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Hamburger America: Northgate Soda Shop in Greenville, South Carolina
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Editor's note: Burgermeisters! Here's another excerpt from George Motz's book Hamburger America. George and his publisher were kind enough to allow us to run them here, along with George's beautiful photos. We'll be running one every other week. Eat up! —The Mgmt.
Just up the hill on Main Street in Greenville, South Carolina, where the high rises give way to trees and homes, I discovered an excellent spot to enjoy a Southern favorite—the Pimento Cheeseburger.
The menu at the Northgate is classic soda shop diner fare—tuna, peanut butter and jelly, hot dogs, grilled cheese, and egg sandwiches, but the big seller is their fantastic pimento cheese burger.
"Either you'll love it or hate it," waitress Brenda warned me before I bit into my burger. I have to admit I had never had one even though my mother is from South Carolina. Fortunately, I fall into the "love it" category.
The pimento cheese for their sandwiches and burgers is a tangy mix of mayo, cheddar, and diced pimentos. "We make it right here, fresh every day," veteran waitress Maudie told me of the over forty year-old recipe. The beef is also fresh, picked up daily from a butcher just up Main Street (this fact is also proudly announced in their menu, complete with the butcher's name and address).
The burger starts as a fresh ground beef that is pressed in a vintage burger press. The press produces a three and one-half ounce patty that is cooked on a flattop griddle. The burger comes to you on a toasted bun with tomato, lettuce, and a large dollop of pimento cheese. I also had a cherry smash, a drink made from cherry syrup and soda water, dispensed from the Northgate's vintage soda fountain.
Owner Catherine Christophillis couldn't be a more perfect fit as the new owner of this South Carolina time warp. She is active in community-theater (she had just starred as the Witch in the Wizard of Oz), she served on the city council, and her husband grew up just down the street. "He has been coming here forever. Now my kids do too."
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918 North Main Street, Greenville SC 29609 (map)
Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sat., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Closed Sundays
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October and Cooperatives
October is designated Cooperative
Month and it is a good time to talk about member-owned cooperatives and
the need to communicate effectively.
A cooperative is established
to provide services needed by its members. The board of directors, which
members elect, and the manager they hire have a responsibility to communicate
with the members on a frequent basis. Cooperative members have a right
to know whats going on in the business that they own.
The electric cooperatives began
publishing Rural Missouri 54 years ago as a statewide communications
vehicle to electric cooperative members. While some of the cooperatives
have their own member newsletter, most of them use the local pages of
Rural Missouri to inform members of their cooperative business.
The original publishers of
Rural Missouri made a commitment which still stands today. That
commitment was to publish a high-quality publication which would result
in high readership. After all, they said, if we have a responsibility
to communicate with our cooperative members, we should take it seriously
and do it right.
The commitment by Rural
Missouris founders to produce a quality publication is felt
even stronger by electric cooperatives today. Each year this publication
is submitted to a panel of experts in journalism for professional review.
Each year it receives high marks in all categories when competing with
similar publications. The staff is also given individual recognition and
awarded honors in all categories. At the same time, we are given suggestions
on how to improve in areas where we do not achieve the highest rankings.
During Cooperative Month the
special niche cooperatives fill in our free enterprise system is emphasized.
Within cooperatives, we emphasize the unique and special obligation we
have to communicate with our member-owners in a responsible and effective
When you pick up your Rural
Missouri each month, think of it as your publication. It is designed
to keep you informed about the cooperative business you own. If you think
of it that way, you will keep writing to let us know how we can do our
jobs better. We both like and need that communication from you.
Have a great fall and keep
those cards, letters and e-mails coming.
Stork was executive
vice president of the Association of Missouri
Electric Cooperatives and a member of Three Rivers Electric Co-op.


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Coaches consider play-off task
Friday 21 September 2012
Article summary
Ignacio Quereda is "really confident", Scotland's Anna Signeul admits Spain are talented rivals and Austria see playing Russia as a "bonus": UEFA.com rounds up the reaction.
Article top media content
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The last three tickets to UEFA Women's EURO 2013 in Sweden will be won and lost when the play-offs take place, and the ties were decided by Friday's draw in Nyon. UEFA.com round ups the reaction.
Full play-off draw: games 20/21 & 24/25 OctoberScotland v Spain
Ukraine v Iceland
Austria v Russia
Scotland v Spain:
Anna Signeul, Scotland manager
This will be a new and very interesting challenge for us. In all honesty they are the one team in the draw that we know least about. We have had them scouted recently and will do more analysis in the run-up to the play-offs. What we do know is that they are a technically gifted side. We can expect them to have a lot of possession and we will have to be at the top of our game to get the better of them. We go into this play-off in a positive frame of mind and will approach it in the same way we have every one of our qualifying matches so far – determined to win and with belief that we can do so. The players are very much looking forward to playing the home leg at Hampden Park. They are immensely proud to have the opportunity to showcase the women's game at the home of Scottish football.
Ignacio Quereda, Spain coach
Well, at first sight it seems to be an advantage to play the second leg at home. But it all depends on how the first leg goes. I'm really confident. The team is really willing, very motivated and very focused, and I fully believe in the players, because the willingness they show is great, and they are just in a good moment both physically and mentally
Austria v Russia:
Dominik Thalhammer, Austria coach
Russia are a tough one, but [fellow seeds] Spain and Iceland can be classified in the same category. The Russians have already reached three European Championship final tournaments, while for us it would be a first. Because of the difficult weather conditions and travel, I am glad that it was not Iceland. Just the fact that we were represented in Nyon [in the draw] is a real triumph. We can now compete against the favourites. Everything else will be a bonus.
Svetlana Zhuravleva, Russian Football Union (RFS) head of women's football
We will be studying Austria. We don't know them well, but we think that the newcomers who qualified are all ambitious teams of a good standard. Therefore we think they need to be treated with respect – and that Austria can be decent opposition.
Ukraine v Iceland:
Siggi Eyjólfsson, Iceland coach
We knew we would be meeting a good team, whichever one we got, and we must now prepare for two difficult games against a strong Ukraine team. We will need to find out more about them, probably from Finland who lost to Ukraine.
The players in Iceland are on holiday except for [UEFA Women's Champions League entrants] Stjarnan and the U19 national team, who will play some qualifying games at the same time – some of our squad are also in that U19 team. We will put together a squad and begin training. Many of our girls play abroad so they can stay in shape and join the squad later. We also have some other players abroad who did not feature in our recent matches but could be helpful in the play-offs.


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Bill Yosses' Blackberry Buttermilk Bundt with Orange Glaze
My kitchen is pretty much at capacity, and purchasing more kitchen equipment is becoming borderline irresponsible. What I once thought was a spacious kitchen seems shrinking with each new addition. So, when I found this recipe for Blackberry Buttermilk Bundt with Orange Glaze from The Perfect Finish by Bill Yosses I was hesitant to go out and buy the Bundt pan this recipe called for.
But the beautiful photo that accompanied the recipe and the wealth of blackberries at the market won me over and the pan was purchased. And, I have to say that I'm very pleased with my new Bundt pan and the first cake it baked.
The cake is incredibly simple to put together—just a few minutes of mixing in the stand mixer, folding in the berries and then into the oven. An hour later the cake was finished and it popped out of the Bundt pan very easily with all of those lovely ridges intact.
The berries studded the surface and ran throughout the cake, not sinking to the bottom which was something I worried about. Once the cake cooled, it's glazed with a sweet-tart combination of freshly squeezed orange juice and confectioners' sugar. By poking the cake with a long knife the glaze really seeps in and makes for an incredibly moist texture. The buttermilk adds a great tartness that works perfectly with the sweetness of the blackberries.
Yosses considers this cake to be ideal for those situations when you have to bring a dessert, and I have to agree. It's a great dinner party cake since the process is super simple but the results are impressive and incredibly delicious.
Add a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream and some fresh blackberries and it really is summer dessert perfection.
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- Yield:8 to 10
- 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 (2 sticks) pound unsalted butter, softened, plus additional for the pan
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 2 pints blackberries
- Orange Glaze
- 1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice (from about 1 medium orange)
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 2-quart anti-adhesive Bundt pan with some butter, then spray lightly with nonstick cooking spray. You don't want this cake to stick! The new anti-adhesive cake pans prevent the bottom of the cake from sticking to the pan.
In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time until incorporated. Beat in the vanilla. Reduce the speed to low and mix in half the flour mixture. Mix in the buttermilk, then the remaining flour mixture. Using a wooden spoon, gently fold in the blackberries.
Pour the batter into the prepared Bundt pan. Bake the cake until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then invert onto the serving platter.
While the cake cools, combine the orange juice and sugar in a small saucepan and simmer over low heat until the sugar is dissolved.
Using a skewer or long thin knife, prick deep holes all over the surface of the cake. Pour half the glaze over the cake, letting it seep into the holes. Let the cake cool for 20 minutes more. Pour the remaining glaze over the cake and let set for 10 minutes. Slice and serve.
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While the iTunes Store exploded with Tim Tebow-related apps in the heyday of Tebowmania, none of them really qualified as "games," most being trivia or Bible-related. Sensing a gap in the market, an outfit called TriStar Games (presumably no relation to the film studio) released "Tebit Time" earlier this month, and I decided to take advantage of its three-day sale and acquire it for free to provide a full review. (None of the apps, including this one, appear to have any proper licensing from Tebow himself.)
You can view the gameplay above, which is mostly unedited and reflects the three minutes I spent attempting to play the game. It's one of those "endless-run platformers" in which you have to either attack oncoming foes or jump over things—though jumping was something I was never quite able to figure out. While tapping the screen is supposed to produce a stiff-arm or a jump, whether or not the game actually responds to these commands is kind of a crapshoot. (Kudos on that chiptune version of the Fox theme, though!) You can also perform a Tebow, which does nothing except expose you to enemies and cultural critics.
There is no apparent goal to the game, either, except to rack up rushing yardage. Your enemies are either the Barcelona Dragons from the old World League of American Football or gigantic lumps of meat left on the Mile High Stadium field by unknown parties. Contact with either will cause your Tebow to disintegrate and end your game. Your eternal fate after is left unspecified, as there is no portrayal of an eight-bit afterlife in the app.
"Tebit Time" looks and feels like a game written in fifteen minutes by someone who didn't quite grasp the nuances of the iOS development environment. I cannot believe they actually charged for this game at one point. Nor can I recommend you acquire it, even for free, because whatever time you spend on this game you will never get back. That is time better-spent picking your ass, screaming at small children, or abusing your dog. No matter how badly you feel after doing any of those things, you will regret it less than if you play "Tebit Time."
"Tebit Time" is compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch, & iPad. It is compatible with Game Center, which means your friends will know you've been playing it and will make fun of you.
h/t to PiB for letting me know about this abomination


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I can't think of many things more devastating than leaving your happy, healthy plants in the evening and finding them destroyed the next morning. Destruction can come in many forms: a swarm of cucumber beetles, a broken water pipe, a fast-acting bacterial disease. But one form of ruin is particularly frustrating to me right now: mysterious holes dug haphazardly throughout our planted beds.
For months now–ever since we started growing our baby salad mixes–we've been finding small patches of salad dug up each morning. It always looks the same: scattered depressions of moist, scuffed soil, each about the size of a saucer. Around each one, uprooted lettuces mounded with dirt. The lettuces are resilient enough that we can generally push them back into the soil and they'll keep growing. So it's never enough of a loss to take out a week's harvest, but just enough to drive us crazy. And the anonymous digger doesn't stick exclusively to the salad bed. He also leaves us holes in the radish bed, the leeks, young beets.
Every farmer or gardener has to dedicate a fraction of each week to sleuth work. Sometimes I feel like Sherlock Holmes in overalls (with less of an intuition for catching the bad guys, sadly.) So, who is the mysterious moonlight digger? What are his motives? Let's look at the evidence. First, the digger seems to have zero interest in the plants themselves. He tosses them aside in search of a greater prize. Second, the digger also targets areas where we have young plants growing–baby salad greens, beet seedlings, tiny leeks. What's unique about these beds? They're watered more frequently than the more mature plants, so the soil is always moist. Third, the digger only attacks at night.
So from these observations we've deduced that the perpetrator is a nocturnal animal searching for grubs or insects that thrive in the constantly wet soil below the salad bed. But still, we don't know who it is specifically. Top on the list are skunk, fox, and raccoon. My bet is with the skunk, because I know they have a real soft spot for grubs. ( Skunks are omnivores; they eat everything from insects, larvae, and earthworms to rodents, frogs, birds, berries, and fungi. One recently attacked a wasps nest near our farm, ripping it apart to get at the tasty larvae inside.) Which means I'd better be careful if I try to confront the mystery digger in person. I'm not keen to take a tomato juice bath, in the event of a skunk spray.
We've been plotting to camp out in the field for a night to catch the crook red handed (if only we had nigh vision goggles). Since the damage hasn't been catastrophic, it's hard to justify putting up any serious fencing or netting, but I'd at least like to know what's causing the problem. I guess it's the inner detective in me. In the meantime, we've started lightening up on the salad bed watering, especially in the afternoon– to slacken off on the moisture content of the soil.
So, for now, we'll tuck this case into the unsolved mysteries file and keep you posted if we mount a sting operation to catch our supposed skunk by moonlight.


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Software Quality Metrics
Software cost overruns, schedule delays, and poor quality have been endemic in the software industry for more than 50 years.
—Capers Jones
The system is stable; let's just document the known problems.
—Quality control manager of a tier-one application vendor
A large body of literature has appeared over the past three or four decades on how developers can measure various aspects of software development and use, from the productivity of the programmers coding it to the satisfaction of the ultimate end users applying it to their business problems. Some metrics are broader than others. In any scientific measurement effort, you must balance the sensitivity and the selectivity of the measures employed. Here we are primarily concerned with the quality of the software end product as seen from the end user's point of view. Although much of the software metrics technology used in the past was applied downstream, the overall trend in the field is to push measurement methods and models back upstream to the design phase and even to measurement of the architecture itself. The issue in measuring software performance and quality is clearly its complexity as compared even to the computer hardware on which it runs. Managing complexity and finding significant surrogate indicators of program complexity must go beyond merely estimating the number of lines of code the program is expected to require.
Measuring Software Quality
Historically software quality metrics have been the measurement of exactly their opposite—that is, the frequency of software defects or bugs. The inference was, of course, that quality in software was the absence of bugs. So, for example, measures of error density per thousand lines of code discovered per year or per release were used. Lower values of these measures implied higher build or release quality. For example, a density of two bugs per 1,000 lines of code (LOC) discovered per year was considered pretty good, but this is a very long way from today's Six Sigma goals. We will start this article by reviewing some of the leading historical quality models and metrics to establish the state of the art in software metrics today and to develop a baseline on which we can build a true set of upstream quality metrics for robust software architecture. Perhaps at this point we should attempt to settle on a definition of software architecture as well. Most of the leading writers on this topic do not define their subject term, assuming that the reader will construct an intuitive working definition on the metaphor of computer architecture or even its earlier archetype, building architecture. And, of course, almost everyone does! There is no universally accepted definition of software architecture, but one that seems very promising has been proposed by Shaw and Garlan:
Abstractly, software architecture involves the description of elements from which systems are built, interactions among those elements, patterns that guide their composition, and constraints on those patterns. In general, a particular system is defined in terms of a collection of components, and interactions among those components.1
This definition follows a straightforward inductive path from that of building architecture, through system architecture, through computer architecture, to software architecture. As you will see, the key word in this definition—for software, at least—is patterns. Having chosen a definition for software architecture, we are free to talk about measuring the quality of that architecture and ultimately its implementations in the form of running computer programs. But first, we will review some classical software quality metrics to see what we must surrender to establish a new metric order for software.
Classic Software Quality Metrics
Software quality is a multidimensional concept. The multiple professional views of product quality may be very different from popular or nonspecialist views. Moreover, they have levels of abstraction beyond even the viewpoints of the developer or user. Crosby, among many others, has defined software quality as conformance to specification.2 However, very few end users will agree that a program that perfectly implements a flawed specification is a quality product. Of course, when we talk about software architecture, we are talking about a design stage well upstream from the program's specification. Years ago Juran3 proposed a generic definition of quality. He said products must possess multiple elements of fitness for use. Two of his parameters of interest for software products were quality of design and quality of conformance. These separate design from implementation and may even accommodate the differing viewpoints of developer and user in each area.
Two leading firms that have placed a great deal of importance on software quality are IBM and Hewlett-Packard. IBM measures user satisfaction in eight dimensions for quality as well as overall user satisfaction: capability or functionality, usability, performance, reliability, installability, maintainability, documentation, and availability (see Table 3.1). Some of these factors conflict with each other, and some support each other. For example, usability and performance may conflict, as may reliability and capability or performance and capability. IBM has user evaluations down to a science. We recently participated in an IBM Middleware product study of only the usability dimension. It was five pages of questions plus a two-hour interview with a specialist consultant. Similarly, Hewlett-Packard uses five Juran quality parameters: functionality, usability, reliability, performance, and serviceability. Other computer and software vendor firms may use more or fewer quality parameters and may even weight them differently for different kinds of software or for the same software in different vertical markets. Some firms focus on process quality rather than product quality. Although it is true that a flawed process is unlikely to produce a quality product, our focus here is entirely on software product quality, from architectural conception to end use.
TABLE 3.1 IBM's Measures of User Satisfaction
Total Quality Management
The Naval Air Systems Command coined the term Total Quality Management (TQM) in 1985 to describe its approach to quality improvement, patterned after the Japanese-style management approach to quality improvement. Since then, TQM has taken on many meanings across the world. TQM methodology is based on the teachings of such quality gurus as Philip B. Crosby, W. Edwards Deming, Armand V. Feigenbaum, Kaoru Ishikawa, and Joseph M. Juran. Simply put, it is a management approach to long-term success that is attained through a focus on customer satisfaction. This approach requires the creation of a quality culture in the organization to improve processes, products, and services. In the 1980s and '90s, many quality gurus published specific methods for achieving TQM, and the method was applied in government, industry, and even research universities. The Malcolm Baldrige Award in the United States and the ISO 9000 standards are legacies of the TQM movement, as is the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI's) Capability Maturity Model (CMM), in which organizational maturity level 5 represents the highest level of quality capability.4 In 2000, the SW-CMM was upgraded to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).
The implementation of TQM has many varieties, but the four essential characteristics of the TQM approach are as follows:
- Customer focus: The objective is to achieve total customer satisfaction—to "delight the customer." Customer focus includes studying customer needs and wants, gathering customer requirements, and measuring customer satisfaction.
- Process improvement: The objective is to reduce process variation and to achieve continuous process improvement of both business and product development processes.
- Quality culture: The objective is to create an organization-wide quality culture, including leadership, management commitment, total staff participation, and employee empowerment.
- Measurement and analysis: The objective is to drive continuous improvement in all quality parameters by a goal-oriented measurement system.
Total Quality Management made an enormous contribution to the development of enterprise applications software in the 1990s. Its introduction as an information technology initiative followed its successful application in manufacturing and service industries. It came to IT just in time for the redevelopment of all existing enterprise software for Y2K. The efforts of one of the authors to introduce TQM in the internal administrative services sector of research universities encountered token resistance from faculty oversight committees. They objected to the term "total" on the curious dogmatic grounds that nothing is really "total" in practice. As CIO, he attempted to explain TQM to a faculty IT oversight committee at the University of Pennsylvania that this name was merely a phrase to identify a commonly practiced worldwide methodology. But this didn't help much. However, he persevered with a new information architecture, followed by (totally!) reengineering all administrative processes using TQM "delight-the-customer" measures. He also designed a (totally) new information system to meet the university's needs in the post-Y2K world (which began in 1996 in higher education, when the class of 2000 enrolled and their student loans were set up).5
Generic Software Quality Measures
Metrics Methodology
In 1993 the IEEE published a standard for software quality metrics methodology that has since defined and led development in the field. Here we begin by summarizing this standard. It was intended as a more systematic approach for establishing quality requirements and identifying, implementing, analyzing, and validating software quality metrics for software system development. It spans the development cycle in five steps, as shown in Table 3.2.
TABLE 3.2 IEEE Software Quality Metrics Methodology
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A typical "catalog" of metrics in current use will be discussed later. At this point we merely want to present a gestalt for the IEEE recommended methodology. In the first step it is important to establish direct metrics with values as numerical targets to be met in the final product. The factors to be measured may vary from product to product, but it is critical to rank the factors by priority and assign a direct metric value as a quantitative requirement for that factor. There is no mystery at this point, because Voice of the Customer (VOC) and Quality Function Deployment (QFD) are the means available not only to determine the metrics and their target values, but also to prioritize them.
The second step is to identify the software quality metrics by decomposing each factor into subfactors and those further into the metrics. For example, a direct final metric for the factor reliability could be faults per 1,000 lines of code (KLOC) with a target value—say, one fault per 1,000 lines of code (LOC). (This level of quality is just 4.59 Sigma; Six Sigma quality would be 3.4 faults per 1,000 KLOC or one million lines of code.) For each validated metric at the metric level, a value should be assigned that will be achieved during development. Table 3.3 gives the IEEE's suggested paradigm for a description of the metrics set.6
TABLE 3.3 IEEE Metric Set Description Paradigm7
|Name of the metric
|Mathematical function to compute the metric
|Cost of using the metric
|Benefit of using the metric
|Can the metric be used to alter or stop the project?
|Target value
|Numerical value to be achieved to meet the requirement
|Factors related to the metric
|Tools to gather data, calculate the metric, and analyze the results
|How the metric is to be used
|Data items
|Input values needed to compute the metric
|Steps involved in the computation
|How to interpret the results of the computation
|Metric assumptions and appropriateness
|Training required to apply the metric
|An example of applying the metric
|Projects that have used this metric and its validation history
|List of projects used, project details, and so on
To implement the metrics in the metric set chosen for the project under design, the data to be collected must be determined, and assumptions about the flow of data must be clarified. Any tools to be employed are defined, and any organizations to be involved are described, as are any necessary training. It is also wise at this point to test the metrics on some known software to refine their use, sensitivity, accuracy, and the cost of employing them.
Analyzing the metrics can help you identify any components of the developing system that appear to have unacceptable quality or that present development bottlenecks. Any components whose measured values deviate from their target values are noncompliant.
Validation of the metrics is a continuous process spanning multiple projects. If the metrics employed are to be useful, they must accurately indicate whether quality requirements have been achieved or are likely to be achieved during development. Furthermore, a metric must be revalidated every time it is used. Confidence in a metric will improve over time as further usage experience is gained.
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In response to a motion from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys to suppress information gathered from his hospital interrogation, the Department of Justice has filed a response that once again raises questions as to whether the Boston Marathon bombers had at least philosophical assistance from organized terrorists. The defense team wanted Tsarnaev's responses thrown out because of the medication taken by Tsarnaev after his capture and the pain he was enduring during the long hours of interrogation. As part of their response, the DoJ revealed that Tsarnaev had written a statement taking credit for the bombing on the inside of the boat in which he hid, and that the FBI felt that the language looked pretty familiar — and explained why they invoked the national-security exception at the beginning of the interrogation.
Boston's CBS affiliate covered the release late last night:
* The note Tsarnaev wrote in pencil on the inside of the boat where he was found hiding underscored the possible involvement of a terrorist group. Tsarnaev wrote:
I'm jealous of my brother who ha[s] [re]ceived the reward of jannutul Firdaus (inshallah) before me. I do not mourn because his soul is very much alive. God has a plan for each person. Mine was to hide in this boat and shed some light on our actions. I ask Allah to make me a shahied (iA) to allow me to return to him and be among all the righteous people in the highest levels of heaven. He who Allah guides no one can misguide. A[llah Ak]bar!
The US Government is killing our innocent civilians but most of you already know that. As a [UI] I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished, we Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all. Well at least that's how muhhammad (pbuh) wanted it to be [for]ever, the ummah is beginning to rise/[UI] has awoken the mujahideen, know you are fighting men who look into the barrel of your gun and see heaven, now how can you compete with that. We are promised victory and we will surely get it. Now I don't like killing innocent people it is forbidden in Islam but due to said [UI] it is allowed. All credit goes [UI].
Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop.
This writing, which bears hallmarks of al-Q'aeda-inspired rhetoric, suggested that Tsarnaev might have received instruction from a terrorist group. In addition, the fact that Tsarnaev used the word "we" (i.e. "We are promised victory and we shall surely get it. . . . Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop.) suggested that others might be poised to commit similar attacks and that Tsarnaev was urging them on.
* Before hiding in the boat, Tsarnaev smashed both of his cell phones to avoid being located through them. One of them appeared to be a "burner" phone: it contained a SIM card purchased the day before the Marathon and was used by Tsarnaev on April 15 to coordinate the attacks with his brother. These basic elements of apparent terrorist tradecraft provided additional grounds for believing that Tsarnaev had received training and direction from a terrorist group.
In short, the facts and circumstances known to law enforcement at the time they interviewed Tsarnaev provided ample reason to believe that the Tsarnaevs did not act alone; that others might have radicalized them, directed them, trained them, assisted them, and/or concealed them; and that these others might be planning or poised to carry out additional attacks. Finding out if there were other bombs, other bombers, or others plotting similar and coordinated attacks was a public safety matter of the utmost urgency.
Indeed. The defense wanted to argue that Tsarnaev had already assured them that nothing else was going on, but one can forgive the FBI and the DoJ for not just taking Tsarnaev's word for that. As the DoJ argues in the beginning of the motion, the Supreme Court has already ruled that public safety and national security take precedence over waiting for a suspect to feel better before interrogation (Chavez v Martinez). Besides, the prosecutors don't plan on using those initial statements in court anyway.
The length of the interrogation was necessitated by a tracheostomy, which slowed down the ability to ask questions and get clear answers, the DoJ further argued:
Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev "readily admitted his own involvement" in the 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon "from the moment the agents began questioning" him, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Wednesday.
The prosecution refuted the defense's claims that such statements – made from Mr. Tsarnaev's hospital bed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston in the hours after his arrest – are inadmissible in court because the federal agents had not informed him of his right to an attorney. …
The prosecution further insisted that "the length of the questioning was not designed to break down Tsarnaev's will to resist so that he would confess," but rather was necessitated by the suspect's need for frequent breaks and difficulty speaking due to a tracheostomy.
ABC follows up today on the possibility of coordination:
But ABC News reported last month that many senior current and former counterterrorism officials — including former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul and former Joint IED Defeat Organization director Army Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero — remain skeptical that the Tsarnaevs built their bombs solely from instructions they found posted online.
A side by side comparison last year of the pressure cooker IED design found in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's 2010 debut issue of "Inspire" magazine with evidence collected in Boston showed significant differences in the design and construction, according to analysis by the FBI's Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center, ABC News reported last month. …
Searches afterward of their residences, vehicles and other places they had frequented found no trace of the fine black powder siphoned from fireworks that were used in their IEDs, "again strongly suggesting that others had built, or at least helped the Tsarnaevs build, the bombs," the government filing stated.
This motion by the defense looks like a clear loser, but then again, so does their case. The DoJ motion still doesn't clearly answer the question it raises — what help, if any, did the Tsarnaevs get from organized terrorists? Perhaps the trial will answer that question in the end.


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The Day of Archaeology 2011, happily, fell on the same date as a scheduled meeting of the EES' Board of Trustees: an excellent reason to take a day away from my largely non-archaeological 'day job' and to reflect upon my productivity on the day. Consequently, the morning started with some prep work for a forthcoming lecture and article before I travelled in to the Bloomsbury offices of the EES.
The Trustees, numbering fifteen and drawn from the worlds of Egyptology, academia and business, meet six times a year in order to govern the work of the Society and to consider and ratify the recommendations of the Society's various task groups.
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- Causes of the War
- The Mistakes of 1939-1940
- The Mistakes of 1941
- The Mistakes of 1942
- The Mistakes of 1943-1945
|Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain
In 1941 the world was plunged into one of the largest wars in human history. The Axis - Germany, Italy and later Japan were succeeding in their attacks on the Allies - Great Britain and the Soviet Union. But by 1941 the Axis had already thrown away their best chance, although a slim one, of ultimate victory. In 1940 Germany had not pressed its attacks on Britain, instead it had attacked the Soviet Union. In 1941 the Axis continued to make mistakes which caused them to loose even more chances of victory. Germany's made the mistake of failing in their attempt to defeat Russia. But the Axis' greatest mistake was causing the United States to join the war. That defeated their last chances for survival. When the United States declared war, the Allies had twice the men as the Axis, and more industrial capability. Forcing the USA to join the war was the greatest mistake of 1941. All the rest were minor compared to it.
|Russian tanks and soldiers
Last time we talked about Hitler's mistake of declaring war on the Soviet Union. He made a big mistake when he decided to declare war on Russia while he was still fighting Britain. The Soviets were willing to join Germany as allies, and if this had happened they would have had a much better chance of ultimate victory. Hitler's mistakes did not end when he decided to attack Russia. The attack was launched on June 22nd 1941. It was the largest attack in known military history, with 4.5 million Axis soldiers attacking along a 1,800 mile front. The Russians, who thought that they were about to become Germany's allies, were caught completely by surprise. The German attack was initially successful. They captured 300 miles of Russian territory, and many soldiers. But in July, Hitler, against the advice of his generals, decided to delay the attack on Moscow, where the main Russian army was, and instead attempt to capture Leningrad in the north and the Russian oil fields in the south. This was a mistake. They were not able to capture Leningrad, and when they turned to attack Moscow they were not able to capture it either because of the delay.
|Russian troops advance against the Germans in winter conditions
The Soviets had several great advantages. First they had a huge amount of territory. "Only vast Russia had the supreme advantage of Depth; and this was once again to prove her salvation."1 Second they had the winter. Napoleon in 1812 was defeated by the Russian winter, and Hitler suffered the same demise. The Germans were not prepared for the snow and cold. Third, they had almost immeasurable reserves of manpower, which although untrained and unarmed, could eventually be turned into soldiers. Through these advantages and Hitler's mistake mentioned earlier the Germans were not able to conquer the Soviet Union.
Hitler's policy before and during WW2 was "one at a time." He would only attack one nation at a time, thus preventing other nations from banding together with them. In this way he was able to easily defeat nations that would have been much more difficult if they had been able to band together. This was what he did to the United States. Eventually he would have attacked them, but he did not want to declare war on them until he had defeated the British Empire and the Soviet Union. Since the US Constitution requires that the President get the Congress to declare war, President Roosevelt was not able to get the Congress to declare war on the Axis until they were actually attacked. Even though they were supposed to be neutral, the USA still helped the British massively by giving them huge amounts of munitions. Germany, however, just ignored this because they did not want to fight the United States until they were done with Britain and the Soviet Union. As Churchill said, "[Hitler] always dreaded the consequences of war with the United States, and insisted that German forces should avoid provocative action."2
|Japanese battleships
But then in 1941 Japan decided that the Axis was going to win the war, so they wanted to join on their side. Japan's targets were the eastern holdings of Britain, the Netherlands and also the United States. Japan decided that it needed to strike the United States pacific fleet stationed in Pearl Harbor so that they would not be able to resist Japanese conquests. They wrongly thought that if they attacked Britain's colonies in the east the American fleet would attack them. This would probably not have happened. Hitler disagreed with Japan's decision to attack the US. He thought that they should first attack and capture the British and Dutch colonies, then attack the United States. "[Germany] urged the Japanese Government to strike without delay at Malaya and Singapore and not to bother about the United States. Hitler had already enough on his shoulders without drawing them in."3 Winston Churchill, the leader of the English Empire said, "My deepest fear was that the Japanese would attack us or the Dutch, and that constitutional difficulties would prevent the United States from declaring war."4
Compared to the United States, Japan was nothing. Bringing in Japan on their side and the United States on the other would hurt the Axis greatly. Japan was temporarily in a better position because they were ready for war and closer to where the battles would be fought, but ultimately their strength was not even close to America's. Churchill said this before Japan attacked,
Viewing the vast, sombre scene as dispassionately as possible, it would seem a very hazardous adventure for the Japanese people to plunge quite needlessly into a world struggle in which they may well find themselves opposed in the Pacific by States whose populations comprise nearly three-quarters of the human race. If steel is the basic foundation of modern war, it would be rather dangerous for a Power like Japan, whose steel production is only about seven million tons a year, to provoke quite gratuitously a struggle with the United states, whose steel production is now about ninety millions; and this would take no account of the powerful contribution which the British Empire can make.5
The Japanese did not listen to Hitler, and continued to prepare their attack on Pearl Harbor. They struck without warning on December 7th, 1941. Their attack was mostly successful. Four American battleships were sunk, the other four were disabled. Almost 200 aircraft were destroyed, and 150 more damaged. But even though America's navy was severally damaged, it still had many more resources than the Japanese. After the attack Germany, Japan and Italy declared war on the United States; Britain declared war on Japan and the United States declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy.
|Japanese Planes attack Pearl Harbor
[N]ow at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! … We had won the war. England would live; Britain would live; the Commonwealth of Nations and the Empire would live. How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care. … Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force. The British Empire, the Soviet Union, and now the United States, … were, according to my lights, twice or even thrice the force of their antagonists. No doubt it would take a long time. … [B]ut all this would be merely a passing phase. United we could subdue everybody else in the world. May disasters, immeasurable cost and tribulation lay ahead, but there was no more doubt about the end.6Winston Churchill turned out to be right. The Axis was not able to defeat the combined strength of the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Japan's attack on the United States combined with Germany's failed attack on Russia destroyed the Axis' chances for final victory.
|USS Arizona burns after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
1 Churchill, Winston. The Second World War. (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd 1948) volume 3, volume 3, p. 338
2 Ibid, p. 126
3 Ibid, p. 160
4 Ibid, p. 534
5 Ibid, p. 528-529
6 Ibid, p. 539-540


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The heavyweight came within a hair of rescue from Dean after being felled by Junior dos Santos' punches in the main event of this past Saturday's UFC 131 event. But the referee's experience told him that Carwin could continue.
"I was definitely very close to stopping the fight," he today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "Maybe one more unblocked punch I would have, but I'm always looking for a reason to allow a fight to continue."
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If Dean hadn't seen the fighter raising his hand to block the punches during the onslaught, the whole thing might have been over in the first round. But Carwin eventually righted himself, and the bout went on.
"Referees are not here to interfere and take part in the outcomes," Dean said. "So if you can see if someone is working on something and moving in a direction to better his position, you're going to always try to give him a chance to work that out.
"That's what Shane Carwin was doing. He did a good job, and he was able to weather the storm, and he came back."
Dean, who's refereed thousands of fights in 11 years as the third man in the cage, received high praise from UFC president Dana White following the event.
"I don't know this guy," White said. "We don't hang out. I've said hi to him, but I've never said two words. Herb Dean is the best referee in the business. I thought it before [tonight].
"When you've got a fighter there, sometimes these guys get scared, and they get nervous or whatever, and they don't want to get booed. You're in charge in there. You make the decisions."
An early passion for the sport
Dean can't remember when he started refereeing. Sometime in 1999, he said, at a King of the Cage event held in Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, Calif. They were the dark days of the sport, a time when fighters could wear wrestling shoes, and soccer kicks and knees to the head of a downed opponent were legal.
He had been training with Larry Landless, a fighter and sometime-referee, to fight professionally. In the meantime, he went to local events to help out. He set up chairs, passed out flyers, built the cage, and acted as a backstage runner. In his day job, he worked as a grip on film and TV sets and occasionally taught anti-drug classes at a hospital. He eventually asked Landless if he could give refereeing a try.
"After my first match, I thought, 'Wow, there's a lot going on here,'" Dean said. "I spent a lot of time thinking about it and talking to other officials. It was a lot more involved than I thought it would be. It was actually serious. Then I started spending time thinking about it and realized I really liked doing it."
Soon, he was doing the job on a regular basis and building a name in Southern California as one of the go-to guys. When MMA became legal in 2006, he had already overseen hundreds of fights.
He's not always managed to avoid controversy. He was roundly booed following a stoppage victory for Tito Ortiz at UFC 61, and he caught flack during "The Ultimate Fighter 10" for not stopping a fight between Roy Nelson and Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson in the reality show's preliminary round.
But he's also made some critical calls. Most famously, he spotted Tim Sylvia's arm breaking during a heavyweight title fight at UFC 48 and immediately stopped the fight (before first blurting out an expletive). He was viciously booed until the replays were shown in the arena.
Situations such as the one he encountered this past Saturday are not new. But if he does run across something he hasn't seen before, he tries to think things through so he make better calls the next time out.
Lately, though, he's been making all the right calls.
"There's always going to be something different," Dean said. "But after refereeing thousands of matches, I've had a few things happen. So some of the things that happen, I've been there before. Whether I did it right or wrong the first time, I've had a chance to think about it, and that's helped."
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Making the right call has, of course, been a constant source of aggravation for fans when it comes to the judging process.
Another round of baffling calls at UFC 131 prompted fans to get out their pitchforks, and White was more than willing to lead the charge. After a judge gave Darren Elkins all three rounds over Michihiro Omigawa in the event's opening fight, the executive gave Omigawa his show and win money.
"Overruled," White said.
Dean, of course, is a little too busy to be scoring a fight as it happens.
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But when it comes to improving the quality of officiating, he said that education is the best way to make things better. Both he and referee "Big" John McCarthy teach classes in Southern California on judging and refereeing.
While there will always be controversies in MMA, hopefully there will be fewer as time goes on.
"Just for the fact that people are talking about it, and people are showing examples – 'OK, this is a 10-8 round, and this isn't, and this is why' – as long as conversations like that are happening, things are going to get better," Dean said.
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The program is designed to enable students to achieve the following goals:
- Recognize and evaluate a variety of ethical, social, legal, and political values intertwined in the production and consumption of technical communications.
- Analyze the uses and applications of new communication technologies.
- Acquire historical and critical understanding of rhetorical theories and practices.
- Master a variety of research and analytical methods, especially as these apply to the study and practical application of oral, written, and visual communication in professional contexts.
- Acquire a practical and theoretical understanding of workplace dynamics including client relations and project management skills.
What does the MA in Professional Writing and Editing require?
The degree requires 30 hours of coursework in the following distributions:
1. Required Classes (9 hours) The following classes are specifically required and offered regularly: * English 601: Introduction to Composition Studies * English 602: Theory and Practice of Editing * English 605: Professional Writing Theory and Research
2. Professional Writing Electives (6 hours) Students will individualize their master's program by choosing two 600-level courses from an approved list of courses in related fields. Courses will fulfill the Professional Writing Electives if they focus on any of the following topics: * Development and circulation of texts * Humanities computing * Communication * Design and production of texts * Language theory * Online text production
3. General Distribution (9-12 hours) Students must complete 9-12 hours of general English studies. Courses will include literature, writing, and/or linguistics courses offered by the Department of English and chosen in consultation with the student's adviser. These credits, with the 3-6 hours in the Practical Application section, must add up to 15 hours.
Students may not use the same course to fulfill the General Distribution and Professional Writing Electives requirements. General distribution hours may often include requirements dictated by graduate teaching status, prior coursework, and departmental guidelines.
4. Practical Application (3-6 hours) Students must either participate in an internship or write an MA thesis.
Internships (3 hours) Students who choose the internship option will be placed in a local program or organization for 8-10 hours a week for 12-15 weeks. Students will engage in a variety of supervised writing tasks, including research, editing, proofreading, project management, and content development. At the end of the internship period, students will submit a portfolio to the Professional Writing Coordinator that documents and reflects on their internship experience.
MA in PWE Thesis (3-6 hours) The MA thesis is a work of scholarship in the form of an extended research paper (usually 50-75 pages) on a topic in the field. The thesis is directed by a regular member of the graduate faculty and two additional committee members. Students must satisfactorily defend their completed projects before their committees and anyone else who wishes to attend.
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It goes without saying that death is a complicated and often devastating emotional experience. When someone close to us is grieving, the first thing we often ask ourselves is how we can help. But when the grieving person is a parent or relative, and the deceased was someone we were also close to, this process becomes even more complicated. Not only do we struggle with how to help our loved one cope with their loss, we also struggle with prioritizing their grief against our own. The most important thing to remember about grief is that it isn't something easily fixed – and it shouldn't be. Grief is a process, one that's vitally important to the grieving person's emotional health and well-being. This might seem obvious. But when we're faced with a grieving person or our own grief, our first impulse is often to ask how the grief can be stopped. Instead, we should ask ourselves how we can support our loved ones (and ourselves) through grieving. It's also important to remember that everyone grieves differently. As the American Hospice Foundation points out, it's often easy to forget that losing a spouse is different than losing a parent (or step-parent, uncle, or aunt). Keep in mind that your loved one's grieving process will be different than your own. With that considered, here are some of the ways you can help a loved one grieve:
Finally, remember that just as no two people grieve exactly the same way, there is no right or wrong way to grieve. Above all else, the best thing you can do for a person in grief is to support them: to let them know their grief is normal and understandable, and that they are not alone.
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More than three million children in the United States have hearing loss. Hearing aids can help improve hearing and speech, especially in children with sensorineural hearing loss (hearing loss in the inner ear due to damaged hair cells or a damaged hearing nerve). Sensorineural hearing loss can be caused by noise, injury, infection, certain medications, birth defects, tumors and problems with blood circulation.
Hearing aids are electronic or battery-operated devices that can amplify and change sound. A microphone receives the sound and converts it into sound waves. The sound waves are then converted into electrical signals. Children as young as 2 months can be fitted with hearing aids.
The type of hearing aid recommended for your child will depend on several factors, including his/her physical limitations, medical condition and personal preference. There are many different types of hearing aids on the market, with companies continuously inventing newer, improved hearing aids. However, there are four basic types of hearing aids available today. Consult your child's physician for additional information on each of the following types:
These hearing aids come in plastic cases that fit in the outer ear. Generally used for mild to severe hearing loss, ITE hearing aids can accommodate other technical hearing devices, such as the telecoil, a mechanism used to improve sound during telephone calls. However, their small size can make it difficult to make adjustments. In addition, ITE hearing aids can be damaged by ear wax and drainage.
Canal aids fit directly in the ear canal and come in two styles: in-the-canal (ITC) aid and completely-in-canal (CIC) aid. Customized to fit the size and shape of the individual's ear canal, canal aids are generally used for mild to moderate hearing loss. However, because of their small size, removal and adjustment may be more difficult. In addition, canal aids can be damaged by ear wax and drainage.
Generally reserved for profound hearing loss or if the other types of hearing aids will not accommodate, body aids are attached to a belt or pocket and connected to the ear with a wire.
Nearly all children who have a hearing loss that may be improved with hearing aids can benefit from these devices. The type of hearing aid recommended may depend on several factors, including, but not limited to, the following:
Once the hearing aids have been fitted for the ears, your child should begin to gradually wear the hearing aid. Because hearing aids do not restore normal hearing, it may take time to get used to the different sounds transmitted by the device. The American Academy of Otolaryngology recommends the following when beginning to wear hearing aids:
Hearing aids need to be kept dry. Methods for cleaning hearing aids vary depending on the style and shape. Other tips for taking care of hearing aids include the following:
A medical examination is required before purchasing a hearing aid. Hearing aids can be purchased from an otolaryngologist (a physician who specializes in disorders of the ear, nose, throat and related structures of the head and neck), an audiologist (a specialist who can evaluate and manage hearing and balance problems) or an independent company. Styles and prices vary greatly. The National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders recommends asking the following questions when buying hearing aids:
Hearing aids typically need to be replaced after about five years. New, programmable and digital hearing aids, which can be adjusted as the level of hearing changes, may reduce the need for replacement.
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Strange Brew: A Novel (Callahan Garrity)
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The winds of change are blowing, bringing gentrification to Callahan Garrity's funky Atlanta neighborhood. Though it probably won't harm her House Mouse housecleaning service, not everyone welcomes the rebirth. And when the body of a murdered microbrewer is discovered in the aftermath of a furious Halloween gale, suspicion falls on the aging "flower child" shopkeeper whom the victim put out of business.
A former cop, Callahan isn't as quick to condemn a colorful local character as some law officers still on the force. But her investigative zeal is stirring up secrets that are forcing her to reassess old friendships and a one-time love—and is brewing up more lethal trouble than Callahan and her "mice" can safely swallow.
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I am holding in my hands the results of this week's puzzle -- no, not a collection of paper slips, but the smoothie ingredients themselves, blended together into what may or may not be actual deliciousness. If you have no idea whatsoever what I'm talking about, here's a puzzle recap:
In order to call my evening treat a smoothie (which is healthy) rather than a milkshake (which is not), healthy things like banana and protein powder and yoghurt must outweigh delicious things like ice cream and chocolate sauce. How can I combine the ingredients below to maximize deliciousness points of a 16oz glass while remaining able to term the concoction a smoothie, by volume?
1. Chocolate sauce: 10 points of deliciousness for first ounce, and half again for each subsequent ounce.
2. Wheat grass: 10 points of health per ounce. Must be counterbalanced by at least double the volume of ice cream.
3. Banana: 5 points of health per ounce.
4. Peanut butter: 4 points health, 2 points deliciousness per ounce.
5. Raw egg: despite chance for egregious GI disease, 6 points of health per ounce, max 2 ounces.
6. Protein powder: 7 points of health per ounce, max of two.
7. Ice cream: 6 points of deliciousness per ounce.
8. Sugary vanilla yoghurt: 2 points health, 3 points deliciousness per ounce.
9. Honey: 8 points of deliciousness per ounce. After two ounces, decreases by half again for each subsequent ounce.
10. Milk: 3 points health, 1 point deliciousness per ounce.
And what I'm now holding in my hands contains the following, as many people who submitted correct answers this week discerned:
1 oz chocolate sauce, 4 oz wheat grass, 1 oz raw egg (or banana), 2 oz protein powder, 8 oz ice cream.
This concoction yields 58 points of deliciousness and 60 points of health -- and, I found, requires significant ice cream melting in order to succumb to blending. It's also a little heavy on the wheat grass. (Wow-ee! It's like eating a bale of alfalfa. Anyway.)
The winner of this week's $50 ThinkGeek gift certificate is...Gamma! Gamma also points out that: "If we remove the integer constraint, then: 1 oz. chocolate, 4.1 oz wheat grass, 0.7 oz raw egg, 2 oz protein powder, and 8.2 oz ice cream gives exactly 59.2 points of deliciousness and 59.2 points of health--removing simply a pinch of chocolate and replacing with a pinch of raw egg will make this a smoothie rather than a milkshake."
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