occasion may be allocated to the poem, it goes beyond the particular and, in symbolic terms, presents a vision of world harmony, which was, to some extent, destined to be realized under Augustus.
One of the most disastrous effects of the civil wars—and one of which Virgil, as a countryman, would be most intensely aware—was the depopulation of rural Italy. The farmers had been obliged to go to the war, and their farms fell into neglect and ruin as a result. The Georgics, composed between 37 and 30 bce (the final period of the civil wars), is a superb plea for the restoration of the traditional agricultural life of Italy. In form it is didactic, but, as Seneca later said, it was written "not to instruct farmers but to delight readers." The practical instruction (about plowing, growing trees, tending cattle, and keeping bees) is presented with vivid insight into nature, and it is interspersed with highly wrought poetical digressions on such topics as the beauty of the Italian countryside (Book II. line 136 ff.) and the joy of the farmer when all is gathered in (II.458 ff.).
The Georgics is dedicated (at the beginning of each book) to Maecenas, one of the chief of Augustus' ministers, who was also the leading patron of the arts. By this time Virgil was a member of what might be called the court circle, and his desire to see his beloved Italy restored to its former glories coincided with the national requirement of resettling the land and diminishing the pressure on the cities. It would be wrong to think of Virgil as writing political propaganda; but equally it would be wrong to regard his poetry as unconnected with the major currents of political and social needs of the time. Virgil was personally committed to the same ideals as the government.
In the year 31 bce, when Virgil was 38, Augustus (still known as Octavian) won the final battle of the civil wars at Actium against the forces of Antony and Cleopatra and from that time dates the Augustan Age. Virgil, like many of his contemporaries, felt a great sense of relief that the senseless civil strife was at last over and was deeply grateful to the man who had made it possible. Augustus was anxious to preserve the traditions of the republic and its constitutional forms, but he was in fact sole ruler of the Roman world. He used his power to establish a period of peace and stability and endeavoured to reawaken in the Romans a sense of national pride and a new enthusiasm for their ancestral religion and their traditional moral values, those of bravery, parsimony, duty, responsibility, and family devotion. Virgil, too, as a countryman at heart, felt a deep attachment to the simple virtues and religious traditions of the Italian people. All his life he had been preparing himself to write an epic poem (regarded then as the highest form of poetic achievement), and he now set out to embody his ideal Rome in the Aeneid, the story of the foundation of the first settlement in Italy, from which Rome was to spring, by an exiled Trojan prince after the destruction of Troy by the Greeks in the 12th century bce. The theme he chose gave him two great advantages: one was that its date and subject were very close to those of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, so that he could remodel episodes and characters from his great Greek predecessor; and the other was that it could be brought into relationship with his contemporary Augustan world by presenting Aeneas as the prototype of the Roman way of life (the last of the Trojans and the first of the Romans). Moreover, by the use of prophecies and visions and devices such as the description of the pictures on Aeneas' shield or of the origins of contemporary customs and institutions, it could foreshadow the real events of Roman history. The poem, then, operates on a double time scale; it is heroic and yet Augustan.
The enthusiasm that Virgil felt for the reborn Rome promised by Augustus' regime is often reflected in the poem. The sonorous and awe-inspiring prophecy by Jupiter (I.257 ff.), giving a picture of Rome's divinely inspired destiny, has a moving patriotic impact: "To these I set no bounds in space or time—I have given them rule without end" (278–279); and again, under Augustus, "Then shall the harsh generations be softened, and wars shall be laid aside" (291). The speech ends with a memorable image depicting the personified figure of Frenzy in chains, gnashing its bloodstained teeth in vain. At the end of the sixth book, Aeneas visits the underworld, and there pass before his eyes the figures of heroes from Roman history, waiting to be born. The ghost of his father (Anchises) describes them to him and ends by defining the Roman mission as one concerned with government and civilization (compared with the Greek achievement in art and literature and theoretical science). "Rule the people with your sway, spare the conquered, and war down the proud": this is the vision of Rome's destiny that the emperor Augustus and the poet Virgil had before them—that Rome was divinely appointed first to conquer the world in war and then to spread civilization and the rule of law among the peoples. As Horace told the Romans in one of his odes, "Because you are servants of the gods, you are masters on earth."
The vision of Rome that the Aeneid expresses is a noble one, but the real greatness of the poem is due to Virgil's awareness of the private, as well as the public, aspects of human life. The Aeneid is no panegyric; it sets the achievements and aspirations of the giant organization of Roman governmental rule in tension with the frustrated hopes and sufferings of individuals. The most memorable figure in the poem—and, it has been said, the only character to be created by a Roman poet that has passed into world literature—is Dido, queen of Carthage, opponent of the Roman way of life. In a mere panegyric of Rome, she could have been presented in such a way that Aeneas' rejection of her would have been a victory to applaud; but, in fact, in the fourth book she wins so much sympathy that the reader wonders whether Rome should be bought at this price. Again, Turnus, who opposes Aeneas when he lands in Italy, resists the invader who has come to steal his bride. It is clear that Turnus is a less civilized character than Aeneas—but in his defeat Virgil allows him to win much sympathy. These are two examples of the tension against Roman optimism; in many other ways, too, Virgil throughout the poem explores the problems of suffering and the pathos of the human situation. Yet in the end, Aeneas endures and continues to his goal; his devotion to duty (pietas) prevails, and the Roman reader would feel that this should be. "So great a task it was to found the Roman nation" (I.33).
The Aeneid occupied Virgil for 11 years and, at his death, had not yet received its final revision. In 19 bce, planning to spend a further three years on his poem, he set out for Greece—doubtless to obtain local colour for the revision of those parts of the Aeneid set in Greek waters. On the voyage he caught a fever and returned to Italy but died soon after arrival at Brundisium. Whether the Aeneid would have undergone major changes cannot be guessed; the story goes that Virgil's dying wish was for his poem to be burned, but that this request was countermanded by the order of Augustus. As it stands, the poem is a major monument both to the national achievements and ideals of the Augustan Age of Rome and to the sensitive and lonely voice of the poet who knew the "tears in things" as well as the glory.
Virgil's poetry immediately became famous in Rome and was admired by the Romans for two main reasons—first, because he was regarded as their own national poet, spokesman of their ideals and achievements; second, because he seemed to have reached the ultimate of perfection in his art (his structure, diction, metre). For the latter reason, his poems were used as school textbooks, and the 1st-century Roman critic and teacher Quintilian recommended that the educational curriculum should be based on Virgil's works. A few years after his death, Virgil was being imitated and echoed by the younger poet Ovid, and this process continued throughout the Silver Age. The study of Virgil in the schools has lasted as long as Latin has been studied. By the 4th century a new reason for admiration was gaining ground: the store of wisdom and knowledge discovered by scholars in Virgil's poems—for which he was saluted not only as a poet but as a repository of information. This aspect figures largely in the writings of the writer and philosopher Macrobius (flourished c. 400 ce), those of Virgil's commentator Servius of the late 4th and early 5th century, and those of many later writers. Allegorical interpretations began to gain ground and, under Christian influence, became especially widespread throughout the Middle Ages. The two main bases for Christian allegorization were the fourth eclogue, believed to be a prophecy of the birth of Christ, and the near-Christian values expressed in the Aeneid, especially in its hero, a man devoted to his divine mission. The culmination of this view is Virgil's place of honour in Dante's Divine Comedy as the poet's guide through Hell and Purgatory up to the very gates of Paradise.
Virgil's influence on English literature has been enormous. He was Edmund Spenser's constant inspiration for the fanciful beauty of The Faerie Queene. The Aeneid was the model for John Milton's Paradise Lost not only in epic structure and machinery but also in style and diction. In the English Augustan Age, John Dryden and countless others held that Virgil's poetry had reached the ultimate perfection of form and ethical content. There was some reaction against him in the Romantic period, but the Victorians, such as Matthew Arnold and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, rediscovered in full measure that sensitivity and pathos that the Romantics had complained that Virgil lacked.
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Virgil was regarded by the Romans as their greatest poet, an estimation that subsequent generations have upheld. His fame rests chiefly upon the Aeneid, which tells the story of Rome's legendary founder and proclaims the Roman mission to civilize the world under divine guidance.
Virgil was born of peasant stock in northern Italy, and his love of the Italian countryside and of the people who cultivated it colours all his poetry. The Georgics is a superb plea for the restoration of traditional agricultural life in Italy and contains practical instruction about plowing, growing trees, tending cattle, and keeping bees.
Virgil was educated at Cremona, at Milan, and finally at Rome, acquiring a thorough knowledge of Greek and Roman authors, especially of the poets, and receiving detailed training in rhetoric and philosophy. It is known that one of his teachers was the Epicurean Siro.
In 19 BCE, planning to spend a further three years on the Aeneid, Virgil set out for Greece. On the voyage he caught a fever and then returned to Italy but died soon after arrival. According to legend, Virgil's dying wish was for his unfinished poem to be burned, but his request was overruled by Augustus.
Virgil's work has inspired countless other poets, from Ovid to Dante, who cast Virgil as the poet's guide through Hell and Purgatory up to the very gates of Paradise in The Divine Comedy, and beyond. In English literature his influence can be seen in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and John Milton's Paradise Lost.


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We make a large error in our business and personal lives if we believe that every problem or situation can be solved immediately or in the short term through our decisions and application of resources.
Theoretically it's possible, but our focus on solution instead of optimizing and making changes to make it better can blindfold us toward evolutionary processes that in the long term provide better, stronger and long lasting solutions.
I'm suggesting that every situation should be initially evaluated based on two basic criteria; can it be solved now, or can it be improved now.
The situations that can be solved now or in the short term, should be. The organization should dedicate the time and resources toward the solution.
An example would be a delivery service that has 3 trucks and cannot cover the current delivery area on-time due to an increase in customers and package volume. A possible swift solution would be the purchase of another vehicle and hiring of a new driver.
A situation that cannot be solved now or ever should be approached by identifying areas where improvement should be made. The time and resources of the company should be focused upon the improvement.
An example would be government's attempt to eliminate poverty or disease from a population. A perfect solution is not possible or practical, but by focusing on specific areas one can find great opportunities for success or enormous impact (vaccinations for children against polio).
When we look at every situation as a problem that needs to be solved right now we may be missing the best solutions and strategies required to resolve the situation over the long term. Ask yourself:
- Can we solve the problem quickly and efficiently with simply modification of variables or a shift in technology? If the answer is yes, then set the process and resources in motion.
- What if the problem is not able to be solved quickly or has no practical or economically viable solution? This is where the approach of resolving and modifying parts of the problem comes into play.
This evolutionary approach to problem solving is not often requested or expected in business (the quick fix is always applauded and sought after), but often the best long term strategy is optimization and gradual modification.
This evolutionary problem solving process will provide new opportunities for change and solutions to be developed in the future.The identification of areas, processes or resources that are the bottlenecks in your organization become areas of opportunity.
Modifying and improving these bottlenecks will automatically create new bottlenecks, in new areas. The focus on identifying and solving these "new" situations leads to a process of continual improvement and a better, stronger organization.
This is one of the fundamental ideas behind the Theory of Constraints (TOC).
Common sense tells us that in a complex world not all solutions are simple, quick or painless. The "quick fix" is a great idea, but not often found in everyday life.
Observation of science, technology, philosophy and business ideas and strategies show us that change occurs through the rare revolution (paradigm shifts and new discoveries) and through the more common evolution (gradual modifications leading to continual change.
What can be changed, fixed or modified today to make the organization, process, product or service incrementally better?
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I recently saw a very interesting TEDTalk by David McCandless that discussed various ways of presenting data in a more visually pleasing way. In this talk, he revealed that according to Facebook status updates, he was able to map out the most common break-up time periods during a year. Not surprisingly, the first two weeks of December were the peak break-up weeks during the year. However, as the holidays, specifically, Christmas Day got closer, the rate dramatically declined to the lowest break-up rate of the year (but then steadily climbed back up as the days progressed). It seems as though the first two weeks of December initiate a "fight or flight" response – stay together or break up.
Once that time period ends, you are less likely to experience a break up (until after Christmas Day). The fact that the break up rate goes right back up after Christmas suggests that people will stay together for the holidays; either as a means of avoiding loneliness, or maybe just a strong desire to get one last gift before the relationship ends. But is this practice really a good idea? On the upside, you're not alone, but on the downside, you stay stuck in an emotional place that isn't healthy.
According to a recent article by Kristen Houghton, author of the book, And Then I'll be Happy! Stop Sabotaging Your Happiness and Put Your Own Life First, staying together for the holidays brings false hope to a failing relationship. Four of the main takeaways from this article were:
1) Be Realistic – The atmosphere of the holidays does not provide a setting of realistic thinking. Rather, a person tends to view their partner with qualities they may not really have just as a result of the holidays (traditions, increased socializing, heartwarming stories of love and good will) clouding your judgment. Keep this in mind as soon as the thought "S/he's not that bad…" comes into your head.
2) There's Always Next Year – This likely isn't the last set of holidays you will experience. If you're sure this isn't the right relationship for you, move on quickly and look forward to a new relationship – either with another person or with yourself.
3) Don't Second Guess Yourself – Try not to second guess your intuition about why you wanted to break up in the first place. Odds are, you aren't being hasty and have given it a lot of thought before this time of year. Follow your gut.
4) Don't Make Promises to Yourself that You Can't Keep – Make no mistake, the holidays will end. Your situation will likely be the same as it was before the holidays. Therefore, don't tell yourself you will find a way to make it work, if you haven't already; don't tell yourself you will work on your communication skills, even though you previously thought they were fine; don't promise yourself that you can change your partner – odds are, you can't.
It might be difficult, but having the tough conversation now is better than putting it off for later. Think of it as kicking off the New Year with a fresh beginning. And if you do find yourself alone during the holidays, remember that there are plenty of volunteer groups and services that would love for you to donate the time you would have spent worrying about your relationship. Just because you aren't with someone, doesn't mean there aren't people who would love to be with you.
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Brewers can't capitalize on Thornburg's start
Wooten gives up go-ahead hit in eighth; Bianchi's error plates two runs
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Brewers were apt visitors for Grateful Dead tribute night at AT&T Park, because what a long, strange trip it's been.
They lost to the Giants on Monday, 4-2, with Tyler Thornburg delivering another promising start, Juan Francisco atoning for a run-scoring error with a run-scoring double and Rob Wooten pitching in the bottom of the eighth inning with the game on the line. Those are not the names the Brewers figured to have playing key roles in a game in early August.
But it is reality for a team that has lost four of its last five games while playing without Ryan Braun (suspended), Aramis Ramirez (disabled list) and Corey Hart (out for season). The Brewers started 24-year-old Thornburg on Monday because only two-fifths of the Opening Day pitching rotation is active at the moment, traded for Francisco in June because Ramirez was having trouble with a sprained left knee and pitched recently recalled Wooten with the bases loaded in the eighth inning of a tie game because closer Francisco Rodriguez was traded away for a prospect.
"We're all professionals, though. We all have a job and the next man has to step up," said Rickie Weeks, who did not start Monday's game but provided its turning point. "There's no excuses in this game."
The Brewers were tempted to provide them after some late innings full of bad breaks.
In the top of the seventh, tied at 1 on Francisco's booming double that could have given the Brewers the lead had it not one-hopped the center-field fence near a 421-foot marker, the Brewers loaded the bases with one out. Giants manager Bruce Bochy replaced his right-handed starter, Chad Gaudin, with left-hander Javier Lopez, so Brewers manager Ron Roenicke countered by removing Scooter Gennett for the right-handed-hitting Weeks, who hit a bouncer to second base for an inning-ending double play.
"You can't get a bigger double play, especially late in the ballgame like that," Bochy said.
The Brewers believed it should have been a run-scoring fielder's choice, with Weeks safe at first. Roenicke and Weeks each protested the call to no avail, though slow-motion replays showed he had a case.
"You can't put it on the umpires," Weeks said. "They're in the moment. He didn't mean to miss the call. You have to live with it, but it kind of stinks when the game is in their hands like that."
In the bottom of the inning, the game got away from a trio of Brewers relievers.
Struggling setup man John Axford created trouble by walking Hunter Pence, who was 1-for-10 with no walks and five strikeouts against Axford in previous plate appearances. Axford dodged disaster when Buster Posey flied out to the deepest part of the park, but Pence stole second with Pablo Sandoval at the plate, then took third when Axford sailed an intentional ball four to the backstop.
Reliever Michael Gonzalez walked the only batter he faced to load the bases for Wooten to face Giants pinch-hitter Jeff Francoeur, whose shattered-bat single dropped into left field for a 2-1 lead. Two batters later with two outs, a grounder slipped under Brewers third baseman Jeff Bianchi's glove for a two-run error and a 4-1 Giants lead.
"There were a couple of missed calls that hurt us, and they got a couple of breaks, but we didn't play well," Roenicke said. "We had chances and we didn't play well."
The Bianchi error proved especially costly when Francisco homered off Sergio Romo (27th save) in the ninth inning.
Francisco drove in the Brewers' only runs but gave a run away in the fourth inning to provide the only blemish on Thornburg's otherwise encouraging pitching line: six innings, seven hits, one unearned run, two walks, four strikeouts. The Giants' run off Thornburg scored when Francisco, trying to initiate a double play, threw wildly past second base for a 1-0 Giants lead that Gaudin would protect into the seventh.
Thornburg missed an opportunity to aid his own cause in the third inning after Gennett hit a one-out triple. With Thornburg at the plate in a 2-1 count, Roenicke put on the suicide-squeeze play and Gaudin delivered a fastball down the middle.
Thornburg whiffed, Gennett was out between third and home and, when Thornburg struck out, the inning was over.
"I wouldn't put something on unless I thought [Thornburg] was a good athlete and could do the job," Roenicke said.
Asked whether he would remember the quality start or the botched bunt, Thornburg did not flinch.
"Definitely the bunt," he said. "I think that will be something I'll think about all night, even though I'll try to flush it. I think I'll be doing a lot of [bunting] in the cage before my next start."
Gaudin struck out eight batters for the second time in four starts. Thornburg settled for his second no-decision since assuming a spot in the team's injury-plagued pitching rotation. He has pitched six innings in each of his two starts without allowing an earned run, though the Giants made him work Monday. Thornburg needed 81 pitches for his first four innings before getting through the fifth inning on 11 pitches and the sixth inning on 10 more.
"It seemed like every time before I got an out, I was checking a runner at second," he said. "I was battling myself tonight. I wasn't able to execute a lot of pitches early, but fortunately I executed them when it really mattered."


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As the Republican Governors Association gathers for its annual meeting this week in San Diego, RGA chief Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi has reason to be pleased with the new crop of governors that his group helped elect.
Republicans won 15 of the 25 open-seat races up for grabs in the midterm elections earlier this month. Republicans also defeated incumbent Democratic governors who were seeking re-election in Ohio and Iowa.
The incoming group of GOP chief executives includes some familiar names and former members of Congress but also boasts several new stars to help reshape the look, if not the ideology, of the Republican Party.
But no matter how fresh-faced or charismatic the new GOP governors may be, they face the same problems as their Democratic predecessors: tax revenues that are below 2008 levels, staggering state employee retiree costs, and high demand for government services, especially because state Medicaid caseloads have jumped by six million people since the recession began.
The governors are significant not only because of the decisions they'll make on Medicaid and other policies, but because they could install a political apparatus in their states that will help turn out voters for the GOP presidential candidate in 2012.
It's widely acknowledged among political professionals that having Democrat Ted Strickland in the governor's office in swing state Ohio in 2008 helped shift it toward President Barack Obama, after George W. Bush won the state in both 2000 and 2004.
Republican governors in key primary states like Iowa and South Carolina could also have sway over who the party puts up as its standard bearer in 2012.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pointed out the potential influence of the new Republican leaders last week. In remarks reported by Roll Call, Pelosi said Obama will need to be "perfect" to win a second term because the Democrats lost governorships in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, and other states which Obama had carried in 2008.
Here's a look at three groups of rising GOP gubernatorial stars:
The business executives
Three of the new governors, Paul LePage of Maine, Rick Snyder of Michigan, and Rick Scott of Florida, are businessmen who have pledged to use their private-sector savvy to foster job creation.
Snyder earned his fortune as president of Gateway Computers and as a venture capitalist.
Scott made his millions as head of Columbia/HCA and founder of Solantic, a chain of urgent medical care centers in Florida. Scott stunned political observers when he won the state's Republican primary and later the general election despite blistering ad campaigns that reminded voters of the record $1.7 billion Medicare fraud fine paid by Columbia/HCA after Scott's departure from the company in 1997.
While Snyder and Scott are Fortune 500 boardroom veterans, LePage is the furthest imaginable thing from a country club Republican.
LePage narrowly defeated independent (and former Democrat) Eliot Cutler, with Democrat Libby Mitchell finishing a distant third.
The first Republican elected governor of Maine in 20 years, LePage is the mayor of Waterville and general manager of Marden's, a chain of discount stores.
One of 18 children, LePage left home at age 11 to escape his abusive father and lived on the streets of Lewiston, Maine.
"You can take the person off the streets, but you can't take the street out of the person," LePage said in an interview with Maine Public Radio. "If you're on your own from 11 years on, there's a little bit of that that stays."
His hardscrabble childhood may give LePage more credibility to reform welfare. "Our system is designed so that the case worker is coaching people on welfare on how to stay totally on welfare," he said in a campaign video. "I will tell you this: I am the only candidate who was born in the system who escaped it."
Blunt and sometimes hot-tempered, LePage caused a stir during the campaign by telling voters, "You're going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page saying 'Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.'"
All three men inherit dire economic problems. Michigan has suffered from a double-digit unemployment rate since November of 2008 and has seen more than half a million jobs vanish over the past four years. Florida has the second highest foreclosure rate of any state and has nearly 12 percent unemployment. Maine's jobless rate is below the national average but its labor force is shrinking as people stop looking for work or leave the state.
A Great Lakes trio
Republican governors won three Great Lakes states that Obama won in 2008: Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin. All three will have legislatures under GOP control to work with.
In Pennsylvania, governor-elect Tom Corbett ran on much the same platform other GOP gubernatorial candidates did across the nation: don't raise taxes and shrink the size of government.
"He and (New Jersey Gov.) Chris Christie are close," said political analyst Terry Madonna at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. "Christie campaigned for him and Corbett is taking his cue from what Christie is doing in New Jersey."
Madonna said Corbett has taken a "no-new-tax pledge," that includes a promise not to impose a severance tax on the huge deposits of natural gas in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale formation. Even Republican leaders in the state senate would impose a tax on that gas.
In Wisconsin, new Republican governor Scott Walker won partly due to his crusade against a federal stimulus project, an $810 million train from Madison to Milwaukee. He mocked the train and Obama in an irreverent TV ad that labeled the project a "boondoggle."
In Ohio, the new face in the governor's mansion is an old face: former House Budget Committee chairman and Fox News TV host John Kasich.
Kasich, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination in 2000, later worked as a managing director for Lehman Brothers, which failed in 2008.
Kasich said during the campaign he'd "create a very robust, pro-business, pro-small business, entrepreneurial atmosphere" including by ending Ohio's estate and personal income taxes.
A trio to boost ethnic diversity
Exit poll interviews from the Nov. 2 election showed that the voters who lifted Republican candidates to victory were predominantly conservative, male, white, and over age 45. But if demography is electoral destiny, then Republicans will need to find ways to attract voters who are female, non-white, and under age 45.
The election of three new governors — a woman of Indian ancestry in South Carolina, a Latino in Nevada, and the nation's first female Hispanic governor in New Mexico — may help Republicans do that.
By this point, South Carolina Governor-elect Nikki Haley, 38, needs no introduction to national audiences. The daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley successfully weathered a flurry of news stories about allegations – which she emphatically denied — that she'd had extramarital affairs.
Two other successful Republican gubernatorial candidates — Brian Sandoval in Nevada and Suzana Martinez in New Mexico — add to the diversity of the GOP bench.
But the evidence from Nov. 2 was that Republican candidates with Spanish surnames didn't run stronger among Latino voters than did their Democratic rivals with non-Latino surnames.
Exit poll data showed that Sandoval won only one-third of Latino voters in Nevada in his race against Democrat Rory Reid.
In New Mexico, where Martinez beat Democrat Diane Denish, no exit poll was conducted. But an analysis of Census data and election returns shows a negative correlation between a county's Latino population and its vote for Martinez. The higher Latino percentage of a county's population, the worse Martinez tended to do.
Martinez got a nasty surprise last week when the administration of outgoing Gov. Bill Richardson said the budget shortfall for the coming fiscal year would be 73 percent higher than the previous estimate done by the state legislature's finance committee.
"Closing that gap is going to be extremely difficult; in tackling that challenge, Governor-elect Martinez believes we must protect critical government services, such as classroom spending and basic health care for those most in need," said spokesman Danny Diaz.


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Turner likely to return from disabled list Monday
NEW YORK -- Justin Turner is likely to return to the Mets for the start of their series against the Braves on Monday, manager Terry Collins said Friday.
Because New York had to use its relievers so much toward the end of the first half, the team wanted to make sure it had a stocked bullpen for this weekend's series against Philadelphia. Collins said the Mets are going to assess where they are pitching-wise at the end of this weekend, and will make a decision from there.
But it's more likely, he said, that Turner, who's been on the disabled list since June 18 with a left intercostal strain, will come back on Monday rather than join the team this weekend.
"We wanted to protect ourselves first coming out of the break," Collins said. "We have run out of pitching so much. We've worn our bullpen down so bad."
Turner's played six rehab games, going 6-for-20 at the plate. He played nine innings at shortstop for Double-A Binghamton on Wednesday night. Collins said he also wants to see Turner get some more at-bats before he's activated from the DL.
While Turner's close to coming back, outfielder Lucas Duda's future isn't as clear. Duda's been on the DL since June 23 with the same injury as Turner. Collins said Friday that Duda is starting to hit, and long-range plans regarding what level he'll play at once he is healthy have not been discussed.


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Flying Tanks that Shed Their Wings (Jul, 1932)
I guess this miiight work, if your tank didn't have any armor. But then it wouldn't exactly be a tank would it?
Flying Tanks that Shed Their Wings
by Lew Hold
Imagine those two formidable weapons of modern warfare, the airplane and the armored tank, combined into one terrible machine of destruction! Fantastic as the idea sounds, it is fast taking physical shape as a reality for Uncle Sam's army. The whole amazing story is presented to you in this important article.
IS WAR, already made terrible to contemplate by the invention of too-efficient methods of destruction, on the verge of being banished forever by an amazing new weapon so horrible in its possibilities that nations of the world will not dare to risk its fury?
This is the idea conjured up by J. Walter Christie, noted builder of tanks for the U. S. Army, who has been secretly working on the most revolutionary war invention since the discovery of gunpowder—an armored tank which flies as swiftly as a bombing plane, and which, by simply shedding its wings when on the ground, can travel over any terrain with guns blazing at speeds of 70 miles an hour!
Changes Modern War Strategy
The entire strategy of modern warfare will have to be altered when Mr. Christie's (lying tank is proved practical. Trench warfare, which played such an important part in the World War, will be well-nigh impossible, for with a swarm of a hundred flying tanks descending into No-Man's Land, no infantry in the world could resist the withering fire.
Nor is the flying tank so grotesque an idea as might appear at first glance. During the late war no one even conceived the possibility of an armored tank's being propelled through the skies on wings like an airplane, driven by an airplane motor.
Flying Tank Now Being Built
Yet Mr. Christie's tank, he promises, will do precisely that. Because of his success in building speed tanks for the army and his extensive knowledge of this phase of warfare, there can be no doubt that he knows just what he is doing. He is not a man given to exaggeration, and the fact that the tank is now taking shape in the plant of the United States Wheel Track Layer Corp., at Linden, N. J., proves that the idea has advanced beyond the paper and plan stage.
In the words of the inventor, "The flying tank is a machine to end war. Knowledge of its existence and possession will be a greater guarantee of peace than all the treaties that human ingenuity can concoct. A flock of flying tanks set loose on an enemy and any war is brought to an abrupt finish."
Details of the tank's construction are astonishing. The flying fortress will be armed with a 75 millimeter gun, with supplementary small machine guns. Personnel will consist of two men. The body of the flying tank is amazingly light because of new principles of construction closely guarded by the inventor. In fact, the finished product, ready for military duty, will not weigh over four tons.
Its lightweight engine can develop 1000 horsepower, and by an ingenious system of gearing the motor drives both the back axle, for propelling the tank on the ground, and the propeller for flying duty.
Take-off Problem Solved
Eight large wheels are provided on the tank, with twin pneumatic tires over which the caterpillar tread fits. With the special springing equipment, pneumatic tires and patented caterpillar track, Mr. Christie's tank can make 70 miles an hour across rough country, it has been calculated, and as much as 100 miles an hour on a smooth surface. Its speed makes it a difficult target for enemy fire.
"It is an established fact that a single pair of wings can support this tank in the air," Mr. Christie explained to the special representative of Modern Mechanics and Inventions. "Any aviator can tell you in two minutes the exact wing spread required.
"The most serious difficulty seems to be the take-off. Several of my flying friends have told me that many army planes require three-quarters of a mile of prepared ground for a runway and they insisted that my machine would need a still greater starting space. There were also those who doubted that my tank would even leave the ground.
"After three years of experimentation, I was prepared to meet their queries and their doubts. This is the solution: My machine will work up to a flying speed while it is still on the ground. At a hundred yards the tank will be going fast enough to rise the moment the power is transferred from the wheels to the propeller, no matter on what kind of surface the tank is traveling.
"The caterpillars will function on any condition of base. The Christie speed tank which has been already acquired by the United States government bears testimony to that advantage.
Treads Simplify Landing Problem
"The other hazardous stumbling-block, the landing of the flying tank, has also been overcome. My machine can alight on very limited space. The pilot can observe his air speed by means of his instrument board. When he switches from being a pilot to being a chauffeur he will know his land speed, both on the caterpillar tracks and on wheels, whichever he may choose to bring into use.
"All that the man at the controls has to do is to start the wheels of the caterpillar in motion and adjust them to the air speed.
This is done merely by keeping an eye on the speedometers. As soon as the tank touches the ground, he brakes it as he would an auto truck.
"If he wants to liberate the tank from the wings, he has only to press a lever and that operation is completed in a jiffy. Then if he wants to, he can proceed along a highway on the rubber-tired wheels at a rate of 100 miles an hour."
That is how Mr. Christie's latest invention will work. But he has already begun to plan for a further improvement on this device. He will soon begin work on a detachable airplane as applied to the armored tank. The plane will deposit the tank at a desired post and then return to bring up others, or engage in other maneuvers.
In connection with these latest experiments, a valuable peacetime use of the flying tank principle suggests itself.
One of the several problems confronting passenger air lines today and, from the passengers' standpoint, certainly the most annoying, is the business of getting passengers to and from the airport—the actual point of arrival and departure of the airplane itself.
Airports are perforce located at a considerable distance from the downtown district of a city and it naturally follows that the larger the city the more inaccessible will be the airport or air terminal. In the minds of prospective air passengers the immediate accessibility of bus and railroad facilities contrast pleasantly with the annoyance attendant on purchasing a ticket, riding out to a field, transferring to a plane and repeating the performance at the flight destination.
The time-saving feature, most practical appeal of air travel, is thus not so much in evidence or even may be totally absent in flights of less than 300 miles.
Bringing Airports Close to Town
Several remedies for the situation are feasible. One, and the most frequently heard of, is to build airports in the heart of a city, by utilizing the tops of large buildings with or without the aid of catapult launching devices, by spanning whole blocks of streets with wide bridge-like structures or spanning convenient rivers in a similar manner. All these ideas have been mentioned at different times. All of them suffer from one common disadvantage.
To bring an air terminal into the heart of a city would not only result in air traffic at an altitude we are obliged to regard as unsafe, but would further imply taking off and landing over these crowded centers. The airplane of today is hardly suited to operating under the conditions just outlined and therefore this otherwise attractive solution of the problem must, for the time being at any rate, be abandoned as a serious consideration.
Another course is open and fantastic as it may appear at first glance the idea has been approached a number of times and there are no serious difficulties in the way. The idea involves the building of passenger planes in two distinct and self-contained units. One, the airplane portion, would contain all the essentials for flight and consist of wings, tail surfaces, motors, pilot's control room and the landing gear.
The passenger cabin complete would form a second separate unit. Capable of being attached or detached automatically from the airplane unit, this cabin would have the appearance of a large bus or Pullman car and would be capable of independent operation on the ground by means of a light motor driving wheels which would be drawn up when cabin and plane formed a single flying unit.
Such a combination would enable passengers to enter the cabin at a central depot in the city itself, travel out to the field (in extremely large cities where the passenger traffic justified the expense, on special roads) and there be instantaneously attached to the airplane portion of the combination to proceed by air to its destination.
Leaving our baggage at the checking counter, we then repair to the excellent restaurant to obtain a light meal and pass the time until our plane time arrives. As the time approaches for the plane-car to leave we retrieve our baggage and pass through the door to platform No. 5, to see immediately before us a smooth metal buslike car into which passengers are now pouring. A capable attendant relieves us of our baggage and we enter the car and pass along the central corridor to the small but comfortable observation room in the rear.
Glancing through the windows which surround this compartment, we notice numbers of other plane-cars. Some are standing at their respective platforms, others are arriving or departing through the low doorless exits of the vast hall. At 5:15 to the dot our car glides smoothly forward and we pass out of the hall onto a wide high-speed road which leads directly to the flying field.
Travelling at an even sixty, we arrive at the field to see a number of curious looking planes lined up before the service hangars. They appear to be all wings and tail and are lined up over sets of trough-like tracks which serve to guide the wheels of the cars into exact position as they arrive to be hooked up to the plane units. Into one of these sets of tracks our car wheels presently glide, the car stops and the ground crew busies itself locking the connections into place.
A few moments pause and then the motors of the plane, which have been idling as we approach, burst into a mighty roar and in what seems to have been but a few minutes since we entered the car at the central depot we are sailing high over the city on our way to Minneapolis.
Descending at the Wold-Chamberlin airport at Minneapolis our wheels have scarcely touched the ground and the plane approached the concrete apron before the landing gear is retracted, the car wheels extended and the release gear operated to allow our. car to shoot forward on the ground once again under its own power while the airplane unit is run into the service sheds to await the car's return with a fresh load of passengers for the return flight. Minneapolis air traffic being insufficient to justify the expense of a special speed road we proceed along the ordinary highways and city streets to the loop district and pull up inside the central depot to leave our car exactly three hours from the time we entered it in the Chicago central depot.
A flight of fancy? Perhaps. But not beyond the bounds of possibility. Until such time as planes are capable of arrested flight or are so dependable that they may be operated from the heart of a great city without undue risk to either passengers or inhabitants, this may well prove to be the most satisfactory solution of the airport problem. It is true that the necessity of taking passengers to the field has not been eliminated but the inconvenience element has been totally done away with and furthermore, in the case of large cities where the volume and radius of travel warrants the expense, high speed airport roads will permit the cars being shuttled back and forth at speeds quite impossible under present conditions.
A modification of the detachable car unit described in this article would lend itself admirably to freight purposes. In this case the freight cabin or car need not be equipped with motor or ground wheels but could be detached directly onto skeleton trucks or trailers for distribution at the terminal airports.
Still another application of the idea would be of inestimable value to sport planes. Arrived at a field the owner-pilot could detach and park the airplane unit and proceed in what would then become a lightweight closed car to his city destination. The car in this instance would in all probability resemble the little three-wheeled "tear-drop" car illustrated in the April issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions.


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Skype, a hugely practical video (and internet) calling solution, got an update today, bringing the app to version 22.214.171.1247 and bringing a few key improvements to the table. The most noticeable improvement in this release is an updated (and enhanced) call interface, adding functionality and panache to the screen every user sees when placing or receiving a call.
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Yup, thanks to YOU and your BUZZING my Bertolli menu item, I will be demonstrating my "Pesto Deconstructed Pizzas" LIVE in the Bertolli Sauces kitchen at the Foodbuzz Festival this Saturday in San Francisco!!!
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I will be happy to share the recipe with you all next week and am SO happy to share it with everyone at the Festival this weekend.
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NEW YORK - September 13, 2012 - The scary mysteries and odd eccentricities of this small coastal Maine town will continue to unfold when Haven, Syfy's hit drama series, returns for its third season on Friday, September 21 at 10PM (ET/PT).
In the premiere, Haven picks up immediately following the events of the gripping season two finale with Audrey (Emily Rose) having been kidnapped; Nathan (Lucas Bryant) warned against pursuing a romantic relationship with Audrey; and Duke (Eric Balfour) seemingly engaged in a fight to the death with Nathan after he discovers his family lineage is to kill Haven citizens with Troubles.
This season's guest stars include Iain Glen (Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey), Bree Williamson (Gossip Girl, One Life to Live), Laura Vandervoort (Smallville, White Collar), Edge (WWE Superstar), Dorian Missick (Southland, The Cape), Kate Kelton (Harold and Kumar, American Psycho 2), Nolan North (Uncharted video game series, Pretty Little Liars), and Claudia Black (Uncharted video game series, Farscape).
Following last year's successful innovative Twitter campaign, season three will introduce online viewers to a new entity in the Haven mythology - The Guard. Mysterious and deeply entrenched in the history of Haven, The Guard has hijacked Haven social media channels to get their message out - if you are troubled, we can help #EscapeToHaven by @TheGuardHaven. The Guard - represented by Kate Kelton, who portrays 'Jordan McKee" - has taken over Facebook (facebook.com/haven), YouTube (youtube.com/syfyimaginegreater) and Twitter profiles for Haven (Twitter.com/TheGuardHaven), using these social media channels to tell the story of Haven, and to attract new "recruits" to Haven.
Haven, based on the novella The Colorado Kid from renowned author Stephen King, follows former FBI agent Audrey Parker, who becomes a cop in the small town of Haven, Maine, and soon discovers the town's many secrets, which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.
During its second season, Haven averaged 2.55 million total viewers and 995,000 Adults18-49, rising four percent among total viewers and five percent among Adults 18-49 compared to season one (Live +7 data).
From leading independent studio Entertainment One (eOne), Haven is co-commissioned by Shaw Media in Canada and globally via Universal Networks International (UNI).
The creative team behind Haven includes executive producers John Morayniss (The Firm, Hell on Wheels) from eOne Television and David MacLeod (Legends of the Fall, The Ray Bradbury Theater) of Big Motion Pictures, who are joined by Lloyd Segan, Shawn Piller, Scott Shepherd (Stephen King's The Dead Zone, Greek) of Piller/Segan/Shepherd and Matt McGuinness (Journeyman, Dark Blue) as well as Sam Ernst & Jim Dunn (Stephen King's The Dead Zone), who also developed the series.
Haven is produced by Entertainment One and Big Motion Pictures in association with Piller/Segan/Shepherd and airs on Syfy in the U.S., Showcase in Canada and internationally on Universal Networks International's channels. Entertainment One controls the worldwide distribution rights to the one-hour series and concluded a deal with Germany's Tele München Group (TMG) for the television rights in Continental Europe.
About Syfy
Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com) and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in more than 98 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. (Syfy. Imagine greater.)
About Entertainment One
Entertainment One Ltd. (LSE:ETO) is a leading international entertainment company that specializes in the acquisition, production and distribution of film and television content. The company's comprehensive network extends around the globe including Canada, the U.S., the UK, Ireland, Benelux, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Through established Entertainment and Distribution divisions, the company provides extensive expertise in film distribution, television and music production, family programming and merchandising and licensing. Its current rights library is exploited across all media formats and includes more than 24,000 film and television titles, 2,700 hours of television programming and 45,000 music tracks.
About Universal Networks International
Universal Networks International, the international channels division of NBCUniversal, is one of the world's premier entertainment portfolios, delivering quality content and compelling brands to over 176 territories across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia Pacific. The brands in the portfolio include Universal Channel, Syfy, 13th Street Universal, Studio Universal, E! Entertainment Television, The Style Network, DIVA Universal and Golf Channel. These unique brands deliver a full range of entertainment experiences to local audiences across the globe. Universal Networks International also operates Movies 24 and has a controlling interest in the KidsCo joint venture.
Universal Networks International is a division of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Comcast Corporation owns a controlling 51% interest in NBCUniversal, with GE holding a 49% stake.
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Shaw is a diversified communications and media company, providing consumers with broadband cable television, High-Speed Internet, Home Phone, telecommunications services (through Shaw Business), satellite direct-to-home services (through Shaw Direct) and engaging programming content (through Shaw Media). Shaw serves 3.4 million customers, through a reliable and extensive fibre network. Shaw Media operates one of the largest conventional television networks in Canada, Global Television, and 18 specialty networks including HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, History Television and Showcase. Shaw is traded on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges and is included in the S&P/TSX 60 Index (Symbol: TSX - SJR.B, NYSE - SJR). For more information about Shaw, please visit www.shaw.ca.


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With close to two million people in New Jersey without power in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, and an national election due next week, it has been determined that the best way forward is to hand over the reigns to the Department of Defense.
Many polling stations will have no power and therefore no means of conducting their duties on election day. The deadline for processing mail in ballots has been extended until Friday, however many will still have no means of voting.
The AP reports that in light of this, military trucks are to be parked in the vicinity of polling stations and will be authorized to issue and accept paper ballots
Republican Secretary of State and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno said voters will find "a DOD truck with a well-situated National Guardsman and a big sign saying, 'Vote Here.'"
"There's no reason not to vote, there's no reason not to vote today, there's certainly no reason not to vote on Tuesday, five days from today," Guadagno said.
Clearly there are concerns with the such plans. Aside from the fact that having armed soldiers in uniform overseeing a democratic voting process is somewhat troubling, the fact that the location of polling stations will be mobile and not announced until the last minute opens up an increased possibility of fraud.
Although Obama was projected to comfortably take New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie told reporters that an "old school" voting method could mean "some races might be more suspenseful."
CNN reports that many polling stations in Delaware, New York and Pennsylvania are also struggling to prepare for the election. In Nassau County, ninety percent of the county's polling stations are currently without power, those that do are running on generators, and many have been damaged by flooding.
Officials also report that they are currently uncertain what to do with electronic voting machines.
"Our biggest problem at this point is getting the machines to the polling places. Nobody's there to accept the machines," said Dennis Kobitz, president of the New Jersey Association of Election Officials, noting that many of the them are locked and without power.
"Do I leave [the polling machines at the polling stations]?" Kobitz asked, frustrated with the unknown. "How do I take a chance that the schools will have power?"
"I can't just deliver 433 machines – there's no way to do that in one day," he said.
Leaving such voting machines unattended or running them on generators is a recipe for disaster, especially considering the documented vulnerabilities of the machines and previous widespread occurrences of voting machine fraud.
Reports have already begun circulating in six different states that the machines are flipping votes, or are not calibrated correctly.
Numerous errors with electronic voting machines have become apparent over the last two weeks.
Early voters in Marion County who attempted to vote for Mitt Romney saw the electronic touch screen replace their choice with Barack Obama instead. Joan Stevens had to input her selection three times before it displayed correctly.
"You want to vote for who you want to vote for, and when you can't it's irritating," Stevens told the Marion Star.
Voters in Guilford County, North Carolina experienced the same problem. Every time a vote for Romney was entered, the machine flipped it and counted it as a vote for Obama.


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In the last two years a great variety of intelligent speakers emerged, that is: speakers that integrate a virtual assistant such as Siri, Alexa or the Google Assistant (Google Assistant).
Now, these assistants are different devices, among them, for example, there is the Google Assistant that is in the phones that have Android Marshmallow (6.0) and onwards.
With this in mind, it is possible to convert a traditional speaker into a smart speaker. You only need to have a mobile with the Google Assistant and follow the following steps:
To know if the mobile integrates the Wizard, simply hold the Home button pressed for a few seconds and say "Ok, Google" to summon it.
In order for the assistant to be attentive to the user's voice commands, you have to enter the cell configuration menu (by clicking on the nut icon) then go to Google / Search, the assistant and there activate the Voice Match option.


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I'm at the 'visualising' phase of the design and have previously been dreaming of the Tortuga LDRx Passive Preamp. I'm hoping that your kit will be in a similar vein, albeit at a much better price and would be grateful if you could send me some links or photos. My understanding is that the boards come ready populated but I would need to wire them and build them into a suitable enclosure. Is that right (if so, ideal)?
What options are available for component choice and what recommendations for wiring - material and layout? Please also send me the instructions, as offered. I'm hoping that a little hand holding will be allowed after purchase!
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As I said, I need 6 stereo inputs. I will also require up to 10 outputs running at the same time! I'm a speaker designer and the electronics is not my main area of expertise but this system is my 'Opus Magnus'. I know that I have a unique concept and will be happy to give more details if you'd like. I assume that your passive pre can cater for 1 or 2 outputs and then I will need to add an active buffer stage. Is that right?
Warm regards
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Dear Chris
I think I've finally figured out how to send a message on this forum but I don't know whether this will get through to you. Please send me an email to confirm receipt. My email address is firstname.lastname@example.com
I attempted to copy our previous (eBay) correspondence below for reference but the forum doesn't allow such a large message. I hope the previous correspondence is available to you. This is being sent in two or three parts.
So, re the remote:
1. This looks like an inexpensive solution. Is it reliable? Can I assume that this Alps potentiometer does not effect the 'signal part' of the circuit?
2. Is it difficult to have remote switching of the inputs or just the volume? Clearly, remote control of volume is more important.
Warm regards
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I love to bake cookies! There is nothing better than a freshly baked warm chocolate chip cookie with a glass of milk. The problem I have with making homemade cookies is that the recipe yields dozens of cookies that I don't really want to eat up in just a few days. I'm not a huge fan of cookies that are a few days old. They just don't have the same fresh flavor!
I found a way to make a batch of homemade cookies last much longer! I saw a pin on Pinterest that gave me the idea to freeze cookie dough in an ice cube tray. I baked a few sheets of cookies and then spooned the rest of the cookie dough into an ice cube tray or two. I let the dough freeze for a few hours and then placed the frozen cubes in a ziploc bag. I stored the bag of cookie dough in the freezer. Now, when my family is craving cookies, I already have the dough ready to go. I just added a minute or two to the baking time since the dough was frozen. I'm very pleased with the results of this experiment!