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47 U.S. Code § 545 - Modification of franchise obligations
(a) Grounds for modification by franchising authority; public proceeding; time of decision
(1) During the period a franchise is in effect, the cable operator may obtain from the franchising authority modifications of the requirements in such franchise—
(A) in the case of any such requirement for facilities or equipment, including public, educational, or governmental access facilities or equipment, if the cable operator demonstrates that
(ii) the proposal by the cable operator for modification of such requirement is appropriate because of commercial impracticability; or
(2) Any final decision by a franchising authority under this subsection shall be made in a public proceeding. Such decision shall be made within 120 days after receipt of such request by the franchising authority, unless such 120 day period is extended by mutual agreement of the cable operator and the franchising authority.
(b) Judicial proceedings; grounds for modification by court
(1) Any cable operator whose request for modification under subsection (a) of this section has been denied by a final decision of a franchising authority may obtain modification of such franchise requirements pursuant to the provisions of section 555 of this title.
(2) In the case of any proposed modification of a requirement for facilities or equipment, the court shall grant such modification only if the cable operator demonstrates to the court that—
(3) In the case of any proposed modification of a requirement for services, the court shall grant such modification only if the cable operator demonstrates to the court that the mix, quality, and level of services required by the franchise at the time it was granted will be maintained after such modification.
(c) Rearrangement, replacement, or removal of service
Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b) of this section, a cable operator may, upon 30 days' advance notice to the franchising authority, rearrange, replace, or remove a particular cable service required by the franchise if—
(2) such service is available to the operator only upon the payment of a royalty required under section 801 (b)(2) of title 17, which the cable operator can document—
(A) is substantially in excess of the amount of such payment required on the date of the operator's offer to provide such service, and
(d) Rearrangement of particular services from one service tier to another or other offering of service
Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b) of this section, a cable operator may take such actions to rearrange a particular service from one service tier to another, or otherwise offer the service, if the rates for all of the service tiers involved in such actions are not subject to regulation under section 543 of this title.
(e) Requirements for services relating to public, educational, or governmental access
A cable operator may not obtain modification under this section of any requirement for services relating to public, educational, or governmental access.
(f) "Commercially impracticable" defined
For purposes of this section, the term "commercially impracticable" means, with respect to any requirement applicable to a cable operator, that it is commercially impracticable for the operator to comply with such requirement as a result of a change in conditions which is beyond the control of the operator and the nonoccurrence of which was a basic assumption on which the requirement was based.
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|A home-visiting intervention targeting determinants of infant mental health: the study protocol for the CAPEDP randomized controlled trial in France.
Tubach F., Greacen T., Saïas T., Dugravier R., Guedeney N., Ravaud P., Tereno S., Tremblay R., Falissard B., Guedeney A.
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|Florence Tubach1, 2Tim Greacen3Thomas Saïas4, 5Romain Dugravier6Nicole Guedeney7Philippe Ravaud8, 9Susana Tereno10Richard Tremblay11Bruno Falissard12Antoine Guedeney12 CAPEDP Study Group Collaboration(s)
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|ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Several studies suggest that the number of risk factors rather than their nature is key to mental health disorders in childhood.Method and DesignThe objective of this multicentre randomized controlled parallel trial (PROBE methodology) is to assess the impact in a multi-risk French urban sample of a home-visiting program targeting child mental health and its major determinants. This paper describes the protocol of this study. In the study, pregnant women were eligible if they were: living in the intervention area; able to speak French, less than 26 years old; having their first child; less than 27 weeks of amenorrhea; and if at least one of the following criteria were true: less than twelve years of education, intending to bring up their child without the presence of the child's father, and 3) low income. Participants were randomized into either the intervention or the control group. All had access to usual care in mother-child centres and community mental health services free of charge in every neighbourhood. Psychologists conducted all home visits, which were planned on a weekly basis from the 7th month of pregnancy and progressively decreasing in frequency until the child's second birthday. Principle outcome measures included child mental health at 24 months and two major mediating variables for infant mental health: postnatal maternal depression and the quality of the caring environment. A total of 440 families were recruited, of which a subsample of 120 families received specific attachment and caregiver behaviour assessment. Assessment was conducted by an independent assessment team during home visits and, for the attachment study, in a specifically created Attachment Assessment laboratory. DISCUSSION: The CAPEDP study is the first large-scale randomised, controlled infant mental health promotion programme to take place in France. A major specificity of the program was that all home visits were conducted by specifically trained, supervised psychologists rather than nurses. Significant challenges included designing a mental health promotion programme targeting vulnerable families within one of the most generous but little assessed health and social care systems in the Western World.Trial registrationCurrent Clinical trial number is NCT00392847.
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Calling Robots
March 10, 2013 § Leave a comment
All I want to do is book an event space in New York City.
I look suspiciously at the map. Manhattan is the middle-place, right? I'm not exactly a fluent New Yorker. The first medium-tier hotel that pops up, I pop the number of into my phone. I've mastered, I've decided, hotel phone interactions. My first few were creaky – some would say terrified – but while I never had the telephone-training of the 80's, I was born in them, so I reasoned it must flow in my veins. I typed out all of the event info in case I panic. But I'm not going to panic. Hotels have a front desk, and they'll send me to their event sales team, and those people will hem and haw about dates and then give me a quote I'm not supposed to like. I've got this.
I was immediately routed into a computer reservations line. I hit the panic button – 0. Will you please type your reservation number? a recorded woman's voice coos. Crap – I # the back-up panic button.
A heavily-accented young man tells me I've arrived at reservations. "Can you connect me to event sales?" I ask. He's confused. "Room sales, reservations?" "No," I haggle, "Event space sales, do you have event spaces here that you rent?" "Uhhhh–" He hits HIS panic button. Immediately a woman picks up.
Barely does the word event pass my lips before she chimes "Group Sales" and hits another button. Now, now we're getting somewhere, button by button, climbing the telephone ladder.
A robotic man's voice asks me which hotel I'm trying to make a reservation at. Nope! I want to ask Group Sales if they have multiple Manhattan locations, I decide, so I can pick between them. Ahhh, I chuckle to myself silently, I am so clever. If don't answer, the robot will have to hand me back right away.
I'm going to need to know which hotel you'd like to make reservations at the voice patiently repeats, with a hint of human annoyance. Damn! It's patient. I can't outwait it. I can't hit a panic button, lest I be routed all the way back to the confused man at the front desk.
But if the robot can't easily interpret my answer, it'll hand me off. "I'd like to speak to a service representative!" I say forcefully. Maybe it's even automated to recognize the words and put me through. I chortle emphatically.
I'm going to put you through to a service representative, but first I need you would tell me what hotel you'd like to make reservations at.
Robotic pushback. The tones are complex, irritated. I'm too stunned to say anything for a minute. Finally, defeated, I mumble the name of the specific hotel location I got the number from.
Just a second. The voice turns audibly to the side, followed by some quick, emphatic typing. Nice, I'll finally get through. Typing. Typing?
Oh crap! I'd though this voice was too nuanced, to aggrevatingly human to be a robot! I'd just told a service representative that I'd like to speak to a service representative! And worse yet, their job was SO DEHUMANIZING that they had sadly agreed to do so – if only I'd let them do their job first.
Oh please let them transfer me. Oh please, please. Don't make me fess up to my mistakes, just hit that button and send me to the golden city of Group Sales. I could almost see it, just ahead.
The typing finished. Thank you. And how many meeting rooms will you be needing? The voice was back, and distinctly recorded.
"Is this a person or a robot?" I blurted out.
There was a slight pause. I am an automated service recording, but I understand what you're saying, and I can help you take care of your…
Oh God. It's self-aware.
…reservation and then pass you along to a service representative. How many meeting rooms will you be needing?
Don't hit the panic button, don't do it.
"Uhh – none – unless you count the event space?"
Just a moment. It typed in my answer. No – no – it pretended to type my answer? Don't hit the panic button, it's not worth it.
Thank you for waiting. Please hold while I connect you.
I breathed, finally, long, and sort of choked it out in the silence of waiting.
From far-off, a woman's altered voice said, mechanically, Please hold. It was a mechanical blip in a field of silence. No music, no — I left the music behind long ago, in the lobby.
I had thought I could see Group Sales up ahead, but now I saw only whiteness – silence. Was this Group Sales? Did they even know of my purgatorial existence, waiting?
Please hold.
A minute passed.
Please hold.
I wasn't paniced anymore.
Please hold.
It was slapdash, the occational message. They knew I would stay, holding here, forever. Every minute or so, they wanted to remind me I was alive, held by the silence.
Please hold.
I could almost measure time by it, if I hadn't long ago left time behind.
I'm still holding. Are you still here?
Your call cannot be connected though to its destination. Please hang up and dial the toll-free number again.
Holiday Chickens
December 7, 2012 § Leave a comment
Today my house marched outside and chicken wrangled a house christmas card.
Our home is called the HoL – the House of Lorax – I think because it was named by a pile a of hippies trying to satisfy their own sensibilities while appeasing their less mature friends, who were sated by calling it the Glory HoL (Glorious House of Lorax). I refused to do this and called it the Barn – it looks like a Barn – until it finally made it around to me that the HoL stood for something pleasant, to some people part of the time.
I'm a stickler for house names. Years of being force-fed glorified titles akwardly slapped on crumbling college-kid dumps had sickened me. This was further needled by the endless pretention that I should know exactly what house every name applied to, as if it synched with my brain the precise moment some drunk hipster first vomited it out. I became anti-name. I was the scrooge of college houses. I named every house myself, based on the color or street. Names should be natural, I snapped, flowing from the surroundings the way you would describe an unnamed dwelling to a stranger. But the HoL has a giant flag in the window that reads, in messy spraypaint, "HOL", which I have to admit is pretty clear. And The Lorax is one of my favorite books, so I don't have a lot of conscientious space to be a jerk about it.
The Chickens weren't really into the idea of a photo. Pidge flapped about, escaping from time to time just to perch on the shoulder of the person next to her, beady eyes shouting "You know I'm a shoulder chicken. Why should I have to put up with this awful holding." I clutched Ruby, the only one who's properly containable, and she just sort of peered at me upsetly and shivered a little. Quentin mainly tried to head straight for the camera to eliminiate the trouble at its source. N. and Attila the Hen have always had a special relationship, so, we just let them do their thing, which oscillated between N. pretending Attila was a fighter jet and Attila digging her claws into his hands and climbing all over his cashmere sweater. Attila's technically easiest to hold, if you're not N., and don't abuse your privileges.
N. and Attila the Hen (Buff Orpington), Me and Ruby (Bantam Silkie), S. and Pidge (Ameraucana hen), A. and Quentin (Ameraucana still deciding her sex).
Happy Holidays! From me and the chickens and the many people who make this place home.
Green Candy
November 27, 2012 § Leave a comment
"Miss, miss, I just wanted to–"
I reflexively pulled the box of leftovers and sweater onto my lap, where they didn't fit, so he could sit down. I couldn't help glancing irritably at the empty bus seats around me.
"—tell you I really like your green hair."
He was standing in the aisle, bending intently and revealing layers of thin gold chains. I opened my mouth for my polite, unfocused thank you, the kind you give a person you're resigned to spending a bus ride getting propositioned by. He bowled on past it.
"I really like your green hair, a lot, you see my name" (—something blurred—) "it means green, my last name is green. So I like your green hair very much, you see. I like green. I am a green – you have green hair."
He gestured with a foil-wrapped piece of candy. Green candy.
"I wanted to tell you how much I like your green hair," he grinned, chains flapping. I thanked him and took the candy, moving my body a bit in anticipation of him sitting down. To my surprise, he had politely vanished.
I tucked the piece of green candy in my bag. They always told me not to take candy from strangers, but I think this was the first time I'd ever received candy from a stranger – if you except one of my better friends, whose acquaintance was made over a proffered candycane.
The next morning, I plopped back onto the bus and customarily opened my bag. Out across my lap marched all the ants that had snuck in there overnight. As I tried to pretend I wasn't being suddenly overwhelmed by insects (sit still, don't flail, sit still, don't flick them at people), I finally grokked the age-old advice: really, don't take candy from strangers.
The Ginkgo and I
November 26, 2012 § 1 Comment
For about a week I was puffed up from my wild chestnuts. Chestnuts not exactly being a chupacabra, no one was very impressed, but that didn't stop me from feeling like King of the Edible Plants Several Blocks from my Home. Still, I couldn't shake the feeling I was missing out on a lot of secrets. It didn't help that I was more interested in what some savy Asian families were collecting on the street than what nearby herbs neo-hippies recommended I make tea with.
As I boasted to some of my co-workers, I nudged them to ask if they, perhaps, knew any edibles I'd missed. One of them paused. "I'd always see people coming on campus to pick whatever was falling off the Ginkgo tree," she laughed, "I remember because it smelled terrible." Ginkgo, eh?
In high school, they were one of my favorite trees, largely because I knew their name. We'd had a falling out when I noticed their leaves looked a bit like Tulips, and became unable to distinguish them from Tulip trees, or remember which one it was good luck to catch a leaf from. I knew there was one on my way home, and I knew I'd spotted something golden under it this morning running to the bus. Jackpot.
Sure enough, there was fruit. Small, round gold fruit the color of apricots and the shape of a cherry. There were only a few fresh ones on the ground. The Ginkgo itself had no trace of fruit. Did they fall from a different tree? I looked around, walked in some circles, jumped up and down. Finally I spotted them. High up, far above where I could reach, the Ginko was heavy with gold. Of course. Someone had already come by and taken everything within a ladder's reach. So there *were* edible! I scooped up a few and dashed the final blocks home like a madman.
Googling was in order. I heartily enjoyed this article. To my disappointment, the outer fruit (actually sarcotesta) itself isn't edible – it's the white nuts inside that are prized. I gingerly smashed the fruit gently under my shoe to push out the nuts. The vague smell of dog shit wasn't quite the vomitrious horror I was expecting. Well, then, survived that. What next?
Ok, I had the seeds. They weren't white as I'd been promised. With the application of a nutcracker I found that sure enough, the little white nuts were hiding inside.
Wait, those still aren't white! They're just little green beans! Onward, I suppose? The instructions said to gently peel off the layer of film surrounding the nut. It said to wear gloves in case I had a weird reaction to it – I went in bare-handed. No nuts scare me!
Ok, I had four tiny bean-nut things that were a little worse for wear from the peeling. I had no idea how to eat them, and the internet was conflicted. I boiled them for a while, which was fun to watch, but ultimately didn't make them look any more appetizing than a waterlogged pea.
Taking a page out of the article I liked, I pulled them out of the pot and into the pan. I fried them in salt, pepper, and a pinch of flour….ok, so I've never been adept at following instructions, and surely throwing some flour in the pan is the same as deep frying. It did the trick, though!
At this point N. came home. "I cooked us Ginkgo nuts!" I proudly held out my open palm with the four tiny beans in it.
"Wow, that's…really not enough for dinner. You know that, right?"
Well, ok, so I had to cook an entire other meal. I won't bore you with the details of that. But the four little nuts were so good we both gobbled down two and wished we had more.
Everyday now I crunch over the golden nuts and leaves of that living fossil on my way home. It's tempting to scoop them into my pockets and roll them out on my back patio, just to taste them again. But not quite tempting enough to make me arrive home and greet my boyfriend with kisses and squishy, shit-stinking pockets of Ginkgo. Someday, I tell the nuts and I -crunch- -crunch- past them, I will return with my plastic bag. And they squish and say, no you won't, you're lazy, and we'll be all rotted by then. Shut up Ginkgo nuts! You're too much work anyway.
Another year, another HUMP! (2012)
November 24, 2012 § 5 Comments
Lets say you didn't go to HUMP! You don't live in Portland, Washington, or Seattle. Or you've refused to read The Mercury ever since that drunken early morning-altercation with an ex-editor and some figs. I don't care. Let me tell you a little about HUMP! 2012 so you can put a reminder on everyone's calendar for next year.
I try to keep my posts more childish than adult, but this one's a review of a humrous amateur porn festival, so if you're not into that just skip this one and tune back in next time for more posts about nuts. Uhm, Gingko nuts?
What is HUMP! and why shouldn't I fear it? Read my summation + explanation of HUMP! 2011. It's an amateur porn filmfest where all the films are destroyed at the end. By culture, it's largely a blend of sexy and tongue-and-cheek.
With 90 submissions to choose from this year, the 27 they chose were bound to be top-notch. This year's extra credit inclusions were sweater vests, lesbian sex, and packing peanuts. If 'lesbian sex' being bonus instead of par surprises you, recall how last year there were inexplicably near-to-no lesbian sex submissions. Sweater vests were a shoe-in, but packing peanuts were a funky twist. Filmmakers, pinned by the limited usefulness or artistic merits of packing peanuts, resorting to pretending they were water, cum, or the human manifestation of unpacking a Prince-laden box on too many drugs. I'm not going to cover all the films (I'm skipping a lot of great ones), but here's a limited play-by-play chance to re-live the HUMP! experience in your own bedroom:
Rumpy Pumpy was silly digital animation of a genitalia jumping all over everything. Here's the site of the lady who made it, and although Rumpy Pumpy (hilariously misspelled Rumpy Puppy in The Mercury) isn't up there, some other cute, less randy ones are: http://www.primopix.com/
When you Wank upon a Star: A man is watching one of his favorite 80's porn films when something magical passes, and the characters materialize in front of him. I'd written a description for this, but (thanks!) the link was posted in the comments so you can see it for yourself! NSFW + one of our favorites: http://vimeo.com/54172339
Beyondeep was incredibly hot, and heartfelt, and unpretentious, the way lesbian sex should be. I think this is their tumblr. I understand tumblr only slightly more than the average person two generations above me, so I'll leave it to you to decipher: http://beyondeep.tumblr.com/
D&D Orgy: I hold all D&D material to about a The Players: Dorkness Rising level, so I felt a little guilty about wanting more themed tomfoolery. This was fun and enjoyable – a group playing D&D, and then girls start making out and there's an orgy suddenly and oh god every other geek in that audience has seen this in their head. I would have enjoyed more D&D jokes – wait – I'm demanding more non-porn in a porn film – wow I'm officially a jerk. The cast looked like they had a ton of fun (bonus points) and arrived in a limo (style).
Magic Love: The highlight of the show for many; a couple's whimsical stop-motion sex. They took full advantage of the fun physical humor you can do with live-action stop-motion, like bouncing partners all sorts of silly directions, etc.
MAN SMASH was one of my favorites and I have no desire to see it ever again. It's graphic, it's man-smashing, and it's all available right here for you to be upset by in the comfort of your own home. It hits the nail on the head of a genre (and, more literally, a dick), so although it's not a genre/fetish I enjoy, I have to give them major props for perfecting it. Wondering why, oh god why, this would ever happen? Read more about MAN SMASH here.
One of my favorites was a tantalizingly hot flick of two absurdly attractive men fixing a car. It boasted an excellent humorous use of props, two gloriously attractive men, and they both turned out to be transmen, making it all the awesomer. No idea if it was slipped in later, or if its one-liner in The Mercury was just heinously undescriptive, but the title's a mystery.
The Mercury references Dueling Dames as a "sepia-toned tumble in a Wild West whorehouse" so perhaps they have insight that I lack, but to my eyes it was a delightful 1920's style flick on two standoffish ladies who, bored, challenge each other to a contest. It captures the aesthetic – and the slapstick – perfectly.
Krutch largely consisted of woman with perhaps cerebral palsy limping down city streets, her crutch tap-tap-taping awkwardly loudly, inter-spliced with footage of her coming home, taking off her shoes, and finally relaxing. Yeah, as the guidebook says it's "proving to the world that people with disabilities have genitalia that work just fine" but it does a hell of a lot more than that: it captured the best O. moment of the whole fest by inter-splicing it with footage of her running to catch a bus, finally catching the bus, and at the climactic moment getting to sit down. The whole audience breathed audibly in relief and joy. It was masterful because everyone actually reacted to O. as a moment, something no other film achieved. Well done.
Go Ahead, Pee! Seriously this film was just a woman jumping on a trampoline in a unitard with the World's Biggest Smile, peeing. I was so jealous the whole time. Don't even try to say you weren't too. Many viewers upon leaving the theater directly purchased both a trampoline and a unitard, trying to attain that ethereal level of joy.
Toeing the Line: Everything that's right with the gay rights movement in one video. Two incredibly happy gay dudes run around celebrating how happy they are at all sorts of anti-gay establishments. It's just…so…happy. No anger, no lashing out, just having the Best Time Ever. Plus they wrote all their own awesome music for it!
Dirty Mind: An encounter with a mail-order (yet home-made) cardboard cut-out of Prince. Enough said.
EdenXXX: Burning man, glitter, freak fur…you can check out their website .
Best Slumber Party Ever: Three aloof 90's sparkle hipsters harass the most adorable nerd girl ever. Here's the teaser trailor!
Some related tumblr posts (another foray into that terrifying land) seem to mention that they were asked to edit the film down from 5 min. to 2 min., or edit some scenes out, or something. I'd be curious to know if HUMP! asks many of its films to make certain edits, and how specific the requests are (certain scenes? length?).
D for You: I can't imagine why this *wouldn't* be online. It's a great animated short about a Dolphin and a Unicorn and online dating, of course. I think they shot it as top-down stop motion with construction paper cut-outs, which looks like so much fun! Oh jealous.
Peter and the Wolf: This was, for real, set to the fabulous Sergei Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf piece. As someone who listened to (a kid's version of it) a lot as a child, I felt in tune with each musical stage of flirtatious curiosity, excitement, and fear. On the screen, a man picks another man up in a park, takes him home on his motorcycle, starts making out with him, and then chains him up moments before the other man transforms into a wolf. More pornographic bits follow, and it ends with Peter shooting the wolf, putting on his 'werewolf slayer' jacket, and getting back on his motorcycle. A brilliant concept, perfectly executed. One of my absolute favorites.
Boyfriend: The actual Justin Bieber song 'Boyfriend', which you should watch first. It's already creepy.
BenDeLeCreme's horror-themed and colorful cover of Boyfriend, which you won't regret.
Chatting with folks after the show, the stand-out was an aversion to anything that lacked humor. We were spoiled by all the clever flicks into resenting hot sex without a plot twist or (non-literal) gag. One particularly perfect straight sex scene, of a quality that would have made it a goldmine in any private context, was derided as boring. Save it for the bedroom! folks seemed to say, I'm here to laugh with my friends and not be ashamed of sexuality, not get off. Odd and interesting.
From my post last year, as I still feel the same: This was the classiest version of the evening I could have imagined. The audience was tipsy, but a classy, lighthearted, inoffensive crowd. I always wondered about the experience of seeing Deep Throat in theaters in the 70′s, when "porno chic" was in its brief phase, and it was moderately acceptable in nicer circles to attend and discuss humorous porn films. I think I just found out.
Eating Wild Chestnuts
November 2, 2012 § 6 Comments
N. loves dead ends. Every sign that warns there's no reason to go down a road, means I'm about to get forced on a detour. I was suspicious at first of the sheer effort of walking down a road you know isn't going to work, but at the end of every unwelcoming turnaround there's something valuable. An old, tottering house; a bush shaped like an elephant; a lost park. I'm starting to see the light — or rather, see charm in the dark, wet places where streets go to die.
We try to go to a nearby garage sale every weekend, just for the chance to walk the neighborhood and stare at people's porches and lawns. Headed back from allowing me to buy about 20 pairs of 80's earrings, N. spotted one. This particular dead end I grumbled over. It was settled unpleasantly at the far-off bottom of a hill. As we started down, N. began lecturing on the dream of living in houses no one has an excuse to walk past. For an extrovert he's surprisingly into hedgerows.
We found the "dead end" was a false advertisement — "Jesus, it turns into a bike path" N. exhaled in disgust. I'm not clear how a dirt path through the light, idyllic woods that spread out past the houses was a crime against neighborhood privacy, but any excuse to ditch a dead end is a good one.
As we retraced our damp steps, a car pulled past us and parked in front of something that looked to be more 3-boat garage than domicile. Out spread a grandmother, mother, and daughter, the latter scuffing her feet sulkily on the pavement. I wondered why they were dragging their feet on getting into their house — if that was a house? Or if they lived in land-boats? Ugh, this hill was a bother. N. craned his head back. "Hey – there must be some sort of delicacy there," he observed. "They're collecting something."
They didn't live there at all. I made a quick U-Turn. Under the tree were large, green, prickly fruits, which they were rolling under their shoes. I'd spent a good portion of the morning examining these same prickly things, unable to find one the squirrels hadn't trophied. "What are you collecting?" I half-shouted a few times, trying not to look like a jerk hollering at a nice Asian family. Finally the mother stepped forward and smiled and opened her hands. There were fat, smooth nuts there in brown and green. "Chestnuts," she pointed to the green ones, "these aren't ready yet." I bent down to pick up one of the empty shells that had the little, deflated brown seeds I'd seen this morning. She tut-tutted. "That's no good — and you'll prick yourself." The little brown smudges I pulled out didn't even look related to the lovely nuts she had found.
We thanked them and skipped off – mystery solved, wa-hoo! It was only a few more blocks home, and we spent the way kicking at every prickly pouch we found – empty, empty, empty. Near our house was another prickly-pod tree. We were so excited we ran up to it and tried to pick up the little pouches – "Arghh!" – and dropped them in pain. She was right. We tried to imitate how they'd rolled them under their shoes, feeling for nuts inside, and then cracking the pouch with our feet. Still empty.
gingerly opening Chestnut burrs with our shoes
"Hey! I found one!" N. held up a fat nut, ecstatic. "The green prickly things are fresher." Sure enough, some of the green burrs still had something in them – often one had been pulled out, but there would be a second nestled inside. "Oh, and there's some over here!" ones that had fallen out of the shell, unmolested, blending into the dirt. In ten minutes we each had a full handful, and had never felt so rich. Ah, how scarcity makes the heart pound!
N. is very excited about the Chestnut haul
We about tripped over ourselves the last block bubbling home to show everyone the nuts, which, it turned out, aren't as cool if you didn't just learn what they were and find them all where you thought none were left. We looked like the nuts, and the nuts looked, well, inedible.
Now, how do you eat a chestnut? We sang Chestnuts roasting on an open fire… over and over again…but decided not to risk an open fire. It turns out the theory is about the same. You cut an X in the skin of the nut across the flat part. Lay them out on a tray and cook them at 425 for about half an hour. You can see the skin start to peel back as they bake.
When they're done, you peel off the rest of the skin yourself, before they cool and it hardens. N. was a natural. I crumbled them and had to keep sneaking the mess I was making into my mouth.
"Havf you thried thes?" I turned to N., worried. He was just swallowing one himself.
"Yeah. They're kind of…bland."
There was very little nutty about chestnuts. Their texture was related to chalky but altogether less dry. Their flavor was unexpectedly light; a little bitter. We frowned.
The more I tried to peel, the more I destroyed and had to scoop up into my mouth to avoid making a mess. And you know what? I think you just need to adjust to them. Four or five in, and they were delicious. Suddenly sweet. I was dipping my hand back into the bowl all night for more soft, white something. It definitely has a taste all its own.
baked, peeled, and ready to eat
I used to think I saw the homeless, the dejected, walking under that tree. Always dragging their feet, always Asian, always clutching a bag. Now I know those bags aren't for lugging around half-soaked possessions – they're for chestnuts! They're not shuffling because they're derranged – they're cracking nut cases! Suddenly I see them every day, every time I go past, lingering to pick up secret things. How many people are roaming the streets of Portland, harvesting chestnuts? Is there territory? Are they for sale, or do they go straight to the family dinner table?
Most importantly of all – what I can't stop thinking: what other secrets foods do they know, that I don't?
{ On this note, see my follow-up story on eating ginkgo nuts a few days later. }
{Before you eat chestnuts, learn the edible varieties here.}
How to Make Cheap Clay Fangs
November 1, 2012 § 1 Comment
Halloween this year worried me in one way: I was going as my D&D character, a tiefling (human with part demon ancestry), and I had no idea how to make her characteristic pointy teeth and ugly tusks on the cheap. A friend, T., said she'd had luck making vampire teeth out of Sculpey III – just moulding it to her tooth, baking it, and then sliding it on so it stayed all by itself. Needless to say, I was thrilled. I gave it a go, and here's the result:
It's a pretty self-explanatory process, but I've typed it up anyway. I ran into a lot of folks at the party who were as surprised and excited as I was to learn that you could make cheap vampire teeth / fangs / monster teeth / ugly tusks / whatever nasty teeth you desire, my friends. Hurrah!
Disclaimer: Not for kids. I take no responsibility for anyone choosing to put non-edible substances in their mouth. This method isn't recommended so much as it is awesome.
1. Buy Supplies. Any Michael's will carry Sculpey III, although I recommend calling a locally-owned craft store if you have one and asking if they have it instead.
I would have preferred the 'translucent', but they were out, so I bought pearl, which was kind of sparkly. The shade of white mattered less than I thought – but that's probably because I burnt it. One little pack will be enough for an army of teeth.
2. Make 'em. Form the Sculpey III into the shape you want (ie…a point), then push it over the tooth you want to cover. You want to get clay on both sides of your actual tooth so it can get a good grip. Slide it off once you have the tooth imprint, and gently plop it on tinfoil for baking.
3. Bake 'em. I think Sculpey III is supposed to be baked in the oven (no microwaves, folks) at 375 degrees for a certain amount of time per 1/8 in., but I'm not so good at following directions. What I learned was: bake them for as little time as possible. Check on them after a few minutes. If you let them cool off and find they don't harden, well, stick 'em back in. Mine burned very quickly, leaving me with unsavory blackened fangs. Sculpey III is best baked on a tray made of tinfoil. Let them cool completely before trying them out to see if they fit.
4. Rinse mouth and Repeat. It took me a number of tries to get each tooth right. Out of my first batch, only one slid onto my tooth to my liking. Others had moved before or during and didn't fit, or broke when I tried them out.
What I found myself doing was sliding on the fang that I liked from the first batch, and then making several versions of the fang next to it. You have to wear the one that already works, to make sure they'll butt up against each other just right and fit together. So I'd wear my left fang, and mould 4 different right fangs, bake them, let them cool, and usually one of those 4 would work perfectly.
I made 4 fangs for my top teeth, and two short tusks for my bottom teeth. I'd burned most of them so badly that none of them matched the look I was going for, so I painted the front of them with acrylic paint and glazed them. I can't recommend this as you really shouldn't put acrylic paint in your mouth…although, you should't put Sculpey III in your mouth either. If anyone has a mouth-approved solution for painting burnt fangs, let me know. Whatever you do, *never* use oil paints in situations like this.
5. Stick 'em. Some fangs held onto my teeth pretty well on their own, but others would slip off the moment I took moved my mouth.
I stood in the pharmacy line at Walgreens, and brashly asked the lady at the window to recommend a strong denture glue. Without batting an eye, she said Poligrip was the most popular. I'd tried Fixodent once, and found it mealy – plus it had failed to hold on my plastic vampire fangs. Whether it was medium or brand at work, the Poligrip worked excellently. Just squirt a little bit into the part of the fang that touches your tooth, stick the fang on, and hold for a few seconds. I'd bring the tube with you in case you need to reapply – or lend your fanged friends some.
Removing the fangs is easy, just wiggle them a touch and pull them off, totally painless. The denture glue, it turns out, is more of a suggestive paste than something that forms a bond. If I hadn't been so lazy I could have easily taken out the fangs, rinsed the globs of denture glue out of my mouth, eaten tasty party treats, re-rinsed, and stuck them back in with another glob o' glue.
Upsides to this method:
– It was cheap! I've passed over expensive fangs time and time again – and finally I've found a method that fits my pocket along with my teeth. One little pack of Sculpey III will last me for many experimental teeth to come.
– I was able to make unique short bottom-tooth tusks for my character.
Downsides to this method:
– You're putting Sculpey III in your mouth. It's not edible, folks, don't sue me.
– It can be hard to make fangs with a particular shape unless you're good at shaping clay, and it can be hard to get the coloration you want. I just wanted clunky monster fangs so I was perfectly happy. If you want the look of professional fangs, there's no shame in buying them.
A side note on making the horns: I couldn't find ultralight sculpey to make the horns out of so I bought the silly-named "Pluffy" instead. It worked great, as did the cheap paint-on glaze I finished it with.


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Biggest Loser: Ali Vincent's Stay-Slim Secrets
A Biggest Loser's Stay-Slim Secrets
With the new Biggest Loser season starting this month, we checked in with the show's first female winner, Ali Vincent. She shed 112 pounds in 2008 and just penned a book, Believe It, Be It. Here are her must-haves for success off the ranch.Kick-Butt Routine
"I don't work out eight hours a day anymore, but I still need to be pushed. Exercise classes keep me going. I might think, 'What the hell am I doing in here?' But it's too embarrassing to walk out so I stay."Go-To Foods
"Spaghetti squash pasta with ground turkey and veggie marinara sauce. Snacks are almonds, hummus, watermelon, celery, baby carrots, and string cheese."Get-Motivated Goal
"I always need something to strive for. Next up is the P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Half Marathon on January 17."Active Social Life
"Time with friends used to be all about food or drinks, but now we hike, bowl, or go dancing. If we meet for cocktails, we walk to the bar."Jean-ius Reminder
"The 27-inch-waist jeans that I wore on the show's finale keep me in check. If they start to feel tight, I know I need to get back on track."
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Tim Wetter spent some bonding time with his son Monday night at the Sharp Shooters range in Greenville County. He said he's teaching him about gun safety.
"He understands if I teach him, that I will take him shooting, but it has to be in the proper place and in the proper manner," Wetter said.
Not only can you practice at the range at Sharp Shooters, but you can also buy bullets and guns too. Those items are shooting off the shelves, but employees said they try to make sure guns don't get into the wrong hands.
"Whenever we sell a firearm, we are required by federal law to turn around and run a NIX check, which is through FBI," Ted Landreth said.
He's a co-owner of Sharp Shooters and a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights.
"You can look around in this store and you won't see any gun in there that wants to jump off the wall and hurt anybody," Landreth said.
He also supports a new proposed bill that would require gun shop employees to run a mental health background check in a national database before a potential customer buys a gun.
"It's not the gun, it's what's in the people's heart and sometimes what's in their minds," Landreth said.
State Rep. Leon Stavrinakis, D-District 119, introduced the bill Monday afternoon in front of Ashley Hall, a private school in Charleston. Police said Alice Boland, a woman with a history of mental illness, pulled the trigger of a pistol several times when an Ashley Hall school employee approached her, but the gun never fired.
"We can not afford to wait around for this to happen again and for us not to be lucky next time," Stavrinakis said.
Investigators said Boland bought the gun legally three days before the incident.
And Wetter said the database is necessary because not everyone should be a gun owner.
"People can have emotional issues and never had been arrested," Wetter said.
Counselors who work with those with mental illness said there are different levels of illness and it could be difficult to determine who goes into a database and who doesn't.
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Bullet for My Valentine also recently revealed the track list for Temper Temper , which features 11 new songs. A deluxe version of the album will be released as well, which contains four additional tracks, including live performances of "Whole Lotta Rosie" and "Scream Aim Fire," recorded during the band's appearance on the Live Lounge show on BBC Radio 1.
Fans who pre-order the album on the band's website will get a free download of the title track, "Temper Temper." Here's the track list:
"Breaking Point"
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"Temper Temper"
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"Dead to the World"
"Saints & Sinners"
"Tears Don't Fall (Part 2)"
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- Graduates arriving after the procession has begun may not be allowed to participate in the ceremony.
Name Cards and Procession Lines
- A "name announcer" will read each graduate's name card as they walk across the stage.
- These cards will be distributed at a table hosted by the Office of Records and Advising in the West Gym.
- After receiving your name card, please find the appropriate procession line for your school.
- Staff will be available to help graduates line up in the right areas.
Honor Graduates
- Undergraduate students eligible for academic honors (Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude, or Summa Cum Laude) will receive honor cords when obtaining name cards at the Office of Records and Advising table.
- Cords for various campus chapter honor societies are usually available through the club's advisor.
- Diplomas will be mailed or held for pick up by the Office of Records and Advising after final grades are confirmed and entered.
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The Mommy Diet: Tips and Tricks for Trying To Conceive
BabyZone chatted with Alison Sweeney, author of The Mommy Diet and The Biggest Loser host, as well as a couple of her healthy-living pros, rounding up some helpful hints for women looking to be as healthy as possible while TTC.
Start Taking Prenatal Vitamins
Even if you're not yet pregnant, it doesn't mean you shouldn't start building up all of the fabulous nutrients in your body that your baby will need to grow healthy and strong. "If you're trying to conceive, I would really encourage women to have some type of prenatal product," says Moreta. "Some people have to have it with extra iron, but make sure that you start that ahead of time." (Test your prenatal vitamin IQ.)
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try Not to Stress
Again, not everyone gets pregnant immediately. But not feeling defeated by the process is far easier said than done. Sweeney herself talks candidly in the book about a year of frustration while trying to get pregnant with her son, Ben.
If things aren't moving along at the speed you'd like, focus on yourself and stay positive. If that's just not cutting it, Moreta says that there are some foods that can have a calming effect when you're feeling stressed: "It's all of your carbohydrates like whole wheat pasta, whole wheat breads, brown rice—all of those have the carbohydrate that gives you that serotonin uptake. You feel more soothed and you feel much better. Some people will do better with a little bit of crunchiness, so get some whole grain pretzels—you get that stress release and it has the whole grain flour versus the white flour."
One Word: Sleep
If your friends or relatives know you're trying to conceive, you've probably heard endless comments about needing to get your sleep in now before a baby enters the picture. It may be annoying to hear the same thing on a seemingly endless loop, but there is certainly plenty of truth to it. Sweeney encourages hitting the hay earlier each night and stocking up on that restful time while you can. Once the baby comes, us moms at BabyZone have another trick for you: how to fake looking awake
About Alison Sweeney
Sweeney, who is busy taking care of two children and juggling two jobs herself, hopes to remind moms and moms-to-be that you can be physically fit, look great, take care of yourself, and still be a wonderful mom.
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8/10Patients sometimes vomit blood.In season one (mostly), when patients can't breathe, the team will slice open the patient's neck to get them to breathe.Animated scenes of the interior body can be a bit gross.Very graphic medical surgeries which often contains gore.On occasions there are scenes of graphic violence such in season 2's finale "No reason" where house stabs the patient and slice him down.In one episode a doctor straps down a teenage boy and performs a procedure that involves extreme torture, at the boy's own request (under complicated medical circumstances). In another episode, House saws down one leg of a patient in circumstances where no anesthesia is available.In the episode "The Tyrant" (6x03) Dr. Chase breaks his hippocratic oath by deliberately mistreating and subsequentially killing a patient, who's an African dictator preparing genocide. Later Dr. Foreman helps him to cover it up.Dr. Cutner commits suicide by shooting himself in the head. (Not shown.) Later his body is partially visible and there's blood on the floor.
4/10"Bitch" and "ass" are the most commonly used swear words, but "hell", "damn", "slut" and "whore" are also used.House is verbally abusive towards people throughout the series, including patients, collegaues, friends&family and women he's romantically involved with/interested in. He may be considered as a bad role model for children and teenagers.House sometimes makes racist comments jokingly, especially towards African-American and Jewish people. One mention of the Holocaust in a context that may be offending for some Jewish viewers.House makes quite a few sarcastic comments and jokes about God and religion. Some viewers may find these elements harsh, offending or blasphemous.
9/10House is addicted to a prescription opiate (Vicodin). He takes excess amounts of the drug (frequently shown). Abuses his and his collegaues' medical licence to get the drug, also commits fraud and forgery. Consequences of addiction are shown. Scenes of intense withdrawal shown. He faces criminal charges for hoarding the drug and driving under its influence. He hallucinates because of the drug and is forced to retreat to a mental clinic for withdrawal. Later he hooks back on the drug. He also drinks a lot.Other positive characters shown drunk occasionally.Cameron gets high from meth in season 2.House takes LSD in an episode. He also decides to hook himself on methadone in another episode.Dr. Wilson (a positive character) gets drugged with amphetamine by House. He tends to a patient while under the influence of the drug.Foreman and Taub get 'high' on House's drugs in one episode.Some patients are drug addicts or alcoholics. Some patients demonstrate drug seeking behaviour. Use of prescription medical drugs frequently shown and talked about as this is a hospital series.House offers a patient opiate in a season 1 episode casually, as it were candy.
7/10Unlike other hospital shows, House is not a light "soap" but a hard primetime drama, involves frequent emotional tension and deals with difficult and controversial issuel.Wilson's girlfriend Amber dies in the season 4 finale. Very emotional.When patients die/have respiratory arrest/cardiac arrest, it can be intense.Internal organs, fetuses, bacteria, parasites, etc. shown by CGI.For a few episodes, House hallucinates Wilson's dead girlfriend as she was a ghost.This show is overall intense and has moderate disturbing scenes.Total: 34/50
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