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06/05/13 at 23:57:33
i visited a friend last weekend and hooked up my torii to his janszen hybrid panel speakers. he normally uses a sanders solid state rated at 450 per side. at the end of the visit, he was thinking of ways to sell the sanders. the depth and clarity were not a surprise, but the bass wallop sure was. it was not even a close call. these speakers are rated at either 87 dbl or 90 dbl depending on who you talk to at a nominal 8 ohms. we were able to comfortably drive these above a level we could talk at.
very impressive indeed.
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Tom knows that following two listening sessions that mated my Janszens with his Torii MK3 I pulled the trigger and ordered the amp. The sound of the Torii brought out the best of the Janszens and convinced me that I haven't been hearing all they can give, especially in the bass. Today I go back and forth between using a subwoofer or not. With the Torii I simply won't use it.
The only real doubt I had to work through was the issue of enough power. My Sanders Magtech SS amp is a brute and in fact puts my speakers at risk should I push things too much. I find it amusing that once the Torii arrives I will have two amps that are both outside the bounds of recommended power for my speakers, the Magtech being too much and the Torii too low. This is according to the speaker's owners manual. I have found however that using both in moderation work just fine but couldn't be more different in their delivery.
I'll likely keep both amps. The Torii was bought for me, for critical listening and I don't care that my speaker's efficiency isn't ideal. We found that the Torii can take the listening levels high enough for me and when using my active preamp the dynamics were real good.
The ESL panel's primary appeal is quality of sound, not quantity although they can produce volume without distortion if the watts are there. The SS amp will be around if I want to rock and roll with those extra watts. For now, I sit in line waiting like everyone before me.
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Congratulations! The wait will not be easy but when you receive the amp you'll be very happy (as you know, which is really nice, knowing what to expect).
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I too have experienced this "phenomena" of bass with the Torii. Before I had my single full-range driver, high-efficiency, crossoverless DIY speakers done, I had my Torii mk3 hooked to a pair of Martin Logan Electrostats (Vista model) and that was one of the first things I noticed - bass - as in more with the Torii than I had with a very highly regarded and monster of a class A/B SS amp, with a power supply that you could weld mild steel with. And the quality and tonality of the bass was improved with the Torii too to my ears also. Now I could not get the volume and ultimate high-level dynamics with only 25 watts, but what I did get was very high SQ.
With the high-efficiency, single full-range driver, crossoverless speakers I now have... the difference is even more profound. I've hooked 5 different SS amps to these speaks, and though some exhibit some desirable sonic characteristics - NONE of them produced bass like the Torii on these speakers - not even close - no comparison - hear the difference with the first note that springs into the room off the speaker diaphragms... it's quite astonishing to be honest. And everything else improves substantially also - huge leap in realism, closer to the "you are there" experience that we all seek. I have never heard a piano or standup bass sound so real and convincing from a stereo system - anywhere - at any price. Folks, the Torii with these types of speakers is the real deal.... you owe it to yourself to hear it and experience it. But be prepared, you are likely to be smitten and laying down your long green and standing in line to get a Torii and a pair of "lowther type" speakers to go with it. *
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Question by Faky McFakerson 854 · Sep 19, 2011 at 04:18 PM · recipessoupstockbone-brothchicken
Howdy, hackers.
I've been making quite a bit of chicken stock lately (using this recipe, more or less: http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008/01/homemade-chicken-broth-crockpot-recipe.html), and foresee myself making more in the future, since I tend to make a chicken once a week, and besides that, have a good free source of bones from a local restaurant.
1- What's your favorite recipe for broth/stock/whatever the kids are calling it nowadays? I like my recipe- it's quick, fairly easy, makes good results- but if you have a KILLER recipe, or something specifically suited to another type of bone (beef, pork, etc), I'd love to hear it.
2- Some nights I'm pretty short on creativity- but want soup. Any favorite recipes out there for things to make with said stock?
2a- I tend to love "cream of" soups, and tolerate dairy pretty well overall. But sometimes I'm craving the creamy texture, and it's not a day where I can put up with any/any more dairy. Any favorite recipes with a similar texture- but no dairy? Coconut milk?
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Answer by luckybastard 12633 · Sep 19, 2011 at 04:22 PM
AKD recently sent me this one using chicken feet that looks relatively easy.
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Answer by Jenny 2 111 · Sep 19, 2011 at 09:30 PM
I usually just throw a couple of pounds of beef and/or lamb bones in a crock pot, cover with water and 1/4 cup vinegar, cook for 36 to 48 hours, strain, then make soup with whatever veggies and meat I have on hand -- boil everything for an hour on the stove. If refrigerated before use, the stock will have the consistency of jello with a nice layer of fat on top.
I've found it's not necessary to roast the bones beforehand, or skim anything off other than straining the stock at the end. Super easy!
My favorite soup is probably something like this:
1-2 lb chorizo or stew meat 1-2 onions celery bunch equal amount of carrots few potatoes cabbage head kale bunch paprika, garlic, pepper, salt to taste
Saute the meat and onions in coconut oil, then add chopped veggies and broth. Boil 1 hour, or until cooked to your liking.
Makes 6-8 quarts.
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Answer by Jess 1 47 · Sep 19, 2011 at 10:19 PM
To make stock, I take bones (we save bones from several meals in the freezer until I have enough - sometimes we separate by species, sometimes not), throw them in the crock pot, cover with water, add a tablespoon or so of vinegar (this helps get minerals out of the bones, and doesn't really change the flavor), turn it on low and leave for overnight or longer. Sometimes I'll throw in an onion or veggie scraps or something, but for the most part I don't spice it while cooking, but leave it relatively neutral to be more versatile. I don't salt it for the same reason - I can always add salt later if I want to. Not really a killer recipe, but dead simple, and a good base for other things.
Zucchini, squash, and liver (cooked as desired, then pureed) can all add creaminess. You could probably do similar with other veggies. Or eggs - mix them up, then stir while adding so that they don't just cook up into a mass. If you have a high powered blender and the stock-making process has softened the bones enough, you can blend the bones themselves up for added creaminess (No one better question where my paleo kids get their calcium!). Instead of coconut milk, I've blended shredded coconut with broth then cooked for a while longer, and it turns out very well (coconut milk also works, but shredded coconut is cheaper).
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Answer by Happy Now 27658 · Sep 19, 2011 at 11:48 PM
I make a super simple curry soup with with bone broth. Broth, can of coconut milk, can of pumpkin puree, a spoonful of red curry paste. It seems to accept any veg/meat combination I put in it, and takes no time to make.
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Answer by Rhubarb 5211 · Sep 20, 2011 at 01:06 AM
Beef Stock
about 4 pounds beef marrow and knuckle bones; 1 calves foot, cut into pieces (optional); 3 pounds meaty rib or neck bones; 4 or more quarts cold filtered water; 1/2 cup vinegar; 3 onions, coarsely chopped; 3 carrots, coarsely chopped; 3 celery stalks, coarsely chopped; several sprigs of fresh thyme, tied together; 1 teaspoon dried green peppercorns, crushed; l bunch parsley
Place the knuckle and marrow bones and optional calves foot in a very large pot with vinegar and cover with water. Let stand for one hour. Meanwhile, place the meaty bones in a roasting pan and brown at 350 degrees in the oven. When well browned, add to the pot along with the vegetables. Pour the fat out of the roasting pan, add cold water to the pan, set over a high flame and bring to a boil, stirring with a wooden spoon to loosen up coagulated juices. Add this liquid to the pot. Add additional water, if necessary, to cover the bones; but the liquid should come no higher than within one inch of the rim of the pot, as the volume expands slightly during cooking. Bring to a boil. A large amount of scum will come to the top, and it is important to remove this with a spoon. After you have skimmed, reduce heat and add the thyme and crushed peppercorns.
Simmer stock for at least 12 and as long as 72 hours. Just before finishing, add the parsley and simmer another 10 minutes. You will now have a pot of rather repulsive-looking brown liquid containing globs of gelatinous and fatty material. It doesn't even smell particularly good. But don't despair. After straining you will have a delicious and nourishing clear broth that forms the basis for many other recipes in this book. Remove bones with tongs or a slotted spoon. Strain the stock into a large bowl. Let cool in the refrigerator and remove the congealed fat that rises to the top. Transfer to smaller containers and to the freezer for long-term storage.
Taken from http://www.westonaprice.org/food-features/broth-is-beautiful
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Answer by air_hadoken 3747 · Sep 20, 2011 at 02:10 AM
I save months of chicken bones and put them in my 8qt stock pot, add an onion, a couple stalks of celery, 2 whole carrots or 12 baby carrots, cover with water, add a sprig of parsley and 2-3 sprigs of thyme (out of my garden!) a bay leaf, and 8-12 peppercorns. Put the pot over LOW heat, as the trick is to get the barest of simmers, maybe 190 degrees. Then I skim it in the first hour and leave it on the heat overnight. in the morning I strain out the solids and, once it cools down to 140, drop in a zipper bag full of ice water to quickly cool it down. Then it's ready for staging in the fridge; usually I use it quickly but what I don't use I make individual portions of 1/2pt to 1pt and freeze them.
Sometimes i add tomato paste but it's not strictly necessary; tomato paste is better when you're making brown beef stock and you roast the paste on the bones in the oven before making stock.
If you want to make demiglace, once the solids are out you can turn up the heat to medium-high to high and really get the boil going.
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Answer by jesuisjuba - paleorepublic.com 20596 · Sep 19, 2011 at 10:11 PM
I've only made chicken stock, I can get beef/duck/pork stock from my butchers - chicken too but I like mine, and take the carcass + the bits and pieces, leek, onion, carrots, celery - included the leaves, herbs garlic, peppercorns, and put all that in about a quart of water, maybe two. Skim the top for about the first hour then simmer for the next 6-8 hours keeping an eye on the water level to make sure everything stays covered. Strain. Done.
Recipes: Avgolemono without rice. If you want the texture use finely chopped cauliflower. The base for Chowder - I use plain mashed potato to give it texture. Same thing for a mushroom soup. I'll cook down a bunch of celery, carrot, potato, onion, puree and add back in for an extra veggie boost + the thickening effects. Tom Ka Kai or any Thai soups are super easy to put together, nice and spicy (or not spicy). I use Red Boat fish sauce when I do those. Umm.. and probably Pozole - just omit the hominy and use firm potato. Or eat the hominy as a treat :)
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Answer by staceychev 3594 · Sep 20, 2011 at 01:28 PM
The recipe you posted is too complicated for me, especially since I'm a big believer in not seasoning stock in any way, shape, or form! (That way, you don't have to worry about the flavors of the stock contradicting the flavors of the recipe it eventually ends up in.)
I basically throw a roasted chicken carcass in the crock pot with a couple of tbs of apple cider vinegar, a couple of carrots, a quartered onion (unpeeled, but organic!), and some celery, and water of course. During the summer, I usually only let it sit over night before I strain it and it makes a light stock. In fall and winter, I like a richer flavor, so I'll usually let it cook for two days.
Then, I cool it in the fridge, strain the stuff out and put it in containers to freeze, unless I'm using it right away.
One of my favorite soups is a riff on this sausage and kale soup from Everyday Food. I don't use the potatoes, and use a fresh sausage that I brown first, instead of a smoked one. Sometimes I'll top it with some grated parmesan, and I'm definitely liberal with the red pepper. (I also will use Schichimi Togarashi when I serve it, just for me and the husband, and leave it less spicy for the kids.)
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Dead Poets Society (1989)
by Christopher Cantwell
First off, I don't want to spoil this movie for you, so if you haven't seen it, but want to, don't read further.
Last night at 11:30, I turned on the TV and Dead Poets Society was just starting. I ended up watching it all the way through, until 2 a.m.
I hadn't seen this movie since my freshman year of high school—watched it in English class, of course—and I barely remembered it. I vaguely remembered that one of the kids killed themselves at the end, but I couldn't remember if it was Robert Sean Leonard or Ethan Hawke.
I also thought there was a scene at the end where the parents of one of the kids who didn't kill themselves had a tearful moment of realization with their son and said something like "I never want anything like that to happen to you" which then lead to an elevated level of mutual understanding between child and father. Apparently, I completely invented this scene, and in retrospect I'm glad it wasn't in the movie. More on that later.
As I started watching, I had a subconscious feeling that this film was suspect in many intellectual circles, and that many of its memorable parts were seen as cliché or trite.
Let's go deeper. I'm going to mention that I've always had a subconscious dread or haunted feeling about the actor Robert Sean Leonard. Even though I didn't remember specifically who had killed himself in this movie, I had a gut feeling that it was RSL, though it was something I never addressed in my head, and in retrospect I now believe that whenever Dead Poets Society popped up in my thoughts, I would immediately go to RSL killing himself. Then I would try to correct myself and think "No, it wasn't him, actually, it was one of the other guys."
Still, every time Robert Sean Leonard appears in anything, I think of him killing himself in this movie. I'm a big fan of House, and RSL is charming and funny in that show. But every time an episode starts and he walks onscreen, I think "Robert Sean Leonard killed himself in Dead Poets Society." Apparently, the idea of Robert Sean Leonard killing himself terrifies me. So much so that I built a construct in my head denying it had happened.
I went to an all-boys private high school. Not a boarding school, but a uniformed prep school steeped in tradition. My first reaction is to say "that has nothing to do with my intrigue over this film," but it HAS TO, right? I mean it's impossible for it not to. Also, my wife is a poet. I'm sure that has something to do with my interest.
But ultimately it was about the suicide. "Who kills himself?" is what I kept morbidly asking. There was relief to be found in thinking it was going to be Ethan Hawke. Why? Because I wanted to disprove my subconscious knowledge that it was Robert Sean Leonard. I honestly don't know why. I'll take a stab, but I feel like it will make more sense to you than it does to me. To me, it still feels like I'm grasping at straws.
There was an upperclassman at my high school and he was heavily involved in the theater (like the character of Neil Perry). This boy killed himself when I was a freshman, probably right around the time I first saw this movie. I knew him fairly well, because I was also heavily involved in theater. Now, it's clear to me 14 years later that this boy who died was gay. Not out, but certainly gay. And it's clear to me that Robert Sean Leonard's character Neil is certainly gay. Since the movie was made in 1989, Neil merely wants to act. He's cast as Puck and his father is disdainful. It's left at that. But it seems carefully chosen—Neil's father stands in the back of the theater during the play and watches his son dance around and afterward takes him home and tells him he's going to military school. If this were just a story about Neil wanting to be an actor, he would've been cast as Hamlet and his father would've seen him and there would've been one of those scenes where afterward he's blown away by his son's skill ("I was wrong") and then a happier ending. But it must be on purpose that the performance Mr. Perry sees his son give is one where the only thing to take away from it is "Wow, my son is GAY."
I also want to point out that I feel Neil is comprised of a lot of the vulnerable things about me—optimistic and idealistic, high-strung, and with a father looming large in his life (though my dad is very different from Mr. Perry). When this character takes his own life, it chills me to the core.
In a larger sense, I am personally invested in all these young men for reasons like the above. Sure, a lot of the film comes off as didactic, but what isn't at that age? I want Knox Overstreet to get that girl he wants (because I've been there). I want Todd Anderson to find a voice (because I've been there). Yeah, maybe Mr. Keating (Robin Williams) isn't that realistic, but he seems to be made up of all the things that wake us up around that age. Although, I will say Keating has some very human moments. When he finds his volume of verse in Neil's desk and then just breaks down—losing a student that he inspired—a person would carry that for the rest of their life. Keating also graduated Weldon in '42, which makes me think he served in the war. It would be a believable motivation that someone would come back from that atrocity and have a weird obsession with how one day we will all die, then devote his life to motivating young people to enjoy it while they can.
All of which leads me to say this movie is good, or rather, I liked this movie. It wears itself on its sleeve. I appreciate that part of it because it's done well, and it deals with a period in life when we usually wear ourselves on our sleeves. And I arrived at the conclusion that the parts we see as cliché and quote ironically now…well, we do so because those parts are good enough to stick around and linger. In our subconscious.
I can see people's self-defense mechanisms easily being triggered by this movie. However, I leave a lot of the criticism it generally receives to the emotionally arid.
And here's why I'm glad Dead Poets Society doesn't have that scene of reconciliation between Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke) and his father after Neil's death. Because instead, we get that beautiful wide shot of Todd running and falling, screaming and crying, out into the endless frozen winter tundra beyond his school.
And God, if that doesn't feel like growing up.
Christopher Cantwell is a writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. He tumbls here.
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If you notice a foul smell in your house, then notice your dog looking a bit sheepish, don't blame the pet. Blame the stink bugs making a comeback in Virginia and most other parts of the country.
"We're really expecting a bigger crop of stink bugs in the region coming into 2013," Mike Raupp, entomologist at the University of Maryland, told WTOP.
The little, brown marmorated stink bugs are only about the size of pumpkin seeds, but they cause a big stink when crushed. Thank Asia for that. They arrived from there on our shores in the mid 1990s.
AGProfessional.com warns that the East Coast could take the brunt of the stink bug population explosion.
Places with the perfect climate for these guys: Virginia, Maryland and D.C.
"We're right at the epicenter, we're at the place where there are more stink bugs than anywhere on the planet, as far as we can tell, right now," Raupp told WTOP.
In addition to being annoying, stink bugs can beat up crops. GrowingProduce.com reports that in 2010 the stink bugs ravaged peach and apple orchards in the Mid-Atlantic region.


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Even with school being out, there was a lot of action under the big top in downtown Omaha.
The 84th annual Shrine Circus took center ring with a special showing at the Civic Auditorium Friday morning.
Area school children who completed the DARE program were in attendance.
Organizers were hoping for a crowd of 6,800...total attendance was well under that for this morning showing.
But that didn't damper the enthusiasm of the performers.
"It was the idea that the show must go on," Susan Beebe of the Shrine Circus said. "Our shrine performers are here in town so why not? And that's what we do so there's somebody here to see it and we're going to give them a show."
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Down through the ages women have experienced domination and often violence at the hands of men. This violence has appeared in different forms: physical, psychological, legal, financial and religious.
One of the most horrific recent examples was highlighted in a trial in Cleveland this past week. A 52-year-old man had kidnapped three teenage girls and kept them captive for ten years, bound by chains, raping and beating them. He was indicted on 139 counts of rape, 177 counts of kidnapping, seven counts of gross sexual exploitation, three counts of felonious assault, and one count of possession of criminal tools. He will spend the rest of his life in prison.
More frequently this war against women is experienced in other ways. In workplaces women confront glass ceilings and the denial of equal pay for equal work. In homes they often have to cope with domineering husbands and a lack of marriage equality. And in our nation they discover other powers and principalities trying to gain control over their bodies and uteruses. In too many places fetal personhood trumps the personhood of women.
One factor that gives this war on women such potency can be found in its religious history. Church fathers and patriarchs down through the years have demeaned women as inferior, and this has had an impact on women's lives in the church, family, and wider society. Following are some examples:
"Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman." — Saint Clement of Alexandria.
"In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God's sentence hangs still over all your sex and his punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil's gateway, you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die... Woman, you are the gate to hell." — Tertullian.
"Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God." — Bishop of Hippo Regius.
"What is the difference whether it is in a wife or a mother, it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any woman...I fail to see what use woman can be to man, if one excludes the function of bearing children." — Saint Augustine.
"The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes." — Martin Luther.
"Wife: Be content to be insignificant. What loss would it be to God or man had you never been born." — John Wesley.
"The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker." — Joseph Smith.
"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." — Pat Robertson.
Misogyny has been alive and well for many years.
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Peabody — Frances I. (Brown) Larson, of Peabody, died peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, on Friday, November 23, at the Chelsea Soldiers' Home. Frances was the beloved wife of the late Paul Larson, having shared 60 years of marriage.
Frances was born in Eastport, Maine, and was the daughter of the late Thomas and Irma (Capen) Brown. At an early age, she moved to Cambridge, where she graduated from Cambridge High and Latin in 1937. She then attended and graduated from Mount Auburn School of Nursing and subsequently enlisted as a nurse in the Army. Frances was one of six nurses to be stationed in the South Pacific during World War II. She was First Lieutenant with the 92nd Evacuation Hospital and served with her unit until the war ended.
Upon her honorable discharge, Frances worked as company nurse for Liberty Mutual before beginning her career at Salem Hospital in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. After her retirement in 1985, she brought her skills and passion for nursing to Beverly Hospital, where she volunteered in nursing and earned her 1,000 hour pin in 1993.
Throughout the years, Frances was involved in many career organizations and social groups. She was the National Treasurer and Recording Secretary of NAACOG (Nurses' Assoc. of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists). She was an active in the League of Woman Voters, the American Red Cross, and Girl Scouts of America, as well as the local Couples Club and Homemakers Club. She also loved to travel.
Frances leaves her devoted daughter, Laurie Cushing and her husband, Richard of Lynn; her cherished granddaughter, Christen Hannigan and her husband, George of Peabody; and her great-grandson, Alexander, also of Peabody, who brought constant joy to her days. She was predeceased by her sister, Elizabeth (Betty) O'Brien of Cambridge.
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Most people, when they think of invasive species these days, probably think of Burmese pythons slithering wild in the Florida Everglades.
Central New York doesn't have any exotic serpents gobbling up native wildlife, but it does have scores of invasive species. And if you think they're a minor problem, you're wrong.
Moreover, their cost goes way beyond their assault on native species. They have a direct effect on agricultural production and, in some cases, human health.
Assemblyman Pete Lopez, R-Schoharie, called invasive species a "huge problem" at the Otsego County Chamber's State of the State Breakfast last week and said he'd like to see more effort put into controlling them.
The state already spends millions of dollars to eradicate some of the worst offenders, such as Asian longhorn beetles in the downstate region. But no region is immune.
The culprits in this region include giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), which has been found in Chenango and Otsego counties. Its sap makes human and livestock skin ultrasensitive to ultraviolet, resulting in severe burns, blistering, painful sores and purplish or blackened scars. It can cause blindness if it gets into the eyes, and it's toxic to livestock when mixed with feed, according to the Cornell Cooperative Extension's New York Invasive Species Clearinghouse (www.nyis.info).
Giant hogweed may be one of the nastiest invaders, but it isn't the most pervasive, such as Japanese knotweed, and probably isn't the most costly. The truth is, there is nowhere near enough space here to list all of the invasive species present in Otsego, Delaware, Chenango or Schoharie counties, but they affect everything from livestock to timber to fruit and vegetable production.
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theseus2x wrote:Sinrus wrote:The Bracer doesn't "know" anything, it's a machine. In this page we see Parson typing information into the bracer. Furthermore, the fact that the percentage of success changed when Ossomer's info became available means that the bracer itself doesn't know what the composition of any forces are.
My point is the bracer couldn't possibly have had the information needed to make that calculation. Nor could Parson. Nor could Charlie. Yet it came up with a number that actually (in retrospect) seemed viable. Charlie and Parson were both impressed.
Parson seemed impressed. Charlie really didn't, just pleased with himself for thinking of using it.
The bracer just made a probability prediction that didn't require knowledge it didn't have. In fact, I was kinda surprised Charlie didn't already know about the decrypted at the time that conversation took place. If he didn't, he was about to find out imminently, just because of the exponential growth of the decrypted. What are the odds of any particular side getting intel on such a rapidly growing force in relatively short order? Without knowing any particulars, I'd say it's bloody likely.
And really, that's all the bracer said. It essentially used common sense. I was thinking that Parson was just trying to hedge his bets to see if he could weasel out of his deal with Charlie, not that he expected the info to be worth that much.
Parson's line (and especially his phrasing) to Charlie was more a way to deflate Charlie than it was confirming a "power" of the bracer.


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I recently renovated my entire fireplace, and I wanted to share my method with you all. It had bothered me for a while, the way it stood out from the rest of the house, and I wanted to do something about it.
The walls were white, and the fireplace was made of wood paneling and black grating. I didn't want to put a lot of work on myself, so I didn't really strip much of anything out. I mainly just worked with what was there.
I started with the frame for the fireplace. I had always thought a stone fireplace looked better than a wooden one, but I didn't have the tools or training to do a stone fireplace by myself. And besides, that would have been very expensive to start fresh with new materials. So what I did was use a stone, patterned paper. This isn't typical wallpaper though- I wanted something that could withstand the heat of the fireplace.
So I turned to my local home furnishings store and found a fire-resistant panel paper. It's thicker and more expensive than typical wallpaper, but it also resists the heat, and it looks great. It's not quite a stone fireplace, but the white and gray rocks are beautiful, and they match the rest of the room.
I also painted over the grating, using a white, fireproof paint. I know it won't last forever, but for now it looks wonderful.
This was a fairly inexpensive project, and I ended up with a look for my fireplace that I'm happy with. It's not quite enough to afford a chauffeured car to work every morning, but it does the job. If I wanted that chauffeured car, I'll have to save money on a bunch of other projects.
But you can find easy and inexpensive solutions to a lot of home improvement projects just by substituting what you want for a close approximation. I did the same thing with my kitchen. I had wanted wood paneling in the kitchen, but found it was cheaper and simpler to just put wood-patterned paper over the cupboards and various kitchen fixtures.
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Authorities say Matthew Nix had been living with the 15-year-old and having consensual sex with her. State law prohibits people 19 or older from having sex with anyone under 16 years old.
Nix told investigators that he thought the girl was 19. The girl says she told Nix she was 15.
In March, Nix pleaded no contest to sexual assault of a minor and possession of child pornography.
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The third-graders struggled to keep pace. And their teachers at Parkridge Elementary School in Corona wanted to know why.
The teachers met after school recently and delved into sheets of data and reading comprehension test questions. They quickly found the reason: Their students could predict events in a story but only a third of them could infer how an incident would affect the story's outcome.


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Are pet owners, activists and business owners increasingly at odds over how we acquire our pets? Like the 'Mommy Wars' that have spurred headlines for years, it could all be part of a big culture clash.
The options are seemingly endless: breeders, rescues, animal shelters and the Internet. In recent years, discussions over how we obtain our animals have morphed, at times, to online controversies, pet store protests and increased regulations on the pet store industry.
"I think nurturing in general is getting a lot more divisive," said Greg Ealick, a philosophy instructor at UMBC. "The increasing hostility we see in pet rearing is an echo of the increasing hostility in child rearing."
That more divisive culture of nurturing has also manifested itself in the 'Mommy Wars,' where it's debated whether breastfeeding is best, whether it's ok in public, and how to tend the young in general, he said.
"At least part of what's going on--we're thinking about pets, but we're thinking about pets as metaphors for children," he said.
Much of the public scrutiny in recent years has been centered around pet stores, some of which are accused of acquiring puppies from puppy mills or disreputable breeders.
In Columbia, an online debate has flared over the new business, , which sells luxury dog items, as well as puppies.
said that reputable breeders don't sell puppies to pet stores and instead prefer to screen potential buyers to ensure puppies go to good homes.
Catonsville readers sounded off on this issue in a previous article, which you can read here.
Charm City Puppies owners have not commented, quality pet stores and breeders are the norm.
Puppy store protests don't just occur online.
This week, police were called to a pet store protest outside a store in Orland Park, a suburb of Chicago, that sold puppies, according to the Southtown Star.
Police arrived after "words were exchanged" between a woman and a protester, the Star reported.
Kristel Masengale, a sale's associate at Today's Pet in Elkridge, said she has been in the pet store industry for 10 years—and it has changed dramatically with more regulations and laws regarding store operations.
"As long as the business is doing things right—the animals are well taken care of, the breeder are licensed and trusted, typically they'll do ok," she said.
There is no question it's become more difficult for the pet industry, said Michael Maddox, vice president of governmental affairs and the general counsel for the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, which represents the pet industry.
"We think pet stores and breeders should be subject to high standards of care," he said. "Unfortunately, you have certain elements who really are anti-pet. They don't like the idea of people buying pets at all. They'll picket stores, seek legislation banning the sale of pets. .. We think it's a very good thing for people to own pets."
Maddox pointed to legislation two years ago in Maryland (that stalled in committee) that would have banned the sale of puppies in retail pet stores.
This year, in the Maryland House of Delegates and the Senate that would require pet stores to reveal the origins of the puppies they sell and reimburse customers for vet costs if the puppy they buy becomes unexpectedly ill.
Advocates for animals said pet owners have become more aware of their choices, but aren't necessarily becoming more divisive about what is right and wrong.
Aileen Gabby, executive director of the Maryland SPCA, said pet owners today are less judgmental—but they have more pride in their choices.
"It's not shaking your finger, 'You should do this,' it's, 'Hey, I did this. I got a shelter pet, and he's great. You should do that, too,'" she said.


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Cons: "mpg, 4wd expensive to service, tires=expensive"
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"I own a Sequoia and I love it. It's fun to drive everywhere. It's very powerful when pulling out from a stop light if u put your foot on the gas pedal like you would a 6 cylinder its gonna be a little rough because its got 381 hp..it will go! It's very safe. Wouldn't recommend it for a teenage driver or if you are trying to save on gas! Ours gets on average 14 or 15mpg..which isn't alot btw! It's great for traveling long distances...very comfy has heated seats! The electronics in it is pretty cool it tells you the average speed, average mpg, the odometer, temp outside, it has buttons in the back that with the push of a button puts the 3rd row seat down for more space to put cargo. Has roof racks, Sirus XM, has a big console, glove box and a storage compartment above it too. Has running boards, the stereo is the best part because of the bass! when you get the groceries and have the bass on 5 (as high as the bass will go) u can hear go boom boom boom in the back and the groceries sound like moraccas in the back. ON the remote entry it has a button for you to lift the tail gate. Oh and if you dont wear your seat belt this truck will get you in the habit of doing it. when you put the vehicle in drive the seat belt light will start flashing and if you dont have your seat belt on within maybe 15 secs it will start dinging at you or if you are already driving and are having to reach for lets say your cell phone because its ringing and you take off your seat belt you better either ignore the phone or hurry up and get it out and put your belt back on because the dinging noise with start again if you dont.. it has bluetooth, turn signals on your mirrors, power mirrors. automatic headlights (automatically come on just before dark) or when going under a bridge or tunnel like in Atlanta, has an aux input, plenty of storage compartments and all toyotas keep their value you can put as many miles as you want on it and it will still work the same as if you just bought it yesterday! Go ahead and buy it! Sorry for all the info but i love vehicles and just trying to tell yal what all it has on it!"
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"We traded in a 2007 Escalade ESV for our 2014 Toyota Sequoia Platinum. The smooth ride, rear captains chairs and clean interior sold us on the Sequoia. We have been satisfied over all with just a few things we don't like. 1) We have an annoying rattle that seems to come from the DVD player. It is Dec 22nd today and Toyota can't see me until Dec. 27th. 2) Rear Tailgate will only open with key pad or manually from outside. Not sure if ours is broke or this is the way it works. On the ESV we just had to tap the outside button and it would go up. 3) Some of the driver's buttons are under the wheel and hard to see and reach while driving. 4) Radar Cruise Control. Only seems to let you set your speed in increments of 5 mph. 5) We miss the heated steering wheel of the ESV. 6) Radio/Nav/Entune features are cool but not super intuitive and I don't like that the screen always returns to the home screen after a few seconds. I want it to stay where I put it. We love the quality of the stereo, the ride and handling, the rear passenger areas, looks, style, etc.."
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Hope all you DirecTV folks are happy now that you have Versus and you can see tonight's Sharks-Wild battle. Yawn. But iIf you have Center Ice, you've got a great night ahead. I'm starting at 7 with Boston at Atlanta and then moving to the 7:30 Philly at Ottawa game.
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San Jose is also skidding, allowing 24 goals in losing all five games on its current road trip, and that's allowed Phoenix to keep climbing the standings.
The Coyotes, of course, got much better at the NHL trade deadline and the acquisition of West Seneca native Lee Stempniak has really keyed their team. Stempniak has nine goals since joining the Coyotes from Toronto. For those scoring at home, of course, that's nine more than Raffi Torres has since coming to Buffalo from Columbus. Hmmm, that deal seemed like a good idea at the time.
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- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes and cook until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain and mash.
- In a medium bowl combine 2 cups mashed potatoes with flour and egg. Using about 1/4 to 1/2 cup of mixture each, shape into dumplings. Press a crouton into the center of each and seal dough around it.
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Just tried this recipe and loved the ease and speed of preparation. The self rising flour is very important. I didn't peel the potatoes which gave the dumplings a less smooth texture, which we like. For our german dinner party this week I'll add some spices. The meal was great. We'll fry the sliced leftover dumplings for breakfast. My mother used to add a cube of Salami, instead of the croutons. It was the surprise for us, since meat was scarce in those days.
I made this recipe to go along with a Goulasch recipe I recently acquired. I was trying to recrete this dish I had in a German restaurant that was Goulasch with potato dumplings. The recreation wasn't anything like the restaurants but my husband LOVED it and even my picky four year old pronounced it good. I didn't have any mashed potatoes so I baked four potatoes, scooped the insides out and put them in the refrigerator to chill for about 20 min. Instead of a crouton in the center I just fried a slice of white bread in butter and used a piece of it for the center of the dumpling. As far as I can tell this added nothing to the dumpling and unless it was added becuse the potato may otherwise be raw in the center...it was unneccessary. I hd to use about 1/2 cup more flour than in the recipe must because the dough was sooooo sticky...it took more flour to get the dough off of my hands, formed and dumped into the gulasch. I also used to eggs instead of one. I put my dumplings directly in the Goulasch I was making (essentially a beef stew) and cooked them for approx. 20 min. They turned out great. Thanks for the recipe.
Delicious. I used baking potatoes because they seem to work well for homemade gnocchi too. And I think the crouton in the centre keeps the dumpling from being raw in the middle after cooking? Not sure but these are yummy with homemade chicken broth. Thanks.
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Amount Per Serving (8 total)
- Calories
- 136 cal
- 7%
- Fat
- 0.9 g
- 1%
- Carbs
- 28.3 g
- 9%
- Protein
- 3.8 g
- 8%
- Cholesterol
- 26 mg
- 9%
- Sodium
- 211 mg
- 8%
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Producer Hideo Kojima is best known for his hit series, Metal Gear Solid. In 2001 for the launch of the PlayStation 2 Kojima-San introduced the world to a different series, Zone of the Enders. So far there have been two titles, Zone of the Enders and Zone of the Enders: the 2nd Runner. The Zone of the Enders series (Z.O.E.) has become something of a cult classic with many fans hoping that Kojima-San will make a new one. Recently Hideo Kojima did announce he has begun preproduction on a third Z.O.E. title. In anticipation of this third title, publisher Konami has decided to release a HD remaster of the original two titles in Zone of the Enders HD Collection. So how well has the series held up over time? Strap yourself in. We're about to get some "High Speed Robot Action"
Both Zone of the Enders games take place in the 22nd century and center around the conflict of the Earth forces and BAHRAM forces. Mankind has colonized Mars and the moons around Jupiter. The primary drive of colonization and conflict is control over a high energy ore called Metatron. Two Orbital Frames (piloted giant battle robots), Jehuty and Anubis, are featured prominently in both games.
In Zone of the Enders a young boy, Leo Stenbuck, accidently stumbles into Jehuty while trying to hide from the slaughter of his colony by BAHRAM forces. Jehuty's AI, A.D.A., and an Earth Forces commander explain to Leo that she is to be taken to Mars for a special mission. Leo at first refuses, having just seen his friends die; he does not want to have a hand in the killing of anyone else. Leo eventually reluctantly agrees to help after it's explained to him that many more will die if A.D.A. isn't piloted to fulfill her mission (Jehuty's original pilot had been killed in the same attack on Leo's colony).
Before he fulfills A.D.A.'s mission, Leo uses Jehuty to rescue a friend, Celvice. She joins Leo as he continues to rescue citizens of the colony and fight back against BAHRAM. Along the way he battles a BAHRAM commander named Viola multiple times and eventually battles the BAHRAM leader Nohman who is piloting Jehuty's more powerful "twin" Orbital Frame, Anubis. In the end Leo finds out A.D.A.'s secret mission.
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner picks up two years after the events of the first game. Dingo Egret, a former BAHRAM Orbital Frame pilot is hiding out as a miner on the moon, Callisto. Picking up some strange Metatron signatures in the ground he investigates. He finds Jehuty hidden away as BAHRAM forces attack the mining colony in search of Jehuty. Realizing the only way to protect his fellow miners is to fight, Dingo boards and activates Jehuty which boots up the AI A.D.A. She explains how to pilot Jehuty. After successfully defending the mining colony Dingo wants to know who is commanding the attack so he pilots Jehuty to board the BAHRAM command ship. There he encounters Anubis piloted by Nohman who easily over powers him. Nohman has Dingo disembark and meet him on deck.
As he goes to meet Nohman, Dingo runs into one of the Orbital Frame pilots he defeated on Callisto, Ken Marinaris. She is not very happy with Dingo, punching him as Nohman comes in. Nohman wants Dingo to reclaim his commission as an Orbital Frame pilot and fight alongside him. Dingo, knowing how cold blooded Nohman is, refuses. Nohman proceeds to shoot Dingo, mortally wounding him. He tells Ken to dispose of the body. When Nohman is out of earshot Ken reveals that she is an Earth Forces agent deep undercover and she can save Dingo's life if he agrees to help her. Before he can answer Dingo's world goes black.
Dingo rather painfully wakes up later strapped into the pilot seat of Jehuty. Ken explains that Dingo's heart and lungs were so badly damaged that she had BAHRAM doctors directly connect him to Jehuty's life support systems. That A.D.A. and Jehuty are keeping him alive and that he will die if he leaves the cockpit. She further reveals that she can have his heart and lungs replaced, but she needs his help first to defeat Nohman. Dingo reluctantly agrees. Ken helps him and Taper, a colony militia soldier who is helping fight back against BAHRAM, escape to Mars. There they encounter Leo who has become an Orbital Frame pilot for the Earth Forces. They battle their way across Mars with Ken eventually joining up. They learn of a BAHRAM scientist named Lloyd who can upgrade Jehuty and A.D.A. to be more powerful than Anubis so Nohman can be defeated. After finding and defeating Lloyd he agrees to upgrade Jehuty. As he is doing so he relates information about Project Aumaan, a space station so powerful it could potentially destroy entire solar systems.
As Lloyd finishes upgrading Jehuty, Nohman flies in and kills Lloyd. Dingo briefly retreats before teaming up with Leo again. Together they race after Nohman to stop him from acquiring Project Aumaan.
Controls and Gameplay
Both games in the Zone of the Enders HD Collection are arcade action giant robot battle games that use the same third person perspective control scheme. Because Kojima-San wanted to recreate the look and feel of the combat from Japanese animes the controls are fairly simple. Most movement is handled by they left thumbstick and two buttons for up and down. Attacks are also limited to two buttons, one for normal and one for special. The normal attack will also switch from distance to melee attacks automatically depending on how far the enemy is from player. This simple system makes battles in the first Z.O.E. game a bit easy, with tactics almost secondary. The second Z.O.E. game improved on this making tactics more of the emphasis.
Graphics and Sound
The upgrade and remastering of the original graphics from the PlayStation 2 to high definition for both the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 are very well done. The anime style is crisp and clean. A whole new opening animation sequence has been created by legendary Japanese animation house, Sunrise, to highlight the over arching storyline. The cut scenes for Zone of the Enders looks a bit dated with their CGI, but their HD re-renders do make them look much crisper than the originals. Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner also gets its cut scenes re-rendered, but since they were done in anime cartoon style instead of CGI they don't look dated at all.
No major changes were done with the excellent soundtrack, sound effects or voice acting other than bringing it up to date with Dolby Digital surround sound.
With HD remakes of popular games being all the rage these days it's surprising that the Zone of the Enders series has received a remastering. The first Zone of the Enders was released for a freshly launched and then unproven PlayStation 2, by a producer that at the time everyone was waiting for his next stealth action Metal Gear game, not an arcade action giant robot title. Back then it was thought it might not sell well so a demo for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty was bundled with it. Reviews for Zone of the Enders were mixed at the time, but Kojima-San and Konami stuck with it and eventually released Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner. It improved on the original in every way, yet kept the style and charm that has made the series something of a cult classic over the years. It's those fans that have inspired Hideo Kojima to create a third game and Konami to release this HD Collection.
As someone who did not get to play the originals I looked forward to the Zone of the Enders HD Collection when I heard of its announcement. I am already a fan of stealth action games because of Kojima-San, so I was very curious to see what he had done in a different genre.
I did find that while Zone of the Enders has an interesting story, the game lacked. A boy who does not want to kill piloting a powerful robot during a war he wants no part of makes for a great tale. On the other hand battle got to be repetitious. Go to an area, defeat all the other robots there, recover an item, move to next area. In some cases a secondary objective of "keep civilian casualties and surrounding damage to a minimum" would be thrown in to the challenge. Most battles I could just use normal attacks or in an interesting twist, I could attempt to avoid combat and "sneak" around in my giant robot to recover the items. The story is what really kept me going through the game, though at times it could get a bit confusing, and Leo could be a bit whiney. I can overlook the combat to a point since originally they were developing for a brand new gaming system and everyone was learning new things for a notoriously hard to program for PlayStation 2.
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner balances everything much better. I found myself quickly on the losing end of a fight when I tried the same tactics from the first Z.O.E. game. Combat takes a more combined effort of normal, special attacks, and combos to win. The story also gets a bit more streamlined too bringing elements of the first and weaving them nicely into the plot. Also by the time Z.O.E.: The 2nd Runner was released, Kojima-San and his team had plenty of experience with the PlayStation 2 to make it dance. As a bonus the version presented here is the "Special Edition" version that has additional difficulties, more scenarios and extra VR missions.
For me Zone of the Enders HD Collection was a fun and interesting look at a series I had heard about from fans. The gameplay of the first Z.O.E. drags it down, but Z.O.E.: The 2nd Runner makes for a good capper. I give Zone of the Enders HD Collection a solid 4 out of 5 for great action and classic anime space opera.
Zone of the Enders HD Collection is rated M for Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, and Partial Nudity by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB).
Zone of the Enders HD Collection is available now for the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360. For more information see the Zone of the Enders HD Collection web site.


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His years at North Carolina showed Kendall Marshall is a problem-solver.
So when Phoenix Suns veterans demanded Marshall wear a Justin Bieber backpack as a rookie-hazing stunt, Marshall didnt fight it. He embraced it.
He posted a picture of it on his Twitter account. He treasured it like a fashion statement. He turned the tables.
Its all part of the experience, part of the fun The rookie treatment, Marshall said Tuesday. Only thing to do is put a smile on it and go about your day. If you can make fun of yourself, it will make it a lot less fun for other people to do it.
Marshall was the 13th overall pick in June, but the Suns are bringing him along slowly. Hes playing behind Goran Dragic and Sebastian Telfair at the point. So when the Suns play the Charlotte Bobcats on Wednesday at Time Warner Cable Arena, its iffy whether hell play.
Hes totaled about eight minutes for the 1-3 Suns, and most of those came in garbage time of a loss in Miami Monday. The real work is off days such as Tuesday, when Marshall showed up for a voluntary session at the Bobcats practice gym, hoisting jump shots and playing 3-on-3.
Marshall knows people dont respect his jump shot, based on his body of work as a Tar Heel. Hes not offended by that. He just needs to do something, because its a much bigger deal in the NBA.
A non-shooting point guard is an invitation to the other team to double-team someone else. Marshall says he wont let that happen.
When I get on the court, I want to make things easy on my teammates. I dont want to be a liability, Marshall said. I need to be respectable (as a jump shooter), but my main thing is still getting the ball to whos hot.
Marshall contends he wasnt a bad shooter at Chapel Hill, so much as a player who didnt look to shoot a lot. But he understands thats a difference without a distinction.
It was easy for people to say I cant shoot the ball, Marshall said. Its the same thing at this level the defense just has to know Im willing to take that shot. If thats so, it makes it easier on my teammates.
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idempotent complete category, Cauchy complete category, idempotent complete (∞,1)-category
Let be an adjunction with unit and counit . Then the following conditions are equivalent:
When these conditions hold, the adjunction is said to be idempotent. It then follows that and restrict to an equivalence of categories between the full images of and of (which are, respectively, a reflective subcategory of and a coreflective subcategory of ).
Note that if an idempotent adjunction is monadic, then (up to equivalence) it consists of the inclusion and reflection of a reflective subcategory (i.e. the algebras for an idempotent monad). Dually, if it is comonadic, it consists of the inclusion and coreflection of a coreflective subcategory. Thus, the primary interest in isolating the notion of idempotent adjunction is when considering adjunctions which are neither monadic nor comonadic.
Any adjunction between posets is idempotent. This is a central fact in the theory of Galois connections. Thus, in a sense, non-idempotent adjunctions are an important new idea arising by the "groupoidal" form of vertical categorification.
More generally, an adjunction in which the full image of either functor is a poset must be idempotent. This follows from conditions 4, 5, 9, and 10 above. This fact arises when constructing generalized kernels.
The "frame of opens" and "space of points" functors between topological spaces and locales form an idempotent adjunction. The resulting equivalence of categories is between sober spaces (which are reflective in Top) and spatial locales (which are coreflective in Loc).
For any topological space , there is an idempotent adjunction between the category of presheaves on and the category of spaces over (the right adjoint gives the presheaf of sections of a space over ). The resulting equivalence of categories is between sheaves in the modern sense of presheaves satisfying descent, and sheaves in the original sense as étalé spaces. See this blog post.
The material-structural adjunction between material set theories and structural set theories is idempotent. The fixed categories consist of the models satisfying appropriate versions of the axiom of foundation or anti-foundation.


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This revelation is bigger than just Jay-Z, trying to get a percentage of those mega-million dollar deals being signed all over Sports America.
It's more about African Americans having a chance to land some of the biggest and best athletes out there.
At one time, there weren't many black agents out there. Today, there are more. But there aren't any black super agents. Although still early, Jay-Z is on the way to being that.
It also signals that today's black athlete is looking different at the black agent. It's a vision of both power and pride between the two groups.
Baseball's super agent Scott Boras. He's been involved in three of the four 200-plus million dollar deals in sports history. (Prince Fielder's $214 and Alex Rodriguez's $252 and $275)
The idea that Cano, who is in line for an eye-popping contract as he enters free agency this coming offseason, signed with Jay-Z is amazing. It's breaking down a barrier.
First of all, baseball owns 15 of the top 16 biggest contracts in the history of sports. Only Floyd Mayweather's $180-million deal with Showtime ranks on that list tied at No. 8.
Baseball doesn't have many black agents, none in on such a deal that could approach $200.
If Robinson gets the deal he deserves, it could open the floodgates for others to go another route come money time.