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vegan marinated baked tofu and wheat berry salad.
vegan marinated baked tofu and wheat berry salad.
how to make mapo tofu :)
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this is one of the best meals you could make this fall! and it's so versatile you could eat it at every meal of the day (i'm considering it.) it also includes two of your least favorite foods - mushrooms and tofu. but trust me, after this meal, your minds will be changed about them. (or at least, i hope.)
tofu and mushrooms are both hated, i believe, because of their texture first and foremost. you can completely change your view of both foods if you properly prep and cook them. mushrooms are easily overdone and tofu is always underdone, so try switching those roles; barely touch the mushrooms and go crazy on the tofu. here's how!
- first, prep your tofu. using extra-firm tofu, drain out the water and press the block. (read this post if you're not sure what you're doing.) after it's pressed for at least 30-40 minutes, it should have a very dense texture, not soggy or slimy. chop it into pieces slightly larger than bite-size, and place them in a pan with some soy sauce, olive oil, and vegetable broth, just enough liquid to coat the bottom of the pan.
- now, here's where the next pitfall of tofu comes in - flavor. most all people think tofu is a bland, flavorless hunk of mystery. the beauty of tofu is that it can take the flavor of whatever you want it to - this is fun, in my opinion. you can add in whatever spices you like, and as long as you don't put in too much cayenne or salt, you should always be fine.
- so what you'll want to do is COMPLETELY coat the tops of the tofu in as much spice as you can: oregano, thyme, sage, parsley, tarragon, and roasted garlic are always safe bets. sprinkle on sea salt and some pepper and let cook for 5-6 minutes, then flip everything. once the liquid cooks away, add in more soy sauce and/or vegetable broth as needed. you'll want all the sides of the tofu to be a little crispy, and each piece to be very firm and chewy. altogether, on medium heat it should take 10-12 minutes, stirring (and tasting) occasionally.
- now for the mushrooms, all you'll really need to do is steam them quickly, maybe 3-4 minutes. they should soften just slightly, and warm up nicely.
so what do you DO with these? we went two ways - one for lunch, the other for dinner. (consider this one of those "wear it two ways!" fashion posts, except it's with some really tasty food.)
for lunch: pair them with some lentils and wild rice. the starchy lentils and chewy rice go really well with the bold tofu flavors. (this is also a great meal to take on the road or to school or work.)
for dinner: stuff them in some pasta! we put them in these pasta shells with some cashew cheese mixed with 1/8 cup of nutritional yeast. you could also cover them with some tomato sauce if you wanted. (this was a huge hit, they turned out so so well!)
serve both ways with some apple cider, eat outside in the last warm days of the year, and enjoy :)
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for dinner: BBQ tofu, corn, and wilted kale & rainbow chard in a tortilla bowl
in our last post, we showed you how to prepare tofu for cooking. this is one way you could cook your prepped BBQ tofu which is very tasty :D
tofu: take your prepped tofu and place the slices in a pan. if you didn't use olive oil in your marinade, pour a little bit into the pan. keep on medium heat and cook each side for 3-5 minutes, flipping and checking to see if each side is browned and crispy. when the pieces are a little crispy on the outside, take them off the pan and set aside.
greens: rinse and shred 5-6 handfuls of greens. put them in the pan, with the heat off and a top on. this will wilt the greens just slightly and give them some of the flavor the tofu left behind.
tortilla bowl: brush one side of a medium-large tortilla, and place it oil-side down in a pan, turn it on low-medium heat and put in the tofu, greens, and corn. check underneath to see when the tortilla is light brown, and when it is, lift up the sides with a couple of spatulas and let the bottom continue to brown.
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The UpTake: Defending one's intellectual property can be a double-edged sword in today's hyperconnected economy. Sometimes, the very act of defending it only draws more attention to the alleged violation, causing it to spread even further.
Something absolutely ridiculous—and kind of beautiful—was set to happen last night at 7 p.m. Pacific time. Seven anonymous hackers said they would launch a digital currency in the midst of a legal battle with hip hop artist Kanye West while simultaneously resurrecting a five-year-old South Park joke about the musician being a gay fish.
The currency, which can only be bought with Bitcoin, appears to be live, with the necessary software available for download on both Windows and Mac—though it remains to be seen if you can actually spend it. Here's how this crazy story went down.
Last week a joke between the anonymous hackers took on a life of its own when the Internet decided it really did want a currency called Coinye West featuring the musician's bespectacled face.
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Citing West's brand of "incalculable value" the document claims that due to his "wide-ranging entrepreneurial accomplishments, consumers are likely to mistakenly believe that Mr. West is the source of your services," wrote Brad Rose, a partner at Pryor Cashman LLP. "The likelihood that consumers will be confused is heightened by the unauthorized use of an image of Mr. West on the coin."
Instead of being deterred, the creators of the Bitcoin-like digital currency dropped the word "Coin" from the name, changed the website form a .com to an Indian ".in" domain, moved up the launch date to last night, and in a move that might be designed to side-step the mention of "Mr. West's" image, changed the logo to an image of someone resembling West, but with a fish's body.
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With two holidays around the corner I've been thinking about pretty table centerpieces, and it seemed like a good time to point out these lovely modern arrangements of dried flowers. Dried flowers aren't usually my thing, but these are super nice, and they last a long time, unlike regular flower arrangements.
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Why you should up your credit limit
It's not just about how much money you need to borrow. Here are 6 reasons you should ask for a higher limit on your credit cards.
This post comes from Amy Fontinelle at partner site Investopedia.
Increasing your credit limit just means giving yourself the opportunity to spend beyond your means, right? Not necessarily. Increasing your credit limit can have a number of upsides if you manage your credit wisely.
Here are six things a higher credit limit does for you:
It lowers your credit utilization and increases your credit scores. The FICO credit-scoring model will ding your credit scores if the amount of credit you've used is close to the total amount of credit available to you. That's because it considers you to be at risk of maxing out your cards and having trouble making future payments. You might know that these risks don't actually apply to you, but that's how the scoring model works.
If you have a $2,000 credit limit and you regularly end up with a monthly bill of around $1,800, you're using 90% of your available credit. Raising your credit limit will reduce that percentage and should improve your credit scores.
It makes it cheaper and easier to get loans and additional credit. When you're not using almost all of your available credit, you appear to be financially responsible to the credit bureaus, and your credit scores should increase. If your credit scores are higher, you will have a better chance of getting approved for a credit card, car loan or mortgage.
You'll also have a better chance of getting a lower interest rate, since your credit scores determine whether you'll be offered the best available rate or a higher, risk-adjusted rate.
It helps in an emergency. Having a credit limit well in excess of your usual spending amount gives you a resource if you have a genuine emergency that you can't pay for with cash. Say you're traveling and you need to change your plans and return home immediately, for example. It probably won't be cheap to change your plane ticket, and it's easier to pay for a plane ticket with a credit card.
It increases your rewards. If you consistently pay off your balance in full and on time but you're not putting all of your expenses on your credit card, it might be time to start. Having a higher credit limit can help you do that. The conventional wisdom says that you shouldn't charge everyday expenses such as groceries and gas to your credit card, but that advice only applies if you're carrying a balance -- it's designed to help you avoid making a bad problem worse.
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If you never carry a credit card balance, paying for recurring expenses on your credit cards won't cost you anything and can help you earn more rewards. Those rewards can actually reduce your spending in other areas by helping you pay for vacations, gifts, clothes and nights out.
It lets you make large purchases efficiently. You already know that using your credit card to pay for large purchases is convenient and can help you rack up rewards. What you might not know is that your credit card likely includes a number of consumer protections that can come to your rescue if there is a problem with your purchase. MasterCard protections, for example, include extended warranties, price protection and coverage for damaged or stolen items. Visa and American Express offer similar benefits. Check your credit card agreement to see what protections apply to your cards.
It helps you avoid credit score dings. One way to get access to more credit is to get another credit card, but increasing your limit on an existing card might be a better option. According to FICO, opening a new credit card can ding your scores. When you open a new account, it shortens the length of your credit history, and a longer history often means a better score. The age of your oldest account, the age of your newest account and the average age of all your accounts are factored into the length of your credit history, and this metric impacts about 15% of your scores.
The bottom line
If you know you're likely to spend up to your credit limit no matter how high it is, that major drawback will outweigh these benefits of increasing your credit limit. Otherwise, consider requesting an increase. It's usually as simple as sending an email to customer service.
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I'm sorry, but when I was in the loan business, we looked carefully at anyone who had high limits and hadn't used them. We would only loan to people whose payment would be 25% or less of their gross monthly income and total bills no more that 33% of gross monthly income. We felt that was the sweet spot for people staying out of trouble and paying on time. If you had high credit limits we knew you could go deep into debt if you used those limits after you closed our loan and there would go our loan down the drain, because suddenly you were paying pills that were 1/2 or more of your income. That happened sometimes.
It could be one of the major reasons we have the housing crisis. People were allowed to borrow much more than they could comfortably afford to pay. I raised one very smart kid. She was told her income could cover an $85k home. She refused to buy anything that was more than $55k because that kept her payment at exactly what she was paying for an apartment.
I had a Diamond preferred card with an unlimited credit line but I would have to pay the balance down to $7,000 for each cycle. I loved that card. Then the company arbitrarily changed the card and raised the interest rate. I never owed a balance and I always paid the entire bill every month. I let them know I was not happy about their changes. I did keep the new card.
Another one of the card companies talked to me when I called them about the new card they sent me. They asked if they could do anything for me. I said lower the interest rate. They denied that. Then I asked to raise the credit limit. They asked me questions and were overjoyed to jump my limit from $4,500 to $6,000. I thanked them and will NEVER use the total limit. I always pay my balance and I am thankful I am able to do that. I have complete self control and the funds to cover my expenses.
Other people are not as fortunate. If you have a balance of $1,800 on a $2,000 card then you should be busting **** to pay that card off. Credit card interest rates are OUTRAGEOUS. Pay off the balances people!
Interesting post goingdownthehill. Been trying to wrap your arms around the English language and written word long?
Anyway, all they are saying is that by having more available credit there are several advantages on paper. In reality, one still has to be diligent about paying the statement off every month. Unless you have a card that has a fee, the positive on your credit scores, percent to available credit, future credit approval, lower cost of credit (% APR) etc,etc, this all comes for free.
No where in the article are they telling you to go spend like pirates and rack up debt. You people complaining need to open your eyes to the big picture point this article is making and take off the tunnel vision glasses that are obviously constructed out of your own reckless spending, the inability to pay it all off and thus your ridiculous fear of credit.
Just getting higher limits to look better on paper might be bad advice.
Six reasons? Yes, but not six good reasons.
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FT. MYERS, FL. - Marie A. (LaCroix) Heroux, 73, of Ft. Myers, FL, previously of Woonsocket, passed away on Sunday, May 29, 2011 at Hope Hospice, Cape Carol, FL. She was the widow of the late Russell Heroux Sr. They were married for 49 years.
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WOONSOCKET – The city wants to recoup some of the costs it incurred for extinguishing the Alice Mill fire last week from the company that insures the mammoth mill site.
The known costs thus far include $38,660 in overtime, most for the Woonsocket Fire Department, but nearly $7,000 for police, said Mayor Leo T. Fontaine.
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Why I hate philosophy
Maybe I don't have a problem with philosophy. Maybe it's just because I run into about one poster a year who thinks their "mastery" of philosophy somehow trumps my understanding of logic, math and physics.
To begin with, the present user tries to distinguish time from whatever it is that clocks measure.Originally Posted by mik
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The nature of time in relativity is personal, but there is a simple relationship between B's proper time as a function of B's movement as expressed with A's coordinate time and a measure of B's speed with A's clocks and rulers. So some time-like quantities are universally knowable in special relativity, which I believe obliviates further need to argue about whether time is real or not. Proper time for a time-like world-path between events is real, but this is not the intuitive concept of time, but rather an educated concept.
We go back and forth on the geometry of space time, on the Poincaré transform, on the derivation of length contraction, on the geometry of space-time implied by the universality of light-cones and proper time associated with a segment of a world-line. We discuss presentism versus eternalism, and I argue that trying to say those are the only two possible viewpoints amounts to a fallacy of false dilemma. Finally, the user gets hung up on one particular definition of the shape of a rigid object but can't wrap his head around the notion that shape is concept within the study of geometry and if the geometry of the universe is not Euclidean then that concept of shape as it applies to the universe has to be a concept that robustly works in the geometry of the universe -- a shape defined in terms of proper length and proper angles and not just coordinate length and coordinate angles for one special viewpoint.
I'm largely at the end of my patience (120 days of pain and sleeping poorly for other reasons) and wonder if I am going at this wrong or if this user is as self-satisfied, parochial and inarticulate as I believe. I don't think I've challenged him to operate beyond the limits of a sophomore philosophy student, even if he does find my high-school algebra to be outside his scope.
So do I hate philosophy, do I hate just this poster's philosophy or is this poster misusing philosophy? Is it even appropriate to solicit opinions here?
Oops -- I see there is another thread with a similar title -- this is "Why I hate Philosophy -- essentialism and presentism versus relativity"
Denying empirical evidence is beyond the scope of philosophy. If anything, philosophy should work to reconcile itself with advancements in science. Otherwise it is more religion than philosophy.
I always hated the how do you know the world is still there when you close your eyes crap. I wanted to tell my teacher to stand close to me, then close my eyes and slap them in the face and ask them if the world is still there or not
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The word "philosophy" comes from the Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophia), which literally means "love of wisdom"
Philosophy teaches you a lot, such as the logic ("the philosophical study of valid reasoning")
For example about paradox.("A paradox is a statement or group of statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation which (if true) defies logic or reason, similar to circular reasoning.")
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Maybe it's just because I run into about one poster a year who thinks their "mastery" of philosophy somehow trumps my understanding of logic, math and physics.
Even in the philosophy of science, knowledge of math and physics doesn't mean that somebody will be good at the subject without knowing any philosophy. Nor is it likely that a philospher will be good in the philosophy of science without knowing any science.
The philosophy of science is one of those interdisciplinary areas of inquiry where productive thinkers will have to have a grasp of more than one area of scholarship.
The argument your are having with the poster you mention doesn't seem to me to be a philosophical one, but one about science - specifically, you are having a dispute about special relativity. The poster doesn't seem to understand the subject very well. The fact that he claims to be knowledable about philosophy is a secondary issue.
I hate philosophy, too, the long words and seemingly circular arguments, yuck! This was always one of my favorite quotes.
It's not surprising science would want to distance itself from philosophy. The historical relationship between science and philosophy has not been a friendly one. Philosophers like to start with their conclusions, and work to prove them. When it came to trying to figure out what the world was like, philosophers tended to argue about what the world should be like. Science was born as a rejection of this method. Its goal was to figure out what the world was really all about, and its primary tool was actual experimentation. - Joseph Rowlands
Well, anyway, I enjoyed this link that you posted.
In classical physics the simultaneity of a pair of events has absolute character (independent of the the reference system). The absolute character of the temporal coincidence of the two events is a consequence of the as well absolute classical concept of time. In Relativity, however, the existence of an invariant finite speed deprives the time of its absolute character, so forcing us to review the notion of simultaneity. Unless both events occur at the same place – the only systems – the relativistic notion of simultaneity has to be examined in light of the existence of an invariant finite speed.
Einstein's Space-Time: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity
By Rafael Ferraro
But, RP, just because an observer is not allowed to know of absolute time, does this positively mean that an absolute time cannot exist?
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And going back to the topic of the thread, I hate it also! A huge part of philosophy is nothing but conjecture, another big part is just wishful thinking, and another slice is produced by people that are just like politicians - they love to hear the sound of their own voice, regardless of what it's saying. In short, philosophy for the FAR greater part is totally useless and a tremendous distraction to actually accomplishing anything!!!!
While in SR, one can envision that there is potentially a master framework and, like Escher's hyperbolic tilings, physics just gets more distorted as ones absolute speed approaches the limit of c (such a postulated master framework is untestable and a violation of parsimony and thus unscientific), in General Relativity it is much harder to conceptualize such a universal master clock, especially with regard to cosmology and black holes. It seems certain that such a master clock would be unable to work with space-time outside of the visible universe or beyond the event horizon. But I lack the math and communication skills to quickly demonstrate that to you.
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I dont recall which book it was, but I do remember that it was just one little paragraph that finally made it click. You want to hear something dumb. I dont know why, but it really bothered me, and it even made me a little sad. It was a rather eerie feeling, I suppose. I looked in the phone book for a Relativity Therapist - no such luck.
My immediate feeling was "What?!? This can't possibly be the way the universe really works!" While I didn't doubt that all this "stuff" actually matched the experimental observations, I was sure there had to be a better explanation: There had to be something happening "under the hood", so to speak, that was the real reason behind these appearances.
As for circular arguments, philosophers are among the people most finely attuned to such things. Philosophy is, above all, a logical exercise.
Also, I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that subjects such as moral philosophy are totally useless.
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Do you agree here with Pandaemoni, James?
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There are also a lot of philosophical questions that are very relevant to science, Just a few:
- How do we know something is true?
- What is knowledge?
- What makes something science?
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1. We determine if something is true by repeatedly testing it to see if it can be falsified;
2. Knowledge, in simple yet accurate terms.is nothing more than the accumulation of data that we eventually come to label "facts." Where could modern philosophy possibly have a place in that? The scientific method fits that role and does the job VERY well.
3. Seriously, do I really need to define science for you????
1. Falsification as as a criterion for a scientific theory is a philosophical idea - in this case introduced by the philosopher Karl Popper.
2. Do you really think that knowledge is just a collection of facts? Where does Einstein's theory of relativity sit under that definition? What about photons of light? What about electric fields? What makes something a fact, anyway?
3. I'd love to see you try to define science without some kind of philosophical assumptions underpinning your definition.
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"...Traveling sophists or "wise men" were important in Classical Greece,
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04-30-12, 04:52 PM #19Originally Posted by Read-Only
Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete?
I want to start with a general question about the relationship between philosophy and physics. There has been a fair amount of sniping between these two disciplines over the past few years. Why the sudden, public antagonism between philosophy and physics?
Krauss: That's a good question. I expect it's because physics has encroached on philosophy. Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then "natural philosophy" became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time there's a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers. This sense that somehow physicists, because they can't spell the word "philosophy," aren't justified in talking about these things, or haven't thought deeply about them---
Is that really a claim that you see often?
Krauss: It is. Philosophy is a field that, unfortunately, reminds me of that old Woody Allen joke, "those that can't do, teach, and those that can't teach, teach gym." And the worst part of philosophy is the philosophy of science; the only people, as far as I can tell, that read work by philosophers of science are other philosophers of science. It has no impact on physics what so ever, and I doubt that other philosophers read it because it's fairly technical. And so it's really hard to understand what justifies it. And so I'd say that this tension occurs because people in philosophy feel threatened, and they have every right to feel threatened, because science progresses and philosophy doesn't.
Academia and especially the scientifically minded simply demolish philosophy primarily by categorizing every fucking nut and bolt—and screw you too. Lol.
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My question is basically what exactly is electricity? I've simply been told before that it's a flow of electrons, but this seems too basic and doesn't show that electricity is instant. What I mean is turning a switch has no delay between that and a light coming on. Is it really instantaneous? Or is it just so fast that we don't notice it?
It's just so fast you don't notice it. You won't see the effect of the travel time in something like turning on a light, because your eyes aren't fast enough to register the delay, but if you do even moderately precise experiments involving signal transmission and look at it on an oscilloscope, you will find that the travel time is easily measurable. The speed of signal propagation is close to that of light, or about a foot per nanosecond.
(It's worth noting that this is not the speed of electrons moving through the wires, which is dramatically slower. The signal is a disturbance that propagates more rapidly than the drift velocity of electrons in a conductor.)
Light has finite velocity
Nothing can travel faster than light. Means everything has finite velocity less than light. Nothing travels instantaneously. Hence electrons have finite velocity too.
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The speed of conduction of electricity (usually voltage) in a conducting wire is usually determined by the time it takes for the current to saturate the capacitance of the wire or circuit. For example, this is why local processes on the same computer chip run much faster than the same process offloaded to a separate chip, i.e. the circuits have much lower capacitance.
Note that this is completely distinct from the universal maximal propagation velocity of any causal interaction in the universe, as seen by any observer, which also happens to be the speed of electromagnetic propagation in a vacuum, also called "c".
From the point of view of simple models, one can depict "little particles" called electrons - huge amounts of them - moving slightly through a lattice of atoms because of an external cause that created a force field in the material. The movement of the particles is a drift velocity really quite slow. E.g. in a cupper wire of 1 mm diameter and a current of 3 amperes, the drift velocity of electrons is approx. 1.0 m/hour (for the calculation see the numerical example).
The velocity of the electric signal through the wire is with the speed of light however. To get the idea, one can depict a tube filled with marbles. When you insert a marble at one end, "instantly" another marble falls out at the other end, however the marbles themselves only shift over a small distance.
This is an explanation from the point of view of a particular (simple) model. Things become more complicated, more difficult or impossible to depict in the context of other models, e.g. pure quantum mechanics. In a pure quantum mechanical model individual hard core electrons do not exist and the explanation becomes purely mathematical.
Picture a 100-car long train at the station, and the engineer manoeuvring locomotive to attach it to the front of the train. As soon as the locomotive bumps into the front car the car shifts backwards slightly and bumps the 2nd car, which in turn bumps the 3rd car, and in less than a second you hear the bump from the 100th car. The signal from the 1st car propagated to the 100th car very fast, and it's true that the cause of the signal was the movement of the cars, but it's not true that the 1st car arrived at the position of the 100th car.
Electricity is sort of like that: the electrons near the switch move very slightly, that movement gets acknowledged by the neighbouring electrons who also move very slightly, etc., and you have near light speed propagation of the signal from the switch to the lightbulb. Although it's true that said signal propagation is due to the movement of electrons, the electrons didn't move at such speed to from the switch to the lightbulb, they just nudge each other a little bit. Just as with the train, the nudging propagated a lot faster then the nudgers and the nudgees.
Nope, electrons "bump" other electrons in a sort of chain reaction until there is an equilibrium. Try to imagine a limp rope, and then imagine tugging on that rope, and you can see the tug sort of moving down the rope. This is sort of how electricity moves, and it takes time making it not instantaneous, but very fast.


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Let me start by saying this has been one of the most entertaining seasons in recent memory. Between Los Angeles defending the title with a vengeance, Boston furiously chasing the championship belt that they were minutes away from grabbing, the Heatles teaming up to take the league by storm, Derrick Rose, Blake Griffin, and Russell Westbrook ascending to superstardom, the Spurs turning back the time machine for one last hurrah, Stat and Melo making revitalizing the Mecca of Basketball, Seattle planting the seeds for years of future contention, and Portland fighting on despite Brandon Roy's sudden downfall, I can't think of another season with this many juicy story lines and subplots. We've never had this many rivalries and elite teams; people complain about players forming superteams, but what's wrong with having stars going to battle every single night? You'll see once the playoffs arrive and every night is a thriller. And that was BEFORE Tuesday night's epic night of basketball, which saw Derrick Rose singlehandedly destroy the Hawks, put his stamp on the MVP race and reignite MVP discussion throughout the blogosphere, followed by the Suns and Lakers staging the most epic clash of the season. Once the Blake Griffin and John Wall followed that up with another two overtimes, I couldn't help but weigh in on the MVP race at the ¾ mark of the season. Without further ado…
Meriting Consideration:
· Lamarcus Aldridge – The Blazers could've curled up and died once Brandon Roy and Greg Oden's knees gave out; instead Aldridge put the team on his back, started playing up to his potential, galvanized the entire city around his heroics, and pushed what should've been a 38-40 win team into the thick of the playoff race. This is the guy that all of us
· Amar'e Stoudemire - Still a somewhat spotty rebounder and defender, but kudos to him for making sure he lived up to the contract he signed; he accepted the responsibility of being their franchise guy and delivered. Amar'e will get more votes than he deserves from the
· Kevin Garnett, Rajon Rondo - The key cogs to what I consider to be the favorite in the east. Rondo runs the offense, KG runs the defense. I wouldn't say either one of them has been dominant enough to be the MVP by himself, but there's no denying their value for a top contender.
· Manu Ginobili - Tim Duncan's still an elite rebounder and shot blocker, but to me Manu has been the key guy for the team with the best record in basketball. Obviously I wouldn't put him in the Lebron/Howard group of stars, but when it comes to the MVP race there is something to be said for being the best player on the best team.
· Kevin Love – Just kidding Tony was the guy who put Love in his top five. I would never give an MVP vote to the best player on a 30-win team (even a guy from
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5. Kevin Durant – Turned in another phenomenal season as he stepped his game up to carry the Thunder into the upper echelon of the Western Conference. This guy absolutely has a title or two in his future if he keeps growing like this. But for this year? I just think there have been four better guys…
4. Dwight Howard – Maintained his transcendent level of defense while improving his offensive game and adding to his repertoire of post moves. That said, his team has taken a step backwards, so even if Dwight is better on paper I feel like he should lose some points in that regard. Overall Dwight turned in his usual fantastic season, and maybe we've become so jaded to his greatness that we're under appreciating him; I just can't say he's more valuable to his team than the next three guys.
3. Derrick Rose – The likely winner, as the media seems determined to crown Rose at the expense of Lebron. It definitely is true that Rose carries a humongous amount of weight with this offense, and deserves mad props for pushing them to the top of the East standings when they looked like a 50 win team at the start of the year. Now that he's honed his midrange game and 3 point stroke he's damn near unguardable because nobody can stop him from getting to the rim. When I watch him play it honestly feels like watching a young Lebron as he learned how to dominate the league; he even has the same defensive issues that Lebron had in his first four years, only Rose seems to have even more competitive drive. Rose is a great player and he'll win plenty of awards eventually, especially if he can become a passable defender; I just don't see him as the MVP for this season. Whether you vote based on who's the most outstanding player or who's the most valuable to his team, there are two guys who have better resumes…
2. LeBron James – Forget about your feelings about The Decision; LeBron is still far and away the best player in the game. His stats are still otherworldly; his game is exactly the same as it was during his past two MVP campaigns, his teammates are the only difference. I have no problem with people touting LeBron as the deserving candidate because frankly there's nothing wrong with defaulting the league's alpha dog.
1. Dirk Nowitzki – I know I'm in the tiny, tiny minority when I say this; but Dirk is my guy in the MVP race because of how much he means to his team's title chances. When I look at the MVP race I look at all the best players on the best teams, and I look at who shoulder's the most weight for a title contender. Every other MVP candidate plays with at least another borderline all-star. Dirk's best running mates are Jason Terry (a poor man's Sleepy Floyd) and Tyson Chandler (elite rebounder/shot blocker with absolutely no offensive game) –
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· Rebecca Black's music video "Friday" has over 42 million views…so chances are you've seen what is by far the worst music video ever created. The song has no saving grace: the lyrics are inane and pointless, the video itself is poorly shot, and the auto-tune is so obvious and severe that there are points where it sounds like a robot is singing, not a human. When I rip on someone like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga, I'm saying they suck relative to other professional musical artists, but at the same time I still implicitly acknowledge their basic competence at music. Friday has none of that – every single parody is better than the original because Friday is just such a complete failure in every single respect. But guess what? I don't blame Rebecca at all. I blame Ark Music factory for their incompetence at songwriting and for picking someone without talent and putting her in over head. All the nasty comments directed personally at Rebecca Black are way over the top – she's thirteen for Christ's sake, and besides as much as the video sucks how does that hurt anyone personally? Is a bad music video really a reason to spew death threats and wish physical harm on someone? I hope all of those people stop being such mean-spirited assholes, and I hope Ark Music will just go away forever and stop ruining the music industry. If someone doesn't destroy Ark Music (like right now, as you're reading this) then we are headed for the downfall of music sooner rather than later.
· On a final bittersweet note. My condolences go out to the family and friends of Elizabeth Taylor. Liz Taylor was one of the great icons of Classical Hollywood; together with Ingrid Bergman, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, and Vivian Leigh she helped shape modern


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WAUKESHA, WI (WTAQ) - A candidate for Wisconsin attorney general says he will not keep a $500 campaign gift from former Assembly Majority Leader Bill Kramer.
Waukesha County District Attorney Brad Schimel tells the Journal Sentinel he'll give Kramer's donation to charity -- but a spokesman did not say which group would receive it.
Kramer was removed from his leadership post by his fellow Assembly Republicans, amid allegations that he groped and made lewd remarks to two women last week.
Schimel is the lone Republican running for attorney general this fall, along with three Democrats.
Last week, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke refused to keep a $4,500 campaign gift. It was from well-known attorney Daniel Rottier, who was convicted of striking his wife with a cane.
Burke gave the donation to a Madison group that operates a shelter for domestic abuse victims.
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Sunday, people in Tempe marched down Mill Ave looking for equal rights for women to be topless in public.
This is the second annual "Go Topless Day" in Arizona.
Protesters started at the Tempe farmer's market and marched down Mill Ave.
They are hoping to change the laws so that women have the same right to be bare-chested in public like men.
"So we're having the men join us and getting a taste of our rights for a change, we're just saying we want equal topless rights and equal rights in general," says Jenna Duffy, organizer.
The group of protesters hope that one day Arizona will be "top free" like New York, where anyone can walk around with no top on.
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A.Paul Fisette, a wood
technologist at the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, responds: There is one thing that
will make wood swell, and that is adsorption of
moisture. By contrast, expansion of wood resulting
from an increase in temperature is insignificant.
Your boards were installed flat and are now
buckling. That tells us that they have gained
moisture since they were installed. The question is
You have ruled out roof leaks. One possible
scenario is that warm interior air, which contains
more moisture than cold outside air, is somehow
leaking into the soffit cavities and condensing on
the cold boards. The moisture content of the boards
would rise, and they could swell as a result of
increased relative humidity or the presence of
But a second scenario seems more likely. The
boards are installed on the underside of protected
gable overhangs and an attached porch, parts of the
house that are disconnected from the interior air.
It seems most likely that the boards gained
moisture through exposure to water vapor in the
outdoor air. Though you bought the boards
kiln-dried, you probably don't know what their
original moisture content was.
My guess is that they were installed too dry for
the current ambient conditions. Wood typically
equilibrates to around 12% moisture content for
outdoor applications. Perhaps the manufacturer
dried the boards to 8% MC, making them more
suitable for interior use. Or perhaps the boards
were mistakenly over-dried to an even lower
moisture content. That happens.
Another factor may have contributed to the
buckling. T&G boards up to 6 inches wide can
be properly blind-nailed as you did. However,
8-inch-wide T&G should be face-nailed twice
per bearing point. Using a tighter nail schedule
would not stop swelling, but it would restrict
movement and help minimize buckling.
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Georgia Tech, the home of the Yellow Jackets, is located in the heart of Midtown Atlanta. In addition to being one of the top public universities in the world, Georgia Tech is also home to one of the most storied colliegate athletic programs in the nation. Including football and men's basketball, Georgia Tech competes in 17 sports at the Division-1 level.
Georgia Tech Football, the four-time national champions, plays its home games each fall at Bobby Dodd Stadium. Fans cheer on the Ramblin Wreck with downtown Atlanta in the background, making the setting one of the most unique of any sports venue.
The men's basketball program plays in the coveted Atlantic Coast Conference, providing fans with heart-pounding fun as they cheer for the white and gold at the new McCamish Pavilion.
Single and season tickets are available for most sports. Purhcase at ramblinwreck.com/tickets.
Georgia Tech Athletics also has facility rentals available that can host groups up to 55,000.
Info & Amenities
Hours of Operation
Monday: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Tuesday: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Wednesday: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Thursday: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Friday: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Admission & Fees
Ticket prices vary by sport and game. See website at www.ramblinwreck.com.
Group Discount
Facility Amenities
Bus / Motorcoach Parking on Site, Concessions, Meeting Facilities, Parking off Site, Parking on Site, Party Facilities, Public Restrooms, Restaurant on Site
General Information
Family-friendly, Handicapped Accessible, Handicapped Accessible (Limited)
Group Amenities
Group Rates Available, Group-friendly, Motorcoach-friendly
Near Interstate Highway
20, 285, 400, 575, 675, 75, 85
Payment Options
American Express, Discover, Mastercard, Visa
Suitable for Ages
All Ages
Georgia Tech Football vs. Miami
10/04/2014 - 10/04/2014
Georgia Tech faces ACC-coastal foe Miami at Bobby Dodd Stadium on Saturday, October 4. The Hurricanes went 5-3 in ACC play, tying Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech for second place in the ACC Coastal Division.
The Georgia Tech vs. Miami game is dubbed a WHITEOUT - all Yellow Jacket fans should wear white in support of their team.read more
Georgia Tech Football vs. Duke
10/11/2014 - 10/11/2014
Georgia Tech takes on the Duke Blue Devils at Bobby Dodd Stadium on Saturday, October 11, 2014. The Blue Devils went 6-2 in ACC play, winning the Coastal Division outright by one game over Georgia Tech. One of Duke's two conference losses came against the Yellow Jackets. This will be the 81st all-time meeting which Georgia Tech leads 50-30-1. The Yellow Jackets have won the last nine meetings in Atlanta.read more
Georgia Tech Football vs. Virginia
11/01/2014 - 11/01/2014
Georgia Tech Football takes on Virginia at Bobby Dodd Stadium on Saturday, October 11, 2014, in the annual Homecoming game. The Georgia Tech-Virginia series is one of the closest in the ACC. The Yellow Jackets lead the all-time series 18-17-1 and has won four of the last five meetings.read more
Georgia Tech Football vs. Clemson
11/15/2014 - 11/15/2014
Georgia Tech hosts Clemson at Bobby Dodd Stadium on Saturday, November 15, 2014. The Tigers finished 7-1 in the ACC with their only loss coming to eventual national champion Florida State. Georgia Tech leads the all-time series, 50-27-2, including a 43-13-2 mark in Atlanta.read more


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Moss Graffiti Recipe:
One or two clumps of moss
2 cups of buttermilk (or yogurt)
2 cups of water (or beer for those who don't drink water)
1/2 tsp. sugar
Corn syrup (optional)
1/ Gather up as much moss as you can find
2/ Wash the moss to get as much soil out of the roots as possible
3/ Break the moss apart into manageable pieces and place in blender
4/ Add the buttermilk/yogurt, water/beer and sugar. Blend the mixture until completly smooth. You'll need to get a paint-like texture. If the mixture is at a consistency where you feel it will drip, add some corn syrup.
5/ Use a paintbrush to apply the moss-paint to the surface on wich you want to design your art
6/ If possible, check back weekly to either spray the design with water to encourage moss growth, especially if it is in a dry environement, or apply more moss-paint !
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Today's feature story by Ingrid Goldstein argues that publishers — should they want to compete with Amazon, Apple, Google and other tech companies — need to implement a content strategy, and fast. The main advantages, she argues, are "reduced 'time to market' for new products and services, and a drastic reduction in the creation, maintenance and production costs of the content." As a byproduct, this significantly extends the "life" of your content, allows you to individualize it for each user and should pay dividends.
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